with glass fiber-reinforced liquid crystal polymer (LCP). Photo Credit, all images: Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. The Energy & Functional Materials Research Laboratory of Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.

They eventually settled on a unique type of polymer fiber; a material known as liquid crystal elastomer (LCE). Liquid crystals are made up of a series of slightly crosslinked molecules that can ...

These liquid crystals consist of aligned BNNTs that are far easier to process than the tangled nanotubes that usually form in solution. The lab proceeded to form fibers and films from the liquid ...

In a paper published in the journal ACS Nano, nanosized Kevlar liquid crystal (LC) aerogel fibers with varying building block arrangement degrees were created from nanofibers of Kevlar. A sequential ...

More information: Jun Hyun Park et al, 2D MoS 2 Helical Liquid Crystalline Fibers for Multifunctional Wearable Sensors, Advanced Fiber Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s42765-024-00450-4 Provided by ...

Optical switches with liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) mirrors shrink data packets down to size so the network can carry more ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to a recently published Fact.MR report, global market for liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) is anticipated to reach a valuation of US$ 2 Bn ...

"Those materials are liquid crystals," says Osuji, of the chemical precursors to the carbon fibers themselves. "Or better stated, they are liquid crystalline over some period of their existence ...

Created by researchers at MIT, FibeRobo is a cheap, programmable, shape-changing smart fiber reliant on a liquid crystal elastomer (LCE). Among their many uses, garments imbued with their new LCE ...

the influence of the sheath thickness and crystal structure of the sheath material on the release rate of the drugs from the liquid core fibers. Depending on the active ingredient, the manufacturing ...