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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| Other title: | Cristaux liquides. Tome 2. English |
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| Series: | Liquid crystal book series.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Smectic and columnar liquid crystals : |b concepts and physical properties illustrated by experiments / |c Patrick Oswald, Pawel Pieranski. |
| 260 | |a Boca Raton, FL : |b Taylor & Francis, |c 2006. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Dedication; Preface to the English edition; SMECTIC AND COLUMNAR LIQUID CRYSTALS; ; Structure of the Smectic A Phase and the Transition Toward the Nematic Phase; Lamellar Structure of the Smectic A Phase; The Smectic A-Nematic Transition: a Simplified Approach; De Gennes' Theory of the Smectic A-Nematic Transition: Analogy With Superconductivity; Pretransitional Effects in the Nematic Phase; Influence of the Fluctuations in Director Orientation on the Transition Order: the Theory of Halperin, Lubensky, and Ma; An Alternative Theory; Appendix 1: Superconducting Vortices and Screw Dislocations; Appendix 2: X-ray Scattering and the Determination of the Structure Factor; ; Continuum Theory of Smectics A Hydrodynamics; Static Description; Layer Undulation Instability; Equations of Smectic Hydrodynamics; Sound Propagation in Smectics; Continuous flow; ; Dislocations, Focal Conics, | |
| 505 | 0 | |a And Rheology of Smectics A; Focal conics; Dislocations; Rheological Behavior at Low Shear Rate and Lubrication Theory; Rheological Behavior at High Shear Rates; Microplasticity; ; Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Mesophases; Do Ferroelectric Mesophases Exist?; Genesis of the Smectic C* Phase; Experimental Evidence for the Spontaneous Polarization; Measurement and Use of the Spontaneous Polarization; Hydroelectric Effect; Electromechanical Effect; The SmA -> SmC* Transition; Anticlinic, Mesophases, | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Antiferroelectric and Ferrielectric; Mesophases Formed by Banana-Shaped Molecules; ; The Twist-Grain Boundary Smectics; The Renn-Lubensky Model; Discovery of the TGBA Phase; Other TGB Phases; Elasticity of the TGB Phases; Smectic Blue Phases; ; Hexatic Smectics; Theory of Two-Dimensional Melting: the Hexatic Phase; Hexatic Smectics; Quasi-Elastic Light Scattering; Rheology; Appendix 1: Peierls Disorder; ; The Smectic B Plastic Crystal; Structure of Smectic B Phases; Elastic and Plastic Properties; Equilibrium Shape of a Smectic B Germ; Herring instability; Instabilities of the SmA-SmB Front in Directional Growth; Appendix 1: Creep by Crossing of Localized Obstacles; ; Smectic Free Films; Making Smectic Films; Some Crucial Experiments; Thermodynamics of Thermotropic Films; Steps in Smectic Films; Film Structure and Phase Transitions at a Fixed Number of Layers; Smectic Films as Model Systems. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a ; ; Columnar Phases; Structure and Optical Properties; Elasticity; Developable Domains; Dislocations; Measurement of the Elastic Constants; Mechanical Instabilities; Dynamics of the Buckling Instabilities; Light Scattering; Threads of Columnar Mesophases; ; Growth of a Columnar Hexagonal Phase; Phase Diagram and Physical Constants of the Material; Growth in the Diffusive Regime (0. | |
| 520 | |a 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 Illustrated by Experiments is a result of personal research and of the graduate lectures given by the authors at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the University of Paris VII, respectively. The book examines lamellar (smectic) and columnar liquid crystals, which, in addition to orientational o. | ||
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