Liquid Crystals

Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments, Two Volume Set
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8493-9203-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 618 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 2682 g

Reihe: Liquid Crystals Book Series

These volumes are a result of the personal research and graduate lectures given by the authors at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the University of Paris VII, respectively. Featuring an easy-to-follow, accessible style, each volume describes important concepts and physical properties using classroom-friendly experiments, many of which the professors used in their own classes, and clear diagrams.

Although Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments can be used as an independent text, it is an ideal and complementary companion to Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments.

Featuring topics that seldom appear in current literature, these volumes represent an ideal introduction and a valuable source of reference for theoretical and experimental studies of advanced students and researchers in liquid crystals, condensed matter physics, and materials science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oswald, Patrick

Pieranski, Pawel

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Oberflächen- und Grenzflächenphysik, Dünne Schichten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments OVERVIEW Some History Modern Classification of Liquid Crystals Mesogenic Anatomy MESOPHASES WITH AN ORIENTATIONAL ORDER Structure and Dielectric Properties of the Nematic Phase Nematoelasticity: Frederiks Transition and Light Scattering Nematodynamics and Flow Instabilities Defects and Textures in Nematics Anchoring and Anchoring Transitions of Nematics on Solid Surfaces The Nematic-Isotropic Liquid Interface: Static Properties and Directional Growth Instabilities Cholesterics: the First Example of a Frustrated Mesophase Blue Phases: a Second Example of a Frustrated Mesophase Overview of Growth Phenomena and the Mullins-Sekerka Instability Subject index Author index Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments Dedication Preface to the English edition SMECTIC AND COLUMNAR LIQUID CRYSTALS Structure of the Smectic A Phase and the Transition Toward the Nematic Phase Continuum Theory of Smectics A Hydrodynamics Dislocations, Focal Conics, and Rheology of Smectics A Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Mesophases The Twist-Grain Boundary Smectics Hexatic Smectics The Smectic B Plastic Crystal Smectic Free Films Columnar Phases Growth of a Columnar Hexagonal Phase Subject index Author index

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Oswald, Pawel Pieranski