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1 online resource (xvi, 531 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Liquid crystals : main types and classification. 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. General types of liquid crystals -- 1.3. Classification of liquid crystals : symmetry and structure -- 1.4. Calamitic thermotropic liquid crystals -- 1.5. Mesophases of disc-like molecules -- 1.6. Lyotropic liquid crystals -- 1.7. Mesogenic materials -- 1.8. Polymorphism in liquid crystals -- 2. Distribution functions and order parameters. 2.1. Distribution functions -- 2.2. Order parameters -- 2.3. Measurement of order parameters -- 3. Physical properties of liquid crystals. 3.1. Scalar physical properties -- 3.2. Anisotropic physical properties -- 3.3. Elastic constants -- 3.4. Effects of chemical structure on the physical properties -- 4. Nematic liquid crystals. 4.1. Essential features of uniaxial nematics -- 4.2. Nematics of different symmetry -- 4.3. Structure -- property correlations -- 4.4. Statistical theories of the nematic order -- 5. Nematic liquid crystals: elastostatics and nematodynamics. 5.1. Elastostatics in nematics -- 5.2. Dynamical properties of nematics -- 6. Smectic liquid crystals. 6.1. Symmetry and characteristics of smectic phases -- 6.2. Structure-property relations -- 6.3. Smectic A phase -- 6.4. The nematic to smectic A (N S[symbol]) transition -- 6.5. Polymorphism in S[symbol] phase -- 6.6. Smectic C phase -- 6.7. Reentrant phase transitions (RPT) in liquid crystals -- 6.8. Dynamical properties of smectics -- 6.9. Computer simulations of phase transitions in liquid crystals -- 7. Liquid crystals of disc-like molecules. 7.1. The discotic nematic phase -- 7.2. The columnar phases -- 7.3. Structure-property relationship -- 7.4. Phase transitions in discotic nematic and columnar phases -- 7.5. Continuum description of columnar phases -- 8. Polymer liquid crystals. 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Types of liquid crystal polymers -- 8.3. Types of monomeric units -- 8.4. Main chain liquid crystal polymers (MCLCPS) -- 8.5. Side chain liquid crystal polymers (SCLCPS) -- 8.6. Phase transitions and phase diagrams in LC polymers -- 8.7. Synthetic routes and structure-property relations -- 8.8. Elastic constants of polymer liquid crystals -- 9. Chiral liquid crystals. 9.1. Chiral nematic (cholesteric) phase -- 9.2. Blue phases -- 9.3. Chiral smectic phases -- 9.4. Chiral discotic phases -- 9.5. Chiral polymeric liquid crystals -- 9.6. Theory of ferroelectricity in chiral liquid crystals -- 9.7. Theory for the antiferroelectric subphases -- 9.8. Twist grain boundary (TGB) phases -- 10. Lyotropic liquid crystals. 10.1. Amphiphilic mesogenic materials -- 10.2. Classification and structure of lyotropic liquid crystal phases -- 10.3. Occurrence of mesophases in amphiphile/water systems: phase diagrams -- 10.4. Lyotropic nematics -- 10.5. Lyotropic liquid crystal polymers -- 10.6. Lyomesophases in biological systems -- 10.7. Phase chirality of micellar lyotropics -- 11. Defects and textures in liquid crystals. 11.1. Classification of defects in liquid crystals -- 11.2. Defect textures in uniaxial nematic phase -- 11.3. Defect textures in biaxial nematic phase -- 11.4. Textures and defects in smectics -- 11.5. Textures and defects in chiral liquid crystals -- 11.6. Defects in the columnar liquid crystals. |
| Summary |
Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical applications. Due to their dual nature - anisotropic physical properties of solids and rheological behavior of liquids - and easy response to externally applied electric, magnetic, optical and surface fields liquid crystals are of greatest potential for scientific and technological applications. The subject has come of age and has achieved the status of being a very exciting interdisciplinary field of scientific and industrial research. This book is an outgrowth of the enormous advances made during the last three decades in both our understanding of liquid crystals and our ability to use them in applications. It presents a systematic, self-contained and up-to-date overview of the structure and properties of liquid crystals. It will be of great value to graduates and research workers in condensed matter physics, chemical physics, biology, materials science, chemical and electrical engineering, and technology from a materials science and physics viewpoint of liquid crystals. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Liquid crystals.
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Liquid crystals. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Dunmur, David (David A.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Singh, Shri. Liquid crystals. Singapore ; New Jersey : World Scientific, ©2002 9810242506 9789810242503 (OCoLC)51250539 |
| ISBN |
9789812778581 (electronic book) |
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9812778586 (electronic book) |
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