To protect the perovskites from stress and improve their efficiency, Yang and Nazeeruddin proposed adding liquid crystals. Specifically, they're looking at the effects of thermotropic liquid ...

Liquid crystals are unique materials that exhibit ... Studies have shown that these amphiphiles can exhibit lyotropic and thermotropic liquid crystalline phases, which are influenced by factors ...

Inspired by the concept of thermotropic liquid crystals, which change color in response to temperature variations, they set ...

lyotropic and thermotropic liquid crystals, micellar surfactant phases, colloidal suspensions and emulsions. Most biological fluids, most food materials and many fluids important in industrial ...

the lyotropic liquid crystals studied by Yamamoto and Tanaka are quite different to the thermotropic liquid crystals found in a conventional LCD display, because they require a solvent ...

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 ...