Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals

<p><strong><em>Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties</em></strong> provides insight into the latest developments in the research on liquid crystals formed by bent-shaped mesogens. After a historical introduction the expert authors discuss different kinds of mesophase structures formed by bent-shaped molecules. This book devotes the majority of its pages to physical properties such as polar switching optics and non-linear optics and behavior in restricted geometries. However as chemistry is often highly relevant to the emergence of new phases particularly with reflection symmetry breaking it also involves a broad spectrum of interesting chemistry viewpoints.</p>