| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Weinheim ; ; Chichester : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2005
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (312 pages)
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| Disciplina |
530.413
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| Soggetto topico |
Soft condensed matter
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| ISBN |
3-527-68230-9
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1 Entropic Attraction and Ordering -- Randall D. Kamien -- 1.1 Introduction: Entropy as an Organizing Principle -- 1.2 Hard Spheres -- 1.2.1 The Virial Expansion -- 1.2.2 The Depletion Interaction -- 1.2.3 Crowding and Folding -- 1.3 Liquid Crystals -- 1.3.1 Nematic Phases -- 1.3.2 Smectic Phases and Beyond -- 1.4 Crystals -- 1.4.1 Hard Spheres: Free-Volume Theory -- 1.4.2 Areas Versus Volumes -- 1.4.3 Block Copolymers -- 1.5 Summary -- References -- 2 Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Systems -- Hans-Hennig von Greenberg, Peter Keim, and Georg Maret -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Theoretical Background -- 2.2.1 Dislocations and Disclinations in Two-Dimensional Crystals -- 2.2.2 Elastic Constants in Two-Dimensional Systems -- 2.2.3 Defects and Energies -- 2.2.4 Melting in Two Stages -- 2.2.5 The Halperin Nelson Recursion Relations -- 2.2.6 Correlation Functions -- 2.2.6.1 The Translational Order -- 2.2.6.2 The Orientational Order -- 2.3 Experiments in Two Dimensions -- 2.3.1 Systems Not Involving Colloids -- 2.3.2 Colloidal Systems with Screened Coulomb Interaction -- 2.3.3 Colloidal Systems with Hard-Core Repulsion -- 2.3.4 Colloidal Systems with Dipole Interaction -- 2.4 Colloidal Experiments and the KTHNY Theory -- 2.4.1 Direct Imaging of Defect Structures -- 2.4.2 Correlations: Translational and Orientational Order -- 2.4.2.1 Structure Factor -- 2.4.2.2 Pair Correlation Functions -- 2.4.3 Elasticity: Macroscopic Criteria of KTHNY Melting -- 2.4.3.1 Young's Modulus -- 2.4.3.2 Frank's Constant -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Colloids on Patterned Substrates -- Clemens Bechinger and Erwin Frey -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Order and Broken Symmetries in Two Dimensions -- 3.2.1 Discrete Symmetries -- 3.2.1.1 LenzIsing Model -- 3.2.1.2 Potts Model -- 3.2.2 Continuous Symmetries -- 3.2.2.1 2D XY Model -- 3.2.2.2 Melting of 2D Solids -- 3.3 Substrate Potentials with One-Dimensional Periodicity -- 3.3.1 Commensurability and Reciprocal Lattice -- 3.3.2 Symmetry-Allowed Phases and Their Description -- 3.3.2.1 Solid Phases -- 3.3.2.2 Smectic Phases -- 3.3.2.3 Modulated Liquid (ML) -- 3.3.3 Phase Diagrams and Phase Transitions -- 3.3.3.1 Roughening Transitions -- 3.3.3.2 Dislocation Unbinding Transitions -- 3.3.4 Creation of Substrate Potentials with Interfering Laser Beams -- 3.3.5 Density and Pair Correlation Functions -- 3.3.5.1 Commensurability Ratio p = 1 -- 3.3.5.2 Experimental Results for Commensurability Ratio p = 2 -- 3.3.6 Reentrance Melting -- 3.4 Colloidal Molecular Crystals -- 3.4.1 Colloidal Trimers on Triangular Lattices -- 3.4.2 Colloidal Dimers on Triangular Lattices -- 3.4.3 Fractional Fillings -- 3.5 CommensurateIncommensurate Transitions -- 3.5.1 Strain-Induced Domain Formation in Adsorbed Monolayers -- 3.5.2 Periodic Pinning Potentials -- Summary and Outlook -- References -- 4 Inhomogeneous Platelet and Rod Fluids -- Ludger Harnau and Siegfried Dietrich -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Osmotically Driven Shape-Dependent Colloidal Separation -- 4.1.2 Filter-Cake Consisting of Plate-Like