Search Results - "Nandiraju, V S Rao"
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Highly Polarized Fluorescent Illumination Using Liquid Crystal Phase
Published in ACS applied materials & interfaces (10-02-2016)“…Liquid crystal (LC) materials are currently the dominant electronic materials in display technology because of the ease of control of molecular orientation…”
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Homeotropic Alignment and Director Structures in Thin Films of Triphenylamine-Based Discotic Liquid Crystals Controlled by Supporting Nanostructured Substrates and Surface Confinement
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (03-02-2011)“…We explore the effects of nanoscale morphology of supporting solid substrates on alignment, defects, and director structures exhibited by thin films of…”
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Structural Understanding, Photoswitchability, and Supergelation of a New Class of Four Ring-Based Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystal
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (23-05-2019)“…Herein, we report a new type of azobenzene-based unsymmetrical bent-core molecules exhibiting photoswitchability in the liquid crystalline state, solid state,…”
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Observation of disordered mesomorphism in three-ring-based highly polar bent-core molecules: design, synthesis and characterisation
Published in Liquid crystals (08-12-2017)“…Research on low-temperature polar bent-core nematogens having lower molecular weight has gathered appreciable momentum by virtue of their significance in…”
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Organization of the polarization splay modulated smectic liquid crystal phase by topographic confinement
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-12-2010)“…Recently, the topographic patterning of surfaces by lithography and nanoimprinting has emerged as a new and powerful tool for producing single structural…”
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A new family of four-ring bent-core nematic liquid crystals with highly polar transverse and end groups
Published in Beilstein journal of organic chemistry (07-01-2013)“…Non-symmetrically substituted four-ring achiral bent-core compounds with polar substituents, i.e.., chloro in the bent or transverse direction in the central…”
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New Calamitic Mesogens Exhibiting Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE)
Published in Materials (20-07-2024)“…Aggregation-induced emitters or AIEgens are generally signified by their stronger photoluminescence in aggregation than in the solution state. Due to high…”
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Extremely High Kerr Constant and Low Operating Voltage in a Stable Room-Temperature Blue Phase III Derived from Three-Ring-Based Bent-Core Molecules
Published in ACS applied materials & interfaces (21-09-2022)“…In this study, we used a new series of highly polar three-ring-based bent-core liquid crystals (BCLCs) to stabilize a wide temperature range of blue phase III…”
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Synthesis of four-ring unsymmetrical bent-core mesogens and cybotactic cluster formation in their nematic phase
Published in Journal of molecular structure (05-12-2024)“…•Significant challenge to design and synthesize achiral unsymmetrical four-ring bent core compounds is molecular design theme.•To tune the four-ring bent core…”
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Fluorescent lanthanide complexes of Schiff base ligands possessing N-aryl moiety: influence of chain length on crossover (calamitic to discotic) phase behaviour
Published in Liquid crystals (01-11-2010)“…New lanthanide complexes, Tb(III), Dy(III) and Gd(III) of N-aryl based Schiff bases exhibiting mesomorphism have been synthesised and characterised. The…”
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Elastic and dielectric properties of ferroelectric nanoparticles/bent-core nematic liquid crystal blend
Published in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter and biological physics (01-09-2017)“… Bent-core liquid crystals present the first evidence of forming polar superstructures from achiral molecules. The nematic phase is the newest member of the…”
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Mesomorphism of a banana mesogen: influence of a fluoro substituent in the central core
Published in Liquid crystals (01-09-2009)“…The results of experiments with stable five-ring banana-shaped molecules consisting of laterally 4-fluoro substituted 1,3-phenylene ring as the central unit in…”
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Amide linkage in novel three-ring bent-core molecular assemblies: polar mesophases and importance of H-bonding
Published in Liquid crystals (09-08-2018)“…Here, we report the first examples of achiral unsymmetrical three-ring bent-shaped liquid crystals comprising amide and imine linkages with transverse…”
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Elastic constants, viscosity and dielectric properties of bent-core nematic liquid crystals doped with single-walled carbon nanotubes
Published in Liquid crystals (09-04-2017)“…Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are dispersed in (4'-fluoro phenyl azo) phenyl-4-yl 3-[N-(4'-n-hecyloxy 2-hydroxybenzylidene)amino]-2-methylbenzoate…”
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Nematic phases in achiral unsymmetrical four-ring bent-core azo compounds possessing strongly polar cyano and nitro moieties as end substituents: Synthesis and characterization
Published in Dyes and pigments (01-11-2013)“…Achiral unsymmetrical four-ring bent-core liquid crystals with strongly polar cyano and nitro moieties as substituents at one end and alkyloxy group (butyl to…”
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Cybotactic clusters seen in the nematic phase of four-ring achiral bent-core liquid crystal by dielectric spectroscopy
Published in Integrated ferroelectrics (22-11-2017)“…Cybotactic nematic phase of the bent-core liquid crystals are considered as the new functional material for the next-generation liquid crystal display because…”
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Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy of a Fluorescent Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Exhibiting Polarization Splay Modulated (B7) Structures and Defects
Published in Chemphyschem (12-01-2015)“…The B7 phases of bent‐core molecules are polarization splay modulated fluid smectics that exhibit an unusually complex variety of exotic macroscopic…”
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Synthesis and thermal behavior of chiral oligomers derived from cholesterol
Published in Tetrahedron (03-01-2009)“…Synthesis and thermal properties of a series of Schiff base oligomers derived from naturally occurring cholesterol are described. In particular, four of them…”
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Synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of achiral four-ring unsymmetrical bent-core liquid crystals: Nematic phases
Published in Journal of molecular structure (08-10-2013)“…•Design of achiral four-ring unsymmetrical bent-core liquid crystals resembling true hockey-stick shaped compounds.•Synthesized compounds are characterized and…”
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Cholesterol-based dimeric liquid crystals: synthesis, mesomorphic behaviour of frustrated phases and DFT study
Published in Liquid crystals (01-04-2013)“…Chiral unsymmetrical dimeric liquid crystals consisting of a cholesterol moiety as chiral entity and a substituted salicylidene imine core (with the…”
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