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

Two Dimensional Soft Material: New Faces of Graphene Oxide

(2012) Jaemyung Kim et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Nonlinear Photoluminescence Imaging of Isotropic and Liquid Crystalline Dispersions of Graphene Oxide

(2012) Bohdan Senyuk et al.   ACS Nano

Solvated Graphenes: An Emerging Class of Functional Soft Materials

(2012) Chi Cheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

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

Batch fabrication of optical actuators using nanotube–elastomer composites towards refreshable Braille displays

(2012) C J Camargo et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Liquid Crystallinity and Dimensions of Surfactant-Stabilized Sheets of Reduced Graphene Oxide

(2012) Camilo Zamora-Ledezma et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Lyotropic Smectic B Phase Formed in Suspensions of Charged Colloidal Platelets

(2012) Dzina Kleshchanok et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Preparation of Soft Microactuators in a Continuous Flow Synthesis Using a Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Crosslinker

(2012) Eva-Kristina Fleischmann et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

One-piece micropumps from liquid crystalline core-shell particles

(2012) Eva-Kristina Fleischmann et al.   Nature Communications

Light-induced charge separation in a donor–chromophore–acceptor nanocomposite poly[TPA-Ru(tpy)2]@ZnO

(2012) Lisa zur Borg et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Aqueous Liquid Crystals of Graphene Oxide

(2011) Zhen Xu et al.   ACS Nano

Photodriven, Flexural-Torsional Oscillation of Glassy Azobenzene Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

(2011) Kyung Min Lee et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Liquid-Crystalline Elastomer Microvalve for Microfluidics

(2011) Antoni Sánchez-Ferrer et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Nanostructured Organic and Hybrid Solar Cells

(2011) Jonas Weickert et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bending kinetics of a photo-actuating nematic elastomer cantilever

(2011) N. Torras et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Molecular Triangles: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Blue Emission of Cyclo-7,10-tris-triphenylenyl Macrocycles

(2011) Matthias Georg Schwab et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

Microfluidic Synthesis of Highly Shape-Anisotropic Particles from Liquid Crystalline Elastomers with Defined Director Field Configurations

(2011) Christian Ohm et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dissolving and Aligning Carbon Nanotubes in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals

(2011) Yan Ji et al.   LANGMUIR

Liquid crystals that affected the world: discotic liquid crystals

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

Localised Actuation in Composites Containing Carbon Nanotubes and Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

(2011) Carlos J. Camargo et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Toward Organic Photovoltaic Cells Based on the Self-Assembly of Discotic Columnar Liquid Crystals

(2011) Eric Grelet et al.   MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS

Liquid Crystalline Materials for Organic Polycrystalline Field Effect Transistors

(2011) Hiroaki Iino et al.   MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS

Preparation of actuating fibres of oriented main-chain liquid crystalline elastomers by a wetspinning process

(2011) Christian Ohm et al.   Soft Matter

Liquid crystals of aqueous, giant graphene oxide flakes

(2011) Budhadipta Dan et al.   Soft Matter

Carbon-nanotube sensitized nematic elastomer composites for IR-visible photo-actuation

(2011) Jean E. Marshall et al.   Soft Matter

Structural properties of the active layer of discotic hexabenzocoronene/perylene diimide bulk hetero junction photovoltaic devices: The role of alkyl side chain length

(2011) M. Al-Hussein et al.   THIN SOLID FILMS

Disc-like 7, 14-dicyano-ovalene-3,4:10,11-bis(dicarboximide) as a solution-processible n-type semiconductor for air stable field-effect transistors

(2011) Jinling Li et al.   Chemical Science

Graphene chiral liquid crystals and macroscopic assembled fibres

(2011) Zhen Xu et al.   Nature Communications

Solution Processable Fluorenyl Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronenes in Organic Field-Effect Transistors and Solar Cells

(2010) Wallace W. H. Wong et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Control of the Properties of Micrometer-Sized Actuators from Liquid Crystalline Elastomers Prepared in a Microfluidic Setup

