Functional Liquid Crystals towards the Next Generation of Materials

Tailoring Pore Size and Chemical Interior of near 1 nm Sized Pores in a Nanoporous Polymer Based on a Discotic Liquid Crystal

(2017) Subham Bhattacharjee et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

(2017) Anne Helene Gelebart et al.   NATURE

Fundamental transport mechanisms, fabrication and potential applications of nanoporous atomically thin membranes

(2017) Luda Wang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Tunable sieving of ions using graphene oxide membranes

(2017) Jijo Abraham et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Amorphous Molybdenum Sulfide Deposited Graphene Liquid Crystalline Fiber for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Catalysis

(2017) Kyung Eun Lee et al.   PARTICLE & PARTICLE SYSTEMS CHARACTERIZATION

Zwitterions as building blocks for functional liquid crystals and block copolymers

(2017) Takahiro Ichikawa   POLYMER JOURNAL

Fructose-driven glycolysis supports anoxia resistance in the naked mole-rat

(2017) Thomas J. Park et al.   SCIENCE

Highly Efficient Virus Rejection with Self-Organized Membranes Based on a Crosslinked Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystal

(2017) Nicolas Marets et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

Thermotropic liquid crystal films for biosensors and beyond

(2017) Piotr Popov et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Transport of ions and electrons in nanostructured liquid crystals

(2017) Takashi Kato et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Vapour-Induced Liquid Crystallinity and Self-Recovery Mechanochromism of Helical Block Copolymer

(2017) Hiroki Hayashi et al.   Scientific Reports

Clustomesogens: Liquid Crystalline Hybrid Nanomaterials Containing Functional Metal Nanoclusters

(2016) Yann Molard   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Size-Selective Binding of Sodium and Potassium Ions in Nanoporous Thin Films of Polymerized Liquid Crystals

(2016) Gerardus M. Bögels et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Development of Glassy Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystals for Solid Proton-Conductive Materials

(2016) Tsubasa Kobayashi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ultrabreathable and Protective Membranes with Sub-5 nm Carbon Nanotube Pores

(2016) Ngoc Bui et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Formation of a Double Diamond Cubic Phase by Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Self-Assembly of Bundled Bolaamphiphiles

(2016) Xiangbing Zeng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Neuronal Differentiation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells on Surfactant Templated Chitosan Hydrogels

(2016) Kristan S. Worthington et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Construction of gyroid-structured matrices through the design of geminized amphiphilic zwitterions and their self-organization

(2016) Takuro Matsumoto et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Ionic Liquid Crystals: Versatile Materials

(2016) Karel Goossens et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Light-Driven Liquid Crystalline Materials: From Photo-Induced Phase Transitions and Property Modulations to Applications

(2016) Hari Krishna Bisoyi et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Self-Assembly of Bioconjugated Amphiphilic Mesogens Having Specific Binding Moieties at Aqueous–Liquid Crystal Interfaces

(2016) Hiroki Eimura et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Liquid-Crystalline Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Design of Two-Dimensional Molecular Assemblies for Efficient Ion Transport and Thermal Stability

(2016) Daniel Högberg et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Mechanochromic Luminescence and Liquid Crystallinity of Molecular Copper Clusters

(2016) Brendan Huitorel et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Self-Assembled Fibers Containing Stable Organic Radical Moieties: Alignment and Magnetic Properties in Liquid Crystals

(2016) Hiroki Eimura et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Crowded Star Mesogens: Guest-Controlled Stability of Mesophases from Unconventional Liquid-Crystal Molecules

(2016) Matthias Lehmann et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Liquid crystals in photovoltaics: a new generation of organic photovoltaics

(2016) Manish Kumar et al.   POLYMER JOURNAL

Thermal conductivity of polymer-based composites: Fundamentals and applications

(2016) Hongyu Chen et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Induction of an Infinite Periodic Minimal Surface by Endowing An Amphiphilic Zwitterion with Halogen-Bond Ability

(2016) Takahiro Ichikawa et al.   ChemistryOpen

Mechanoresponsive liquid crystals exhibiting reversible luminescent color changes at ambient temperature

(2016) Masato Mitani et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Materials for next-generation desalination and water purification membranes

(2016) Jay R. Werber et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Liquid Crystal Elastomer Microspheres as Three-Dimensional Cell Scaffolds Supporting the Attachment and Proliferation of Myoblasts

(2015) Tanmay Bera et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Thin Polymer Films with Continuous Vertically Aligned 1 nm Pores Fabricated by Soft Confinement

(2015) Xunda Feng et al.   ACS Nano

Liquid Crystal Enabled Early Stage Detection of Beta Amyloid Formation on Lipid Monolayers

(2015) Monirosadat Sadati et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Mechanoresponsive Luminescent Molecular Assemblies: An Emerging Class of Materials

