Metal oxide-nanoparticles and liquid crystal composites: A review of recent progress

J Prakash, S Khan, S Chauhan, AM Biradar - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Liquid Crystals (LCs) are soft materials lying in the midway between solids and
liquids which have enjoyed considerable success due to their tremendous display and non …

Ferroelectric nanoparticles in liquid crystals: recent progress and current challenges

Y Garbovskiy, A Glushchenko - Nanomaterials, 2017 - mdpi.com
The dispersion of ferroelectric nanomaterials in liquid crystals has recently emerged as a
promising way for the design of advanced and tunable electro-optical materials. The goal of …

Metasurface-based optical liquid crystal cell as an ultrathin spatial phase modulator for THz applications

O Buchnev, N Podoliak, K Kaltenecker, M Walther… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A concept of an efficient ultrathin spatial phase modulator for correcting terahertz wavefronts
in transmission with subwavelength spatial resolution is experimentally demonstrated. It …

Tunable dielectric and memory features of ferroelectric layered perovskite Bi4Ti3O12 nanoparticles doped nematic liquid crystal composite

D Varshney, K Yadav, J Prakash, H Meena… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Herein, we report the synthesis of ferroelectric layered perovskite Bi 4 Ti 3 O 12 (BT4)
nanoparticles (NPs) and the temperature-dependent dielectric and electro-optical …

Templated nanofiber synthesis via chemical vapor polymerization into liquid crystalline films

KCK Cheng, MA Bedolla-Pantoja, YK Kim, JV Gregory… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Extrusion, electrospinning, and microdrawing are widely used to create fibrous polymer
mats, but these approaches offer limited access to oriented arrays of nanometer-scale fibers …

Electro-optical effect of gold nanoparticle dispersed in nematic liquid crystals

CJ Hsu, LJ Lin, MK Huang, CY Huang - Crystals, 2017 - mdpi.com
The electro-optical performance of nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) dispersed with gold
nanoparticles (GNPs) was investigated in this study. The addition of a small amount of GNP …

Viscoelastic and dielectric properties of 5CB nematic liquid crystal doped by magnetic and nonmagnetic nanoparticles

H Ayeb, M Derbali, A Mouhli, T Soltani, F Jomni… - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
In this article we show how spherical nanoparticles (NPs) imposing planar anchoring can
strongly impact the viscoelastic, dielectric, and electro-optical properties of a nematic liquid …

A comparison between size dependent paraelectric and ferroelectric BaTiO3 nanoparticle doped nematic and ferroelectric liquid crystals

S Al-Zangana, M Turner, I Dierking - Journal of Applied Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The electro-optic and dielectric properties of barium titanate, BaTiO 3, and nanoparticle (NP)
doped nematic and ferroelectric liquid crystal materials were examined with respect to …

Nematic liquid crystals blended ferroelectric nanoparticles (BaTiO3): A perspective way for improving the response time and photoluminescence for electro-optical …

BP Singh, S Sikarwar, R Manohar, A Shah… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We represent a detailed study of a dilute suspension of ferroelectric barium titanate
nanoparticles (BaTiO 3 NPs) in a nematic matrix by probing dielectric, electro-optical, and …

Enhanced stability of the nematic phase of 4-pentyl-4ʹ-cyanobiphenyl due to the dispersion of copper nanoparticles

G Srivastava, M Jaiswal, PK Singh, A Iqbal… - Liquid …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Embedding of nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystalline materials has received huge
attention in recent years. In most of the work, nanoparticles decrease nematic-isotropic …