Featured Liquid Crystal Picture Art of the Month
January 2021
©Luciano De Sio
Plasmonic assisted smectic-like liquid crystal phase

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Polarized optical microscope micrograph of a smectic-like liquid crystal phase obtained by doping a conventional cholesteric liquid crystal with a small amount of chloroform dispersed gold nanorods.
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The picture represents the beauty of smectic-like liquid crystal phase.
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