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Liquid crystals (GlossaryTerm

LC

s) are nowadays widely used in electro-optical devices (e. g., liquid crystalline displays), for optical visualization of physical influences (heat, IR, high-frequency radiation, pressure, etc.), for nondestructive testing, as well as for thermography.

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Pestov, S., Vill, V. (2018). Liquid Crystals. In: Warlimont, H., Martienssen, W. (eds) Springer Handbook of Materials Data. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69743-7_26

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