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Revision as of 16:46, 9 January 2009
General
- 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
Phases
- Nematic phase
- Smectic phases
- Columnar phase
- Blue phase
- Chiral phases
- Micelles
- Twisted grain-boundary phase
Phase transitions
Models
- Maier-Saupe mean field model
- Kobayashi-McMillan smectic theory
- Humphries, James and Luckhurst mean field model
- Lebwohl-Lasher model
- Landau-de Gennes theory
Site-site potentials
- Hard ellipsoid model
- Hard spherocylinders
- Charged hard spherocylinders
- Tangent linear hard sphere chains
- Rigid fully flexible fused hard sphere model (RFFFHS)
- Single site anisotropic soft-core potential
- Gay-Berne model
Realistic models
Recommended reading
- S. Chandrasekhar "Liquid Crystals", 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press (1992)
- Pierre-Gilles De Gennes and J. Prost "Physics of Liquid Crystals", 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press (1995)
- Mark R. Wilson "Progress in computer simulations of liquid crystals", International Reviews in Physical Chemistry 24 pp. 421-455 (2005)
- C. M. Care and D. J. Cleaver "Computer simulation of liquid crystals", Reports on Progress in Physics 68 pp. 2665-2700 (2005)