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 behaviour 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 text 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 overview of the structure and properties of liquid crystals. It should be of interest 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.
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Most of us trained in science, since our years in school, have been conditioned into recognising three states of matter - solid, liquid and gas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nematic phase stability, paramorphotic textures, optical polarising microscopy, discotic nematic phase, low molar mass mesogens, persistent macromolecules, hard spherocylinders, layer dilation, phase chirality, director triad, reentrant nematic phase, high chirality, hard ellipsoids, chiral nematic phase, mesogenic materials, uniaxial nematic phase, ferroelectric ordering, discotic molecules, main chain liquid crystal polymers, microscopic order parameters, fan texture, low molar mass liquid crystals, lyotropic liquid crystal phases, side chain liquid crystal polymers, smectic order parameter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Most of us trained in science, since our years in school, have been conditioned into recognising three states of matter - solid, liquid and gas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nematic phase stability, paramorphotic textures, optical polarising microscopy, discotic nematic phase, low molar mass mesogens, persistent macromolecules, hard spherocylinders, layer dilation, phase chirality, director triad, reentrant nematic phase, high chirality, hard ellipsoids, chiral nematic phase, mesogenic materials, uniaxial nematic phase, ferroelectric ordering, discotic molecules, main chain liquid crystal polymers, microscopic order parameters, fan texture, low molar mass liquid crystals, lyotropic liquid crystal phases, side chain liquid crystal polymers, smectic order parameter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Plenum Press, Academic Press, World Scientific, Clarendon Press, Faraday Soc, Oxford Univ, Solid State Commun, Fundamentals Table, Cambridge Univ, Monte Carlo, Faraday Trans, Figueiredo Neto, Krishna Prasad, Pramana Supplement, Recent Advances New!
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- Liquid Crystals (Topics in Physical Chemistry) by Horst Stegemeyer on 19 pages
- Liquid Crystals by S. Chandrasekhar F.R.S. on 17 pages
- Liquid Crystals: Nature's Delicate Phase of Matter, Second Edition. by Peter J. Collings on 13 pages
- Chirality in Liquid Crystals (Partially Ordered Systems) by Heinz Kitzerow on 8 pages
- Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals (NATO Science Series B: Physics) by Arthur N. Chester on 7 pages
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