Liquid Crystals and Ordered Fluids: Volume 4

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Some Novel Ferroelectric Smectic Liquid Crystals....Pages 1-32
Liguid Crystalline Esters of Phenylhydroquinone and 3-Phenyl 4-Hydroxybenzoic Acid....Pages 33-42
The Synthesis and Characterization of Some Perylene and Anthraquinoic Dichroic Dyes for Liquid Crystal Display Applications....Pages 43-55
Some New Thermotropic Discogens....Pages 57-74
Syntheses and Properties of Liquid Crystalline Heterocycloalkanes....Pages 75-87
Characterization of Two Isomeric Cyano-Ester Homologous Series — I....Pages 89-110
Effects of Molecular Length on Nematic Mixtures — IV: Structure Effects on Viscosity of Ester Mixtures....Pages 111-136
Orientational Disorder in Smectic Liquid Crystals: an Aspect of Structure that has to be Included....Pages 137-153
Effect Of Molecular Structure Of Rigid — Flexible Polyesters on their Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Properties....Pages 155-174
Relationships Between Molecular Structure and the Incidence of Crystal B and Hexatic B Phases....Pages 175-201
Characterization of the Phases of Two Isomeric Cyano-Ester Homologous Series — II....Pages 203-231
Unusual Glass Transition of Smectic Liquid Crystal in p-n-Hexyloxybenzylidene-p’-Butylaniline....Pages 233-252
Some High Electric Field Effects in Nematic Liquid Crystals....Pages 253-263
Application of Generalized Van Der Waals Theory of Homologous Nematogens — Part 1: Trans -4-Ethoxy-4’- N -Alkanoyloxyazobenzenes....Pages 265-282
Application of Regular Solution Theory to Discotic Mesophases: Calculation of Phase Diagrams Exhibiting Minima....Pages 283-297
Extension of McMillan’s Model to Liquid Crystals of Disc-Like Molecules....Pages 299-309
Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Polymers with Mesogenic Groups and Flexible Spacers in the Main Chain....Pages 311-345
Effect of Mesogenic Unit and Spacer Structures on the Thermotropic Properties of Main Chain Liquid Crystal Polyesters....Pages 347-362
The Role of Sequence Distribution on Liquid Crystalline Properties of Aromatic Copolyesters....Pages 363-373
Diffusion of Rigid Polyamides through Swollen Gel of Same....Pages 375-392
The Molecular Weight Dependence of the Splay and Bend Elastic Constants of a Polymer Liquid Crystal....Pages 393-399
DSC, Miscibility and X-Ray Studies of the Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polyesters with Aromatic Moieties and Flexible Spacers in the Main Chain....Pages 401-427
Influence of the Leprosy Drug, Dapsone, on the Phase Transitions of the Lyotropic, Dipalmitoyl Phosphaltidylcholine (DPPC)....Pages 429-440
Nonaqueous Lyotropic Liquid Crystals of Lecithin and Oligomers of Polyethylene Glycols....Pages 441-450
The Diamagnetic Anisotropy of Lyotropic Nematic Mesophases....Pages 451-465
Physical Models of Lipid Membranes in Latent Cancer Cells: Ordering Effects of Petroleum Hydrocarbons....Pages 467-477
Adiabatic Compression: A New Method to Measure Latent Heats in Phospholipid Bilayers....Pages 479-489
Anisotropy of the Electric Conductivity in Amphiphilic Liquid Crystals....Pages 491-503
Phase Transition Properties of Bilayers of Mixed Lipids and their Covalent Analogs....Pages 505-513
On the Orientation of Liquid Crystals by Monolayers of Amphiphilic Molecules....Pages 515-530
Refractive Index Measurements using a Double Arm Converging Beam Interferometer....Pages 531-537
A Pulsed NMR Study of Transient and Persistent Molecular Order in Nematic Liquid Crystals....Pages 539-549
