Handbook of Liquid Crystals--Volume I: Foundations and Fundamental Aspects
暫譯: 液晶手冊--第一卷：基礎與基本面向
Singh, Shri
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2025-04-02
- 售價: $8,130
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- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 565
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3031500601
- ISBN-13: 9783031500602
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This expert and self-contained authored handbook provides comprehensive coverage of liquid crystals from the fundamental materials science, physics, and modeling through cutting-edge applications. Written by an author with over 40 years of active experience in this growing field, it offers an unprecedented self-contained treatment of this key research area. Liquid Crystals are a state of matter sharing properties that are usually associated with both solids and liquids. Their study belongs to wider field of soft condensed matter physics, an area growing in importance because of the new physics being discovered and the possibilities of various technological applications being developed. Liquid crystals continue to have a revolutionary technological impact and consistently pose new challenges of basic understanding. While the experimental side of liquid crystal research is very well developed, theoretical understanding has lagged, and this volume fills a gap in thepublished literature in terms of rigorous treatment of mathematical and computer modeling approaches. Volume I of this handbook deals with the physical foundations and fundamental aspects of liquid crystals, addressing their physical properties, measurement techniques, and various types. Overall, this handbook serves as the ultimate scholarly guide for researchers, scientists, and engineers seeking to unlock the full potential of liquid crystals. It offers a comprehensive understanding of these materials and their diverse applications, empowering readers to navigate the complex intricacies of liquid crystal science and technology.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本專家撰寫的自足手冊全面涵蓋了液晶的基本材料科學、物理學和建模，並延伸至尖端應用。作者在這個不斷發展的領域擁有超過40年的活躍經驗，提供了對這一關鍵研究領域前所未有的自足處理。
液晶是一種物質狀態，擁有通常與固體和液體相關的特性。它們的研究屬於軟凝聚物理學的更廣泛領域，這一領域因為新物理的發現和各種技術應用的開發而日益重要。液晶持續對技術產生革命性的影響，並不斷提出基本理解的新挑戰。儘管液晶研究的實驗方面已經非常成熟，但理論理解卻相對滯後，而本卷填補了在數學和計算建模方法的嚴謹處理方面的文獻空白。
本手冊的第一卷處理液晶的物理基礎和基本方面，涵蓋其物理特性、測量技術和各種類型。總體而言，這本手冊是研究人員、科學家和工程師尋求發掘液晶全部潛力的終極學術指南。它提供了對這些材料及其多樣應用的全面理解，使讀者能夠駕馭液晶科學和技術的複雜細節。
作者簡介
During his professional career spanning over 45 years, Prof. Shri Singh has made outstanding contributions in teaching and research. He worked at Banaras Hindu University as Lecturer 1975-86, Reader 1986-94 and Professor 1994-2011. In recognition of his long and outstanding services, he was conferred the status of Professor Emeritus by Banaras Hindu University in July 2011. In December 2016, he received the title of Distinguished Professor (Life Long), and he is currently working in this capacity and continues to be very actively involved in teaching and research. He served as Associated Visiting Professor and Visiting Professor at the University of Guelph, Canada in the early 1980s, in addition to numerous other presentations and visits to universities in the USA and Canada.
The main focus of Prof. Singh's research activities has been to develop and apply theoretical methods including computer simulations for the understanding of molecular liquids, liquid crystals, far- infrared absorption spectra in dense fluids, and computer simulations methodology, resulting in many important results for liquid crystals and statistical physics. Among his key achievements is a first principle molecular theory based on the density functional formalism for the elastic properties of molecular ordered phases (liquid crystals, plastic crystals and crystalline solids), which has been implemented for the nematic, smectic A and biaxial nematic phases. One area of Prof. Singh's most sustained activities has been towards understanding the phase stability, orientational ordering, and transition properties of achiral and chiral (ferroelectric and antiferroelectric) liquid crystals. The role of intermolecular interactions and external perturbations (pressure and electric field) on their behavior has been analyzed. His group has also performed computer simulations for the ordering kinetics in nematic liquid crystals, resulting in very crucial information about the domains coarsening. Prof. Singh's current research activities focus on unexplored problems related to MC/MD simulations for phase ordering dynamics in nematic liquid crystals and phase diagrams and transition properties of liquid crystals, and the structure and properties of FLCs, AFLCs, SSFLCs, bent core, and polymer dispersed liquid crystals. Recently, he has undertaken experimental work in the area of polymer dispersed liquid crystals and liquid crystals in confined geometry, producing very interesting results. His group has also carried out extensive work to address the question how dispersion of non-mesogenic materials (nanomaterials, polymers, dyes, etc.) in host LCs influences the properties of pristine LC and shown that dispersed system is more useful for LC-based devices.
