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'''Liquid crystals'''
==General==
*[[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==
*[[Nematic phase]]
*[[Smectic phases]]
*[[Columnar phase]]
*[[Cubatic phase]]
*[[Blue phase]]
*[[Chiral phases]]
*[[Micelles]]
*[[Twisted grain-boundary phase]]
==Phase transitions==
*[[Isotropic-nematic phase transition]]
*[[Isotropic-nematic phase transition]]
*[[Nematic-smectic phase transition]]
*[[Nematic-smectic phase transition]]
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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]]
===Site-site potentials===
===Site-site potentials===
*[[Hard cut sphere model]]
*[[Hard ellipsoids]]
*[[Hard ellipsoid model]]
*[[Hard spherocylinders]]
*[[Hard spherocylinders]]
*[[Charged hard spherocylinders]]
*[[Tangent linear hard sphere chains]]
*[[Tangent linear hard sphere chains]]
*[[Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model]] (RFFFHS)
*[[Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model]] (RFFFHS)
*[[Single site anisotropic soft-core potential]]
*[[Single site anisotropic soft-core potential]]
*[[Gay-Berne model]]
*[[Gay-Berne model]]
*[[Flexible chain with helical interactions]] (FCh)
===Realistic models===
===Realistic models===
*[[Simulations of real liquid crystal systems]]
*[[Simulations of real liquid crystal systems]]
==Recommended reading==
*[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)]
*[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)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.2277/052142741X S. Chandrasekhar "Liquid Crystals", 2nd Edition,  Cambridge University Press (1992)]
*[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)]
*[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)]
*[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)]
*[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)]
*[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)]


==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]]
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