Physics of Liquid Crystalline Materials
Publisher: Gordon and Breach
Published: December 31, 1990
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9782881244803
Subjects: PHYSICS
First sentence: The differences in structure and physical properties among the various phases of liquid crystalline (or mesogenic) compounds are due to three kinds of order: a) positional order [1,2] involving the centres of mass of the molecules; b) bond orientational order [2,3] along the directions of the unit vectors describing the lattice axes; c) orientational order [4-9] involving the molecular orientation with respect to particular directions.