Peter J. Collings is Morris L. Clothier Emeritus Professor of Physics at Swarthmore College and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and past Vice-President of the International Liquid Crystal Society. He is the author of Liquid Crystals: Nature’s Delicate Phase of Matter (Princeton University Press, 1990, 2002) and co-author of the first edition of Introduction to Liquid Crystals: Chemistry and Physics (Taylor & Francis, 1997).John W. Goodby is Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of York, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and past President of the International Liquid Crystal Society. He is the co-author of Smectic Liquid Crystals: Textures and Structures (Leonard Hill, 1984), Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: Principles, Properties and Applications (Gordon & Breach 1991), and Senior Editor of the Handbook of Liquid Crystals (Wiley-VCH, 2014).

• Introduction to a special phase of matter Nature's anisotropic fluidsCalamitic Liquid Crystals - Nematic And Smectic MesophasesDiscotic liquid crystals - nematic and smectic mesophasesDiscotic liquid crystals - columnar and nematic mesophasesPolymeric liquid crystals - macromesogensChiral liquid crystals - art and scienceLyotropic liquid crystals - anisotropic solutionsSynthesis of liquid crystals - strategies and methodsIdentification of liquid crystalsIdentification of liquid crystal phases - mesophase characterizationLiquid crystals in electric and magnetic fields - a delicate responseLight and liquid crystals - a panoply of colourTheoretical insightsLiquid crystal technology

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Peter J. Collings is Morris L. Clothier Emeritus Professor of Physics at Swarthmore College and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and past Vice-President of the International Liquid Crystal Society. He is the author of Liquid Crystals: Nature’s Delicate Phase of Matter (Princeton University Press, 1990, 2002) and co-author of the first edition of Introduction to Liquid Crystals: Chemistry and Physics (Taylor & Francis, 1997).John W. Goodby is Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of York, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and past President of the International Liquid Crystal Society. He is the co-author of Smectic Liquid Crystals: Textures and Structures (Leonard Hill, 1984), Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: Principles, Properties and Applications (Gordon & Breach 1991), and Senior Editor of the Handbook of Liquid Crystals (Wiley-VCH, 2014).

• Introduction to a special phase of matter Nature's anisotropic fluidsCalamitic Liquid Crystals - Nematic And Smectic MesophasesDiscotic liquid crystals - nematic and smectic mesophasesDiscotic liquid crystals - columnar and nematic mesophasesPolymeric liquid crystals - macromesogensChiral liquid crystals - art and scienceLyotropic liquid crystals - anisotropic solutionsSynthesis of liquid crystals - strategies and methodsIdentification of liquid crystalsIdentification of liquid crystal phases - mesophase characterizationLiquid crystals in electric and magnetic fields - a delicate responseLight and liquid crystals - a panoply of colourTheoretical insightsLiquid crystal technology

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Peter J. Collings is Morris L. Clothier Emeritus Professor of Physics at Swarthmore College and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and past Vice-President of the International Liquid Crystal Society. He is the author of Liquid Crystals: Nature’s Delicate Phase of Matter (Princeton University Press, 1990, 2002) and co-author of the first edition of Introduction to Liquid Crystals: Chemistry and Physics (Taylor & Francis, 1997).John W. Goodby is Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of York, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and past President of the International Liquid Crystal Society. He is the co-author of Smectic Liquid Crystals: Textures and Structures (Leonard Hill, 1984), Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: Principles, Properties and Applications (Gordon & Breach 1991), and Senior Editor of the Handbook of Liquid Crystals (Wiley-VCH, 2014).

• Introduction to a special phase of matter Nature's anisotropic fluidsCalamitic Liquid Crystals - Nematic And Smectic MesophasesDiscotic liquid crystals - nematic and smectic mesophasesDiscotic liquid crystals - columnar and nematic mesophasesPolymeric liquid crystals - macromesogensChiral liquid crystals - art and scienceLyotropic liquid crystals - anisotropic solutionsSynthesis of liquid crystals - strategies and methodsIdentification of liquid crystalsIdentification of liquid crystal phases - mesophase characterizationLiquid crystals in electric and magnetic fields - a delicate responseLight and liquid crystals - a panoply of colourTheoretical insightsLiquid crystal technology

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