Crystallography

Despite the large quantity of phenomenological information concerning the bulk properties of nematic phase liquid crystals, little is understood about the origin of the surface energy, particularly the surface, interfacial, and anchoring properties of liquid crystals that affect the performance of l..

Written by a group of authors who have all published extensively in the international research literature, Alignment Technologies and Applications of Liquid Crystal Devices takes a detailed look at a critical aspect of liquid crystal technology: the alignment characteristics and properties of the ma..

Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties provides insight into the latest developments in the research on liquid crystals formed by bent-shaped mesogens...

Fundamentally important as models for the study of energy and charge migration in self-organized systems, discotic liquid crystals find functional application as one-dimensional conductors, photoconductors, light emitting diodes, photovoltaic solar cells, field-effect transistors, and gas sensors. C..

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 University, respectively. The first part of the book presents historical background, the modern classification of liquid crystals, and mesogenic anat..

Based on graduate lectures given by the authors, Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments examines lamellar (smectic) and columnar liquid crystals, which, in addition to orientational order, possess 1D, 2D or 3D positional order. Topics includ..