Our approach was quite simple: instead of a cell, let's just make a small droplet and see what happens. Our team designed an experimental setup where tiny droplets of chiral nematic liquid ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

For the first time, they achieved asymmetric (chiral) living polymerization of ... the reaction exhibited properties of the twisted-bend nematic phase—a recently discovered phase that has ...

Additionally, researchers have investigated the electro-optic characteristics of chiral nematic layers under the influence of an in-plane electric field. The findings revealed that the optical ...

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 ...