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  title info:
    title: Chirality in liquid crystals
  name:
    name part: Kitzerow, Heinz-Siegfried.
  name:
    name part: Bahr, Christian.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 501 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: Objects that differ from their mirror images, such as the left and right hands, play an important role in physics at all lengths scales, from elementary particles to macroscopic systems. The handedness, or chirality, of molecules in liquid crystals has a remarkable influence on the macroscopic physical properties of these systems, including the appearance of new phases. Indeed, the majority of optical applications of liquid crystals is due to chiral structures, namely the thermochromic effect of cholesteric liquid crystals, the optical activity in twisted nematic liquid crystal displays, and the ferroelectric and antiferroelectric switching of smectic liquid crystals. This book describes the main aspects of chirality in liquid crystals, and points out some of the open questions of current research. The chapters, each by an expert in the field, review the highlights of the important topics and representative questions in the field of chiral liquid crystals.
  table of contents: Classroom Experiments -- From a Chiral Molecule to a Chiral Anisotropic Phase -- Chemical Structures and Polymorphism -- Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Defects and Topology -- Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Optics, Electrooptics and Photooptics -- Blue Phases -- Smectic Liquid Crystals: Ferroelectric Properties and Electroclinic Effect -- Smectic Liquid Crystals: Antiferroelectric and Ferroelectric Phases -- Twist Grain Boundary Phases -- Columnar Liquid Crystals -- Some Aspects of Polymer Dispersed and Polymer Stabilized Chiral Liquid Crystals -- Chirality in Liquid Crystals Elastomers -- Phase Chirality of Micellar Lyotropic Liquid Crystals -- Traveling Phase Boundaries with the Broken Symmetries of Life.
  note: Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow, Christian Bahr, editors.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Liquid crystals
  subject:
    topic: Chirality
  subject:
    topic: Condensed Matter
  subject:
    topic: Cristaux liquides
  subject:
    topic: Chiralité
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Chemistry
    topic: Physical & Theoretical
  subject:
    topic: Chirality
  subject:
    topic: Liquid crystals
  classification: QD923 .C55 2001eb
  classification: 541/.0422
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 040801
    record change date: 20260420213639.8
    record identifier: in00003504265
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng