Liquid Crystals

Article	Citations
Mesomorphic, magnetic and DFT studies of biphenyl-based molecule with various substituted anilines	54
Preface	35
Taylor & Francis Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine	32
Tunable spectral manifestation of Tamm plasmon-polaritons in a hybrid structure with 2d black phosphorus in the terahertz range	30
Preparation of triple-layer polymer dispersed liquid crystal films with progressive driving functionality	24
Ferroelectric nematic fluids as spontaneous polarization field for enhanced orientational-dependent second-harmonic generation	22
Cholesterol based mesogenic Schiff’s base derivatives with carbonate linkage: Synthesis, characterisation and photoluminescence study	22
Fluorescent cholesteric liquid crystal polymers containing different naphthalimide groups – preparation and performance	22
Voltage-controlled surface plasmon in a flexoelectric nematic liquid crystal cell	19
The influence of the side-arms structure on the properties of the liquid crystal dimers centred on mandelic acid	19
Equilibrium locations of defects in two-dimensional configurations of the NLC director field	19
Enlarging the colour gamut of LCD with YAG-LED by using a liquid crystal based polarisation interference filter	18
Thermosensitive luminescent film sensors based on a europium(III) liquid crystalline complex	18
Optical approaches for the simple and sensitive detection of aflatoxin B 1 via a liquid crystal aptasensor	18
Cybotactic nematic liquid crystal – an overview	17
Design of 5CB liquid crystal antenna for tunable microwave frequency applications	17
Colorful patterned polyacrylate films prepared using cholesteric liquid-crystalline mixtures with a smectic order	16
Intensity-dependent optical nonlinearities of composite materials made of ionic liquid crystal glass and bimetallic nanoparticles	16
The role of sub-regional electrostatic spinning nanofiber loaded with WO 3 nanoparticle in modulating electro-optic performance and stepwise display of polymer dispe	16
Investigation of electro-optical and dielectric properties of pure and dispersed nematic liquid-crystal	15
Young’s interference experiment using self-aligned liquid crystal optical control devices	15
Enhancement of electro-optical properties and phase transition temperature of thermotropic liquid crystal 5CB by doping with 4-n-pentylbenzoic acid	15
Molecular organization and molecular order of two rod-like smectogens in mesophases	14
A label-free 5CB-based aptasensor for highly selective optical detection of amoxicillin residue in freshwater samples	14
Chiral ferronematic liquid crystals: a physico-chemical analysis of phase transitions and induced helical twisting	14

Optical Tamm states in a hybrid structure with a holographic polymer-liquid crystal grating	14
Nematic liquid crystals in lens shape geometry	14
Distinctive features of pretransitional behaviour between nematic phases as revealed by DDM	14
The influence of core fluorination on the phase behaviour of rod-like mesogens	14
Effect of the surfactant Span80 on the electro-optical properties of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal gratings	14
Quinoxaline-linked Schiff bases: synthesis, mesomorphic behaviour and DFT investigations	13
Effect of hydrophobic aerosil dispersions on the Goldstone mode dynamics in ferroelectric liquid crystal near the point of polarisation sign reversal	13
Low-voltage polymer-stabilised liquid crystal windows with highly polar molecules for privacy and thermal comfort	13
Rheological behaviour and antibacterial activities of MWCNTs/ lyotropic liquid crystals based nanocolloids	13
Enhancement of the physical parameters due to the dispersion of functionalised gold nanoparticles in a room temperature nematic liquid crystal	13
Preface	12
Luminescent liquid crystals: from supramolecular plant dyes to emissive flavylium salts	12
Molecular scale insights from NMR studies of hybrid systems formed via doping silver QDs in 6CHBT liquid crystal: a quantitative investigation of their optoelectronic properties	12
Magnetorheological liquid-crystalline polymers with magnetic tetrachloroferrate ions based on polyvinyl chloride	12
Effect of the varying repulsive core of Gay–Berne pair potential on the structure and freezing transition in a two-dimensional system of soft ellipses	12
Heat-driven vortical flow in microsized liquid crystal film	12
A convenient one-pot synthesis, and characterisation of the ω-bromo-1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4’-yl) alkanes (CBnBr)	11
