Introduction to Liquid Crystals
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-138-29885-9 (ISBN)
Features
Introduces and explains the essential elements of liquid crystal science, including discussion of how liquid crystals have been utilized for innovative and important applications. New to this edition are over 300 figures, 90 end-of chapter exercises, and an increased scope that includes recent developments.
Combines the knowledge of two eminent scientists in the field; they have fully updated and expanded the text to cover undergraduate/graduate course work as well as current research in what is now a billion-dollar industry.
Immerses the reader in the vocabulary, structures, data, and kinetic models, rapidly building up an understanding of the theories and models in current use.
Begins with a historical account of the discovery of liquid crystals and continues with a description of how different phases are generated and how different molecular architectures affect liquid crystal properties.
Peter J. Collings is Morris L. Clothier Emeritus Professor of Physics at Swarthmore College and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and past Vice-President of the International Liquid Crystal Society. He is the author of Liquid Crystals: Nature’s Delicate Phase of Matter (Princeton University Press, 1990, 2002) and co-author of the first edition of Introduction to Liquid Crystals: Chemistry and Physics (Taylor & Francis, 1997). John W. Goodby is Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of York, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and past President of the International Liquid Crystal Society. He is the co-author of Smectic Liquid Crystals: Textures and Structures (Leonard Hill, 1984), Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: Principles, Properties and Applications (Gordon & Breach 1991), and Senior Editor of the Handbook of Liquid Crystals (Wiley-VCH, 2014).
Introduction to a special phase of matter
Nature's anisotropic fluids
Calamitic Liquid Crystals - Nematic And Smectic Mesophases
Discotic liquid crystals - nematic and smectic mesophases
Discotic liquid crystals - columnar and nematic mesophases
Polymeric liquid crystals - macromesogens
Chiral liquid crystals - art and science
Lyotropic liquid crystals - anisotropic solutions
Synthesis of liquid crystals - strategies and methods
Identification of liquid crystals
Identification of liquid crystal phases - mesophase characterization
Liquid crystals in electric and magnetic fields - a delicate response
Light and liquid crystals - a panoply of colour
Theoretical insights
Liquid crystal technology
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.10.2019 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 20 Illustrations, color; 380 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 2200 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik | |
| Technik ► Maschinenbau | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-29885-9 / 1138298859 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-29885-9 / 9781138298859 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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