Schematic representation of liquid crystal orientation within a bicontinuous porous structure, depicting the molecular alignment before, during, and after the application of an electric field. The top ...

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 ...

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 ...

while flexoelectricity is the generation of electric polarization in response to deformation of the liquid crystal structure. One significant area of research has been the modeling of three ...

Their system, which they call an LC-SNA (Liquid Crystal-Silver Nanogroove Array), keeps the liquid crystals separate from the metal structures that create color, allowing each component to perform its ...

To do this, our recipe had to have two main ingredients: the vortices had to repel each other—which these structures do ... clusters in chiral liquid crystal droplets, Reports on Progress ...

In 1994, he returned to Boulder to rejoin the Liquid Crystal Physics group at the University of Colorado. His research interests center on determining the structure and electro-optic properties of ...

Instead, they use intricate structures that have features on the ... Unlike traditional plasma or liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), this new technology is intrinsically reflective, therefore ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...