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 ...

Nematic Phase: A phase of liquid crystals where the molecules are oriented in the same direction but are not arranged in layers. Smectic Phase: A phase of liquid crystals characterized by layered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We study the effects of nanoparticles (NPs) on thermotropic nematic liquid crystals (LCs) in relatively dilute NP–LC mixtures. We are interested in the fundamental generic mechanisms that ...

Researchers at the HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics have discovered a new state of matter, in which liquid droplets behave as actively moving, interacting particles under the influence of an ...

The first one is that the electronic state of Fe3Sn2 is nematic, a state that spontaneously breaks the rotation symmetry. The electrons behave as a liquid crystal inside this ... correlated magnetic ...

Combining concepts from statistical physics with machine learning, researchers at the University of Bayreuth have shown that ...

Understanding the behavior of tiny droplets in our cells could aid the search for new treatments. A team of Leiden ...