Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties

By Hideo Takezoe

Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties provides insight into the latest developments in the research on liquid crystals formed by bent-shaped mesogens. After a historical introduction, the expert authors discuss different kinds of mesophase structures formed by bent-shaped molecules. This book devotes the majority of its pages to physical properties such as polar switching, optics and non-linear optics, and behavior in restricted geometries. However, as chemistry is often highly relevant to the emergence of new phases, particularly with reflection symmetry breaking, it also involves a broad spectrum of interesting chemistry viewpoints.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1482247593
• ISBN13: 9781482247596
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"