By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

For the first time, they achieved asymmetric (chiral) living polymerization ... The identification of a twisted-bend nematic liquid crystal within a polymer is a notable finding in liquid crystal ...

These distortions occur when the liquid crystal is subjected to an alternating ... investigated the electro-optic characteristics of chiral nematic layers under the influence of an in-plane ...

Our team designed an experimental setup where tiny droplets of chiral nematic liquid crystals ... Abrikosov clusters in chiral liquid crystal droplets, Reports on Progress in Physics (2024).

and is twisted by a liquid crystal material. The first successful LCDs used two types of liquid crystals – chiral and nematic. By combining these two types of molecules in the right proportion ...

Randomly positioned in parallel, nematic LCs react ... refraction effect of a solid crystal when heat was applied. By 1907, Germany-based Merck was selling "liquid and flowing crystal" chemicals.

Our study shows that the self-assembly of photonic liquid crystal structures can be guided by laser beams. In a topologically frustrated chiral nematic liquid crystal, a focused beam can locally ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of matter that determines many biological, chemical and physical phenomena. Chiral solids, for example, offer exciting opportunities for catalysis, sensing and ...