内容简介
液晶在很多领域都有着广泛的应用，因此近年来液晶理论与技术发展较快。本书是一部为凝聚态物理学、化学物理和材料科学领域的本科以上水平的学生和相关专业的研究人员编写的专著，初版于1977年，是液晶领域的一部经典图书，本版内容在原书基础的作了全面更新和修订。本书系统完整论述了各类热致液晶的结构和各种变态形式，以及液晶的热力学性能、光学性能和机械性能。
目录
Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition 1 Introduction 1.1 Thermotropic liquid crystals: structure and classification of the mesophases 1.1.1 Liquid crystals of rod-like molecules 1.1.2 Liquid crystals of disc-like molecules 1.1.3 Polymer liquid crystals 1.2 Lyotropic liquid crystals 1.3 Polymorphism in thermotropic liquid crystals 2 Statistical theories of nematic order 2.1 Melting of molecular crystals: the Pople-Karasz model 2.1.1 Order-disorder in positions and orientations 2.1.2 Plastic crystals and liquid crystals 2.1.3 Pressure-induced mesomorphism 2.2 Phase transition in a fluid of hard rods 2.3 The Maier-Saupe theory and its applications 2.3.1 Definition of long-range orientational order 2.3.2 The mean field approximation 2.3.3 evaluation of the order parameter 2.3.4 Theory of dielectric anisotropy 2.3.5 Relationship between elasticity and orientational order 2.4 Hybrid models: hard rods with a superposed attractive potential 2.5 Short-range order effects in the isotropic phase 2.5.1 The Landau--de Gennes model 2.5.2 Magnetic and electric birefringence 2.5.3 Light scattering 2.5.4 Flow birefringence 2.5.5 Comparison with the Maier-Saupe theory 2.6 Near-neighbour correlations: Bethe's method 2.6.1 The Krieger-James approximation 2.6.2 Antiferroelectric short-range order 2.7 The nematic liquid crystal free surface 3 Continuum theory of the nematic state 3.1 The Ericksen-Leslie theory 3.1.1 Conservation laws and the entropy inequality 3.1.2 Constitutive equations 3.1.3 Coefficients of viscosity 3.1.4 Parodi's relation 3.2 Curvature elasticity: the Oseen-Z6cher-Frank equations 3.3 Summary of equations of the continuum theory 3.4 Distortions due to magnetic and electric fields: static theory 3.4.1 The Freedericksz effect 3.4.2 The twisted nematic device 3.4.3 The Freedericksz effect in highly anisotropic nematics: periodic distortions 3.4.4
