Chirality in Liquid Crystals
Objects that differ from their mirror images, such as the left and right hands, play an important role in physics at all lengths scales, from elementary particles to macroscopic systems. The handedness, or chirality, of molecules in liquid crystals has a remarkable influence on the macroscopic physi...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
2001.
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| Series: | Partially Ordered Systems,
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Table of Contents:
- Classroom Experiments with Chiral Liquid Crystals
- From a Chiral Molecule to a Chiral Anisotropic Phase
- Chemical Structures and Polymorphism
- Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Defects and Topology
- Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Optics, Electro-optics, and Photo-optics
- Blue Phases
- Smectic Liquid Crystals: Ferroelectric Properties and Electroclinic Effect
- Smectic Liquid Crystals: Antiferroelectric and Ferrielectric Phases
- Twist Grain Boundary Phases
- Columnar Liquid Crystals
- Some Aspects of Polymer Dispersed and Polymer Stabilized Chiral Liquid Crystals
- Chirality in Liquid Crystal Elastomers
- Phase Chirality of Micellar Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
- Traveling Phase Boundaries with the Broken Symmetries of Life.