Article | REF: N1110 V1

Liquid crystals - Visualization applications

Author: Daniel STOENESCU

Publication date: April 10, 2012

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!


Français

1. Reminders

As their name suggests, liquid crystals are liquids characterized by a particular orientation of the molecules [A 1 325] , which translates on a macroscopic scale into a crystal-like anisotropy: the physical properties of the materials depend on the average local molecular orientation.

In the case of nematic liquid crystals, the molecules orient themselves parallel to one another while remaining randomly distributed in the volume. The orientation mechanism relies on very long-range molecular interactions, with the orientation of the liquid crystal within a point propagating over tens...

You do not have access to this resource.

Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!

You do not have access to this resource.
Click here to request your free trial access!

Already subscribed? Log in!


The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference

A Comprehensive Knowledge Base, with over 1,200 authors and 100 scientific advisors
+ More than 10,000 articles and 1,000 how-to sheets, over 800 new or updated articles every year
From design to prototyping, right through to industrialization, the reference for securing the development of your industrial projects

This article is included in

Functional materials - Bio-based materials

This offer includes:

Knowledge Base

Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees

Services

A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources

Practical Path

Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills

Doc & Quiz

Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading

Subscribe now!

Ongoing reading
Reminders
Outline