1 chemical compounds and modifications thereof, namely, thermochromic cholesterol-based mixtures (liquid crystal mixtures), N-Propyl Alcohol (NPA), Tris(2-aminoethyl)amine (TREN), polymer additives, ferrocenes, for product manufacturing and for laboratory analysis in the fields of biotechnology, analytics, diagnostics, drug discovery, food manufacture, drug design, genomics, proteomics, molecular biology, manufacture of scientific compounds, manufacture of pharmaceutical compounds and electronics