Unconventional Liquid Crystals and Their Applications / / ed. by Wei Lee, Sandeep Kumar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Chen, Dong,; Dhar, Ravindra,; Gardymova, Anna,; Gupta, Raj Kumar,; Huang, Shuai,; Huang, Wenbin,; Katayama, Kenji,; Kawatsuki, Nobuhiro,; Krakhalev, Mikhail,; Kumar, Sandeep,; Lee, Mon-Juan,; Lee, Wei,; Li, Quan,; Liu, Kai,; Lu, Yan-qing,; Luo, Dan,; Ma, Chao,; Manjuladevi, V.,; Manohar, Rajiv,; Prishchepa, Oxana,; Seki, Takahiro,; Shabanov, Alexander,; Shen, Dong,; Shi, Yue,; Skačej, Gregor,; Sohn, Woon Yong,; Srivastava, Abhishek Kumar,; Sutormin, Vitaly,; Vashchenko, Valerii V.,; Wu, Po-Chang,; Yadav, Neelam,; Yu, Haifeng,; Yuvaraj, A. R.,; Zannoni, Claudio,; Zheng, Zhi-gang,; Zyryanov, Victor,
• HerausgeberIn: Kumar, Sandeep,; Lee, Wei,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 569 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; List of contributing authors --; 1 Introduction: from conventional to unconventional liquid crystals --; 2 Unconventional liquid crystals: chemical aspects --; 3 Ferroelectric liquid crystals and their application in modern displays and photonic devices --; 4 Liquid crystalline materials for efficient solar energy harvesting --; 5 Liquid crystal-based biosensing: exploiting the electrical and optical properties of various liquid crystals in quantitative bioassays --; 6 Thermotropic liquids and liquid crystals from DNA and proteins --; 7 Liquid crystals doped with ionic surfactants for electrically induced anchoring transitions --; 8 Time-resolved dynamics of dye-doped liquid crystals and the origin of their optical nonlinearity --; 9 Light reconfigurable chiral liquid crystal superstructure for dynamic diffraction manipulations --; 10 Photoalignment of liquid crystalline polymers attained from the free surface --; 11 Photoresponsive liquid-crystalline block copolymers with hierarchical structures --; 12 Molecular modeling of liquid crystal elastomers --; 13 Liquid crystal polymer films with high reflectivity --; 14 Ultrathin films of nanomaterials: a lyotropic liquid crystalline system and its sensing application --; 15 Quantum-dot-dispersed liquid crystals: mesogenic science to smart applications --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110584370; 9783110750720; 9783110750706; 9783110616859; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754162; 9783110753936
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110584370
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Wei Lee, Sandeep Kumar.

The work focuses on recent developments of the rapidly evolving field of Non-conventional Liquid Crystals. After a concise introduction it discusses the most promising research such as biosensing, elastomers, polymer films , photoresponsive properties and energy harvesting. Besides future applications it discusses as well potential frontiers in LC science and technology.