Molecular Statistical Theory on Composite Systems of Liquid Crystals

Abstract

Physical behaviors of systems such as mixtures of liquid crystalline compounds, polymer-liquid crystal complexes, side-chain polymer liquid crystals, interfaces between substrates and liquid crystals, etc...are all not the simple sum of different properties of composed substances but the co-operative phenomena of them each of which is ordered system. From this point of view, we discuss the physical properties of the composite systems, and try to predict them on the basis of molecular statistical mechanics.