@article {hussain_bio-recognition_2009,
	title = {Bio-recognition and detection using liquid crystals},
	journal = {Biosensors and Bioelectronics},
	volume = {25},
	number = {1},
	year = {2009},
	note = {<p>n/a</p>
},
	pages = {1{\textendash}8},
	abstract = {<p>Liquid crystals {(LCs)} are used extensively by the electronics industry as display devices. Advances in the understanding of the liquid crystalline phase and the chemistry therein lead to the development of {LC} exhibiting faster switching speed with greater twist angle. This in turn lead to the emergence of liquid crystal displays, rendering dial-and-needle based displays (such as those used in various meters) and cathode ray tubes obsolete. In this article, we review the history of {LC} and their emergence as an invaluable material for display devices and the more recent discovery of their use as sensing elements in biosensors. This new application of {LC} as tools in the development of fast and simple biosensors is envisaged to gain more importance in the foreseeable future.</p>
},
	keywords = {Biosensor, Detection, Liquid crystal, Lyotropic, Thermotropic},
	issn = {0956-5663},
	doi = {10.1016/j.bios.2009.04.038},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095656630900236X},
	author = {Hussain, A. and Pina, A. S. and Roque, A. C. A.}
}
