Bilbao Liquid Crystals Group

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2026

• A. Sterle, P. Medle-Rupnik, L. Cmok, A. Erkoreka, M. Lavrič, N. Osterman, C. J. Gibb, J. Hobbs, J. Martinez-Perdiguero, R. J. Mandle, A. Mertelj, and N. Sebastián, Elasticity-Driven Periodic Polarization Patterns in Confined Chiral Ferroelectric Nematic Fluid, arXiv (2026). DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2604.02805.
• A. Erkoreka, J. Martinez-Perdiguero, L. Cmok, E. Hanžel, J. Hobbs, C. J. Gibb, R. J. Mandle, N. Sebastián, and A. Mertelj, Flexoelectricity-driven softening of bend elasticity leads to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in a polar fluid, arXiv (2026). DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2602.15687.

2025

• A. Erkoreka, Z.-Y. Du, A. Oleaga, R.-K. Huang, and J. Martinez-Perdiguero, Guest molecule dynamics and ferroelectric transition in a clathrate compound, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 27, 7833–7839 (2025). DOI: 10.1039/D5CP00100E.
• A. Martínez-Bueno, G. M. Valencia-Vásconez, R. Termine, A. Golemme, J. Ortega, C. L. Folcia, J. M. Granadino-Roldán, A. Navarro, R. Giménez, and T. Sierra, Unveiling Adenine H-bonded Hexads: Hierarchical Self-Assembly for Helical Columnar Functional Materials, JACS Au 5, 3115–3124 (2025). DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.5c00256.
• C. M. Costa, A. G. Diez, A. Zarandona, J. Martinez-Perdiguero, R. Gonçalves, H. Sun, K. Chen, B. Peng, L. Liu, Q. Zhang, and S. Lanceros-Mendez, Tailoring the piezoelectric and electrocaloric response of nanocomposites based on poly (vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene) with barium strontium titanate ceramic particles, Polymer 325, 128305 (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2025.128305.

2024

• C. R. Tubio, A. Garcia, X. Valle, M. Pinto, S. Virgel, J. Martinez-Perdiguero, J. Moreira, and S. Lanceros-Mendez, Assessing of Biowaste Whey Protein as Films for Biodegradable Electronics and Packaging Applications, ACS Sustainable Resour. Manage. 1, 2492-2501 (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acssusresmgt.4c00347.
• A. Erkoreka and J. Martinez-Perdiguero, Constraining the value of the dielectric constant of the ferroelectric nematic phase, Phys. Rev. E 110, L022701 (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.110.L022701.
• A. Erkoreka, N. Sebastián, A. Mertelj, and J. Martinez-Perdiguero, A molecular perspective on the emergence of long-range polar order from an isotropic fluid, J. Mol. Liq. 407, 125188 (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2024.125188.
• A. Erkoreka, M. Huang, S. Aya, and J. Martinez-Perdiguero, Mean-Field Theory of the Uniaxial Ferroelectric Smectic A Liquid Crystal Phase, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 208101 (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.208101.
• A. Erkoreka and J. Martinez-Perdiguero, Development of a high-frequency dielectric spectrometer using a portable vector network analyzer, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 95, 023903 (2024). DOI: 10.1063/5.0177065.
• S. Cobos, G. García, C. L. Folcia, J. Ortega, J. Etxebarria, G. López-Peña, D. H. Ortgies, E. Martín Rodríguez, and S. Coco, Columnar liquid crystalline triphenylene-bis(dithiolene)nickel complexes. Soft photothermal materials, J. Mater. Chem. C 12, 12332–12340 (2024). DOI: 10.1039/D4TC01338G.
• D. D. Nguyen, J. Labella, J. Laforga-Martín, C. L. Folcia, J. Ortega, T. Torres, T. Sierra, and J. L. Sessler, Columnar liquid crystals based on antiaromatic expanded porphyrins, Chem. Commun. 60, 3401–3404 (2024). DOI: 10.1039/D3CC05414D.
• A. Martínez-Bueno, S. Martín, J. Ortega, C. L. Folcia, R. Termine, A. Golemme, R. Giménez, and T. Sierra, Effect of Hydrogen Bonding and Chirality in Star-Shaped Molecules with Peripheral Triphenylamines: Liquid Crystal Semiconductors and Gels, Chem. Mater. 36, 4343–4356 (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c03241.
• B. Robles-Hernández, N. Sebastián, M. R. de la Fuente, D. O. López, J. Salud, and S. Diez-Berart, Anopore confinement in the cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimer CB7CB. A dielectric study, Liquid Crystals 51, 1537–1545 (2024). DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2023.2294961.
• J. Salud, N. Sebastián, M. R. de la Fuente, S. Diez-Berart, and D. O. López, Steepness-fragility insights from the temperature derivative analysis of dielectric data of a highly nonsymmetric liquid crystal dimer, Phys. Rev. E 110, 024702 (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.110.024702.

