Liquid crystals : fundamentals / Shri Singh ; foreword by David A. Dunmur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singh, Shri.

Contributor:

Dunmur, David (David A.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liquid crystals.

Crystallography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (549 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : World Scientific, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 behavior 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 scient

Contents:

Contents ; Foreword ; Preface ; 1 LIQUID CRYSTALS : MAIN TYPES AND CLASSIFICATION ; 1.1 Introduction ; 1.2 General Types of Liquid Crystals ; 1.3 Classification Of Liquid Crystals : Symmetry and Structure ; 1.4 Calamitic Thermotropic Liquid Crystals

1.5 Mesophases of Disc-Like Molecules 1.6 Lyotropic Liquid Crystals ; 1.7 Mesogenic Materials ; 1.8 Polymorphism in Liquid Crystals ; References ; 2 DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS AND ORDER PARAMETERS ; 2.1 Distribution Functions ; 2.2 Order Parameters ; 2.3 Measurement of Order Parameters

References 3 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LIQUID CRYSTALS; 3.1 Scalar Physical Properties ; 3.2 Anisotropic Physical Properties ; 3.3 Elastic Constants ; 3.4 Effects of Chemical Structure on the Physical Properties ; References ; 4 NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; 4.1 Essential Features of Uniaxial Nematics

4.2 Nematics of Different Symmetry 4.3 Structure - Property Correlations ; 4.4 Statistical Theories of the Nematic Order; References ; 5 NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS : ELASTOSTATICS AND NEMATODYNAMICS; 5.1 Elastostatics in Nematics ; 5.2 Dynamical Properties of Nematics ; References ; 6 SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS

6.1 Symmetry and Characteristics of Smectic Phases 6.2 Structure-Property Relations ; 6.3 Smectic A Phase ; 6.4 The Nematic to Smectic A (N SA) Transition ; 6.5 Polymorphism in SA Phase ; 6.6 Smectic C Phase ; 6.7 Reentrant Phase Transitions (RPT) in Liquid Crystals

6.8 Dynamical Properties of Smectics

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789812778581

9812778586

OCLC:

879074260