Title Thermotropic Liquid Crystals, Fundamentals Author(s) Vertogen, Ger;Jeu, Wim H. de Publication Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1988. Description XI, 324 p : online resource Abstract Note The aim of this book is to give a unified and critical account of the fundamental aspects of liquid crystals. Preference is given to discussing the assumptions made in developing theories and analyzing experimental data rather than to attempting to compile all the latest results. The book has four parts. Part I is quite descriptive in character and gives a general overview of the various liquid crystalline phases. Part II deals with the macroscopic continuum theory of liquid crystals and gives a systematic development of the theory from a tensorial point of view thus emphasizing the relevant symmetries. Part III concentrates on experiments that provide microscopic information on the orientational behaviour of the molecules. Finally Part IV discusses the theory of the various phases and their attendant phase transitions from both a Landau and a molecular-statistical point of view. Simplifying the various models as far as possible, it critically examines the merits of a molecular-statistical approach ISBN,Price 9783642831331 Keyword(s) 1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS 2. CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 3. Crystallography and Scattering Methods 4. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS 5. EBOOK 6. EBOOK - SPRINGER 7. STATISTICAL PHYSICS 8. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems 9. THERMODYNAMICS Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I04290     On Shelf