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

Lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) are unique materials that exhibit liquid crystalline properties when mixed with solvents, leading to organized structures that can be utilized in various ...

Although the use of liquid crystals is now a common feature of modern life, the lyotropic liquid crystals studied by Yamamoto and Tanaka are quite different to the thermotropic liquid crystals ...

The two primary elements in our research program are: Functional Nanostructured Polymer Materials Based on Liquid Crystal Building Blocks ... new RTIL-based lyotropic and thermotropic LC systems; gas ...