Liquid Crystals: Nature's Delicate Phase of Matter

by Peter J. Collings

Book Overview

Liquid crystals in the last two decades have become part of a technological explosion, leading to advances in areas as diverse as oil recovery, the production of temperature sensors--from medical thermograms to "mood rings"--and biological research into nerve conduction and arteriosclerosis. Although they are as fundamental a phase of matter as solids, liquids, and gases, liquid crystals have over the past century puzzled scientists by their very...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691024294
• ISBN13: 9780691024295
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"