This is a brief summary of the liquid crystal research supported by ARO at Georgetown University during the past ten years. Research has been directed toward a

Presents a unified formulation from first principles of the Hailtonian and statistical mechanics of metallic and insulating crystals, amorphous solids, and liqu

This book provides a didactic derivation of the main theories of thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals, revealing the common molecular-theoretic framework

This is a textbook which gradually introduces the student to the statistical mechanical study of the different phases of matter and to the phase transitions bet

Mystery.