Oswald P. Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals...2005 torrent

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This excellent volume is a much needed up-to-date text on liquid crystals and is a result of personal research and graduate courses taught by the authors. Studying all aspects, it allows students to address the fundamental problems of modern physics.
Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
OVERVIEW
Some history
Modern classification of liquid crystals
Mesogenic anatomy
MESOPHASES WITH AN ORIENTATIONAL ORDER
Structure and dielectric properties of the nematic phase
Nematoelasticity: Frederiks transition and light scattering
Nematodynamics and flow instabilities
Defects and textures in nematics
Anchoring and anchoring transitions of nematics on solid surfaces
The nematic-isotropic liquid interface: static properties and directional growth instabilities
Cholesterics: the first example of a frustrated mesophase
Blue Phases: a second example of a frustrated mesophase
Overview of growth phenomena and the Mullins-Sekerka instability
SMECTIC AND COLUMNAR LIQUID CRYSTALS
Structure of the smectic A phase and the transition to the nematic phase
Continuum theory of hydrodynamics in smectics A
Dislocations, focal conics, and rheology of smectics A
Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric mesophases
The twist-grain boundary smectics
Hexatic smectics
The smectic B plastic crystal
Smectic free films
Columnar phases
Growth of a hexagonal columnar phase