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Physics of liquid crystals
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This review discusses the physical properties of nematic, cholesteric, and smectic liquid crystals. Molecular theories of the liquid crystal phases are discussed and the molecular field theories of the phase transitions between the various liquid crystal phases are presented. The elastic theory and hydrodynamics of liquid crystals is developed. A wide variety of phenomena in liquid crystals, including elastic distortions, disclinations, flow properties, fluctuations, light scattering, wave propagation, nuclear magnetic resonance, effects of magnetic and electric fields, electrohydrodynamics, and optical properties, is discussed.
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- Authors
- Stephen, M. J., & Straley, J. P.
- Venue
- Reviews of Modern Physics
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1974-10-01
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 617-704
- ISSN
- 0034-6861 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1979825905
- Cited by
- 2,616
- References
- 18
- FWCI
- 39.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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