Liquid crystals

French physicist

state of matter with properties of both conventional liquids and crystals

glass with electrically switchable opacity

chemical compound

French mineralogist (1865-1933)

organic polymer

Subclass of liquid crystal

In chemistry and chemical physics, a mesophase or mesomorphic phase is a phase of matter intermediate between solid and liquid. Gelatin is a common example of a partially ordered structure in a mesophase. Further, biological structures such as the lipid bilayers of cell membranes are examples of mesophases. Mobile ions in mesophases are either orientationally or rotationally disordered while their centers are located at the ordered sites in the crystal structure. Mesophases with long-range positional order but no orientational order are plastic crystals, whereas those with long-range orientati

'''para-Azoxyanisole (PAA) is an organic, aromatic compound. Its chemical formula is C14H14N2O3'''. In a solid state, it appears as a white powder, but when heated it forms a liquid crystal. As one of the first known and most readily prepared liquid crystals, PAA has played an important role in the development of liquid crystal displays.

technology used in some liquid-crystal displays

'''N-(4-Methoxybenzylidene)-4-butylaniline (MBBA''') is an organic compound often used as a liquid crystal.

chemical compound

British organic chemist (1926–2013)

type of laser

strip of plastic which changes colour to indicate temperature

chemical compound

chemical compound

'''4-Cyano-4'-pentylbiphenyl''' is a commonly used nematic liquid crystal with the chemical formula C18H19N. It frequently goes by the common name 5CB. 5CB was first synthesized by George William Gray, Ken Harrison, and J.A. Nash at the University of Hull in 1972 and at the time it was the first member of the cyanobiphenyls. The liquid crystal was discovered after Gray's group received a grant from the UK Ministry of Defence to find a liquid crystal that had liquid crystal phases near room temperature with the specific intention of using them in liquid crystal displays. The molecule is about 2

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American mathematician specializing in continuum mechanics