Liquid Crystals

Article	Citations
Taylor & Francis Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine	111
Effects of ferroelectric nanoparticles on smectic-A to chiral smectic-C* phase transition	73
Unsymmetrical Coumarin based dimeric liquid crystals: Synthesis, Characterization, Mesomorphic investigation, Photoluminescence and Thermal conductivity	61
Columnar liquid crystalline phases of surfactant-DNA complexes	56
Chirality exists in the isotropic liquid above blue phase III	52
Optical sensor for butylamine vapour based on the photonic structure infiltrated by liquid crystal	44
Mesomorphic, magnetic and DFT studies of biphenyl-based molecule with various substituted anilines	43
Optical approaches for the simple and sensitive detection of aflatoxin B1 via a liquid crystal aptasensor	31
Tunable spectral manifestation of Tamm plasmon-polaritons in a hybrid structure with 2d black phosphorus in the terahertz range	28
Enlarging the colour gamut of LCD with YAG-LED by using a liquid crystal based polarisation interference filter	25
Preparation of triple-layer polymer dispersed liquid crystal films with progressive driving functionality	25
Preface	25
Equilibrium locations of defects in two-dimensional configurations of the NLC director field	24
Ferroelectric nematic fluids as spontaneous polarization field for enhanced orientational-dependent second-harmonic generation	24
Enhancing morphological, electro-optical and dielectric properties of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal by doping of disperse Orange 25 dye in LC E7	22
Design of 5CB liquid crystal antenna for tunable microwave frequency applications	22
Voltage-controlled surface plasmon in a flexoelectric nematic liquid crystal cell	21
The influence of the side-arms structure on the properties of the liquid crystal dimers centred on mandelic acid	20
Cybotactic nematic liquid crystal – an overview	19
Cholesterol based mesogenic Schiff’s base derivatives with carbonate linkage: Synthesis, characterisation and photoluminescence study	18
Young’s interference experiment using self-aligned liquid crystal optical control devices	17
The influence of core fluorination on the phase behaviour of rod-like mesogens	17
Novel fluorescence liquid crystals based on thiophene-vinylnitrile Schiff-base derivatives	17
Molecular organization and molecular order of two rod-like smectogens in mesophases	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

Enhancement of the physical parameters due to the dispersion of functionalised gold nanoparticles in a room temperature nematic liquid crystal	16
A label-free 5CB-based aptasensor for highly selective optical detection of amoxicillin residue in freshwater samples	15
Investigation of electro-optical and dielectric properties of pure and dispersed nematic liquid-crystal	15
Generalization of the Maier-Saupe theory to the ferroelectric nematic phase	15
Planar and Vertical Alignment of Rod-like and Bent-core Liquid Crystals Using Functionalized Indium Tin Oxide Substrates	14
Preparation of a novel ternary photosensitive polyimide for liquid crystal alignment films	14
Intensity-dependent optical nonlinearities of composite materials made of ionic liquid crystal glass and bimetallic nanoparticles	14
Liquid-crystal-based resonant cavities as a strategy to design low-threshold electrically-tunable lasers	13
Rheological behaviour and antibacterial activities of MWCNTs/ lyotropic liquid crystals based nanocolloids	12
Nematic liquid crystals in lens shape geometry	12
Luminance and chrominance parameters through image analysis in ferroelectric liquid crystals	12
Distinctive features of pretransitional behaviour between nematic phases as revealed by DDM	11
Effect of hydrophobic aerosil dispersions on the Goldstone mode dynamics in ferroelectric liquid crystal near the point of polarisation sign reversal	11
A convenient one-pot synthesis, and characterisation of the ω-bromo-1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4’-yl) alkanes (CBnBr)	11
Inderdigitation, double twist, and topological defects in a system of hard lollipops	11
Two-dimensional snapshot measurement of surface variation of anchoring in liquid crystal cells	11
Enhancement of electro-optical properties and phase transition temperature of thermotropic liquid crystal 5CB by doping with 4-n-pentylbenzoic acid	11