Anopore confinement in the cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimer CB7CB. A dielectric study	11
Effect of dye doping on the thermal and optical properties of cholesteric liquid crystals	11
Inderdigitation, double twist, and topological defects in a system of hard lollipops	11
Giant flexoelectric effect with liquid crystal dimer CB7CB between concentric cylinders	11
Phosphorescent Pt(II) complexes of C^N^N type tridentate ligands augmented for liquid crystallinity	11
Influence of the dispersed silver nanoparticles size and concentration on the properties of 6CB nematic	11
Density functional theory of freezing transition in a binary mixture of spheres and soft-ellipsoids	10
Exploring the role of adamantane core in the mesophase formation of trimers	10
Effect of different curing conditions on the electro-optical properties of directional polymerisation monomer based polymer\liquid crystal composites	10
Reaction-induced liquid crystalline polybenzoxazine thermosets using non-edible biomass of dehydroabietic acid and levulinic acid as raw material	10
Preparation of a double-layer liquid crystal optical shutter with fluorescent properties and its ultraviolet shielding screening properties	10
Tunable optical, electro-optical and dielectric properties of eco-friendly graphene quantum dots-nematic liquid crystal composites	10
Marangoni flow across different phases in cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals under temperature gradient	10
Heliconical nematic and smectic phases: the synthesis and characterisation of the CB4O. m and CB8O. m series	9
Optical properties of Heliconical Cholesterics: effects of losses and photonic density of states	9
Tunable liquid crystal double-layer frequency selective surface with wide transmission band and small insertion loss	9
Enhanced liquid crystal performance through alkoxybenzoic acid doping	9
Novel liquid crystalline fluorene and fluorenone MIDA boronates: influence of alkyl vs alkoxy side chains on the mesomorphic properties	9
Electric-field-induced phase transitions and tunable selective reflection in heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals under cylindrical confinement	9
High second harmonic generation in ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals by doping with optimally oriented chromophores	9
New sulphone-cored liquid crystals with various terminal alkoxy chain lengths: synthesis, characterisation, mesomorphic and computational studies	9
Bent-shaped dimers with chiral spacer – unravelling the potential of the naphthyl mesogenic unit	9
Synthesis, mesomorphic behaviour and luminescence of novel dithienopyrrole-based nematic liquid crystals	9
Synthesis, chiral separation and physical properties of the cinnamic acid derivatives exhibiting short-pitch cholesteric and TGB phases	9
Ferroelectric chiral nematic liquid crystals: new photonic materials with multiple bandgaps controllable by low electric fields	8
Synergistically controlled in situ growth of silver nanoparticles leading to organization of anisotropic liquid crystalline medium	8
Stability, structure, compressibility factor, excess free energy and density profile of hard prolate pear shape fluids	8
Constructing liquid crystalline elastomer multi-fold gratings with side-on epoxy liquid crystalline monomers	8
Synthesis and phase behaviour of a class of comb-like cholesteric azobenzene liquid crystalline polymers	8
Sub-structures and phase transitions of bi-tilted smectic C G in dimer liquid crystals induced by amide functionalised graphene oxide	8
Fertile metastability	8
A recyclable, interchangeable optical switch with a PDLC-PVA-PSCLC structure and a low-voltage drive system	7
A new generation of ferroelectric liquid crystals with homogeneous and shock-stable orientation	7

Pattern formation in hybrid cholesteric films with modulated planar surface	7
Composite stability and electro-optical properties of carbon nanotubes/5CB-based nematic hybrid liquid crystals	7
Conformational transformation observation of surface-anchored nematic liquid crystal droplets for phospholipase A2 detection	7
Reaction-induced liquid crystalline polybenzoxazine thermosets containing rosin amine grafts	7
Luminous and fluorescent cyanobiphenyls exhibiting super-cooled nematic phases	7
Colourful and photochromic patterned polymer-stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal film prepared using a side-chain cholesteric liquid crystal oligomer	7
In memoriam: Robert B. Meyer (1943–2023) professor emeritus of physics at Brandeis University	7
