New Developments in Liquid Crystals Research

Anka Trajkovska Petkoska, PhD, graduated at Chemical Engineering Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (USA) in 2007. Her work was dedicated on polymer cholesteric liquid crystalline materials made into particulate forms and their use for particle display technologies. During her PhD work she was granted with two US Patents related to: i) polymer cholesteric liquid crystals shaped in tailored micro-particles by use of soft lithography technique, and ii) composites based on polymer cholesteric liquid crystals and different types of conductive and non-conductive dopants with micro- and nano-structures intended for electro-optical applications. Dr. Trajkovska Petkoska obtained her MSc at Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University St. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, R. Macedonia where she got her BSc, as well. Her work was on polymers, polymer blends and composites. Nowadays, Dr. Trajkovska Petkoska is working in materials science, particularly in novel advanced materials based on polymers for a variety of applications, surface engineering of polymers, nanocomposites and thin film coatings. She participates in several EU funded projects, Eureka project and national scientific works.

Preface; Tailored Polymeric Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Microparticles; Modification of Electro-Optical Response of Tailored PCLC Microparticles; Microencapsulation Effects on the Electro-Optic Behavior & a Reverse Drive Mechanism for Polymer Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Flakes; Effect of Nanomaterials on Physical Properties of Liquid Crystals; Iron(III)-Containing Paramagnetic Liquid Crystals: EPR & Moessbauer Spectroscopy Characterization; Alignment Technologies for Nematic Liquid Crystals; Index.