Chiral ferronematic liquid crystals: a physico-chemical analysis of phase transitions and induced helical twisting	11
Preface	11
Chemical and physical aspects of recent bent-shaped liquid crystals exhibiting chiral and achiral mesophases	11
Giant flexoelectric effect with liquid crystal dimer CB7CB between concentric cylinders	11
Optical Tamm states in a hybrid structure with a holographic polymer-liquid crystal grating	11
Colorful patterned polyacrylate films prepared using cholesteric liquid-crystalline mixtures with a smectic order	11
Tunable optical, electro-optical and dielectric properties of eco-friendly graphene quantum dots-nematic liquid crystal composites	11
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	11
Stability of a split-core configuration induced by saddle-splay elasticity in a submicron nematic liquid crystal spherical droplet	11
Anopore confinement in the cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimer CB7CB. A dielectric study	10
Luminescent liquid crystals: from supramolecular plant dyes to emissive flavylium salts	10
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	10
Density functional theory of freezing transition in a binary mixture of spheres and soft-ellipsoids	10
Heat-driven vortical flow in microsized liquid crystal film	10
Magnetorheological liquid-crystalline polymers with magnetic tetrachloroferrate ions based on polyvinyl chloride	10
Enhanced liquid crystal performance through alkoxybenzoic acid doping	10
Influence of the dispersed silver nanoparticles size and concentration on the properties of 6CB nematic	10
Phosphorescent Pt(II) complexes of C^N^N type tridentate ligands augmented for liquid crystallinity	10
Effect of different curing conditions on the electro-optical properties of directional polymerisation monomer based polymer\liquid crystal composites	10
Preparation of a double-layer liquid crystal optical shutter with fluorescent properties and its ultraviolet shielding screening properties	9
Novel liquid crystalline fluorene and fluorenone MIDA boronates: influence of alkyl vs alkoxy side chains on the mesomorphic properties	9
Optical properties of Heliconical Cholesterics: effects of losses and photonic density of states	9
Ferroelectric chiral nematic liquid crystals: new photonic materials with multiple bandgaps controllable by low electric fields	9
Can even-membered liquid crystal dimers exhibit the twist-bend nematic phase? The preparation and properties of disulphide and thioether linked dimers	9
Optimization of image writer modes for optically rewritable electronic paper	9
Exploring the role of adamantane core in the mesophase formation of trimers	9
Marangoni flow across different phases in cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals under temperature gradient	9
Heliconical nematic and smectic phases: the synthesis and characterisation of the CB4O. m and CB8O. m series	9
Improving experimental procedures for assessing electrical properties of advanced liquid crystal materials	9
Synthesis, mesomorphic behaviour and luminescence of novel dithienopyrrole-based nematic liquid crystals	9
The effect of different photoluminescent side-chain length on the phase behaviour of chiral liquid crystal polymer	9
Bent-shaped dimers with chiral spacer – unravelling the potential of the naphthyl mesogenic unit	9
Synthesis, chiral separation and physical properties of the cinnamic acid derivatives exhibiting short-pitch cholesteric and TGB phases	9

Tunable liquid crystal double-layer frequency selective surface with wide transmission band and small insertion loss	9
Synthesis and phase behaviour of a class of comb-like cholesteric azobenzene liquid crystalline polymers	9
Tight focusing of laser light using microlens array combined with radially polarised light converter	8
Constructing liquid crystalline elastomer multi-fold gratings with side-on epoxy liquid crystalline monomers	8
A hypothesis for the architecture of plant secondary cell walls, involving liquid crystalline arrays of microtubules in the cortex of the cell	8
Reaction-induced liquid crystalline polybenzoxazine thermosets containing rosin amine grafts	8
A recyclable, interchangeable optical switch with a PDLC-PVA-PSCLC structure and a low-voltage drive system	8
Kinetics of photoinduced phase retardation in azo dye layer	8
A new generation of ferroelectric liquid crystals with homogeneous and shock-stable orientation	8
