An introduction to liquid crystals : chemistry & physics /: chemistry & physics. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter J. Collings and Mike Hird.
• Authors: Collings, Peter J, 1947-; Goodby, J. W. G
• Contents: Chapter 1 Welcome to a Delicate and Special Phase of Matter 1.1 PHASES OF MATTER 1.2 ORIENTATIONAL AND POSITIONAL ORDER 1.3 TYPES OF LIQUID CRYSTALS 1.4 LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASES 1.5 COMPLEX MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURES 1.6 LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS 1.7 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Chapter 2 A Liquid Crystal - What is it? 2.1 FACE-TO-FACE WITH LIQUID CRYSTALS 2.2 POLYMORPHISM AND HEATS OF TRANSITION 2.3 MIXING SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS 2.4 PERIODIC ORDER AND LENGTH SCALES IN 1D, 2D, AND 3D SYSTEMS 2.5 STRUCTURAL ARRANGEMENTS IN LIQUID CRYSTALS 2.6 DYNAMICS AND FLUCTUATIONS IN LIQUID CRYSTALS Chapter 3 Nature’s Anisotropic Fluids - It’s All About Direction 3.1 ANISOTROPY 3.2 TENSOR ALGEBRA 3.3 ORDER PARAMETERS AND THEIR MEASUREMENT 3.4 UNIAXIAL VS. BIAXIAL ORDER 3.5 ELECTRIC AND OPTICAL ANISOTROPY 3.6 MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURE 3.7 CONTINUUM THEORY 3.8 DISCLINATIONS AND DEFECTS Chapter 4 Theoretical Insights - So Many Possibilities 4.1 LANDAU-DEGENNES THEORY 4.2 MAIER-SAUPE THEORY 4.3 ONSAGER THEORY 4.4 EXTENSIONS TO THE SMECTIC PHASE 4.5 PRETRANSITIONAL FLUCTUATIONS 4.6 SIMULATION TECHNIQUES 4.7 DEFECT PHASES 4.8 SELF-ASSEMBLY THEORY Chapter 5 Calamitic Liquid Crystals - Rods, Kinks, and Molecular Design 5.1 THE MOLECULAR BUILDING BLOCKS OF CALAMITIC LIQUID CRYSTALS 5.2 SELF-ORGANIZATION VERSUS SELF-ASSEMBLY 5.3 NANO- AND MICRO-PHASE SEGREGATION 5.4 CALAMITIC LIQUID CRYSTALS AND PHASE TRANSITIONS 5.5 CHEMICAL MOIETY SELECTION 5.6 ASPECT RATIOS IN MOLECULAR DESIGN OF CALAMITIC PHASES 5.7 CONJUGATION, POLARIZABILITY, AND SUPRAMOLECULAR ASPECT RATIOS 5.8 LATERAL INTERACTIONS AND BIAXIAL PHASES 5.9 EFFECT OF ASPECT RATIOS AND LAYER FORMATION 5.10 TILTING IN SMECTIC PHASES 173 Chapter 6 Discotic Liquid Crystals - Stacking the Dishes and the Bowls 6.1 PILING UP THE PENNIES AND DISCOTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS 6.2 STRUCTURES OF MESOPHASES FORMED BY DISK-LIKE MOLECULES 6.3 CHEMICAL MOIETY SELECTION - HARD DISKS 6.4 CHEMICAL MOEITY SELECTION - DISK PERIPHERY 6.5 CHEMICAL MOIETY SELECTION - DISK THICKNESS 6.6 CHEMICAL MOIETY SELECTION - CHANGING THE DISKLIKE CORES 6.7 DISCOTICS WITH CONNECTED DISKS 6.8 DISCOTICS WITH DONUT RINGS 6.9 DISCOTICS WITH BOWLIC CORES 6.10 DISCOTIC SUPERMOLECULES WITH HYBRID COLUMNAR AND CALAMITIC STRUCTURES Chapter 7 Chiral Liquid Crystals - Twisted and Frustrated 7.1 HANDED LIQUID CRYSTALS 7.2 MOLECULAR ASYMMETRY AND DISSYMMETRY IN LIQUID CRYSTALS 7.3 OPTICAL PURITY AND ENANTIOMERIC EXCESS 7.4 SYMMETRY BREAKING FOR LOCAL SPACE SYMMETRY AND FORM CHIRALITY 7.5 HELICAL STRUCTURES OF VARIOUS LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASES 7.6 NON-HELICAL CHIRAL LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASES 7.7 CHIRAL MESOPHASES SUPPORTED BY THE FORMATION OF DEFECTS 7.8 CHIRALMESOPHASESANDCONGLOMERATESFORMED BY ACHIRAL MATERIALS 7.9 CONNECTING LOCAL CHIRALITY TO MACROSCOPIC CHIRALITY Chapter 8 Bent-Core Liquid Crystals - It’s Bananas 8.1 MOLECULES OF UNCONVENTIONAL STRUCTURE 8.2 BROKEN SYMMETRY IN BENT-CORE PHASES 8.3 THE BIAXIAL NEMATIC PHASE 8.4 THE B2 PHASE