Liquid crystals provide a versatile platform for controlling light through their intrinsic anisotropy and field-responsive orientation. In optoelectronics, nematic and cholesteric phases enable ...

Optical compensation techniques are fundamental to enhancing the performance of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), particularly in terms of viewing angle, contrast ratio and colour fidelity. At their ...

Liquid metal, planet-like nanodroplets have been successfully formed with a new technique developed at RMIT University, Australia. Like our own planet Earth, the nanodroplets feature an outer "crust," ...

If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you'll see pure sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the liquid. You can even watch the beautiful sugar crystals slowly grow in the ...