A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny vortex-like structures ...

Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical ...

More information: Thomas J. Ugras et al, Transforming achiral semiconductors into chiral domains with exceptional circular dichroism, Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.ado7201 ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like skyrmions and blue phase III phases. Skyrmions are tiny vortex-like ...

Researchers have discovered new ways to bend light to improve optical applications such as sensors, displays, and next-generation photonic devices. Chirality is the property where objects exist in ...

Full-colour tuning in rare-earth doped monolithic tellurite glass is realised via excitation pulse modulation, enabling a novel platform for laser-based transparent displays.

More information: Hiromasa Goto et al, Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Polyisocyanides from Achiral Monomers with Living Polymerization in a Liquid Crystal Reaction Field, Macromolecules (2025).

In this edition of The LCGC Blog, Jonathan Shackman discusses what factors to consider when choosing a mobile phase for ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with aligned helical structures. In ...