Brecht Berteloot featured ILCS liquid crystal artist, December 2021

Brecht Berteloot's research articles can be found at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brecht-Berteloot
The website of the Liquid Crystals and Photonics group: https://lcp.elis.ugent.be/

Jury comment: The picture was obtained from a Liquid crystal cell in which the bottom substrate uses a patterned photoalignment that defines the Christmas "image" observed between crossed polarizers under a microscope.