How to Use liquid crystal in a Sentence

liquid crystal

noun

• Squeeze the membrane just a little bit, and the lipids condense into a highly aligned liquid crystal.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
• The researchers say the new metasurfaces can replace the liquid crystal layer in LCD displays.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2023
• The robot is made from liquid crystal elastomers, which use heat in the surroundings to power movement.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2022
• But no need to worry, because the window is made of a special liquid crystal that can be darkened and lightened at the flick of a switch, for more or less light transmission.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• The medicine is in a liquid crystal form that releases gradually over time.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 29 Sep. 2017
• In the new study, the researchers coupled chiral liquid crystals with fluorescent dyes that emitted red, green, or blue light.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Nov. 2023
• Instead of using liquid crystal pixels, the chip had little mirrors, and the angle of mirrors can be altered.
  — Benj Edwards and Jose Zagal, Ars Technica, 15 May 2024
• That’s because, just like the engine’s oil and the battery’s electrolyte, molecules in liquid crystals slow down when the temperatures drop.
  — David Muller, Car and Driver, 5 Jan. 2018
• With the smectic liquid crystals used in this new smart glass, an electrical voltage has a different result.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2016
• This length of liquid crystal actually consists of three separate screens, a large one in front of the driver, a giant one in the center, and a smaller one in front of the passenger.
  — Coral Davenport, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• Because liquid crystal displays have a backlight, the background doesn’t become black.
  — Benj Edwards and Jose Zagal, Ars Technica, 15 May 2024
• The panel is an LCD (short for liquid crystal display) sheet that can produce images when electricity flows through it.
  — PCMAG, 1 Apr. 2024
• And just as a wood plank is strongest along its grain, a liquid crystal’s response to stimuli depends on its symmetry and orientation.
  — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023
• The liquid crystal is made in sophisticated factories that can cost billions to build.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2018
• Using lasers, Kamien’s group constructed a knotlike structure in liquid crystals, the self-aligning fluids found in LCD television screens.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2013
• Batteries stop working, adhesives stop sticking and LCD screens go black as their liquid crystal freezes solid.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• So in the new study, scientists used a different approach: a thin liquid crystal layer that changes colors based on temperature.
  — Claire Hogan, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2021
• According to the researchers, the grasshopper-like material is composed of three elastomer layers and liquid crystals.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2023
• Zhang isn’t ready to call his creation a liquid crystal, however, and hesitates to suggest an application.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2019
• This aims to improve on the electrochromic Panoramic roof in other Taycans, instead using nine liquid crystal panels that can be made increasingly opaque.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
• The pixel voltages are set well before the liquid crystals have finished rotating, meaning that additional pixels do not add time to set bit values.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 13 June 2019
• The tint comes by way of a liquid crystal lens layer, which can be – from an observer's perspective – more or less transparent, depending on an electrical current.
  — New Atlas, 10 July 2024
• The flat, unbending parts were made of a passive polymer while the folds, or hinges, were made with liquid crystal elastomer, which can dramatically expand and contract when exposed to the right temperature.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
• The riddling rack allows bottles to be positioned upside down during the aging process so that sediment can be carefully removed, which gives champagne its bubbles and leaves the liquid crystal clear and not murky.
  — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• Amazon Mood rings contain a capsule filled with thermochromic liquid crystal that reacts to fluctuations in temperature and cause the crystal to reflect different wavelengths of light and alters the color of the stone.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 19 May 2018
• According to the research carried out by Bellini and an international group of collaborators, liquid crystal states could have helped short pieces of RNA to form up, then develop into longer and longer strands.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2018
• For example, other research groups have discovered knot structures appearing within the liquid crystals used in technologies such as flat-screen TVs.
  — Jeremy Hsu, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2020
• That technology, called MicroLED, makes for slimmer and brighter screens than those that use other technology, like liquid crystals or organic light-emitting diodes.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2018
• The device is built from a strip of light-responsive polymer that arcs and straightens akin to an inchworm, while liquid crystal elastomers and synthetic magnet patches mimic on either end geckos’ gravity-defying grip.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2023
• The air permits provide an early glimpse at Foxconn’s manufacturing process and describe how machines drip liquid crystals on glass plates and layer the crystals with circuits and other materials over other plates.
  — Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024