The resulting mesophase is birefringent, meaning light refracts through it, it is similar to liquid crystalline, and viscoelastic, which means that it is both viscous and elastic at the same time.

Researchers describe a new polymer structure called a bilayer-folded mesophase that has been discovered through a random copolymer sequence. Polymers, large molecules made up of repeating smaller ...

The team used liquid helium to cool a lipidic mesophase that contained a chemically modified monoacylglycerol to minus 263 degrees Celsius, only ten degrees above absolute zero. Even at that very ...

Production begins with the pulling of filaments from a mesophase pitch. Then comes the oxidation, when the fibers are stabilized so that they do not melt during further processing. Next, carbonation ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications , researchers describe a new polymer structure called a bilayer-folded mesophase that has been discovered through a random copolymer sequence.