Drawing a picture of the current situation of this new field, this volume both summarizes the past achievements and analyzes the present unsolved problems.

The subject matter covered in this volume covers a wide scope. It contains critical reviews in many frontier areas of interest to engineers and applied scientis

"Offers background information, methods of characterization, and applications for electrical and optical polymers, including biopolymers, and tutorial sections

Among the various new directions in modern polymer science, the design and investigation of liquid crystal (LC) polymers have been the ones growing most activel