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Crystal clear; Kent State playing lead role in exploring medical, anti-bioterror uses for liquid crystal technology.(Insight)(Kent State University)
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Crain's Cleveland Business
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August 29, 2005
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Byline: SHANNON PETTYPIECE
Liquid crystals have made clocks digital and monitors flat, and they've given cell phones display screens.
Now some of the latest technologies coming out of Kent State University aim to use liquid crystals to make medicine work better and television screens lighter and flatter.
Kent State is one of the first universities in the world to devote extensive research efforts to a special variety of liquid crystals, called lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals, or LCLCs, which can be used in medicine or for detecting biological agents. Unlike the most common type of liquid crystal used in displays, LCLCs are nontoxic if injected or ingested, and ...