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==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]] | |||
*[[Blue phase]] | |||
*[[Chiral phases]] | |||
*[[Micells]] | |||
*[[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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===Realistic models=== | ===Realistic models=== | ||
*[[Simulations of real liquid crystal systems]] | *[[Simulations of real liquid crystal systems]] | ||
[[category:Complex systems]] | [[category:Complex systems]] | ||
[[category: liquid crystals]] | [[category: liquid crystals]] | ||
Revision as of 11:41, 28 January 2008
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
- Blue phase
- Chiral phases
- Micells
- 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
Site-site potentials
- Hard ellipsoids
- Hard spherocylinders
- Tangent linear hard sphere chains
- Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model (RFFFHS)
- Single site anisotropic soft-core potential
- Gay-Berne model