selected publications
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conference proceeding
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Homeotropic alignment of multiple bent-core liquid crystal phases using a polydimethylsiloxane alignment layer.
Proceedings of SPIE.
2017
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Host-guest chemistry in the helical nanofilament phase (Conference Presentation).
Proceedings of SPIE.
2016
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SmAPf phase, its properties and potential dye alignment.
Proceedings of SPIE.
2016
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Design and Synthesis of an Achiral Ferroelectric Smectic Liquid Crystal.
Proceedings of SPIE.
2011
- In-plane switching bistable SmA liquid-crystal display. 297-+. 2007
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Ferroelectric smectic liquid crystals in the bent-core family: Alignment for V-shaped analog switching.
Proceedings of SPIE.
21-28.
1999
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Antiferroelectric liquid crystals from achiral molecules and a liquid conglomerate.
MRS Online Proceedings Library.
3-14.
1999
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Homeotropic alignment of multiple bent-core liquid crystal phases using a polydimethylsiloxane alignment layer.
Proceedings of SPIE.
2017
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journal article
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First -principles experimental demonstration of ferroelectricity in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal: Polar domains and striking electro-optics.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
14021-14031.
2020
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Nanoconfinement of the Low-Temperature Dark Conglomerate: Structural Control from Focal Conics to Helical Nanofilaments.
Chemistry: A European Journal.
7438-7442.
2019
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New SmAP(F) Mesogens Designed for Analog Electrooptics Applications.
Materials.
2017
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Structural transitions and guest/host complexing of liquid crystal helical nanofilaments induced by nanoconfinement.
Science Advances.
2017
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The heliconical nematic twist-bend phase from "classic" bent-core benzylideneanilines with oligomethylene cores.
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals.
430-438.
2017
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Airflow-aligned helical nanofilament (B4) phase in topographic confinement.
Scientific Reports.
2016
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Manipulating the twist sense of helical nanofilaments of bent-core liquid crystals using rod-shaped, chiral mesogenic dopants.
Liquid Crystals.
1083-1091.
2016
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Diastereomeric liquid crystal domains at the mesoscale.
Nature Communications.
2015
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Multidimensional Helical Nanostructures in Multiscale Nanochannels.
Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids.
8156-8161.
2015
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Field alignment of bent-core smectic liquid crystals for analog optical phase modulation.
Applied Physics Letters.
2015
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Nucleation and growth of a helical nanofilament (B4) liquid-crystal phase confined in nanobowls.
Soft Matter.
7778-7782.
2015
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Physico-chemical confinement of helical nanofilaments.
Soft Matter.
3653-3659.
2015
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Multistep hierarchical self-assembly of chiral nanopore arrays.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
14342-14347.
2014
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Phase Winding of a Nematic Liquid Crystal by Dynamic Localized Reorientation of an Azo-Based Self-Assembled Mono.
Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids.
9560-9566.
2014
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Chiral Isotropic Sponge Phase of Hexatic Smectic Layers of Achiral Molecules.
ChemPhysChem: a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry.
1502-1507.
2014
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Cybotactic behavior in the de Vries smectic-A* liquid-crystal structure formed by a silicon-containing molecule.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2014
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Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric odd-even behavior in a tricarbosilane-terminated liquid crystal homologous series.
Chemical Science.
1869-1874.
2014
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Topography of bent-core liquid crystals at the air/liquid crystal interface.
Liquid Crystals.
1730-1735.
2013
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Chiral heliconical ground state of nanoscale pitch in a nematic liquid crystal of achiral molecular dimers.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
15931-15936.
2013
- AAO as a 1D template for geometric confinement of liquid crystals. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2013
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Athermal photofluidization of glasses.
Nature Communications.
2013
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A Modulated Helical Nanofilament Phase.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
5254-5257.
2013
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Alignment of helical nanofilaments on the surfaces of various self-assembled monolayers.
Soft Matter.
6185-6191.
2013
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Nanoconfinement of guest materials by helical nanofilament networks of bent-core mesogens.
Soft Matter.
462-471.
2013
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Self-assembled hydrophobic surface generated from a helical nanofilament (B4) liquid crystal phase.
Soft Matter.
2793-2797.
2013
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Spiral layer undulation defects in B7 liquid crystals.
Soft Matter.
11303-11308.
2013
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Topological Ferroelectric Bistability in a Polarization-Modulated Orthogonal Smectic Liquid Crystal.
Journal of the American Chemical Society.
9681-9687.
