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Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals

Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments

By: Patrick Oswald,Pawel Pieranski

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Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals

Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments

By: 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 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 order, possess 1D, 2D or 3D positional order. This volume illustrates original physical concepts using methodically numerous experiments, theoretical developments, and diagrams. Topics include rheology and plasticity, ferroelectricity, analogies with superconductors, hexatic order and 2D-melting, equilibrium shapes, facetting, and the Mullins-Sekerka instability, as well as phase transitions in free films and membrane vibrations. Nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals are covered by the authors in a separate volume entitled Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments. Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals is an ideal introduction and a valuable source of reference for theoretical and experimental studies of advanced students and researchers in liquid crystals, condensed matter physics, and materials science.

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Liquid Crystals

Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments, Two Volume Set

By: Patrick Oswald,Pawel Pieranski

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Liquid Crystals

Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments, Two Volume Set

By: Patrick Oswald,Pawel Pieranski

These volumes are a result of the personal research and graduate lectures given by the authors at the ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and the University of Paris VII, respectively. Featuring an easy-to-follow, accessible style, each volume describes important concepts and physical properties using classroom-friendly experiments, many of which the

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Liquid Crystals

New Perspectives

By: Pawel Pieranski,Maria Helena Godinho

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Liquid Crystals

New Perspectives

By: Pawel Pieranski,Maria Helena Godinho

This book on liquid crystals reports on the new perspectives that have been brought about by the recent expansion of frontiers and overhaul of common beliefs. First, it explores the interaction of light with mesophases, when the light or matter is endowed with topological defects. It goes on to show how electrophoresis, electro-osmosis and the swimming of flagellated bacteria are affected by the anisotropic properties of liquid crystals. It also reports on the recent progress in the understanding of thermomechanical and thermohydrodynamical effects in cholesterics and deformed nematics and refutes the common belief that these effects could explain Lehmann’s observations of the rotation of cholesteric droplets subjected to a temperature gradient. It then studies the physics of the dowser texture, which has remarkable properties. This is of particular interest in regards to nematic monopoles, which can easily be generated, set into motion and collided within it. Finally, this book deals with the spontaneous emergence of chirality in nematics made of achiral molecules, and provides a brief historical context of chirality

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Liquid Crystals

New Perspectives

By: Pawel Pieranski,Maria Helena Godinho

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New Perspectives

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Liquid Crystals

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By: Patrick Oswald,Pawel Pieranski

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Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals

Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments

By: Patrick Oswald,Pawel Pieranski

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Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments

By: Patrick Oswald,Pawel Pieranski

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