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Yansong Zhang*, Hasan Arif Yetkin*, Hakam Agha, Sevan Gharabeiki, Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath, Lena Merges, Ricardo G. Poeira, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, and Phillip J. Dale, "Arbitrary and active colouring of solar cells with negligible loss of efficiency", Energy Environ. Sci., DOI: 10.1039/D4EE03010AOPEN ACCESS
Tarik Čamo, Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath, Danièle Waldmann-Diederich, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "Optical crack detection and assessment using cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers", Structural Health Monitoring, DOI: 10.1177/14759217241296831OPEN ACCESS
Anjali Sharma*, Mitchell Magrini*, Yucen Han*, David M. Walba, Apala Majumdar, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "How smectic-A and smectic-C liquid crystals resolve confinement-induced frustration in spherical shells", Soft Matter, DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01263AOPEN ACCESS
Yucen Han, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, and Apala Majumdar, "Topological defects as nucleation points of the nematic-isotropic phase transition in liquid crystal shells", Physical Review E, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.109.064702OPEN ACCESS
V.S.R. Jampani, Miha Škarabot, Urban Mur, Damien Baigl, Ulrich Jonas, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Miha Ravnik, and Manos Anyfantakis, "Water-Templated Growth of Interfacial Superglue Polymers for Tunable Thin Films and In Situ Fluid Encapsulation", Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adma.202408243OPEN ACCESS
Xu Ma, Yucen Han, Yan-Song Zhang, Yong Geng, Apala Majumdar, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "Tunable templating of photonic microparticles via liquid crystal order-guided adsorption of amphiphilic polymers in emulsions", Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1002/10.1038/s41467-024-45674-5OPEN ACCESS
2023
Hakam Agha, Yan-Song Zhang, Yong Geng, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Pixelating structural color with Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors”, Advanced Photonics Research, DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202200363OPEN ACCESS
Anjali Sharma, Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Impact of mesogenic aromaticity and cyano termination on the alignment and stability of liquid crystal shells”, Soft Matter, DOI: 10.1039/d3sm00041aOPEN ACCESS
Yong Geng and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Multiresponsive cylindrically symmetric Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer fibres templated by tubular confinement”, Advanced Science, DOI: 10.1002/advs.202301414OPEN ACCESS
Yong Geng, Camila Honorato-Rios, JungHyun Noh, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Cholesteric spherical reflectors with tunable color from single-domain cellulose Nanocrystal microshells”, Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002/10.1002/adma.202305251OPEN ACCESS
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “The good, the bad and the ugly faces of cyanobiphenyl mesogens in selected tracks of fundamental and applied liquid crystal research”, Liquid Crystals, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2023.2292621OPEN ACCESS
2022
Anjali Sharma, Deepak Gupta, Giusy Scalia, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Lipid islands on liquid crystal shells”, Physical Review Research, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.013130OPEN ACCESS
Nikolay Popov and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "Birefringence-modulated total internal reflection in liquid crystal shells”, Frontiers in Soft Matter, DOI: 10.3389/frsfm.2022.991375 OPEN ACCESS
Yong Geng, Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Robust cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer fibres for mechanochromic textiles”, Nature Materials, DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01355-6OPEN ACCESS
Hakam Agha, Yong Geng, Xu Ma, Deniz Işınsu Avşar, Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath, Yan-Song Zhang, Ali Tourani, Hriday Bavle, Jose-Luis Sanchez-Lopez, Holger Voos, Mathew Schwartz, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Unclonable human-invisible machine vision markers leveraging the omnidirectional chiral Bragg diffraction of cholesteric spherical reflectors”, Light: Science & Applications, DOI: 10.1038/s41377-022-01002-4OPEN ACCESS
Najiya Najiya, Nikolay Popov, Venkata Subba Rao Jampani, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "Continuous flow microfluidic production of arbitrarily long tubular liquid crystal elastomer peristaltic pump actuators", Small, DOI: 10.1002/smll.202204693
Shameek Vats, Lawrence W. Honaker, Francesco Basoli, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "Combining responsiveness and durability in liquid crystal-functionalised electrospun fibres with crosslinked sheath", Liquid Crystals, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2021.2005166OPEN ACCESS
