The team selected thermotropic liquid crystals because of their “characteristic mesomorphic phase transition from a solid to an isotropic liquid phase when heated.” They remain in the liquid ...

The second area involves the design of monomers based on functional thermotropic LCs to control order, symmetry, and symmetry-based bulk properties in the final polymer assembly. The third area is the ...

Current topics include molecular channel matrices, liquid crystalline (LC) dendrimers and amphiphiles, soft quasicrystals, novel thermotropic l.c. phases with 2d and 3d periodicity ("micellar", ...