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Functional Ionic Liquid Crystals.

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The applications of ionic liquid crystals are overviewed in a comprehensive manner, finding various applications including host frameworks for guest binding, separation membranes, reaction media, and optoelectronic materials.
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Ionic liquid crystals have emerged as a new class of functional soft materials in the last two decades, and they exhibit synergistic characteristics of ionic liquids and liquid crystals such as mac...

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Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Polymers: Smart Materials with Stimuli-Responsive, Self-Healing, and Recyclable Properties.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of hydrogen-bonded liquid crystalline polymers is presented, and potential future applications are discussed, including self-healing and recyclable properties.
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Self-emulsification in chemical and pharmaceutical technologies

TL;DR: The interest in low energy self-emulsification techniques has exploded in the recent years, driven by three main trends: by the transition to "greener" technologies in both its aspects - less energy consumption and replacement of the petrochemicals by natural ingredients; by the costly and maintenance demanding equipment for nano-emulsion; and by the quest for efficient and robust selfemulsifying formulations for oral drug delivery as discussed by the authors .
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Advanced chiral molecular media for enantioselective electrochemistry and electroanalysis

TL;DR: In this paper, different ways to implement chirality in advanced molecular media, including cases of powerful "inherent chiral", are presented and discussed, particularly focusing on recent applications in the electrochemical field.
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Smart Supramolecular Self-Assembled Nanosystem: Stimulus-Responsive Hydrogen-Bonded Liquid Crystals.

TL;DR: In a liquid crystal (LC) state, specific orientations and alignments of liquid crystal molecules produce outstanding anisotropy in structure and properties, followed by diverse optoelectronic functions as mentioned in this paper.
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Ionic liquid crystal electrolytes: fundamental, applications and prospects

TL;DR: In this paper , a key scheme of component-structure-fundamental-properties-electrochemical interaction of ILC electrolytes for energy storage applications is presented, and the ion redistribution mechanism and working principles of ICL electrolytes are comprehensively summarized to highlight their ion redistribution ability and high stability.
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Membrane-Based Synthesis of Nanomaterials

TL;DR: In this paper, the template method is used to synthesize nanotubules and fibrils of polymers, metals, semiconductors, carbons, and other materials.
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Functional liquid-crystalline assemblies: self-organized soft materials.

TL;DR: New approaches to the functionalization of liquid crystals are described and it is shown how the design ofliquid crystals formed by supramolecular assembly and nano-segregation leads to the formation of a variety of new self-organized functional materials.
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Polysaccharide Derivatives for Chromatographic Separation of Enantiomers.

TL;DR: Most racemates, from an analytical to a preparative scale, now appear to be resolved by this technique, and the chromatogram for the enantiomeric resolution of a fullerene derivative is shown.
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