Textbooks Prost, de Gennes, “The physics of liquid crystals” Chandrasekhar, “Liquid crystals” Vertogen, de Jeu, “Thermotropic liquid crystals, Fundamentals” Chaikin, Lubensky, “Principles of condensed matter physics” P. Oswald, P. Pieranski, “Nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals” and many, many more … 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Some useful internet resources Liquid crystal groups with good web pages http://bly.colorado.edu/images.html http://liqcryst.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/ http://www.lci.kent.edu http://www.lci.kent.edu/information.html … and many more Virtual text book http://plc.cwru.edu/tutorial/enhanced/main.htm 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Historical remarks 1888 Reinitzer (Cholesterolbenzoat) 1889 Lehmann: “Über fliessende Krystalle” Monatshefte für Chemie (Wien) 9, 421–41 (1888) Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie 4, 462 – 472. 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Nematics 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Microscopic definition Director  N n Distribution function, f(q) Higher order Lower order p  04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Magnetic susceptinility [Vertogen, de Jeu, “Thermotropic liquid crystals, Fundamentals”, p. 175] 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Schlieren Texture [O. Lavrentovich, Kent] 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Nematics [O. Lavrentovich, LCI, Kent] [Demus, Richter “Textures of Liquid Crystals” p. 33] 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Defects in nematics II P.E. Cladis, H.R. Brand Physica A 326 (2003) 322 – 332 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Homologue series, nematics [Vertogen, de Jeu, “Thermotropic liquid crystals, Fundamentals”, p. 21] 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Thread texture J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 2, 1972, 68, 1 - 15, 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Cholesteric lcs, chiral nematics [Coates, Gray, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 24, 163 (1973) [Chandrasekhar, “Liquid crystals”, p. 5] 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Cholesteric lcs, chiral nematics [Vertogen, de Jeu, “Thermotropic liquid crystals, Fundamentals”, p. 27] http://bly.colorado.edu/lcphysics/textures/#Ch 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Focal conics [M. E. Neubert, Kent] http://liqcryst.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/lcionline/ 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Smectic A [M. E. Neubert, LCI, Kent] [Vertogen, de Jeu, “Thermotropic liquid crystals, Fundamentals”, p. 34] 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Differential scanning calorimetry http://plc.cwru.edu/tutorial/enhanced/files/lc/phase/phase.htm 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

X-ray scattering 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

X-ray scattering [ S. Krause, Diss, 2008, Uni Freiburg] 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Comparing different methods 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Modern applications (biomedical) 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Modern applications (model systems) 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Smectic … (e.g. Cxx, B7) [ Antal Jakli, LCI, Kent] 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Columnar phases [Chaikin, Lubensky, “Principles of condensed matter physics”, p.71] 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Lyotropic liquid crystals [Chaikin, Lubensky, “Principles of condensed matter physics”, p.73] 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Lyotropic liquid crystals [Chaikin, Lubensky, “Principles of condensed matter physics”, p.74] 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Blockcopolymers 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Blockcopolymers 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"

Liquid crystalline elastomers 04/20/2010 Oettel/Auernhammer, "Soft Matter"