Via #OPG_OMEx: Temperature-tunable cholesteric liquid crystal selective mirror for multispectral imaging applications https://bit.ly/4aqJJ0r #LiquidCrystals #MultispectralImaging💡⚛️

Today the mailman brought these two beautiful booklets, from 1907 and 1921. Both are by Otto Lehmann, the first scientist to study liquid crystals.

#OttoLehmann #liquidcrystals #SystemsThatMatter

ILCC 2026 | The 30th International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC 2026) We have a pleasure to invite you to attend the 30th ILCC that will take place in Québec City from June 21st to June 26th, 2026.

Join us next June in Québec City for the 30th International Conference on Liquid Crystals!
For more information, check out the conference website:
www.ilcc2026.org/en

#ILCC2026 #LiquidCrystals #LCScience #SoftMatter #MaterialsScience #Chemistry #AdvancedMaterials #Optics

Congratulations to Abhishek Shetty and Christina Tang for their beautiful #Gallery of #Rheology popular vote winner Twist The Rainbow, where #liquidcrystals flow, illuminated by #polarized light

Temperature-induced helix inversion in naphthyl-based cholesteric liquid crystals Achieving precise control over macroscopic chirality in self-organized systems is a key challenge in the development of advanced supramolecular functional materials. Here, we report a novel class of l...

Temperature-induced helix inversion in naphthyl-based cholesteric liquid crystals
by Andreja Lesac et al.

♻️ Reversible thermal helix inversion
🔄 Transferable to achiral hosts
🌡️ Tunable across a broad range

🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5QM...

#LiquidCrystals #Chirality #SmartMaterials

#naturelovers #nature #naturephotography #photography #quotes #waterdrops #liquidcrystals

Aberdeen ✈️ Prague for #ECLC2025 💧💎 (now to make the talk on the plane like a real academic…) #academiclife #chemsky #liquidcrystals

Montage of images from RCA's May 1968 press conference announcing the creation of the first LCDs. Top: George Heilmeier demonstrates a numeric counter with a dynamic scattering liquid crystal display. Bottom Left: Joseph Castellano uses a pair of electronic shutters to demonstrate how liquid crystals can modulate the passage of light. Bottom Right: Robert Lohman compares his analog wristwatch with the world's first clock with an LCD readout.

Happy #LCD Day! #OnThisDay in 1968, #RCA announced the invention of a new type of electronic display that used #LiquidCrystals to modulate light.

Want to learn more? Get the "behind the screens" story in my book, The #TVsOfTomorrow! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

#histSTM #histtech #innovation

From colorful phase transitions to real-world applications, it was exciting to see their enthusiasm for science in action. Hope to inspire the next generation of researchers! #STEM #LiquidCrystals #ScienceOutreach

As I noted several months ago when administrators first broached this course of action, if you are reading this post on an LCD screen, be sure to thank chemists from the University of Hull!

www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us...

#histSTM #histtech #LiquidCrystals
#chemistry #histchem 🗃️📜🧪💻

Emergent biaxiality in chiral hybrid liquid crystals - Nature Communications The study of nematic hosts with anisotropic colloidal particles is reported, but not on the chiral counterparts. Here, the authors report on biaxial properties in a system of colloidal rods with desig...

The authors report on #biaxial properties in a system of #colloidal rods with designed surface anchoring doped into a chiral #nematic host.
#GettingApplied #Softmatter #LiquidCrystals
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Disappointing news out of the UK.

(As discussed in the conclusion of my book, if you are reading this post on an #LCD screen, you can thank organic chemists from the University of Hull!)

More info: www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us...

#histSTM #chemistry #ChemSky #LiquidCrystals #TVsOfTomorrow 🖥️📱📺

Extending the capabilities of vectorial ptychography to circular-polarizing materials such as choles... The problem of imaging materials with circular-polarization properties is discussed within the framework of vectorial ptychography. We demonstrate, both theoretically and numerically, that using linea...

My last paper in Optics Letters. #ptychography #liquidcrystals opg.optica.org/ol/abstract....

And today's #day5 - #build 🛠️ exploiting #supramolecular interactions to make columnar assemblies #LiquidCrystals #discotics #phthalocyanines 🤓👩🏻‍🔬 #Inktober2019

New #LiquidCrystals will allow the directed transmission of #electricity - Organic #PowerCable for #ElectronicComponents www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/9549_ENG_...