(Nanowerk News) Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have designed a smectic liquid crystal that overcomes many of the challenges posed by organic field effect transistor materials.

ITHACA, N.Y. - Using the latest computer game technology, a Cornell-led team of physicists has come up with a "suitably beautiful" explanation to a puzzle that has baffled researchers in the materials ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New research published in Nature Communications suggests that electrons in a two-dimensional gas can undergo a semi-ordered (nematic) to mostly-ordered (smectic) phase ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Using X-ray emission spectroscopy, we find appreciable local magnetic moments until 30 GPa to 40 GPa in the high-pressure phase of iron; ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 371, No. 1988, New frontiers in anisotropic fluid—particle composites (13 April 2013), pp. 1-15 (15 pages) Thin liquid ...

Self-assembled soft matter is often used in photonics because its characteristic length scale can be of the order of the wavelength of light. For example, a hyperswollen lamellar phase composed of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) display technology holds the promise of fast switching times, a large viewing angle, and high resolution. Ever since Clark and Lagerwall ...

An experiment led by the University of Colorado Boulder arrived at the International Space Station today and will look into the fluid dynamics of liquid crystals that may lead to benefits both on ...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed "smart glass" that can switch back and forth between transparency and opaqueness while barely using any energy at all. It's a trick that's ...

A new paper has been published on the unusual microstructure of smectics -- liquid crystals whose molecules are arranged in layers and form ellipses and hyperbolas -- and their similarity to ...

New research suggests that electrons in a two-dimensional gas can undergo a semi-ordered (nematic) to mostly-ordered (smectic) phase transition, which has been discussed in physics theory but never ...