Liquid crystals literature sources

Since there are already many well-written and comprehensive reviews on ferroelectric liquid crystals [3], this chapter has a more introductory or tutorial character. It is also far beyond the scope of this chapter to give a complete account of the literature published in this field, which has grown enormously in the last two decades I hope that the works cited in [3] will serve the reader as a comprehensive source to the literature. 

Volume IV/8C summarizes most of the observed values of densities of unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbons which include normal and branched alkenes, alkadienes, alkynes, and miscellaneous compounds such as alkatrienes and compounds with double and triple bonds in the crystal and liquid phases that have been reported in the world s scientific hterature. The values Usted have been extracted from the TRC Source Database. These data have been collected by the Thermodynamics Research Center over a period of years and used as a basis for density values listed in the TRC Thermodynamic Tables -Hydrocarbons. An additional literature search was made to locate other data and bring the collection np to date. It is believed that this compilation includes at least 90% of the pertinent data reported in the literature. The usual experimental conditions are in contact with air at one atmosphere below the normal boiling point of the hydrocarbon, and in equilibrium with the vapor phase above the normal boiling point. In the summary tables, temperatures are reported on the Kelvin scale. These were obtained by adding 273.15 to temperatures originally given on the Celsius scale. 

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