Polymeric liquid crystals
- 1 May 1982
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 35 (5), 40-46
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2915093
Abstract
Soft contact lenses and ablative heat shields for spacecraft require materials with vastly different physical properties. Yet the materials for both—permeable elastic membranes and tenacious high‐temperature composities—are products of polymer science.Keywords
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