Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications

• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 587
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The chemistry, physics, and applications of liquid crystals beyond LCDs

Liquid Crystals (LCs) combine order and mobility on a molecular and supramolecular level. But while these remarkable states of matter are most commonly associated with visual display technologies, they have important applications for a variety of other fields as well. Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications considers these, bringing together cutting-edge research from some of the most promising areas of LC science.

Featuring contributions from respected researchers from around the globe, this edited volume emphasizes the chemistry, physics, and applications of LCs in areas such as photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, filed-effect transistors, lasers, molecular motors, nanophotonics and biosensors. Specific chapters look at magnetic LCs, lyotropic chromonic LCs, LC-based chemical sensors, LCs in metamaterials, and much more.

Introducing readers to the fundamentals of LC science through the use of illustrative examples, Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays covers not only the most recent research in the myriad areas in which LCs are being utilized, but also looks ahead, addressing potential future developments. Designed for physicists, chemists, engineers, and biologists working in academia or industry, as well as graduate students specializing in LC technology, this is the first book to consider LC applications across a wide range of fields.

Content:
Chapter 1 Liquid Crystal Lasers (pages 1–27): Hideo Takezoe
Chapter 2 Self?Organized Semiconducting Discotic Liquid Crystals for Optoelectronic Applications (pages 29–82): Chenming Xue and Quan Li
Chapter 3 Magnetic Liquid Crystals (pages 83–110): Rui Tamura, Yoshiaki Uchida and Katsuaki Suzuki
Chapter 4 Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals for Nonlinear Optical Applications (pages 111–156): Yongqiang Zhang and Jesus Etxebarria
Chapter 5 Photo?Stimulated Phase Transformations in Liquid Crystals and Their Non?Display Applications (pages 157–211): C. V. Yelamaggad, S. Krishna Prasad and Quan Li
Chapter 6 Light?Driven Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors in Liquid Crystal Media (pages 213–249): Yan Wang and Quan Li
Chapter 7 Liquid Crystal?Functionalized Nano? and Microfibers Produced by Electrospinning (pages 251–284): Jan P. F. Lagerwall
Chapter 8 Functional Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers: Order Meets Self?Assembled Nanostructures (pages 285–301): Xia Tong and Yue Zhao
Chapter 9 Semiconducting Applications of Polymerizable Liquid Crystals (pages 303–339): Mary O’Neill and Stephen M. Kelly
Chapter 10 Liquid Crystals of Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Nanotubes in Liquid Crystals (pages 341–378): Giusy Scalia
Chapter 11 Liquid Crystals in Metamaterials (pages 379–402): Augustine M. Urbas and Dean P. Brown
Chapter 12 Ferroelectric Colloids in Liquid Crystals (pages 403–426): Yuriy Reznikov
Chapter 13 Fact or Fiction: Cybotactic Groups in the Nematic Phase of Bent Core Mesogens (pages 427–448): Bharat R. Acharya and Satyendra Kumar
Chapter 14 Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: Emerging Applications (pages 449–484): Heung?Shik Park and Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Chapter 15 Liquid Crystal?Based Chemical Sensors (pages 485–504): Jacob T. Hunter and Nicholas L. Abbott
Chapter 16 Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystal for Switchable Windows (pages 505–523): Deng?Ke Yang
Chapter 17 Liquid Crystals for Nanophotonics (pages 525–567): Timothy D. Wilkinson and R. Rajesekharan