The responsive nature and diversity of liquid crystals provide tremendous opportunities as well as challenges for insights in fundamental science, and opens the door to various applications. Most modern electronic displays are liquidcrystal-based, but R&D is moving rapidly beyond into such areas as electro-optic devices, energy, molecular motors, tunable lasers, and biosensors. This unique reference guides readers to the advances and directions of liquid crystalresearch, helping spur continued progress in the field. It emphasizes the chemistry, physics, and applications of liquid crystals in photonics, power generators, lasers, molecular motors, carbon nanotubes, and biosensors. INDICE: PrefaceContributorsChapter 1. Liquid Crystal LasersHideo TakezoeChapter 2. Self-organized Semiconducting Discotic Liquid Crystals for Optoelectronic ApplicationsChenming Xue and Quan LiChapter 3. Magnetic Liquid CrystalsRui Tamura, Yoshiaki Uchida, and Katsuaki SuzukiChapter 4 Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals for Nonlinear Optical ApplicationsYongqiang Zhang and Jesús EtxebarriaChapter 5. Photo-Stimulated Phase Transformations in Liquid Crystals and TheirNon-display ApplicationsC. V. Yelamaggad, S. Krishna Prasad and Quan LiChapter 6. Light-driven Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors in Liquid Crystal MediaYan Wang and Quan LiChapter 7. Liquid Crystal Functionalized Nano- and Microfibers Produced by ElectrospinningJan LagerwallChapter 8. Functional Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers: Order Meets Self-Assembled NanostructuresXia Tong andYue ZhaoChapter 9. Semiconducting Applications of Polymerisable Liquid CrystalsMary O’Neill and Stephen M. KellyChapter 10. Carbon Nanotubes in Liquid Crystals and Carbon Nanotube Based Liquid CrystalsGiusy ScaliaChapter 11. Liquid Crystals in MetamaterialsAugustine M. Urbas and Dean P. BrownChapter 12. Ferroelectric Colloids in Liquid CrystalsYuriy ReznikovChapter 13. Fact or Fiction: Cybotactic Groups in the Nematic Phase of Bent Core MesogensBharat R. Achirya and Satyendra KumarChapter 14. Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: Emerging ApplicationsHeung-Shik Park and Oleg D. LavrentovichChapter 15. Liquid Crystal-Based Chemical SensorsJacob T. Hunter and Nicholas L. AbbottChapter 16. LiquidCrystals for Switchable WindowsDeng-Ke YangChapter 17. Liquid Crystals for NanophotonicsTimothy D. Wilkinson and R. RajesekharanIndex
- ISBN: 978-1-118-07861-7
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 584
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2012
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- Idioma: Inglés