15-May-2018

An international research team from Russia, France, and Germany has proposed a new method for orienting liquid crystals. It could be used to increase the viewing angle of liquid-crystal displays. "This is first and foremost a fundamental study exploring the mechanisms of liquid crystal ...

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30-Apr-2018

Merck held its 23rd Annual General Meeting. The company’s 350th anniversary was one of the overriding themes. Stefan Oschmann, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board, reported to around 1,300 Merck shareholders on business developments and strategic moves in 2017 and presented an outlook for the ...

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13-Feb-2018

Two Waterloo chemists have made it easier for manufacturers to produce a new class of faster and cheaper semiconductors. The chemists have found a way to simultaneously control the orientation and select the size of single-walled carbon nanotubes deposited on a surface. That means the developers ...

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Quantised self-assembly enables design of materials with novel properties

07-Feb-2018

At DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, scientists have investigated an intriguing form of self-assembly in liquid crystals: When the liquid crystals are filled into cylindrical nanopores and heated, their molecules form ordered rings as they cool – a condition that otherwise does not naturally occur ...

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Merck is the world’s first supplier of this technology

04-Dec-2017

Merck, a leading science and technology company, today opened a new production facility for liquid crystal window modules in Veldhoven, near Eindhoven, in the Netherlands. The investment of around € 15 million is a further step by Merck to expand its expertise as the market and technology leader ...

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Developing liquid crystalline molecules

29-Nov-2017

A team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Yuki Arakawa, Toyohashi University of Technology, has successfully liquid crystallized π-conjugated 2 rod-like molecules with alkylthio groups containing sulfur 1 , and developed high birefringence molecules that exhibit nematic liquid crystal with ...

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09-Nov-2017

Merck reported third-quarter Group sales at the year-earlier level. EBITDA pre exceptionals decreased by -8.3% owing to higher spending on research and development, preparations for the market launches in Healthcare, as well as the business performance of Liquid Crystals. “We generated healthy ...

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03-Nov-2017

When Lisa Tran set out to investigate patterns in liquid crystals, she didn't know what to expect. When she first looked through the microscope, she saw dancing iridescent spheres with fingerprint-like patterns etched into them that spiraled and flattened as the solution they were floated in ...

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26-Oct-2017

Merck, a leading science and technology company, has received the Frost & Sullivan “Technology Innovation Award” in the category “Smart Glass Industry“. The award, which was presented at a ceremony in London on October 23, recognizes Merck as the Technology Innovation leader in the smart glass ...

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29-Sep-2017

Merck informed analysts and investors at its 2017 Capital Markets Day about the progress being made and the challenges faced by the Group and its three business sectors. In addition, CEO Stefan Oschmann and CFO Marcus Kuhnert provided a strategic outlook of the key growth drivers for the years ...

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