Effect of SiO 2 -doped nanoparticle/electrostatic spinning system on the electro-optical properties of polymer dispersed liquid crystals for smart windows	7
Investigation on the critical behaviour in the vicinity of the smectic-A to re-entrant nematic-phase transition	7
The influence of the ring system with mono/diester and imine links, and terminal unsaturated carbon chains on mesomorphism and their quantum-mechanical study	7
Trifluoromethoxy-Schiff base vanilloxyl mesogens: phase transitions and bioactivity	7
Benzyloxy-terminated 3,5-diarylisoxazole liquid crystals with semiperfluorinated chains: a disruptive case where Hildebrand parameter fails to predict segregation	7
Azopyridine-based hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals with thioether tail	7
Effect of alkyloxy substituents on mesomorphic and photophysical properties of star-shaped tristriazolotriazines	7
Can even-membered liquid crystal dimers exhibit the twist-bend nematic phase? The preparation and properties of disulphide and thioether linked dimers	7
Improving experimental procedures for assessing electrical properties of advanced liquid crystal materials	7
Multifunctional multifocal lens for simultaneous edge and polarisation imaging	6
Phase characterization and microwave dielectric enhancement of gold nanoparticle-integrated liquid crystals using image-based analysis	6
A confined rod: mean field theory for hard rod-like particles	6
New imidazo[2,1-b][1,3,4]thiadiazole mesogens: synthesis, characterisation and study their optical-thermo behaviors	6
Cross-linkable cholesteric fluorescent liquid crystal polymers with reversible thermochromic and photoluminescent properties	6
Influence of different small styryl molecules on electro-optical characteristics of reverse-mode polymer stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal devices	6
4’-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl - 5CB	6
Graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide in the anisotropic media of nematic liquid crystals 4’-pentyl-4-cyano-biphenyl	6
Organic electronic applications and charge transport mechanism in novel discotic liquid crystals	6
Accurate modelling of the optics of high resolution liquid crystal devices: a reconfigurable liquid crystal grating	6
2,3-per-acylated α and β cyclodextrins as inducers of helical liquid crystalline phases	6
Theoretical model for the Frank elastic moduli in the intercalated SmA b phase of bent-shaped dimers	6
Biphenyls embedded Schiff base-bis esters: self-assembling behaviour, impact of additional aromatic ring and ester linkage and their DFT investigations	6
Thermotropic liquid crystal doped with silica, silica grafted with aniline (ANI@SiO2) and polyaniline (PANI@SiO2)	6
Ionic liquid crystal elastomers for actuators, sensors, and organic transistors	6
Surface alignment of nematic liquid crystals by direct laser writing of photopolymer alignment layers	6
Experimental measurements of the spatial correlation lengths of the director axis fluctuations of nematic liquid crystals	6
Obituary	6
Trans-LCPG films with self-assembly support of gel networks	6
Effect of doped SiO 2 microspheres on the high temperature properties of PDLC films	6
Corrie Imrie (1963–2025)	6
Pseudo-polar order in the tilted smectic phases of bent-core hockey stick shaped molecules	6
Synthesis and physico-chemical properties of dilateral flouro azo/ester four aromatic ring mesogens and their mixtures of liquid crystals	6
Liquid crystalline behaviour of new dimers containing coumarin and biphenyl moieties and enhancement of their thermal conductivity: liquid crystal-nanoparticles	6
Thermotropic liquid crystalline medicine: establishment of liquid crystalline properties and the X-ray phase structure analysis of immunosuppressant 2-amino-2-[2-(4-alkylphenyl)ethyl]propane-1,3-diol	5
Linear and circular dichroisms of cholesteric liquid crystals in a longitudinal external magnetic field	5
Ferroelectric nematic phase in the system of perfectly aligned cylindrically symmetric rods	5
Skyrmions in blue phases of chiral liquid crystals	5
Electrochromic reverse-mode PDLCs as smart windows	5
Rupture of thin nematic walls between isotropic droplets of the same mesogenic material	5
The influence of the benzimidazole-based nematic liquid crystals containing ethynyl and difluoro-substitution on mesomorphic and birefringence properties	5
Comparative studies of DFT and experimental Raman spectra of pure 5O.14 liquid crystalline compound	5
