Nanoscience with Liquid Crystals From Self-Organized Nanostructures to Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Li, Quan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: NanoScience and Technology,
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Nanochemistry.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Surfaces (Physics).; Interfaces (Physical sciences).; Thin films.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Physical Chemistry.; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films.

This book focuses on the exciting topic of nanoscience with liquid crystals: from self-organized nanostructures to applications. The elegant self-organized liquid crystalline nanostructures, the synergetic characteristics of liquid crystals and nanoparticles, liquid crystalline nanomaterials, synthe...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Holographic Liquid Crystals for Nanophotonics
• Directing 3D Topological Defects in Smectic Liquid Crystals and Their Applications as an Emerging Class of Building Blocks
• Liquid Crystalline 1D and 2D Carbon Materials
• Liquid Crystal-Gold Nanoparticle Hybrid Materials
• Photoresponsive Chiral Liquid Crystal Materials: From 1D Helical Superstructures to 3D Periodic Cubic Lattices and Beyond.