Reentrant 2D Nanostructured Liquid Crystals by Competition between Molecular Packing and Conformation: Potential Design for Multistep Switching of Ionic Conductivity. Issue 8 (17th April 2023) - Hamaguchi, Kazuma
Abstract: The front cover artwork is provided by Takashi Kato at the University of Tokyo. The image shows three assembled structures of smectic liquid crystals that show reentrant behavior. Read the full text of the Research Article at 10.1002/cphc.202200927 . Abstract : "We report on a single‐component smectic liquid‐crystalline amphiphilic molecule, which exhibits unconventional reentrant phase behavior, namely, smectic A (SmA)‐smectic B (SmB)‐reentrant smectic A (SmAre )…" This and more about the story behind the front cover can be found in the Research Article at 10.1002/cphc.202200927 .