Thermotropic: Describes liquid crystals whose phase transitions are induced by temperature variations. Mesophase: An intermediate phase of matter displaying a degree of orientational and/or ...

More than 100 years after a pair of imaginative physicists first proposed a new phase of liquid crystal, scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have managed to produce it and have been ...

Since liquid crystal-like phases are common among dyes and pharmaceuticals ... While the liquid crystals used in LCDs, called thermotropic liquid crystals, are made of molecules with nothing ...

The team selected thermotropic liquid crystals because of their “characteristic mesomorphic phase transition from a solid to an isotropic liquid phase when heated.” They remain in the liquid ...

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 ...

This schematic illustrates the MALIO software, a machine learning structure analysis tool designed to analyze and distinguish the local structures of BP I and BP II liquid crystal phases. By ...

Using these compounds, they produced liquid crystals with high electrical conductivity and thermotropic properties. Their findings open up new design avenues for materials useful in electronics ...

“Exploring the functionality and phase structure of liquid crystal molecules presents an opportunity to enhance passivation effects and bolster device stability.” The scalable method for creating 2D ...

As molecules are arranged differently in each phase, their optical properties can vary depending on the phase formed. At low ion-pair concentrations, a 1au +-PCCp-ion pair loses its liquid crystal ...