2012
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Electro-optic response of the anticlinic, antiferroelectric liquid-crystal phase of a biaxial bent-core molecule with tilt angle near 45 degrees.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2012
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Structure of the B4 Liquid Crystal Phase near a Glass Surface.
ChemPhysChem: a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry.
155-159.
2012
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Chirality-Preserving Growth of Helical Filaments in the B4 Phase of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals.
Journal of the American Chemical Society.
12656-12663.
2011
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Effective conductivity due to continuous polarization reorientation in fluid ferroelectrics.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2011
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Dynamics of cis isomers in highly sensitive amino-azobenzene monolayers: The effect of slow relaxation on photo-induced anisotropy.
Journal of Rheology.
2011
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Orientation of a Helical Nanofilament (B4) Liquid-Crystal Phase: Topographic Control of Confinement, Shear Flow, and Temperature Gradients.
Advanced Materials.
1962-1967.
2011
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Effect of Concentration on the Photo-Orientation and Relaxation Dynamics of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Mixtures of an Azobenzene-Based Triethoxysilane with Octyltriethoxysilane.
Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids.
3336-3342.
2011
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Spontaneous Ferroelectric Order in a Bent-Core Smectic Liquid Crystal of Fluid Orthorhombic Layers.
Science.
72-77.
2011
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Pretransitional Orientational Ordering of a Calamitic Liquid Crystal by Helical Nanofilaments of a Bent-Core Mesogen.
Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids.
15541-15545.
2010
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Triclinic Fluid Order.
Physical Review Letters.
2010
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On the Origin of the "Giant" Electroclinic Effect in a "De Vries"-Type Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Material for Chirality Sensing Applications.
ChemPhysChem: a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry.
890-892.
2009
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High-Sensitivity Aminoazobenzene Chemisorbed Monolayers for Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals.
Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids.
997-1003.
2009
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de Gennes' triclinic smectics - not so far-fetched after all.
Liquid Crystals.
1309-1317.
2009
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Bistable SmA liquid-crystal display driven by a two-direction electric field.
Journal of the Society for Information Display.
675-681.
2008
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A bistable liquid-crystal display mode based on electrically driven smectic A layer reorientation.
Applied Physics Letters.
2007
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Chiral SmA* materials for display applications?.
Journal of the Society for Information Display.
585-588.
2007
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A general method for measurement of enantiomeric excess by using electrooptics in ferroelectric liquid crystals.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
1473-1475.
2007
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Reflection symmetry breaking in achiral rod-shaped smectic liquid crystals?.
Journal of the American Chemical Society.
5318-5319.
2006
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Director structures in achiral smectic C liquid crystal cells: field-induced twist domain nucleation.
Liquid Crystals.
25-32.
2006
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On the nature of the B4 banana phase: crystal or not a crystal?.
Crystal Growth and Design.
2091-2099.
2005
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Self-assembled monolayers for liquid crystal alignment: simple preparation on glass using alkyltrialkoxysilanes.
Liquid Crystals.
481-489.
2004
- High susceptibility photoactive monolayers.. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U884-U884. 2004
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Design and synthesis of new ferroelectric liquid crystals - 31 - Main-chain ferroelectric liquid crystal polymers for electronic nonlinear optics applications.
Ferroelectrics.
77-82.
2004
- Smectic liquid crystal phases with spontaneous layer undulations.. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U462-U462. 2003
- Supermolecular stereochemistry in liquid crystals. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U280-U280. 2003
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Polarization-modulated smectic liquid crystal phases.
Science.
1204-1211.
2003
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A bow-phase mesogen showing strong, robust analog electro-optics.
Journal of Materials Chemistry.
2743-2747.
2001
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Supermolecular stereochemistry in ferroelectric liquid crystals.
Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry.
830-836.
2000
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A ferroelectric liquid crystal conglomerate composed of racemic molecules.
Science.
2181-2184.
2000
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Polar electro-optic switching in droplets of an achiral nematic liquid crystal.
Liquid Crystals.
1555-1561.
1999
- Design of smectic liquid-crystal phases using layer interface clinicity.. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U70-U70. 1999
- Directed design of an achiral antiferroelectric phase.. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U30-U30. 1999
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Spontaneous formation of macroscopic chiral domains in a fluid smectic phase of achiral molecules.
Science.
1924-1927.
1997
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The organometallic 'Molecular Tinkertoy' approach to planar grid polymers.
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry.
83-89.
1997
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First -principles experimental demonstration of ferroelectricity in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal: Polar domains and striking electro-optics.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
14021-14031.
2020