Additionally, the synthesis of syringaldehyde-based chalcone liquid crystals was investigated, revealing that both series of synthesized compounds exhibited smectic C and nematic mesophases with ...

Lastly, the incorporation of novel core units, such as 5,6-dihydro-4H-cyclopenta[b]thiophene, into fluorinated terphenyl liquid crystals has been shown to widen the range of smectic and nematic ...

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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 have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with aligned helical structures. In this process, optically ...

Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The speed of nematic liquid crystals (LCs) is usually limited by the viscoelastic relaxation time, determined by the viscosity, elastic constant, ...

Superionic materials are a class of materials that simultaneously present properties that are characteristic of solids and ...

"On short timescales, glass behaves much like a solid. But the liquidlike structure of glass means that over a long enough ...

This chanmail-like material can morph and adapt like fluids or solids.

Everyone who buys washing up liquid is being urged to make a change in 2025 to help reduce the impact on our seas. Washing up liquid normally comes in a plastic bottle, and UK households go ...

In colloidal form, 1DLs exhibit a lyotropic liquid crystal phase with a critical concentration of between 10 and 1 g/L. Additionally, the Beer–Lambert law applies with a mass absorbance coefficient of ...