Liquid Crystals and Ordered Fluids

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Some Novel Ferroelectric Smectic Liquid Crystals

   • J. W. Goodby, T. M. Leslie

   Pages 1-32

3. Liguid Crystalline Esters of Phenylhydroquinone and 3-Phenyl 4-Hydroxybenzoic Acid

   • R. J. Cox, W. Volksen, B. L. Dawson

   Pages 33-42

4. The Synthesis and Characterization of Some Perylene and Anthraquinoic Dichroic Dyes for Liquid Crystal Display Applications

   • T. M. Leslie, J. W. Goodby, R. W. Filas

   Pages 43-55

5. Some New Thermotropic Discogens

   • Pierre Le Barny, Jean Billard, Jean-Claude Dubois

   Pages 57-74

6. Syntheses and Properties of Liquid Crystalline Heterocycloalkanes

   • H. Zaschke, A. Isenberg, H.-M. Vorbrodt

   Pages 75-87

7. Characterization of Two Isomeric Cyano-Ester Homologous Series — I

   • J. W. Goodby, T. M. Leslie, P. E. Cladis, P. L. Finn

   Pages 89-110

8. Effects of Molecular Length on Nematic Mixtures — IV: Structure Effects on Viscosity of Ester Mixtures

   • J. David Margerum, Siu-May Wong, John E. Jensen, Camille van Ast

   Pages 111-136

9. Orientational Disorder in Smectic Liquid Crystals: an Aspect of Structure that has to be Included

   • Adriaan de Vries

   Pages 137-153

10. Effect Of Molecular Structure Of Rigid — Flexible Polyesters on their Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Properties

    • Leszek Makaruk, Hanna Polanska

    Pages 155-174

11. Relationships Between Molecular Structure and the Incidence of Crystal B and Hexatic B Phases

    • J. W. Goodby

    Pages 175-201

12. Characterization of the Phases of Two Isomeric Cyano-Ester Homologous Series — II

    • P. E. Cladis, P. L. Finn, J. W. Goodby

    Pages 203-231

13. Unusual Glass Transition of Smectic Liquid Crystal in p-n-Hexyloxybenzylidene-p’-Butylaniline

    • Michio Sorai, Hideki Yoshioka, Hiroshi Suga

    Pages 233-252

14. Some High Electric Field Effects in Nematic Liquid Crystals

    • E. F. Carr, R. W. H. Kozlowski, Mojtaba Shamsai

    Pages 253-263

15. Application of Generalized Van Der Waals Theory of Homologous Nematogens — Part 1: Trans-4-Ethoxy-4’-N-Alkanoyloxyazobenzenes

    • Andrew C. Pineda, Todd J. Jones, Gerald R. Van Hecke

    Pages 265-282

16. Application of Regular Solution Theory to Discotic Mesophases: Calculation of Phase Diagrams Exhibiting Minima

    • Ralph A. Wheeler, Gerald R. Van Hecke

    Pages 283-297

17. Extension of McMillan’s Model to Liquid Crystals of Disc-Like Molecules

    • S. Chandrasekhar, K. L. Savithramma, N. V. Madhusudana

    Pages 299-309

18. Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Polymers with Mesogenic Groups and Flexible Spacers in the Main Chain

    • A. Blumstein, J. Asrar, R. B. Blumstein

    Pages 311-345

19. Effect of Mesogenic Unit and Spacer Structures on the Thermotropic Properties of Main Chain Liquid Crystal Polyesters

    • Robert W. Lenz, Jung-Il Jin

    Pages 347-362

20. The Role of Sequence Distribution on Liquid Crystalline Properties of Aromatic Copolyesters

    • J. Tsay, W. Volksen, J. Economy

    Pages 363-373

This volume represents a collection of selected papers presented at a symposium of the same name sponsored by the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry held at the national Spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 29 - April 1, 1982. Also included are invited papers from a number of outstanding overseas liquid crystal scientists who were unable to attend the symposium. The attendance at the symposium itself and the number of papers contained herein is reflective of the high level of current interest in (and maturity of) the field of liquid crystal research. Included in this volume are papers mainly derived from the fields of chemistry and physics ranging in content from the design and synthesis of new meso genic materials to theoretical physical treatments of anisotropic liquids. One of the significant aspects of current liquid crystal research is the increasing col­ laboration between chemist and phys.icist. The overlap of these two areas has been growing over the last several years and many contri­ butions to this volume involve a molecular approach to the chemical physics of liquid crystalline materials.

• Chemical synthesis
• Diffusion
• Isomer
• distribution
• spectroscopy

• University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA

  Anselm C. Griffin

• University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

  Julian F. Johnson

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