Author: Esther Leslie Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 178023693X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
While it is responsible for today’s abundance of flat screens—on televisions, computers, and mobile devices—most of us have only heard of it in the ubiquitous acronym, LCD, with little thought as to exactly what it is: liquid crystal. In this book, Esther Leslie enlightens us, offering an accessible and fascinating look at—not a substance, not a technology—but a wholly different phase of matter. As she explains, liquid crystal is a curious material phase that organizes a substance’s molecules in a crystalline form yet allows them to move fluidly like water. Observed since the nineteenth century, this phase has been a deep curiosity to science and, in more recent times, the key to a new era of media technology. In between that time, as Leslie shows, it has figured in cultural forms from Romantic landscape painting to snow globes, from mountaineering to eco-disasters, and from touchscreen devices to DNA. Expertly written but accessible, Liquid Crystals recounts the unheralded but hugely significant emergence of this unique form of matter.
Author: Timothy J. Sluckin Publisher: Springer Science & Business ISBN: 9780415257893 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 778
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The collection is divided into sections, each of which is prefaced by a brief commentary referring to the historic-scientific context of the time.
Author: Gregory A DiLisi Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers ISBN: 1643276840 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 81
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Practically every display technology in use today relies on the flat, energy-efficient construction made possible by liquid crystals. These displays provide visually-crisp, vibrantly-colored images that a short time ago were thought only possible in science fiction. Liquid crystals are known mainly for their use in display technologies, but they also provide many diverse and useful applications: adaptive optics, electro-optical devices, films, lasers, photovoltaics, privacy windows, skin cleansers and soaps, and thermometers. The striking images of liquid crystals changing color under polarized lighting conditions are even on display in many museums and art galleries - true examples of 'science meeting art'. Although liquid crystals provide us with visually stunning displays, fascinating applications, and are a rich and fruitful source of interdisciplinary research, their full potential may yet remain untapped.
Author: Paul S Drzaic Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9814518123 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 448
Book Description
Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) materials are of interest both for their potential in display technology and the fascinating science found in liquid crystals confined to small cavities. Liquid Crystal Dispersions is a comprehensive overview of the science and technology of this new class of materials. Topics covered include formation of PDLC devices, a catalog of droplet structures and transformations, device electro-optical properties, and applications. Liquid Crystal Dispersions will be of value to the nonspecialists keen on gaining an overview of this new field, as well as to specialists interested in a comprehensive review of work in this area. Contents:Introduction:The PDLC ParadigmRecipes:Emulsion Methods for PDLC FilmsPhase Separation Methods for PDLC FilmsNematic Configurations within Droplets:Factors Controlling Nematic AlignmentCatalog of Droplet StructuresTransformations between Droplet StructuresElectro-Optical Effects:Light ScatteringDichroic Effects in PDLC FilmsHysteresis and Memory EffectsPDLC Electrical PropertiesApplications:Projection DisplaysDirect-View Scattering-Mode Displaysand other papers Readership: Liquid crystal research scientists and people interested in display technology. keywords: “It is difficult to think of a better author to provide an overview of Liquid Crystal Dispersions than Paul Drzaic … a most welcome addition to his contributions … wholeheartedly recommending this book to both beginners and specialists. It is very well researched and clearly written for all levels of expertise.” Liquid Crystals Today
Author: David Dunmur Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199549400 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 367
Book Description
Liquid crystals had a controversial discovery at the end of the 19th century but were later accepted as a 'fourth state' of matter, and finally used throughout the world in modern displays and new materials. This book explains the fascinating science in accessible terms, and puts it into social, political, and historical perspectives.
Author: Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1402053541 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 331
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This book covers developments in the field of thermotropic liquid crystals and their functional importance. It also presents advances related to different sub-areas pertinent to this interdisciplinary area of research. This text brings together research from synthetic scientists and spectroscopists and attempts to bridge the gaps between these areas. New physical techniques that are powerful in characterizing these materials are discussed.
Author: Pankaj Kumar Choudhury Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 9535138715 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 276
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Liquid crystals exhibit amazingly interesting properties that make them indispensable for several technological applications. The book Liquid Crystals - Recent Advancements in Fundamental and Device Technologies is aimed to focus on various aspects of research and development that liquid crystal mediums have come across in recent years. This would be ranging from the physical and chemical properties to the important applications that the liquid crystals have in our everyday life. It is expected that the book will make the expert researchers to be abreast of recent research advancements, whereas the novice researchers will benefit from both the conceptual understanding and the recent developments in the area. Multitudes of research themes and directions pivoted to liquid crystals remain the essence, which the readers would get the glimpse of and move ahead for further investigations.
Author: S. Chandrasekhar Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521417471 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 484
Book Description
This is a new and greatly revised edition of Professor Chandrasekhar's classic book Liquid Crystals, first published in 1977. The subject of liquid crystals has grown into an exciting interdisciplinary research field with important practical applications. This book presents a systematic and self-contained treatment of the physics of the different types of thermotropic liquid crystals - the three classical types, nematic, cholesteric and smectic, and the newly discovered discotic type. Included is a description of the structures of these four main types and their polymorphic modifications, their thermodynamical, optical and mechanical properties and their behaviour under external fields. The basic principles underlying the major applications of liquid crystals in display technology and in thermography are also discussed. This book will be of great value to advanced students and researchers in condensed matter physics, chemical physics, materials science and technology with an interest in the physics, chemistry and applications of liquid crystals.
Author: Oleg D. Lavrentovich Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9401005125 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 356
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Topological defects are the subject of intensive studies in many different branches of physics ranging from cosmology to liquid crystals and from elementary particles to colloids and biological systems. Liquid crystals are fascinating materials which present a great variety of these mathematical objects and can therefore be considered as an extremely useful laboratory for topological defects. This book is the first attempt to present together complementary approaches to the investigations of topological defects in liquid crystals using theory, experiments and computer simulations.
Author: P. M. Visakh Publisher: Woodhead Publishing ISBN: 0128221631 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 306
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Liquid Crystal Polymer Nanocomposites summarizes, in a comprehensive manner, numerous modern technical research accomplishments on the development of nanocomposites from liquid crystalline polymers. It emphasizes various studies at the nano-scale, including discussions of liquid crystalline block copolymers, liquid crystalline epoxy nanocomposites, barrier property studies of liquid crystalline epoxy and their nanocomposites, liquid crystalline polymer-based microfibrillar and nanofibrillar composites, liquid crystalline polymer/nanoplatelet nanocomposites, liquid-crystalline elastomer/graphene oxide nanocomposites, and thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers. It provides detailed information on methods of preparation, the properties of these materials and a discussion on the structure-properties relationship. With an emphasis on data and experimental results, the book's authors illustrate how the liquid crystal structure can have an impact on the final properties of nanocomposite. Contains contributions from leading experts working in this specialized field of research Provides detailed information on the preparation, characterization and application of nanocomposites of liquid crystalline polymers Presents solutions to both fundamental and applied problems
Author: Esther Leslie
Author: Timothy J. Sluckin
Author: Gregory A DiLisi
Author: Paul S Drzaic
Author: David Dunmur
Author: Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy
Author: Pankaj Kumar Choudhury
Author: S. Chandrasekhar
Author: Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Author: P. M. Visakh