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 ...

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 ...

While ferroelectricity in the nematic phase was hypothesized for ... This team successfully observed this elusive liquid crystal phase in RM734, a chemical compound synthesized by a research ...

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 liquid ...

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 ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny vortex-like structures ...

The internal structure of LCNPs is characterized by the self-assembly of liquid crystal molecules into ordered domains, such as nematic, smectic ... crystal droplets in an immiscible continuous phase, ...

Since naturally occurring colloidal particles have shapes that are typically determined by minimization of interfacial tension (e.g. during phase separation ... When introduced into a nematic liquid ...

Meaning "thread" in Greek, nematic LCs are monostable and return to their original alignment when the electric field is removed. In 1888, liquid crystals were identified by Austrian botanist ...

Here, authors combine phase boundary engineering and process ... a key electro-optic phenomenon in nonpolar nematic liquid crystals, is suppressed in ferroelectric nematics due to their large ...

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 ...