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.
April 2013
Immiscible phases of 8CB (SmA) and the bent-core LC NOBOW (helical nanofilaments)
©Dong Chen
March 2013
Texture of a bent-core B1 (columnar) phase
©Md Lutfor Rahman
February 2013
Unconventional Smectic-A phase
©Nirmalangshu Chakraborty
January 2013
Twisted smectic
©Subhojyoti Sinha
December 2012
Colloid of liquid crystal balls
©JungHyun Noh
November 2012
Columnar mesophase growing on slow cooling
©Rahul Kanti Nath
October 2012
Photopatterned dual orthogonal alignment in FLCs
©Abhishek Srivastava
September 2012
Free-standing film of bent-core liquid crystal
©Manoj Paul
August 2012
B7-like texture of B2 liquid crystal phase
©Dong Chen
July 2012
B7 phase forming from the isotropic state
©Rajdeep Deb
June 2012
Nematic femto-liter droplets on PDMS microstructures on functionalized lithium niobate
©Francesco Merola
May 2012
Smectic liquid crystal under conflicting alignment forces
©Giorgia Tordini
April 2012
Hybrid-aligned smectic liquid crystal shell
©Hsin-Ling Liang
March 2012
Induced chiral nematic LC in contact with CB15
©Alexander Lorenz
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