Mathew Schwartz and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "Embedding intelligence in materials for responsive built environment: A topical review on Liquid Crystal Elastomer actuators and sensors", Building and Environment, DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2022.109714OPEN ACCESS
2021
Lawrence W. Honaker, Anjali Sharma, Andy Schanen, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Measuring the Anisotropy in Interfacial Tension of Nematic Liquid Crystals”, MDPI Crystals, DOI: 10.3390/cryst11060687OPEN ACCESS
Mathew Schwartz, Yong Geng, Hakam Agha, Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath, Danqing Liu, Gabriele Lenzini, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "Linking physical objects to their digital twins via fiducial markers designed for invisibility to humans”, Multifunctional Materials, DOI: 10.1088/2399-7532/ac0060OPEN ACCESS
Anjali Sharma, Andy M. Stoffel, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Liquid crystal elastomer shells with topological defect-defined actuation”, Journal of Applied Physics, DOI: 10.1063/5.0044920OPEN ACCESS
Yong Geng, Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Encoding Hidden Information onto Surfaces Using Polymerized Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors”, Advanced Functional Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202100399OPEN ACCESS
JungHyun Noh and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "Topological Defect-Guided Regular Stacking of Focal Conic Domains in Hybrid-Aligned Smectic Liquid Crystal Shells", MDPI Crystals, DOI: 10.3390/cryst11080913OPEN ACCESS
Shameek Vats, Manos Anyfantakis, Lawrence W. Honaker, Francesco Basoli, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "Stable Electrospinning of Core-Functionalized Coaxial Fibers Enabled by the Minimum-Energy Interface Given by Partial Core-Sheath Miscibility", Langmuir, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01824OPEN ACCESS
Katrin Schelski, Catherine G. Reyes, Lukas Pschyklenk, Peter-Michael Kaul, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "Quantitative volatile organic compound sensing with liquid crystal core fibers", Cell Reports Physical Science, DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100661OPEN ACCESS
Shameek Vats, Lawrence W. Honaker, Margaret W. Frey, Francesco Basoli, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "Electrospinning Ethanol–Water Solutions of Poly(Acrylic Acid): Nonlinear Viscosity Variations and Dynamic Taylor Cone Behavior", Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, DOI: 10.1002/mame.202100640OPEN ACCESS
Mathew Schwartz and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, "Embedding Intelligence in Materials for Responsive Built Environment using Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators and Sensors", arXiv, DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100661OPEN ACCESS
2020
Camila Honorato-Rios and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Interrogating helical nanorod self-assembly with fractionated cellulose nanocrystal suspensions”, Communications Materials, DOI: 10.1038/s43246-020-00069-zOPEN ACCESS
JungHyun Noh, Yiwei Wang, Hsin-Ling Liang, Venkata Subba Rao Jampani, Apala Majumdar, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Dynamic tuning of the director field in liquid crystal shells using block copolymers”, Physical Review Research, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033160OPEN ACCESS
Manos Anyfantakis, Venkata Subba Rao Jampani, Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath, Bernard Paul Binks, and Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall, “Responsive Photonic Liquid Marbles”, Angewandte Chemie, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202008210OPEN ACCESS
Catherine Ging Reyes and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Disruption of electrospinning due to water condensation into the Taylor cone”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c03338OPEN ACCESS
Guillaume F. Nataf, Mael Guennou, Giusy Scalia, Xavier Moya, Tim D. Wilkinson, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “High-contrast imaging of 180° ferroelectric domains by optical microscopy using ferroelectric liquid crystals”, Applied Physics Letters, DOI: 10.1063/5.0008845OPEN ACCESS
Christina Schütz, Johanna R. Bruckner, Camila Honorato-Rios, Zornitza Tosheva, Manos Anyfantakis, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “From Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Formation and Kinetic Arrest to Photonic Bandgap Films Using Suspensions of Cellulose Nanocrystals”, MDPI Crystals, DOI: 10.3390/cryst10030199OPEN ACCESS
2019
Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath, Yong Geng, Venkata Subba Rao Jampani, Cyrine Charni, Anshul Sharma, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Facile Anisotropic Deswelling Method for Realizing Large-Area Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Uniform Structural Color and Broad-Range Mechanochromic Response”, Advanced Functional Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201909537OPEN ACCESS
Lawrence W. Honaker, Shameek Vats, Manos Anyfantakis, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Elastic Sheath‐Liquid Crystal Core Fibres Achieved by Microfluidic Wet Spinning”, J. Mater. Chem. C, DOI: 10.1039/C9TC03836AOPEN ACCESS
Anjali Sharma, Venkata Subba Rao Jampani, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Realignment of Liquid Crystal Shells Driven by Temperature-Dependent Surfactant Solubility”, Langmuir, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00989OPEN ACCESS
Catherine G. Reyes, Jörg Baller, Takeaki Araki, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Isotropic‐isotropic phase separation and spinodal decomposition in liquid crystal‐solvent mixtures”, Soft Matter, DOI: 10.1039/C9SM00921COPEN ACCESS
V.S.R. Jampani, R.H. Volpe, K. Reguengo de Sousa, J. Ferreira Machado, C.M. Yakacki, and J.P.F. Lagerwall, “Liquid crystal elastomer shell actuators with negative order parameter”, Science Advances, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw2476OPEN ACCESS
2018
Anjali Sharma and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Influence of head group and chain length of surfactants used for stabilizing liquid crystal shells”, Liquid Crystals, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2018.1509391
A Festschrift in honor of Claudio Zannoni's 70th birthday
Venkata Subba Rao Jampani, Dirk J. Mulder, Kevin Reguengo De Sousa, Anne-Hélène Gélébart, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, and Albertus P. H. J. Schenning, “Micrometer‐Scale Porous Buckling Shell Actuators Based on Liquid Crystal Networks”, Advanced Functional Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201801209OPEN ACCESS
Camila Honorato-Rios, Claudius Lehr, Christina Schütz, Roland Sanctuary, Mikhail A. Osipov, Jörg Baller, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Fractionation of cellulose nanocrystals: enhancing liquid crystal ordering without promoting gelation”, NPG Asia Materials, DOI: 10.1038/s41427-018-0046-1OPEN ACCESS
Mathew Schwartz, Gabriele Lenzini, Yong Geng, Peter B. Rønne, Peter Y. A. Ryan, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Shells as Enabling Material for Information‐Rich Design and Architecture”, Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201707382OPEN ACCESS
Lawrence W. Honaker, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, and Venkata Subba Rao Jampani, “Microfluidic Tensiometry Technique for the Characterization of the Interfacial Tension between Immiscible Liquids”, Langmuir, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03494OPEN ACCESS
2017
Martin Urbanski and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Why organically functionalized nanoparticles increase the electrical conductivity of nematic liquid crystal dispersions”, J Mater Chem C, DOI: 10.1039/C7TC02856C
Gabriele Lenzini, Samir Ouchani, Peter Rønne, Peter Y. A. Ryan, Yong Geng, JungHyun Noh, and Jan Lagerwall, “Security in the Shell: An Optical Physical Unclonable Function made of Shells of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals”, Proc. IEEE - 9th Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, DOI: 10.1109/WIFS.2017.8267644
Yong Geng, Ju-Hyun Jang, Kyung-Gyu Noh, JungHyun Noh, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, and Soo-Young Park, “Through the Spherical Looking-Glass: Asymmetry Enables Multicolored Internal Reflection in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Shells”, Advanced Optical Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adom.201700923OPEN ACCESS
Yong Geng, JungHyun Noh, Irena Drevenšek-Olenik, Romano Rupp, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Elucidating the fine details of cholesteric liquid crystal shell reflection patterns”, Liquid Crystals, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2017.1363916OPEN ACCESS
Invited; A Festschrift in honor of Professor John W. Goodby, FRS
Martin Urbanski*, Catherine G. Reyes*, JungHyun Noh, Anshul Sharma, Yong Gang, Venkata Subba Rao Jampani, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Liquid crystals in micron-scale droplets, shells, and fibers”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/aa5706OPEN ACCESS
Invited; listed as one of IOP Publishing's Highlight Articles of 2017
2016
JungHyun Noh, Benjamin Henx, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Taming Liquid Crystal Self-Assembly: The Multifaceted Response of Nematic and Smectic Shells to Polymerization”, Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201603158
M. Ličen, B. Majaron, J. Noh, C. Schütz, L. Bergström, J. Lagerwall, and I. Drevenšek-Olenik, “Correlation between structural properties and iridescent colors of cellulose nanocrystalline films”, Cellulose, DOI: 10.1007/s10570-016-1066-z
