A ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal phase, however, is much more disciplined. In such a liquid crystal, patches or “domains” form in the sample in which the molecules all point in the same ...

A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

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 ...

image: A colorful microscope image showing that a solution of tiny DNA molecules has formed a liquid-crystal phase. The DNA molecules pair to form DNA double helices, which, in turn stack end-to ...

Multivalent interactions between biological molecules result in the formation of biomolecular condensates, a phenomenon known as Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS). Biomolecular condensates ...

Molecules in a gas are more widely dispersed, freely moving around without obstructing one another. In a liquid, however, they rub up against each other, and in a solid they are so packed together ...

Liquid crystals undergo a peculiar type of phase change. At a certain temperature, their cigar-shaped molecules go from a disordered jumble to a more orderly arrangement in which they all point ...

Most liquid crystal phase molecules are rod-shaped and have the ability to spontaneously form large domains of a common orientation, which makes them particularly sensitive to stimuli like changes ...

These molecules are polar, with one end carrying a positive charge and the other a negative one. In a traditional nematic crystal, half of these molecules will on average point in one direction (right ...

Liquid-liquid phase separation is not a precursor to formation of amyloid fibrils, a pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease, shows study. Rather, the formation of protein into liquid ...

The findings, reported in the journal Science, provide a new window into the electronic structure of molecules in the liquid phase on a timescale previously unattainable with X-rays.The new ...