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Liquid crystals

More than display fillings

Nature Materials volume 8, pages 617–618 (2009)Cite this article

With liquid-crystal displays now ubiquitous in everyday life, liquid-crystal research is moving beyond these applications and evolving in entirely new and unexpected directions.

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Figure 1: Entangled colloidal particles in a nematic LC.

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