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  title info:
    title: Liquid Crystal Colloids
  name:
    name part: Muševič, Igor.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 303 p. 200 illus., 152 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book brings together the many concepts and discoveries in liquid crystal colloids contributed over the last twenty years and scattered across numerous articles and book chapters. It provides both a historical overview of the development of the field and a clear perspective on the future applications in photonics. The book covers all phenomena observed in liquid crystal colloids with an emphasis on experimental tools and applications of topology in condensed matter, as well as practical micro-photonics applications. It includes a number of spectacular manifestations of new topological phenomena not found or difficult to observe in other systems. Starting from the early works on nematic colloids, it explains the basics of topological defects in ordered media, charge and winding, and the elastic forces between colloidal particles in nematics. Following a detailed description of experimental methods, such as optical tweezing and particle tracking, the book eases the reader into the theoretical part, which deals with elastic deformation of nematic liquid crystals due to inclusions and surface alignment. This is discussed in the context of basic mean field Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor theory, with a brief explanation of the free-energy minimization numerical methods. There then follows an excursion into the topology of complex nematic colloidal structures, colloidal entanglement, knotting and linking. Nematic droplets, shells, handlebodies and chiral topological structures are addressed in separate chapters. The book concludes with an extensive chapter on the photonic properties of nematic dispersions, presenting the concept of integrated soft matter photonics and discussing the concepts of nematic and chiral nematic microlasers, surface-sensitive photonic devices and smectic microfibers. The text is complemented by a large bibliography, explanatory sketches and beautiful micrographs.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Dipolar and Quadrupolar Nematic Colloids -- Optical Trapping and Manipulation of Nematic Colloids -- 2D and 3D Colloidal Crystals and Superstructures -- Entanglement of Nematic Colloids.
  note: by Igor Muševič.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physical chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Amorphous substances
  subject:
    topic: Complex fluids
  subject:
    topic: Nanotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Optical materials
  subject:
    topic: Electronic materials
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics
  subject:
    topic: Physical Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Optical and Electronic Materials
  subject:
    topic: Nanotechnology and Microengineering
  classification: QC176.8.A44
  classification: 530.41
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Soft and Biological Matter
  identifier: 9783319549163
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54916-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 170515
    record change date: 20170515150001.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-54916-3