liquid crystals
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- Controlling the shape and growth of crystals in molecular organic solids has ramifications impacting diverse fields, but remains challenging to fully exploit.
- The nematic phase formed from bent-core liquid crystals has been the focus of intensive research for more than a decade.
- The interface between a growing crystal and its melt has long been a system of both fundamental and practical interest.
- Refinement of macromolecular structures against low-resolution crystallographic data is limited by the ability of current methods to converge on a structure with realistic geometry.
- Liquid crystals are widely used in electro-optic devices because of their large broadband birefringence, dielectric anisotropy, and easy susceptibility to dc or low-frequency electric fields.
- Side-chain type liquid crystalline polyacetylene, which has mesogenic moieties as side chains, is one of the promising materials for practical applications in the electronics.
- Liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) have been the focus of much interest over the past decade or so, due principally to the fact that they exhibit a structured mesophase under certain thermal or solvent conditions.
- In recent years the study of the dynamics of structural transformations in polymeric liquid crystals under an applied electric field has attracted increasing interest.