During his distinguished scientific career, Alfred Saupe made important contributions to liquid crystal research, laying the groundwork on which much of the current knowledge and research in the physics of liquid crystals is based. This volume features papers presented by Prof. Saupe's colleagues, students and friends at a festschrift in honor of his 70th birthday. In addition, a selection of Prof. Saupe's articles are reprinted in the original German and in English translation, offering the reader a unique opportunity to see both the early work of this important scientist and widespread effect of that work on later discoveries in liquid crystal physics.
Author(s): Patricia E. Cladis, Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 485
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Editors' Foreword
Alfred Saupe: A Personal History
Recollections from an Old Student
Publications of Alfred Saupe
Alfred Saupe — 40 Years of Research
Nematics
On the Role of Spherical Symmetry in the Maier-Saupe Theory
K13-Induced Deformations in a Nematic Liquid Crystal: Experimental Test of the First-Order Theory
Dynamics of Microconfined Nematic Liquid Crystals and Related NMR Studies
Thermal Entropic Effect at the Electric Field Induced Isotropic-Nematic Transition
The Topological Microstructure of Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals
Vanishing Disclination Lines in Lyotropic Biaxial Nematics
Flow Alignment in Biaxial and Discotic Nematics
Amphotropic Properties of Multi-Palladium and -Platinum Liquid Crystals
Orientational Order in Nematics: Experiment, Theory and Simulation
Cholesterics/Blue Phases
Flexoelectric Effects in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Flexoelectric Induced Vanishing of the Cholesteric Helix
Point and Line Disclinations in Models of the Blue Phases
Influence of Cholesteric Solvents on the Kinetics of Schiff Base Formation from Enantiomeric Amines
Smectics A/C
Critical Behavior at the Smectic-A to Nematic Transition of Confined Liquid Crystal Mixtures
Light-Induced Periodic Lattice of Defects in Smectic A and C Liquid Crystals: Structural and Dynamical Aspects
Physics of Soap Films
Dynamics of Giant Vesicles
Charge Transfer Processes in Model and Biological Membranes: Defect and Mechano-Electric Aspects; Statics and Dynamics
Helielecrics Ferro/Antiferro
Recent Advances in LPP-Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals Applied to the Phase Retarder Image of Alfred Saupe
A Pictorial Approach to Helical Macrostructures in Smectic Liquid Crystals
Spontaneous Polarization in Tilted Smectics
Landau Expansion Coefficients for a Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Showing a Polarization Sign Inversion
Electrically Induced Flows in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Films
X-ray, Dielectric and High Pressure Studies on a Compound Exhibiting Ferro-, Ferri- and Antiferroelectric Smectic Phases
Light Scattering and Oapless Excitations in Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals
LCs & Polymers
Freedericksz Transition Measurements on Polymer-Stabilized Liquid Crystals
Liquid Crystalline Polymer Stabilized FLCDs with Conventional Rubbed Polyimide Films or with Photo Alignment Films of Poly(vinyl Cinnamate)
Wavelength Selection in Slowly Quenched Systems
Dilute Polymer in a Lyotropic Lamellar System without Interaction: A Possible Depletion Flocculation Effect
Selected Papers of Alfred Saupe
Eine einfache molekulare Theorie des nematischen kristallinflüssigen Zustandes
[A Simple Molecular Theory of the Nematic Liquid-Crystalline State]
Eine einfache molekular-statistische Theorie der nematischen kristallin-flüssigen Phase. Teil I
[A Simple Molecular Statistical Theory of the Nematic Liquid-Crystalline Phase. Part I]
Eine einfache molekular-statistische Theorie der nematischen kristallin-flüssigen Phase. Teil II
[A Simple Molecular Statistical Theory of the Nematic Liquid-Crystalline Phase. Part II]
Deformation of a Nematic Liquid Crystal by Polarized Light
