Nanomaterials such as nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and quantum dots
doped with nematic liquid crystal exhibit varieties of new physical phenomena. It has been …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are synthetic and biological viscoelastic anisotropic soft matter
materials that have a combination of fluidity of liquids and anisotropy of solids and find use …

The transition from the isotropic (I) liquid to the nematic-type (N) uniaxial phase appearing
as the consequence of the elongated geometry of elements seems to be a universal …

A theoretical and experimental study of mixtures of a calamitic nematic liquid crystal and
gold nanoparticles capped with mixed monolayers (alkylic+ mesogenic ligands) is …

The pretransitional behavior of dodecylcyanobiphenyl (12CB)(isotropic–smectic-A–solid
mesomorphism) with d= 50 nm BaTi O 3 nanoparticles (NPs) linked to the cubic phase was …

Nanoparticle-liquid crystal (NP-LC) composites based on hydrogen bonding were explored
using a model system. The ligand shells of 3 nm diameter zirconium dioxide nanoparticles …

Using differential scanning calorimetry measurements, the influence of Sn 2 P 2 S 6
ferroelectric nanoparticles on the phase transition temperatures of the 8CB liquid crystal is …

Background Liquid crystal (LC) mesophases have an orientational and positional order that
can be found in both synthetic and biological materials. These orders are maintained until …

The impact of the ferroelectric nanoparticles on the static dielectric permittivity in the isotropic
phase of the isotropic-smectic-A phase transition is discussed theoretically. The temperature …

Theory and simulations of simultaneous chemical demixing and phase ordering are
performed for a mixed order parameter system with an isotropic-isotropic (II) phase …