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Structure Of Liquid Crystal Phases (Hardcover)
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Structure Of Liquid Crystal Phases (Hardcover)
Series: World Scientific Lecture Notes In Physics, 23
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Current understanding of different phases as well as the phase
transitions between them has only been achieved following recent
theoretical advances on the effects of dimensionality in
statistical physics. P S Pershan explains the connection between
these two separate areas and gives some examples of problems where
the understanding is still not complete. The most important example
is the second order phase transition between the nematic and
smectic-A phase. Others include the relation between the several
hexatic phases that have been observed and the first order
restacking transitions between phases that were all previously
identified as smectic-B, but which should more properly be
identified as crystalline-B. Some relatively recent experimental
developments on the discotic phase, liquid crystal surfaces and
lyotropic phases are also included. The book includes 41 major
reprints of some of the recent seminal work on the structure of
liquid crystals. They are introduced by a brief review of the
symmetries and other properties of liquid crystalline phases. In
addition, there is a discussion of the differences between true
liquid crystalline phases and others that were described as liquid
crystalline in the early literature, but which have since been
shown to be true three-dimensional crystals. The progression from
the isotropic fluid, through the nematic, smectic, and various
crystalline phases can be understood in terms of a systematic
decrease in symmetry, together with an accompanying variation in
structure is explained. A guide to the selected reprints and a sort
of "Rosetta Stone" for these various phases is provided. The goal
of this book is to explain the systematics of this progression to
students and others that are new to this field, as well as to
provide a useful handbook for people already working in the field.
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