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Liquid crystals: a missing phase found at last?

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
0028-0836
413-414
Luckhurst, Geoffrey R.
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Luckhurst, Geoffrey R.
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Luckhurst, Geoffrey R. (2004) Liquid crystals: a missing phase found at last? Nature, 430 (6998), 413-414. (doi:10.1038/430413a).

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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
Keywords: nematic liquid

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Local EPrints ID: 20279
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/20279
ISSN: 0028-0836
PURE UUID: 491f5d59-b7c3-453c-957a-c5766c4176ac

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Date deposited: 20 Feb 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 06:23

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Author: Geoffrey R. Luckhurst

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