Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments

ISBN-13: 9780367864316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 648 str.

Patrick Oswald; Pawel Pieranski

Opis

This book is a result of personal research and of the graduate lectures given by the authors at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the Paris VII University, respectively. The first part of the book presents historical background, the modern classification of liquid crystals, and mesogenic anatomy; the second part examines liquid crystals with

Spis treści

PART A: OVERVIEW
Some History
Modern Classification of Liquid Crystals
Mesogenic Anatomy
PART B: 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

O autorze

Patrick Oswald, Pawel Pieranski, John W. Goodby and George W. Gray