液晶已經走入千家萬戶，成了日常生活中不可缺
少的一部分，對於液晶高分子材料的研究也依然蓬勃
發展、前景廣闊。本書作為這一方面的專著，對於從
事液晶研究的科研人員和研究生，乃至工程人員都有
很大幫助。唐納德、溫德爾、漢納編著的《液晶高分
子(第2版影印版)》是影印版英文專著，原書由劍橋
大學出版社於2006年出版。本書以富有邏輯性的方式
帶領讀者從液晶聚合物的理論基礎走向它在現實世界
裡的應用。本書富有深度而詳盡的內容使其成為液晶
聚合物領域研究工作者不可或缺的參考書，也是化學
、物理和材料科學家們的有益讀物。

Preface to first edition page
Preface to second edition
Part Ⅰ Fundamentals
1 Liquid crystalline polymers: a brief history
1.1 From rigid-rods to main-chain polymers
1.2 The development of side-chain liquid crystalline polymers
1.3 New trends: works and elastomers
1.4 Theoretical underpinnings
1.5 A bright future for liquid crystalline polymers
2 Terminology and concepts
3 Stability of liquid crystalline polymers
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Factors limiting liquid crystallinity in rigid rod-like molecules
3.3 Control of mesophase stability in main-chain thermotropic liquid crystallin polymers
3.4 Lyotropic rigid-rod polymers
3.5 Polymers with mesogenic side-chains
3.6 Liquid crystalline polymers with more plex molecular architectures
4 Theories of liquid crystallinity in polymers
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Steric theory of rod-like liquid crystals
4.3 Virial theories: the Onsager approach
4.4 Flory's lattice model
4.5 Orientation dependent interactions: the Maier-Saupe theory
4.6 Theories for main-chain polymers with semi-rigid chains
4.7 Theories of side-chain liquid crystalline polymers
4.8 Phenomenological theories of phase transitions
5 Local order and classification
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Nematic polymers
5.3 Cholesteric polymers
5.4 Smectic polymers
5.5 Other aspects of optical texture
5.6 Crystallisation in liquid crystalline polymers
6 Distortions and defects 292
6.1 Introduction 292
6.2 Distortions 292
6.3 Disclinations and point singularities: a general introduction
6.4 Disclination structure in planar geometry
6.5 Disclinations and point defects in three dimensions
6.6 Surface disclinations and walls
6.7 Defects in smectics and cholesterics
6.8 What is special about polymeric liquid crystals?
7 Biological liquid crystalline polymers
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Polyelectrolytes
7.3 Helicoids: also known as pseudomorphs
7.4 Lyotropic main-chain polymers
7.5 Side-chain liquid crystalline polymers
7.6 Concluding remarks
8 Flow and applied fields
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Flow fields in liquid crystalline materials
8.3 The Leslie-Ericksen theory for viscous flow of nematics
8.4 Miesowicz viscosities
8.5 The role of texture in liquid crystals subject to shear flow
8.6 Shear flow of liquid crystalline polymers
8.7 Mechanical response of liquid crystalline elastomers
8.8 Response of liquid crystalline polymers to electric and magic fields
8.9 Instabilities 430
Part Ⅱ Applications 437
9 Processing and applications of structural liquid crystalline polymers
9.1 Two perspectives on the application of liquid crystalline polymers:an introduction to Chapters 9 and 10
9.2 Rheology
9.3 Processing and the consequences of flow alignment
9.4 Liquid crystalline polymers as structural materials
9.5 Liquid crystalline polymers in blends and posites
9.6 Commercial exploitation of structural liquid crystalline polymers
10 Applications of functional liquid crystalline polymers
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Liquid crystalline polymers as optoelectronic materials
10.3 Liquid crystalline polymers in displays
10.4 Semiconducting liquid crystalline polymers
10.5 Laser writeable devices
10.6 Non-linear optical applications
10.7 Sensors and actuators
List of symbols
Molecule index
General index