Quan Li

Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays (eBook, PDF)

Chemistry, Physics, and Applications

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118259498
• Artikelnr.: 38230866

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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