Protein droplets serve important biological functions within cells, but in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, these ...

Hundreds of years ago, lead musket balls tore across European battlefields, littering the ground with toxic materials. Today, a team of scientists in Germany has scavenged a pile of this deeply ...

A drop of liquid crystal turns a polymer structure into an all-optical basis for logic ...

From crystallographers' beards to billion-dollar lawsuits, the phenomenon of disappearing polymorphs has puzzled chemists for decades. Now researchers are finally unravelling the science behind why st ...

Researchers generated stable vortex light in its lowest-energy state using liquid crystal traps and optical confinement.

With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...

Soft robots aim to move and change shape smoothly, but they often rely on bulky motors or external systems. To overcome this, ...

Stressed liquid crystal (SLC), discovered 20 years ago in the study of polymer dispersed liquid crystals and polymer network liquid crystals, has attracted great interest from researchers. SLC ...

Researchers show a temperature tunable smart fluid that overcomes limits in liquid crystal microcolloids, enabling reconfigurable self assembly of microparticles. (Nanowerk News) Imagine a “smart ...

Imagine a “smart fluid” whose internal structure can be rearranged just by changing temperature. In a new study in Matter, researchers report a way to overcome a long-standing limitation in a class of ...

In new work from POSTECH, scientists grew perovskite nanocrystals, which are tiny semiconductors with adjustable light emission. The crystals grew in a carefully structured solvent at room temperature ...