Publications in Scientific Journals

1. * Macroscopic control of helix orientation in films dried from cholesteric liquid crystalline cellulose nanocrystal suspensions
   Ji Hyun Park, JungHyun Noh, Christina Schütz, German Salazar-Alvarez, Giusy Scalia, Lennart Bergström, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
   ChemPhysChem, 15, 7, p. 1477 (2014), part of a special issue on ‘physical properties and behavior of liquid crystals’.
2. * Liquid crystal-functionalization of electrospun polymer fibers (Perspective article)
   Dae Kyom Kim, Minsik Hwang and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
   J. Polym. Sci. B Polym. Phys. 51, 11, pp. 855-867 (2013) Note: download is free for everyone, requiring no subscription to the journal
3. Tuning the defect configurations in nematic and smectic liquid crystalline shells
   Hsin-Ling Liang, JungHyun Noh, Rudolf Zentel, Per Rudquist and Jan P. F. Lagerwall
   Philos. Trans. A 371, 1988, 20120258 (2013)
4. Morphology and Core Continuity of Liquid-Crystal-Functionalized, Coaxially Electrospun Fiber Mats Tuned via the Polymer Sheath Solution
   Giusy Scalia, Eva Enz, Oronzo Calò, Dae Kyom. Kim, Minsik Hwang, Jong Hwan Lee, and Jan P.F. Lagerwall
   Macromol. Mater. Eng. 298, 5, pp. 583.589 (2013)
5. * A new era for liquid crystal research: applications of liquid crystals in soft matter nano-, bio- and microtechnology (Review article)
   Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Giusy Scalia
   Curr. Appl. Phys., 12, 6, pp. 1387-1412 (2012)
6. Coaxial electrospinning of liquid crystal-containing poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) microfibers
   Eva Enz, Ute Baumeister, Jan Lagerwall
   Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 5, 58, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.58 (2009), themed issue on ‘Progress in Liquid crystal Chemistry’.
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7. Carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals (Review article)
   Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Giusy Scalia
   J. Mater. Chem. 18, 25, pp. 2890-2898 (2008), special issue on ‘Liquid crystals beyond display applications’.
8. Current topics in smectic liquid crystal research (Review article)
   Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann
   ChemPhysChem, 7, 1, pp. 20-45 (2006)
   B. Invited highlight articles
9. Complex Chirality at the Nanoscale
   Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Frank Giesselmann
   ChemPhysChem, 11, 5, pp. 975-977 (2010)
   C. Regular journal articles
10. * Influence of Wetting on Morphology and Core Content in Electrospun Core–Sheath Fibers
    Dae Kyom Kim and Jan Lagerwall
    ACS Appl. Mater. Interf., 6, 18, 16441−16447 (2014)
11. * Cellulose nanocrystal-based materials: from liquid crystal self- assembly and glass formation to multifunctional thin films
    Jan Lagerwall, Christina Schütz, Michaela Salajkova, JungHyun Noh, Ji Hyun Park, Giusy Scalia and Lennart Bergström
    NPG Asia Materials, 6, e80, doi:10.1038/am.2013.69 (2014), open access
12. * Tunable Multicolored Patterns From Photonic Cross Communication Between Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets
    JungHyun Noh, Hsin-Ling Liang, Irena Drevensek-Olenik and Jan Lagerwall
    J. Mater. Chem. C, 2, 5, p. 806 (2014)
13. * One-piece micropumps from liquid crystalline core-shell particles
    Featured in the May 2013 issue of Soft Matter World
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    Eva-Kristina Fleischmann, Hsin-Ling Liang, Nadia Kapernaum, Frank Giesselmann, Jan P.F. Lagerwall, and Rudolf Zentel
    Nat. Commun., 8, (2012), DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2193
14. Utilizing the Krafft phenomenon for achieving ideal micelle-free surfactant-stabilized nanoparticle suspensions
    Sarah Dölle, Bob-Dan Lechner, Ji Hyun Park, Stefan Schymura, Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Giusy Scalia
    Angewandte Chemie - Int. Ed., 51, pp. 3254-3257 (2012)
15. Towards tunable defect arrangements in smectic liquid crystal shells utilizing the nematic-smectic transition in hybrid-aligned geometries
    Hsin-Ling Liang, Rudolf Zentel, Per Rudquist and Jan Lagerwall
    Soft Matter, 8, 20, pp. 5443 - 5450 (2012)
16. Effects of chain branching and chirality on liquid crystalline phases of bent-core molecules:
    blue phases, de Vries transitions and switching of diastereomeric states
