Flexible synthetic skins use hydrogel arrays to mimic cephalopod camouflage through autonomous color and pattern shifts for soft robotics and wearables.

Climate scientists have struggled to explain Arctic warming, but a new study focuses on clouds that trap heat, acting like a ...

Knots and links, with their unique and robust topological structures, play a vital role across various disciplines, including physics, life sciences ...

Report Ocean, a leading strategic consulting and market research firm, in its recent study, estimated the Middle East and Africa flat glass market size at USD 15.79 billion in 2022. Report Ocean ...

Abstract: Liquid crystal (LC) is a valuable material for constructing tunable devices in the sub-terahertz (sub-THz) spectrum, and to utilize it effectively, it is imperative to accurately measure the ...

A new study by Professor Tao Sun tracks the evolution of crystallographic defects in real time during metal additive manufacturing.

In a breakthrough that challenges conventional physics, scientists have confirmed the existence of “second sound” — a ...

In the past, homemakers had one method to enhance the flavour of broth, although it wasn't a healthy choice. Thankfully, over ...

In this letter, the novel tunable PC waveguide coupler based on nematic liquid crystals is proposed, and its coupling properties are numerically investigated by using the finite-difference time-domain ...

Thermal fluctuations (at room temperature) overcome the eventual magnetic orientation of the liquid crystal molecules by the intrinsic particle magnetic moment field. Nonlinear optical properties of ...

A nematic liquid crystal (E7, LCC Co., Ltd., Japan ... To investigate the mechanical properties of the H-PDMS and S-PDMS films, we measured the stress–strain curves through tensile and compressive ...

All-perovskite tandem solar cells (TSCs) are a class of solar cells comprised of two or more sub-cells that absorb light with ...