More than 100 years after a pair of imaginative physicists first proposed a new phase of liquid crystal, scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have managed to produce it and have been ...

A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

Researchers at CU Boulder’s Soft Materials Research Center (SMRC) have discovered an elusive phase of matter, first proposed more than 100 years ago and sought after ever since. The team describes the ...

The colours in this newly discovered phase of liquid crystal shift as researchers apply a small electric field. Credit: SMRC Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have become the first to ...

The liquid crystals used in displays nowadays are usually in a nematic phase, i.e. a liquid-like state of almost parallel oriented molecules. However, there is another liquid crystal phase which ...

As reported recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder's Soft Materials Research Center (SMRC) have discovered a "ferroelectric ...

His research interests center on determining the structure and electro-optic properties of liquid crystal materials, including bent-core and ferroelectric smectics and ferromagnetic colloids, and on ...

Figure 1. Diagram showing the arrangement of mesogen molecules along the director within a substance. (A) Liquid (isotropic) and (B) crystalline (solid, anisotropic) forms. Figure 2. Diagram showing ...

The team describes the discovery of what scientists call a "ferroelectric nematic" phase of liquid crystal in a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.