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Benjamin Pacheco, Jennie Jorgenson, Joshua Smith, Nathaniel Amack,

A photomicrograph of a synthetic thermotropic liquid crystal in the smectic A phase, under applied voltage bias and polarized light. The dark areas show a different crystal orientation from the bright areas.
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