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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.

• Introduction: Slushp. 7
• Flowing Crystalsp. 23
• Icep. 66
• Snowflakesp. 94
• Blizzardp. 122
• Meltwaterp. 153
• Liquid Crystalp. 199
• Sea Icep. 232
• Conclusion: Permafrost, Liquid Assetsp. 252
• Referencesp. 265
• Acknowledgementsp. 287
• Photo Acknowledgementsp. 289
• Indexp. 291