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Development in liquid crystal microcapsules: fabrication, optimization and applications

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Review of microfluidic approaches for fabricating intelligent fiber devices: importance of shape characteristics

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Transparent core-sheath composite fibers as flexible temperature sensor based on liquid crystal color change for smart sportswear

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Electro-Thermochromic Luminescent Fibers Controlled by Self-Crystallinity Phase Change for Advanced Smart Textiles

Minghan Duan, Xingchi Wang, Wanxuan Xu, Ying Ma and Jianyong Yu

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2021, 13, 57943
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Microfluidic wet spinning of soft polydimethylsiloxane polymer optical fibers

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Temperature-Responsive Structurally Colored Fibers via Blend Electrospinning

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ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., 2023, 5, 3065
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Liquid crystal nose (LC-nose): case of chiral networks

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Stretchable Thermochromic Fluorescent Fibers Based on Self-Crystallinity Phase Change for Smart Wearable Displays

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Polymers, 2024, 16, 3575
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Microfluidic-assisted fiber production: Potentials, limitations, and prospects

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Biomicrofluidics, 2022, 16
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Engineered Microfibers for Tissue Engineering

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LC-elastomers: structure -property relations and concepts to improve applicability

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LC‐Polymers and Smectic Phases with Special Substructures/Nanophase Segregation

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A perspective on the wet spinning process and its advancements in biomedical sciences

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European Polymer Journal, 2022, 181, 111681
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Liquid Crystals in Curved Confined Geometries: Microfluidics Bring New Capabilities for Photonic Applications and Beyond

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Langmuir, 2021, 37, 3789
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Recent advances in environmentally friendly structural colored fabrics

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Multiresponsive Cylindrically Symmetric Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers Templated by Tubular Confinement

Yong Geng and Jan P.F. Lagerwall

Advanced Science, 2023, 10
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Liquid crystal gel-based acetone sensor using correlated laser speckles

Ning Bu, Yuxiang Yan, Xiaoquan Bai, Mei Wang, Yifei Ma, Suotang Jia, Xuyuan Chen and Zhaomin Tong

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Recent advances in the application of nanogenerators in orthopedics: From body surface to implantation

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Biosensing with Oleosin‐Stabilized Liquid Crystal Droplets

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Robust cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer fibres for mechanochromic textiles

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Liquid crystal nose based on chiral photonic bandgap materials: principles of selective response

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Mesomorphic, electro-optic and dielectric behaviour of a semi-fluorinated chiral liquid crystalline material forming polar smectic phases

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Mechanical and shape memory properties of Eucommia ulmoides gum-based elastic fibers with various architectures

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Full‐Color “Off–On” Thermochromic Fluorescent Fibers for Customizable Smart Wearable Displays in Personal Health Monitoring

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A Hollow Core‐Sheath Composite Fiber Based on Polyaniline/Polyurethane: Preparation, Properties, and Multi‐Model Strain Sensing Performance

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Adv Materials Technologies, 2023, 8
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Responsive Photonic Liquid Marbles

Manos Anyfantakis, Venkata S. R. Jampani, Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath, Bernard P. Binks and Jan P. F. Lagerwall

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Stretchable Composite Conductive Fibers for Wearables

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Adv Materials Technologies, 2023, 8
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Zwitterion-treated liquid crystal composites for low-energy-consumption smart windows and wearable devices

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Thermochromic Fibers via Electrospinning

Jimmy Nguyen, Ratib M. Stwodah, Christopher L. Vasey, Briget E. Rabatin, Benjamin Atherton, Paola A. D’Angelo, Kathleen W. Swana and Christina Tang

Polymers, 2020, 12, 842
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Responsive Photonic Liquid Marbles

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Electrospun Core-Sheath Fibers with a Uniformly Aligned Polymer Network Liquid Crystal (PNLC)

Zhibo Zhang, Andrey Bolshakov, Jiecai Han, Jiaqi Zhu and Kun-Lin Yang

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2023
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Advancements and Applications of Liquid Crystal/Polymer Composite Films

Le Zhou, Sijie Liu, Xiang Miao, Ping Xie, Nannan Sun, Zongqi Xu, Tingjun Zhong, Lanying Zhang and Yang Shen

ACS Materials Lett., 2023, 5, 2760
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DFT study of difluoro & trifluoro bi-cyclohexane based dimer for application in electronic and optical devices

Mirtunjai Mishra, Manish Kumar, Devendra Singh, Khem B. Thapa, Gajanan Pandey and Devesh Kumar

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Therapeutic Agent-Loaded Fibrous Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications

Dongsik Park, Su Jin Lee, Dong Kyu Choi and Jee-Woong Park

Pharmaceutics, 2023, 15, 1522
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State of the Art, Insights and Perspectives for Bio‐Inspired Liquid Crystal Elastomer Soft Actuators

Tongzhi Zang, Jiwei Wang, Guiyang Yan, Xili Lu, Jianshe Hu, Hesheng Xia and Yue Zhao

Advanced Materials, 2025
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Designing Biological Microsensors with Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets

Lawrence W. Honaker, Chang Chen, Floris M.H. Dautzenberg, Sylvia Brugman and Siddharth Deshpande

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2022, 14, 37316
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