The main focus of Prof. Singh's research activities has been to develop and apply theoretical methods including computer simulations for the understanding of molecular liquids, liquid crystals, far- infrared absorption spectra in dense fluids, and computer simulations methodology, resulting in many important results for liquid crystals and statistical physics. Among his key achievements is a first principle molecular theory based on the density functional formalism for the elastic properties of molecular ordered phases (liquid crystals, plastic crystals and crystalline solids), which has been implemented for the nematic, smectic A and biaxial nematic phases. One area of Prof. Singh's most sustained activities has been towards understanding the phase stability, orientational ordering, and transition properties of achiral and chiral (ferroelectric and antiferroelectric) liquid crystals. The role of intermolecular interactions and external perturbations (pressure and electric field) on their behavior has been analyzed. His group has also performed computer simulations for the ordering kinetics in nematic liquid crystals, resulting in very crucial information about the domains coarsening. Prof. Singh's current research activities focus on unexplored problems related to MC/MD simulations for phase ordering dynamics in nematic liquid crystals and phase diagrams and transition properties of liquid crystals, and the structure and properties of FLCs, AFLCs, SSFLCs, bent core, and polymer dispersed liquid crystals. Recently, he has undertaken experimental work in the area of polymer dispersed liquid crystals and liquid crystals in confined geometry, producing very interesting results. His group has also carried out extensive work to address the question how dispersion of non-mesogenic materials (nanomaterials, polymers, dyes, etc.) in host LCs influences the properties of pristine LC and shown that dispersed system is more useful for LC-based devices.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
在其超過45年的職業生涯中，Shri Singh教授在教學和研究方面做出了卓越的貢獻。他於1975年至1986年在班納拉斯印度大學擔任講師，1986年至1994年擔任讀者，1994年至2011年擔任教授。因其長期且卓越的服務，班納拉斯印度大學於2011年7月授予他名譽教授的地位。2016年12月，他獲得了終身傑出教授的稱號，目前仍在此職位上工作，並持續積極參與教學和研究。他在1980年代初期曾擔任加拿大圭爾夫大學的副訪問教授和訪問教授，此外還有多次前往美國和加拿大的其他大學進行演講和訪問。
Singh教授的研究活動主要集中在開發和應用理論方法，包括計算機模擬，以理解分子液體、液晶、密集流體中的遠紅外吸收光譜以及計算機模擬方法，並因此在液晶和統計物理方面取得了許多重要成果。他的一項主要成就基於密度泛函形式的第一原理分子理論，用於分子有序相（液晶、塑性晶體和晶體固體）的彈性特性，已應用於向列相、層狀相和雙軸向列相。Singh教授持續進行的研究之一是理解非手性和手性（鐵電和反鐵電）液晶的相穩定性、取向有序性和轉變特性。對於分子間相互作用和外部擾動（壓力和電場）對其行為的影響進行了分析。他的研究小組還對向列液晶中的有序動力學進行了計算機模擬，提供了有關領域粗化的關鍵信息。
Singh教授目前的研究活動集中在與向列液晶的相序動力學和相圖及轉變特性相關的未探索問題，以及FLCs、AFLCs、SSFLCs、彎曲核心和聚合物分散液晶的結構和特性。最近，他在聚合物分散液晶和受限幾何中的液晶領域進行了實驗工作，產生了非常有趣的結果。他的研究小組還進行了廣泛的工作，以解決非介質材料（納米材料、聚合物、染料等）在宿主液晶中分散如何影響原始液晶的特性，並顯示出分散系統對於基於液晶的設備更具實用性。
