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Chemistry World July 24, 2009 Nina Notman	Chiral isotropic liquids from achiral molecules Boomerang-shaped liquid crystal phase molecules that don't exhibit 'handedness' (chirality) have been found to form unusual chiral structures that spontaneously separate into left- and right-handed domains.
Chemistry World May 19, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Liquid crystals spot bacteria to order Liquid crystals could one day be used as bio-sensors, detecting the presence of minute amounts of pathogens. That is the claim of a US group of researchers, who have demonstrated how a liquid crystal changes orientation in the presence of bacteria.
Chemistry World May 15, 2012 Harriet Brewerton	Chiral Confusion Scientists in Israel have shown that non-biological chiral crystals are much more abundant than previously thought and their findings could clear up a possible confusion over the term 'chiral'.
Chemistry World February 9, 2015 Hugh Cowley	Unexpected success with luminescent liquid crystals A simple and effective procedure to incorporate strongly-emitting inorganic clusters into nematic liquid crystals has been reported by a team from France.
IEEE Spectrum November 2012 Benjamin Gross	How RCA Lost the LCD RCA owned the early patents but failed to commercialize the liquid crystal display
Technology Research News August 25, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Liquid Crystal IDs Pathogens Liquid crystal is not only the stuff of computer screens and watch displays, it is also how your cell membranes are structured. Combining the similarly structured artificial and biological materials makes a device that detects viruses and toxins.
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Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Nanotube mix makes liquid crystal Carbon nanotubes are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be as narrow as 0.4 nanometers, or the span of four hydrogen atoms. They have useful electrical and mechanical properties and are a leading player in nanotechnology.
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Chemistry World March 27, 2013 Akshat Rathi	Molecular cages to end crystallization nightmare X-ray crystallography has shaped modern chemistry. It is a powerful tool for molecular structural analysis. But it suffers from one big drawback: it can only analyze materials that form well-defined crystals. This may now be about to change.
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Chemistry World September 18, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Caffeine crystals with an elastic bent Indian chemists have discovered a highly elastic but crystalline material made from caffeine. The crystals maintain their elasticity down to -100 C.
Chemistry World July 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Propeller-shaped molecules give 2D polymers lift-off Crystal engineers have finally succeeded in achieving a goal that has eluded chemists for decades by unambiguously synthesizing two-dimensional polymer crystals, confirmed by single-crystal x-ray diffraction.
Technology Research News March 24, 2004	Irregular layout sharpens light Aperiodic photonic crystal could improve devices that shape, detect and filter light, including communications devices like photodetectors, demultiplexers, which sort wavelengths of light, and channel drop filters, which filter out different wavelengths.
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PC Magazine May 4, 2004 Alfred Poor	What's New With Displays Our guide explains state-of-the-art display technology and looks ahead.
Chemistry World June 12, 2008 Michael Gross	Light Drives Plastic Motor Chemists in Japan have built a rotary motor driven purely by light shining onto a polymer film.
Chemistry World April 18, 2006 Jon Evans	Viruses Display Liquid Crystal Control Researchers have discovered that viruses can control the orientation of liquid crystals. Harnessing this ability could aid the development of nanomaterials and biosensors, they claim.
Chemistry World November 3, 2011 Erica Wise	A Model for the Single Chirality of Life The boiling solutions in prebiotic hot springs could shed light on the emergence of a single chiral form of biomolecules in nature, say Spanish scientists.
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Technology Research News February 11, 2004	Magnets tune photonic crystal Researchers from Fudan University in China have found that it is possible to use a magnetic field to quickly shift or block certain frequencies of electromagnetic signals passing through photonic crystals made from semiconductor material.
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Chemistry World May 28, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Changing the face of a water splitting catalyst Australian chemists have grown crystals of the water-splitting catalyst titanium dioxide that are many times more reactive than usual.
Chemistry World November 30, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Crystal Clear Structure Prediction One team of researchers has hit the jackpot by correctly predicting the crystal structures of four organic molecules in a competition organized by the University of Cambridge.
