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Carsten Tschierske is affiliated with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany and contributes significantly to the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their research spans various subfields including Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's primary focus includes several main topics such as Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials, Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds, Molecular Spectroscopy and Chirality, Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry, Surfactants and Colloidal Systems, and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials.

Their work has been published extensively in notable journals with frequent publications in:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Journal of Molecular Liquids
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemical Communications

Recent papers authored include:

  • Liquid Organic Frameworks: The Single-Network "Plumber's Nightmare" Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystal, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Molecular Packing in Double Gyroid Cubic Phases Revealed via Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking in benzil-based soft crystalline, cubic liquid crystalline and isotropic liquid phases, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Helical Networks of π-Conjugated Rods - A Robust Design Concept for Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystalline Phases with Achiral Iad and Chiral I23 Lattice, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Effective tuning of optical storage devices using photosensitive bent-core liquid crystals, 2020, Journal of Molecular Liquids

Collaborations form an important part of their research activity, with frequent coauthors including Feng Liu, Silvio Poppe, Yu Cao, Changlong Chen, and Mohamed Alaasar.

Best Publications

  • Handbook of liquid crystals

    John W. Goodby;Peter J. Collings;Takashi Kato;Carsten Tschierske

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

    R. Amaranatha Reddy;Carsten Tschierske

  • Fluorescent J‐type Aggregates and Thermotropic Columnar Mesophases of Perylene Bisimide Dyes

    Frank Würthner;Christoph Thalacker;Siegmar Diele;Carsten Tschierske

  • Development of structural complexity by liquid-crystal self-assembly.

    Carsten Tschierske

  • Liquid crystal engineering – new complex mesophase structures and their relations to polymer morphologies, nanoscale patterning and crystal engineering

    Carsten Tschierske

  • Micro-segregation, molecular shape and molecular topology – partners for the design of liquid crystalline materials with complex mesophase morphologies

    Carsten Tschierske

  • Non-conventional liquid crystals—the importance of micro-segregation for self-organisation

    Carsten Tschierske

  • Effect of Core Twisting on Self-Assembly and Optical Properties of Perylene Bisimide Dyes in Solution and Columnar Liquid Crystalline Phases

    Zhijian Chen;Ute Baumeister;Carsten Tschierske;Frank Würthner

  • Biaxial nematic phases

    Carsten Tschierske;Demetri J. Photinos

  • Nematic phases of bent-core mesogens

    Christina Keith;Anne Lehmann;Ute Baumeister;Marko Prehm

  • 6 Non-conventional soft matter

    Carsten Tschierske

  • Molecular Design of Nonchiral Bent-Core Liquid Crystals with Antiferroelectric Properties

    Dong Shen;Annegret Pegenau;Siegmar Diele;and Ina Wirth

  • Chiral isotropic liquids from achiral molecules.

    L. E. Hough;M. Spannuth;M. Nakata;D. A. Coleman

  • Chirality and Macroscopic Polar Order in a Ferroelectric Smectic Liquid-Crystalline Phase Formed by Achiral Polyphilic Bent-Core Molecules This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.

    Gert Dantlgraber;Alexei Eremin;Siegmar Diele;Anton Hauser

  • Molecular self-organization of amphotropic liquid crystals

    Carsten Tschierske

  • Mirror Symmetry Breaking by Chirality Synchronisation in Liquids and Liquid Crystals of Achiral Molecules.

    Carsten Tschierske;Goran Ungar;Goran Ungar

  • Chiral self-sorting and amplification in isotropic liquids of achiral molecules.

    Christian Dressel;Tino Reppe;Marko Prehm;Marcel Brautzsch

  • Calamitic Bolaamphiphiles with (Semi)Perfluorinated Lateral Chains: Polyphilic Block Molecules with New Liquid Crystalline Phase Structures

    Xiaohong Cheng;Marko Prehm;Malay Kumar Das;Jens Kain

  • Tailoring thermotropic cubic mesophases: amphiphilic polyhydroxy derivatives

    Konstanze Borisch;Siegmar Diele;Petra Göring;Horst Kresse

  • Liquid Crystalline Networks Composed of Pentagonal, Square, and Triangular Cylinders

    Bin Chen;Xiangbing Zeng;Ute Baumeister;Goran Ungar

Frequent Co-Authors

Marko Prehm
Marko Prehm Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Siegmar Diele
Siegmar Diele Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Goran Ungar
Goran Ungar Xi'an Jiaotong University
Ute Baumeister
Ute Baumeister Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Xiangbing Zeng
Xiangbing Zeng University of Sheffield
Gerhard Pelzl
Gerhard Pelzl Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Takashi Kato
Takashi Kato University of Tokyo
Joachim H. Wendorff
Joachim H. Wendorff Philipp University of Marburg
Heinrich Lang
Heinrich Lang Chemnitz University of Technology
John W. Goodby
John W. Goodby University of York

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