| Description |
1 online resource (298 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover ; Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form ; Imprint Page ; Contents ; Introduction: Slush ; 1: Flowing Crystals ; 2: Ice ; 3: Snowflakes ; 4: Blizzard ; 5: Meltwater ; 6: Liquid Crystal ; 7: Sea Ice ; Conclusion: Permafrost, Liquid Assets ; References ; Acknowledgements ; Photo Acknowledgements ; Index |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Liquid crystals.
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Liquid crystals -- History
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Science and the arts.
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Art and science.
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Liquid Crystals
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ART -- General.
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Science and the arts
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Liquid crystals
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Art and science
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781780236933 |
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178023693X |
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