Smectic and columnar liquid crystals : concepts and physical properties illustrated by experiments / Patrick Oswald, Pawel Pieranski.

Liquid crystals allow us to perform experiments that provide insight into fundamental problems of modern physics, such as phase transitions, frustration, elasticity, hydrodynamics, defects, growth phenomena, and optics. Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrat...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Oswald, Patrick
Other Authors:	Pieranski, Pawel
Other title:	Cristaux liquides. Tome 2. English
Format:	eBook
Language:	English French
Published:	Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Series:	Liquid crystal book series.
Subjects:	Liquid crystals. Columnar structure (Metallurgy)