Switchable Diffraction from Liquid Crystal–Carbon Nanotube Hybrids

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Voltage-dependent diffraction switching makes a hybrid liquid crystal–carbon nanotube device a good candidate for high-resolution displays.

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Process turns carbon nanotubes into liquid crystals

Crown ether “cages” trap potassium ions but leave nanotubes with a repellant negative charge in solutions that will be valuable for forming very strong, highly conductive carbon nanotube fibers. Image: Martí Group/Rice University

Rice University strategy turns negatively charged carbon nanotubes into liquid crystals that could enhance the creation of fibers and films.

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New liquid crystal properties could boost self-healing materials

A liquid crystal sample like this one, seen under a microscope, gets tougher when repeatedly compressed, according to research at Rice University. Image: Verduzco Laboratory/Rice University.

Rice University researchers find that silicone liquid crystals stiffen with repeated compression.

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Extending the range of liquid crystalline blue phase

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Kyushu University researchers demonstrate a new blue phase material with expanded temperature range and Bragg wavelength shift.

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Research creates ‘recipe book’ for building new materials

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder open the door for the creation of a host of new materials with properties that do not exist in nature.

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A model for chiral polymer synthesis

Liquid crystalline environment affects chiral polymer synthesis

The synthesis of a chiral polymer can be performed in chiral liquid crystals. It could be a model to understand asymmetric polymer synthesis in biology.

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24th International Liquid Crystal Conference held in Mainz, Germany

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The 24th International Liquid Crystal Conference was held on August 19th–24th in Mainz, Germany.

Liquid Crystal-Based Microactuators

Liquid Crystal-Based Microactuator

A two-dimensional microarray is fabricated from a crosslinked liquid crystalline polymer containing azobenzene groups.

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Breaking and Assembling Liquid Crystals

Top view of a liquid crystal drop on the pyroelectric substrate, after heating.

Reversible fragmentation and self-assembling of nematic liquid crystal droplets on functionalized pyroelectric substrates

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MaterialsViews Interviews: Quan Li

Quan Li

Quan Li tells MaterialsViews about his work on semiconductors and liquid crystals.