(2015) Yoshimitsu Sagara et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Electrically Tunable Selective Reflection of Light from Ultraviolet to Visible and Infrared by Heliconical Cholesterics

(2015) Jie Xiang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Perfect Match: Fullerene Guests in Star-Shaped Oligophenylenevinylene Mesogens

(2015) Matthias Lehmann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthetic Membranes for Water Purification: Status and Future

(2015) Anthony G. Fane et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ionic Switch Induced by a Rectangular–Hexagonal Phase Transition in Benzenammonium Columnar Liquid Crystals

(2015) Bartolome Soberats et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Programmable and adaptive mechanics with liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers

(2015) Timothy J. White et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers

(2015) Taylor H. Ware et al.   SCIENCE

Formation of Helically Structured Chitin/CaCO3Hybrids through an Approach Inspired by the Biomineralization Processes of Crustacean Cuticles

(2015) Shunichi Matsumura et al.   Small

A giant polymer lattice in a polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal

(2015) H. Kikuchi et al.   Soft Matter

Liquid-crystalline calcium carbonate: biomimetic synthesis and alignment of nanorod calcite

(2015) Masanari Nakayama et al.   Chemical Science

Laser-pointer-induced self-focusing effect in hybrid-aligned dye-doped liquid crystals

(2015) Jing Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Double-twist cylinders in liquid crystalline cholesteric blue phases observed by transmission electron microscopy

(2015) Shu Tanaka et al.   Scientific Reports

Zwitterionic liquid crystals as 1D and 3D lithium ion transport media

(2015) Bartolome Soberats et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Highly Proton Conductive Phosphoric Acid–Nonionic Surfactant Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Mesophases and Application in Graphene Optical Modulators

(2014) Ebrima Tunkara et al.   ACS Nano

Scalable Fabrication of Polymer Membranes with Vertically Aligned 1 nm Pores by Magnetic Field Directed Self-Assembly

(2014) Xunda Feng et al.   ACS Nano

Responsive Nanoporous Smectic Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks as Efficient and Selective Adsorbents

(2014) Huub P. C. van Kuringen et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Liquid-Crystalline Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries: Ordered Assemblies of a Mesogen-Containing Carbonate and a Lithium Salt

(2014) Junji Sakuda et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Photomobile Polymer Materials with Crosslinked Liquid-Crystalline Structures: Molecular Design, Fabrication, and Functions

(2014) Toru Ube et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Self-assembled Dynamic 3D Fingerprints in Liquid-Crystal Coatings Towards Controllable Friction and Adhesion

(2014) Danqing Liu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Design of Amphiphilic Zwitterions Forming Liquid-Crystalline Phases and Effects of Lithium Salt Addition on Their Phase Behavior

(2014) Takuro Matsumoto et al.   BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Nanostructured Two-Component Liquid-Crystalline Electrolytes for High-Temperature Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

(2014) Daniel Högberg et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Fate of Viruses in Water Systems

(2014) Irene Xagoraraki et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Designing Supramolecular Liquid-Crystalline Hybrids from Pyrenyl-Containing Dendrimers and Arene Ruthenium Metallacycles

(2014) Anaïs Pitto-Barry et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Macroscopic Photocontrol of Ion-Transporting Pathways of a Nanostructured Imidazolium-Based Photoresponsive Liquid Crystal

(2014) Bartolome Soberats et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Biocompatible, Biodegradable and Porous Liquid Crystal Elastomer Scaffolds for Spatial Cell Cultures

(2014) Anshul Sharma et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

Electric fields line up graphene oxide

(2014) Ju Young Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Electrofluorochromism in π-conjugated ionic liquid crystals

(2014) Amerigo Beneduci et al.   Nature Communications

Free-surface molecular command systems for photoalignment of liquid crystalline materials

(2014) Kei Fukuhara et al.   Nature Communications

Design amphiphilic dipolar π-systems for stimuli-responsive luminescent materials using metastable states

(2014) Shiki Yagai et al.   Nature Communications

Electrical Actuation of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Gels

(2014) Yuuta Fuchigami et al.   ACS Macro Letters

From Channel-Forming Ionic Liquid Crystals Exhibiting Humidity-Induced Phase Transitions to Nanostructured Ion-Conducting Polymer Membranes

(2013) Heng Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

An Electric-Field-Responsive Discotic Liquid-Crystalline Hexa-peri-Hexabenzocoronene/Oligothiophene Hybrid

(2013) Nan Hu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Liquid Crystal Chemical Sensors That Cells Can Wear

(2013) Uttam Manna et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The TV in Your Pocket: Development of Liquid-Crystal Materials for the New Millennium

(2013) Matthias Bremer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Liquid-Crystalline Ordering as a Concept in Materials Science: From Semiconductors to Stimuli-Responsive Devices

