Chemist challenges traditional ideas about crystal growth
Graphical summary. Credit: Matter (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.08.011 Remember that old high school chemistry experiment where salt crystals precipitate from a ...
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Researchers leverage liquid crystal structures to design simple yet versatile bifocal lenses
Bifocal lenses are made from bilayer structures of liquid crystal (LC) cells and LC polymer. These lenses split light with ...
Human genome stored on ‘eternal’ memory crystal
Credit: University of Southampton Scientists at the University of Southampton have stored the entire human genome on a 5D memory ...
Study predicts new anomalous quantum crystal in fractionally packed moiré superlattices
Plot of the pair density correlation function, a quantity that characterizes crystallization, in the quantum anomalous Hall crystal. Arrows on ...
Physicists develop a very robust time crystal
What looks like a flame is the measurement of the new time crystal: each point corresponds to an experimental value, ...
A ferroelectric dimeric liquid crystal with enormous spontaneous polarization and low-temperature dielectric constant
Molecular structure and phase sequence of di-5 (3FM-C4T). The transition temperatures and enthalpy changes are from the 2nd heating cycles ...
Exploring the electrical tuning of branched flow in liquid crystal films
A diagram illustrating the branched flow of light in an NLC film. The random orientation of NLC molecules in a ...
Engineers combine laser light with crystal lattice vibrations to improve optical properties of 2D material
Setup for two experiments demonstrating phonon-enhanced nonlinearity in hBN, in transmission geometry. an experimental setup for THG experiments. Detection is ...
