After watching [Ben Krasnow]’s efforts to build a liquid crystal display, we can easily see why the suits thought what they did. It’s an amazing engineering feat. Before building his own ...

Liquid crystals are all around us, from cell phone screens and video game consoles to car dashboards and medical devices. Run ...

Researchers have developed a new spray deposition technique for creating cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer coatings with ...

What are Liquid Crystal Nanoparticles? Liquid crystal nanoparticles (LCNPs) are a unique class of nanomaterials that combine the properties of liquid crystals with the advantages of nanoparticles.

Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc.Sep 17 2024 An international group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found ...

In 1888, liquid crystals were identified by Austrian botanist Friedrich Reinitzer and German physicist Otto Lehmann. Studying the cholesterol in carrots using a temperature-controlled polarizing ...

A group from Huazhong University of Science and Technology conducted a study, which was published on April 10th, 2024, in the ...

Liquid crystals are substances that flow like a liquid but maintain some of the ordered structure of crystals. Liquid-crystal molecules tend to be elongated and to orient in specific directions.

de Souza, Renato F. and Zannoni, Claudio 2023. Rotational diffusion of shape-switching particles dissolved in biaxial liquid crystals. Liquid Crystals, p. 1.

Uhrich, David L. and Maramde, Robert P. 1984. A Mössbauer Temperature Study of 1, 1′-Diacetylferrocene in A Cold Smectic C Liquid Crystal. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol. 111, Issue. 1-2, ...

Under the right conditions, liquid crystals condense into astonishing structures, spontaneously generating filaments and flattened discs that can transport material from one place to another ...