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Vance Williams

Cholesteric Liquid Crystals, 2018

Photomicrograph
Polarized optical microscope; Nikon D90 DSLR camera; field of view 1 x 0.7 millimeters

Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada


This photomicrograph shares how the material found in mood rings and other thermography applications appears when examined by optical microscopy.