This dissertation focuses on liquid crystals (LCs), specifically their chiral properties and interactions with surfaces and nanostructures. Nematic twist cells were filled with a LC doped with the chiral molecule CB15, which compensates for the imposed twist. Using the electroclinic effect (ECE), results indicate that an ECE always exists near the surface in twist cells containing conformationally deracemizable molecules. ECE measurements were also performed to determine the source of the ECE response in a LC doped with chiral periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO). The data show that the main source of the signal emanates from outside the PMO, and not inside the PMO pores. An ECE also is reported for chiral LCs above their bulk chiral iso...
The heptyl-, octyl- and nonyl-benzoic acids present dimerized nematic and smectic C liquid-crystal p...
Confinement of cholesteric liquid crystals (ChLC) into droplets leads to a delicate interplay betwee...
We study the pattern formation of a chiral nematic liquid crystal under a wetting transition. In the...
This dissertation focuses on liquid crystals (LCs), specifically their chiral properties and interac...
Cette thèse se concentre sur les cristaux liquides (CLs), leurs propriétés chirales et leurs interac...
Article examining the palette of morphologies that arises when microdroplets are deformed into nonsp...
Nematic liquid crystals (LCs) have been an area of intense investigation. In this thesis, we employ ...
Lyotropic chiral nematic liquid crystalline dispersions are a unique state of matter that can be exp...
Nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) form helical macroscopic structures through chiral induction when dop...
Chirality has fascinated scientists for the past two centuries from structural color to origins of l...
Confinement of cholesteric liquid crystals (ChLC) into droplets leads to a delicate interplay betwee...
The first part of the thesis is devoted to studies of the self-assembled monolayers of discotic liqu...
Chiral twisting of the molecular orientation within the layer of a smectic-A liquid crystal has...
The combination of long-pitch and short-pitch chiral liquid crystals (CLCs) with patterned surface a...
Funding The work was supported by the National Science Centre (Poland) under the grant no. 2016/22/A...
The heptyl-, octyl- and nonyl-benzoic acids present dimerized nematic and smectic C liquid-crystal p...
Confinement of cholesteric liquid crystals (ChLC) into droplets leads to a delicate interplay betwee...
We study the pattern formation of a chiral nematic liquid crystal under a wetting transition. In the...
This dissertation focuses on liquid crystals (LCs), specifically their chiral properties and interac...
Cette thèse se concentre sur les cristaux liquides (CLs), leurs propriétés chirales et leurs interac...
Article examining the palette of morphologies that arises when microdroplets are deformed into nonsp...
Nematic liquid crystals (LCs) have been an area of intense investigation. In this thesis, we employ ...
Lyotropic chiral nematic liquid crystalline dispersions are a unique state of matter that can be exp...
Nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) form helical macroscopic structures through chiral induction when dop...
Chirality has fascinated scientists for the past two centuries from structural color to origins of l...
Confinement of cholesteric liquid crystals (ChLC) into droplets leads to a delicate interplay betwee...
The first part of the thesis is devoted to studies of the self-assembled monolayers of discotic liqu...
Chiral twisting of the molecular orientation within the layer of a smectic-A liquid crystal has...
The combination of long-pitch and short-pitch chiral liquid crystals (CLCs) with patterned surface a...
Funding The work was supported by the National Science Centre (Poland) under the grant no. 2016/22/A...
The heptyl-, octyl- and nonyl-benzoic acids present dimerized nematic and smectic C liquid-crystal p...
Confinement of cholesteric liquid crystals (ChLC) into droplets leads to a delicate interplay betwee...
We study the pattern formation of a chiral nematic liquid crystal under a wetting transition. In the...