S. Chandrasekhar

Chirality in Liquid Crystals - Partially Ordered Systems S. Chandrasekhar 2001 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. 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.

Contributor Bio:  Bahr, Christian Bahr, University of Marburg, Germany. Contributor Bio:  Kitzerow, Heinz S Kitzerow, Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Contributor Bio:  Chandrasekhar, S Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) received many awards in his career, including the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983, the National Medal of Science (U. S.), and the Copley Medal of the Royal Society (London). He was the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Department of Physics, and the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago.