商品描述
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 the published literature in terms of rigorous treatment of mathematical and computer modeling approaches.
Volume II of this handbook deals with advanced aspects of liquid crystals and their applications, covering computer simulations of phase transitions in liquid crystals, liquid crystals of biomolecules, and defect textures in liquid crystals. 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)
這本由專業且自成一體的作者撰寫的手冊，提供了關於液晶的全面涵蓋，從基礎材料科學、物理學和建模到尖端應用。作者在這個不斷發展的領域擁有超過40年的積極經驗，這本書提供了對這一關鍵研究領域的前所未有的自成一體的處理。
液晶是一種物態，具有通常與固體和液體相關的特性。它們的研究屬於更廣泛的軟凝聚物理領域，這個領域因為發現了新的物理現象和各種技術應用的可能性而變得越來越重要。液晶持續對技術產生革命性的影響，並不斷提出新的基礎理解的挑戰。雖然液晶研究的實驗方面已經非常發展，但理論理解仍然滯後，而這本手冊填補了已發表文獻中在數學和計算機建模方法方面嚴格處理的空白。
這本手冊的第二卷涵蓋了液晶的高級方面和其應用，包括液晶相變的計算機模擬、生物分子中的液晶和液晶的缺陷結構。總的來說，這本手冊是研究人員、科學家和工程師尋求發掘液晶的全部潛力的最終學術指南。它提供了對這些材料及其多樣應用的全面理解，使讀者能夠掌握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.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
在他超過45年的職業生涯中，Shri Singh教授在教學和研究方面做出了傑出的貢獻。他在Banaras Hindu University擔任講師（1975-1986年），讀者（1986-1994年）和教授（1994-2011年）。為了表彰他長期而傑出的服務，他於2011年7月獲得了Banaras Hindu University頒發的名譽教授稱號。2016年12月，他獲得了卓越教授（終身）的稱號，目前仍在這個職位上工作，並積極參與教學和研究。他曾在1980年代初期擔任加拿大Guelph大學的聯合訪問教授和訪問教授，並在美國和加拿大的許多其他大學進行演講和訪問。
Singh教授的研究活動的主要重點是發展和應用理論方法，包括計算機模擬，以了解分子液體、液晶、密集流體中的遠紅外吸收光譜以及計算機模擬方法論，並取得了液晶和統計物理學的許多重要成果。他的主要成就之一是基於密度泛函形式主義的分子有序相（液晶、塑性晶體和晶體固體）彈性性質的第一原理分子理論，已經應用於向列相、層狀A相和雙軸向列相。Singh教授最持久的研究活動之一是為了理解非手性和手性（鐵電和反鐵電）液晶的相穩定性、定向有序性和轉變性質。他們分析了分子間相互作用和外部擾動（壓力和電場）對其行為的影響。他的團隊還對向列相液晶中的有序動力學進行了計算機模擬，得到了關於域粗化的非常重要的信息。
Singh教授目前的研究活動集中在未開發的與向列相液晶的相序動力學和液晶的相圖和轉變性質有關的問題上，以及FLCs、AFLCs、SSFLCs、彎曲核心和聚合物分散液晶的結構和性質。最近，他在聚合物分散液晶和受限幾何的液晶領域進行了實驗工作，得到了非常有趣的結果。他的團隊還進行了大量的工作，以解決非介對材料（納米材料、聚合物、染料等）在主流液晶中的分散如何影響原始液晶的性質的問題，並表明分散系統對於基於液晶的設備更有用。
