Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
1. General Properties of the Liquid Crystals
2. Textures of Nematic and Smectic C Liquid Crystals
3. Surface Properties of Smectic Liquid Crystals
4. Surface Induced Transition in Liquid Crystals
5. Electric Field Effects in Liquid Crystals Electrohydrodynamic (electroconvective-EC) Instabilities in Nematic, Smectic C and Ferroelectric C
6. Pre-Transition (Transitional) Effects in the Nematic Phase. Anomalies in the Temperature Trends of the Characteristic LC Constants
7. Physicochemical Nature of the Dimeric Liquid: A Quantum Chemical Method for Obtaining the Structure of Dimeric LC
8. Supramolecular Liquid Crystal
References
Index