Liquid crystal
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Liquid crystals are a class of materials that, under some conditions, inhabit a phase in which they exhibit isotropic, fluid-like behavior – that is, with little long-range ordering – but which under other conditions inhabit one or more phases with significant anisotropic structure and long-range ordering while still having an ability to flow. Their best known use is in Liquid Crystal Displays
 Schlieren texture of Liquid Crystal nematic phase |
 previous image transposed. |
 Schlieren texture of Liquid Crystal nematic phase |
 Another picture of nematic phase |
 Symbolic representation of nematic phase |
 Smectic A LC phase - symbolic representation |
 Symbolic representation of SmC LC phase |
 Smectic A LC phase - microscopic picture |
 Smectic A LC phase - microscopic picture |
 Smectic_C LC phase - microscopic texture |
 Another picture of Smectic_C LC phase |
 Another picture of Smectic_C LC phase |
 Smectic A - Nematic phase transition |
 Developement of Smectic C phase |
 Symbolic representation of cholesteric phase |
 Symbolic representation of smectic phase |
 Grandjean-Cano lines |
 Fingerprint region in an LC |
 Tableau récapitulatif des mésophases les plus courantes. |
