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Liquid Crystals

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Liquid Crystals

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Liquid Crystals
Rae Ostman [4]
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Description: 

"Liquid Crystals" is a group of hands-on activities and experiments developed at UW-MRSEC that explore how liquid crystals change color as their temperature changes. There are instructions for preparing liquid crystal mixtures, a thermometer and a pixel. There is also background information about how liquid crystals work. Teacher's guides, transparencies and student worksheets are included for the activities.
Credits

This product is created by another institution or funding from another grant.

Funding: 

NSF funded

Owning institution: 

University of Wisconsin - MRSEC

Nano Topics

[7]

Audience

[8]

Tags

[9], [10], [11], [12]

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Catalog section: 

Programs

What kind of program?: 

Classroom activity

Nano topics: 

Materials, tools, and applications

Audience: 

11 and up

Content keywords: 

liquid crystal
thermometer
UW MRSEC
pixel liquid crystals

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

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K-12: 

This product would be useful for K-12 teachers.
Resources

Links: 

Liquid Crystals [13]
Preparation of Cholesteryl Ester Liquid Crystals [14]
Preparation of a Liquid Crystal Thermometer [15]
Preparation of a Liquid Crystal Pixel [16]
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[13] http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/background/LC/index.html
[14] http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/nanolab/LC_prep/index.html
[15] http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/nanolab/LC_prep/index2.html
[16] http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/nanolab/LCD/index.html