Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays (ePub)

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

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.

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