Special Issue: liquid crystals
MAY 01, 1982
DOI: 10.1063/1.2915090
Many organic crystals melt by passing through intermediate fluid phases that are optically anisotropic. Discovered by the Austrian botanist Friedrich Reinitzer in 1888, such “liquid crystals” were much studied in the early part of this century, but remained no more than a curiosity until recently.
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J. David Litster. Guest Editor.
© 1982. American Institute of Physics
