Prigogine and Rice's highly acclaimed series, Advances in Chemical Physics, provides a forum for critical, authoritative reviews of current topics in every area of chemical physics. Edited by J.K. Vij, this volume focuses on recent advances in liquid crystals with significant, up-to-date chapters authored by internationally recognized researchers in the field.

Molecular Engineering for Ferroelectricity in Liquid Crystals (D. Guillon). Large Electroclinic Effect and Associated Properties of Chiral Smectic a Liquid Crystals (R. Shashidhar, et al.). Pyroelectric Studies of Polar and Ferroelectric Mesophases (L. Blinov). Ferroelectric LC-Elastomers (R. Zentel, et al.). Structure, Mobility, and Piezoelectricity in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystalline Elastomers (F. Kremer, et al.). Orientational Effects in Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals Using Infared Spectroscopy (A. Kocot, et al.). The Structure and Properties of Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals (Y. Panarin & J. Vij). Order Parameter Variation in Smectic Liquid Crystals (S. Elston & N. Mottram). Structure and Orientation of Molecules in Discotic Liquid Crystals Using Infrared Spectroscopy (T. Perova, et al.). Rotational Diffusion and Dielectric Relaxation in Nematic Liquid Crystals (W. Coffey & Y. Kalmykov). Indexes.