August 2017

New Event: Coherent SAXS

02 - 04 October 2017: Coherent SAXS workshop at ALS User meeting 2017, Berkeley, California, USA

September 2017 liquid crystal picture

Image of a chiral nematic planar texture with unusual Grandjean-Cano lines, by Przemysław Wasiński, has been selected as the September 2017 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

Dr. Patricia Elisabeth Cladis (1937 - 2017)

On July 3, 2017 the international liquid crystal community lost one of its pioneers, Patricia E. Cladis, who was also an Honored Member of the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS).

Obituary of Dr. Patricia Elisabeth Cladis (1937 - 2017)

New Issue of Liquid Crystal Today

New issue of Liquid Crystal Today is available online.

August 2017 liquid crystal picture

Image of the clock-like texture of 5CB doped with a ruthenium complex, by Jun Yoshida, has been selected as the August 2017 ILCS liquid crystal picture.