Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Polymer Liquid Crystals; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Relationship between Chemical Structure and Properties for Low Molecular Weight Liquid Crystals; I. Introduction; II. Structural Considerations of Low MW LC Systems; References; Chapter 2. Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of Liquid Crystalline Side Chain Polymers; I. Introduction; II. Synthesis of Polymers Having Mesogenic Side Chains; III. Influence of the Chemical Constitution on the Type of Mesophase Formed; IV. Liquid Crystalline Elastomers; References.
  • Chapter 3. Rigid and Semirigid Chain Polymeric MesogensI. Generalities; II. Undiluted Systems; III. Diluted Systems; References; Chapter 4. Molecular Theories of Liquid Crystals; I. Introduction; II. Lattice Theory for Noninteracting Rods; III. Orientation-Dependent Interactions; IV. Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 5. Mechanical Properties of Nematic Polymers; I. General Aims; II. Rigid Rods in Isotropic Solvents; III. Dilute Rods in a Nematic Solvent; IV. Semirigid Molecules: the Conformation Problem; V. Semirigid Molecules: Mechanical Properties.
  • Appendix. Shape Fluctuations of a Semirigid Chain in a Nematic Matrix of Small MoleculesAcknowledgments; References; Chapter 6. Macroscopic Phenomena in Nematic Polymers; I. Introduction; II. Statics; III. Dynamics; IV. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 7. Techniques for the Evaluation of Material Constants in Lyotropic Systems and the Study of Pretransitional Phenomena in Polymeric Liquid Crystals; I. Introduction; II. Lyotropic Polymer Liquid Crystals; III. Elastic Moduli of Liquid Crystals: k11, k22, k33.
  • IV. Dependence of the kii upon Molecular Factors: Theoretical Considerations, Large MoleculesV. Experimental Methods; VI. Progress to Date with Poly(benzyl glutamate) Liquid Crystals; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 8. Instabilities in Low Molecular Weight Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals; I. Introduction; II. Electrohydrodynamic Instability in Nematics; III. Two Illustrative Experiments on Nematic Flow; IV. Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Nematics; V. Thermal Instabilities in Nematics; VI. Instabilities in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals; Appendix; Acknowledgments; References.
  • Chapter 9. Rheo-Optical Studies of Polymer Liquid Crystalline SolutionsI. Introduction; II. Structure of Solutions of Liquid Crystalline; III. Experimental Methods; IV. General Optical Considerations for the Polarized Light Method; V. Processes of Structure Formation in Cholestric Liquid Crystals Studied by Spectrophotometric Methods; VI. Deformation and Flow Mechanisms for Some Typical Polymeric Liquid Crystalline Solutions; VII. Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 10. The Effects of External Fields on Polymeric Nematic and Cholesteric Mesophases; I. Introduction.