The Effect of Twist on Biaxial Ordering in the Cholesteric Phase....Pages 551-559
Deuteron Magnetic Relaxation and Molecular Dynamics in ThermTropic Liquid Crystals....Pages 561-578
An Effective Proton Hyperfine Tensor for Di-Tertbutylnitroxide....Pages 579-596
Alkyl Chain Flexibility in Liquid Crystals....Pages 597-613
Orientational Order in Binary Mixtures of Nematic Liquid Crystals....Pages 615-641
The Effect of the Tricritical Region on the Smectic A — Smectic C Transition....Pages 643-652
Spatial Correlations in Nematic Liquid Crystals....Pages 653-672
Molecular Structure and Ordering in Liquid Crystals....Pages 673-686
New Liquid Crystals, Polymeric and Monomeric, Derived from Binaphthyl....Pages 687-695
Ioneneomeric Liquid Crystals....Pages 697-704
Mesomorphic Properties of an Homologous Series of Alkyl-Terminated Enamine-Ketone Containing Liquid Crystals....Pages 705-714
Liquid Crystalline Polymers with Amphiphilic and Non Amphiphilic Side Chains — Effect of the Main Chain on the Phase Behaviour....Pages 715-726
The Fluid Mesophases of Polar Pods....Pages 727-735
The Nematogeneity of Some Hydrocarbons....Pages 737-743
Some Heterocyclic Analogues of Biphenyl Mesogens....Pages 745-762
Alignment of Liquid Crystal Molecules on Various Surfaces: Myths, Theories, Facts....Pages 763-780
Development of Dual-Frequency Addressable Liquid Crystals....Pages 781-798
Dielectric Studies of Monoester and Diester Nematogens....Pages 799-830
Intermolecular Guest-Host Interactions and the Optical Order Parameter of Pleochroic Dyes....Pages 831-852
Liquid Crystal Alignment On Substrate Surfaces, A Collective Phenomenon....Pages 853-864
Alignment of Liquid Crystals in the Vicinity of the SmA-N Transition....Pages 865-887
Nematic-Substrate Interaction and the Boundary Layer Phase Transition....Pages 889-899
Optical Properties of the Blue Phase of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals....Pages 901-914
Lattice Parameters in Blue Phase Mixtures....Pages 915-923
Blue Phase Structure Analysis by Optical Bragg Diffractions....Pages 925-943
Mesomorphic Polymers as Three Component Systems....Pages 945-969
Colloidal Crystals and Glasses....Pages 971-985
Self Diffusion Constant and Viscosity of Charged Polystyrene Colloids....Pages 987-998
Influence Of Molecular Conformation on the Helical Twisting Power of Terpenes in Nematic Liquid Crystals....Pages 999-1010
Vibrational Spectra of Liquid Crystals — XIII: Crystallization Kinetics Study Of 4, Octyloxy, 4↑, Cyano Biphenyl By Rapid Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 1011-1019
Nuclear Spin-Lattice Relaxation Due to Orientational Fluctuation in Smectic Liquid Crystals....Pages 1021-1032
NMR Studies of Molecules Oriented in Mixed Thermotropic Liquid Crystals Of Opposite Diamagnetic Anisotropies....Pages 1033-1041
Discotic Mesophase: A Complementary Review....Pages 1043-1060
Identification of the Structure of Mesomorphic Polymers by Means of their Miscibility....Pages 1061-1075
Effect of Molecular Structure on Mesomorphism: 14 1 Difluorinated Siamese Twin Mesogens....Pages 1077-1087
Anisotropy Induced In A Semi-Flexible Polymer by a Liquid- Crystalline Solvent....Pages 1089-1102
Electrooptical Behaviour of a Novel Strong-Weak Anchored Nematic Layer: First Measurements of MBBA Flexoelectric Coefficient of Splay e lz ....Pages 1103-1122
On Thermotropic Disc-Like Mesogens....Pages 1123-1130
On the Nature of the Smectic-C Phase....Pages 1131-1139
Back Matter....Pages 1153-1157