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Liquid Crystals

Materials Design and Self-assembly

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Part of the book series: Topics in Current Chemistry (TOPCURRCHEM, volume 318)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Liquid Crystalline Crown Ethers

    • Martin Kaller, Sabine Laschat
    Pages 109-192
  3. DNA-Based Soft Phases

    • Tommaso Bellini, Roberto Cerbino, Giuliano Zanchetta
    Pages 225-279
  4. Polar and Apolar Columnar Phases Made of Bent-Core Mesogens

    • N. Vaupotič, D. Pociecha, E. Gorecka
    Pages 281-302
  5. Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles

    • Oana Stamatoiu, Javad Mirzaei, Xiang Feng, Torsten Hegmann
    Pages 331-393
  6. Stimuli-Responsive Photoluminescent Liquid Crystals

    • Shogo Yamane, Kana Tanabe, Yoshimitsu Sagara, Takashi Kato
    Pages 395-405
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 407-410

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Fluorinated Liquid Crystals: Design of Soft Nanostructures and Increased Complexity of Self-Assembly by Perfluorinated Segments, by Carsten Tschierske Liquid Crystalline Crown Ethers, by Martin Kaller and Sabine Laschat Star-Shaped Mesogens – Hekates: The Most Basic Star Structure with Three Branches, by Matthias Lehmann DNA-Based Soft Phases, by Tommaso Bellini, Roberto Cerbino and Giuliano Zanchetta Polar and Apolar Columnar Phases Made of Bent-Core Mesogens, by N. Vaupotič, D. Pociecha and E. Gorecka Spontaneous Achiral Symmetry Breaking in Liquid Crystalline Phases, by H. Takezoe Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles, by Oana Stamatoiu, Javad Mirzaei, Xiang Feng and Torsten Hegmann Stimuli-Responsive Photoluminescent Liquid Crystals, by Shogo Yamane, Kana Tanabe, Yoshimitsu Sagara and Takashi Kato

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Institute of Chemistry, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenber, Halle/Saale, Germany

    Carsten Tschierske

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