selected publications
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conference proceeding
- Homeotropic alignment of multiple bent-core liquid crystal phases using a polydimethylsiloxane alignment layer. Proceedings of SPIE. 2017
- Host-guest chemistry in the helical nanofilament phase (Conference Presentation). Proceedings of SPIE. 2016
- SmAPf phase, its properties and potential dye alignment. Proceedings of SPIE. 2016
- Design and Synthesis of an Achiral Ferroelectric Smectic Liquid Crystal. Proceedings of SPIE. 2011
- In-plane switching bistable SmA liquid-crystal display. 297-+. 2007
- Ferroelectric smectic liquid crystals in the bent-core family: Alignment for V-shaped analog switching. Proceedings of SPIE. 21-28. 1999
- Antiferroelectric liquid crystals from achiral molecules and a liquid conglomerate. MRS Online Proceedings Library. 3-14. 1999
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journal article
- The smectic ZA phase: Antiferroelectric smectic order as a prelude to the ferroelectric nematic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 2023
- Observation of a uniaxial ferroelectric smectic A phase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 2022
- Ideal mixing of paraelectric and ferroelectric nematic phases in liquid crystals of distinct molecular species. Liquid Crystals. 1531-1544. 2022
- Electrically Tunable Reflection Color of Chiral Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals. Advanced Optical Materials. 2021
- Surface alignment of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals. Soft Matter. 8130-8139. 2021
- Polar in-plane surface orientation of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal: Polar monodomains and twisted state electro-optics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 2021
- 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
- Nanoconfinement of the Low-Temperature Dark Conglomerate: Structural Control from Focal Conics to Helical Nanofilaments. Chemistry: A European Journal. 7438-7442. 2019
- New SmAP(F) Mesogens Designed for Analog Electrooptics Applications. Materials. 2017
- Structural transitions and guest/host complexing of liquid crystal helical nanofilaments induced by nanoconfinement. Science Advances. 2017
- The heliconical nematic twist-bend phase from "classic" bent-core benzylideneanilines with oligomethylene cores. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. 430-438. 2017
- Airflow-aligned helical nanofilament (B4) phase in topographic confinement. Scientific Reports. 2016
- Manipulating the twist sense of helical nanofilaments of bent-core liquid crystals using rod-shaped, chiral mesogenic dopants. Liquid Crystals. 1083-1091. 2016
- Diastereomeric liquid crystal domains at the mesoscale. Nature Communications. 2015
- Multidimensional Helical Nanostructures in Multiscale Nanochannels. Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. 8156-8161. 2015
- Field alignment of bent-core smectic liquid crystals for analog optical phase modulation. Applied Physics Letters. 2015
- Nucleation and growth of a helical nanofilament (B4) liquid-crystal phase confined in nanobowls. Soft Matter. 7778-7782. 2015
- Physico-chemical confinement of helical nanofilaments. Soft Matter. 3653-3659. 2015
- Multistep hierarchical self-assembly of chiral nanopore arrays. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 14342-14347. 2014
- 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
- Chiral Isotropic Sponge Phase of Hexatic Smectic Layers of Achiral Molecules. ChemPhysChem: a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry. 1502-1507. 2014
- 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
- Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric odd-even behavior in a tricarbosilane-terminated liquid crystal homologous series. Chemical Science. 1869-1874. 2014
- Topography of bent-core liquid crystals at the air/liquid crystal interface. Liquid Crystals. 1730-1735. 2013
- 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
- Athermal photofluidization of glasses. Nature Communications. 2013
- A Modulated Helical Nanofilament Phase. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 5254-5257. 2013
- Alignment of helical nanofilaments on the surfaces of various self-assembled monolayers. Soft Matter. 6185-6191. 2013
- Nanoconfinement of guest materials by helical nanofilament networks of bent-core mesogens. Soft Matter. 462-471. 2013
- Self-assembled hydrophobic surface generated from a helical nanofilament (B4) liquid crystal phase. Soft Matter. 2793-2797. 2013
- Spiral layer undulation defects in B7 liquid crystals. Soft Matter. 11303-11308. 2013
- Topological Ferroelectric Bistability in a Polarization-Modulated Orthogonal Smectic Liquid Crystal. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 9681-9687. 2012
- 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. 2012
- Structure of the B4 Liquid Crystal Phase near a Glass Surface. ChemPhysChem: a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry. 155-159. 2012
- Chirality-Preserving Growth of Helical Filaments in the B4 Phase of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 12656-12663. 2011
- Effective conductivity due to continuous polarization reorientation in fluid ferroelectrics. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2011
- Dynamics of cis isomers in highly sensitive amino-azobenzene monolayers: The effect of slow relaxation on photo-induced anisotropy. Journal of Applied Physics. 2011
- Orientation of a Helical Nanofilament (B4) Liquid-Crystal Phase: Topographic Control of Confinement, Shear Flow, and Temperature Gradients. Advanced Materials. 1962-1967. 2011
- 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
- Spontaneous Ferroelectric Order in a Bent-Core Smectic Liquid Crystal of Fluid Orthorhombic Layers. Science. 72-77. 2011
- 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
- Triclinic Fluid Order. Physical Review Letters. 2010
- 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
- High-Sensitivity Aminoazobenzene Chemisorbed Monolayers for Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals. Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. 997-1003. 2009
- de Gennes' triclinic smectics - not so far-fetched after all. Liquid Crystals. 1309-1317. 2009
- Bistable SmA liquid-crystal display driven by a two-direction electric field. Journal of the Society for Information Display. 675-681. 2008
- A bistable liquid-crystal display mode based on electrically driven smectic A layer reorientation. Applied Physics Letters. 2007
- Chiral SmA* materials for display applications?. Journal of the Society for Information Display. 585-588. 2007
- A general method for measurement of enantiomeric excess by using electrooptics in ferroelectric liquid crystals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 1473-1475. 2007
- Reflection symmetry breaking in achiral rod-shaped smectic liquid crystals?. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 5318-5319. 2006
- Director structures in achiral smectic C liquid crystal cells: field-induced twist domain nucleation. Liquid Crystals. 25-32. 2006
- On the nature of the B4 banana phase: crystal or not a crystal?. Crystal Growth and Design. 2091-2099. 2005
- 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
- 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
- Polarization-modulated smectic liquid crystal phases. Science. 1204-1211. 2003
- A bow-phase mesogen showing strong, robust analog electro-optics. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 2743-2747. 2001
- Supermolecular stereochemistry in ferroelectric liquid crystals. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 830-836. 2000
- A ferroelectric liquid crystal conglomerate composed of racemic molecules. Science. 2181-2184. 2000
- 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
- Spontaneous formation of macroscopic chiral domains in a fluid smectic phase of achiral molecules. Science. 1924-1927. 1997
- The organometallic 'Molecular Tinkertoy' approach to planar grid polymers. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 83-89. 1997