Circularly polarised luminescence of cholesteric polymer composite with high concentration of europium complex	5
Triphenylene discotic liquid crystals: biphenyls, synthesis, and the search for nematic systems	5
The effect of doping sulphhydryl-functionalised silica with different diameters on the electro-optical properties of PDLC	5
Improvement of rewriting time of optically driven liquid crystal display by azo-dye doping	5
Flexible liquid crystal micro-lens arrays for curved integral imaging 2D/3D convertible display	5
Flexible bistable polymer stabilised cholesteric texture light shutter display	5
A dye-doped polymer-stabilised liquid crystal with low polymer network deformation	5
Multi-field driven thermochromic films and preparation of multi-color patterns	5
Birth and annihilation of topological defects on the nematic–isotropic interface during droplet coalescence	5
Smectic layers reorientation with stripes and heliconical structure in surface stabilised ferroelectric liquid crystal	5
High-quality deformed lying helix in chiral LC on surface with periodic alignment prepared by two-step optical treatment	5
Rack-gear structures in columnar liquid crystal phases of trialkoxybenzyl pentafluorobenzoates and their influences on intercolumnar interdigitation and macroscopic morphologies	5
Low driving voltage reverse-mode polymer-stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal devices using small phenylacetylene molecule	5
Probing cytoplasmic streaming using liquid crystal droplets	5
A ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal vitrified at room temperature	5
Preparation and intrinsic characteristics of cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer films based on polymer-dispersed liquid crystal	5
Gamma-radiation exposure-induced modifications in the thermal, dielectric, and electro-optical properties of two-room temperature antiferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures	5
Synthesis and characterisation of novel aromatic ester swallow-tailed cholesteric liquid crystal polymers	5
Deviation from the prediction of the Maier-Saupe theory of mixtures of charged discotic Gay-Berne and Lennard-Jones particles	5
Preparation and characterisation of liquid crystal elastomer films with selective reflectivity	4
Liquid Crystals Special Issue: 21st Optics of Liquid Crystals Conference (OLC 2025)	4
Rod-like liquid crystalline molecules with ring-fixed benzanilides	4
Machine learning studies for liquid crystal texture recognition	4
A hybrid ionic liquid crystal comprising imidazolium surfactant-graphene oxide	4
Study on the influence of oils on the formation of liquid crystal structure of hydrogenated lecithin system	4
Chiral nitroxide radical with terminal trifluoromethoxy group	4
Nematic and twist-bend nematic drops of surfactant-doped CB7CB as colloidal inclusions: topological defects and field effects	4
Synthesis and properties of chiral liquid crystal compounds containing cinnamic acid groups	4
Unsymmetrical liquid crystalline dimers containing biphenyl moiety: synthesis, characterisation, mesomorphic study and DFT studies	4
Tunable bandpass filter based on epsilon-near-zero metamaterials using liquid crystals	4
A predictive theoretical model for stretch-induced instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers	4
Experimental studies on self-propulsion of deformable 5CB liquid crystal droplets in micellar solution	4

Influence of the counterion on the structure and stability of the smectic C phase in ionic liquid crystals	4
Liquid crystal polymers with dual properties of fluorescence and selective reflection-design, synthesis and characterisation	4
Separation of liquid crystalline racemic mixtures obtained on the basis of (R,S)-2-hexanol on amylose tris(3-chloro-5-methylphenylcarbamate) covalently immobilised on silica in high-performance liquid	4
Liquid crystal metasurfaces for versatile electrically tunable diffraction	4
Unknots, knots, links and necklaces made of dislocations in cholesterics	4
Liquid crystal viewing angle controller for unidirectional privacy protection	4
Dynamically color-changing polymer-dispersed liquid crystals containing ionic liquid for smart window applications	4
Study on the application and performance of liquid crystal emulsion system in sunscreen products	4
Molecular curvature and the twist-bend liquid crystal phases: the effect of the spacer	4
Liquid crystal and emulsifying properties of carboxymethyl glucoside as water-soluble surfactant	4
New Schiff’s base liquid crystals with biphenyl/benzoylphenyl tail substitutes: synthesis, characterisation, mesomorphic behaviour and DFT calculation	4
