An introduction to the subject of liquid crystals, this text combines both chemistry and physics topics in liquid crystals and includes meanings of all but the most basic terms used. More advanced chemical and physical concepts and specialized
This book is a result of personal research and of the graduate lectures given by the authors at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the Paris VII..
Written by a group of authors who have all published extensively in the international research literature, Alignment Technologies and Applications of ..
Despite the large quantity of phenomenological information concerning the bulk properties of nematic phase liquid crystals, little is understood about..
Based on graduate lectures given by the authors, Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments exa..
Fundamentally important as models for the study of energy and charge migration in self-organized systems, discotic liquid crystals find functional app..
Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties provides insight into the latest developments in the research on liquid crystals forme..