Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Liquid Crystals

Intended for researchers and students in physics, chemistry and materials science, this book provides the necessary background information and sufficient mathematical and physical detail to study the current research literature in nuclear magnetic resonance studies of liquid crystals. This second edition, updated throughout, incorporates many new references, corrects typographical errors, and includes new mathematical appendices.

Zusammenfassung

From reviews of the first edition:
"Dong has done a superb job combining the underlying principles of NMR with the basic properties of liquid crystals. The book provides an excellent overview of this field... [It will] make the theory ... accessible to students in physics, chemistry, and materials science who are just entering the field of liquid crystals."

Inhalt
1 Introduction to Liquid Crystals.- 2 Dynamics of Nuclear Spins.- 3 Orientational Order.- 4 Molecular Field Theories of Flexible Nematogens.- 5 Nuclear Spin Relaxation Theory.- 6 Director Fluctuations and Spin Relaxation.- 7 Rotational and Translational Dynamics.- 8 Internal Dynamics of Flexible Mesogens.- 9 Multiple-Quantum and Two-Dimensional NMR.- Appendix A Relations Between Cartesian and Spherical Tensor Components.- Appendix B Rotations, Euler Angles, and Wigner Rotation Matrices.- Appendix C Matrix Elements of the Rotational Diffusion.- C.1 Biaxial Probe in Uniaxial Phases.- C.2 Uniaxial Probe in Biaxial Phases.- Appendix D Liquid Crystal Abbreviations.