附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292) and index.
Cover -- THE LIQUID CRYSTALS BOOK SERIES -- Introduction to Liquid Crystals -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction to a special phase of matter -- 1.1 ORIENTATIONAL AND POSITIONAL ORDER -- 1.2 TYPES OF LIQUID CRYSTALS -- 1.3 LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASES -- 1.4 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 1.5 FINAL COMMENTS -- 2 Nature's anisotropic fluids -- 2.1 ANISOTROPY -- 2.2 TENSOR ALGEBRA -- 2.3 ORDER PARAMETERS AND THEIR MEASUREMENT -- 2.4 MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURE -- 2.5 CONTINUUM THEORY -- 2.6 DISCLINATIONS -- 2.7 FINAL COMMENTS -- 3 Calamitic liquid crystals-nematic and smectic mesophases -- 3.1 CALAMITIC MESOPHASE STRUCTURES -- 3.2 STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONS -- 3.3 FINAL COMMENTS -- 4 Discotic liquid crystals-columnar and nematic mesophases -- 4.1 DISCOTIC MESOPHASE STRUCTURES -- 4.2 STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS -- 4.3 FINAL COMMENTS -- 5 Polymeric liquid crystals-macromesogens -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 MAIN CHAIN LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS (MCLCPs) -- 5.3 SIDE CHAIN LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS (SCLCPs) -- 5.4 FINAL COMMENTS -- 6 Chiral liquid crystals-art and science -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 THE CHIRAL NEMATIC (CHOLESTERIC) PHASE -- 6.3 CHIRAL SMECTIC PHASES -- 6.4 FRUSTRATED CHIRAL PHASES -- 6.5 CHIRAL 'DISCOTIC' PHASES -- 6.6 CHIRAL POLYMERIC MESOGENS -- 6.7 FINAL COMMENTS -- 7 Lyotropic liquid crystals-anisotropic solutions -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 THE STRUCTURES OF LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASES -- 7.3 PHASE DIAGRAMS -- 7.4 LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS -- 7.5 THE BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF LIQUID CRYSTALS -- 7.6 FINAL COMMENTS -- 8 Synthesis of liquid crystals-strategies and methods -- 8.1 INTRODUCTION -- 8.2 SYNTHETIC ROUTES TO CALAMITIC LIQUID CRYSTALS -- 8.3 SYNTHETIC ROUTES TO CHIRAL LIQUID CRYSTALS -- 8.4 SYNTHETIC ROUTES TO DISCOTIC MESOGENS -- 8.5 SYNTHETIC ROUTES TO POLYMERIC MESOGENS -- 8.6 FINAL COMMENTS -- 9 Identification of liquid crystal phases-mesophase characterisation -- 9.1 INTRODUCTION -- 9.2 VISUAL APPEARANCE
摘要: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.
