The orderly beauty of liquid crystals

They're in everywhere in our screens, but what are liquid crystals? 🖥️ How are they liquid? Or crystalline? In this video, we discover the colourful physics of ordered fluids!
↓ More infos and links in the description! ↓

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French version:    • Les cristaux liquides : ordre et beauté  
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RELATED PUBLICATIONS:

Patrick Oswald, Pawel Pieranski, Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals, Gordon and Breach (2000),
https://bit.ly/3dov4ne

Bill Hammack, LCD Monitor Teardown on the engineerguy channel (2011)
   • LCD Monitor Teardown  

Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016,
   • Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Ph...  

Teresa Lopez-Leon, Les cristaux liquides : quand l’ordre et le désordre se rencontrent, groupe Traces video (in French, 2017),
   • Les cristaux liquides : quand l’ordre...  

Julien Bobroff, Microscope Polarisant, La Physique Autrement video (in French, 2016),
   • microscope polarisant  

Sophie Norvez's lectures on liquid crystals at ESPCI Paris

Teresa Lopez-Leon's introductory seminars/lectures on liquid crystals at ESPCI Paris

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STRUCTURE OF THE VIDEO:

00:00 What's a liquid crystal?
01:36 Elasticity of liquid crystals
02:00 Liquid crystals and polarized light
03:21 Birefringence
04:12 Liquid crystals in a polarizing microscope
04:56 Liquid crystal displays
06:09 Liquid crystals and topology
07:18 Conclusion

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CREDITS:

Host:
Julie Godefroid

Director:
Hoon Kwon

Writer:
Guillaume Durey

Science supervisor:
Teresa Lopez-Leon

Animator:
Benjamin Alardin

Sound mixer:
Valentin Zorgnotti

Editor:
Guillaume Durey

Studio, visual identity:
Juliette Nier

Theme music:
Pierre David

Production:
Guillaume Durey, Mathias Kasiulis, Quentin Magdelaine


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Collective Effects in Soft Matter team, Gulliver laboratory,
https://www.ec2m.espci.fr/home/

Paul Boniface, Espace des Sciences Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, for his valuable advice,
https://www.groupe-traces.fr/membre/p...

Alexandre Darmon, former PhD student in the Gulliver lab, for his video of a phase transition in cholesteric liquid crystal shells.
http://artinresearch.com/


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PSL Research University – https://www.univ-psl.fr
ESPCI Paris – https://www.espci.fr
Espace des sciences Pierre-Gilles de Gennes – https://www.espgg.org
ESPCI Alumni – https://espci.alumni.paris
Fonds ESPCI Paris – https://www.fonds-espci-paris.org/