Eleven taxa (including eight heretofore undescribed species) of cellularly preserved
filamentous microbes, among the oldest fossils known, have been discovered in a bedded …

For a decade now the subject of the nature of the two-dimensional melting transition has
remained controversial. An elegant theory based on the unbinding of pairs of crystal defects …

We present a review of experimental, theoretical, and molecular simulation studies of
confinement effects on freezing and melting. We consider both simple and more complex …

This article reviews, from a very personal point of view, the origins and the early work on
transitions driven by topological defects such as vortices in the two dimensional planar rotor …

The aim of this book is to give a unified and critical account of the fundamental aspects of
liquid crystals. Preference is given to discussing the assumptions made in developing …

Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study
of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical …

Mesogenic materials exhibit a multitude of transitions involving new phases. Studies of
these phases are of importance in a wide range of scientific fields and as such have …

Three-dimensional bond orientational order is studied via computer simulations of 864
particles interacting through a Lennard-Jones pair potential. Long-range orientational …

Based on graduate lectures given by the authors, Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals:
Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments examines lamellar (smectic) …

In a membrane with in plane orientational order, the topology determines the total strength of
the disclinations and thus controls the total elastic energy. Making use of this remark we …