Novel, often frustrated phases can be induced through the dispersion of ... first synthesised a molecule containing fullerenes that exhibited thermotropic liquid crystal behaviour. The synthesis was ...

The recent study by the researchers suggests that due to their heat-induced phase transition, thermotropic liquid crystals could avoid the aggregation associated with other previously proposed liquid ...

Liquid crystal is a phase, also called mesophase, between crystal and liquid. Thermotropic liquid crystals exhibit multiple phases including one or more mesophases, depending on temperature. Ionic ...

It is certainly not the maximum possible entropy, since the spacer would then needed to be completely frozen in a fluid phase. Functional thermotropic liquid-crystals with high complexity, such as ...

Abstract: In this work the thermotropic liquid crystal 4-(trans-4'-n ... The shift in the temperature from isotropic to nematic phase was observed in the liquid crystal doped with rodlike particles.

Benefiting from chiral self-assembly feature of diverse chiral liquid-crystalline phases, it is possible ... chiral plasmonic nanomaterials based on thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystal ...

The colours in this newly discovered phase of liquid crystal shift as researchers apply a small electric field. Credit: SMRC Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have become the first to ...

“That confirmed that this phase was, indeed, a ferroelectric nematic fluid ... First-principles experimental demonstration of ferroelectricity in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal: Polar domains ...

Views of a new phase of liquid crystal as seen under the microscope ... Reference: “First-principles experimental demonstration of ferroelectricity in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal: Polar ...