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 ...

Polyisocyanides are polymers distinguished by their helical structures, where the helix's winding direction (right- or left-handed) can be controlled through catalysts designed for synthesizing ...

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 ...

Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination of rotations or translations, much like the distinct left and right hands of a human.

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).

Chirality is a fundamental property of matter that determines many biological, chemical and physical phenomena. Chiral solids, for example, offer exciting opportunities for catalysis, sensing and ...

Certain advanced technologies, such as 3D displays, biosensing, and security printing, can utilize circularly polarized ...

Research on circularly polarized luminescence in chiral compounds shows potential for mechanochromic luminescence, enhancing ...

This library allows an Arduino board to control LiquidCrystal displays (LCDs) based on the Hitachi HD44780 (or a compatible) chipset, which is found on most text-based LCDs. This library is free ...

It has been nearly three years since Apple released the Studio Display. Below, we recap rumors about a potential next-generation model. Apple released the Studio Display in March 2022 alongside ...