For the first time, they achieved asymmetric (chiral) living polymerization of optically active polyisocyanides using liquid crystals with chiral (mirror-image isomer) structures as a solvent.

Another study focused on the self-assembly of filamentous viruses into chiral liquid crystal phases. This research demonstrated that chirality transfer occurs through electrostatic interactions ...

One area of exciting research involves the study of topological structures in chiral liquid crystals, such as skyrmions and hopfions. These structures are significant because they are stable ...

These are highly chiral liquid crystals. A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases.

My recent work explores this concept by showing how a triangular pattern is formed from the clustering of small, localized vortices in a droplet of a chiral liquid crystal, which we have named ...

These are highly chiral liquid crystals. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50935-4 The team used extensive particle-based simulations to demonstrate that achiral hard ...

These are highly chiral liquid crystals. The team used extensive particle-based simulations to demonstrate that achiral hard banana-shaped particles, governed solely by excluded-volume ...