Polymer dispersed liquid crystals devices: role of photopolymerisation to control defect orientation, optical and electro-optical properties	4
Structural optimisation of lactic acid derivatives to obtain enhanced ferroelectric properties in smectic phases	4
Investigation of the effect of doping of newly synthesised bismuth ferrite nanoparticles on the dielectric property of the negative anisotropic nematic liquid crystal	4
Supramolecular hydrogen-bonded thioether-linked liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase	4
Fluorescent chiral nematogens derived from naturally occurring moieties	4
Synthesis of achiral rod-shaped triazolic molecules and investigation of their striped texture and propeller-patterned nematic droplets	4
Computation of dipole moment using image analysis and FTIR techniques in ferroelectric liquid crystals	4
Self-limitation of nonlinear modes in a blue phase fibre subjected to arbitrary anchoring	4
Reconfigurable holographic antenna for wide angle scanning with complementary resonance units based on liquid crystals	4
Chiral fluorescent liquid crystal polymers containing 4-bromo-1,8-naphthalimide – synthesis and properties	4
A tribute to Helmut Ringsdorf	4
Aggregation behaviour of cationic surfactants in the imidazolium-based deep eutectic solvent	4
Monomer structural dependent mesomorphic, dielectric, and electro-optical properties of polymer dispersed liquid crystal films for gas sensors and smart windows with low driving voltage	4
Inversion ring in chromonic twisted hedgehogs: theory and experiment	4
A splay-twist nematic phase of bent-shaped mesogens	4
Preface	4
The Influence of quantum dots on the optical properties of a room temperature cholesteric liquid crystal	4
Dynamic geometric phase holography based on in-plane switching liquid crystal	4
Effects of quantum dots on the properties of ferroelectric liquid crystal	4
Cholesteric liquid crystalline polysiloxanes containing furan ring with selective reflection – synthesis and properties	4
“Liquid crystalline compounds containing lateral thiol group: synthesis, characterisation, its mesomorphic properties and DFT studies”	4
The good, the bad and the ugly faces of cyanobiphenyl mesogens in selected tracks of fundamental and applied liquid crystal research	4
Homeotropic alignment and delayed fluorescence of thin films of a columnar liquid crystal doped with multiwalled carbon nanotubes	4
Effect of polymer concentration on the electro-optical, dielectric and photoluminescence properties of confined ferroelectric liquid crystals composites	4
Theory of nematic-isotropic phase transitions in solutions of rodlike aggregates	4
Coumarin Schiff base derivatives with alkyl 4’-formyl-biphenyl-4-carboxylate: design, synthesis, mesomorphic studies and DFT calculations	3
A Festschrift in honour of Professor Lech Longa	3
Exploring the electro-optical properties of nematic liquid crystal through incorporation of ZnCuGaS 2 core/shell quantum dots	3
A novel thermochromic bistable display device based on cholesteric liquid crystals and reversible thermochromic materials	3
Colorful patterns prepared using alicyclic epoxy-based cholesteric liquid crystal inks for decoration	3
Surface species of nematic mixture E7 in hard confinement: spectroscopic investigations cannot distinguish among the E7 components interacting with the support surface	3
Effects of polar end group, flexible spacer length and molecular conformation on properties of the liquid crystal dimers	3
Novel benzoxazole-based liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy and moderate optical anisotropy	3
Impact of composition on properties of liquid crystal elastomer films: a comprehensive study	3
Stepwise driving and multi-transparency of polymer dispersion liquid crystals	3
On the isomeric purity of endcap molecules in cholesteric liquid crystal oligomers for near-infrared thermochromic coatings	3
Transmittance spectra expression for dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal with large optical activity	3
Supramolecular ferroelectric nematic materials	3
Colourful cholesteric liquid crystal polymer network gratings prepared through nanoimprinting	3
High efficiency, lossless, large free-standing photonic bandgap polymer films	3
Difluoromethoxyl bridged substituted 2-cyano-pyrrole based pure organic luminescent liquid crystals towards white light emitting single-molecule	3
Tunable THz absorbers based on LC-tuned Yagi-Uda antennas	3