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers as Actuators and Sensors

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dispersion and Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes in Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Elastomers

(2010) Yan Ji et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Discotic Liquid Crystals for Opto-Electronic Applications†‡

(2010) Bilal R. Kaafarani   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Orientation of Polymer Functionalized Nanorods in Thin Films

(2010) Matthias Zorn et al.   JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Face-on Oriented Bilayer of Two Discotic Columnar Liquid Crystals for Organic Donor−Acceptor Heterojunction

(2010) Olivier Thiebaut et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Recent Advances in Colloidal and Interfacial Phenomena Involving Liquid Crystals

(2010) Yiqun Bai et al.   LANGMUIR

Orientation and Dynamics of ZnO Nanorod Liquid Crystals in Electric Fields

(2010) Matthias Zorn et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Nanosized Shape-Changing Colloids from Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

(2010) Sönke Haseloh et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Light Induced Charging of Polymer Functionalized Nanorods

(2010) Matthias Zorn et al.   NANO LETTERS

Template-Based Fabrication of Nanometer-Scaled Actuators from Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers

(2010) Christian Ohm et al.   Small

Micron-sized liquid crystalline elastomer actuators

(2010) Hong Yang et al.   Soft Matter

A Continuous Flow Synthesis of Micrometer-Sized Actuators from Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

(2009) Christian Ohm et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Liquid-Crystalline Triangle Honeycomb Formed by a Dithiophene-Based X-Shaped Bolaamphiphile

(2009) Xiaohong Cheng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The first liquid crystalline phthalocyanine derivative capable of edge-on alignment for solution processed organic thin-film transistors

(2009) Shaoqiang Dong et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Micron-Sized Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Actuators with Ultralarge Amplitude Contractions

(2009) Hong Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Playing with discs

(2009) Sandeep Kumar   LIQUID CRYSTALS

Liquid Crystalline Ordering and Charge Transport in Semiconducting Materials

(2009) Wojciech Pisula et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Printed artificial cilia from liquid-crystal network actuators modularly driven by light

(2009) Casper L. van Oosten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Towards high charge-carrier mobilities by rational design of the shape and periphery of discotics

(2009) Xinliang Feng et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Photoresponsive nanoscale columnar transistors

(2009) Xuefeng Guo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Discotic materials for organic solar cells: Effects of chemical structure on assembly and performance

(2009) Holger Christian Hesse et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

From Ambi- to Unipolar Behavior in Discotic Dye Field-Effect Transistors

(2008) Hoi Nok Tsao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Reversible Infrared Actuation of Carbon Nanotube-Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Nanocomposites

(2008) Liqiang Yang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Organic Semiconductors for Solution-Processable Field-Effect Transistors (OFETs)

(2008) Sybille Allard et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light-Driven Plastic Motors

(2008) Munenori Yamada et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ordered bulk heterojunction solar cells with vertically aligned TiO2 nanorods embedded in a conjugated polymer

(2008) C. Y. Kuo et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Liquid crystalline phases from polymer functionalised semiconducting nanorods

(2008) Matthias Zorn et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Magnetoactive liquid crystal elastomer nanocomposites

(2008) Andreas Kaiser et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Photomobile polymer materials—various three-dimensional movements

(2008) Munenori Yamada et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Liquid crystal elastomer–nanoparticle systems for actuation

(2008) Martin Chambers et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Well-Defined Liquid Crystal Gels from Telechelic Polymers

(2008) Yan Xia et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Liquid Crystalline Orientation of Semiconducting Nanorods in a Semiconducting Matrix

(2008) Matthias Zorn et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Liquid Crystals from Polymer-Functionalized TiO2Nanorod Mesogens

(2008) S. Meuer et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Novel organic semiconductors and processing techniques for organic field-effect transistors

(2008) H. N. Tsao et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

Is chemical crosslinking necessary for the photoinduced bending of polymer films?

(2007) Jun-ichi Mamiya et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY