These blends combine different types of liquid crystals and other additives that are used to fine-tune their characteristics, including viscosity, temperature range, optical properties, electrical ...

New type of liquid crystal promises to improve performance of digital displays. ScienceDaily. Retrieved April 23, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 10 / 101005132000.htm.

New research led by the University of Liverpool in collaboration with the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) ...

"Certain types of structures couldn't be attempted before because we didn't have the right control of the three-dimensional alignment of the liquid crystals," Serra said. "But now we do, so it is just ...

For the first time, researchers have directly mapped what happens inside a particular type of soft material – liquid crystals ...

Liquid crystal nanoparticles (LCNPs) are a unique class of nanomaterials that combine the properties of liquid crystals with the advantages of nanoparticles.These hybrid particles exhibit the ...

For this, Chekhova, Humar and colleagues turned to the recently developed ferroelectric nematic type of liquid crystals. After preparing multiple 7-8 μm-thick layers of these crystals, they placed ...

Blue phases are types of liquid crystal phases that appear in a temperature range between a chiral nematic phase and an isotropic liquid phase. Because blue phases have a three-dimensional cubic ...

Schematic of a crystal of knots. Credit: Jung-Shen B. Tai and Ivan I. Smalyukh . Molecular self-assembly can produce stable 3D knots in chiral liquid crystals. The knots, which have been dubbed ...

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have grown liquid crystal flowers, making it possible to create lenses as complex as the compound eye of a dragonfly. The technology could enable ...

The liquid crystalline phases of matter each possess distinct types of defects that have drawn great interest in areas such as topology, self-assembly and material micropatterning. However ...

"Certain types of structures couldn't be attempted before because we didn't have the right control of the three-dimensional alignment of the liquid crystals," Serra said.