Synergistically controlled in situ growth of silver nanoparticles leading to organization of anisotropic liquid crystalline medium	8
Azopyridine-based hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals with thioether tail	8
Fertile metastability	8
Composite stability and electro-optical properties of carbon nanotubes/5CB-based nematic hybrid liquid crystals	8
Stability, structure, compressibility factor, excess free energy and density profile of hard prolate pear shape fluids	8
Luminous and fluorescent cyanobiphenyls exhibiting super-cooled nematic phases	8
Sub-structures and phase transitions of bi-tilted smectic C G in dimer liquid crystals induced by amide functionalised graphene oxide	7
Effect of SiO 2 -doped nanoparticle/electrostatic spinning system on the electro-optical properties of polymer dispersed liquid crystals for smart windows	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
Accurate modelling of the optics of high resolution liquid crystal devices: a reconfigurable liquid crystal grating	7
Obituary	7
Impact of dispersed graphene oxide on thermodynamical, optical, electro optical and dielectric properties of nematic liquid crystal	7
Graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide in the anisotropic media of nematic liquid crystals 4’-pentyl-4-cyano-biphenyl	7
2,3-per-acylated α and β cyclodextrins as inducers of helical liquid crystalline phases	7
Multifunctional multifocal lens for simultaneous edge and polarisation imaging	7
Effect of alkyloxy substituents on mesomorphic and photophysical properties of star-shaped tristriazolotriazines	7
Investigation on the critical behaviour in the vicinity of the smectic-A to re-entrant nematic-phase transition	7
A confined rod: mean field theory for hard rod-like particles	7
4’-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl - 5CB	7
Theoretical model for the Frank elastic moduli in the intercalated SmA b phase of bent-shaped dimers	7
Skyrmions in blue phases of chiral liquid crystals	6
Flexible bistable polymer stabilised cholesteric texture light shutter display	6
Ionic liquid crystal elastomers for actuators, sensors, and organic transistors	6
Effect of doped SiO 2 microspheres on the high temperature properties of PDLC films	6
Dispersion of thiol capped AuNPs in rufigallol derivative discotic liquid crystal-Enhanced one dimensional electrical conductivity	6
Synthesis and physico-chemical properties of dilateral flouro azo/ester four aromatic ring mesogens and their mixtures of liquid crystals	6
Surface alignment of nematic liquid crystals by direct laser writing of photopolymer alignment layers	6
Continuous modulation of geometric phase via electrically tuning the in-plane orientation of nematic liquid crystal	6
Electrooptics of mm-scale polar domains in the ferroelectric nematic phase	6
Electrochromic reverse-mode PDLCs as smart windows	6
The morphology and the electro-optical properties of PDLCs cured in the presence of electric fields	6
Organic electronic applications and charge transport mechanism in novel discotic liquid crystals	6
New multi-fluorinated benzofuran liquid crystals with large dielectric anisotropy and improved solubility	6
Trans-LCPG films with self-assembly support of gel networks	6
Thermotropic liquid crystal doped with silica, silica grafted with aniline (ANI@SiO2) and polyaniline (PANI@SiO2)	6
1,2,3-Triazole lamellar liquid crystal and its non-covalent palladium complex dimer: structure, mesomorphism and self-assembly properties	6
Pseudo-polar order in the tilted smectic phases of bent-core hockey stick shaped molecules	6
Flexible liquid crystal micro-lens arrays for curved integral imaging 2D/3D convertible display	6
A liquid crystal leaky-wave antenna with fixed-frequency beam scanning and open-stop-band suppression	6
Influence of different small styryl molecules on electro-optical characteristics of reverse-mode polymer stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal devices	6
Liquid crystalline behaviour of new dimers containing coumarin and biphenyl moieties and enhancement of their thermal conductivity: liquid crystal-nanoparticles	6
Biphenyls embedded Schiff base-bis esters: self-assembling behaviour, impact of additional aromatic ring and ester linkage and their DFT investigations	6
A ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal vitrified at room temperature	6
Preparation of cholesteric polymer networks with broadband reflection memory effect	6
