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LC defects

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"blimp" defect
on PVDF		 on PVDF
on PVDF		 defect interconnect
on PVDF
swastika defect
"symbolic" Defect		 defect on PMMA
Defect on PMMA		 on PMMA
on PMMA
rainbow pattern
Rainbow Pattern		 defect interccnnect
Series of Brushes		 radial pattern
Near an Air Bubble
 
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These are images of defects observed in liquid crystals. Defects are a regions where the molecular orientation is locked from an irrecoverable state due to either surface effects, particles, air bubbles etc. They are orientations that hinder the lowering of energy of the equilibrium state.
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