Nonlinear dielectric phenomena in complex liquids/ edited by Sylwester J. Rzoska and Vitaly P. Zhelezny.

ntroduction. Photograph of participants. List of participants. -I: Basics for nonlinear dielectric and related studies in liquids. Anomalous expressions for the nonlinear harmonic components of the electric polarization; J.-L. Déjardin. Theory of anomalous dielectric relaxation; W.T. Coffey. Rotational Brownian motion and nonlinear dielectric relaxation of asymmetric top molecules in strong electric fields: The Langevin equation approach; Yu.P. Kalmykov. Experimental solutions for nonlinear dielectric studies in complex liquids; M. Górny, S.J. Rzoska. Comments on nonlinear dielectric effect studies in liquids; S.J. Rzoska, A. Drozd-Rzoska. Effect of constraints on electrostriction; C.M. Roland, J.T. Garrett. Douglas Kell comments on "methodology" during the workshop; D.B. Kell. A new technique of dielectric characterization of liquid; N.T. Cherpak, et al. Nonlinear dielectric losses and dynamics of intrinsic conductivity of dielectrics; J.A. Malecki. -II: Nonlinear dielectric and related problems in critical liquids. Dielectric properties of critical conducting mixtures; K. Orzechowski, M. Kosmowska. Nonlinear dielectric effect behavior in a critical and near-critical binary mixture; A. Drodz-Rzoska. Electric field effects near critical points; A. Onuki. Critical phenomena in confined binary liquid mixtures; A.V. Chalyi, et al. Model of the critical behavior of real systems; D.Yu. Ivanov. The method of prediction of the properties for substances on the coexistence curve including vicinity of the critical point; V.P. Zhelezny. Phase equilibrium in complex liquids under negative pressure; A.R. Imre, et al. New approaches to the investigation of the metastable and reacting fluids; P.V. Skripow, et al. -III: Nonlinear dielectric results for liquid crystalline materials. The discontinuity of the isotropic - mesophase transition in n-cyanobiphenyls homologous series from 4CB to 14CB. Nonlinear dielectric effect (NDE) studies; A. Drodz-Rzoska. Influence of pressure on the dielectric properties of liquid crystals; S. Urban, A. Würflinger. Phase behavior of perturbed liquid crystals; S. Kralj, et al. Edge dislocations in smectic-a liquid crystals; M. Ambrozic, et al. -IV: Nonlinear dielectric and related studies for supercooled/superpressed and polymeric liquids. A schematic description of the dynamics of glass transition by the coupling model; K.L. Ngai. Transient grating experiments in supercooled liquids; A. Taschin, et al. Medium-range ordering in liquids appearing in nonlinear dielectric effect studies; J. Zioło, et al. The cooperative molecular dynamics and nonlinear phenomena; C.A. Solunov. Annihilation response of ortho-positronium probe from positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy and its relationships to the free volume and dynamics of glass-forming systems; J. Bartoš, et al. Influence of molecular structure on dynamics of secondary relaxation in phthalates; S. Hensel-Bielowka, et al. Electrostriction and crystalline phase transformations in a vinylidene flouride terpolymer; C.M. Roland, et al. -V: Nonlinear dielectric studies for biologically and environment relevant materials. Self-assembly and the associated dynamics in PBLG-PEG-PBLG triblock copolymers; P. Papadopoulos, G. Floudas. Nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy of biological systems: princples and applications; D.B. Kell, et al. Measurement method of electric birefringence spectrum in frequency domain; T. Shimomura, et al. Melting/freezing in narrow pores: dielectric and EPR studies; M. Śliwinska-Bartkowiak, et al. Electrodilatometry of liquids, binary liquids and surfactants; M. Rappon, et al. Influence of strong electric field on dielectric permittivity of polycrystalline ice doped by small amounts of NAOH; A. Szala, K. Orzechowski. Host⇆guest interaction in ACF: EPR study; M. Kimpinski.