Advances in Liquid Crystals A Special Volume, Volume 113

by Vij, Jagdish K.; Prigogine, Ilya; Rice, Stuart A.

• ISBN13: 9780471180838
• ISBN10: 0471180831
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Summary

Prigogine and Rice's highly acclaimed series,Advances in Chemical Physics, provides a forum for critical, authoritative reviews of current topics in every area of chemical physics. Edited by J.K. Vij, this volume focuses on recent advances in liquid crystals with significant, up-to-date chapters authored by internationally recognized researchers in the field.

Author Biography

Jagdish K. Vij is the editor of Advances in Liquid Crystals: A Special Volume, Volume 113, published by Wiley.

ILYA PRIGOGINE is Director of the Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie, E. Solvay, Brussels, Belgium. Dr. Prigogine is also the Ashbel Smith Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Director of the Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems. In 1977 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

STUART A. RICE received his master's and doctorate from Harvard University and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard for two years before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1957 where he remains a well-known theoretical chemist who also does experimental research and is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago. Professor Rice has served the university in a wide variety of capacities during his forty-eight year tenure. He served as the director of the James Franck Institute (the university's center for physical chemistry and condensed matter physics) from 1961 to 1967, was Chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1971 to 1976 and was Dean of the Physical Sciences Division from 1981 to 1995. In 1999 he received the National Medal of Science.
In addition to his work at the University, he is currently on the Board of Governors at Argonne National Laboratory, managed by and affiliated with The University of Chicago, as well as Tel Aviv University. He has served as editor for Chemical Physics Letters, in addition to the series on Advances in Chemical Physics. He currently maintains a full research lab but has retired from teaching classes.

Table of Contents

Molecular Engineering For Ferroelectricity in Liquid Crystals	1	(50)
Daniel Guillon
Large Electroclinic Effect and Associated Properties of Chiral Smectic A Liquid Crystals	51	(26)
R. Shashidhar
J. Naciri
B. R. Ratna
Pyroelectric Studies of Polar and Ferroelectric Mesophases	77	(82)
L. M. Blinov
Ferroelectric LC-Elastomers	159	(24)
Rudolph Zentel
Elisabeth Gebhard
Martin Brehmer
Structure, Mobility, and Piezoelectricity in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystalline Elastomers	183	(20)
F. Kremer
H. Skupin
W. Lehmann
L. Hartmann
P. Stein
H. Finkelmann
Orientational Effects in Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals Using Infared Spectroscopy	203	(68)
A. Kocot
J. K. Vij
T. S. Perova
The Structure and Properties of Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals	271	(46)
Yu. P. Panarin
J. K. Vij
Order Parameter Variation in Smectic Liquid Crystals	317	(24)
Steve J. Elston
Nigel J. Mottram
Structure and Orientation of Molecules in Discotic Liquid Crystals Using Infrared Spectroscopy	341	(146)
T. S. Perova
J. K. Vij
A. Kocot
Rotational Diffusion and Dielectric Relaxation in Nematic Liquid Crystals	487	(66)
William T. Coffey
Yuri P. Kalmykov
Author Index	553	(18)
Subject Index	571