Nanoparticles in liquid crystals and liquid crystalline nanoparticles

O Stamatoiu, J Mirzaei, X Feng, T Hegmann - Liquid crystals: materials …, 2012 - Springer
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 …

Recent developments in metal chalcogenides based quantum dot sensitized solar cells

R Kottayi, DK Maurya, R Sittaramane… - ES Energy & …, 2022 - espublisher.com
Recent advance in nanotechnology leads to develop a variety of metal chalcogenide
quantum dots (QDs) such as binary metal chalcogenides QDs and alloyed QDs. The …

Electroconvection in zwitterion‐doped nematic liquid crystals and application as smart windows

Y Zhang, X Yang, Y Zhan, Y Zhang, J He… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electroconvection (EC) in liquid crystals (LCs) is extensively studied for the formation of
regular nonequilibrium structures, and the applications that require strong light scattering …

Electrically induced patterns in nematics and how to avoid them

N Éber, P Salamon, Á Buka - Liquid Crystals Reviews, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Electric field-induced patterns in liquid crystals have been observed and studied for about
50 years. During this time, a great variety of structures, detected under different conditions …

Nanocomposites of a nematic liquid crystal doped with magic-sized CdSe quantum dots

J Mirzaei, M Urbanski, K Yu, HS Kitzerow… - Journal of Materials …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
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) …

Liquid crystal–gold nanoparticle composites

H Qi, T Hegmann - Liquid Crystals Today, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Nanoparticles (NPs) have emerged as extremely promising materials to alter and improve
the properties of liquid crystals (LCs) used, for example, in device applications. In this paper …

Nanocomposites based on antiferroelectric liquid crystal (S)-MHPOBC doping with Au nanoparticles

S Lalik, O Stefańczyk, D Dardas, A Deptuch… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Modification of the physical properties of the (S)-MHPOBC antiferroelectric liquid crystal
(AFLC) by doping with low concentrations of gold nanoparticles is presented for the first …

Nanoparticles: complex and multifaceted additives for liquid crystals

U Shivakumar, J Mirzaei, X Feng, A Sharma… - liquid …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
In this review article we provide an overview of our work on nanoparticle-doped liquid crystal
phases including nematic, smectic and columnar phases. Over the past years, we have …

On the impact of nanoparticle doping on the electro-optic response of nematic hosts

M Urbanski - Liquid Crystals Today, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Functional composites of nanoparticles (NPs) dispersed in liquid crystals (LCs) have
emerged into a topical research field of increasing interest over the last years. The promising …

Enhanced efficiency of electric field tunability in photonic liquid crystal fibers doped with gold nanoparticles

D Budaszewski, M Chychłowski, A Budaszewska… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we present our recent research results on light propagation in photonic crystal
fibers (PCFs) infiltrated with a 6CHBT nematic liquid crystal (LC) doped with 2-nm gold …