LEADER 05111nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9911019593603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786610520367 010 $a9781280520365 010 $a1280520361 010 $a9783527605279 010 $a3527605274 010 $a9783527602056 010 $a3527602054 035 $a(CKB)1000000000019378 035 $a(EBL)481964 035 $a(OCoLC)68964136 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000257689 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11238247 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257689 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10228901 035 $a(PQKB)10813455 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC481964 035 $a(PPN)137770952 035 $a(Perlego)2776943 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000019378 100 $a20030314d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTextures of liquid crystals /$fIngo Dierking 210 $aWeinheim $cWiley-VCH$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 300 $aHandbook. 311 08$a9783527307258 311 08$a3527307257 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTextures of Liquid Crystals; Preface; Foreword; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 States of Matter; 1.2 Liquid Crystal Nomenclature; 1.3 General Structure of Liquid Crystal Phases; 1.3.1 The Nematic Phase; 1.3.2 The Fluid Smectic Phases; 1.3.2.1 The Smectic A Phase; 1.3.2.2 The Smectic C Phase; 1.3.3 The Hexatic Smectic Phases (SmB, SmI, SmF); 1.3.4 The Soft Crystal Phases (B, J, G, E, K, H); 1.4 Chirality; 2 Surface Anchoring and Elasticity; 2.1 Surface Anchoring and Preparation Techniques; 2.1.1 Planar Alignment of Nematics; 2.1.2 Homeotropic Alignment of Nematics 327 $a2.1.3 Alignment of Smectic Phases2.2 Bulk Elasticity; 2.2.1 The Nematic and Cholesteric Phase; 2.2.2 The Fluid Smectic Phases; 3 Polarizing Microscopy; 3.1 The Polarizing Microscope; 3.2 Basic Liquid Crystal Optics; 3.2.1 Uniaxial Phases; 3.2.2 Biaxiality; 3.2.3 Optical Activity; 3.3 Conoscopy; 4 The Blue Phases; 4.1 Structure and Textures of Blue Phases; 4.2 Kossel Diagrams; 5 The Nematic and Cholesteric Phases; 5.1 The Nematic Phase; 5.1.1 Nematic Textures Under Planar Boundary Conditions; 5.1.1.1 The Nematic Schlieren Texture; 5.1.1.2 The Thread-like Texture; 5.1.1.3 The Marble Texture 327 $a5.1.1.4 Uniform Planar Nematic Samples5.1.2 The Pseudo-Isotropic Texture Under Homeotropic Boundary Conditions; 5.2 The Cholesteric Phase; 5.2.1 Natural Textures of the N* Phase; 5.2.2 Short Pitch Cholesterics; 5.2.2.1 Planar Boundary Conditions and Selective Reflection; 5.2.2.2 Homeotropic Boundary Conditions and the Flexoelectric Effect; 5.2.3 Long Pitch Cholesterics; 5.2.3.1 Planar Boundary Conditions; 5.2.3.2 Homeotropic Boundary Conditions; 6 Twist Grain Boundary Phases; 6.1 The TGBA* Phase; 6.1.1 Natural Textures; 6.1.2 Textures for Planar Anchoring Conditions 327 $a6.1.3 Textures for Homeotropic Anchoring Conditions6.1.4 Wedge Cell Preparations; 6.1.5 Droplet Preparation; 6.1.6 Suppression of the TGBA* Structure; 6.2 The TGBC* Phases; 6.3 The TGBC(A)* Phase; 7 The Fluid Smectic Phases; 7.1 The SmA/SmA* Phase; 7.1.1 Natural Textures; 7.1.2 Planar Anchoring Conditions and the Electroclinic Effect; 7.1.3 Homeotropic Anchoring Conditions; 7.1.4 Electric Field Induced Striped Domain Textures; 7.2 The SmC/SmC* Phase; 7.2.1 The Achiral SmC Phase; 7.2.1.1 Natural Textures of SmC; 7.2.1.2 SmC Under Planar Anchoring Conditions 327 $a7.2.1.3 SmC Under Homeotropic Anchoring Conditions7.2.2 The Chiral SmC* Phase; 7.2.2.1 Natural Textures; 7.2.2.2 SmC* Under Planar Anchoring Conditions; 7.2.2.3 SmC* Under Homeotropic Anchoring Conditions; 7.2.2.4 Surface Stabilized Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals; 8 The SmC* Subphases; 8.1 General Introduction and Structural Models; 8.2 Textures of the SmC* Subphases; 9 The Hexatic Phases; 9.1 The SmB(*) Phase; 9.2 The SmI(*) and SmF(*) Phases; 9.2.1 Natural Textures and Planar Anchoring Conditions; 9.2.2 Homeotropic Boundary Conditions; 10 Soft Crystal Phases and Crystallization 327 $a10.1 The Orthogonal Soft Crystal Phases 330 $aA unique compendium of knowledge on all aspects of the texture of liquid crystals, providing not just detailed information on texture formation and determination, but also an in-depth discussion of different characterization methods. Experts as well as graduates entering the field will find all the information they need in this handbook, while the magnitude of the color images make it valuable hands-on-reference. 410 0$aWiley UBCM ebooks. 606 $aLiquid crystals$xTexture 606 $aTexture (Crystallography) 615 0$aLiquid crystals$xTexture. 615 0$aTexture (Crystallography) 676 $a530.429 676 $a548.9 700 $aDierking$b Ingo$01280937 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911019593603321 996 $aTextures of liquid crystals$94419276 997 $aUNINA