Liquid crystals form a unique state of matter that blends the molecular mobility of liquids with the organised structure of crystalline solids. Their phase transitions, ranging from nematic to smectic ...

Nematic liquid crystals are an intriguing class of soft materials that exhibit long‐range orientational order without positional rigidity. This unique ordering imparts anisotropic optical properties, ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

This schematic illustrates the MALIO software, a machine learning structure analysis tool designed to analyze and distinguish the local structures of BP I and BP II liquid crystal phases. By ...

What are Liquid Crystal Nanoparticles? Liquid crystal nanoparticles (LCNPs) are a unique class of nanomaterials that combine the properties of liquid crystals with the advantages of nanoparticles.

Soft robotic systems are evolving toward life-like motion, but precise shape-morphing and adaptive grasping remain difficult. This study presents a ...

Chemists have developed a new charge-carrying molecule that possesses liquid-like conductivity even in the solid state ( ...

This research could provide a means to give a deeper insight into the transformation between different structures in a wider variety of materials. This schematic illustrates the MALIO software, a ...