Thermally Induced, Multicolored Hyper-Reflective Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
β Scribed by Michael E. McConney; Vincent P. Tondiglia; Jennifer M. Hurtubise; Lalgudi V. Natarajan; Timothy J. White; Timothy J. Bunning
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 511 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0935-9648
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