Synthesis and characterisation of novel aromatic ester swallow-tailed cholesteric liquid crystal polymers	6
Rack-gear structures in columnar liquid crystal phases of trialkoxybenzyl pentafluorobenzoates and their influences on intercolumnar interdigitation and macroscopic morphologies	5
Probing cytoplasmic streaming using liquid crystal droplets	5
Linear and circular dichroisms of cholesteric liquid crystals in a longitudinal external magnetic field	5
Triphenylene discotic liquid crystals: biphenyls, synthesis, and the search for nematic systems	5
Cholesteric liquid crystalline polysiloxanes containing furan ring with selective reflection – synthesis and properties	5
Rupture of thin nematic walls between isotropic droplets of the same mesogenic material	5
Gamma-radiation exposure-induced modifications in the thermal, dielectric, and electro-optical properties of two-room temperature antiferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures	5
High-quality deformed lying helix in chiral LC on surface with periodic alignment prepared by two-step optical treatment	5
Multi-field driven thermochromic films and preparation of multi-color patterns	5
Mesophase behaviour of 1,2,3-triazole-based nematic liquid crystals influenced by varying alkyl chains and halogen atom substitution	5
Smectic layers reorientation with stripes and heliconical structure in surface stabilised ferroelectric liquid crystal	5
Ferroelectric nematic phase in the system of perfectly aligned cylindrically symmetric rods	5
Improvement of rewriting time of optically driven liquid crystal display by azo-dye doping	5
The effect of doping sulphhydryl-functionalised silica with different diameters on the electro-optical properties of PDLC	5
Low driving voltage reverse-mode polymer-stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal devices using small phenylacetylene molecule	5
The influence of the benzimidazole-based nematic liquid crystals containing ethynyl and difluoro-substitution on mesomorphic and birefringence properties	5
Structural optimisation of lactic acid derivatives to obtain enhanced ferroelectric properties in smectic phases	4
Unsymmetrical liquid crystalline dimers containing biphenyl moiety: synthesis, characterisation, mesomorphic study and DFT studies	4
Unknots, knots, links and necklaces made of dislocations in cholesterics	4
Preparation and characterisation of liquid crystal elastomer films with selective reflectivity	4
A predictive theoretical model for stretch-induced instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers	4
Dynamically color-changing polymer-dispersed liquid crystals containing ionic liquid for smart window applications	4
Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of laterally fluoro azo/ ester based on four ring compounds with a wide range mesophase thermal stability	4
Machine learning studies for liquid crystal texture recognition	4
The ferroelectric nematic phase: an optimum liquid crystal candidate for nonlinear optics	4
Dynamic geometric phase holography based on in-plane switching liquid crystal	4

Synthesis of cholesterol containing unsymmetrical dimers: a new series of liquid crystals	4
Synthesis of achiral rod-shaped triazolic molecules and investigation of their striped texture and propeller-patterned nematic droplets	4
Dielectric reorientation and electrohydrodynamic instabilities in dichroic-dye-doped dual-cell liquid crystal smart window	4
Comparative studies of DFT and experimental Raman spectra of pure 5O.14 liquid crystalline compound	4
The Influence of quantum dots on the optical properties of a room temperature cholesteric liquid crystal	4
Nematic and twist-bend nematic drops of surfactant-doped CB7CB as colloidal inclusions: topological defects and field effects	4
Birth and annihilation of topological defects on the nematic–isotropic interface during droplet coalescence	4
Preface	4
Liquid crystal and emulsifying properties of carboxymethyl glucoside as water-soluble surfactant	4
Mesogens with four-benzene molecular core and two lactate units in the chiral chain	4
Influence of the counterion on the structure and stability of the smectic C phase in ionic liquid crystals	4
Molecular curvature and the twist-bend liquid crystal phases: the effect of the spacer	4
Uniformly aligned liquid crystal molecules on reformed poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) layers driven by ion beam exposure	4