    Hale Ocak, Belkiz Bilgin-Eran, Marko Prehm, Stefan Schymura, Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Carsten Tschierske
    Soft Matter, 7, 18, pp. 8266 - 8280 (2011)
17. Liquid Crystals in Novel Geometries prepared by Microfluidics and Electrospinning
    Hsin-Ling Liang, Eva Enz, Giusy Scalia and Jan Lagerwall
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 549, pp. 69-77 (2011)
18. * Nematic-smectic transition under confinement in liquid crystalline colloidal shells
    Featured in the December 2011 issue of Soft Matter World
    Hsin-Ling Liang, Stefan Schymura, Per Rudquist and Jan Lagerwall
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 106, 24, 247801 (2011)
19. Filament formation in carbon nanotube-doped lyotropic liquid crystals
    Stefan Schymura, Sarah Dölle, Jun Yamamoto and Jan Lagerwall
    Soft Matter, 7, 6, 2663 - 2667 (2011)
20. Tailor-designed polyphilic promotors for stabilizing dispersions of carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals
    Martin Kühnast, Carsten Tschierske and Jan Lagerwall
    Chem. Commun., 46, pp. 6989-6991 (2010)
21. Towards Efficient Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals
    Stefan Schymura, Martin Kühnast, Vanessa Lutz, Stefan Jagiella, Ursula Dettlaff-Weglikowska, Siegmar Roth, Frank Giesselmann, Carsten Tschierske, Giusy Scalia, and Jan Lagerwall
    Adv. Funct. Mater., 20, 19, pp. 3350–3357 (2010)
22. * Electrospun microfibres with temperature sensitive iridescence from encapsulated cholesteric liquid crystal
    Highlighted on the journal cover page
    Eva Enz and Jan Lagerwall
    J. Mater. Chem., 20, 33, pp. 6866-6872 (2010)
23. Self-assembled ordered structures in thin films of HAT5 discotic liquid crystal
    P. Morales, J. Lagerwall, P. Vacca, S. Laschat, and G. Scalia,
    Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 6, 51, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.51 (2010) Note: download is free for everyone, requiring no subscription to the journal
24. Macroscopic-scale carbon nanotube alignment via self-assembly in lyotropic liquid crystals
    S. Schymura, E. Enz, S. Roth, G. Scalia, J.P.F. Lagerwall
    Synth. Met., 159, 21-22, pp. 2177-2179 (2009)
25. Electrolyte effects on the stability of nematic and lamellar lyotropic liquid crystal phases
    – colligative and ion-specific aspects
    Ute Dawin, Jan P.F. Lagerwall and Frank Giesselmann
    J. Phys. Chem. B, 113, 33, pp. 11414-11420 (2009)
26. On the balance between syn- and anticlinicity in smectic phases formed   by achiral hockey-stick mesogens with and without chiral dopants
    E. Enz, S.   Findeisen-Tandel, R.   Dabrowski, F.   Giesselmann, W.   Weissflog, U.   Baumeister, and J.   Lagerwall,
    J. Mater. Chem., 19, 19, pp. 2950-2957 (2009)
27. Coaxial electrospinning of microfibres with liquid crystal in the core
    J.P.F. Lagerwall, J.T. McCann, E. Formo, G. Scalia, and Y. Xia
    Chem. Commun., 42, pp. 5420-5422 (2008)
28. Spontaneous macroscopic carbon nanotube alignment via colloidal suspension in
    hexagonal columnar lyotropic liquid crystals
    G. Scalia, C. von Bühler, C. Hägele, S. Roth, F. Giesselmann, and J.P.F. Lagerwall
    Soft Matter, 4, 3, pp. 570-576 (2008)
29. Order-disorder molecular model of the smectic A – smectic C phase transition in materials with conventional and anomalously weak layer contraction
    M. V. Gorkunov, M. A. Osipov, J.P.F. Lagerwall and F. Giesselmann
    Phys. Rev. E, 76, 5, p. 051706 (2007)
30. Carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals as versatile functional materials
    G. Scalia, J.P.F. Lagerwall, S. Schymura, M. Haluska, F. Giesselmann, and S. Roth
    Phys. Status Solidi B, 244, 11, pp. 4212-4217 (2007)
31. Molecular model for de Vries type smectic-A–smectic-C phase transition in liquid crystals
    M. V. Gorkunov, F. Giesselman, J. P. F. Lagerwall, T. J. Sluckin and M. A. Osipov
    Phys. Rev. E, 75, 060701(R) (2007)
32. Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals with Induced Intermediate Polar Phases and the Effects of Doping with Carbon Nanotubes
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Roman Dabrowski, Giusy Scalia
    J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 353, 47-51, pp. 4411-4417 (2007)
33. Partitioning and reorientational dynamics of phenylalcohols in SDS lyotropic liquid crystalline mesophases: an ALC-µSR study
    Aleksandra Martyniak, Herbert Dilger, Iain McKenzie, Robert Scheuermann, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Emil Roduner
