The ILCS liquid crystal picture gallery
This is the gallery of winners of the monthly ILCS picture contest, displayed in reverse chronological order.Please note: all pictures are copyright of the artists themselves! If you would like to use the pictures in any context, you must ask permission of the artists directly.

February 2012
AFM image of SmA focal conics
©Bruno Zappone

January 2012
Polarization modulated SmCP phase
©Alexei Eremin

December 2011
Smectic A to cholesteric phase change
©Oliver Coles

November 2011
Focal conic B1 type smectic liquid crystal
©Rahul Deb

October 2011
Columnar phase from hydrogen bonding mesogens
©Vance Williams

September 2011
Smectic liquid crystal shell
©Hsin-Ling Liang

August 2011
Degenerating Blue Phases
©Christian Bohley

July 2011
Twin texture B7 phase
©Rajdeep Deb

June 2011
Pteridophyta like texture of a free aggregated Smectic A phase
©Jian Liu

May 2011
nematic liquid crystal
©Karen Neill

April 2011
Smectic liquid crystal defects by thermal sublimation
©Yun Ho Kim

March 2011
N*-SmC* phase transition.
©Ingo Dierking

February 2011
Columnar liquid crystal phase from DNA.
©Giuliano Zanchetta

January 2011
line defects of a cholesteric phase.
©Manoy Kumar Paul

December 2010
Droplet in LC film
©Ralf Stannarius

November 2010
Sheared Colh phase
©Vance Williams

October 2010
Blue phase forming from top to bottom
©Jia-Liang Lai

September 2010
Sheared lamellar lyotropic
©Maria Helena Figueiredo Godinho

August 2010
Polymeric blue phase
©Alexey Bobrovsky

July 2010
Columnar DNA phase
©Giuliano Zanchetta

June 2010
Blue phase
©Chih-Hao Chiu

May 2010
B7 phase
©Rajdeep Deb

April 2010
Microrods of a cholesteric polymer
©Heinrich Matthias

March 2010
Liquid Crystal Microlenses
©Tim Wilkinson

February 2010
Smectic A phase
©William Drake

January 2010
Columnar DNA LC phase growing from isotropic liquid
©Giuliano Zanchetta

November 2009
Oily streak texture of a cholesteric phase
©Christian Bohley

October 2009
Dark conglomorate phase at LC/air interface imaged by freeze-fracture TEM
©Dong Chen

September 2009
B7 LC phase confined in silicon microchannels
©Dong Ki Yoon

August 2009
Hexagonal lyotropic based on Amazonian oil
©Pedro Alves da Rocha- Filho

July 2009
Cholesteric oily streak texture with unexpected 3D character
© Michi Nakata Foundation

June 2009
Cholesteric in temperature gradients
© Ingo Dierking

May 2009
Fluorescent B7 bent-core phase
© Rajdeep Deb

April 2009
Columnar DNA phase
©Giuliano Zanchetta

March 2009
Rectangular columnar phase
©Gemma Shearman

February 2009
Free SmC* surface
©Daniel Krüerke

January 2009
Liquid crystal blue phase
©Dennis Gardner








