Chirality is omnipresent in living organisms and nature. Chiral architectures can be found at a variety of hierarchical levels, ranging from atomic, molecular to supramolecular, macroscopic, and ...

MIT engineers observed that a liquid crystal’s orderly microstructures will spontaneously assemble into large, twisted structures (pictured) when the liquid is made to slowly flow. Credit: ...

The study of chirality and phase behaviour in liquid crystals encompasses a multidisciplinary research area that connects fundamental physics, chemistry, and materials science. Liquid crystalline ...

Nanopores unlock hidden chirality in exotic liquid crystals. (Nanowerk News) In physics, some of the most striking phenomena emerge when perfect symmetry shatters. This principle, known as spontaneous ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like ...

The chiral liquid crystals could also be used as optical sensors, as their structural transformation would change the way they interact with light. “This is exciting, because this gives us an easy way ...

(Nanowerk News) A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny ...

Hold your hands out in front of you, and no matter how you rotate them, it’s impossible to superimpose one over the other. Our hands are a perfect example of chirality — a geometric configuration by ...