Quantum spin liquids are fascinating states of matter where magnetic spins stay disordered, defying the usual rules of magnetism. Professor Yasuyuki Ishii and his team have made an exciting discovery ...

A class of synthetic soft materials called liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) can change shape in response to heat, similar to ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with aligned helical structures. In this process, optically ...

Superionic materials are a class of materials that simultaneously present properties that are characteristic of solids and ...

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

For example, in helical ferromagnets ... originate in another class of materials governed by chiral interactions. These are ...

Institute of Solid State Physics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07745 Jena, ...

has this week announced that it has been awarded a USD $2 million follow-on production order for its Brillian Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display (AMLCD) microdisplay for rotary and fixed-wing pilot ...

Centre-half’s volleyed goal seals victory over struggling Leicester and helps visitors move on from departure of on-loan defender Crystal Palace may have lost the services of defender Trevoh ...

Everyone who buys washing up liquid is being urged to make a change in 2025 to help reduce the impact on our seas. Washing up liquid normally comes in a plastic bottle, and UK households go ...

State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China ...