Antônio M Figueiredo Neto, Silvio R a Salinas

The Physics of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

Phase Transitions and Structural Properties

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book gives a comprehensive description of the physical properties of lyotropic liquid crystals. Structural features, phase transitions and phase diagrams are discussed in detail. The available experimental data on lyotropic mixtures is presented in the unifying context of the Landau theories. This phenomenological approach is used for establishing connections between structural properties and phase diagrams. The book is suitable for use as a pedagogical introduction to the subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780198525509
• ISBN-10: 0198525508
• Artikelnr.: 21423464

Autorenporträt

Antônio M. Figueiredo Neto is Professor of Physics at Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.; Silvio R. A.Salinas is Professor of Physics at Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Lyotropic systems: main experimental facts and techniques
2: Basic concepts of phase transitions
3: Phase diagrams of lyotropic mixtures
4: Phase transitions between periodically organized lyotropic phases
5: The isotropic micellar and bicontinuous phases
6: The nematic and cholesteric phases
7: The lyotropic one-, two- and three-dimensionally ordered phases
8: Recent developments and related areas