(2013) Eva-Kristina Fleischmann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Development of Structural Complexity by Liquid-Crystal Self-assembly

(2013) Carsten Tschierske   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Liquid–crystalline metallodendrimers

(2013) Bertrand Donnio   INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA

3D Anhydrous Proton-Transporting Nanochannels Formed by Self-Assembly of Liquid Crystals Composed of a Sulfobetaine and a Sulfonic Acid

(2013) Bartolome Soberats et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Liquid crystal phase transitions in suspensions of mineral colloids: new life from old roots

(2013) H. N. W. Lekkerkerker et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

(2013) V. Borshch et al.   Nature Communications

Chemical and biological sensing using liquid crystals

(2013) Rebecca J. Carlton et al.   Liquid Crystals Reviews

Self-Organized Liquid-Crystalline Nanostructured Membranes for Water Treatment: Selective Permeation of Ions

(2012) Masahiro Henmi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Engineering of Complex Order and the Macroscopic Deformation of Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

(2012) Laurens T. de Haan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Functional Organic Materials Based on Polymerized Liquid-Crystal Monomers: Supramolecular Hydrogen-Bonded Systems

(2012) Dirk J. Broer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Glycerol-Based Bicontinuous Cubic Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Monomer System for the Fabrication of Thin-Film Membranes with Uniform Nanopores

(2012) Blaine M. Carter et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Functional star-shaped tris(triazolyl)triazines: columnar liquid crystal, fluorescent, solvatofluorochromic and electrochemical properties

(2012) Eduardo Beltrán et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Quantum dots as liquid crystal dopants

(2012) Javad Mirzaei et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

3D Continuous Water Nanosheet as a Gyroid Minimal Surface Formed by Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid-Crystalline Zwitterions

(2012) Takahiro Ichikawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Full-Color Tunable Photoluminescent Ionic Liquid Crystals Based on Tripodal Pyridinium, Pyrimidinium, and Quinolinium Salts

(2012) Kana Tanabe et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Induction of Thermotropic Bicontinuous Cubic Phases in Liquid-Crystalline Ammonium and Phosphonium Salts

(2012) Takahiro Ichikawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light-induced liquid crystallinity

(2012) Tamas Kosa et al.   NATURE

Liquid-crystalline gels exhibiting electrooptical light scattering properties: fibrous polymerized network of a lysine-based gelator having acrylate moieties

(2012) Hiroki Eimura et al.   POLYMER JOURNAL

Liquid crystal supermolecules stabilizing an optically isotropic phase with frustrated molecular organization

(2012) Atsushi Yoshizawa   POLYMER JOURNAL

The Stomatopod Dactyl Club: A Formidable Damage-Tolerant Biological Hammer

(2012) J. C. Weaver et al.   SCIENCE

Ferroelectric Columnar Liquid Crystal Featuring Confined Polar Groups Within Core-Shell Architecture

(2012) D. Miyajima et al.   SCIENCE

Highly Permeable and Selective Pore-Spanning Biomimetic Membrane Embedded with Aquaporin Z

(2012) Honglei Wang et al.   Small

Co-organisation of ionic liquids with amphiphilic diethanolamines: construction of 3D continuous ionic nanochannels through the induction of liquid–crystalline bicontinuous cubic phases

(2012) Takahiro Ichikawa et al.   Chemical Science

Anisotropic Proton-Conductive Materials Formed by the Self-Organization of Phosphonium-Type Zwitterions

(2011) Saori Ueda et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Brightly Tricolored Mechanochromic Luminescence from a Single-Luminophore Liquid Crystal: Reversible Writing and Erasing of Images

(2011) Yoshimitsu Sagara et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Cross-Coupling Reactions Of Organoboranes: An Easy Way To Construct CC Bonds (Nobel Lecture)

(2011) Akira Suzuki   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Piezochromic fluorescence in liquid crystalline conjugated polymers

(2011) Wang-Eun Lee et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Guest-Responsive Covalent Frameworks by the Cross-Linking of Liquid-Crystalline Salts: Tuning of Lattice Flexibility by the Design of Polymerizable Units

(2011) Yasuhiro Ishida et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

3D Interconnected Ionic Nano-Channels Formed in Polymer Films: Self-Organization and Polymerization of Thermotropic Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystals

(2011) Takahiro Ichikawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Liquid crystals that affected the world: discotic liquid crystals

(2011) Richard J. Bushby et al.   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Endotoxin-Induced Structural Transformations in Liquid Crystalline Droplets

