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This book aims to review the field of lyotropic liquid crystals from amphiphilic to colloidal systems. It bridges the gap between the two worlds of lyotropics and thermotropics by showing that many of the features observed in standard thermotropic liquid crystals may also be observed in lyotropic systems and vice versa.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Theory
- 3: Experimental techniques
- 4: Computer simulations of liquid crystals
- 5: Amphiphilics
- 6: Chiral lyotropic liquid crystals
- 7: Chromonics
- 8: Inorganic lyotropic liquid crystals
- 9: Biological and living lyotropics
- 10: Rods, tubes, wires, and sheets
- 11: Applications
- Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Ingo Dierking received his PhD at Clausthal University, Germany, in 1995 and then worked as a postdoc at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA, before receiving a Humboldt fellowship for Chalmers University, Sweden. From 1999-2002 Dierking was a lecturer at Darmstadt University, Germany, before joining the University of Manchester where he is a Senior Lecturer. He has won several research awards, the GW Gray medal, the Cyril Hilsum medal and the Samsung Mid-career award and is currently the President of the International Liquid Crystal Society and a former Chair of the British Liquid Crystals Society.
Antônio Martins Figueiredo Neto received his PhD at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1981 and then worked as a postdoc at the Université Paris-Sud, France, from 1983 to 1985. In 1988 he became Full Professor of Physics at University of São Paulo. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science and the State of São Paulo Academy of Science. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and supervised more than 40 PhD and Master students.
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This book aims to review the field of lyotropic liquid crystals from amphiphilic to colloidal systems. It bridges the gap between the two worlds of lyotropics and thermotropics by showing that many of the features observed in standard thermotropic liquid crystals may also be observed in lyotropic systems and vice versa.
Zusatztext
An important contribution to the literature of complex fluids and liquid crystals in general, with the particularly important feature of organizing the solved and open problems as well as the challenges and perspectives of this fascinating research field.
