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  1. Liquid crystal elastomer shells with topological defect-defined actuation: Complex shape morphing, opening/closing, and unidirectional rotation

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, May 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  2. Responsive Photonic Liquid Marbles

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, August 2020, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  3. Responsive Photonic Liquid Marbles

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, August 2020, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  4. Dynamic tuning of the director field in liquid crystal shells using block copolymers

    Article • Physical Review Research, July 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  5. High-contrast imaging of 180° ferroelectric domains by optical microscopy using ferroelectric liquid crystals

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, May 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  6. Disruption of Electrospinning due to Water Condensation into the Taylor Cone

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, May 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  7. From Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Formation and Kinetic Arrest to Photonic Bandgap Films Using Suspensions of Cellulose Nanocrystals

    Article • Crystals, March 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  8. Facile Anisotropic Deswelling Method for Realizing Large‐Area Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Uniform Structural Color and Broad‐Range Mechanochromic Response

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, December 2019, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  9. Realignment of Liquid Crystal Shells Driven by Temperature-Dependent Surfactant Solubility

    Article • Langmuir, August 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  10. Liquid crystal elastomer shell actuators with negative order parameter

    Article • Science Advances, April 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  11. Isotropic–isotropic phase separation and spinodal decomposition in liquid crystal–solvent mixtures

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  12. Elastic sheath–liquid crystal core fibres achieved by microfluidic wet spinning

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  13. Sub-second dynamic phototuning of alignment in azodendrimer-doped nematic liquid crystal shells

    Article • Journal of Molecular Liquids, October 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  14. Influence of head group and chain length of surfactants used for stabilising liquid crystal shells

    Article • Liquid Crystals, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  15. Micrometer-Scale Porous Buckling Shell Actuators Based on Liquid Crystal Networks

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, June 2018, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  16. Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Shells as Enabling Material for Information-Rich Design and Architecture

    Article • Advanced Materials, May 2018, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall, Mathew Schwartz

  17. Fractionation of cellulose nanocrystals: enhancing liquid crystal ordering without promoting gelation

    Article • NPG Asia Materials, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  18. Through the Spherical Looking-Glass: Asymmetry Enables Multicolored Internal Reflection in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Shells

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, November 2017, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  19. Liquid crystals in micron-scale droplets, shells and fibers

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, February 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  20. Why organically functionalized nanoparticles increase the electrical conductivity of nematic liquid crystal dispersions

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  21. A phenomenological introduction to liquid crystals and colloids

    Article • October 2016, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  22. Cholesteric liquid crystal formation in suspensions of cellulose nanocrystals

    Article • October 2016, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  23. Introduction

    Article • October 2016, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  24. Nanoparticle guests in lyotropic liquid crystals

    Article • October 2016, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  25. Taming Liquid Crystal Self-Assembly: The Multifaceted Response of Nematic and Smectic Shells to Polymerization

    Article • Advanced Materials, September 2016, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  26. Correlation between structural properties and iridescent colors of cellulose nanocrystalline films

    Article • Cellulose, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  27. Enhancing Self-Assembly in Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions Using High-Permittivity Solvents

    Article • Langmuir, September 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  28. Non-electronic gas sensors from electrospun mats of liquid crystal core fibres for detecting volatile organic compounds at room temperature

    Article • Liquid Crystals, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  29. High-fidelity spherical cholesteric liquid crystal Bragg reflectors generating unclonable patterns for secure authentication

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  30. An Introduction to the Physics of Liquid Crystals

    Article • April 2016, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  31. Solvent effect on columnar formation in solar-cell geometry

    Article • March 2016, SPIE

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  32. Nanotube networks in liquid crystals

    Article • March 2016, SPIE

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  33. The effects of carbon nanotubes on the clearing transition of the antiferroelectric liquid crystal MHPOBC

    Article • Ferroelectrics, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  34. Transmission polarized optical microscopy of short-pitch cholesteric liquid crystal shells

    Article • March 2016, SPIE

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  35. Influence of interface stabilisers and surrounding aqueous phases on nematic liquid crystal shells

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  36. Nanoparticles dispersed in liquid crystals: impact on conductivity, low-frequency relaxation and electro-optical performance

