A class of synthetic soft materials called liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) can change shape in response to heat, similar to ...

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

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

The first successful LCDs used two types of liquid crystals – chiral and nematic. By combining these two types of molecules in the right proportion, the display can ‘twist’ the polarized ...

"Industrial labs and manufacturers could probably adopt the method in a day." Liquid crystal molecules flow like a liquid, but they have a common orientation like in solids, and this orientation ...

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

The top image illustrates the 3D framework of the structure housing the liquid crystal molecules, shown in blue and green. The bottom sequence details the transition from random orientation (left) to ...

The water molecules that evaporate become a gas called water vapor. Only the water evaporates, leaving the sodium and chloride ions behind. The sodium and chloride ions attract each other and re-form ...

So perhaps in a few months, we can report how that looks like Yes, so a liquid crystal is an arrangement of molecules where there is orientational ordering, but positional randomness, which means ...

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 ...

From stars to needles to amorphous globs, scientists are demystifying a snowflake’s complex construction, showing how factors ...

An LCD consists of several layers, including two polarizing filters with perpendicular axes, a layer of liquid crystal molecules, and electrodes that apply the necessary electric field to the crystals ...