Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Subtitle: Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments (Liquid Crystals Series)
Publisher: CRC; Taylor & Francis
Published: February 28, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9780415321402
First sentence: Georges Friedel (Fig. A.I.1), the famous French crystallographer of the early 20th century, was the first to suggest that liquid crystals are states of matter in their own right, intermediates between isotropic liquids and crystals.