Dirk Broer & Gregory P Crawford 
Cross-Linked Liquid Crystalline Systems [PDF ebook] 
From Rigid Polymer Networks to Elastomers

Liquid crystal displays were discovered in the 1960s, and today we continue to enjoy the benefits of that fundamental discovery and its translation into a wide variety of products. Like liquid crystals, polymers are unusual materials, and have similarly enjoyed a great deal of research attention because of their vast applications and uses and compl