/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Magnetic and electric dipoles, objects with two oppositely charged ends, have a similar symmetrical structure. One might thus assume that they exhibit similar internal structures and physical states. /news/2024-03-unveils-spontaneous-toroidal-polar-topology.html Condensed Matter Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:22:31 EDT news630836545 At the Tokyo Tech LG Material & Life Solution Collaborative Research Cluster, a joint research team has developed a ferroelectric dimeric liquid crystal with spontaneous polarization that exceeds (8 μCcm-2) and a dielectric constant that exceeds 8,000 at low temperatures. The findings are published in The Journal of Â鶹ÒùÔºical Chemistry B. /news/2024-01-ferroelectric-dimeric-liquid-crystal-huge.html Nanomaterials Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:23:59 EST news625479835 Meeting the world's energy demands is reaching a critical point. Powering the technological age has caused issues globally. It is increasingly important to create superconductors that can operate at ambient pressure and temperature. This would go a long way toward solving the energy crisis. /news/2023-05-superconductive-images-3d-disorder-driven-fractals.html Condensed Matter Superconductivity Fri, 12 May 2023 13:37:40 EDT news603117444 A scientist at Osaka City University has discovered skyrmions with half-integer topological numbers in a ferromagnetic superfluid. /news/2022-02-eccentric-fractional-skyrmion-numerical-simulations.html Soft Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 16 Feb 2022 12:40:01 EST news564235786 Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder's Soft Materials Research Center (SMRC) have discovered an elusive phase of matter, first proposed more than 100 years ago and sought after ever since. /news/2020-06-century-scientists-liquid-phase.html Materials Science Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:55:22 EDT news511026913 Researchers at Stanford University have recently carried out an in-depth study of nematic transitions in iron pnictide superconductors. Their paper, published in Nature Â鶹ÒùÔºics, presents new imaging data of these transitions collected using a microscope they invented, dubbed the scanning quantum cryogenic atom microscope (SQCRAMscope). /news/2020-04-imaging-nematic-transitions-iron-pnictide.html Superconductivity Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:30:01 EDT news507456752 Oscillating flow and light pulses can be used to create reconfigurable architecture in liquid crystals. Materials scientists can carefully engineer concerted microfluidic flows and localized optothermal fields to achieve control on nucleation , growth and shape of such liquid domains. In comparison, pure liquids in thermodynamic equilibrium are structurally homogeneous. Experimental work based on theory and simulations have shown that if the liquids are maintained in a controlled state of nonequilibrium, the resulting structures can be indefinitely stabilized. /news/2019-02-sculpting-stable-pure-liquids.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Soft Matter Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:30:06 EST news469873756 Biological materials from bone to spider-silk and wood are lightweight fibre composites arranged in a complex hierarchical structure, formed by directed self-assembly to demonstrate outstanding mechanical properties. /news/2018-10-d-hierarchical-liquid-crystal-polymer.html Polymers Materials Science Tue, 09 Oct 2018 07:34:39 EDT news458289267 Liquid crystals undergo a peculiar type of phase change. At a certain temperature, their cigar-shaped molecules go from a disordered jumble to a more orderly arrangement in which they all point more or less in the same direction. LCD televisions take advantage of that phase change to project different colors in moving images. /news/2018-05-reveals-liquid-crystals.html Condensed Matter Tue, 22 May 2018 16:38:46 EDT news446225917 (Â鶹ÒùÔº) —The prospect of integrated living organisms into a non-living substrate has long held a compelling appeal for those investigating active matter – the study of a type of easily-deformable out of equilibrium soft matter that focuses on the properties of assemblages of self-propelled interacting particles, and an important physical model of living systems. Recently, scientists at Kent State University, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University have proposed the living liquid crystal (LLC) – a new class of active matter with motile rod-shaped bacteria placed in a water-based nontoxic lyotropic liquid crystal (LC) environment. The researchers found that the novel material displays a wide range of useful and occasionally surprising properties that lend themselves to a wide array of potential biosensing, biomedical, submicrometer, autonomous microprobe, and structural imaging applications. /news/2014-01-alive-scientists-combine-liquid-crystals.html Condensed Matter Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:00:02 EST news310371109 (Â鶹ÒùÔº) —New collaborative research, carried out by Dr. Vitaly P. Panov, Research Fellow, and Jagdish K Vij, Honorary Professor of Electronic Materials of Trinity College Dublin's School of Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering, has found the twist bend nematic phase of liquid crystals (LCs). /news/2013-11-state-liquid-crystals.html Condensed Matter Fri, 29 Nov 2013 07:00:01 EST news304929525