1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458235203321

Autore

Singh Shri

Titolo

Liquid crystals [[electronic resource] ] : fundamentals / / Shri Singh ; foreword by David A. Dunmur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Jersey, : World Scientific, 2002

ISBN

981-277-858-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (549 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DunmurDavid (David A.)

Disciplina

530.4/29

Soggetti

Liquid crystals

Crystallography

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents               ; Foreword               ; Preface              ; 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                                          ; References                 ; 2 DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS AND ORDER PARAMETERS                                                    ; 2.1 Distribution Functions                                 ; 2.2 Order Parameters                           ; 2.3 Measurement of Order Parameters

References                 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                                                                   ; References                 ; 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; References                 ; 5 NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS : ELASTOSTATICS AND NEMATODYNAMICS;



5.1 Elastostatics in Nematics                                    ; 5.2 Dynamical Properties of Nematics                                           ; References                 ; 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 SA) Transition                                                     ; 6.5 Polymorphism in SA Phase                                   ; 6.6 Smectic C Phase                          ; 6.7 Reentrant Phase Transitions (RPT) in Liquid Crystals

6.8 Dynamical Properties of Smectics

Sommario/riassunto

Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical applications. Due to their dual nature - anisotropic physical properties of solids and rheological behavior of liquids - and easy response to externally applied electric, magnetic, optical and surface fields liquid crystals are of greatest potential for scientific and technological applications. The subject has come of age and has achieved the status of being a very exciting interdisciplinary field of scient


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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974300903321

Autore

Bray Joe

Titolo

The epistolary novel : representation of consciousness / / Joe Bray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-134-40254-6

1-138-00872-9

1-280-54699-9

0-203-13057-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; ; 1

Disciplina

823/.509

Soggetti

Epistolary fiction, English - History and criticism

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Consciousness in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Sex and politics; 3 Reserve and memory; 4 Sentiment and sensibility; 5 From first to third; 6 Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel. This book argues that the way that the eighteenth-century epistolary novel represented consciousness had a significant influence on the later novel. Critics have drawn a distinction between the self at the time of writing and the self at the time at which events or emotions were experienced. This book demonstrates that the tensions within consciousness are the result of a continual interaction between the two selves of the letter-writer and charts the oscillation between these two selv