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 ...

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 ...

Liquid crystals, nano-structured, biomolecular, and other soft materials are attractive not only because of the richness of observed physics phenomena but also because of the wealth of potential ...

In a leap forward for materials science, a multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a pioneering method of 3D printing cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs), enabling complex ...

as well as most soft biological materials. Inspired by the morphologies of xeric plant leaves, we have developed biomimetic liquid crystal elastomer bilayers that can bend, spiral and twist.

as well as the use of a liquid crystal material with fast enough response for high-quality moving image presentation. With the aim of constructing such a flexible display system for moving image ...

By combining the fabricated colored radiation-cooling liquid crystal material with an upper transparent film and a lower metallic thin film, the team was able to achieve a temperature of about 30. ...

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 ...

The melting of crystals is the process by which ... materials-by-design of phase-change materials—materials with tunable switching between liquid and solid, which can be useful in many ...

We love timepiece projects round these parts, so here we are with another unusual 7-segment clock design. Hackaday’s own [Moritz Sivers] wasn’t completely satisfied with his last thermochromic ...