Liquid crystals are widely used in technologies such as displays, which manipulate their orientation to display colors across the spectrum. In traditional displays, liquid crystals are stationary and ...

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 left ...

Scientists studied the inner workings of a solar cell material using X-ray and neutron scattering. The study revealed that liquid-like motion in the material may be responsible for their high ...

The colours in this newly discovered phase of liquid crystal shift as researchers apply a small electric field. Credit: SMRC Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have become the first to ...

Scientists have filmed nanoscale ice crystals adapting to trapped air bubbles without losing structural integrity.

A research team from Yunnan University has developed a novel liquid metal-assisted heteroepitaxy method to grow high-quality perovskite crystals within mesoporous scaffolds. This breakthrough enables ...

As reported recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder's Soft Materials Research Center (SMRC) have discovered a "ferroelectric ...

Researchers with the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have shown for the first time how to design the basic elements needed for logic operations using a kind of material ...

Then they thought about a process found in reusable hand warmers — which produce heat by changing from a liquid to a crystallized ... replicate and form crystal-like structures. So Halfmann has begun ...