VOLUME 1: Fundamentals of Liquid Crystals
PART I - INTRODUCTION
Introduction and Historical Perspectives of Liquid Crystals
Classification of Liquid Crystals According to Symmetry
Phase Transitions: General and Fundamental Aspects, First and Second Order Transitions, Typical Ranges, Monotropic and Enantiotropic Transitions, Supercooling, Thermodynamics
PART II - BASICS OF LIQUID CRYSTALS
Continuum Theory for Liquid Crystals
Molecular Theories of Liquid Crystals
Synthetic Strategies for Liquid Crystals
Symmetry and Chirality in Liquid Crystals
Chemical Structure and Mesogenic Properties
PART III - CHARACTERIZATION OF LIQUID CRYSTALS
Optical Microscopy Studies of Liquid Crystals
X-ray Scattering Investigations of Liquid Crystals
Imaging: AFM, STM, TEM, Freeze Fracture Studies, Fluorescence and Confocal Microscopy
Mixed Systems: Phase Diagrams, Phase Rules, Eutectics, Re-Entrant Phases, Induced Phases, Miscibility Studies
Magnetic Resonance
Neutron Scattering
Light Scattering from Liquid Crystals
Investigation of Chirality Properties
VOLUME 2: Physical Properties and Phase Behavior of Liquid Crystals
PART I - PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
Tensor Properties of Anisotropic Materials
Magnetic Properties of Liquid Crystals
Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals
Dielectric Properties of Liquid Crystals
Elastic Properties of Liquid Crystals
Defects and Textures of Liquid Crystals
Viscosity
Behaviour of Liquid Crystals in Electric and Magnetic fields
Surface Alignment of Liquid Crystals
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals
Ion Transport in Liquid Crystals
Phase Transition Theories
PART II - PHASE BEHAVIOR
Thermal Studies in Liquid Crystals
Density in Liquid Crystals
High Pressure Investigations of Liquid Crystals
Reentrant Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals
VOLUME 3: Nematic and Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals
PART I - COMMON FEATURES OF NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS
Phase Structures of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals
Designing Principles and Synthesis of Materials for Nematic Liquid Crystals
PART II - CONVENTIONAL NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS
Nematic Liquid Crystals for Display Applications
Elastic Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Dielectric Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Diamagnetic Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Optical Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Dynamic Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals
PART III - DISCOTIC, BIAXIAL AND CHIRAL NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS
Design and Synthesis of Nematic Phases Formed by Disc-Like Molecules
Synthesis of Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals
Structures and Properties of Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals
Physical Investigations of Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals
Molecular Design and Synthesis of Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals
Structures and Optical Properties of Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals
Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals and Electric, Magnetic, and Mechanical Fields
PART IV - BLUE PHASES
Design of Blue Phase Materials
Structures of Blue Phases and Other Frustrated Nematic Liquid Crystals
Polymer and Colloid-Stabilized Blue Phases
VOLUME 4: Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals
PART I - NON-CHIRAL SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS
Design and Synthesis of Smectic Liquid Crystals
Structures and Properties of Smectic Liquid Crystals
PART II - CHIRAL SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS
Synthesis of Chiral Smectic Liquid Crystals
Structures of Chiral Smectic Liquid Crystals
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals
Other Chiral Smectic Liquid Crystal Phases: Alpha, Electroclinic, Intermediate
High Chirality Mesophases: TGB, SmBlue, Cubic, Tetragonal
PART III - COLUMNAR LIQUID CRYSTALS OF DISC-LIKE MOLECULES
Design Concepts and Synthesis of Discotic Liquid Crystals
Structure and Physical Properties of Columnar Liquid Crystals
Electrical, Magnetic and Mechanical Fields and Discotic Nematic Liquid Crystals
PART IV - BENT-CORE LIQUID CRYSTALS
Design and Synthesis of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals
Phase Structures and Physical Properties of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals
Electrical, Magnetic and Mechanical Fields and Bent-Core Liquid Crystals
Columnar Liquid Crystal Phases of Bent-Core Mesogens
VOLUME 5: Non-Conventional Liquid Crystals
Microphase Segregation in Conventional Liquid Crystals
Microphase Segregation in Non-Conventional Liquid Crystals
Laterally Substituted and Swallow-Tailed Liquid Crystals/Phasmids and Polyatenar Mesogens
Metal-Containing Liquid Crystals
Star Mesogens
Fullero-Liquid Crystals
Thermotropic Cubic Liquid Crystal Phases, other 3D Phases and Quasi Crystals
Polyphilic Molecules and Polygonal Cylilnder Phases
Rod-Coil Molecules
Hydrogen-Bonded Systems: Discrete Defined Aggregates and Intramolecular H-Bonding, Amides, Carboxylic Acids, Heterocycles
Liquid Crystal Rotaxanes and Catenanes
VOLUME 6: Nanostructured and Amphiphilic Liquid Crystals
PART I - NANOSTRUCTURED LIQUID CRYSTALS
Liquid Crystal Physical Gels
Nanoparticle and Nanostructured Liquid Crystals
Mineral Liquid Crystals, Particles in Solvents
Carbon Nanotubes in Liquid Crystals
Liquid Crystals in Confined Geometries
Colloid Crystals in Nematic Liquid Crystals
Virus Particle-Based Liquid Crystals
PART II - AMPHIPHILIC LIQUID CRYSTALS
Ionic Self Assembly and Amphotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals
Amphotropic H-Bonding Liquid Crystals
Lipid Self-Assembly
Liquid Crystal Crown Ethers and Oligo(ethylene Oxides)
