Liquid Crystals

Effect of lateral substitution of different polarity on the mesophase behaviour in pure and mixed states of 4-(4'-substituted phenylazo)-2-substituted phenyl-4''-alkoxy benzoates
pp. 391-405(15)
Authors: Naoum, M. M.; Fahmi, A. A.; Alaasar, M. A.; Abdel-Aziz, M. E.

Low-melting nematic V-shaped 1,3,4-thiadiazoles - phase engineering using small substituents and mixtures of flexible chains
pp. 407-422(16)
Authors: Seltmann, Jens; Lehmann, Matthias

Calamitic bisazobenzene liquid crystal series: synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 1-methoxyalkyloxy-4'-(4-phenylazo)azobenzene
pp. 423-431(9)
Authors: Salisu, A. A.; Ab Rahman, M.Z.; Silong, S.; Lutfor, M. R.; Ahmad, M. Bin

New symmetric azomethinic dimer: the influence of structural heterogeneity on the liquid crystalline behaviour
pp. 433-440(8)
Authors: Marin, Luminita; Zabulica, Andrei; Sava, Mitica

Novel non-discoid chiral copper(II)-salen type [N2O2] donor Schiff base complexes with a cyclohexane diamine spacer: synthesis, electrochemistry, columnar mesomorphism and DFT study
pp. 441-449(9)
Authors: Bhattacharjee, Chira; Das, Gobinda; Mondal, Paritosh

Isotropic liquid-ferrielectric smectic C phase transition observed in a chiral nonsymmetric dimer
pp. 451-459(9)
Authors: Noji, Anna; Yoshizawa, Atsushi

Spontaneous formation of liquid crystalline phases and phase transitions in highly concentrated plasmid DNA
pp. 461-468(8)
Authors: Hanczyc, Piotr; Matczyszyn, Katarzyna; Pawlik, Krzysztof; Olesiak, Joanna; Leh, Herve; Buckle, Malcolm

A high-transmittance vertical alignment liquid crystal display using a fringe and in-plane electrical field
pp. 469-473(5)
Authors: Yang, Guoqiang; Sun, Yubao

Investigations on the director field around microdisc resonators
pp. 475-482(8)
Authors: Urbanski, Martin; Piegdon, Karoline; Meier, Cedrik; Kitzerow, Heinz

Inducement of smectic phases in hydrogen-bonded mesogenic systems
pp. 483-488(6)
Authors: Sastry, S. Sreehari; Vijaya Lakshmi, Kothapalli

Electroclinic and electromechanical effects of a side-chain chiral smectic A elastomer
pp. 489-493(5)
Authors: Hiraoka, Kazuyuki; Kishimoto, Toyohisa; Kato, Masayuki; Tashiro, Tohru

Alignment of nematic liquid crystals at inorganic salt-liquid crystal interfaces
pp. 495-506(12)
Authors: Sen, Avijit; Acharya, Bharat

Fast-response vertical alignment liquid crystal display driven by in-plane switching
pp. 507-510(4)
Authors: Yang, Guoqiang; Sun, Yubao

Liquid crystalline behaviour of model compounds di-laterally substituted with different polar groups
pp. 511-519(9)
Authors: Naoum, M. M.; Fahmi, A. A.; Ahmed, H. A.