Nature

Functional liquid-crystalline polymers and supramolecular liquid crystals

The design and functions of liquid-crystalline (LC) polymers with classifying them into conventional-, supramolecular-, dendritic- and network-type LC polymers are described. LC polymers show new ...
IEEE

Analog smectic C* ferroelectric liquid crystal Fabry-Perot optical tunable filter

Abstract: The first analog smectic C* ferroelectric liquid crystal tunable filter designed for the application of wavelength-division-multiplexing optical communication systems is presented. The ...
C&EN

Modeling and Understanding Smectic-Phase Formation in Binary Mixtures of Rodlike Polysilanes: Comparison of Onsager Theory and Experiment

Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada and Instituto de Ciencia de ...
C&EN

Entropically-Driven Formation of Smectic A1, A2, and A3 phases in Binary Mixtures of Rigid-Rod Helical Polysilanes with Different Molecular Weights

Department of Polymer Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan, and Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 ...