Polymers, tensides, liquid crystals, and colloids have always stood at the forefront of Pierre‐
Gilles de Gennes's interests. He obtained the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991, and his Nobel …

The introduction of chirality, ie, the lack of mirror symmetry, has a profound effect on liquid
crystals, not only on the molecular scale but also on the supermolecular scale and phase. I …

Much more than a slight revision, this second edition of the successful" Handbook of Liquid
Crystals" is completely restructured and streamlined, with updated as well as completely …

The Handbook of Liquid Crystals is a unique compendium of knowledge on all aspects of
liquid crystals. In over 2000 pages the Handbook provides detailed information on the basic …

1) Complexity. One may, in a certain primitive sense, say that modem biology has
proceeded from studies on simple model systems (bacterias) to complex multicellular …

This article reviews the physics of colloidal dispersions in nematic liquid crystals as a novel
challenging type of soft matter. We first investigate the nematic environment of one particle …

Inverse nematic emulsions, in which surfactant-coated water droplets are dispersed in a
nematic host fluid, have distinctive properties that set them apart from dispersions of two …

Mesogenic materials exhibit a multitude of transitions involving new phases. Studies of
these phases are of importance in a wide range of scientific fields and as such have …

This article analyzes modulated phases in liquid crystals, from the long-established
cholesteric and blue phases to the recently discovered twist-bend, splay-bend, and splay …

Dieses Handbuch ist ein einzigartiges Kompendium des aktuellen Wissens über die Physik
der Flüssigkristalle. Auf über 500 Seiten sind die physikalischen Eigenschaften …