Chemistry World July 20, 2009 Philip Ball	Researchers form first liquid protein Chemists at the University of Bristol, UK and their colleagues, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Colloid and Interface Research in Golm, Germany, have figured out how to convert pure proteins into a liquid state, without any solvent.
Chemistry World April 5, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Variable Focus at the Flick of a Switch Aging eyes could soon have an alternative to bifocal spectacles, with the development of liquid crystal lenses that focus on near or distant objects at the flick of a switch.
Chemistry World June 2, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Reactions in a crystal Crystals that can alter their composition without changing the structure of their solid lattice have been developed by US researchers.
Chemistry World June 25, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Porous materials break out of covalent cage Porous materials made from small molecular cages, rather than rigidly bonded frameworks, could be easier to process and have more tunable performance, say UK researchers.
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley	Biomolecules Out on a Wing Photonic crystals give butterflies their beautiful colors and synthetic versions are now being developed for a range of technological applications.
Science News May 25, 2002 Ivars Peterson	Crystal Mobius Physicists in Japan have come up with a technique for twisting a crystalline ribbon of niobium selenide into a Mobius strip.
Chemistry World November 17, 2014 James Urquhart	Beetle behind breath test for bank notes Simply breathing on money could soon reveal if it's the real deal or counterfeit thanks to a beetle-inspired ink that reversibly changes color in response to humidity.
Chemistry World June 21, 2007 Michael Gross	A Mirror for the Moon Cosmologists have said that a Moon-based telescope with a parabolic mirror made of a rotating liquid would be ideally suited to studying very distant structures of the universe. Researchers using a chemical approach have now succeeded in creating a liquid based system.
Chemistry World October 28, 2013 Jennifer Newton	Crystal within a crystal Colleagues at the University of Strasbourg used a molecular tectonics strategy to prepare the crystals.
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Chemistry World July 1, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Bendy solar cells that can take the heat Chemists in Switzerland and China have used a liquid electrolyte to make flexible solar cells that are better than current devices at withstanding heat from the sun's rays.
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Chemistry World June 18, 2014 Michael Parkin	Separation by levitation A team in the US has shown that enantiopure and racemic crystals can be separated by magnetic levitation.
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Earth's Core is Solid, After All Seismic waves passing through Earth's center have long puzzled researchers, as some waves travel fast enough to indicate that Earth's inner core is solid iron-nickel crystals, but they do not travel quite as quickly as scientists would expect, based on studies of stiff iron alloys.
Chemistry World September 30, 2010 James Urquhart	Weightlifting crystals Japanese researchers have created a co-crystal that reversibly bends like human muscle when exposed to ultraviolet and visible light.
Chemistry World February 3, 2011 Ben Merison	The mystery of the disappearing crystals UK chemists have analysed a fifty year old sample to find out why and say that it's down to impurities. This takes researchers a step closer to understanding why certain pharmaceutical drugs lose their therapeutic effect.
Chemistry World March 7, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Killer crystals turn pyroelectricity on bacteria Crystals of lithium niobate and lithium tantalate powdered and formulated as nanoparticles can act as a disinfectant, killing bacteria at only moderate temperatures, according to researchers in Germany.
Chemistry World May 15, 2006 Jon Evans	Selective DNA Crystals A molecular biologist has developed a molecular sieve using a DNA crystal with nanoscale channels.
Chemistry World January 30, 2008 Jonathan Edwards	DNA Helps Nanoparticles Crystallize Two papers in Nature have each shown a simple way to build designer crystals from nanoparticles, using DNA as 'glue'. Both methods show promise as a cheap way of mass-producing complex materials like photonic crystals.
CIO September 1, 2002 Cormac Foster	Painting a Rosy View Philips Research has developed a fabrication process that allows them to "paint" liquid crystals on any substrate without the need to sandwich it. The resulting displays are less expensive, faster to produce, and can eventually be far larger and more flexible than current LCDs.