AND LAMELLAR SUB-PHASES 8.5 THE B1 PHASE AND ITS COLUMNAR SUB-PHASES 8.6 SPLAY AND MODULATED STRUCTURES IN B PHASES Chapter 9 Lyotropic Liquid Crystals - Wet ’n’ Dry 9.1 AMPHIPHILES AND LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS 9.2 AMPHIPHILES AND MICELLES 9.3 THE STRUCTURE OF LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS 9.4 THE LAMELLAR LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE 9.5 THE HEXAGONAL LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASES 9.6 THE DISCONTINUOUS CUBIC LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASES 9.7 THE BICONTINOUS CUBIC LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASES 9.8 PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS AND PHASE DIAGRAMS 9.9 BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF LIQUID CRYSTALS 9.10 CHROMONIC LIQUID CRYSTALS Chapter 10 Polymers, Oligomers & Dendrimers - Big and Beautiful 10.1 MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS 10.2 POLYMERS, OLIGOMERS, AND DENDRIMERS 10.3 MESOGENIC MOIETIES INCORPORATED IN POLYMERS, OLIGOMERS, AND DENDRIMERS 10.4 MESOGENIC MOIETIES ATTACHED TO POLYMER BACKBONES 10.5 MESOGENIC MOIETIES ATTACHED TO DENDIMERS 10.6 PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION IN ORGANIZED MEDIA Chapter 11 Liquid Crystal Science - Techniques and Instruments 11.1 INTRODUCTION 11.2 POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY 11.3 DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY 11.4 REFRACTOMETRY AND CONOSCOPY 11.5 X-RAY DIFFRACTION 11.6 NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE 11.7 ELECTRON MICROSCOPY 11.8 ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS 11.9 OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS 11.10 MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS 11.11 DEVICE TECHNIQUES C hapter 12 Liquid Crystals in Electric and Magnetic Fields - A Delicate Response 12.1 ELECTRIC POLARIZABILITY 12.2 MAGNETIZATION 12.3 FREDERIKS TRANSITION 12.4 HELIX UNWINDING TRANSITION 12.5 BOUNDARIES 12.6 CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES 12.7 FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS C hapter 13 Light and Liquid Crystals - A Panoply of Color 13.1 POLARIZED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES 13.2 BIREFRINGENCE 13.3 OPTICAL RETARDATION 13.4 JONES CALCULUS 13.5 CIRCULAR BIREFRINGENCE AND OPTICAL ACTIVITY 13.6 OPTICS OF CHIRAL NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS 13.7 LIGHT SCATTERING 13.8 INDUCED BIREFRINGENCE IN THE ISOTROPIC PHASE C hapter 14 Liquid Crystal Displays - Here, There, and Everywhere 14.1 BASIC STRUCTURE OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS 14.2 TWISTED NEMATIC DISPLAYS 14.3 VERTICALLY ALIGNED NEMATIC DISPLAYS 14.4 IN-PLANE SWITCHING NEMATIC DISPLAYS 14.5 FERROELECTRIC SMECTIC DISPLAYS 14.6 LCD TECHNOLOGY 14.7 COMPENSATORS C hapter 15 Other Applications - Optical Fiber Networks to Shampoo 15.1 LIQUID CRYSTAL ON SILICON TECHNOLOGY 15.2 SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS 15.3 CIRCULAR POLARIZERS 15.4 TEMPERATURE SENSORS 15.5 LUBRICANTS 15.6 HIGH YIELD STRENGTH POLYMERS 15.7 DETERGENTS, COSMETICS, FOOD, AND DRUGS Index
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 530.429; Liquid crystals
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351579827; 9781351579834; 9781351579810; 9781315098340
• Related ISBNs: 9781138298859; 9781138298767
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