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| '''Liquid crystals'''
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| ==General==
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| *[[Discotic liquid crystals]] | | *[[Discotic liquid crystals]] |
| *[[Frank elastic constants]] | | *[[Frank elastic constants]] |
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| *[[Side-chain liquid crystals]] | | *[[Side-chain liquid crystals]] |
| *[[Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals]] | | *[[Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals]] |
| ==Phases==
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| *[[Nematic phase]]
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| *[[Smectic phases]]
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| *[[Columnar phase]]
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| *[[Cubatic phase]]
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| *[[Blue phase]]
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| *[[Chiral phases]]
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| *[[Micelles]]
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| *[[Twisted grain-boundary phase]]
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| ==Phase transitions==
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| *[[Isotropic-nematic phase transition]]
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| *[[Nematic-smectic phase transition]]
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| ==Models== | | ==Models== |
| *[[Maier-Saupe mean field model]] | | *[[Maier-Saupe mean field model]] |
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| *[[Humphries, James and Luckhurst mean field model]] | | *[[Humphries, James and Luckhurst mean field model]] |
| *[[Lebwohl-Lasher model]] | | *[[Lebwohl-Lasher model]] |
| *[[Landau-de Gennes theory]]
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| ===Site-site potentials===
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| *[[Hard cut sphere model]]
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| *[[Hard ellipsoid model]]
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| *[[Hard spherocylinders]]
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| *[[Charged hard spherocylinders]]
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| *[[Tangent linear hard sphere chains]]
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| *[[Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model]] (RFFFHS) | | *[[Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model]] (RFFFHS) |
| *[[Single site anisotropic soft-core potential]]
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| *[[Gay-Berne model]]
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| *[[Flexible chain with helical interactions]] (FCh)
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| ===Realistic models===
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| *[[Simulations of real liquid crystal systems]] | | *[[Simulations of real liquid crystal systems]] |
| ==Recommended reading==
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.46.617 Michael J. Stephen and Joseph P. Straley "Physics of liquid crystals", Reviews of Modern Physics '''46''' 617-704 (1974)]
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/39/7/001 S. Chandrasekhar "Liquid crystals", Reports on Progress in Physics '''39''' pp. 613-692 (1976)]
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.2277/052142741X S. Chandrasekhar "Liquid Crystals", 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press (1992)]
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| *[http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Physics/MaterialsScience/?view=usa&ci=9780198517856 Pierre-Gilles De Gennes and J. Prost "Physics of Liquid Crystals", 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press (1995)]
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| *[http://www.fz-juelich.de/nic-series/volume23/allen2.pdf Michael P. Allen "Liquid Crystal Systems", in ''Computational Soft Matter: From Synthetic Polymers to Proteins'', NIC Series '''Volume 23''' (2004)]
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01442350500361244 Mark R. Wilson "Progress in computer simulations of liquid crystals", International Reviews in Physical Chemistry '''24''' pp. 421-455 (2005)]
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/68/11/R04 C. M. Care and D. J. Cleaver "Computer simulation of liquid crystals", Reports on Progress in Physics '''68''' pp. 2665-2700 (2005)]
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| *[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4921684 A. V. Emelyanenko and A. R. Khokhlov "Simple theory of transitions between smectic, nematic, and isotropic phases", Journal of Chemical Physics '''142''' 204905 (2015)]
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| | ==Phases== |
| | *[[Nematic phase]] |
| | *[[Smectic phases]] |
| | *[[Columnar phase]] |
| | *[[Blue phase]] |
| | *[[Chiral phases]] |
| | *[[Micells]] |
| | *[[Twisted grain-boundary phase]] |
| [[category:Complex systems]] | | [[category:Complex systems]] |
| [[category: liquid crystals]] | | [[category: liquid crystals]] |