Liquid Crystals With Nano And Microparticles (In 2 Volumes)

Jan P F Lagerwall, Giusy Scalia (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

944 Seiten

2016
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-4619-25-7 (ISBN)

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'The overall book content is excellently coordinated to form a synchronised story, interesting to a broad scientific audience … The book summarises the present knowledge in the field, introduces fundamental concepts to the beginners, describes key measuring methods and presents several different typical demonstrative systems, some of them exhibiting an extraordinary rich spectrum of structures and superstructures. I am sure that with time the book will become an attractor to a broad audience (physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers, etc.), ranging from students, beginners in the field to experienced researchers. To summarise, this is the book that I have been missing on my bookshelf.'Liquid Crystals TodayWhile liquid crystals are today widely known for their successful application in flat panel displays (LCDs), academic liquid crystal research is more and more targeting situations where these anisotropic fluids are put to completely different use, in varying contexts. A particularly strong focus is on colloidal liquid crystals, where particles, bubbles or drops are dispersed in a liquid crystal phase. The liquid crystal can act as a host phase, with the inclusions constituting foreign guests that disturb the local order in interesting ways, often resulting in large-scale positional arrangement and/or uniform alignment of the guests. But it may also be formed by solid particles themselves, if these are of nanoscale dimensions and of disc- or rod-shape, and if they are suspended in an isotropic liquid host at sufficient concentration.This book aims to cover both the modern research tracks, gathering pioneering researchers of the different subfields to give a concise overview of the basis as well as the prospects of their respective specialties. The scope spans from curiosity-driven fundamental scientific research to applied sciences. Over the course of the next decade, the former is likely to generate new tracks of the latter type, considering the exploratory and productive phase of this young research field.

Fundamentals:A Concise Introduction to the Liquid Crystalline State of Matter (Jan Lagerwall); Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals: A Colloid and Polymer Perspective (Paul P A M van der Schoot); A Minimum Theoretical Framework for Describing Nano- and Microinclusions in Liquid Crystals (Epifanio G Virga); Methods for Studying Liquid Crystals and Their Inclusions:Conventional and Nonlinear Optical Microscopy of Liquid Crystal Colloids (Taewoo Lee and Ivan I Smalyukh); X-ray Scattering (Goran Ungar, Zhihong Chen and Xiangbing Zeng); Light Scattering (Jun Yamamoto); Raman Spectroscopy (Helen Gleeson); Manipulation of Inclusions with Optical Tweezers (Miha Skarabot); Atomic Force Microscopy on Liquid Crystals (Christian Bahr and Benjamin Schulz); Computer Simulations of Heterogeneous Liquid Crystals (Silvia Orlandi and Claudio Zannoni); Micron Scale Inclusions in Liquid Crystals:Solid Microparticles in Bulk Liquid Crystals (Igor Musevic); Inclusions in Freely Suspended Smectic Films (Ralf Stannarius and Kirsten Harth); Liquid Crystal-Enabled Electrophoresis and Electro-Osmosis (Oleg D Lavrentovich); Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals:Metallic and Semiconducting Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals: An Experimental Guide (Taizo Mori, Anshul Sharma and Torsten Hegmann); Carbon Nanoparticles in Low Molar Mass Liquid Crystals (Giusy Scalia); Carbon Nanotubes Dispersed in Liquid Crystal Elastomers (Yan Ji); Nanoparticles in Discotic Liquid Crystals (Sandeep Kumar); Magnetic and Ferroelectric Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals (Yuriy Reznikov, Anatoliy Glushchenko and Yuriy Garbovskiy); Inorganic Nanotubes and Nanorods in Liquid Crystals (Irena Drevensek-Olenik); Liquid Crystals from Mesogens Containing Gold Nanoparticles (W Lewandowski and E Gorecka; Nanoparticles and Networks Created Within Liquid Crystals (Shin-Woong Kang); Control of Nanoparticle Self-Assemblies Using Distorted Liquid Crystals (Emmanuelle Lacaze); Liquid Crystals Formed by Nanoparticle Suspensions:Nematic Phase Formation in Suspensions of Carbon Nanotubes (Cecile Zakri and Philippe Poulin); Nematic Phase Formation in Suspensions of Graphene Oxide (Stephane Campidelli); Viruses as a Model System of Colloidal Rods for Liquid Crystaline Assemblies (Eric Grelet); Nematic Phases from Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions (Jan P F Lagerwall and Lennart Bergstrom); Liquid Crystalline Phases in Suspensions of Pigments in Non-polar Solvents (Susanne Klein); Liquid Crystals in Dispersions of Mineral Nanorods and Platelets (Gert Jan Vroege); Liquid Crystals from Semiconducting Nanoparticles (Rudolf Zentel);

Reihe/Serie	Series In Soft Condensed Matter ; 7
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
ISBN-10	981-4619-25-6 / 9814619256
ISBN-13	978-981-4619-25-7 / 9789814619257
Zustand	Neuware