2026

Antibiotic-like properties of cationic linear-dendritic macromolecules having guanidinium peripheral groups
Javier Martín-Martín, Sara Bescós-Ramo, Almudena Terrel, Manuel Arruebo, Milagros Piñol, Cristina Yus, Luis Oriol
Mater. Today Chem., 2026, 51, 103342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtchem.2025.103342 

Enhancement of molecular conductance through a supramolecular five-molecule assembly
Enrique Escorihuela, Mauricio Regalado Aguilar, Biswajit Mondal, Sara Cuscó, Pilar Romero, Ross J. Davidson, Pilar Cea, Jordi Benet-Buchholz, Eliseo Ruiz, Albert C. Aragonès, Santiago Martín.
Cell Rep. Phys.Sci., 2026, 7, 103029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2025.103029

Fluorescence Transduction of Liquid Crystal Ordering Transitions for Biosensing 
Mauricio Vera-Arévalo, Alberto Concellón
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2026, 148, 3167-3173. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c16679

Exploring the functional potential of bent-core liquid crystal-based molecules with an amide linking group
Kristina Gak Simić, Ivana Đorđević, Paulina Rybak, Damian Pociecha, Raquel Giménez, Maria Blanca Ros, Nemanja Trišović
J. Mol. Liq., 2026, 444, 129175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2025.129175

Self-Assembled Nanostructured Microgels with Reconfigurable Morphologies
Cristina Álvarez-Solana, Alberto Concellón, M. Blanca Ros
Small 2026, 12, e00013. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202600013

Shape-Changing Multiphase Microparticles from Complex Liquid Crystal Emulsions
Marco Turriani, Camilla Parmeggiani, Daniele Martella, Alberto Concellón
Adv. Funct. Mater., 2026, 36, e32069. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202532069

New nanostructured ion-conductive bent-core liquid crystals containing lithium and sodium salts as soft electrolyte candidates
Carlota Auria-Soro, Nuria Cruz-Navarro, César L. Folcia, Isabel Sobrados, Amin Sharifi Haddad, Alfonso Martinez-Felie, M. Blanca Ros
J. Mat. Chem. A, 2026, 14, 11294. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5TA09556E

Decoding Heptazine Architectures: From Molecular Association to Structural Insight
Silvia del Moral-Peñas, Daniel Barrena-Espés, Julen Munarriz, Matthias Lehmann, Pilar Romero, José Luis Serrano.
Chem. Eur. J., 2026, e71350. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.71350

Shedding Light on Bacterial Fitness in a Tug-of-War with Liquid Crystal Emulsions
Hannah Feldstein, Harikrishnan Vijayamohanan, Jan F. Totz, Alberto Concellón, Jie Li, Georgios Toupalas, Mathias Kolle, Timothy M. Swager.
Nat. Commun., 2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-75139-w

Peripheral Dendritic Functionalization Effects on the Self-Assembly and Thermoresponsive Behavior of Nonionic Amphiphilic Linear-Dendritic Block Copolymers in Aqueous Media
Javier Martín-Martín, Luis Folch-Cirujeda, Cristina Yus, Aurora Nogales, Tiberio A. Ezquerra, Miriam Abad, Víctor Sebastián, Luis Oriol, Milagros Piñol
Macromolecules 2026. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6c00544

Liquid Crystals for Chemical and Biological Sensing: Emerging Transduction Strategies beyond Polarized Optical Microscopy
Alfonso Gaitan, Mauricio Vera-Arévalo, Alberto Concellón
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2026. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6c09044

Multiresponsive Isotropic Structural Color in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Mauricio Vera-Arévalo, Alberto Concellón
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c07395

Ion Transport in Supramolecular Ionic Liquid Crystals from Imidazolium Iodides and Hyperbranched Polyesters
Almudena Terrel, Rosa I. Merino, José Luis Serrano, Alberto Concellón
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2026. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6c10476

Dynamic Covalent Functionalization of DNA Origami via Iminoboronate Chemistry
Alejandro Postigo, Enrique Guerreiro, Joseba Ruiz, M. Sofía Navarrete-Burgos, William Verstraeten, Kerstin Göpfrich, Silvia Hernández-Ainsa, Jesús del Barrio
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c08320