Pawel Pieranski - Liquid Crystals

5 Chapter 5Figure 5.1. Hemihedral crystals of sodium ammonium tartrates. Redrawn after Past...Figure 5.2. Schematic of a primitive polarimeter that is used to measure the opt...Figure 5.3. Two mirror images of an amino acid, alanine Figure 5.4. (Left) Rotation of plane of polarization of light in an optically ac...Figure 5.5. Spiral arrangement of silicon and oxygen atoms along the optic axis ...Figure 5.6. Experiment of Ghosh and Fischer: (a) Schematic of the geometry used ...Figure 5.7. Illustration of the director configuration of Mauguin twisted nemati...Figure 5.8. Polarized light image of reverse twist domains in a sample of DSCG (...Figure 5.9. (Top) Schematic of a pure twist Bloch wall of width d. (Bottom) (lef...Figure 5.10. POM images of Bloch walls of two handednesses, mediated by a Neel w...Figure 5.11. Molecular structures of (a) DSCG (disodium chromoglycate) and (b) (...Figure 5.12. Nematic tactoids in the biphasic N-Iso sample of a lyotropic chromo...Figure 5.13. Chemical structure of poly(benzlbisthiazole) (PBZT) and polarized o...Figure 5.14. POM image of the ER in a cylindrical capillary filled with 5CB, and...Figure 5.15. POM image of the twisted escaped radial texture (TER) in a cylindri...Figure 5.16. Formation of the double helix from the TER structure. The white arr...Figure 5.17. Schematic of the director configuration of (a) axial and (b) double...Figure 5.18. Crossed polarized microscopic images of DSCG in a cylindrical capil...Figure 5.19. Crossed polarized microscopic images of DSCG in a cylindrical capil...Figure 5.20. Time lapsed POM images of SSY cooling down from isotropic phase to ...

1 Chapter 1Table 1.1. Connection between various polarization quantities

2 Chapter 3Table 3.1. Average values of the LTP (in unit of 10−8 N m−1 K−1wt%−1) of the HTP...Table 3.2. Values at the transition temperature of the main physical constants o...

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3 Title Page SCIENCES Physics of Soft Matter , Field Director – Françoise Brochard-Wyart Lyotropic and Thermotropic Liquid Crystals , Subject Heads – Pawel Pieranski and Maria Helena Godinho

4 Copyright First published 2021 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licenses issued by the CLA. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned address: ISTE Ltd 27-37 St George’s Road London SW19 4EU UK www.iste.co.uk John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA www.wiley.com © ISTE Ltd 2021 The rights of Pawel Pieranski and Maria Helena Godinho to be identified as the author of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Library of Congress Control Number: 2021934282 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-78945-040-8 ERC code: PE3 Condensed Matter Physics PE3_13 Structure and dynamics of disordered systems: soft matter (gels, colloids, liquid crystals, etc.), liquids, glasses, defects, etc.

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