Physical Properties of Liquid Crystals Nematics 07.pdfVIP

CHAPTER 5 ELASTIC PROPERTIES 5.1 Torsional elasticity for mesophases 5.2 Measurements of bulk elastic constants of nematics 5.3 Measurement of surface elastic constants 5.4 Quantitative aspects of defects in nematics 5.5 Measurements and interpretation of flexoelectricity 5.1 Torsional elasticity for mesophases LW. Stewart and RJ. Atkin June 1999 A INTRODUCTION The free energy for nematic and chiral nematic liquid crystals based on torsional elasticity is presented in the most common mathematical forms. B NEMATICS Nematic liquid crystals often consist of long molecules having an average alignm