Machine generated contents note: Preface Contributors Chapter 1. Liquid Crystal Lasers Hideo Takezoe Chapter 2. Self-organized Semiconducting Discotic Liquid Crystals for Optoelectronic Applications Chenming Xue and Quan Li Chapter 3. Magnetic Liquid Crystals Rui Tamura, Yoshiaki Uchida, and Katsuaki Suzuki Chapter 4 Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals for Nonlinear Optical Applications Yongqiang Zhang and Jesús Etxebarria Chapter 5. Photo-Stimulated Phase Transformations in Liquid Crystals and Their Non-display Applications C. V. Yelamaggad, S. Krishna Prasad and Quan Li Chapter 6. Light-driven Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors in Liquid Crystal Media Yan Wang and Quan Li Chapter 7. Liquid Crystal Functionalized Nano- and Microfibers Produced by Electrospinning Jan Lagerwall Chapter 8. Functional Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers: Order Meets Self-Assembled Nanostructures Xia Tong and Yue Zhao Chapter 9. Semiconducting Applications of Polymerisable Liquid Crystals Mary O'Neill and Stephen M. Kelly Chapter 10. Carbon Nanotubes in Liquid Crystals and Carbon Nanotube Based Liquid Crystals Giusy Scalia Chapter 11. Liquid Crystals in Metamaterials Augustine M. Urbas and Dean P. Brown Chapter 12. Ferroelectric Colloids in Liquid Crystals Yuriy Reznikov Chapter 13. Fact or Fiction: Cybotactic Groups in the Nematic Phase of Bent Core Mesogens Bharat R. Achirya and Satyendra Kumar Chapter 14. Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: Emerging Applications Heung-Shik Park and Oleg D. Lavrentovich Chapter 15. Liquid Crystal-Based Chemical Sensors Jacob T. Hunter and Nicholas L. Abbott Chapter 16. Liquid Crystals for Switchable Windows Deng-Ke Yang Chapter 17. Liquid Crystals for Nanophotonics Timothy D. Wilkinson and R. Rajesekharan Index.

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"The responsive nature and diversity of liquid crystals provide tremendous opportunities as well as challenges for insights in fundamental science, and opens the door to various applications. Most modern electronic displays are liquid crystal-based, but R&D is moving rapidly beyond into such areas as electro-optic devices, energy, molecular motors, tunable lasers, and biosensors. This unique reference guides readers to the advances and directions of liquid crystal research, helping spur continued progress in the field. It emphasizes the chemistry, physics, and applications of liquid crystals in photonics, power generators, lasers, molecular motors, carbon nanotubes, and biosensors"-- Provided by publisher.

"The book guides readers to the advances and directions of liquid crystal research, helping spur continued progress in the field. It uses several examples and discusses successful applications beyond displays to introduce fundamentals and state-of-the-art perspectives in the field. The chapters cover up-to-date developments and information on hot topics like magnetic and laser LCs, LC block copolymers, carbon nanotubes in LCs, LC-based chemical sensors, LCs for switchable windows, and LCs for nanophotonics"-- Provided by publisher.