Lyotropic Surfactant Liquid Crystals, Micellar Systems
Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Liquid Crystals and Self-Assembled Films of Liquid Crystals on Surface
Chromonic Liquid Crystals
VOLUME 7: Supermolecular and Polymeric Liquid Crystals
PART I - LIQUID CRYSTALS IN BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES
Liquid Crystals in Living Systems and Liquid Crystals in the Development of Life
Biomembranes
Cellulosic Liquid Crystals
Silk and Fibers, Collagens
PART II - DIMESOGENS, OLIGOMESOGENS AND DENDRIMERS
Liquid Crystal Dimers and Oligomers
Supermolecular Liquid Crystals
Liquid Crystal Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Liquid Crystals
Part III - Main-Chain and Side-Group Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Polymers
Aromatic Main Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Main-Chain and Side-Chain LC Polymers with Disc-Like Segments
Liquid Crystal Polysilanes
Design and Synthesis of Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers
Structure and Properties of Side Group Thermotropic Liquid Crystal Polymers
Side-On Type Side-Chain and Main-Chain/Side-Chain Combined Liquid Crystalline Polymers
PART IV - BLOCK COPOLYMERS AND POLYMER NETWORKS
Polymer Networks
Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Block Copolymers Containing Liquid Crystalline Segments
VOLUME 8: Applications of Liquid Crystals
PART I - DISPLAY DEVICES
TN, STN and Guest-Host Liquid Crystal Display Devices
In-Plane Switching Display Devices
Vertically Aligned Nematic Display Devices
Bistable Nematic Display Devices
Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays
SmecticA Liquid Crystal Displays
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Displays
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Hosts for Displays
Antiferroic Liquid Crystals
Blue Phase and Isotropic Displays
PART II - NON-DISPLAY APPLICATIONS AND FUNCTIONS
Applications of Liquid Crystals in Telecommunication
Adaptive Optics and Lenses
Photonic Micro- and Nanostructures, Metamaterials
Lasing
Nonlinear Optics
Holography and Information Storage
Thermography and Stress Imaging Using Liquid Crystals
Photoresponsive, Photosensitive and Photoalignable Materials
Liquid Crystal Dyes
Liquid Crystal Semiconductors
Liquid Crystal Semiconductors: Oligothiophenes and Related Materials
Redox-Active (Electrochromic) Liquid Crystals
Liquid Crystals as Ion Conductors
Electromechanical Effects
Optomechanical Devices
Applications of Bent-Core Mesogens
Applications of Mineral Liquid Crystals
Magnetic Liquid Crystals, Liquid Crystal Radicals and Carbenes
Molecular Machines
Liquid Crystals in Biological Imaging and Biomechanical Devices
Sensing Biomolecules using Liquid Crystals
John Goodby is currently Chair of Materials Chemistry at the University of York, UK. He has published over 450 papers, given 170 plenary or invited lectures and holds 55 patents. John Goodby belongs to the top 5%-cited chemists in the world. His research in liquid crystals has been recognized by the George W. Gray Medal, the Tilden Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), an Honorary Doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, and the Interdisciplinary Award of the RSC.
Peter Collings is Professor at the Department of Physics & Astronomy of Swarthmore College, USA. He has had research positions at the Kent State University, the universities of Paderborn and Berlin (Germany), the University of Pennsylvania and at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington. His research and teaching experience was recognized by several awards, including a Hewlett Packard foundation grant and the ?Professor of the Year? award by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
Helen Gleeson is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK, and Research Dean in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. She has published more than 90 articles and five patents. After her PhD she took up post as Senior Development Scientist in the Wolfson Liquid Crystal Unit at the University of Manchester. Helen Gleeson has held visiting professor positions at the Universities of Sydney, Case Western Reserve University and Griffith University in Brisbane.
Takashi Kato is presently Full Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He has published about 300 papers including original papers, reviews and book chapters. His research focuses on supramolecular liquid crystals, stimuli-responsive materials, liquid-crystalline gels and organic/inorganic composites inspired by biomineralization. Takashi Kato received numerous prestigious honors, including the Young Chemists Award of the Chemical Society of Japan, the Wiley Polymer Science Award in Chemistry and the Award of Japanese Liquid Crystal Society.
Carsten Tschierske is Professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry of the University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Research in his group is centered around self-organization in liquid crystalline systems. Current efforts include bent-core mesogens, amphiphilic and amphotropic systems, multi-level segregating systems with complex superstructures as well as polar order and supramolecular chirality in soft matter. Carsten Tschierske has held visiting professor positions at the universities of Marburg, Würzburg and Fukuoka.
Volkmar Vill is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and head of the IT service of the chemistry department. He is author of over 160 papers including original papers, books and software products. His research is focused on liquid crystals, organic materials, chemical information technology and the management of hazardous substances. Volkmar Vill developed numerous databases and information systems such as the liquid crystal database LiqCryst and the SciDex system to store and organize scientific data, information and knowledge.
