A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

Tiny DNA Molecules Show Liquid Crystal Phases, Pointing Up New Scenario For First Life On Earth Date: November 23, 2007 Source: University of Colorado at Boulder ...

Nobel Laureates Peter Debye and Max Born first suggested in the 1910s that, if you designed a liquid crystal correctly, its molecules could spontaneously fall into a polar ordered state. Not long ...

image: A colorful microscope image showing that a solution of tiny DNA molecules has formed a liquid-crystal phase. The DNA molecules pair to form DNA double helices, which, in turn stack end-to ...

Liquid crystal molecules form nano rings Quantized self-assembly enables design of materials with novel properties Date: February 6, 2018 Source: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY ...

New research published in Nature reveals that, when cooled, droplets containing chain-like liquid crystal molecules transform from spheres into complex shapes such as flowers, corals, and fibrous ...

A ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal is more organized. Within specific patches or “domains”, all of its molecules point in the same direction. This phenomenon is known as polar ordering, and its ...

More than 100 years after a pair of imaginative physicists first proposed a new phase of liquid crystal, scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have managed to produce it and have been ...

Liquid-crystal molecules can form blue phases only if they are “chiral” – in other words, they don’t look the same as their mirror image. It was pure coincidence that cholesteryl benzoate, which ...

Liquid crystal molecules flow like a liquid, but they have a common orientation like in solids, and this orientation can change in response to stimuli. They are useful in LCD screens, biomedical ...