Liquid crystals allow us to perform experiments that provide insight into fundamental problems of modern physics, such as phase transitions, frustration, elasti

This excellent volume is a much needed up-to-date text on liquid crystals and is a result of personal research and graduate courses taught by the authors. Study

Liquid crystals allow us to perform experiments that provide insight into fundamental problems of modern physics, such as phase transitions, frustration, elasti

This conference on liquid crystals of one- and two-dimensional order and their applications is the third in a series of European conferences devoted mainly to s

In the nematic liquid crystal phase, rod-shaped molecules move randomly but remain essentially parallel to one another. Biaxial nematics, which were first predi