Nanostructured liquid crystal systems and applications

• Alexei R. Khokhlov and
• Alexander V. Emelyanenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2644–2645, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.245

• Alexei R. Khokhlov Alexander V. Emelyanenko Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia 10.3762/bjnano.9.245 Keywords: artificial muscles; displays; energy saving; liquid crystals; photoinduction; sensors; Liquid crystals are smart materials

• be potentially solved with help of liquid crystals, such as the creation of artificial muscles and global energy reduction. Liquid crystals were discovered in 1888 by the Austrian botanist Friedrich Reinitzer [1][2][3] who observed the “two liquid states” in cholesteryl benzoate. However, for many

Liquid-crystalline nanoarchitectures for tissue engineering

• Baeckkyoung Sung and
• Min-Ho Kim

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 205–215, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.22

• response to external stimuli, LCEs have been used as biologically relevant soft actuators, often being considered as artificial muscles [96], as first proposed by de Gennes [97]. However, LCEs exhibit a hydrophobic nature and lack cell adherence sites. Thus, in order to be applied for tissue engineering