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Zusatztext "?authoritative and detailed?one notices the importance given to topics that have only received limited coverage elsewhere in the literature! such as surface phenomena (anchoring! faceting) and the dynamics of growth or deformation."- Jacques Friedel! Académie des Sciences! Paris! France"Oswald and Pieranski have written a book that should be in every scientific library and on many researchers' shelves. Both the experienced worker and the novice research student should find it extremely useful! both for its explanations of the basic principles and its elaboration of numerous subtleties." - Peter J. Collings! Swarthmore College! in Liquid Crystals Today! 2008! Vol. 17! No 1 & 2 Informationen zum Autor Patrick Oswald! Pawel Pieranski! John W. Goodby and George W. Gray Klappentext Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals is a result of personal research and of the graduate lectures given by the authors at the Ecole Normale Suprieure de Lyon and the Paris VII University! respectively. The first part of the book presents historical background! the modern classification of liquid crystals! and mesogenic anatomy; the second part examines liquid crystals with nematic and cholesteric orientational order. Several chapters analyze defects! surface anchoring transitions! and growth phenomena. The book provides a useful reference intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in liquid crystals! condensed matter physics! and materials science. Zusammenfassung Liquid crystals allow us to perform experiments that provide insight into fundamental problems of modern physics, such as phase transitions, frustration, elasticity, hydrodynamics, defects, growth phenomena, and optics (linear and non linear). This book talks about liquid crystals. It is intended for students and researchers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 95068651
