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News Release 12-085
Liquid Crystal Design
Engineers develop technique to craft new materials using liquid crystals as structural guides
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In this creative illustration, each small disc depicts actual data from computational models of nanometer-scale droplets containing liquid crystals, water and surfactants (molecules that lower the surface tensions of liquids). The different patterns show how the surfactants self-organize as they interact with liquid crystals on each droplet's surface.
Credit: Juan de Pablo, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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