Liquid crystals
Liquid crystals
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
Phases
- Nematic phase
- Smectic phases
- Columnar phase
- Cubatic phase
- Blue phase
- Chiral phases
- Micelles
- Twisted grain-boundary phase
Phase transitions
Models
- Maier-Saupe mean field model
- Kobayashi-McMillan smectic theory
- Humphries, James and Luckhurst mean field model
- Lebwohl-Lasher model
- Landau-de Gennes theory
Site-site potentials
- Hard cut sphere model
- 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
- Flexible chain with helical interactions
Realistic models
Recommended reading
- Michael J. Stephen and Joseph P. Straley "Physics of liquid crystals", Reviews of Modern Physics 46 617-704 (1974)
- S. Chandrasekhar "Liquid crystals", Reports on Progress in Physics 39 pp. 613-692 (1976)
- 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)
- Michael P. Allen "Liquid Crystal Systems", in Computational Soft Matter: From Synthetic Polymers to Proteins, NIC Series Volume 23 (2004)
- Mark R. Wilson "Progress in computer simulations of liquid crystals", International Reviews in Physical Chemistry 24 pp. 421-455 (2005)
- C. M. Care and D. J. Cleaver "Computer simulation of liquid crystals", Reports on Progress in Physics 68 pp. 2665-2700 (2005)
- A. V. Emelyanenko and A. R. Khokhlov "Simple theory of transitions between smectic, nematic, and isotropic phases", Journal of Chemical Physics 142 204905 (2015)