Overview

These volumes are a result of the personal research and graduate lectures given by the authors at the Ecole Normale Superieure 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.

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Author:   Patrick Oswald (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France) ,  Pawel Pieranski (Universite Paris Sud, France)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   CRC Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 8.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   2.676kg
ISBN:  

9780849392030

ISBN 10:   0849392039
Pages:   618
Publication Date:   18 January 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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...authoritative and detailed...one notices the importance given to topics that have only received limited coverage elsewhere in the literature, such as surface phenomena (anchoring, faceting) and the dynamics of growth or deformation. - Jacques Friedel, Academie des Sciences, Paris, France

...authoritative and detailed...one notices the importance given to topics that have only received limited coverage elsewhere in the literature, such as surface phenomena (anchoring, faceting) and the dynamics of growth or deformation. - Jacques Friedel, Academie des Sciences, Paris, France

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