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Author:   Tian-You Fan ,  Wenge Yang ,  Hui Cheng ,  Xiao-Hong Sun
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   2nd ed. 2022
Volume:   260
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9789811666308

ISBN 10:   981166630
Pages:   235
Publication Date:   19 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Notations.- Preface to the first edition.- Preface to the second Edition.- Introduction to soft matter.- Discovery of soft-matter quasicrystals and their properties.- Brief review on elasticity and hydrodynamics of solid quasicrystals.- Case study of equation of state of several structured fluids.- Poisson bracket method and equations of motion of soft-matter quasicrystals.- Oseen theory and Oseen solution.- Dynamics of soft-matter quasicrystals with 12-fold symmetry.- Dynamics of 10-fold symmetrical soft-matter quasicrystals.- Dynamics of possible soft-matter quasicrystals with 8-fold symmetry.- Dynamics of soft-matter quasicrystals with 18-fold symmetry.- Dynamics of possible soft-matter quasicrystals with 7-, 9- and 14-fold symmetries.- Re-discussion on symmetry breaking and elementary excitations concerning quasicrystals.- An application to thermodynamic stability of soft-matter quasicrystals.- Applications to device physics: photon band-gap of holographic photonic quasicrystals.-Possible applications to general soft matter.- Applications to smectic-A liquid crystals, dislocation and crack.- Conclusion remarks

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Prof. Tian-You Fan After studying at Peking University, Tianyou Fan began his academic career at the Beijing Institute of Technology, as assistant and lecturer (1963-1979), associate professor (1980-1985) and professor (1986-present). He was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow several times at the Universities of Kaiserslautern and Stuttgart, and held visiting professorships at the Universities of Waterloo, Tokyo and South Carolina. Fan was nominated as a member of the 9th and 10th National Committee of the People’s Political Consultative Conference (1998-2007), and has worked as a member of the American Mathematical Society, and the Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (Gesellschaft fuer Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, GAMM) of Germany. He is the associate editor of Applied Mechanics Reviews of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a reviewer of Mathematical Reviews of the American MathematicalSociety. He has published several monographs, and is recipient of numerous awards, including the Science and Technology Prize of the Defense Science, Technology and Industrial Committee of China (1999), the China Book Prize (1991 and 2012), Outstanding Scientific Monograph Prize of Educational Committee of China (1992), and the Nature Science Prize of Educational Ministry of China (2007). Dr. Wenge Yang Wenge Yang works in the Shanghai Laboratory of the Center of High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research as Staff Scientist and Associate Director. Prof. Xiao-Hong Sun Xiao-Hong Sun works in Zhengzhou University as Professor, with research interests in photonic band gap of quasicrystals. Dr. Hui Cheng Hui Cheng works in Hebei University of Engineering, with research interests in generalized dynamics of soft matter.

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