When introduced into a nematic liquid crystal, these particles induce three-dimensional director fields and topological defects dictated by colloidal topology. While electric fields, photothermal ...

Do the liquid crystals physically protect the bacteria ... It gives us an opportunity to highlight our work in this podcast, for example, or the press release that the Eppendorf Award is ...

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

are a textbook example of self-organization under external forces. I wondered if we could achieve something similar in chiral liquid crystals, which also exhibit such arrays. To do this ...