Physics of Liquid Crystalline Materials
Publisher: CRC
Published: December 16, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9782881244810
Subjects: Fluid mechanics; Materials science; Science/Mathematics; Crystallography; Science; Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical; Physics; Science / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical; Congresses; Liquid crystals
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.