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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS
OF
THE ROYAL SOCIETY
OF LONDON
A. MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
ISSN 0080-4614
VOLUME 309 PAGES 69-239 NUMBER 1507
3 June 1983
Physics, chemistry and applications of
thermotropic liquid crystals
A DISCUSSION ORGANIZED AND EDITED BY
C. HILSUM, F.R.S., AND E. P. RAYNES
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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 309, 69-239 (1983) [ 69 ]
Printed in Great Britain
PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY AND APPLICATIONS OF THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS
A DISCUSSION ORGANIZED AND EDITED BY
C. HILSUM, F.R.S., AND E. P. RAYNES
(Discussion held 27 and 28 October 1982 - Typescripts received 23 December 1982)
CONTENTS
SIR CHARLES FRANK, F.R.S. PAGE
Introductory remarks 71
Discussion: M. G. CLARK 74
G. W. GRAY The chemistry of liquid crystals 77
S. CHANDRASEKHARt
Liquid crystals of disc-like molecules 93 Discussion: SIR CHARLES FRANK, F.R.S., J. D. LITSTER, W. H. DE JEU, LIN LEI 102
H. FINKELMANN
Liquid crystalline side-chain polymers 105 Discussion: A. H. PRICE 114
T. E. FABER Theories of nematic order 115
Discussion: LIN LEI, L. G. P. DALMOLEN, SIR CHARLES FRANK, F.R.S. 126
MARTHA A. COTTER The van der Waals theory of nematic liquids 127
Discussion: J. D. LITSTER, LIN LEI 144
J. D. LITSTER Structural studies of nematic and smectic phases 145
F. M. LESLIE Some topics in continuum theory of nematics 155
E. P. RAYNES
Electro-optic and thermo-optic effects in liquid crystals 167
BARBARA NEEDHAM Practical limits on addressing twisted nematic displays 179
T.J. SCHEFFER Guest-host devices using anisotropic dyes 189
D). W. BERREMAN Numerical modelling of twisted nematic devices 203
t Elected F.R.S. 17 March 1983.
Vol. 309. A 1507 [Published 3 June I983 9
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70 CONTENTS
W.H. DEJEU PAGE
Liquid crystalline materials: physical properties and intermolecular interactions 217
Discussion: E. P. RAYNES, A. H. PRICE, M. G. CLARK 228
B. STURGEON Materials for applications: the industrial chemists' viewpoint 231
C. HILSUM, F.R.S.
Concluding remarks 239
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