Liquid crystals beyond displays: chemistry, physics, and applications/ edited by Quan Li - New Jersey: Wiley, 2012. - x, 573 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1. Liquid Crystal Lasers
Hideo Takezoe
Chapter 2. Self-organized Semiconducting Discotic Liquid Crystals for Optoelectronic Applications
Chenming Xue and Quan Li
Chapter 3. Magnetic Liquid Crystals
Rui Tamura, Yoshiaki Uchida, and Katsuaki Suzuki
Chapter 4 Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals for Nonlinear Optical Applications
Yongqiang Zhang and Jesús Etxebarria
Chapter 5. Photo-Stimulated Phase Transformations in Liquid Crystals and Their Non-display Applications
C. V. Yelamaggad, S. Krishna Prasad and Quan Li
Chapter 6. Light-driven Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors in Liquid Crystal Media
Yan Wang and Quan Li
Chapter 7. Liquid Crystal Functionalized Nano- and Microfibers Produced by Electrospinning
Jan Lagerwall
Chapter 8. Functional Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers: Order Meets Self-Assembled Nanostructures
Xia Tong and Yue Zhao
Chapter 9. Semiconducting Applications of Polymerisable Liquid Crystals
Mary O’Neill and Stephen M. Kelly
Chapter 10. Carbon Nanotubes in Liquid Crystals and Carbon Nanotube Based Liquid Crystals
Giusy Scalia
Chapter 11. Liquid Crystals in Metamaterials
Augustine M. Urbas and Dean P. Brown
Chapter 12. Ferroelectric Colloids in Liquid Crystals
Yuriy Reznikov
Chapter 13. Fact or Fiction: Cybotactic Groups in the Nematic Phase of Bent Core Mesogens
Bharat R. Achirya and Satyendra Kumar
Chapter 14. Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: Emerging Applications
Heung-Shik Park and Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Chapter 15. Liquid Crystal-Based Chemical Sensors
Jacob T. Hunter and Nicholas L. Abbott
Chapter 16. Liquid Crystals for Switchable Windows
Deng-Ke Yang
Chapter 17. Liquid Crystals for Nanophotonics
Timothy D. Wilkinson and R. Rajesekharan
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