Liquid Crystals: Materials Design and Self-assembly

✍ Scribed by Carsten Tschierske (auth.), Carsten Tschierske (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 423
• Series: Topics in Current Chemistry 318
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Fluorinated Liquid Crystals: Design of Soft Nanostructures and Increased Complexity of Self-Assembly by Perfluorinated Segments, by Carsten Tschierske Liquid Crystalline Crown Ethers, by Martin Kaller and Sabine Laschat Star-Shaped Mesogens – Hekates: The Most Basic Star Structure with Three Branches, by Matthias Lehmann DNA-Based Soft Phases, by Tommaso Bellini, Roberto Cerbino and Giuliano Zanchetta Polar and Apolar Columnar Phases Made of Bent-Core Mesogens, by N. Vaupotič, D. Pociecha and E. Gorecka Spontaneous Achiral Symmetry Breaking in Liquid Crystalline Phases, by H. Takezoe Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles, by Oana Stamatoiu, Javad Mirzaei, Xiang Feng and Torsten Hegmann Stimuli-Responsive Photoluminescent Liquid Crystals, by Shogo Yamane, Kana Tanabe, Yoshimitsu Sagara and Takashi Kato

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Fluorinated Liquid Crystals: Design of Soft Nanostructures and Increased Complexity of Self-Assembly by Perfluorinated Segments....Pages 1-108
Liquid Crystalline Crown Ethers....Pages 109-192
Star-Shaped Mesogens – Hekates: The Most Basic Star Structure with Three Branches....Pages 193-223
DNA-Based Soft Phases....Pages 225-279
Polar and Apolar Columnar Phases Made of Bent-Core Mesogens....Pages 281-302
Spontaneous Achiral Symmetry Breaking in Liquid Crystalline Phases....Pages 303-330
Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles....Pages 331-393
Stimuli-Responsive Photoluminescent Liquid Crystals....Pages 395-405
Back Matter....Pages 407-410

✦ Subjects

Physical Chemistry; Materials Science, general; Condensed Matter Physics