Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments

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Patrick Oswald (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France) Pawel Pieranski (Universite Paris Sud, France)

Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals

Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments

Patrick Oswald (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France), Pawel Pieranski (Universite Paris Sud, France), Pawel Pieranski (Universite Paris Sud, France) , George W. Gray (Dorset, UK)

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CRC Press Inc
09 December 2005

Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics); Physical chemistry; Crystallography

Series: Liquid Crystals Book Series

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.

By: Patrick Oswald (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon France), Pawel Pieranski (Universite Paris Sud, France), Pawel Pieranski (Universite Paris Sud, France)
Series edited by: George W. Gray (Dorset UK)
Imprint: CRC Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 1.360kg
ISBN: 9780849398407
ISBN 10: 0849398401
Series: Liquid Crystals Book Series
Pages: 710
Publication Date: 09 December 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patrick Oswald

Reviews for Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments

. . . an excellent book . . . well illustrated by diagrams and very good accounts of experiments which amply illustrate the important and fascinating properties of these materials . . . a timely publication . . . - David Harwood, Institute for Science Education, University of Plymouth, in Physical Sciences Educational Reviews, Vol. 7, No. 2