Polish scientists have made a breakthrough discovery in the field of the properties of liquid crystals. Due to their potentially very great importance for science, the research results were published in the Science journal.
The research team, consisting of scientists from the University of Warsaw and the Military University of Technology, combined the spontaneous formation of helices from non-chiral molecules and the ferroelectric ordering of dipoles in the liquid phase.
The research was carried out, among others, by the Ares supercomputer installed in the ACC Cyfronet AGH, made available in the PLGrid national infrastructure coordinated by Cyfronet. The scientists used the Gaussian 16 software installed in the Center to calculate the geometric parameters of the studied molecules.
We sincerely congratulate the researchers on their exceptional achievement, which resulted in the publication of the results in one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world.
We invite you to read: publication in Science, University of Warsaw announcement and Military University of Technology (MUT) announcement.
