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Liquid crystals : fundamentals /
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 l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore ; New Jersey :
World Scientific,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.