http://www.materialsviews.com Liquid Crystals MaterialsViews Rss Feed http://www.materialsviews.com http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/739881/Liquid_Crystalline_Elastomers_What_will_remain_after_the_retirement_of_H__Finkel.html Helmut R. Brand and some former group members on the heritage of 30 years of scientific research on liquid crystalline elastomers]]> 2010-06-11T12:50:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/694329/An_Odd_Couple.html Photoluminescent liquid crystals based on metal clusters.]]> 2010-05-14T11:33:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/576145/38th_Topical_Meeting_on_Liquid_Crystals__AlfredSaupePrize_awarded_to_Helmut_Ring.html On March 10-12, 2010 researchers with an interest in liquid crystals will meet once again in Mainz, Germany.]]> 2010-03-08T10:17:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/569897/Tuning_the_Liquid_Crystal_Period.html New work shows that the liquid crystalline period can be tuned by varying the random/block copolypeptide architectures and the composition of the ampholytic amino acid species.]]> 2009-12-04T09:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/569315/Chirality_at_the_Nanoscale.html The only standard reference in this exciting field combines the physical, chemical and material science perspectives...]]> 2009-10-21T16:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/569065/A_Thermally_Controlled_Microgripper.html Microactuators are an essential component in microsystems and microdevices, and in applications such as pumps, valves, or switches.]]> 2009-09-30T09:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/568347/Micromuscles.html Micrometer-sized actuators from liquid-crystal elastomers.]]> 2009-08-10T16:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/568295/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come.html Microfluidics have been used to prepare monodisperse, micrometer-scale liquid crystalline elastomer beads in which mesogens form a monodomain.]]> 2009-08-04T09:00:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/568211/Novel_Nematic_Liquid_Crystal_Phase.html Professor Oriano Francescangeli and co-workers have reported a novel nematic phase exhibiting induced biaxiality and a ferromagnetic response.]]> 2009-07-23T15:30:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/567453/Liquid_Crystals.html This month in Journal of Polymer Science A, Kazuo Akagi from Kyoto University in Japan highlights some of the recent advances made in the field of liquid-crystal conjugated polymers, focusing on those that are ferroelectric and photoresponsive.]]> 2009-05-26T08:30:00Z