(2011) I.-H. Lin et al.   SCIENCE

Complex Multicolor Tilings and Critical Phenomena in Tetraphilic Liquid Crystals

(2011) X. Zeng et al.   SCIENCE

Designing the Next Generation of Chemical Separation Membranes

(2011) D. L. Gin et al.   SCIENCE

Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals

(2011) Kirill V. Axenov et al.   Materials

Ordered Materials for Organic Electronics and Photonics

(2010) Mary O’Neill et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

From Nanostructured Liquid Crystals to Polymer-Based Electrolytes

(2010) Takashi Kato   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Self-Assembly of Imidazolium-Based Rodlike Ionic Liquid Crystals: Transition from Lamellar to Micellar Organization

(2010) Xiaohong Cheng et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Novel high proton conductive material from liquid crystalline 4-(octadecyloxy)phenylsulfonic acid

(2010) Cheuk-Fai Chow et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Laser Emission from a Photopolymerized Cholesteric Blue Phase II

(2010) Takuya Isomura et al.   MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS

Free-standing mesoporous silica films with tunable chiral nematic structures

(2010) Kevin E. Shopsowitz et al.   NATURE

Enhancement of anhydrous proton transport by supramolecular nanochannels in comb polymers

(2010) Yangbin Chen et al.   Nature Chemistry

CaCO3/chitin-whisker hybrids: formation of CaCO3 crystals in chitin-based liquid-crystalline suspension

(2010) Yuya Yamamoto et al.   POLYMER JOURNAL

A Stimuli-Responsive, Photoluminescent, Anthracene-Based Liquid Crystal: Emission Color Determined by Thermal and Mechanical Processes

(2009) Yoshimitsu Sagara et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Electric-Field-Responsive Lithium-Ion Conductors of Propylenecarbonate-Based Columnar Liquid Crystals

(2009) Harutoki Shimura et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A thermoresponsive photoluminescent smectic liquid crystal: change of photoluminescent color on the smectic–smectic phase transition

(2009) Shogo Yamane et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Anisotropic ionic conductivities in lyotropic supramolecular liquid crystals

(2009) Youju Huang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Dendron-Mediated Self-Assembly, Disassembly, and Self-Organization of Complex Systems

(2009) Brad M. Rosen et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Twists in mesomorphic columnar supramolecular assemblies

(2009) Francisco Vera et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Photoluminescent Liquid Crystals Based on Trithienylphosphine Oxides

(2009) Masaomi Kimura et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Star Mesogens (Hekates)-Tailor-Made Molecules for Programming Supramolecular Functionality

(2009) Matthias Lehmann   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Smectic C to Cubic Phase Transition of 4′-n-Docosyloxy-3′-nitrobiphenyl-4-carboxylic Acid (ANBC-22) and Alternating-Current Electric Field Effect

(2009) Shoichi Kutsumizu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

New Type of Li Ion Conductor with 3D Interconnected Nanopores via Polymerization of a Liquid Organic Electrolyte-Filled Lyotropic Liquid-Crystal Assembly

(2009) Robert L. Kerr et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Self-Assembled Fibers Photopolymerized in Nematic Liquid Crystals: Stable Electrooptical Switching in Light-Scattering Mode†

(2009) Yuki Hirai et al.   LANGMUIR

Mechanically induced luminescence changes in molecular assemblies

(2009) Yoshimitsu Sagara et al.   Nature Chemistry

Helical Nanofilament Phases

(2009) L. E. Hough et al.   SCIENCE

π-Conjugated Oligothiophene-Based Polycatenar Liquid Crystals: Self-Organization and Photoconductive, Luminescent, and Redox Properties

(2008) Takuma Yasuda et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Nanoporous Membranes of Hydrogen-bridged Smectic Networks with Nanometer Transverse Pore Dimensions

(2008) Carmen Luengo Gonzalez et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Phosphorescent, Terdentate, Liquid-Crystalline Complexes of Platinum(II): Stimulus-Dependent Emission

(2008) Valery N. Kozhevnikov et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Transmission and Amplification of Information and Properties in Nanostructured Liquid Crystals

(2008) John W. Goodby et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Stimuli‐Responsive Luminescent Liquid Crystals: Change of Photoluminescent Colors Triggered by a Shear‐Induced Phase Transition

(2008) Yoshimitsu Sagara et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Biotinylated Biodegradable Nanotemplated Hydrogel Networks for Cell Interactive Applications

(2008) Jason D. Clapper et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Ionic Liquid Crystals: Self-assembly of Imidazolium Salts Containing an L-Glutamic Acid Moiety

(2008) Sanami Yazaki et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Luminescence of metallomesogens in the liquid crystal state

(2008) Koen Binnemans   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Direct Observation of Polymer-Stabilized Blue Phase I Structure with Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope

(2008) Kenji Higashiguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Noncovalent Approach to One-Dimensional Ion Conductors:  Enhancement of Ionic Conductivities in Nanostructured Columnar Liquid Crystals

(2008) Harutoki Shimura et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Single-Molecule Magnets with Mesomorphic Lamellar Ordering

(2007) Emmanuel Terazzi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION