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Nature 419, 681-683 (17 October 2002) | doi:10.1038/419681a
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Materials chemistry: Liquid crystals stack up
Carsten Tschierske
Abstract
Take a spherical carbon 'buckyball', feather it with rod-like molecules, and the result is a distinctive shuttlecock shape that can easily be stacked into columns. Liquid-crystal phases thus formed should have unusual properties.
Liquid crystals (LCs) are materials that can flow like fluids, but also have some of the regularity and direction-dependent properties of crystals. This combination of order and mobility enables these systems to respond to external stimuli, such as an applied electric field, and change their organization.
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