Light enters the display, goes through a polarizer, and is twisted by a liquid crystal material. The first successful LCDs used two types of liquid crystals – chiral and nematic. By combining ...

depending on the specific liquid crystal material used. The properties of LCNPs are governed by both the liquid crystalline nature of the core and the nanoscale dimensions of the particles. Some key ...

More than $2 billion has been spent over the past 15 years in trying to develop the technology and infrastructure behind liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) displays. After a fitful start, the ...

"This trend that we saw in improved performance through the liquid crystal phase versus the random fiber aggregation is general and can be applied to various types of organic solar cell materials ...

One of the most important frontiers in materials chemistry is the architectural control of synthetic materials on the nanometer-scale. Nanometer-scale architecture is primarily responsible for the ...

thereby suggesting the possibility of forming a wide variety of liquid-crystalline macrocycles with different aspect ratios and properties. Generating ions from a material and then feeding them ...

A new manufacturing breakthrough from Penn State researchers could pave the way for safer, more efficient batteries for everything from smartphones to electric vehicles. The team, led by engineering ...

Scientists have found a new way to make better batteries using a common lithium salt, and it could change the way batteries ...

His research interests center on determining the structure and electro-optic properties of liquid crystal materials, including bent-core and ferroelectric smectics and ferromagnetic colloids, and on ...

Using a liquid-crystal (LC)-based platform, the team designed an optical processor capable of handling hundreds of optical modes in a compact, two-dimensional setup. This breakthrough offers a ...

In 1888, liquid crystals were identified by Austrian botanist Friedrich Reinitzer and German physicist Otto Lehmann. Studying the cholesterol in carrots using a temperature-controlled polarizing ...