液晶高分子

内容简介

《液晶高分子（第2版）》是影印版英文专著，原书由剑桥大学出版社于2006年出版。本书以富有逻辑性的方式带领读者从液晶聚合物的理论基础走向它在现实世界里的应用。本书富有深度而详尽的内容使其成为液晶聚合物领域研究工作者不可或缺的参考书，也是化学、物理和材料科学家们的有益读物。

目录

Preface to first edition page ix
Preface to second edition xiii
Part I Fundamentals 1
1 Liquid crystalline polymers: a brief history 3
1.1 From rigid-rods to main-chain polymers 3
1.2 The development of side-chain liquid crystalline polymers 5
1.3 New trends: networks and elastomers 6
1.4 Theoretical underpinnings 7
1.5 A bright future for liquid crystalline polymers 7
2 Terminology and concepts 11
3 Stability of liquid crystalline polymers 68
3.1 Introduction 68
3.2 Factors limiting liquid crystallinity in rigid rod-like molecules 71
3.3 Control of mesophase stability in main-chain thermotropic liquid
crystalline polymers 75
3.4 Lyotropic rigid-rod polymers 91
3.5 Polymers with mesogenic side-chains 101
3.6 Liquid crystalline polymers with more complex molecular architectures 111
4 Theories of liquid crystallinity in polymers 133
4.1 Introduction 133
4.2 Steric theory of rod-like liquid crystals 134
4.3 Virial theories: the onsager approach 136
4.4 Flory's lattice model 148
4.5 Orientation dependent interactions: the Maier-Saupe theory 161
4.6 Theories for main-chain polymers with semi-rigid chains 168
4.7 Theories of side-chain liquid crystalline polymers 193
4.8 Phenomenological theories of phase transitions 200
5 Local order and classification 229
5.1 Introduction 229
5.2 Nematic polymers 229
5.3 Cholesteric polymers 244
5.4 Smectic polymers 255
5.5 Other aspects of optical texture 274
5.6 Crystallisation in liquid crystalline polymers 277
6 Distortions and defects 292
6.1 Introduction 292
6.2 Distortions 292
6.3 Disclinations and point singularities: a general introduction 304
6.4 Disclination structure in planar geometry 305
6.5 Disclinations and point defects in three dimensions 315
6.6 Surface disclinations and walls 340
6.7 Defects in smectics and cholesterics 345
6.8 What is special about polymeric liquid crystals? 351
7 Biological liquid crystalline polymers 357
7.1 Introduction 357
7.2 Polyelectrolytes 358
7.3 Helicoids: also known as pseudomorphs 360
7.4 Lyotropic main-chain polymers 363
7.5 Side-chain liquid crystalline polymers 375
7.6 Concluding remarks 380
8 Flow and applied fields 385
8.1 Introduction 385
8.2 Flow fields in liquid crystalline materials 387
8.3 The Leslie-Ericksen theory for viscous flow of nematics 396
8.4 Miesowicz viscosities 399
8.5 The role of texture in liquid crystals subject to shear flow 402
8.6 Shear flow of liquid crystalline polymers 408
8.7 Mechanical response of liquid crystalline elastomers 417
8.8 Response of liquid crystalline polymers to electric and magnetic fields 422
8.9 Instabilities 430
Part II Applications 437
9 Processing and applications of structural liquid crystalline polymers 439
9.1 Two perspectives on the application of liquid crystalline polymers: