Jun-ichi Fukuda (Senior Researcher), Soft Matter Modeling Group (Leader: Makoto Yoneya), Nanosystem Research Institute (Director: Kiyoshi Yase) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science ...

For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

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.

Schematic diagram providing an overview of this review. Liquid crystals can be categorized into nematic, smectic, columnar, and cholesteric liquid crystals. Recently, metasurfaces have been integrated ...