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020 _a9781118078617
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082 _a530.429
_bLI/L
245 0 _aLiquid crystals beyond displays: chemistry, physics, and applications/
_cedited by Quan Li
260 _aNew Jersey:
_bWiley,
_c2012.
300 _ax, 573 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
505 _aPreface 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 Index
650 _aOptoelectronic devices--Research
650 _aTechnology
700 _aLi, Quan, ed.
942 _cWB16