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*[[Side-chain liquid crystals]] | *[[Side-chain liquid crystals]] | ||
*[[Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals]] | *[[Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals]] | ||
*[[Isotropic-nematic phase transition]] | |||
*[[Nematic-smectic phase transition]] | |||
==Models== | ==Models== | ||
*[[Maier-Saupe mean field model]] | *[[Maier-Saupe mean field model]] | ||
Revision as of 11:46, 16 November 2007
- Discotic liquid crystals
- Frank elastic constants
- History of liquid crystals
- Ionic liquid crystals
- Odd-even effect
- Onsager theory
- Order parameters
- Side-chain liquid crystals
- Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals
- Isotropic-nematic phase transition
- Nematic-smectic phase transition
Models
- Maier-Saupe mean field model
- Kobayashi-McMillan smectic theory
- Humphries, James and Luckhurst mean field model
- Lebwohl-Lasher model
- Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model (RFFFHS)
- Simulations of real liquid crystal systems