Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals: Emerging applications

HS Park, OD Lavrentovich - Liquid crystals beyond displays …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 10 years since the early work of Attwood, Lydon, Tiddy, and coworkers [1–3]
there has been a growing interest in a distinct family of lyotropic liquid crystals (LCs), the so …

Giant surfactants for the construction of automatic liquid crystal alignment layers

WJ Yoon, KM Lee, DR Evans, ME McConney… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
There has been considerable interest in nanomaterials for the development of anisotropic
molecular alignment layers for electronic and biomedical applications. This review covers …

Cholesteric liquid crystal paints: in situ photopolymerization of helicoidally stacked multilayer nanostructures for flexible broadband mirrors

DY Kim, KM Lee, TJ White, KU Jeong - NPG Asia Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Utilizing sequential layer-by-layer (LBL) coating and subsequent photopolymerization, we
developed circular-polarizing and free-standing mirrors with a broad reflection bandwidth …

Devices and materials for high-performance mobile liquid crystal displays

SH Lee, SS Bhattacharyya, HS Jin… - Journal of Materials …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Mobile liquid crystal displays (LCDs), often playing a role in hand-held computers, have
become indispensable electronic tools to human beings in modern society. Innovative …

Boost up the mechanical and electrical property of CNT fibers by governing lyotropic liquid crystalline mesophases with aramid polymers for robust lightweight wiring …

KH Ryu, JG Kim, D Lee, SG Kim, BC Ku… - Advanced Fiber …, 2023 - Springer
Monofilament type of polyaromatic amide (PA) and carbon nanotube (CNT) composite fibers
is presented. A concept of a lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) constructed via a spontaneous self …

Imidazolium‐Functionalized Diacetylene Amphiphiles: Strike a Lighter and Wear Polaroid Glasses to Decipher the Secret Code

YJ Choi, S Park, WJ Yoon, SI Lim, J Koo… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The development of smart inks that change color and transparency in response to external
stimuli is very important for various fields, from modern art to safety and anticounterfeiting …

Asymmetric organic–inorganic hybrid giant molecule: cyanobiphenyl monosubstituted polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane nanoparticles for vertical alignment of …

DY Kim, S Kim, SA Lee, YE Choi, WJ Yoon… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
For liquid crystal (LC) alignment, polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) can be
considered as one of the promising candidates for the formation of vertical alignment (VA) of …

Light responsive liquid crystal soft matters: structures, properties, and applications

DY Kim, KU Jeong - Liquid Crystals Today, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Stimuli-responsive soft matters have been recognised by many scientists and engineers as
very important because of their inherent characteristics in response to environmental …

Free-standing and circular-polarizing chirophotonic crystal reflectors: photopolymerization of helical nanostructures

DY Kim, C Nah, SW Kang, SH Lee, KM Lee, TJ White… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The preparation of materials exhibiting structural colors has been intensively studied in
biomimetic science and technology. Utilizing a newly synthesized cholesteric liquid-crystal …

Orthogonal liquid crystal alignment layer: templating speed-dependent orientation of chromonic liquid crystals

YJ Cha, MJ Gim, H Ahn, TJ Shin, J Jeong… - ACS applied materials …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs) have been extensively studied because of the
interesting structural characteristics of the linear aggregation of their plank-shaped …