Blue phases (BPs) represent chiral liquid-crystalline states where molecules spontaneously form structures consisting of double-twisted cylinders. Such cylinders then adopt crystalline arrangements ...

Blue is the colour A blue phase liquid crystal seen with an optical microscope. (Courtesy: Anne Pawsey and Paul Clegg, University of Edinburgh) Lehmann concluded, with the aid of an advanced ...

Diverging and converging patterns forming on the surface of solidifying liquid metals resemble plotlines in a complex historical novel, in a new international study. The cyclic patterns observed are ...