“…It is worth pointing out here that the application of LCs is not just limited to display industries [6][7][8][9] since its ease of forming varied material structures makes them ideal for biosensing [10], drug delivery [11], microlensing [12,13], tuneable lasers [14], photonic crystals [15], vortex beam generators [16], etc. However, certain limitations, such as the lack of gray-scale capability, low contrast ratio, narrow viewing angle, lower light efficiency, requirement of backlight sources, high-power consumption, etc [17,18] have often remained as a bottleneck that researchers time and again have attempted to resolve utilizing a variety of techniques. The dispersion of nanoparticles (NPs, particles with at least one dimension less than 100 nm) in LCs is one such technique that has yielded significant curiosity in the scientific community due to the intriguing and purposeful results that it produces [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36].…”