Chemistry News Articles: Liquid crystal droplets discovered to be .

In the computer displays of medical equipment in hospitals and clinics, liquid crystal technologies have already establish a major role. But a discovery reported from the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests that micrometer-sized droplets of liquid crystal, which have been ground to alter their order and optical appearance in answer to the front of very low concentrations of a specific bacterial lipid, might see new uses in a rate of biological contexts.