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Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

Name: Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780192898654
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Contributors:

Ingo Dierking, Ant?nio Martins Figueiredo Neto

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Science

Book Subcategory:

Physics, Chemistry

Book Topic:

Condensed Matter, Physical & Theoretical, Crystallography

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Release Date:

10/16/24

ISBN 13:

9780192898654

Weight:

1.33 lbs

Size:

9.80 x 7.05 x 0.76 inches

Pages:

224

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This book aims to review the field of lyotropic liquid crystals from amphiphilic to colloidal systems, bridging the gap between the two worlds of lyotropics and thermotropics by showing that many of the features observed in standard thermotropic liquid crystals may also be observed in lyotropic systems and vice versa.

Indeed, for a long time, lyotropic liquid crystals have been overshadowed by their thermotropic counterparts, mainly due to the potential for application of the latter in the display industry. This picture has somewhat shifted over the last decade, with numerous novel lyotropic systems having been discovered and formulated, bringing to light their importance in wider scientific research.

For example, the understanding of viruses forming self-assembled ordered phases has largely increased as mineral liquid crystals and clays have experienced a renaissance leading to fundamental research and work on structure formation in nanotechnology. Similarly, nano-rods, nano-wires, nanotubes and 2D materials like graphene oxide and others have been shown to exhibit liquid crystalline behaviour, which may be exploited in self-assembly, drug delivery or biosensors. Cellulose nanocrystals have become an important and popular field of research. The self-assembly of short chain DNA fragments has led to liquid crystal behaviour previously thought to be impossible. Chromonics were shown to exhibit fascinating physical properties, and the combination of active fluids with liquid crystals has opened a whole new field of research to be explored - 'living liquid crystals'.

About the Author
Ingo Dierking, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Ant?nio Martins Figueiredo Neto, Professor of Physics, Institute of Physics, Experimental Physics Department, University of S?o Paulo

Ingo Dierking received his PhD at Clausthal University, Germany, in 1995 and then worked as a postdoc at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA, before receiving a Humboldt fellowship for Chalmers University, Sweden. From 1999-2002 Dierking was a lecturer at Darmstadt University, Germany, before joining the University of Manchester where he is a Senior Lecturer. He has won several research awards, the GW Gray medal, the Cyril Hilsum medal and the Samsung Mid-career award and is currently the President of the International Liquid Crystal Society and a former Chair of the British Liquid Crystals Society.

Ant?nio Martins Figueiredo Neto received his PhD at the University of S?o Paulo, Brazil, in 1981 and then worked as a postdoc at the Universit? Paris-Sud, France, from 1983 to 1985. In 1988 he became Full Professor of Physics at University of S?o Paulo. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science and the State of S?o Paulo Academy of Science. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and supervised more than 40 PhD and Master students.

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