One and Two Dimensional Fluids details the basic structures and properties of one- and two-dimensional fluids and the nature of phase transitions.

Features:

• Offers an overview of properties and technological applications of one- and two-dimensional fluids, particularly in liquid crystal displays
• Highlights "bent" or "banana" shaped smectics because of their novel and exciting chirality-polarity properties
• Explores electric interactions significant to various display modes and biological phenomena
• Supplies appendices that review fundamental concepts in organic chemistry, rheology, symmetry, dielectric spectroscopy, and other measurements important to structured fluids
• Contains more than 150 figures and real-world examples that help readers to easily grasp ideas and visualize concepts
• Provides 650 references leading to the most worthwhile sources for further study of any topic relating to self-organized fluids

Contents

Liquid Crystal Materials

• Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Materials
• Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
• Other Lyotropic Phases
• Amphotropic Liquid Crystals

Fluids with Reduced Dimensionality

• Surfaces Effects on Anisotropic Fluids
• Fluid Monolayers
• Soap Films
• Smectic Membranes
• Fluid Foams
• Fluid Fibers

Phase Transitions

• Transition between the Minimal Surfaces of Soap Films
• Landau Description of Phase Transitions
• The I-N Transition
• Molecular Approaches

Rheological Properties

• Nematic Liquid Crystals
• Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
• Rheology of Smectic Liquid Crystals
• Rheology of Columnar Liquid Crystals
• Lyotropic Lamellar Systems
• Soap Membranes
• Rheology of Foams
• Rheology at Surfaces

Optics of Anisotropic Materials

• Achiral Materials
• Helical and Chiral Structures
• Experimental Methods to Measure Refractive Index and Birefringence

Defect Structures

• Nematic Liquid Crystals
• Smectic and Lamellar Liquid Crystals
• Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
• Defect Phases
• Defect-Mediated Phase Transitions

Magnetic Properties

• Isotropic Materials
• Magnetic Properties of Liquid Crystals
• Magnetic Field-Induced Director Deformation
• Magnetic Effects in Liquid Crystals
• Measurements of the Magnetic Susceptibility
• Measurements of the Anisotropy of the Magnetic Susceptibility

Electrical Properties

• Dielectrics
• Relations between Microscopic and Macroscopic Parameters
• Dielectric Spectroscopy
• Dielectric Torque
• Electric Conductivity
• Piezoelectricity
• Flexoelectricity
• Ferroelectricity

Applications

• Liquid Crystal Displays
• Nondisplay Liquid Crystal Applications
• Lyotropic Liquid Crystals and Life

Index

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