bent-core molecules have a distinct shape that allows them to form various liquid crystalline phases, including smectic and nematic phases. Recent research has focused on understanding the complex ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Calamitic and thermotropic liquid crystals are important for LCDs. Their nematic phase is the basis for both the most widely used Twisted Nematic cell with active matrix addressing, and for the Super ...

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 ...

can be added directly to the liquid crystalline mesogenic phases. The main idea is to modify the physical properties of liquid crystals or to increase their functionality through the addition of ...