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9780387986791

Chirality in Liquid Crystals

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  • ISBN13:

    9780387986791

  • ISBN10:

    0387986790

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-01-01
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag

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Summary

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 physical properties of these systems, including the appearance of new phases. Indeed, the majority of optical applications of liquid crystals is due to chiral structures, namely the thermochromic effect of cholesteric liquid crystals, the optical activity in twisted nematic liquid crystal displays, and the ferroelectric and antiferroelectric switching of smectic liquid crystals.This book describes the main aspects of chirality in liquid crystals, and points out some of the open questions of current research. The chapters, each by an expert in the field, review the highlights of the important topics and representative questions in the field of chiral liquid crystals.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar
Preface ix
Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow
Christian Bahr
Contributors xiii
Introduction
1(27)
Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow
Christian Bahr
Classroom Experiments with Chiral Liquid Crystals
28(39)
Pawel Pieranski
From a Chiral Molecule to a Chiral Anisotropic Phase
67(34)
Hans-Georg Kuball
Tatiana Hofer
Chemical Structures and Polymorphism
101(14)
Volkmar Vill
Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Defects and Topology
115(44)
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Maurice Kleman
Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Optics, Electro-optics, and Photo-optics
159(27)
Guram Chilaya
Blue Phases
186(37)
Peter P. Crooker
Smectic Liquid Crystals: Ferroelectric Properties and Electroclinic Effect
223(28)
Christian Bahr
Smectic Liquid Crystals: Antiferroelectric and Ferrielectric Phases
251(45)
Hideo Takezoe
Yoichi Takanishi
Twist Grain Boundary Phases
296(59)
Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow
Columnar Liquid Crystals
355(20)
Harald Bock
Some Aspects of Polymer Dispersed and Polymer Stabilized Chiral Liquid Crystals
375(58)
Gregory P. Crawford
Daniel Svensek
Slobodan Zumer
Chirality in Liquid Crystal Elastomers
433(14)
Peter Stein
Heino Finkelmann
Phase Chirality of Micellar Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
447(34)
Karl Hiltrop
Traveling Phase Boundaries with the Broken Symmetries of Life
481(14)
Patricia E. Cladis
Index 495

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