Liquid crystals: a missing phase found at last?
Liquid crystals: a missing phase found at last?
Molecules that form liquid crystals are usually rod-like, but bend them and a new liquid-crystal phase — a biaxial nematic — should form. Strong evidence for the existence of this phase has only now emerged.
nematic liquid
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Luckhurst, Geoffrey R.
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22 July 2004
Luckhurst, Geoffrey R.
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Luckhurst, Geoffrey R.
(2004)
Liquid crystals: a missing phase found at last?
Nature, 430 (6998), .
(doi:10.1038/430413a).
Abstract
Molecules that form liquid crystals are usually rod-like, but bend them and a new liquid-crystal phase — a biaxial nematic — should form. Strong evidence for the existence of this phase has only now emerged.
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Published date: 22 July 2004
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nematic liquid
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Local EPrints ID: 20279
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/20279
ISSN: 0028-0836
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