Light-driven phenomena both in living systems and nonliving materials have enabled truly
fascinating and incredible dynamic architectures with terrific forms and functions. Recently …

A review of basic physical phenomena underlying the light-induced molecular reorientation
in nematic liquid crystals is presented. A detailed description of the mechanisms of direct …

Liquid crystal displays were discovered in the 1960s, and today we continue to enjoy the
benefits of that fundamental discovery and its translation into a wide variety of products. Like …

We report the results of an investigation carried on Methyl Red-doped nematic liquid crystals
with the aim of studying the basic mechanism of the extraordinarily large nonlinear response …

Supra-nonlinear photorefractive response of C/sub 60/ and single-wall carbon nanotube-doped
nematic liquid crystal Page 1 CFK6 Supra-Nonlinear Photorefractive Response of C60 and …

We show that adsorption of dye molecules control the light-induced alignment of dye-doped
nematic liquid crystal (LC) on a nonphotosensitive polymer surface. The dependencies of …

Some fluids exhibit anomalously low friction when flowing against a certain solid wall. To
recover the viscosity of a bulk fluid, slip at the wall is usually postulated. On a macroscopic …

This work demonstrates the feasibility of a polarizer-free, electrically switchable and optically
rewritable display based on dye-doped polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (DD-PDLCs) …

The study of dye-doped low pitch cholesteric liquid crystals in their blue phases as an
example of tunable “weak” photonic crystals is proposed and demonstrated. The presence …

The adsorption-desorption phenomenon of neutral particles dissolved in an isotropic fluid is
investigated by using a nonsingular kernel in the kinetic equation at the limiting surfaces. To …