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 …

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 collagen triple helix is a ubiquitous biomacromolecule used in acidic aqueous solutions
as precursor in the fabrication of artificial compact bone and cornea and in tissue …

We demonstrate that the morphological diversity in liquid-crystal hybrid systems is much
richer than previously anticipated. More importantly, we reveal the existence of a dual …

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 …

In this work, a theoretical study of phase equilibrium in mixtures of a calamitic nematic liquid
crystal and hard spherical nanoparticles is presented. A mean-field thermodynamic model is …

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

The phase behavior of mixtures of linear flexible polymers and V-shaped liquid crystals
(LCs) is inspected using a combination of the Flory–Huggins (FH) theory of polymer …

A theoretical study of the core structure and composition of a hedgehog defect in a mixture of
a nematic liquid crystal and a second non-nematogenic component is presented …

This article describes the thermodynamic stability and phase behaviour of a liquid crystalline
material pn-hexyloxybenzylidene-p-toluidine (6OBT) at a molecular level. The atomic net …