Advances in 4-cyanobiphenyl tethered discotic oligomers and supermolecular liquid crystalline materials	3
Melted grain boundaries in smectic A under imposed bend: role of the anisotropy	3
Optical gain and photo-bleaching of organic dyes, quantum dots, perovskite nanoplatelets and nanodiamonds	3
Role of interactions seen by vibrational and relaxation dynamics in the thermodynamic states of the asymmetric para -terphenyl	3
Molecular engineering controlled electric-optical performance of polymer dispersed liquid crystals	3
Extension of phenomenological equation of motion for reverse tilt domains in nematic liquid crystal	3
On the effects of Ericksen and Deborah numbers on the flow in microfluidic capillaries	3
5CB molecular dynamics on TiO 2 -coated planar aligned ITO electrodes	3
Electric field response and pre-transitional dynamics of cybotactic clusters in asymmetric bent-core nematics	3
Low voltage tunable cholesteric liquid crystal based on electrochemical process	3
The regulation of electro-optical properties of the polymer dispersed liquid crystal films doped ZnO whiskers under applied pre-orientation voltage	3
Determination of the flexoelectric coefficient in nematic liquid crystals by using fully leaky optical guided mode	3
Cylindrical liquid crystal micro-lens array based on interdigital electrodes	3
Optical characterisation of dyed liquid crystal cells	3
Fully logical NOT operation of self-aligned liquid crystal optical control devices with two-slit Young’s interference experiment	3
Size effect of submicron barium titanate particles on dielectric properties of smectic A liquid crystal 4-nitrophenyl 4‘-decyloxy benzoate	3
Self-interference polarisation pantographer method to fabricate Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements	3
Optimization of the properties of nematic matrix suspended with subtle quantities of the nanoparticles for improved alignment and operating voltage	3
Kerr coefficient and third-order nonlinear optical absorption coefficient of isotropic diacrylate mesogens at 632.8 nm wavelength	3
Mesomorphic property and gelation ability of rod-shaped compounds having a coumarin skeleton	3
Synthesis and characterisation of novel calamitic liquid crystalline compounds	3
Liquid crystal assisted optical DNA biosensor for the selective detection of bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae	3
Asymmetrically anchored liquid crystal cell for display and photonics applications	3
Deformations induced by the electric field parallel to the heliconical axis of twist-bend nematics: theoretical analysis within various elasticity models	3
Gold nanoparticles doped organic liquid crystalline material for fast charge migration in nano-devices	3
Orientational properties of the HGO system in a slit geometry in two-dimensional and three-dimensional case from Monte-Carlo simulations and Onsager theory revisited	3
Characterising nematic liquid crystals using a circular patch resonator	3
Dynamic change of molecular conformation generating a variation of liquid crystalline phases for triphenylene mesogens with peripheral alkoxyazobenzenes	3
Chiral unsymmetrical bent-shaped dimers exhibiting cholesteric phases: synthesis, characterisation and liquid crystalline properties	3
In Memory of Horst Stegemeyer	3
Highly enhanced fluorescence parameters in a dye-doped liquid crystalline compound	3
A cinnamate liquid crystal for rapid optical recording	3
Dipole-dipole interactions and the origin of ferroelectric ordering in polar nematics	3
Numerical simulation of the 2D lid-driven cavity flow of chiral liquid crystals	3
Mesomorphic behaviour and photoluminescence study of novel homologous series of Schiff’s base derived from cholesteryl carbonate and thiadiazole moiety	3
The helical twisting power of chiral dopants in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals	3
Fast photo- and electro-optical switching of the polymer- stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal composite prepared by the template method	3
The synthesis and characterisation of red dyes for colour filter fabrication	3
Tuning smectic polymorphism: the role of substituent effects in directing SmA/SmC phase behaviour of benzothiazole-based mesogens	3
LPUV-assisted vapor deposition polymerization of polyazomethine films for molecular alignment of liquid crystals in TN cell	3
Novel dual-modal flexible liquid crystal sensor: capable of synchronously detecting temperature and curvature	3
WGM-enhanced liquid crystal microcavities for high-sensitivity acetylcholinesterase activity assay	3