Liquid Crystals And Their Computer Simulations
Download Liquid Crystals And Their Computer Simulations PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Liquid Crystals And Their Computer Simulations book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages.
Liquid Crystals and their Computer Simulations
Author: Claudio Zannoni
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2022-07-28
A comprehensive introduction to liquid crystals and their computer simulations suitable for students, researchers and industrial scientists.
Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals
Author: Geoffrey R. Luckhurst
language: en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date: 2015-05-04
In the nematic liquid crystal phase, rod-shaped molecules move randomly but remain essentially parallel to one another. Biaxial nematics, which were first predicted in 1970 by Marvin Freiser, have their molecules differentially oriented along two axes. They have the potential to create displays with fast switching times and may have applications in thin-film displays and other liquid crystal technologies. This book is the first to be concerned solely with biaxial nematic liquid crystals, both lyotropic and thermotropic, formed by low molar mass as well as polymeric systems. It opens with a general introduction to the biaxial nematic phase and covers: • Order parameters and distribution functions • Molecular field theory • Theories for hard biaxial particles • Computer simulation of biaxial nematics • Alignment of the phase • Display applications • Characterisation and identification • Lyotropic, thermotropic and colloidal systems together with material design With a consistent, coherent and pedagogical approach, this book brings together theory, simulations and experimental studies; it includes contributions from some of the leading figures in the field. It is relevant to students and researchers as well as to industry professionals working in soft matter, liquid crystals, liquid crystal devices and their applications throughout materials science, chemistry, physics, mathematics and display engineering.
Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments
Author: Oleg D. Lavrentovich
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2012-12-06
Topological defects are the subject of intensive studies in many different branches of physics ranging from cosmology to liquid crystals and from elementary particles to colloids and biological systems. Liquid crystals are fascinating materials which present a great variety of these mathematical objects and can therefore be considered as an extremely useful laboratory for topological defects. This book is the first attempt to present together complementary approaches to the investigations of topological defects in liquid crystals using theory, experiments and computer simulations.