In the last issue of Liquid Crystals Today, I gave an overview about the recently published Handbook of Liquid Crystals and reviewed Volume 1, the first out of a compendium of eight books. In this issue, we shall review the second volume, which covers Volume 2: Physical Properties and Phase Behavior of Liquid Crystals. Obviously, this is another volume which is concerned with the more fundamental aspects of liquid crystals, laying the groundwork for more specialised topics to come. Accordingly, the volume is split into two parts: Part 1: Physical Properties, which takes up the majority of about 420 of the 520 pages (12 chapters), leaving about 100 pages for Part 2: Phase behavior, which consists of four chapters.
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