Anisotropic Organic Materials: Approaches to Polar Order (ACS Symposium Series, No. 798)

This book examines recent progress in the development and application of optical polymers, molecular crystals, crystals in liquids and liquid crystals. The accomplishment of a high macroscopic polarization is a key issue throughout which transcends the design and performance criteria of optical materials. The chapters included in this volume focus on orientation order and the achievement of macroscopic polarizations.