Liquid crystals fundamentals - Singh, Shri (World Scientific, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Liquid crystals : main types and classification. 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. General types of liquid crystals -- 1.3. Classification of liquid crystals : symmetry and structure -- 1.4. Calamitic thermotropic liquid crystals -- 1.5. Mesophases of disc-like molecules -- 1.6. Lyotropic liquid crystals -- 1.7. Mesogenic materials -- 1.8. Polymorphism in liquid crystals -- 2. Distribution functions and order parameters. 2.1. Distribution functions -- 2.2. Order parameters -- 2.3. Measurement of order parameters -- 3. Physical properties of liquid crystals. 3.1. Scalar physical properties -- 3.2. Anisotropic physical properties -- 3.3. Elastic constants -- 3.4. Effects of chemical structure on the physical properties -- 4. Nematic liquid crystals. 4.1. Essential features of uniaxial nematics -- 4.2. Nematics of different symmetry -- 4.3. Structure -- property correlations -- 4.4. Statistical theories of the nematic order --
- 5. Nematic liquid crystals: elastostatics and nematodynamics. 5.1. Elastostatics in nematics -- 5.2. Dynamical properties of nematics -- 6. Smectic liquid crystals. 6.1. Symmetry and characteristics of smectic phases -- 6.2. Structure-property relations -- 6.3. Smectic A phase -- 6.4. The nematic to smectic A (N S[symbol]) transition -- 6.5. Polymorphism in S[symbol] phase -- 6.6. Smectic C phase -- 6.7. Reentrant phase transitions (RPT) in liquid crystals -- 6.8. Dynamical properties of smectics -- 6.9. Computer simulations of phase transitions in liquid crystals -- 7. Liquid crystals of disc-like molecules. 7.1. The discotic nematic phase -- 7.2. The columnar phases -- 7.3. Structure-property relationship -- 7.4. Phase transitions in discotic nematic and columnar phases -- 7.5. Continuum description of columnar phases -- 8. Polymer liquid crystals. 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Types of liquid crystal polymers -- 8.3. Types of monomeric units --
- 8.4. Main chain liquid crystal polymers (MCLCPS) -- 8.5. Side chain liquid crystal polymers (SCLCPS) -- 8.6. Phase transitions and phase diagrams in LC polymers -- 8.7. Synthetic routes and structure-property relations -- 8.8. Elastic constants of polymer liquid crystals -- 9. Chiral liquid crystals. 9.1. Chiral nematic (cholesteric) phase -- 9.2. Blue phases -- 9.3. Chiral smectic phases -- 9.4. Chiral discotic phases -- 9.5. Chiral polymeric liquid crystals -- 9.6. Theory of ferroelectricity in chiral liquid crystals -- 9.7. Theory for the antiferroelectric subphases -- 9.8. Twist grain boundary (TGB) phases -- 10. Lyotropic liquid crystals. 10.1. Amphiphilic mesogenic materials -- 10.2. Classification and structure of lyotropic liquid crystal phases -- 10.3. Occurrence of mesophases in amphiphile/water systems: phase diagrams -- 10.4. Lyotropic nematics -- 10.5. Lyotropic liquid crystal polymers -- 10.6. Lyomesophases in biological systems --
- 10.7. Phase chirality of micellar lyotropics -- 11. Defects and textures in liquid crystals. 11.1. Classification of defects in liquid crystals -- 11.2. Defect textures in uniaxial nematic phase -- 11.3. Defect textures in biaxial nematic phase -- 11.4. Textures and defects in smectics -- 11.5. Textures and defects in chiral liquid crystals -- 11.6. Defects in the columnar liquid crystals