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Liquid Crystals : the Science and Art of a Fluid Form.
"While it is responsible for today's abundance of flat screens--on televisions, computers, and mobile devices--most of us have only heard of it in the ubiquitous acronym, LCD, with little thought as to exactly what it is: liquid crystal. In this book, Esther Leslie enlightens us, offering...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2016.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "While it is responsible for today's abundance of flat screens--on televisions, computers, and mobile devices--most of us have only heard of it in the ubiquitous acronym, LCD, with little thought as to exactly what it is: liquid crystal. In this book, Esther Leslie enlightens us, offering an accessible and fascinating look at--not a substance, not a technology--but a wholly different phase of matter. As she explains, liquid crystal is a curious material phase that organizes a substance's molecules in a crystalline form yet allows them to move fluidly like water. Observed since the nineteenth century, this phase has been a deep curiosity to science and, in more recent times, the key to a new era of media technology. In between that time, as Leslie shows, it has figured in cultural forms from Romantic landscape painting to snow globes, from mountaineering to eco-disasters, and from touchscreen devices to DNA. Expertly written but accessible, Liquid Crystals recounts the unheralded but hugely significant emergence of this unique form of matter."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (298 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781780236933 178023693X |