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The understanding and application of liquid crystals are among the great scientific and technological achievements of the twentieth century, with integrated electronics and liquid crystal displays combining to enable the portable computing revolution. As we enter the 21st century the study of liquid crystals offers unparalleled opportunities to advance the basic science and materials design of condensed matter, and to develop new liquid crystal applications. Liquid crystal structural themes are at the core of the effort to pursue supermolecular organization and self-assembly of complex materials. Novel device concepts and materials are forming the basis for for high-performance displays, as well as for advanced photonic devices and other non-display applications of liquid crystals. The Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center (LCMRC), an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), engages these opportunities as its principal activity. The LCMRC research program is based at the Boulder Campus of the University of Colorado, and directed by Noel Clark, Professor of Physics.
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Nanoimprinted Polymer Films Control the Alignment of Liquid Crystal Molecules
Polymer films nanoimprinted with checkerboard patterns of square wells between 200 nm and 800 nm in width have been shown by Center researchers to align calamitic (rod-like) liquid crystals vertically, horizontally or tilted depending on the depth/width ratio of the wells. (6/09). Read more. Liquid Crystals a Sensitive Probe
Center members have demonstrated that nematic liquid crystals at an aqueous interface can be used as ultra-sensitive detectors of DNA hybridization, allowing the researchers to differentiate a one-base-pair mismatch between the probe and target (6/08). Read more.
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