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

"On short timescales, glass behaves much like a solid. But the liquidlike structure of glass means that over a long enough ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with aligned helical structures. In this process, optically ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

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 ...

Molecules with chirality cannot be superimposed on their ... in another class of materials governed by chiral interactions.

Busan researchers develop self-expanding smart fibers for clothing and robotics Innovative fiber technology offers new ...

Institute of Solid State Physics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07745 Jena, ...

In a recent collaboration, Turbotech, Safran, and Air Liquide teamed up to validate the feasibility of using liquid hydrogen to power a turbine engine for light aircraft. Nearly a year ago to this ...

Everyone who buys washing up liquid is being urged to make a change in 2025 to help reduce the impact on our seas. Washing up liquid normally comes in a plastic bottle, and UK households go ...

Scientists have tried combining liquid crystals – materials that can change their optical properties when electricity is applied – with tiny metallic structures to create switchable structural colors.