Multi-reactive mesogen system for polymer-stabilised vertical alignment liquid crystal displays	4
Study on the influence of oils on the formation of liquid crystal structure of hydrogenated lecithin system	4
Synthesis of β-cyclodextrin Functionalized silica nanoparticles and their effects on the dielectric, optical and electro-optic properties of nematic liquid crystal	4
Deviation from the prediction of the Maier-Saupe theory of mixtures of charged discotic Gay-Berne and Lennard-Jones particles	4
Effect of polymer concentration on the electro-optical, dielectric and photoluminescence properties of confined ferroelectric liquid crystals composites	4
Circularly polarised luminescence of cholesteric polymer composite with high concentration of europium complex	4
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	4
TiO2 doped polymer dispersed and stabilised liquid crystal smart film with high contrast ratio, low driving voltage and short response time	4
Polymer dispersed liquid crystals devices: role of photopolymerisation to control defect orientation, optical and electro-optical properties	4
Structural variants ofRM734in the design of splay nematic materials	4
Study on the application and performance of liquid crystal emulsion system in sunscreen products	4
Chiral fluorescent liquid crystal polymers containing 4-bromo-1,8-naphthalimide – synthesis and properties	4
A hybrid ionic liquid crystal comprising imidazolium surfactant-graphene oxide	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
Optical characterisation of dyed liquid crystal cells	3
Photoisomerization dynamics of a light-sensitive chiral dopant in a nematic medium	3
Rod-shaped cyanoacrylic derivatives with D-π-A architecture: synthesis, thermal, photophysical and theoretical studies	3
Colourful cholesteric liquid crystal polymer network gratings prepared through nanoimprinting	3
The regulation of electro-optical properties of the polymer dispersed liquid crystal films doped ZnO whiskers under applied pre-orientation voltage	3
High efficiency, lossless, large free-standing photonic bandgap polymer films	3
Theory of nematic-isotropic phase transitions in solutions of rodlike aggregates	3
Stepwise driving and multi-transparency of polymer dispersion liquid crystals	3
A novel thermochromic bistable display device based on cholesteric liquid crystals and reversible thermochromic materials	3
Numerical simulation of the 2D lid-driven cavity flow of chiral liquid crystals	3
The good, the bad and the ugly faces of cyanobiphenyl mesogens in selected tracks of fundamental and applied liquid crystal research	3
Multiple ferroelectric nematic phases of a highly polar liquid crystal compound	3
Cylindrical liquid crystal micro-lens array based on interdigital electrodes	3
Highly sensitive and transparent flexible temperature sensor based on nematic liquid crystals	3
Main-chain side-chain combined liquid crystalline polymers bearing azobenzene and biphenyl-based mesogens – segregation of the mesogens within two distinct layers	3
Fast photo- and electro-optical switching of the polymer- stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal composite prepared by the template method	3
Tunable bandpass filter based on epsilon-near-zero metamaterials using liquid crystals	3
Advances in 4-cyanobiphenyl tethered discotic oligomers and supermolecular liquid crystalline materials	3
Dynamic change of molecular conformation generating a variation of liquid crystalline phases for triphenylene mesogens with peripheral alkoxyazobenzenes	3
Remarkable stabilisation of the intercalated smectic phases of nonsymmetric dimers by tert-butyl groups	3
Mesomorphic behaviour and photoluminescence study of novel homologous series of Schiff’s base derived from cholesteryl carbonate and thiadiazole moiety	3
Determination of the flexoelectric coefficient in nematic liquid crystals by using fully leaky optical guided mode	3
New fluorinated azo/schiff base liquid crystals: synthesis, characterisation, mesomorphic study and DFT calculations	3
Dipole-dipole interactions and the origin of ferroelectric ordering in polar nematics	3
Effects of polar end group, flexible spacer length and molecular conformation on properties of the liquid crystal dimers	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
