| Description |
1 online resource (1300 pages) |
| Series |
Liquid Crystals Book |
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Liquid Crystals Book
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| Contents |
Volume 01; Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Dedication; Preface to the English edition; PART A: OVERVIEW; Chapter A.I: Some history; Chapter A. II: Modern classification of liquid crystals; Chapter A. III: Mesogenic anatomy; PART B: MESOPHASES WITH AN ORIENTATIONAL ORDER; Chapter B.I: Structure and dielectric properties of the nematic phase; Chapter B. II: Nematoelasticity: Frederiks transition and light scattering; Chapter B. III: Nematodynamics and flow instabilities; Chapter B. IV: Defects and textures in nematics; Chapter B.V: Anchoring and anchoring transitions of nematics on solid surfaces |
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Chapter B. VI: The nematic-isotropic liquid interface: static properties and directional growth instabilitiesChapter B. VII: Cholesterics: the first example of a frustrated mesophase; Chapter B. VIII: Blue Phases: a second example of a frustrated mesophase; Chapter B. IX: Overview of growth phenomena and the Mullins-Sekerka instability; Back Cover; Volume 02; Cover; CONTENTS; Preface to the English edition; Part C: SMECTIC AND COLUMNAR LIQUID CRYSTALS; Chapter C.I: Structure of the smectic A phase and the transition toward the nematic phase |
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Chapter C. II: Continuum theory of smectic A hydrodynamicsChapter C. III: Dislocations, focal conics and rheology of smectics A; Chapter C. IV: Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric mesophases; Chapter C.V: The twist-grain boundary smectics; Chapter C. VI: Hexatic smectics; Chapter C. VII: The smectic B plastic crystal; Chapter C. VIII: Smectic free films; Chapter C. IX: Columnar phases; Chapter C.X: Growth of a columnar hexagonal phase; Back Cover |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pieranski, Pawel
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| ISBN |
9781482275285 |
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1482275287 |
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