Claudio Zannoni

Liquid Crystals and Their Computer Simulations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this comprehensive textbook provides a modern and self-contained treatment of liquid crystals and their computer simulations. It introduces various liquid crystal systems, presenting both the theory and the methodologies required to link experiment and computer simulation in a clear and accessible way.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1334g
• ISBN-13: 9781108424059
• ISBN-10: 1108424058
• Artikelnr.: 63199537

Autorenporträt

Claudio Zannoni obtained his PhD in Chemical Physics from Southampton University in 1975 and has been Professor of Physical Chemistry (now Emeritus) at the University of Bologna since 1987. He has extensive experience in the field, having published some 300 papers and delivered over 350 lectures worldwide on computer simulations and molecular theories of liquid crystals. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Bonino Medal of the Italian Chemical Society. In 1998 he founded and now directs the International School of Liquid Crystals.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Phases and mesophases
2. Phase transitions
3. Order parameters
4. Distributions
5. Particle-particle interactions
6. Dynamics
7. Molecular theories
8. Monte Carlo
9. Molecular dynamics
10. Lattice models
11. Molecular simulations
12. Atomistic simulations. Appendices. References. Subject index.