Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments, Two Volume SetThese volumes are a result of the personal research and graduate lectures given by the authors at the ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and the University of Paris VII, respectively. Featuring an easy-to-follow, accessible style, each volume describes important concepts and physical properties using classroom-friendly experiments, many of which the |
Contents
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PART B MESOPHASES WITH AN ORIENTATIONAL ORDER | 64 |
Back Cover | 597 |
Cover | 598 |
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Preface to the English edition | 3 |
Part C SMECTIC AND COLUMNAR LIQUID CRYSTALS | 9 |
Chapter CIII Dislocations focal conics and rheology of smectics A | 113 |
Chapter CIV Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric mesophases | 189 |
Chapter CV The twistgrain boundary smectics | 251 |
Chapter CVI Hexatic smectics | 301 |
Chapter CVII The smectic B plastic crystal | 351 |
Chapter CVIII Smectic free films | 397 |
Chapter CIX Columnar phases | 575 |
Chapter CX Growth of a columnar hexagonal phase | 637 |
Chapter CI Structure of the smectic A phase and the transition toward the nematic phase | 11 |
Chapter CII Continuum theory of smectic A hydrodynamics | 63 |
Back Cover | 663 |
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Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments ... Patrick Oswald,Pawel Pieranski No preview available - 2006 |
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