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

Randomly positioned in parallel, nematic LCs ... exhibited the refraction effect of a solid crystal when heat was applied. By 1907, Germany-based Merck was selling "liquid and flowing crystal ...

Liquid-crystal molecules tend to be elongated and to orient in specific directions. The Fréedericksz transition, a key electro-optic phenomenon in nonpolar nematic liquid crystals, is suppressed ...

Additionally, the liquid crystal used in the reaction exhibited properties of the twisted-bend nematic phase -- a recently discovered phase that has been attracting considerable attention in ...