Liquid Crystals 1200-2MON17L

The lectures will contain following topics:
Short and long range ordered structures, methods of their description and studies
Thermotropic liquid crystalline phases (nematic, smectics, columnar phases, banana phases)
Elastic deformations in mesophases, classification of structural defects
Phase transition theories (Ising and Landau model, elements of renormalization theories)
Molecular chirality and structure chirality, chirality transfer mechanism
Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid phases
Lyotropic liquid crystals and related biological structures.
Applications of mesogenic materials (liquid crystals displays, etc)

Type of course

elective monographs

Prerequisites

Physical Chemistry I
Physical Chemistry I
Physics A
Physics A

Prerequisites (description)

Electrostatics, magnetism, electromagnetism, material optics at the basic level of I and II semester of Chemistry. Thermodynamics - phase transitions at basic level

Course coordinators

Damian Pociecha

Learning outcomes

Knowledge related to liquid crystal (LC) structures and LC properties that can be detected in various methods of investigation. Methods used in identification and studies of LC

Assessment criteria

a final wrritten exam

Practical placement

Does not concern

Bibliography

The lecture is based on author's project

Additional information

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