Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays (eBook)

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.

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