Unconventional Liquid Crystals and Their Applications
The work focuses on recent developments of the rapidly evolving field of Non-conventional Liquid Crystals. After a concise introduction it discusses the most promising research such as biosensing, elastomers, polymer films , photoresponsive properties and energy harvesting. Besides future applicatio...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter
2021, ©2021
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- List of contributing authors
- 1 Introduction: from conventional to unconventional liquid crystals
- 2 Unconventional liquid crystals: chemical aspects
- 3 Ferroelectric liquid crystals and their application in modern displays and photonic devices
- 4 Liquid crystalline materials for efficient solar energy harvesting
- 5 Liquid crystal-based biosensing: exploiting the electrical and optical properties of various liquid crystals in quantitative bioassays
- 6 Thermotropic liquids and liquid crystals from DNA and proteins
- 7 Liquid crystals doped with ionic surfactants for electrically induced anchoring transitions
- 8 Time-resolved dynamics of dye-doped liquid crystals and the origin of their optical nonlinearity
- 9 Light reconfigurable chiral liquid crystal superstructure for dynamic diffraction manipulations
- 10 Photoalignment of liquid crystalline polymers attained from the free surface
- 11 Photoresponsive liquid-crystalline block copolymers with hierarchical structures
- 12 Molecular modeling of liquid crystal elastomers
- 13 Liquid crystal polymer films with high reflectivity
- 14 Ultrathin films of nanomaterials: a lyotropic liquid crystalline system and its sensing application
- 15 Quantum-dot-dispersed liquid crystals: mesogenic science to smart applications
- Index