Liquid crystals

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[edit] General

• Discotic liquid crystals
• Frank elastic constants
• History of liquid crystals
• Ionic liquid crystals
• Odd-even effect
• Onsager theory
• Order parameters
• Side-chain liquid crystals
• Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals

[edit] Phases

• Nematic phase
• Smectic phases
• Columnar phase
• Blue phase
• Chiral phases
• Micelles
• Twisted grain-boundary phase

[edit] Phase transitions

• Isotropic-nematic phase transition
• Nematic-smectic phase transition

[edit] Models

• Maier-Saupe mean field model
• Kobayashi-McMillan smectic theory
• Humphries, James and Luckhurst mean field model
• Lebwohl-Lasher model

[edit] Site-site potentials

• Hard ellipsoid model
• Hard spherocylinders
• Charged hard spherocylinders
• Tangent linear hard sphere chains
• Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model (RFFFHS)
• Single site anisotropic soft-core potential
• Gay-Berne model

[edit] Realistic models

• Simulations of real liquid crystal systems

[edit] Recommended reading

• S. Chandrasekhar "Liquid Crystals", 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press (1992)
• Pierre-Gilles De Gennes and J. Prost "Physics of Liquid Crystals", 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press (1995)