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An Application of Analytic Methods to Smectic A Liquid Crystals, Dislocation and Crack

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In this book, we emphasize the background of liquid crystals on discussion of soft-matter quasicrystals, i.e. matrix of soft-matter quasicrystals concerned here is liquid crystals, or more explicitly speaking, that the soft-matter quasicrystals are the quasicrystals in liquid crystals. However, it is not directly given a concrete liquid crystal example in the previous presentation. In the end of the book we give an example to discuss smectic A liquid crystal and its screw dislocation and crack, these are interesting topics, although they are not quasicrystal problem.

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Fan, TY. (2017). An Application of Analytic Methods to Smectic A Liquid Crystals, Dislocation and Crack. In: Generalized Dynamics of Soft-Matter Quasicrystals. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 260. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4950-7_12

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