Phase transitions and critical phenomena in liquids and liquid crystals have been the
subject of intensive research since the 1960s. However, books on this fascinating subject …

The monograph deals with the problems of the propagation and scattering of light in
molecular media. The explicit statistical mechanical averaging procedure for the equations …

The review is devoted to theoretical and experimental problems in the study of liquid crystals
by light scattering methods. Nematic, cholesteric, and smectic liquid crystals in the isotropic …

Studies of critical opalescence near phase transitions in different systems are reviewed. The
fundamentals of the modern approach to the description of the propagation and scattering of …

The pretransition behaviour of the static and dynamic properties near the nematicisotropic
(N–I) phase transition are discussed in view of the last experimental investigations. In this …

The accurate dynamic and static light-scattering study of pretransitional phenomena in the
isotropic phase of liquid crystals and in the micellar phase of amphiphilic solutions was …

The influence of the external magnetic or electric field on the ordering of liquid crystals in
uniaxial nematic phase is considered. Thermodynamic and fluctuation mechanisms of field …

The propagation and absorption of high-frequency sound in the isotropic phase of
cholesteryl miristate is studied in a wide frequency range using the data of both Brillouin …