Thermotropic Liquid Crystals Recent Advances /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ramamoorthy, Ayyalusamy (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Physical chemistry.; Chemical engineering.; Solid state physics.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Materials science.; Nanotechnology.; Physical Chemistry.; Materials Science, general.; Solid State Physics.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.

Thermotropic Liquid Crystals: Recent Advances covers developments in the field of thermotropic liquid crystals and their functional importance. In addition it presents advances related to different sub-areas pertinent to this interdisciplinary area of research. This text brings together research fro...

Table of Contents:

• Mesophase Behaviour at the Borderline between Calamitic and “Banana-shaped” Mesogens
• Physical Properties of Banana Liquid Crystals
• Atomistic-Resolution Structural Studies of Liquid Crystalline Materials Using Solid-State NMR Techniques
• Separated Local Field Nmr Spectroscopy in Columnar Liquid Crystals
• Phase Biaxiality in Nematic Liquid Crystals
• NMR Study of Self-Diffusion
• Structure and Dynamics of Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymers by NMR Spectroscopy
• Recent Experimental Developments at the Nematic to Smectic-A Liquid Crystal Phase Transition
• Liquid Crystalline Conjugated Polymers – Synthesis and Properties
• Fast Switching of Nematic Liquid Crystals by an Electric Field: Effects of Dielectric Relaxation on the Director and Thermal Dynamics
• Photoconducting Discotic Liquid Crystals.