TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leslie,Esther
TI  - Liquid crystals: the science and art of a fluid form 
SN  - 9781780236452 (pbk.) :
U1  - 530.4'29 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Reaktion Books
KW  - Liquid crystals
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Popular Science
KW  - eflch
KW  - Popular Science and Mathematics
KW  - ukslc
N2  - While it is responsible for today's abundance of flat screens - on televisions, computers, and mobile devices - most of us have only heard of it in the ubiquitous acronym, LCD, with little thought as to exactly what it is: liquid crystal. In this book, Esther Leslie enlightens us, offering an accessible and fascinating look at - not a substance, not a technology - but a wholly different phase of matter. As she explains, liquid crystal is a curious material phase that organizes a substance's molecules in a crystalline form yet allows them to move fluidly like water. Observed since the nineteenth century, this phase has been a deep curiosity to science and, in more recent times, the key to a new era of media technology
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