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Textbooks. Prost, de Gennes , “The physics of liquid crystals” Chandrasekhar, “Liquid crystals” Vertogen , de Jeu , “ Thermotropic liquid crystals, Fundamentals” Chaikin , Lubensky , “Principles of condensed matter physics ”

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  1. Textbooks • Prost, de Gennes, “The physics of liquid crystals” • Chandrasekhar, “Liquid crystals” • Vertogen, de Jeu, “Thermotropic liquid crystals, Fundamentals” • Chaikin, Lubensky, “Principles of condensed matter physics” • P. Oswald, P. Pieranski, “Nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals” • and many, many more … Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  2. Some useful internet resources Liquid crystal groups with good web pages http://bly.colorado.edu/images.html http://liqcryst.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/ http://www.lci.kent.edu http://www.lci.kent.edu/information.html … and many more Virtual text book http://plc.cwru.edu/tutorial/enhanced/main.htm Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  3. Historical remarks • 1888 Reinitzer (Cholesterolbenzoat) • 1889 Lehmann:“ÜberfliessendeKrystalle” Monatshefte für Chemie (Wien)9, 421–41 (1888) ZeitschriftfürphysikalischeChemie4, 462 – 472. Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  4. Nematics Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  5. n  Director N N Microscopic definition Distribution function, f(q) Higher order Lower order p 0  Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  6. Magnetic susceptinility [Vertogen, de Jeu, “Thermotropic liquid crystals, Fundamentals”, p. 175] Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  7. Schlieren Texture [O. Lavrentovich, Kent] Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  8. Nematics [O. Lavrentovich, LCI, Kent] [Demus, Richter “Textures of Liquid Crystals” p. 33] Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  9. Defects in nematics II P.E. Cladis, H.R. Brand Physica A 326 (2003) 322 – 332 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  10. Homologue series, nematics [Vertogen, de Jeu, “Thermotropic liquid crystals, Fundamentals”, p. 21] Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  11. Thread texture J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 2, 1972, 68, 1 - 15, Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  12. Cholesteric lcs, chiral nematics [Coates, Gray, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 24, 163 (1973) [Chandrasekhar, “Liquid crystals”, p. 5] Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  13. Cholesteric lcs, chiral nematics [Vertogen, de Jeu, “Thermotropic liquid crystals, Fundamentals”, p. 27] http://bly.colorado.edu/lcphysics/textures/#Ch Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  14. Focal conics [M. E. Neubert, Kent] http://liqcryst.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/lcionline/ Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  15. Smectic A [M. E. Neubert, LCI, Kent] [Vertogen, de Jeu, “Thermotropic liquid crystals, Fundamentals”, p. 34] Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  16. Differential scanning calorimetry http://plc.cwru.edu/tutorial/enhanced/files/lc/phase/phase.htm Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  17. X-ray scattering Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  18. X-ray scattering [ S. Krause, Diss, 2008, Uni Freiburg] Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  19. Comparing different methods Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  20. Modern applications (biomedical) Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  21. Modern applications (model systems) Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  22. Smectic … (e.g. Cxx, B7) [ Antal Jakli, LCI, Kent] Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  23. Columnar phases [Chaikin, Lubensky, “Principles of condensed matter physics”, p.71] Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  24. Lyotropic liquid crystals [Chaikin, Lubensky, “Principles of condensed matter physics”, p.73] Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  25. Lyotropic liquid crystals [Chaikin, Lubensky, “Principles of condensed matter physics”, p.74] Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  26. Blockcopolymers Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  27. Blockcopolymers Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

  28. Liquid crystalline elastomers Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

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