ArticleMolecular systems design & engineering2022
Chiral nematic liquid crystal droplets as a basis for sensor systems.
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- Effect of a chiral dopant on hysteresis phenomena induced by external fields in liquid crystals.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Chirality inversion in cholesteric phases of bent-shaped liquid crystal dimers with chiral dopants.RSC advances · 2025Article
- Molecular Orientation Behavior of Lyotropic Liquid Crystal-Carbon Dot Hybrids in Microfluidic Confinement.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Recent Progress in Droplet Structure Machining for Advanced Optics.Micromachines · 2024Review
- The good, the bad and the ugly faces of cyanobiphenyl mesogens in selected tracks of fundamental and applied liquid crystal research.Liquid crystals · 2024Article
- Tunable Reflection through Size Polydispersity of Chiral-Nematic Liquid Crystal Polymer Particles.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Tuning Molecular Orientation Responses of Microfluidic Liquid Crystal Dispersions to Colloid and Polymer Flows.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Heads or tails: investigating the effects of amphiphile features on the distortion of chiral nematic liquid crystal droplets.Journal of materials chemistry. C · 2023Article
- Designing Biological Microsensors with Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2022Article
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Abstract
For a series of phospholipid coated calamitic nematic liquid crystal droplets (5CB, 6CB, 7CB, E7 and MLC7023) of diameter ∼18 μm, the addition of chiral dopant leaves the sign of surface anchoring unchanged. Herein we report that for these chiral nematic droplets an analyte induced transition from a Frank-Pryce structure (with planar anchoring) to a nested-cup structure (with perpendicular anchoring) is accompanied by changes in the intensity of reflected light. We propose this system as both a general scheme for understanding director fields in chiral nematic liquid crystal droplets with perpendicular anchoring and as an ideal candidate to be utilised as the basis for developing cheap, single use LC-based sensor devices.
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