The academics utilized thermotropic liquid crystals to avoid the evaporative precipitation of conventional additives and the typical interface accumulation to enable uniform passivation of the ...

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 ...

lyotropic and thermotropic liquid crystals, micellar surfactant phases, colloidal suspensions and emulsions. Most biological fluids, most food materials and many fluids important in industrial ...

The two primary elements in our research program are: Functional Nanostructured Polymer Materials Based on Liquid Crystal Building Blocks ... new RTIL-based lyotropic and thermotropic LC systems; gas ...