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Open AccessStabilized director buckling patterns in nematic elastomers and their dynamic optical effects
Pearlescence and iridescence, which are a class of light diffusion effects that exhibit sharp viewing-angle-dependent brightness and colors, are important material properties for notification purposes and ligh...
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Open AccessInternal constraints and arrested relaxation in main-chain nematic elastomers
Nematic liquid crystal elastomers (N-LCE) exhibit intriguing mechanical properties, such as reversible actuation and soft elasticity, which manifests as a wide plateau of low nearly-constant stress upon stretc...
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Self-organized nanotube materials and their application in bioengineering
Although a large number of studies on organic nanotubes have focused on the molecular design of building blocks and their material function, there has been little research that has addressed the function of th...
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Correction: Corrigendum: Directed assembly of optoelectronically active alkyl–π-conjugated molecules by adding n-alkanes or π-conjugated species
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Directed assembly of optoelectronically active alkyl–π-conjugated molecules by adding n-alkanes or π-conjugated species
Supramolecular assembly can yield ordered structures by taking advantage of the cumulative effect of multiple non-covalent interactions between adjacent molecules. The thermodynamic origin of many self-assembl...
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Supramolecular nanofiber formation from commercially available arginine and a bola-type diacetylenic diacid via hydrogelation
A diacetylenic-acid arginine salt gelated water. The supramolecular structure and optical properties of the resultant hydrogel were examined by optical microscopy, electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and ul...
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Phase behavior of phytanyl-chained akylglycoside/water systems
The aqueous phase behavior of novel alkylglycosides, AGs, that have a 3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadecyl (phytanyl) group as their hydrophobic part was examined as a function of the headgroup type, i.e., glycerol,...
