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 ...

We have been developing fast-response ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) devices using fine polymer walls and fibers for future flexible TV displays with excellent portability. In the device ...

Responsive materials using liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) have been used in artificial muscles, robotics, and other dynamic materials. The ability to pre-align and orient the polymer network leads to ...

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

Fig. 1. (a) Planar LC structure of a general PBOE. (b) Chromatic aberration in a broadband PBL. (c) LC structure for a multi-twist PBOE. (d) Experimental result of a broadband PBL. Augmented reality ...

The knots in your shoelaces are familiar, but can you imagine knots made from light, water, or from the structured fluids that make LCD screens shine? They exist, and in a new Nature Physics study, ...