The liquid crystalline state of matter arises from orientation-dependent, non-covalent
interactions between molecules within condensed phases. Because the balance of …

This Instructional Review describes methods and underlying principles that can be used to
characterize both the orientations assumed spontaneously by liquid crystals (LCs) at …

This brief Perspective focuses on recent advances in the design of functional soft materials
that are based on confinement of low molecular weight liquid crystals (LCs) within …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are fluids within which molecules exhibit long-range orientational
order, leading to anisotropic properties such as optical birefringence and curvature elasticity …

This article summarises recent advances made in our laboratory towards the development of
new technological applications, such as biosensors and organic light-emitting diodes …

Conspectus The intrinsic molecular order of liquid crystals (LCs) and liquid crystalline
elastomers (LCEs) is the origin of their stimuli-responsive properties. The programmable …

With the rapid advances in liquid crystal (LC) material technology over recent decades,
many different practical devices have been developed and commercialized. LC devices …

The development of simple, portable, and low-cost biosensing platforms is of great interest
in the clinical diagnosis of disease. Here, we report liquid crystal (LC) droplet-embedded …

We report orientational anchoring transitions at aqueous interfaces of a water-immiscible,
thermotropic liquid crystal (LC; nematic phase of 4′-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (5CB)) that are …

Aptamer-ligand binding events, involving small molecule targets, at a surfactant-laden
aqueous/liquid crystal (LC) interface were found to trigger a LC reorientation that can be …