Over the past two decades, there has been an explosive development in the fields of nanostructured materials, including metallic nanoparticles (NPs) and nanorods (NRs), semiconducting quantum dots ...
Ferroelectric liquid crystals are materials that have a remnant and electrically invertible polar order. Columnar liquid crystals with a ferroelectric nature have potential use in ultrahigh-density ...
Unlike conventional liquid crystals bearing alkyl chains, perylene tetracarboxylic bisimide (PTCBI) derivatives bearing oligosiloxane moieties were synthesized. The oligosiloxane moieties are bulky ...