Engineering & Scientific Innovations

Shear Stress Sensitive Liquid Crystals, like these experiencing Mach 4 flow in this video, exhibit remarkable color change in response to varying magnitudes of shear stress.

While these Liquid Crystals wont clue you in on your mood, like their thermochromic counterparts used to make mood rings do; these shear stress sensitive liquid crystals allow for an incredibly advantageous and unique measurement technique to non-invasively collect shear stress data over large surface areas accurately, quantitatively-and instantaneously-in flows from subsonic to hypersonic regimes!

Imagine what this could do to enhance the aerodynamics of your next project! Reach out to us today for more information!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8lONpaa_RA

Various (M200s & M95s) pyrotechnics recorded exploding under water at 1000 frames per second and 3000 frames per second. Videos played back at 2 frames per second.