New research combines liquid crystals with metallic metasurfaces in a two-layer design, enabling electrically and thermally switchable displays and security features with superior color control.

What are Liquid Crystal Nanoparticles? Liquid crystal nanoparticles (LCNPs) are a unique class of nanomaterials that combine the properties of liquid crystals with the advantages of nanoparticles.

More than $2 billion has been spent over the past 15 years in trying to develop the technology and infrastructure behind liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) displays. After a fitful start ...

As counterfeiting continues to evolve, so must anti-counterfeiting technologies. The development of camouflaged QR codes and ...

The academics utilized thermotropic liquid crystals to avoid the evaporative precipitation of conventional additives and the typical interface accumulation to enable uniform passivation of the ...

Liquid Crystals Substances that behave mechanically as liquids yet exhibit many of the optical properties of crystals have been known for more than 70 years. Their technological possibilities are ...

The latest smart window innovation uses liquid crystals and nanoporous microparticles to efficiently control light and ...

Video showing the liquid crystal condensates forming -- the right-hand side uses false color to differentiate the filaments (light blue) and flattened discs (yellow). Video is at 60x real time and ...

A new smart window technology combines liquid crystals (LCs) and nanoporous microparticles (NMPs) to efficiently control both ...

My recent work explores this concept by showing how a triangular pattern is formed from the clustering of small, localized vortices in a droplet of a chiral liquid crystal, which we have named ...