Lyotropic liquid crystals as templates for advanced materials

Y Saadat, OQ Imran, CO Osuji… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) have drawn attention in numerous technical fields as they
feature a variety of nanometer-scale structures, processability, and diverse chemical …

Muscle-mimetic highly tough, conductive, and stretchable poly (ionic liquid) liquid crystalline ionogels with ultrafast self-healing, super adhesive, and remarkable …

T Li, F Liu, X Yang, S Hao, Y Cheng, S Li… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Here, we report a simple method for preparing muscle-mimetic highly tough, conductive, and
stretchable liquid crystalline ionogels which contains only one poly (ionic liquid)(PIL) in an …

Anisotropic alignment of bacterial nanocellulose ionogels for unconventionally high combination of stiffness and damping

W Choi, A Abraham, J Ko, JG Son, J Cho… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ionogels are emerging materials for advanced electrochemical devices; however, their
mechanical instability to external stresses has raised concerns about their safety. This study …

Effects of shear-induced crystallization on the complex viscosity of lamellar-structured concentrated surfactant solutions

PU Kelkar, M Kaboolian, RD Corder, M Caggioni… - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Material relationships at low temperatures were determined for concentrated surfactant
solutions using a combination of rheological experiments, cross-polarized microscopy …

Two-step thermoresponsive ultrafiltration membranes from polymerization of lyotropic liquid crystals

Y Saadat, K Kim, R Foudazi - ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this study, we present the fabrication of a two-step thermoresponsive ultrafiltration (UF)
membrane through polymerization of a lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC). A mixture of …

Initiator-dependent kinetics of lyotropic liquid crystal-templated thermal polymerization

Y Saadat, K Kim, R Foudazi - Polymer Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, we examine the polymerization kinetics with different thermal initiators in
lamellar and hexagonal lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) structures directed by Pluronic L64 …

Ion transport in polymerized lyotropic liquid crystals containing ionic liquid

A Bandegi, K Kim, R Foudazi - Journal of Polymer Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, we investigate the effect of morphology and segmental dynamics on ion
transport in polymerized lyotropic liquid crystals (polyLLCs) containing 1‐butyl‐3 …

Soft nanoconfinement of ionic liquids in lyotropic liquid crystals

A Bandegi, MM Garcia, JL Bañuelos, MA Firestone… - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanoconfinement of ionic liquids (ILs) influences their physicochemical properties. In this
study, we investigate the effect of soft nanoconfinement imposed by lyotropic liquid crystals …

Stimuli-responsive Porous Membranes from Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Templating

Y Saadatgharehbagh - 2023 - shareok.org
Lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) templating is an efficient approach to synthesize
nanostructured polymers with a wide range of applications, particularly in molecular …

Fabrication of Ion Gels from Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Block Copolymer/Ionic Liquid/Monomer Mixtures

A Bandegi - 2021 - search.proquest.com
In recent years, ionic liquids (ILs) have attracted significant interest due to their unique
properties such as low vapor pressure, nonflammability, optical transparency, and high ionic …