The class of molecules that form lyotropic liquid-crystal phases — where the nature of the phase formed depends on the concentration — such as soaps, detergents, and lipid molecules ...

Optical texture of the uniaxial columnar liquid crystal phase of certain short DNA segments. This image relates to an article that appeared in the November 23, 2007, issue of the journal Science ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like ...

The internal structure of LCNPs is characterized by the self-assembly of liquid crystal molecules into ordered domains, such as nematic, smectic, or cholesteric phases, depending on the specific ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

Preliminary studies of the highly polar organic molecule DIO revealed a mysterious liquid crystal phase between the nematic and ferroelectric nematic phases. X-ray diffraction studies showed that this ...

exact calculations involving the two-dimensional Ising model, solid-liquid transitions in systems of small molecules, thermodynamic integration methods and their applications to equilibrium solids and ...

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 ...

Two main research areas: The first is the study of structure and phase behaviour of liquid crystalline (l.c.) and supramolecular polymeric and low molecular systems. Molecular organisation is ...