Nagaraj, M orcid.org/0000-0001-9713-1362 (2020) Liquid Crystals Templating. Crystals, 10 (8). ISSN 2073-4352
Abstract
Liquid crystal templating is a versatile technique to create novel organic and inorganic materials with nanoscale features. It exploits the self-assembled architectures of liquid crystal phases as scaffolds. This article focuses on some of the key developments in lyotropic and thermotropic liquid crystals templating. The procedures that were employed to create templated structures and the applications of these novel materials in various fields including mesoporous membranes, organic electronics, the synthesis of nanostructured materials and photonics, are described.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | liquid crystals; templates; porosity; photonics; mesophases |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Physics and Astronomy (Leeds) > Soft Matter Physics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2020 10:25 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jul 2020 10:25 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/cryst10080648 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:163815 |