Structure of Liquid Crystal Phases

Pershan P S 1988 Structure of Liquid Crystal Phases (Singapore World Soientifio)... 

It is now well-established that for atomic fluids, far from the critical point, the atomic organisation is dictated by the repulsive forces while the longer range attractive forces serve to maintain the high density [34]. The investigation of systems of hard spheres can therefore be used as simple models for atomic systems they also serve as a basis for a thermodynamic perturbation analysis to introduce the attractive forces in a van der Waals-like approach [35]. In consequence it is to be expected that the anisotropic repulsive forces would be responsible for the structure of liquid crystal phases and numerous simulation studies of hard objects have been undertaken to explore this possibility [36]. 

Pershan PS (1988) Structure of liquid crystals phases, World Scientific, Singapore... 

A. J. Leadbetter, in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals, Critical Reports on Applied Chem., Vol. 22 (ed. G. W. Gray), p. 1, John Wiley Sons, Chichester (1987) P. S. Pershan, Structure of Liquid Crystal Phases, World Scientific, Singapore (1988). 

Pershan, P. S. Structure of Liquid Crystal Phases World Scientific NJ, 1988. 

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Also, further X-ray studies began to advance knowledge of the structure of liquid crystal phases, particularly smectics. The work of de Vries and Diele should be mentioned, and later on, notably that by Leve-lut and co-workers in France and Leadbet-ter in England (see, for example, [37, 38]), work which culminated in the 1980s in a clear structural elucidation and classification of smetic liquid crystals. This distin-... 

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