This review highlights advances in integrating 2D materials with nematic liquid crystals, focusing on structure–property relationships, molecular alignment strategies, polymer networks, lyotropics, applications, and key challenges and opportunities.
This research presents the synthesis and analysis of a novel series of mesogenic dimers comprising cyanobiphenyl and azonaphthyl units.
Chiral cyanobiphenyl dimers display rarely observed room-temperature twist-bend nematic (NTB) phase when the linking group is an ester, while the amide analogues are strong inducers of helical organization in the chiral nematic phase.
AIE luminogens with liquid crystalline properties at room temperature were formed by introducing intermolecular hydrogen bonding in 4-alkyl 4′-cyanobiphenyl molecules.
The molecular shape and chemical structure of liquid crystals greatly influence their flourescence properties.