<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hussain, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pina, A. S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Roque, A. C. A.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bio-recognition and detection using liquid crystals</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Biosensors and Bioelectronics</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Biosensor</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Detection</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Liquid crystal</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lyotropic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thermotropic</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095656630900236X</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">25</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1–8</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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