Introduction to Physics of Liquid Crystals (1/13)

18 fevereiro 2019, 13:00 • João Luís Maia Figueirinhas

Structure of the crystalline liquid state. Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals. The different types of thermotropic liquid crystals; calamitic, discotic, sanidic, pyramidal and polymeric. Mesophases characteristic of thermotropic liquid crystals. Main characteristics of the nematic mesophase, the director, the nematic order parameter and the tensor order parameter. Solution of an application problem.