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Liquid Crystal Research Advancements

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Papers

1

Liquid Piezoelectric Materials: Linear Electromechanical Effect in Fluid Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals

Advanced Functional Materials|2024

49 cit.

2

Molecular Brush‐Grafted Liquid Crystalline Hetero‐Structured Fillers for Boosting Thermal Conductivity of Polyimide Composite Films

Advanced Functional Materials|2025

43 cit.

3

Light-triggered fluorochromic cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer with hydrogen-bonded fluorescent switch: dualmodal-switchable circularly polarized luminescence

Science China Chemistry|2024

36 cit.

4

Large-scale preparation of leakage-proof phase change composites with compressed enhanced thermally conductive network for efficient thermal management

Journal of Energy Storage|2024

32 cit.

5

Effect of carbon dots on tuning molecular alignment, dielectric and electrical properties of a smectogenic cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal material

Journal of Physics D Applied Physics|2024

28 cit.

6

Electrically activated ferroelectric nematic microrobots

Nature Communications|2024

23 cit.

7

Binder-Free Defective Bimetallic Metal-Organic Framework Nanostructures with Lattice Distortion as Hybrid Supercapacitor Electrodes

ACS Applied Nano Materials|2024

22 cit.

8

Polymerization-with-assembly enables homogeneous circularly polarized luminescence structures

Nano Research|2024

10 cit.

9

Effect of doping with carbon dots on the alignment and dielectric properties of nematic liquid crystal 4-cyano-4′-pentylbiphenyl in ITO sample cells without conventional alignment layers for low-cost display applications

Journal of Molecular Structure|2024

9 cit.

10

Carbon dots induced homeotropic alignment in a negative dielectric nematic liquid crystal material

Nano Express|2024

8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1

South China University of Technology

2

Laurens T. de Haan

South China Normal University

3

Tao‐Tao Zhuang

University of Science and Technology of China

4

Hunan University of Science and Technology

5

Xijing University

6

Wiktor Lewandowski

University of Warsaw

7

Sun Yat-sen University

8

Farmland Irrigation Research Institute

9

Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures

10

Shenzhen University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1

Strategies toward the development of high-energy-density lithium batteries

Journal of Energy Storage|2024

288 cit.

2

Multimodal-Responsive Circularly Polarized Luminescence Security Materials

Journal of the American Chemical Society|2023

197 cit.

3

Recent Progress in Liquid Crystal‐Based Smart Windows: Materials, Structures, and Design

Laser & Photonics Review|2022

152 cit.

4

Augmented Reality Enabled by On‐Chip Meta‐Holography Multiplexing

Laser & Photonics Review|2022

115 cit.

5

Development of polymer-dispersed liquid crystals: From mode innovation to applications

Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing|2022

92 cit.

6

Recent Progress in Functional Dye‐Doped Liquid Crystal Devices

Advanced Functional Materials|2022

92 cit.

7

Helical-caging enables single-emitted large asymmetric full-color circularly polarized luminescence

Nature Communications|2024

77 cit.

8

On-chip meta-optics for semi-transparent screen display in sync with AR projection

Optica|2022

67 cit.

9

On-Chip Integrated Metasystem with Inverse-Design Wavelength Demultiplexing for Augmented Reality

ACS Photonics|2023

61 cit.

10

Spontaneous electric-polarization topology in confined ferroelectric nematics

Nature Communications|2022

60 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1

Submicrosecond bistable electro-optic switching in liquid crystals

Applied Physics Letters|1980

2.6k cit.

2

Directed bending of a polymer film by light

Nature|2003

2.1k cit.

3

Functional Liquid‐Crystalline Assemblies: Self‐Organized Soft Materials

Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2005

1.5k cit.

4

Optical Switching and Image Storage by Means of Azobenzene Liquid-Crystal Films

Science|1995

1.5k cit.

5

Making waves in a photoactive polymer film

Nature|2017

1k cit.

6

Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light‐Driven Plastic Motors

Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2008

1k cit.

7

Printed artificial cilia from liquid-crystal network actuators modularly driven by light

Nature Materials|2009

963 cit.

8

Bent-core liquid crystals: polar order, superstructural chirality and spontaneous desymmetrisation in soft matter systems

Journal of Materials Chemistry|2005

875 cit.

9

Mechanoresponsive Luminescent Molecular Assemblies: An Emerging Class of Materials

Advanced Materials|2015

869 cit.

10

Photomodulation of liquid crystal orientations for photonic applications

Journal of Materials Chemistry|2003

758 cit.

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