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Author:   Pierre Gilles de Gennes ,  Jacques Prost
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Volume:   No. 83
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   1.182kg
ISBN:  

9780198520245

ISBN 10:   0198520247
Pages:   614
Publication Date:   01 December 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Liquid crystals - main types and properties: introduction - what is a liquid crystal?; the building blocks; nematics and cholesterics; smectics; columnar phases; more on long-, quasi-long and short-range order; remarkable features of liquid crystals. Part 2 Long- and short-range order in nematics: definition of an order parameter; statistical theories of the nematic order; phenomonological description of the nematic-isotopic; mixtures. Part 3 Static distortion in a nematic single crystal: principles of the continuum theory; magnetic field effects; electric field effects in an insulating nematic; fluctuations in the alignment; hydrostatics of nematics. Part 4 Defects and textures in nematics: observations; disclination lines; point disclinations; walls under magnetic fields; umbilics; surface disclinations. Part 5 Dynamical properties of nematics: the equations of ""nematodynamics""; experiments measuring the Leslie co-efficients; convective instabilities under electric fields; molecular motions. Part 6 Cholesterics: optical properties of an ideal helix; agents influencing the pitch; dynamical properties; textures and defects in cholesterics. Part 7 Smectics: symmetry of the main smectic phases; continuum description of smectics A and C; remarks on phase and precritical phenomena."

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