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I. Cheung, N. Turok, B. Yurke, Late Time Coarsening Dynamics in
a Nematic Liquid Crystal, Physical Review Letters 66, 1991, 2472
A toroidal droplet made of
a nematic liquid crystal material is shown inside a polymeric material.
«It expresses how the alignment direction of
the nematic liquid crystal changes as we go around the defect.
In this situation, we would say the worms form
a nematic liquid crystal, an ordered phase similar to the materials used in many flat panel displays.
A.N. Pargellis, B. Yurke, N. Turok, Coarsening Dynamics in
Nematic Liquid Crystals, Mol.
I. Cheung, N. Turok, B. Yurke, A.N. Pargellis, Coarsening Dynamics in Uniaxial
Nematic Liquid Crystals, Physical Review E47, 1993, 3343
Nemoptic's displays are based on twisting
nematic liquid crystals.
(But Angele adds that Nemoptic's displays — which use a material called
nematic liquid crystals — switch color in a hundredth of a second.)
Not exact matches
Helical polyacetylene was synthesized under an asymmetric reaction field consisting of chiral
nematic (N *)
liquid crystals (LCs).
During drying, the Sunset Yellow concentration varied within the drop, and microscope images revealed the formation of different fluid phases such as the isotropic
liquid (random),
liquid crystal nematic (aligned) and
liquid crystal columnar (cylindrically packed) phases that segregate to different regions of the drop.
By studying toroidal droplets covered by this active
nematic, the researchers confirmed a longstanding theoretical prediction about
liquid crystals at equilibrium, first discussed by Bowick, Nelson and Travesset [Phys.Rev.
As the concentration of the drops increases further, however, the
liquid crystal evolves from the
nematic phase to the «columnar» phase, in which the rods pack together like bundles of straws.