Research Catalog

Title

Defects in liquid crystals : computer simulations, theory, and experiments / edited by Oleg D. Lavrentovich [and others].

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lavrentovich, Oleg D.
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division.
• NATO Advanced Study Research Workshop on Computer Simulations of Defects in Liquid Crystals Including their Relation to Theory and Experiment (2000 : Erice, Italy)

Description

xv, 344 pages : illustrations.

Series Statement

NATO science series. Series II, Mathematics, physics, and chemistry ; v. 43

Uniform Title

NATO science series. Series II, Mathematics, physics, and chemistry ; v. 43.

Subject

• Liquid crystals > Defects > Congresses
• Flüssigkristall
• Gitterbaufehler
• Kongress

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Erice (2000)

Note

• "Published in cooperative with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
• Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Computer Simulations of Defects in Liquid Crystals Including Thier Relation to Theory and Experiment, Erice, Sicily, Italy, 19-23 September 2000 --T.p. verson.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Classification of defects in liquid crystals / H.-R. Trebin -- 2. Alignment tensor versus director description in nematic liquid crystals / A. M. Sonnet and S. Hess -- 3. Liquid crystal colloidal dispersions / H. Stark, A. Borstnik and S. Zumer -- 4. Computer simulations and defects in confined liquid crystal lattice models / C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini and I. Feruli / [et al.] -- 5. Molecular simulations and theory of planar interfaces and defects in nematic liquid crystals / M. P. Allen -- 6. Topological defect behavior in a quenched nematic liquid crystal / R. A. Pelcovits, J. L. Billeter and A. M. Smondyrev / [et al.] -- 7. Restoring forces on nematic disclinations / R. Rosso and E. G. Virga -- 8. Challenges in the dynamics of point defects / A. M. Sonnet and E. G. Virga -- 9. Numerical simulation of elastic anisotropy in nematic liquid crystalline polymers / H. Tu, G. Goldbeck-Wood and A. H. Windle -- 10. Computer Simulations and Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy of Structures in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals / S. V. Shiyanovskii, I. I. Smalyukh and O. D. Lavrentovich -- 11. Defects and Undulation in Layered Liquid Crystals / T. Ishikawa and O. D. Lavrentovich -- 12. Liquid crystals under shear: role of defects / M. Kleman and C. Meyer -- 13. Numerical simulation of defects in quasicrystals / H.-R. Trebin.

ISBN

• 140200169X
• 9781402001697
• 1402001703
• 9781402001703

LCCN

2001050548

OCLC

• ocm48383401
• 48383401
• SCSB-1277966

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library