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

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

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…authoritative and detailed…one notices the importance given to topics that have only received limited coverage elsewhere in the literature, such as surface phenomena (anchoring, faceting) and the dynamics of growth or deformation.
- Jacques Friedel, Académie des Sciences, Paris, France

Book Description
Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals is a result of personal research and of the graduate lectures given by the authors at the Ecole Normale Suprieure 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 nematic and cholesteric orientational order. Several chapters analyze defects, surface anchoring transitions, and growth phenomena. The book provides a useful reference intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in liquid crystals, condensed matter physics, and materials science.

Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals (Liquid Crystals Series),Patrick Oswald,Pawel Pieranski,CRC,0415321409,Business & Management,Crystallography,Liquid crystals,Metallomesogens,Physics,Polymer liquid crystals,Science,Science/Mathematics,Science / Chemistry / Technical & Industrial,States of matter

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