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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Su's team were able to grow and precisely control the length and diameter of single-crystal organometallic perovskite fibers in liquid solution (which is very cheap to run) by using a new ...

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 ...