New research combines liquid crystals with metallic metasurfaces in a two-layer design, enabling electrically and thermally switchable displays and security features with superior color control.

What are Liquid Crystal Nanoparticles? Liquid crystal nanoparticles (LCNPs) are a unique class of nanomaterials that combine the properties of liquid crystals with the advantages of nanoparticles.

More than $2 billion has been spent over the past 15 years in trying to develop the technology and infrastructure behind liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) displays. After a fitful start ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2025.240181 , discusses high-efficiency achromatic liquid ...

As counterfeiting continues to evolve, so must anti-counterfeiting technologies. The development of camouflaged QR codes and ...

The academics utilized thermotropic liquid crystals to avoid the evaporative precipitation of conventional additives and the typical interface accumulation to enable uniform passivation of the ...

The latest smart window innovation uses liquid crystals and nanoporous microparticles to efficiently control light and ...

A new smart window technology combines liquid crystals (LCs) and nanoporous microparticles (NMPs) to efficiently control both ...

My recent work explores this concept by showing how a triangular pattern is formed from the clustering of small, localized vortices in a droplet of a chiral liquid crystal, which we have named ...