Liquid Crystals
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Liquid Crystals Liquid crystalline materials have intermediate properties between perfectly ordered crystals and completely unodered liquids. The molecules involved are able to refract light differently depending on their orientation. This can be changed by magnetism, by and electrical field or by changing temperature.
Liquid crystals are widely used for electronic displays, TVs and various temperature and pressure sensitive materials. In this introduction to liquid cyrstals we will apply ideas including index of refraction, polarizability, crystal lattices and intermolecular forces.
See Case Western LC website [1] See Wikipedia on liquid crystals [2]
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