Liquid crystals: fundamentals/
Shri Singh
- New Jersey : World Scientific, 2002.
- xvi,531p. : ill. ; 23cm.
Liquid crystals: main types and classification; Distribution functions and order parameters; Physical properties of liquid crystals; Nematic liquid crystals; Nematic liquid crystals - elastostatics and nematodynamics; Smectic liquid crystals; Liquid crystals of disc-like molecules; Polymer liquid crystals; Chiral liquid crystals; Lyotropic liquid crystals; Defects and textures in liquid crystals.