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Creating ice layer by layer: The secret mechanisms of ice formation revealed
Water is everywhere and comes in many forms: snow, sleet, hail, hoarfrost, and so on. However, despite water being so ...
Your ketchup will see you now: Solid-phase properties reveal when yield stress fluids start to flow
Pounding on the bottom of a glass bottle of ketchup is one of life's small annoyances. Getting that sweet, red concoction ...
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Lyotropic Liquid-Crystalline Phases Formed by Pluronic P123 in Ethylammonium Nitrate
Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Shandong University, Ministry of Education, Jinan, Shandong, 250100, People’s Republic of China, and Key Laboratory of Organosilicon Chemistry and ...
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Zwitterions as building blocks for functional liquid crystals and block copolymers
These materials have been applied to polymers, liquid crystals, dendrimers and nanoparticles. In this review, I focus on the development of nanostructured ionic materials through the organization ...
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Two Distinct Cylinder Arrangements in Monodomains of a Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Hexagonal II Phase: Monodomains with Straight Cylinders and Ringed Cylinders in Capillaries
† Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and ‡ Nanomaterials Research Division, Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan Article Views are the ...