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Featured Liquid Crystal Picture Art of the Month
December 2025© Pedro Marques de Almeida Its Liquid Crystmas Time
Nematic texture under cross polarisers after an homeotropic alignment had been disturbed. This photograph was obtained in the scope of his PhD student (MSc. Simone Soares) scientific work, while studying the application of nematic liquid crystal to develop bacteria detecting sensors. |
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Author
| Pedro Marques de Almeida is an Associate Professor with Habilitation in the Mechanical Engineering Department of ISEL/IPL. While conducting research on liquid crystals, he works in the group of Professor M.H. Godinho inserted in the Soft and Biofunctional Materials Group of the Research Centre in Materials Science (CENIMAT/I3N) in FCT/NOVA. He is also a member of the Unit for Innovation and Research in Engineering (UnIRE), located at ISEL, where he is President of the Scientific Council. He is a Member of the International Liquid Crystal Society, a Member of the American Physical Society and one of the founding Members as well as the Scientific Secretariat of the Portuguese Liquid Crystal Society. email address: pedro.almeida@isel.pt Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7356-8455 Website : https://www.isel.pt/docentes/pedro-lucio-maia-marques-almeida |
Jury Comment
A beautiful texture of nematic liquid crystal under crossed polarisers, where birefringence traces dendritic director reorientation, revealing competing surface anchoring and bulk elasticity. The texture merges the physics and visual aesthetics of soft matter.
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