Liquid Crystals

Abstract

The book describes the progress in the field of liquid crystals from their discovery to the present time. It includes the classification of liquid crystals, their optical properties, the molecular structure of compounds which form liquid crystals, symmetry, x-ray structural analysis, theories of liquid crystal state, thermodynamic properties, magnetic properties, electric properties, ultrasonic effects, viscosity and surface tension. A brief chapter is devoted to the importance of liquid crystals in industrial applications, medicine and biology. In the last section procedures are given for the synthesis of ten compounds which form liquid crystals. The book has a 125 item bibliography.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0816386

Entities

People

  • I. I. Chistyakov

Organizations

  • United States Army Foreign Science and Technology Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemistry
  • Crystal Structure
  • Crystallization
  • Crystallography
  • Crystals
  • Diffraction
  • Heat Energy
  • Latent Heat
  • Magnetic Properties
  • Medical Personnel
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Phase Diagrams
  • Phase Transformations
  • Thermodynamics
  • Transition Temperature
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Chemistry

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.