Art Contest

June 2020 liquid crystal picture

Image of "Trapped transitions", by John Sandford O'Neill, has been selected as the June 2020 ILCS liquid crystal picture. Jury finds it visually very attractive with the distribution of different spreading lines and the positioning of shapes of different colours.

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May 2020 liquid crystal picture

Image of "Arrival of the spring", by Greta Babakhanova, has been selected as the May 2020 ILCS liquid crystal picture. Jury finds it very well observed and the combination of detailed observation of defect textures and artistic sensibility is very nice.

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April 2020 liquid crystal picture

Image of a Spiral Smectic Filaments of Bent-core Mesogen, by Venkatesh Gude, has been selected as the April 2020 ILCS liquid crystal picture. Jury likes the aesthetics of your yellow/green spirals on a black background, showing the filament  structures, both right handed as well as left handed. of the B7 phase. It will now be featured on the home page of the ILCS website until the end of the month.

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March 2020 liquid crystal picture

The image of a “Coexistence of three types of smectic texture of 8CB”, by Satoshi Aya, has been selected as the  March 2020 ILCS liquid crystal picture. The picture of three coexisting textures  of 8CB  in the SmA phase is very aesthetic and as well as instructive.  It show beautifully the  diversity of different textures of the SmA phase. The composition is striking with different fields of colour  with high visual contrasts and as a picture it looks very dynamic.


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February 2020 liquid crystal picture

Image of a focal conic defect texture in ferroelectric liquid crystals, by Ambika Bawa, has been selected as the  February 2020 ILCS liquid crystal picture. The combination of  the closed packed helices in a hexagonal lattice together with a chirality of the helices is very impressive; illustrating self assembly on various length scales in a very nice manner.


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December 2019 liquid crystal picture

A fantastic image of  Cholesteric liquid crystal shell, by Buchaiah Gollapelli, has been selected as the December 2019 ILCS liquid crystal picture. This picture artistically represents the beauty of the structure of a cholesteric liquid crystal shell with planar boundary conditions.

September 2019 liquid crystal picture

The image of  the compound cholesteryl perlagonate has been selected as the September 2019 ILCS liquid crystal picture. This picture represents a nice example of color and texture change during transformation from the  SmA* to the TGBA* phase. It will now be featured on the home page of the ILCS website until the end of September 2019.

July 2019 liquid crystal picture

Picture of July 2019: Banana Leaf, by Golam Mohiuddin.

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June 2019 liquid crystal picture

Picture of June 2019: Clustering of active droplets of 5CB with a photoactive surfactant, by Hajnalka Nádasi.

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April 2019 liquid crystal picture

Picture of April 2019: LC shells with thin layer of LC.

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March 2019 liquid crystal picture

Picture of March 2019: The Spring Festival, by Yuan Shen.

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February 2019 liquid crystal picture

Picture of February 2019: Cholestric pitch bended, by Sasan Shadpour.

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January 2019 liquid crystal picture

Image of Broken liquid crystalline shells mimic cells, by Takatoshi Maeda, has been selected as the January 2019 ILCS liquid crystal picture. This picture artistically makes a beautiful connection between liquid crystals and biological cells.

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December 2018 liquid crystal picture

Image of December "Nematic schlieren type texture" taken by Nazma Begum.

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Novemeber 2018 liquid crystal picture

Image of a “Dowser state", by Ingo Dierking, has been selected as the October 2018 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

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Septemeber 2018 liquid crystal picture

Image of a "Oily Streak Texture", by Hao Wang, has been selected as the August 2018 ILCS liquid crystal picture. The texture attracts by a composition of polygons on a sunny-colour background.

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August 2018 liquid crystal picture

Image of a "Optical ripples", by Greta Babakhanova, has been selected as the August 2018 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

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July 2018 liquid crystal picture

Image “Somewhere over the rainbow", by Tejas Kalavalapalli, has been selected as the July 2018 ILCS liquid crystal picture. A lovely flowery composition of "smectic petals” marks the end of the first summer month.

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June 2018 liquid crystal picture

Image of a "Emotions with liquid crystal", by Indu Verma, has been selected as the June 2018 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

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May 2018 liquid crystal picture

Image of a "The wonderful world of banana liquid crystals: A B7 texture from a bent-core liquid crystal containing the isoxazole ring", by Rafaela R. da Rosa, has been selected as the May 2018 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

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April 2018 liquid crystal picture

Image of a “When you smile the chromonic liquid crystal smiles back", by Sasan Shadpour, has been selected as the April 2018 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

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March 2018 liquid crystal picture

Image of the cholesteric liquid crystal texture, by Ahlam Nemati, has been selected as the March 2018 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

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Janary 2018 liquid crystal picture

Image of cholesteric liquid crystal droplets dispersed in glycerol, by Chun-Wei Chen, has been selected as the January 2018 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

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Jury of 2018

The International Liquid Crystal Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Alexey Eremin from the University of Magdeburg, Germany, will be a juror in 2018 of the ILCS art contest.

After graduation in Biophysics at Moscow State University, Dr. Alexey Eremin received his PhD at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in the field of Physical Chemistry. He is currently working as an associate Professor (apl. Prof.) at the University of Magdeburg (Germany). His research interest include Soft Matter and Biophysics as well as Nonlinear Physics.

Jurors in previous years.

December 2017 liquid crystal picture

Congratulations to our December 2017 Artist of the Month, Efi Maria Papia! Her liquid crystal picture Digital art inspired by cellulose nanocrystals can be seen in the ILCS art Gallery

November 2017 liquid crystal picture

Image of the discontinuous anchoring transition in a nematic liquid crystal, by Satoshi Aya, has been selected as the November 2017 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

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October 2017 liquid crystal picture

The image of the smectic I phase of a hockey stick-shape mesogen, by Dorota Węgłowska, was selected as the October 2017 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

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.

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.

July 2017 liquid crystal picture

Image of a reactive mesogen expanded onto glycerol, by Greta Cukrov, has been selected as the July 2017 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

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June 2017 liquid crystal picture

The image of the transition from the chiral nematic to the twist-bend nematic phase, by Michael Tuchband, has been selected as the June 2017 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

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May 2017 Liquid Crystal Picture

The blocky texture of the twist-bend nematic phase, by Michael Tuchband, has been selected as the May 2017 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

April 2017 liquid crystal picture

Image of a twist-bend nematic filaments formed inside a round capillary tube by Greta Cukrov has been selected as the April 2017 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

March 2017 Liquid Crystal Picture

Image of turbulent flows of a Smectic-A phase by Hsin-Ling Liang has been selected as the March 2017 ILCS liquid crystal picture.

February 2017 Liquid Crystal Picture

In February 2017 Golam Mohiuddin was selected as the artist of the month.

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January 2017 Liquid Crystal Picture

January 2017 featured LC picture by Ingo Dierking.
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