Optical texture of the uniaxial columnar liquid crystal phase of certain short DNA segments. This image relates to an article that appeared in the November 23, 2007, issue of the journal Science ...

Chirality and phase behavior in liquid crystals is a fascinating area of research that explores how the molecular structure and interactions of liquid crystal materials influence their macroscopic ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

Preliminary studies of the highly polar organic molecule DIO revealed a mysterious liquid crystal phase between the nematic and ferroelectric nematic phases. X-ray diffraction studies showed that this ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

The internal structure of LCNPs is characterized by the self-assembly of liquid crystal molecules into ordered domains, such as nematic, smectic, or cholesteric phases, depending on the specific ...

In 1888, liquid crystals were identified by Austrian botanist Friedrich Reinitzer and German physicist Otto Lehmann. Studying the cholesterol in carrots using a temperature-controlled polarizing ...

His research interests center on determining the structure and electro-optic properties of liquid crystal materials, including bent-core and ferroelectric smectics and ferromagnetic colloids, and on ...

The key to this phenomenon lies in the creation of phase defects within the liquid crystal structure next to the air bubbles. These defects disrupt the symmetrical nature of the bubbles ...