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Phases and phase transitions

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 May 1982 English Publisher:AIP PublishingJournal:Physics Today, volume 35, pages 26-33 (issn: 0031-9228, eissn: 1945-0699, Copyright policy )
Authors: J. David Litster; Robert J. Birgeneau;

doi: 10.1063/1.2915091

Phases and phase transitions

Abstract

In this first sentence of his seminal book “The Physics of Liquid Crystals,” Pierre Gilles de Gennes has succinctly stated the appeal that liquid crystals have for all of us working in this field. The term “liquid crystal,” in fact, refers to a number of distinct states of matter that have structural order intermediate between that of conventional liquids and solids.

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