Advances in Liquid Crytals, Hardcover by Vij, Jagdish K. (EDT), ISBN 0471180831, ISBN-13 9780471180838, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

This volume primarily describes recent developments that enhance understanding of the properties of liquid crystals, and also incorporates contributions in the alignment and the self-order of discotics, and the relaxation phenomena in nematics. Topics of the ten papers include molecular engineering for ferroelectricity in liquid crystals, pyroelectric studies of polar and ferroelectric mesophases, and structure, mobility and piezoelectricity in ferroelectric liquid crystalline elastomers. Other titles are the structure and properties of antiferroelectric liquid crystals, order parameter variation in smectic liquid crystals, structure and orientation of molecules in discotic liquid crystals using infrared spectroscopy, and rotational diffusion and dielectric relaxation in nematic liquid crystals. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()