Nanoscience with liquid crystals : from self-organized nanostructures to applications /

"This book focuses on the exciting topic of nanoscience with liquid crystals: from self-organized nanostructures to applications. The elegant self-organized liquid crystalline nanostructures, the synergetic characteristics of liquid crystals and nanoparticles, liquid crystalline nanomaterials,...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Li, Quan, 1965- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham [Switzerland] : Springer, [2014]
Series:Nanoscience and technology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Holographic liquid crystals for nanophotonics / Timothy D. Wilkinson, Haider Butt and Yunuen Montelongo
  • Directing 3D topological defects in Smectic liquid crystals and their applications as an emerging class of building blocks / Apiradee Honglawan and Shu Yang
  • Liquid crystalline 1D and 2D carbon materials / Hari Krishna Bisoyi, Sandeep Kumar and Quan Li
  • Liquid crystal-gold nanoparticle hybrid materials / Chenming Xue and Quan Li
  • Photoresponsive chiral liquid crystal materials: from 1D helical superstructures to 3D periodic cubic lattices and beyond / Yannian Li and Quan Li
  • Glassy liquid crystals as self-organized films for robust optoelectronic devices / H.-M. Philp Chen, Jane J. Ou and Shaw H. Chen
  • Directing self-organized columnar nanostructures of discotic liquid crystals for device applications / Hari Krishna Bisoyi and Quan Li
  • Discotic liquid crystalline blends for nano-structure formation toward bulk heterojunction active layer in organic photovoltaics / Yo Shimizu
  • Ion-based liquid crystals: from well-defined self-organized nanostructures to applications / Hiromitsu Maeda
  • Nanotechnology and nanomaterials in photodeformable liquid crystalline polymers / Li Yu, Haifeng Yu and Quan Li
  • Self-assembled liquid crystalline conjugated polymers: synthesis, development, and their advanced electro-optical properties / Benedict A. San Jose and Kazuo Akagi
  • Solubilization and delivery of drugs from GMO-based lyotropic liquid crystals / Nissim Garti, Dima Libster and Abraham Aserin.