Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are heavily employed in the field of soft robotics because they exhibit the such ...
MIT engineers observed that a liquid crystal’s orderly microstructures will spontaneously assemble into large, twisted structures (pictured) when the liquid is made to slowly flow. Credit: ...
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are of rapidly growing interest in recent years as diverse applications 1,2,3,4,5 have been proposed in various areas such as robotics 6,7,8, micromachines 9,10,11, ...
Robots and cameras of the future could be made of liquid crystals, thanks to a new discovery that significantly expands the potential of the chemicals already common in computer displays and digital ...
YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-x (YBCO or Y123) is the original high-temperature cuprate oxide with a superconducting critical temperature (T c ~93 K) well above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen (77 K) 1, ...