2023

• A. Erkoreka, A. Mertelj, M. Huang, S. Aya, N. Sebastián, and J. Martinez-Perdiguero, Collective and non-collective molecular dynamics in a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal studied by broadband dielectric spectroscopy, J. Chem. Phys. 159, 184502 (2023). DOI: 10.1063/5.0173813.
• A. Erkoreka, J. Martinez-Perdiguero, R. J. Mandle, A. Mertelj, and N. Sebastián, Dielectric spectroscopy of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal and the effect of the sample thickness, J. Mol. Liq. 387, 122566 (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.122566.
• J. Ortega, C. L. Folcia, and J. Etxebarria, Second harmonic generation in anisotropic stratified media: a generalization of the Berreman method and its application to photonic materials, Opt. Express (2023). DOI: 10.1364/OE.497447.
• M. Castillo Vallés, C. L. Folcia, J. Ortega, J. Etxebarria, and M. B. Ros, Self-assembly of bent-core amphiphiles joining the ethylene-oxide/lithium ion tandem, J. Mol. Liq. 381, 121825 (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.121825.
• A. Martínez-Bueno, R. Vidal, J. Ortega, J. Etxebarria, C. L. Folcia, R. Giménez, and T. Sierra, Soft nanostructures out of star-shaped triazines with flexible amide spacers: liquid crystals with a cubic to columnar transition with memory effect, gels and supramolecular chirality, Mater. Today Chem. 29, 101394 (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.mtchem.2023.101394.

2022

• M. Barcenilla, C. L. Folcia, J. Ortega, J. Etxebarria, S. Coco, and P. Espinet, Access to luminescent mesophases of chiral gold(i) complexes by thermal or mechanic stimuli: the role of the tertiary carbon, J. Mater. Chem. C 10(3), 941–946 (2022). DOI: 10.1039/D1TC04325K.
• J. Ortega, C. L. Folcia, J. Etxebarria, and T. Sierra, Ferroelectric chiral nematic liquid crystals: new photonic materials with multiple bandgaps controllable by low electric fields, Liquid Crystals 49(15), 2128–2136 (2022). DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2022.2104949.
• J. Etxebarria, C. L. Folcia, and J. Ortega, Generalization of the Maier-Saupe theory to the ferroelectric nematic phase, Liquid Crystals (2022). DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2022.2055181.
• C. L. Folcia, J. Ortega, R. Vidal, T. Sierra, and J. Etxebarria, The ferroelectric nematic phase: an optimum liquid crystal candidate for nonlinear optics, Liquid Crystals 49(6), 899–906 (2022). DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2022.2056927.
• J. Ortega, C. L. Folcia, and J. Etxebarria, Liquid-crystal-based resonant cavities as a strategy to design low-threshold electrically-tunable lasers, Liquid Crystals 49(11), 1648–1654 (2022). DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2021.1974584.
• J. Sellarès, J. A. Diego, D. O. López, J. Salud, B. Robles-Hernández, M. R. de la Fuente, J. C. Cañadas, M. Mudarra, V. López De Rioja, R. Levit, and S. Diez-Berart, Comparative dielectric and thermally stimulated-depolarization-current studies of the liquid crystal dimers 1″,9″-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) nonane and heptane and a binary mixture between them, close to the glass transition, Phys. Rev. E 106, 054702 (2022). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.106.054702.

2021

• R. J. Mandle, N. Sebastián, J. Martinez-Perdiguero, and A. Mertelj, On the molecular origins of the ferroelectric splay nematic phase, Nat. Commun. 12, 4962 (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25231-0.
• C. L. Folcia, J. Ortega, and J. Etxebarria, Spot profile and beam divergence in cholesteric liquid crystal lasers, Liquid Crystals (2021). DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2020.1783587.

2020

• E. De Domingo, C. L. Folcia, J. Ortega, J. Etxebarria, R. Termine, A. Golemme, S. Coco, and P. Espinet, Striking Increase in Hole Mobility upon Metal Coordination to Triphenylene Schiff Base Semiconducting Multicolumnar Mesophases, Inorg. Chem. (2020). DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00794.
• C. L. Folcia, J. Ortega, and J. Etxebarria, Anomalous light scattering in photonic cholesteric liquid crystals, Liquid Crystals 47(15), 2259–2270 (2020). DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2019.1693645.
• J. Martinez-Perdiguero, Fermion-like behavior of elements/agents in their spatial distribution around points of interest, Physica A (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2020.124905.
• J. Martinez-Perdiguero and I. Alonso, Optimized sample addressing in prism-coupled surface plasmon resonance experiments, Opt. Laser Technol. 129, 106240 (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2020.106240.
• N. Sebastián, L. Čmok, R. J. Mandle, M. R. de la Fuente, I. Drevenšek Olenik, M. Čopič, and A. Mertelj, Ferroelectric-Ferroelastic Phase Transition in a Nematic Liquid Crystal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 037801 (2020). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.037801.