Frontiers in Soft Matter | Liquid Crystals section | New and Recent Articles https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/soft-matter/sections/liquid-crystals RSS Feed for Liquid Crystals section in the Frontiers in Soft Matter journal | New and Recent Articles en-us Frontiers Feed Generator,version:1 2026-05-14T07:21:32.770+00:00 60 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2025.1658466 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2025.1658466 <![CDATA[Recent advances in lyotropic liquid crystal nanoparticle formulations for drug delivery systems]]> 2025-09-11T00:00:00Z Review Paranthaman SubashSulekha Khute https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2024.1518796 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2024.1518796 <![CDATA[Nanoparticles in thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals]]> 2025-01-07T00:00:00Z Review Chung-Hao ChenIngo Dierking https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2024.1359128 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2024.1359128 <![CDATA[Geometric modeling of phase ordering for the isotropic–smectic A phase transition]]> 2024-05-21T00:00:00Z Original Research David Uriel Zamora CisnerosZiheng WangNoémie-Manuelle Dorval CourchesneMatthew J. 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Rey https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2024.1382925 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2024.1382925 <![CDATA[Q&A of liquid crystal alignment: theory and practice]]> 2024-03-18T00:00:00Z Mini Review Alexander MuravskyAnatoli Murauski https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2023.1324589 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2023.1324589 <![CDATA[Challenges and opportunities from water under soft nanoconfinement]]> 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z Perspective Raffaele Mezzenga https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2023.1193904 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2023.1193904 <![CDATA[Phase behavior of nematic-nanoparticle mixtures]]> 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z Mini Review Arbresha HölblAmid RanjkeshAndreja AbinaSamo KraljAleksander Zidanšek https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2023.1114551 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2023.1114551 <![CDATA[Deep learning techniques for the localization and classification of liquid crystal phase transitions]]> 2023-02-03T00:00:00Z Original Research Ingo DierkingJason DominguezJames HarbonJoshua Heaton https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2023.1089726 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2023.1089726 <![CDATA[Phase transitions in complex functional liquid crystals—The entropy effect]]> 2023-01-30T00:00:00Z Perspective Matthias Lehmann https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.1022077 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.1022077 <![CDATA[Electro-optic response of bipolar nematic liquid crystal confined in oblate spheroid]]> 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Original Research Chenjing YangRan ChenLeyun FengRui ZhangDong Chen https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.1079063 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.1079063 <![CDATA[A perspective on the Langmuir adsorption model applied to molecular liquid crystals containing ions and nanoparticles]]> 2022-12-08T00:00:00Z Perspective Yuriy Garbovskiy https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.1052037 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.1052037 <![CDATA[Liquid crystal-based actuators]]> 2022-11-14T00:00:00Z Review Alexandra GruzdenkoIngo Dierking https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.1011618 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.1011618 <![CDATA[Simulation of a cholesteric blue phase cell with large but finite thickness]]> 2022-10-11T00:00:00Z Original Research Jun-ichi Fukuda https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.1021077 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.1021077 <![CDATA[Liquid crystal-polymer composites switchable windows for radiant energy flow and privacy control]]> 2022-10-11T00:00:00Z Original Research Suman HalderYunho ShinZiyuan ZhouXinfang ZhangLang HuDeng-Ke Yang https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.984400 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.984400 <![CDATA[Equilibrium configurations in a nematic pi-cell under an electric field]]> 2022-09-02T00:00:00Z Original Research Aaron C. AllenXiaoyu Zheng https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.991375 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.991375 <![CDATA[Birefringence-modulated total internal reflection in liquid crystal shells]]> 2022-08-30T00:00:00Z Original Research Nikolay PopovJan P. F. Lagerwall https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.835057 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsfm.2022.835057 <![CDATA[Label-Free Detection of Ochratoxin A Using Aptamer as Recognition Probe at Liquid Crystal-Aqueous Interface]]> 2022-03-23T00:00:00Z Original Research Manisha DeviKavyasree AIpsita PaniSoma SilSantanu Kumar Pal