New quaterphenyls laterally substituted by methyl group and their influence on the self-assembling behaviour of ferroelectric bicomponent mixtures	3
Correction	3
Continuum theory of a nematic liquid crystal with a nonideal physical surface and the surfacelike elasticity	3
Optimization of the properties of nematic matrix suspended with subtle quantities of the nanoparticles for improved alignment and operating voltage	3
Liquid crystal polymers with dual properties of fluorescence and selective reflection-design, synthesis and characterisation	3
Colorful patterns prepared using alicyclic epoxy-based cholesteric liquid crystal inks for decoration	3
A splay-twist nematic phase of bent-shaped mesogens	3
Spatially periodic deformations in hybrid aligned flexoelectric nematic layers	3
Effects of quantum dots on the properties of ferroelectric liquid crystal	3
Size effect of submicron barium titanate particles on dielectric properties of smectic A liquid crystal 4-nitrophenyl 4‘-decyloxy benzoate	3
A tribute to Helmut Ringsdorf	3
Polymer stabilized isotropic phase liquid crystals with large Kerr constant	3
Chiral nitroxide radical with terminal trifluoromethoxy group	3
Surface species of nematic mixture E7 in hard confinement: spectroscopic investigations cannot distinguish among the E7 components interacting with the support surface	3
5CB molecular dynamics on TiO 2 -coated planar aligned ITO electrodes	3
Coumarin Schiff base derivatives with alkyl 4’-formyl-biphenyl-4-carboxylate: design, synthesis, mesomorphic studies and DFT calculations	3
Highly enhanced fluorescence parameters in a dye-doped liquid crystalline compound	3
Supramolecular ferroelectric nematic materials	3
Fully logical NOT operation of self-aligned liquid crystal optical control devices with two-slit Young’s interference experiment	3
Kerr coefficient and third-order nonlinear optical absorption coefficient of isotropic diacrylate mesogens at 632.8 nm wavelength	3
On the isomeric purity of endcap molecules in cholesteric liquid crystal oligomers for near-infrared thermochromic coatings	3
Difluoromethoxyl bridged substituted 2-cyano-pyrrole based pure organic luminescent liquid crystals towards white light emitting single-molecule	3
Novel benzoxazole-based liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy and moderate optical anisotropy	3
A Festschrift in honour of Professor Lech Longa	3
Transmittance spectra expression for dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal with large optical activity	3
Preparation of chiral liquid crystal polymers with reversible structural colors and fluorescence emission and the application for dynamic anti-counterfeiting	3
Chiral unsymmetrical bent-shaped dimers exhibiting cholesteric phases: synthesis, characterisation and liquid crystalline properties	3
Liquid crystal metasurfaces for versatile electrically tunable diffraction	3
In Memory of Horst Stegemeyer	3
Investigation of the effect of doping of newly synthesised bismuth ferrite nanoparticles on the dielectric property of the negative anisotropic nematic liquid crystal	3
The helical twisting power of chiral dopants in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals	3
“Liquid crystalline compounds containing lateral thiol group: synthesis, characterisation, its mesomorphic properties and DFT studies”	3
The influence of fluorine terminal group and flexible spacers on properties of the liquid crystal dimers	3
Electrically controllable reflection bandwidth polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals with low operating voltage	3
Low voltage tunable cholesteric liquid crystal based on electrochemical process	3
Inversion ring in chromonic twisted hedgehogs: theory and experiment	3
Self-interference polarisation pantographer method to fabricate Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements	3
Influence of chiral monomer concentration on thermo-optical properties of glass-forming cyclic siloxane side chain liquid crystal oligomers	3
Polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal sensor for sensitive and selective detection of organic vapors	3
Phase diagram, dielectric and electro optic properties of binary liquid crystals mixtures	3
Role of interactions seen by vibrational and relaxation dynamics in the thermodynamic states of the asymmetric para -terphenyl	3
Precision adiabatic scanning calorimetry of a nematic – ferroelectric nematic phase transition	3