    Colloid Surf. A, 309, 1-3, pp. 224-230 (2007)
34. * Nanotube alignment using lyotropic liquid crystals
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Giusy Scalia, Miroslav Haluska, Ursula Dettlaff-Weglikowska,
    Siegmar Roth, Frank Giesselmann
    Adv. Mater. 19, 3, pp. 359-364 (2007)
35. Simultaneous alignment and dispersion of carbon nanotubes with lyotropic liquid crystals
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Giusy Scalia, Miroslav Haluska, Ursula Dettlaff-Weglikowska,
    Frank Giesselmann, Siegmar Roth
    Phys. Status Solidi B, 246, 13. pp. 3046-3049 (2006)
36. Effect of phenyl rings in liquid crystal molecules on SWCNTs studied by Raman spectroscopy
    Giusy Scalia, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Miroslav Haluska, Ursula Dettlaff-Weglikowska,
    Frank Giesselmann, Siegmar Roth
    Phys. Status Solidi B, 246, 13. pp. 3238-3241 (2006)
37. On the change in helix handedness at transitions between the Sm-C* and Sm-Ca* phases in chiral smectic liquid crystals
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Mikhail A. Osipov
    Liq. Cryst. 33, 6. pp. 625-633 (2006)
38. The peculiar optic, dielectric and x-ray diffraction properties of a fluorinated de Vries asymmetric-diffuse-cone-model ferroelectric liquid crystal
    This paper was the second most downloaded article in the 2006 volume of the journal ‘Liquid Crystals’, as of 18.5.2007.
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, David Coleman, Eva Körblova, Chris Jones, Renfan Shao, José M. Otón, David M. Walba, Noel A. Clark, Frank Giesselmann
    Liq. Cryst. 33, 1, pp. 17-24 (2006)
39. Frustration between syn- and anticlinicity in mixtures of chiral and non-chiral tilted smectic-C-type liquid crystals
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Gerd Heppke, Frank Giesselmann
    Eur. Phys. J. E 18, 1, pp. 113-121 (2005)
40. Electrolyte effects on the nematic-isotropic phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals
    Prabir K. Mukherjee, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann
    Liq. Cryst. 32, 10, pp. 1301-1306 (2005)
41. Chiral smectic C subphases induced by mixing a bistereogenic antiferroelectric liquid crystal with a non-chiral liquid crystal
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Sebastian Rauch, Gerd Heppke, Per Rudquist and Sven T. Lagerwall
    Ferroelectrics, 315, pp. 221-230 (2005)
42. A study of a bistereogenic mesogen for the development of orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystal materials
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Chris Yates, Sebastian Rauch and Gerd Heppke
    Ferroelectrics, 315, pp. 213-219 (2005)
43. Differences between smectic homo- and copolysiloxanes as a consequence of microphase separation
    Martin Rößle, Lydia Braun, Dieter Schollmeyer, Rudolf Zentel,
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Ralf Stannarius
    Liq. Cryst. 32, 5, pp. 533-538 (2005)
44. Demonstration of the antiferroelectric aspect of the helical superstructures in
    Sm-C*, Sm-Cα* and Sm-Ca* liquid crystals
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall
    Phys. Rev. E, 71, pp. 051703 (2005)
    
45. Generation of frustrated liquid crystal phases by mixing an achiral N–SmC mesogen with an antiferroelectric chiral smectic liquid crystal
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Christine Selbmann, Sebastian Rauch, Gerd Heppke
    J. Chem. Phys. 122, 14, pp. 144906 (2005)
46. A chameleon chiral polar liquid crystal: rod-shaped when nematic, bent-shaped when smectic
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Michael D. Wand and David M. Walba
    Chem. Mater. 16, 19, pp. 3606 - 3615 (2004)
47. Polarity-directed analog electrooptic switching in a low-polarization chiral smectic liquid crystal with positive dielectric anisotropy
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Alexander Kane, Noel A. Clark and David M. Walba
    Phys. Rev. E, 70, p. 031703 (2004)
48. (-)-Isopinocampheol substituted mesogens: an investigation of the effect of bulky terminal groups in chiral smectic liquid crystals
    Chris Yates, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Maurizio Nobili, Sebastian Rauch and Gerd Heppke
    Ferroelectrics, 311, pp. 67 - 75 (2004)
49. On the origin of high optical director tilt in a partially fluorinated orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystal
