Polymers and rods (IMAGE)

Eindhoven University of Technology

Polymers and rods

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A five-phase equilibrium with at the top a gas phase with unaligned rods (isotropic phase), then a liquid phase with rods pointing in about the same direction (nematic liquid crystal), subsequently a liquid phase with rods lying in different layers (smectic liquid crystal), and two solid phases at the bottom.

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Image: ICMS animation studio

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