Molecular alignment and orientation using laser pulses has emerged as a transformative technique in physical chemistry and molecular physics, enabling unprecedented control over the spatial ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

The researchers used an X-ray microbeam during printing to locally measure liquid crystal alignment and direction inside the printer nozzle. A class of synthetic soft materials called liquid crystal ...

By placing single-atom p-block metal adlayers on gold electrodes, researchers quantified the interfacial hopping integral, ...

In a paper published in the Oct. 1, 2013, issue of The Astrophysical Journal, an integrated team of observers and theoreticians led by USRA astronomer Dr. B-G Andersson, has used telescopes in Spain, ...

A groundbreaking study on van der Waals (vdW) epitaxy has introduced new possibilities in the production of wafer-scale, single-crystal molecular films, addressing a longstanding challenge in ...