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Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals - Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments (Hardcover)
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Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals - Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments (Hardcover)
Series: Liquid Crystals Book Series
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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 Ecole Normale Superieure 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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