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 ...

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 ...

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. The team used extensive particle-based simulations to demonstrate that achiral hard banana-shaped particles, governed solely by excluded-volume ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...