Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Contributors

Chapter 1: Liquid Crystal Lasers

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Types of Lasers

1.3 Lowering Threshold

1.4 Tunability

1.5 3D LC LASERS

1.6 Conclusions

References

Chapter 2: Self-Organized Semiconducting Discotic Liquid Crystals for Optoelectronic Applications

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Charge Transport and Measurements in DLCS

2.3 Discotic Molecular Systems

2.4 Alignment of DLC Materials in Active Semiconducting Layers

2.5 Applications of Self-Assembled DLCs

2.6 Conclusions and Outlook

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 3: Magnetic Liquid Crystals

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Magnetic Anisotropy (Δχ) of LCs

3.3 Diamagnetic LCs

3.4 Paramagnetic Metallomesogens

3.5 All-Organic Radical LCs

3.6 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 4: Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals for Nonlinear Optical Applications

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Fundamentals

4.3 NLO and EO LC Materials

4.4 Conclusions and Future Prospects

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 5: Photo-Stimulated Phase Transformations in Liquid Crystals and Their Non-Display Applications

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Survey of Photoinduced Phase Transformation in Liquid Crystals

5.3 Detailed Account of PIPT in Specific Systems

5.4 Applications

5.5 Summary and Outlook

References

Chapter 6: Light-Driven Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors in Liquid Crystal Media

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Photoresponsive Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

6.3 Light-Driven Molecular Switches or Motors as Dopants

6.4 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 7: Liquid Crystal-Functionalized Nano- and Microfibers Produced by Electrospinning

7.1 Introduction: Why Electrospinning With Liquid Crystals?

7.2 What is Electrospinning?

7.3 Electrospinning of Liquid Crystal Polymers

7.4 Low Molar Mass Liquid Crystals Inside Electrospun Fibers

7.5 Application Potential of Liquid Crystal-Containing Electrospun Fibers

References

Chapter 8: Functional Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers: Order Meets Self-Assembled Nanostructures

8.1 What are Functional Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers?

8.2 Macroscopic Orientation of Nanodomains

8.3 Shape-Memory Materials and Elastomers

8.4 Stimuli-Responsive Vesicles in Solution

8.5 Outlook

References

Chapter 9: Semiconducting Applications of Polymerizable Liquid Crystals

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Material Properties

9.3 OLEDs

9.4 Organic Field-Effect Transistors

9.5 Discussion and Conclusion

References

Chapter 10: Liquid Crystals of Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Nanotubes in Liquid Crystals

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes

10.3 Liquid Crystal Phases of Carbon Nanotubes

10.4 Carbon Nanotubes Aligned by Thermotropic Liquid Crystals

10.5 Carbon Nanotubes Aligned by Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

10.6 Carbon Nanotubes in Liquid Crystalline Polymers or Polymerized Liquid Crystals

10.7 Conclusions and Outlook

References

Chapter 11: Liquid Crystals in Metamaterials

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Metamaterials Background

11.3 RF LC Metamaterials

11.4 RF Tunable “Meta-Surfaces” with LCs

11.5 LC Tuning of Meta-Atoms

11.6 Optical Metamaterials with LCs

11.7 LC Interaction with Plasmonic Metamaterial Structures

11.8 Liquid Crystals in Self-Assembled Metamaterials

11.9 Chiral Metamaterials

11.10 Conclusion Outlook

References

Chapter 12: Ferroelectric Colloids in Liquid Crystals

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Particles Interaction and the Problem of Colloid Stability

12.3 Preparation of the Ferroelectric Colloids

12.4 Orientational Ordering in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Colloids

12.5 Dielectric and Reorientational Properties of Ferroelectric LC Colloids

12.6 Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 13: Fact or Fiction: Cybotactic Groups in the Nematic Phase of Bent Core Mesogens

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Nematic Phase of Rod-Like Molecules

13.3 X-Ray Scattering

13.4 Nematic Phase of Bent Core Mesogens

13.5 Summary

References

Chapter 14: Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: Emerging Applications

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Structures and Phase Properties of LCLCs

14.3 Emerging Applications of LCLCs

14.4 Conclusions

References

Chapter 15: Liquid Crystal-Based Chemical Sensors

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Design of Chemically Functionalized Surfaces for use in LC-Based Chemical Sensors

15.3 LC-Based Sensors for Coordinating Compounds

15.4 LC Sensors Designed to Report Acid–Base Interactions

15.5 Concluding Comments

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 16: Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystal for Switchable Windows

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Cholesteric Liquid Crystal

16.3 Polymer Stabilization

16.4 Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Texture

16.5 Conclusion

References

Chapter 17: Liquid Crystals for Nanophotonics

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Carbon Nanotubes

17.3 Uniform Patterned Growth of Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes

17.4 Properties of LCs Exploited in Nanophotonic Devices

17.5 The Optics of Nematic Liquid Crystals

17.6 LC Hybrid Systems Doped With Nanotechnology

17.7 Carbon Nanotubes as Electrode Structures

17.8 Nanophotonic Device Characterization

17.9 Carbon Nanotube Electrode Optimization in the Device

17.10 Carbon Nanotube Electrode Optimization: Experimental Results

17.11 Transparent Nanophotonic Device

17.12 Nanophotonic Compound Eye-Based 3D Vision Sensor

17.13 Optical Reconstruction Technique

17.14 Imaging Using the Nanophotonic Lens Array

17.15 Conclusions and Discussion

References

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