For the first time, they achieved asymmetric (chiral) living polymerization of optically active polyisocyanides using liquid crystals with chiral (mirror-image isomer) structures as a solvent.

Further manipulation during the process resulted in liquid crystal assembly pathways that were either achiral or chiral. Both resulted in a clear improvement in efficiency and stability of the OSC ...

The first successful LCDs used two types of liquid crystals – chiral and nematic. By combining these two types of molecules in the right proportion, the display can ‘twist’ the polarized ...

My recent work explores this concept by showing how a triangular pattern is formed from the clustering of small, localized vortices in a droplet of a chiral liquid crystal, which we have named ...

Further manipulation during the process resulted in liquid crystal assembly pathways that were either achiral or chiral. Both resulted in a clear improvement in efficiency and stability of the OSC, ...

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 ...