Hydrogen-bonded polar nematic liquid crystal series with the general formula n OBAF(n = 7-12) is studied. The mesomorphic characterization is demonstrated through differential scanning calorimetry(DSC) and polarized o...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61378075,61377032,11604327,and 61475152);the Science Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics,China
Liquid crystal(LC) compound with isothiocyanate and naphthyl group is an attractive high birefringence LC material,and can be used in optical devices. In this paper, the electro-optical properties of a series of thi...
Project supported by the Doctoral Science Research Start-up Funding of Guizhou Normal University,China(Grant No.11904-0514162);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11474021)
This work demonstrates the realization of a lasing in scattering media,which contains dispersive solution of Zn O nanoparticles(NPs) and laser dye 4-dicyanomethylene-2-methyle-6-(p-dimethylaminostyryl)-4H-pyran(...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11474021 and 51333001);the Key Program for International S&T Cooperation Projects of China(Grant No.2013DFB50340);the Issues of Priority Development Areas of the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(Grant No.20120001130005);the Key(Key Grant)Project of Chinese Ministry of Education(Grant No.313002)
In this paper,we investigate the bichromatic coherent random lasing actions from the dye-doped polymer stabilized blue phase liquid crystals.Two groups of lasing peaks,of which the full widith at half maximum is about...
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A series of azobenzene liquid crystals with one or two terminal acrylate groups were synthesized and their polymers were fabricated.The azobenzene liquid crystals and their polymers achieved the photoisomerization fro...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.DMS-1200487,DMR-1122483,and NIH 2R01GM078994-05A1);the Air Force Office of Scientific Research(AFOSR)(Grant No.FA9550-12-1-0178);the Army Research Office(Grant Nos.ARO-12-60317-MS and SC EPSCoR GEAR(CI and CRP))
We systematically explore near equilibrium, flow-driven, and flow-activity coupled dynamics of polar active liquid crystals using a continuum model. Firstly, we re-derive the hydrodynamic model to ensure the thermodyn...
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A plastic crack model for smectic A liquid crystals under longitudinal shear is suggested. The solution of the screw dislocation in smectic A is the key to the correct result that we obtained by overcoming a longstand...
supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia(Grant No.OI171015);the Hungarian Research Fund OTKA K81250;the SASA-HAS Bilateral Scientific Exchange Project#9
In this work, five mixtures with different concentrations of banana-shaped and calamitic compounds have been prepared and subsequently studied by polarizing optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and X...
The mistakes in the classical solution of a screw dislocation in smectic A liquid crystals are pointed out. A serious problem with the well-known theory is pointed, which may be named de Gennes-Kleman-Pershan paradox ...
One of the authors (L. Kavitha) gratefully acknowledges the financial support from NBHM, India in the form of major research project, BRNS, India in the form of Young Scientist Research Award and ICTP, Italy in the form of Junior Associateship;UGC, India for financial assistance in the form of Research Award;M. Venkatesh acknowledges BSR-Research Fellowship under UGC Non-SAP Scheme, India;S. Dhamayanthi thanks the University Research Fellowship (URF) given by Periyar Uni- versity, India.
We report the modulational instability (MI) analysis for the modulation equations governing the propagation of coherent polarized light through a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) slab, in the limit of low light intens...