Particles -- 4.1.3 Inner Structure of Polymer Liquid Crystal Nanotubes -- 4.1.4 Entropically Driven Microphase Transition in Mixtures of Colloidal Rods and Spheres -- 4.1.5 Sterically Mediated Two-Dimensional Aggregates of Gold Nanospheres Directed by DNA -- 4.1.6 Uniaxial Plasmon Coupling Through Longitudinal Self-Assemblies of Gold Nanorods -- 4.1.7 Patterned Alignment of Liquid Crystals -- 4.1.8 Voltage-Dependent Anchoring of a Nematic Liquid Crystal on a Grating Surface -- 4.1.9 Liquid-Crystal Diffraction Grating -- 4.1.10 Reporting Biomolecular and Chemical Events Occurring at Surfaces -- 4.1.11 Liquid-Crystal Colloids -- 4.2 Colloidal Platelet and Rod Fluids -- 4.2.1 Density Functional Theory -- 4.2.2 Homogeneous and Isotropic Bulk Fluids -- 4.3 Colloidal Platelet and Rod Fluids Near a Planar Wall or Confined in a Slit Pore -- 4.3.1 Contact with a Single Planar Hard Wall -- 4.3.1.1 Order Parameters -- 4.3.1.2 Effective Entropic Interactions -- 4.3.1.3 Surface Tension and Excess Adsorption -- 4.3.2 Confinement Between Two Parallel Hard Walls -- 4.3.3 Density Functional Theory for the Zwanzig Model -- 4.3.3.1 Homogeneous Bulk Fluid -- 4.3.3.2 Platelet and Rod Fluids Near a Single Hard Wall -- 4.3.3.3 Binary Platelet and Rod Fluids Confined by Two Parallel Hard Walls -- 4.3.4 Experiments -- 4.4 Colloidal Platelet and Rod Fluids Near Curved Surfaces -- 4.4.1 Contact with a Single Curved Hard Wall -- 4.4.1.1 Non-Interacting Platelets and Rods Outside a Spherical Cavity -- 4.4.1.2 Non-Interacting Platelets and Rods Inside a Spherical Cavity -- 4.4.1.3 Influence of Interparticle Interactions -- 4.4.2 Depletion Potential Between Two Spheres -- 4.4.2.1 The Derjaguin Approximation -- 4.4.2.2 Density Functional Approach -- 4.4.3 Entropic Force and Torque Acting on a Single Platelet or Rod -- 4.4.4 Colloidal Mixtures of Spheres and Platelets or Rods -- 4.4.4.1 Density Functional and Fundamental Measure Theory -- 4.4.4.2 Bulk Phase Diagram -- 4.4.4.3 Binary SpherePlatelet Mixture Near a Planar Hard Wall -- 4.4.5 Remarks on Theories of Colloidal Mixtures of Convex Bodies -- 4.4.5.1 Evaluation of Sphere Platelet Mayer Function -- 4.4.5.2 Bulk Excess Free Energy -- 4.4.5.3 Free Volume Fraction -- 4.4.6 Experiments -- 4.5 Rod Fluids Near Geometrically Structured Substrates -- 4.5.1 Rod Fluid Near a Right-Angled Wedge and Edge -- 4.5.2 Rod Fluid in Contact with a Periodically Structured Wall -- 4.6 Non-Spherical Particles Near Active Walls -- 4.6.1 Zwanzig Rods Near an Active Wall -- 4.6.2 Continuum Theory of Liquid Crystals -- 4.6.2.1 Electric and Magnetic Fields -- 4.6.2.2 Anchoring and Boundary Conditions -- 4.6.3 Nematic Liquid Crystal in Contact with Chemically Patterned Substrates -- 4.6.3.1 Methods of Manufacturing -- 4.6.3.2 The Model and Continuum Theory -- 4.6.3.3 Contact with a Single Chemically Patterned Substrate -- 4.6.3.4 Confinement -- 4.6.3.5 Solvation Force -- 4.6.4 Nematic Liquid Crystal in Contact with Chemically and Geometrically Structured Substrates -- 4.6.4.1 Contact with a Single Chemically and Geometrically Patterned Substrate -- 4.6.4.2 Zenithally Bistable Nematic Device -- 4.6.5 Influence of Voltage on the Phase Behavior of a Zenithally Bistable Liquid-Crystal Device with Grating Surfaces -- 4.6.5.1 Liquid-Crystal Alignment on Sinusoidal Surface Grating Structures -- 4.6.5.2 Phase Behavior of a Zenithally Bistable Liquid-Crystal Device Under Voltage -- 4.6.6 Colloidal Particles Dissolved in a Nematic Solvent -- 4.7 Outlook -- References -- Index.
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Soft Matter : Complex Colloidal Suspensions / / Gerhard Gompper, Michael Schick, editors
