عنوان

The Molecular Dynamics of Liquid Crystals

(Number (ISBN

9401045097

(Number (ISBN

9401111685

(Number (ISBN

9789401045094

(Number (ISBN

9789401111683

Number

b594809

Title Proper

The Molecular Dynamics of Liquid Crystals

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by G.R. Luckhurst, C.A. Veracini.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1994

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(628 pages 2 illustrations)

Series Title

NATO ASI series., Series C,, Mathematical and physical sciences ;, 431.

Text of Note

1. A Comparative Survey of the Physical Techniques Used in Studies of Molecular Dynamics --; 2. On the Description of Ordering in Liquid Crystals --; 3. Diffusion Models for Molecular Motion in Uniaxial Mesophases --; 4. ESR and Liquid Crystals: Statistical Mechanics and Generalised Smoluchowski Equations --; 5. Techniques and Applications of Langevin Dynamics Simulations --; 6. An Introduction to the Molecular Dynamics Method and to Orientational Dynamics in Liquid Crystals --; 7. Nuclear Spin Relaxation Formalism for Liquid Crystals --; 8. Nuclear Spin Relaxation and Molecular Motion in Liquid Crystals --; 9. The Effects of Director Fluctuations on Nuclear Spin Relaxation --; 10. Nuclear Spin Relaxation Mechanisms in Liquid Crystals Studied By Field Cycling NMR --; 11. Probe Studies of Liquid Crystals --; 12. ESR and Molecular Motions in Liquid Crystals: Motional Narrowing --; 13. Thermodynamics of Liquid Crystals and the Relation to Molecular Dynamics: ESR Studies --; 14. ESR Studies of Molecular Dynamics at Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals --; 15. ESR and Slow Motions in Liquid Crystals --; 16. Raman and IR Fluctuation Spectroscopy of Liquid Crystals --; 17. Dielectric Relaxation Behaviour of Liquid Crystals --; 18. Neutron Scattering From Liquid Crystals --; 19. Molecular Order and Motion in Liquid Crystal Polymers Studied By Pulsed Dynamic NMR --; 20. Aggregates of Amphiphiles in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals --; 21. Orientation and Frequency Dependent NMR Relaxation Studies of Bilayer Membranes: Characterisation of the Lipid Motions --; 22. Molecular Dynamics in Liquid-Crystalline Systems Studied By Fluorescence Depolarisation Techniques --; 23. Spectroscopic Studies on Structure and Dynamics of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals: Cubic and Reversed Hexagonal Phases and Lipid Vesicles.

Text of Note

This book is based on a NATO Advanced Study Institute held to enhance our understanding, at both an experimental and a theoretical level, of the molecular dynamics in liquid crystals. The lecturers at the Institute, each leaders in their respective fields, have contributed chapters to the book with the aim of producing, for the first time, a coherent, pedagogical account of this interdisciplinary subject. The range of materials considered is wide, including lyotropic and thermotropic liquid crystals, biological membranes and polymeric systems. The formalism needed to characterise the rotational, translational and conformational dynamics is developed. Then the use of experimental techniques to investigate the dynamics is described; these techniques include NMR and ESR spectroscopy, neutron scattering, dielectric relaxation, infrared spectroscopy and fluorescence depolarisation. Some of these experiments are influenced by the collective orientations or director modes which are also considered. The results of these experiments are presented and the theory necessary to understand them is described, with particular attention being paid to the influence of the long range liquid--crystalline order on the dynamics.

Analytical biochemistry.

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edited by G.R. Luckhurst, C.A. Veracini.

C A Veracini

G R Luckhurst

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