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Design, Synthesis and Characterization
- Organic and hybrid organic materials
- Ionic liquid crystals
- Nanostructured systems
- Electronic molecular materials
- Hydrogen-bonded systems
- Photosensitive liquid crystals
- Uniaxial and biaxial nematic liquid crystals
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Macromolecular Liquid Crystals
- Polymers, elastomers and gels
- Photosensitive liquid crystals
- Nanostructured systems and nanocomposites
- Supramolecules
- Biological and bio-inspired liquid crystals
- Phase, structure and ordering
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Ferroelectric materials
- Symmetry, chirality, polarity
- Ferroelectric nematic materials
- Chiral mesophases and spin selectivity
- Dielectric, ferroelectric and flexoelectric properties
- Chiral phonons
- Bent-core molecules
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Novel Applications
- Functional materials for devices
- Displays, devices, optics and photonics
- Actuators and haptic devices
- Augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR)
- Functional plasmonic nanostructures
- Ferromagnetic liquid crystals
- Conductive liquid crystals
- Liquid crystal lasers and nonlinear optical devices
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Liquid Crystals in Biology, Circular Economy, Sustainability
- Smart textiles, energy and environmental issues, sustainability, etc
- Self-assembly in nature, colloids and chromonics
- Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (F-GHGs) in LCD paFnel manufacturing
- Persistent, bioaccumulative and disposable Liquid Crystal Monomers (LCMs) into the environment
- Biological sensors – Organic electrochemical transistors, etc
- Lyotropic system and instrumentation
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Mathematical Modeling, Symmetry and Topolgy
- Theory, simulation, and modeling
- Phases, structure, and ordering
- Frustrated phases and complex systems
- Dynamics and pattern formation
- Surfaces, confined systems, and alignment control
- Artificial Intelligence applied in liquid crystal science.