Johanna R. Bruckner, Anja Kuhnhold, Camila Honorato-Rios, Tanja Schilling, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Enhancing Self-Assembly in Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions Using High-Permittivity Solvents”, Langmuir, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02647
Yong Geng, JungHyun Noh, Irena Drevenšek-Olenik, Romano Rupp, Gabriele Lenzini, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Elucidating the fine details of cholesteric liquid crystal shell reflection patterns”, Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/srep26840OPEN ACCESS
Martin Urbanski and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Nanoparticles dispersed in liquid crystals: Impact on conductivity, low-frequency relaxation and electro-optical performance”, J Mater Chem C, DOI: 10.1039/C6TC00659K
JungHyun Noh, Kevin Reguengo de Sousa, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Influence of interface stabilisers and surrounding aqueous phases on nematic liquid crystal shells”, Soft Matter, DOI: 10.1039/C5SM01944C
Catherine G. Reyes, Anshul Sharma, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Non-electronic gas sensors from electrospun mats of liquid crystal core fibers for detecting volatile organic compounds at room temperature”, Liquid Crystals, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2016.1212287OPEN ACCESS
Special issue to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the journal; 6th of 7 papers short-listed for the 2016 Luckhurst–Samulski Prize
Camila Honorato-Rios, Anja Kuhnhold, Johanna R. Bruckner, Rick Dannert, Tanja Schilling, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Phase Diagrams and Detection of Kinetic Arrest in Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions”, Frontiers in Materials, DOI: 10.3389/fmats.2016.00021OPEN ACCESS
Special research topic on Anisotropy in Deformable Biomaterials
2015
YooMee Kye, Changson Kim, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Multifunctional responsive fibers produced by dual liquid crystal core electrospinning”, J Mater Chem C, DOI: 10.1039/C5TC01707F Openly available through the ORBI.Lu repository.
Ji-Hyun Park, Kyung Ho Kim, Yung Woo Park, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, and Giusy Scalia, “Ultralong Ordered Nanowires from the Concerted Self-Assembly of Discotic Liquid Crystal and Solvent Molecules”, Langmuir, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b01332
Christina Schütz, Michael Agthe, Andreas B. Fall, Korneliya Gordeyeva, Valentina Guccini, Michaela Salajková, Tomás S. Plivelic, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, German Salazar-Alvarez, and Lennart Bergström, “Rod Packing in Chiral Nematic Cellulose Nanocrystal Dispersions Studied by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Laser Diffraction”, Langmuir, DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00924OPEN ACCESS
JungHyun Noh, Irena Drevenšek-Olenik, Jun Yamamoto, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Elucidating the fine details of cholesteric liquid crystal shell reflection patterns”, SPIE Proceedings Volume 9384, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies X, DOI: 10.1117/12.2180516
JungHyun Noh, Kevin Reguengo de Sousa, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Influence of interface stabilisers and surrounding aqueous phases on nematic liquid crystal shells”, Soft Matter, DOI: 10.1039/C5SM01944C Openly available through the ORBI.Lu repository
2014
Dae Kyom Kim and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Influence of Wetting on Morphology and Core Content in Electrospun Core–Sheath Fibers”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, DOI: 10.1021/am504961k
Jan P. F. Lagerwall, Christina Schütz, Michaela Salajková, JungHyun Noh, Ji-Hyun Park, Giusy Scalia, and Lennart Bergström, “Cellulose nanocrystal-based materials: from liquid crystal self- assembly and glass formation to multifunctional thin films”, NPG Asia Materials, DOI: 10.1038/am.2013.69OPEN ACCESS
JungHyun Noh, Hsin-Ling Liang, Irena Drevenšek-Olenik, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Tuneable multicoloured patterns from photonic cross-communication between cholesteric liquid crystal droplets”, J Mater Chem C, DOI: 10.1039/c3tc32055c
Ji-Hyun Park, JungHyun Noh, Christina Schütz, German Salazar-Alvarez, Giusy Scalia, Lennart Bergström, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall, “Macroscopic control of helix orientation in films dried from cholesteric liquid‐crystalline cellulose nanocrystal suspensions”, ChemPhysChem, DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201400062
Hye Ran Jo, Jun Yamamoto, Jan P. F. Lagerwall, and Giusy Scalia, “Effects of carbon nanotubes on a very low surfactant concentration lyotropic liquid crystal host”, SPIE Proceedings Volume 9004, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies IX, DOI: 10.1117/12.2049189
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