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 ...

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 ...

Cracow, 2nd June 2022 . The liquid crystals used in displays nowadays are usually in a nematic phase, i.e. a liquid-like state of almost parallel oriented molecules.

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 ...

They found that RM734 in this phase was 100 to 1,000 times more responsive to electric fields than the usual nematic liquid crystals. As Eureka Alert explains, “This suggested that the molecules that ...

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 ...

Researchers observe charge-stripe crystal phase in an insulating cuprate Heating the surface of cuprate high-temperature superconductor yields insulating state ...

In the decades since, however, scientists struggled to find a liquid crystal phase that behaved in the same way. That is, until Clark and his colleagues began examining RM734, ...