Download or read book Physics of Liquid Crystalline Materials written by Chor-San Heng Khoo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-12-16 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is based on lectures delivered at the "summer school" held in October 1988. Papers deal with microscopic properties, collective phenomena (elastic properties, hydrodynamics, linear and nonlinear optics . . . ), and such diverse topics as NMR studies of liquid crystals, orientational disorder and dynamics, rheology of layered liquid crystals, light scattering. Minimal index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR