Combinations of liquid crystals and materials with unique features as well as properties at
the nanoscale are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to recent developments, ie, since …

There is a great interest in doping of different types of nanoparticles (NPs) in the opto-
electronic display devices including liquid crystal displays and polymer dispersed LCs …

Liquid crystal nanoscience, a field exploring the mutually beneficial combination of the
unique properties of nanoscale materials and fluid, yet ordered liquid crystalline phases, is …

Gold nanoparticles offer the possibility of creating metamaterials; however, such
nanoparticles are not particularly stable. Conversely, liquid crystals offer the possibility of …

We report electro-optical and dielectric studies of the gold nano particle (GNP) dispersed
room-temperature liquid crystalline material 4′-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) at a …

Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) represent an important new class of materials for
optical device applications. Their valuable advantages such as low operating voltage, high …

The isotropic to nematic liquid crystal (LC) phase transition is used to create organized
assemblies of CdSe/ZnS core/shell quantum dots (QDs). Under controlled conditions, well …

Using transmittance electron microscopy, fluorescence and polarizing optical microscopy,
optical spectroscopy, and fluorescent correlation spectroscopy, it was shown that CdSe/ZnS …

Investigations of the mixtures of semiconducting quantum scale particles in anisotropic liquid
crystal (LC) medium have become a vibrant area of research primarily due to their very …

We here report on the optical, alignment and electro-optic properties of a nematic liquid
crystal affected by the presence of semiconductor CdSe magic-sized nanocrystals (MSNCs) …