Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays (eBook)

Chemistry, Physics, and Applications

Quan Li (Autor)

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2012 | 1. Auflage
584 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-25949-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The chemistry, physics, and applications of liquid crystals beyond LCDs Liquid Crystals (LCs) combine order and mobility on a molecular and supramolecular level. But while these remarkable states of matter are most commonly associated with visual display technologies, they have important applications for a variety of other fields as well. Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications considers these, bringing together cutting-edge research from some of the most promising areas of LC science. Featuring contributions from respected researchers from around the globe, this edited volume emphasizes the chemistry, physics, and applications of LCs in areas such as photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, filed-effect transistors, lasers, molecular motors, nanophotonics and biosensors. Specific chapters look at magnetic LCs, lyotropic chromonic LCs, LC-based chemical sensors, LCs in metamaterials, and much more. Introducing readers to the fundamentals of LC science through the use of illustrative examples, Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays covers not only the most recent research in the myriad areas in which LCs are being utilized, but also looks ahead, addressing potential future developments. Designed for physicists, chemists, engineers, and biologists working in academia or industry, as well as graduate students specializing in LC technology, this is the first book to consider LC applications across a wide range of fields.

Autor

Quan Li, PhD, is the Director of the Organic Synthesis and Advanced Materials Laboratory at the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University, where he is also an Adjunct Professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program. He has directed research projects supported by the Department of Energy (DOE), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Ohio Board of Regents (OBR), and several companies.

Inhalt

Preface vii

Contributors ix

1. Liquid Crystal Lasers 1

Hideo Takezoe

2. Self-Organized Semiconducting Discotic Liquid Crystals for
Optoelectronic Applications 29

Chenming Xue and Quan Li

3. Magnetic Liquid Crystals 83

Rui Tamura, Yoshiaki Uchida, and Katsuaki Suzuki

4. Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals for Nonlinear Optical
Applications 111

Yongqiang Zhang and Jesús Etxebarria

5. Photo-Stimulated Phase Transformations in Liquid Crystals and
Their Non-Display Applications 157

C. V. Yelamaggad, S. Krishna Prasad, and Quan Li

6. Light-Driven Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors in Liquid
Crystal Media 213

Yan Wang and Quan Li

7. Liquid Crystal-Functionalized Nano- and Microfibers Produced
by Electrospinning 251

Jan P. F. Lagerwall

8. Functional Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers: Order Meets
Self-Assembled Nanostructures 285

Xia Tong and Yue Zhao

9. Semiconducting Applications of Polymerizable Liquid Crystals
303

Mary O'Neill and Stephen M. Kelly

10. Liquid Crystals of Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Nanotubes in
Liquid Crystals 341

Giusy Scalia

11. Liquid Crystals in Metamaterials 379

Augustine M. Urbas and Dean P. Brown

12. Ferroelectric Colloids in Liquid Crystals 403

Yuriy Reznikov

13. Fact or Fiction: Cybotactic Groups in the Nematic Phase of
Bent Core Mesogens 427

Bharat R. Acharya and Satyendra Kumar

14. Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: Emerging Applications
449

Heung-Shik Park and Oleg D. Lavrentovich

15. Liquid Crystal-Based Chemical Sensors 485

Jacob T. Hunter and Nicholas L. Abbott

16. Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystal for Switchable
Windows 505

Deng-Ke Yang

17. Liquid Crystals for Nanophotonics 525

Timothy D. Wilkinson and R. Rajesekharan

Index 569

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Schlagworte: Chemie • Chemistry • Flüssigkristall • Flüssigkristall • Materials Science • Materialwissenschaften • Optics & Photonics • Optik u. Photonik • Organic Chemistry • Organic electronics • Organische Chemie • Organische Elektronik • Physics • Physik
• ISBN-10: 1-118-25949-1 / 1118259491
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-25949-8 / 9781118259498