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  37. Ultralong Ordered Nanowires from the Concerted Self-Assembly of Discotic Liquid Crystal and Solvent Molecules

    Article • Langmuir, August 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  38. Rod Packing in Chiral Nematic Cellulose Nanocrystal Dispersions Studied by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Laser Diffraction

    Article • Langmuir, June 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  39. Dynamic and complex optical patterns from colloids of cholesteric liquid crystal droplets

    Article • March 2015, SPIE

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  40. Multifunctional responsive fibers produced by dual liquid crystal core electrospinning

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  41. Influence of Wetting on Morphology and Core Content in Electrospun Core–Sheath Fibers

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, September 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  42. Liquid Crystals with Nano and Microparticles

    Article • July 2014, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  43. Macroscopic Control of Helix Orientation in Films Dried from Cholesteric Liquid‐Crystalline Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions

    Article • ChemPhysChem, March 2014, Wiley

    German Salazar-Alvarez, Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  44. Effects of carbon nanotubes on a very low surfactant concentration lyotropic liquid crystal host

    Article • February 2014, SPIE

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  45. Tuneable multicoloured patterns from photonic cross-communication between cholesteric liquid crystal droplets

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  46. Cellulose nanocrystal-based materials: from liquid crystal self-assembly and glass formation to multifunctional thin films

    Article • NPG Asia Materials, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  47. Liquid crystal functionalization of electrospun polymer fibers

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, March 2013, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  48. Tuning the defect configurations in nematic and smectic liquid crystalline shells

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, March 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  49. Morphology and Core Continuity of Liquid-Crystal-Functionalized, Coaxially Electrospun Fiber Mats Tuned via the Polymer Sheath Solution

    Article • Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, January 2013, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  50. A new era for liquid crystal research: Applications of liquid crystals in soft matter nano-, bio- and microtechnology

    Article • Current Applied Physics, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  51. Liquid Crystal-Functionalized Nano- and Microfibers Produced by Electrospinning

    Article • May 2012, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  52. Utilizing the Krafft Phenomenon to Generate Ideal Micelle-Free Surfactant-Stabilized Nanoparticle Suspensions

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, February 2012, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  53. Switchable and responsive liquid crystal-functionalized microfibers produced via coaxial electrospinning

    Article • February 2012, SPIE

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  54. Towards micrometer sized core-shell actuators from liquid crystalline elastomers by a continuous flow synthesis

    Article • February 2012, SPIE

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  55. Towards tunable defect arrangements in smectic liquid crystal shells utilizing the nematic–smectic transition in hybrid-aligned geometries

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  56. One-piece micropumps from liquid crystalline core-shell particles

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  57. Liquid Crystals in Novel Geometries Prepared by Microfluidics and Electrospinning

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  58. Nematic-Smectic Transition under Confinement in Liquid Crystalline Colloidal Shells

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  59. Effects of chain branching and chirality on liquid crystalline phases of bent-core molecules: blue phases, de Vries transitions and switching of diastereomeric states

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  60. Filament formation in carbon nanotube-doped lyotropic liquid crystals

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  61. Towards Efficient Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, August 2010, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  62. Self-assembled ordered structures in thin films of HAT5 discotic liquid crystal

    Article • Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, May 2010, Beilstein Institut

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  63. Complex Chirality at the Nanoscale

    Article • ChemPhysChem, March 2010, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  64. Tailor-designed polyphilic promotors for stabilizing dispersions of carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  65. Electrospun microfibres with temperature sensitive iridescence from encapsulated cholesteric liquid crystal

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  66. Macroscopic-scale carbon nanotube alignment via self-assembly in lyotropic liquid crystals

    Article • Synthetic Metals, November 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  67. Coaxial electrospinning of liquid crystal-containing poly(vinylpyrrolidone) microfibres

    Article • Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, October 2009, Beilstein Institut

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  68. Electrolyte Effects on the Stability of Nematic and Lamellar Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Phases: Colligative and Ion-Specific Aspects

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, August 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  69. On the balance between syn- and anticlinicity in smectic phases formed by achiral hockey-stick mesogens with and without chiral dopants

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  70. Carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  71. Coaxial electrospinning of microfibres with liquid crystal in the core

