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Chirality in Liquid Crystals

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Editors:
  1. Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow

    1. Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

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  2. Christian Bahr

    1. Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow, Christian Bahr
    Pages 1-27

  3. Classroom Experiments with Chiral Liquid Crystals

    • Pawel Pieranski
    Pages 28-66

  4. From a Chiral Molecule to a Chiral Anisotropic Phase

    • Hans-Georg Kuball, Tatiana Höfer
    Pages 67-100

  5. Chemical Structures and Polymorphism

    • Volkmar Vill
    Pages 101-114

  6. Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Defects and Topology

    • O. D. Lavrentovich, M. Kleman
    Pages 115-158

  7. Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Optics, Electro-optics, and Photo-optics

    • Guram Chilaya
    Pages 159-185

  8. Blue Phases

    • Peter P. Crooker
    Pages 186-222

  9. Smectic Liquid Crystals: Ferroelectric Properties and Electroclinic Effect

    • Christian Bahr
    Pages 223-250

  10. Smectic Liquid Crystals: Antiferroelectric and Ferrielectric Phases

    • Hideo Takezoe, Yoichi Takanishi
    Pages 251-295

  11. Twist Grain Boundary Phases

    • Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow
    Pages 296-354

  12. Columnar Liquid Crystals

    • Harald Bock
    Pages 355-374

  13. Some Aspects of Polymer Dispersed and Polymer Stabilized Chiral Liquid Crystals

    • Gregory P. Crawford, Daniel SvenÅ¡ek, Slobodan Žumer
    Pages 375-432

  14. Chirality in Liquid Crystal Elastomers

    • P. Stein, H. Finkelmann
    Pages 433-446

  15. Phase Chirality of Micellar Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

    • Karl Hiltrop
    Pages 447-480

  16. Traveling Phase Boundaries with the Broken Symmetries of Life

    • P. E. Cladis
    Pages 481-493

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 495-501
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany

    Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow

  • Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

    Christian Bahr

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chirality in Liquid Crystals

  • Editors: Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow, Christian Bahr

  • Series Title: Partially Ordered Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b97374

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98679-1Published: 21 December 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7555-6Published: 18 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-21642-3Published: 28 April 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0941-5114

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 502

  • Topics: Condensed Matter Physics

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