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Alexander Saipa and Roman Dabrowski
    Liq. Cryst. 31, 9, pp. 1175-1184 (2004)
50. Ferroelectric polysiloxane liquid crystals with ’de Vries’-type smectic A* -smectic C* transitions
    Martin Rößle, Rudolf Zentel, Jan Lagerwall and Frank Giesselmann
    Liq. Cryst. (Preliminary Communication) 31, 6, pp. 883 - 887 (2004)
51. On the phase sequence of antiferroelectric liquid crystals and its relation to orientational and translational order
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Per Rudquist, Sven T. Lagerwall and Frank Giesselmann
    Liq. Cryst. 30, 4, pp. 399 - 414 (2003)
52. Tilt plane orientation in antiferroelectric liquid crystal cells and the origin of the pretransitional effect
    Per Rudquist, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Johann G. Meier, Koen D’havé and Sven T. Lagerwall
    Phys. Rev. E 66, 061708 (2002)
    
53. Antiferroelectric liquid crystal mixture without smectic layer shrinkage at the direct Sm-A* - Sm-Ca * transition
    Frank Gießelmann, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Gunnar Andersson and Marc D. Radcliffe
    Phys. Rev. E 66, 051704 (2002)
54. Optical and X-ray evidence of the de Vries Sm-A*–Sm-C* transition in a non-layer shrinkage ferroelectric liquid crystal with very weak interlayer tilt correlation
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Marc Radcliffe
    Phys. Rev. E, 66, 031703 (2002)
55. Phases, phase transitions and confinement effects in a series of antiferroelectric liquid crystals
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Deven D. Parghi, Daniel Krüerke, Fathi Gouda, Pontus Jägemalm
    Liq. Cryst. 29, 2, pp. 163-178 (2002)
56. Surface- and Field-Induced AFLC Structures Detected by Dielectric Spectroscopy
    Jan Lagerwall, Per Rudquist, Sven Lagerwall, Bengt Stebler
    Ferroelectrics, 277, pp. 553 - 564 (2002)
57. Optic, electrooptic and dielectric properties of novel antiferroelectric liquid crystal compounds
    Pontus Jägemalm, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Anders Dahlgren, Lachezar Komitov, Avtar Matharu, Chris Grover, Fathi Gouda, Abdul A. Kutub
    Ferroelectrics, 244, pp. 147-157 (2000)
58. Electrooptic and Dielectric Properties of New Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal Mixtures
    Gunnar Andersson, Roman Dabrowski, Witold Drzewinski, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Marek Matuszczyk, Tomasz Matuszczyk, Pawel Perkowski and Zbigniew Raszewski
    Ferroelectrics, 244, pp. 137-146 (2000)
59. Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals with 45° Tilt – A New Class of Promising Electro-Optic Materials
    Koen D’havé, Anders Dahlgren, Per Rudquist, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Gunnar Andersson, Marek Matuszczyk, Sven T. Lagerwall, Roman Dabrowski and Witold Drzewinski
    Ferroelectrics, 244, pp. 115-128 (2000)
60. On the Coexistence of SmC* and SmCA* Phases in Binary Chiral-Dopant Antiferroelectric Mixtures
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Deven D. Parghi and Gerd Heppke
    Ferroelectrics, 244, pp. 211-221 (2000)
61. The Dependence on the Helical Pitch of the Antiferroelectric Dielectric Modes
    Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Tobias Fütterer, Dirk Moro and Gerd Heppke
    Ferroelectrics, 244, pp. 223-231 (2000)
62. Dielectric Investigations of a Chiral Monomer and Side Chain Polymer
    Fathi Gouda, Abdul A. Kutub, Katalin Fodor-Csorba, Giancarlo Galli, Emi Chiellini, Lachezar Komitov, Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Sven T. Lagerwall
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 352, pp. 169- 177 (2000)
    
63. Electrooptic and dielectric spectroscopy measurements of binary chiral-dopant antiferroelectric mixtures
    Deven D. Parghi, Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Gerd Heppke
    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 351, pp. 361-370 (2000)
64. The Case of Thresholdless Antiferroelectricity: Polarization-Stabilized Twisted SmC* Liquid Crystals give V-shaped Electro-Optic Response
    Per Rudquist, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Marius Buivydas, Fathi Gouda, Sven T. Lagerwall, Noel A. Clark, Joseph E. Maclennan, Renfan F. Shao, David Coleman, Sebastien Bardon, Tommaso Bellini, Darren R. Link, Giorgio Natale, Matthew A. Glaser, David M. Walba, Michael D. Wand and X. H. Chen
    J. Mater. Chem., 9, 6, pp. 1257-1261 (1999)