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  72. Spontaneous macroscopic carbon nanotube alignment via colloidal suspension in hexagonal columnar lyotropic liquid crystals

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  73. Antiferroelectric liquid crystals with induced intermediate polar phases and the effects of doping with carbon nanotubes

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, December 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  74. Order-disorder molecular model of the smectic-A–smectic-Cphase transition in materials with conventional and anomalously weak layer contraction

    Article • Physical Review E, November 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  75. Carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals as versatile functional materials

    Article • physica status solidi (b), November 2007, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  76. Partitioning and reorientational dynamics of phenylalcohols in SDS lyotropic liquid crystalline mesophases: An ALC-μSR study

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, November 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  77. Molecular model for de Vries type smectic-A–smectic-Cphase transition in liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  78. Nanotube Alignment Using Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Advanced Materials, February 2007, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  79. Effect of phenyl rings in liquid crystal molecules on SWCNTs studied by Raman spectroscopy

    Article • physica status solidi (b), November 2006, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  80. Simultaneous alignment and dispersion of carbon nanotubes with lyotropic liquid crystals

    Article • physica status solidi (b), November 2006, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  81. On the change in helix handedness at transitions between the SmC∗ and phases in chiral smectic liquid crystals

    Article • Liquid Crystals, June 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  82. Current Topics in Smectic Liquid Crystal Research

    Article • ChemPhysChem, January 2006, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  83. The peculiar optic, dielectric and X‐ray diffraction properties of a fluorinated de Vries asymmetric diffuse cone‐model ferroelectric liquid crystal

    Article • Liquid Crystals, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  84. Electrolyte effects on the nematic–isotropic phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals

    Article • Liquid Crystals, October 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  85. Frustration between syn- and anticlinicity in mixtures of chiral and non-chiral tilted smectic-C-type liquid crystals

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, September 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  86. A Study of a Bistereogenic Mesogen for the Development of Orthoconic Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials

    Article • Ferroelectrics, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  87. Chiral Smectic C Subphases Induced by Mixing a Bistereogenic Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal with a Non-Chiral Liquid Crystal

    Article • Ferroelectrics, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  88. Demonstration of the antiferroelectric aspect of the helical superstructures in Sm-C*, Sm-Cα*, and Sm-Ca*liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  89. Differences between smectic homo‐ and co‐polysiloxanes as a consequence of microphase separation

    Article • Liquid Crystals, May 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  90. Generation of frustrated liquid crystal phases by mixing an achiral nematic–smectic-C mesogen with an antiferroelectric chiral smectic liquid crystal

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, April 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  91. Polarity-directed analog electro-optic switching in a low-polarization chiral smectic liquid crystal with positive dielectric anisotropy

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  92. A Chameleon Chiral Polar Liquid Crystal:  Rod-Shaped When Nematic, Bent-Shaped When Smectic

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, September 2004, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  93. On the origin of high optical director tilt in a partially fluorinated orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystal mixture

    Article • Liquid Crystals, September 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  94. Ferroelectric polysiloxane liquid crystals with ‘de Vries’-type smectic A*–smectic C* transitions

    Article • Liquid Crystals, June 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  95. (–)-Isopinocampheol Substituted Mesogens: An Investigation of the Effect of Bulky Terminal Groups in Chiral Smectic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Ferroelectrics, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  96. On the phase sequence of antiferroelectric liquid crystals and its relation to orientational and translational order

    Article • Liquid Crystals, April 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  97. Tilt plane orientation in antiferroelectric liquid crystal cells and the origin of the pretransitional effect

    Article • December 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  98. Antiferroelectric liquid-crystal mixture without smectic layer shrinkage at the directSm−A*–Sm−Ca*transition

    Article • November 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  99. 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

    Article • September 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  100. Phases, phase transitions and confinement effects in a series of antiferroelectric liquid crystals

    Article • Liquid Crystals, February 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  101. Surface- and Field-Induced AFLC Structures Detected by Dielectric Spectroscopy

    Article • Ferroelectrics, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall

  102. The case of thresholdless antiferroelectricity: polarization-stabilized twisted SmC* liquid crystals give V-shaped electro-optic response

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 1999, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Jan Peter Felix Lagerwall