People — humans — blush. Chickens aren’t entirely inhuman in that they, too, show emotions on their facial skin. Delphine Soulet at the University of Tours, France, and colleagues have explored how ...

Background: Liquid crystal (LC) mesophases have an orientational and positional order that can be found in both synthetic and biological materials. These orders are maintained until some parameter, ...

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Deep Learning techniques such as supervised learning with convolutional neural networks and inception models were applied to phase transitions of liquid crystals to identify transition temperatures ...

Abstract: Bistable Smectic-A (SmA) Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) have attained considerable attention being one of the most promising devices for smart glass applications due to long term bistability ...

The influence of the chemical structure of the mesogenic groups and the length of the spacer groups on the phase behavior in a series of side-chain liquid crystalline polyacrylates (SCLCP) have been ...

We have developed a two-dimensional (2D) liquid-crystalline (LC) nanostructured water-treatment membrane showing high virus rejection ability (over 99.99997% for bacteriophage Qβ) and improved water ...

A thin elastic sheet lying on a soft substrate develops wrinkled patterns when subject to an external forcing or as a result of geometric incompatibility. Thin sheet elasticity and substrate response ...

Abstract: Different types of plasmonic waveguides have been recently proposed such as metal nanoparticle chains, metal films, metal/insulator/ metal (MIM) slabs, metal strips, etc. We have shown ...

Smectic ordering in aqueous solutions of monodisperse stiff double-stranded DNA fragments is known not to occur, despite the fact that these systems exhibit both chiral nematic and columnar mesophases ...

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 ...