The following pictures are provided by Professor Noel Clark's liquid
crystal research group at the Ferroelectric
Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, courtesy of Dr. Michi
Nakata, Dr. Eva Korblova, Professor Dave Walba, and Professor Noel Clark.
These pictures are a sequence of a single sample of a banana-molecule
type liquid crystal, undergoing gradual cooling. Each picture shows the
same sample, at different temperatures, with the orientation and magnification
unchanged. (Click on the image for larger view.)
