CWP at physics. Additional Information Liquid crystals are condensed matter phases that show characteristics of both liquids and solids. They exhibit the fluidity of liquids and some of the long-range order of crystals.
Smectic phases add positional order along one spatial direction.
The field of liquid crystals was rapidly advancing and headed for important technological applications at the time Dr. Cladis began her work. She made numerous experimental and theoretical contributions which were important for the understanding of the basic physics of liquid crystals and their technological applications. The following is a short list of some important papers chosen and annotated by Dr. Cladis. Her publication list consists of more than 130 publications. Demonstration that a non-linear ordinary differential equation had standing soliton solutions that broke the symmetry of the boundary conditions.