Your science textbook likely told you that matter exists in four states. You know them as solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. For ...

A new fully-adjustable synthetic eye lens from the University of Leeds, and made from liquid crystal, is designed to surgically replace long-sighted lenses in the human eye.

A new liquid-crystal device reflects different colors of light with increasing applied voltages, transitioning from mostly transparent to almost mirrorlike (ACS Photonics 2014, DOI: 10.1021 ...

Liquid crystal mixtures are used in commercial applications and their composition affects their properties. Here Rahimiet al. use atomistic simulations to show that defects influence the molecular ...

Spatial Photo‐Patterning of Nematic Liquid Crystal Pretilt and its Application in Fabricating Flat Gradient‐Index Lenses. Advanced Materials, 2024; DOI: 10.1002/adma.202310083 ...

A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed new kinds of liquid crystals that mirror the complex structures of some solid crystals—a major step forward in building flowing materials that ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have become the first to observe a new phase of matter in liquid crystals. The “ferroelectric nematic” phase, which was first predicted to exist over ...

Liquid crystal as lubricant Date: May 22, 2014 Source: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Summary: Thanks to a new lubricant, small gears can run with virtually no friction. Made from liquid crystalline ...

RNA can form liquid crystals that allow up to 12 nucleotides to form short chains, which could then link into longer ones. This image, obtained with polarized optical microscopy, shows such RNA ...