Liquid Crystals and Ordered Fluids: Proceedings of an American Chemical Society Symposium on Ordered Fluids and Liquid Crystals, held in New York City, September 10–12, 1969

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Thermal Phase Transitions in Biomembranes....Pages 1-11
Conditions of Stability for Liquid-Crystalline Phospholipid Membranes....Pages 13-32
Biopolymerization of Peptide Antibiotics....Pages 33-51
The Use of Slightly Soluble, Non-Polar Solutes as Probes for Obtaining Evidence of Water Structure....Pages 53-67
Phosvitin, a Phosphoprotein with Polyelectrolyte Characteristics....Pages 69-81
Structure and Properties of the Cell Surface Complex....Pages 83-96
Flow Induced Ordered State of Helical Poly-Benzyl-L-Glutamate....Pages 97-110
Cholesteric and Nematic Structures of Poly-γ-Benzyl-L-Glutamate....Pages 111-121
The Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Acetylene and Its 13 C-Isomers in Nematic Liquid Crystalline Solutions....Pages 123-129
Studies of the Helix-Coil Transition and Aggregation in Polypeptides by Fluorescence Techniques....Pages 131-146
Structural Studies of the Cholesteric Mesophase....Pages 147-168
Nematic Mixtures as Stationary Liquid Phases in Gas-Liquid Chromatography....Pages 169-180
Singular Solutions in Liquid Crystal Theory....Pages 181-193
Theory of Light Scattering by Nematics....Pages 195-200
Effects of Electric Fields on Mixtures of Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals....Pages 201-213
Some Experiments on Electric Field Induced Structural Changes in a Mixed Liquid Crystal System....Pages 215-225
Can a Model System of Rod-Like Particles Exhibit Both a Fluid-Fluid and a Fluid-Solid Phase Transition?....Pages 227-237
Heat Generation in Nematic Mesophases Subjected to Magnetic Fields....Pages 239-258
Nonbonded Interatomic Potential Functions and Crystal Structure: Non Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Molecules....Pages 259-275
The Investigation of Lipid-Water Systems, Part 3. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in the Mono-Octanoin-Deuterium Oxide System....Pages 277-288
Mesomorphism in Cholesterol-fatty Alcohol Systems....Pages 289-291
Liquid Crystals IV. Electro-Optic Effects in p -Alkoxybenzylidene- p ’-Aminoalkylphenones and Related Compounds....Pages 293-302
Infrared Spectroscopic Measurements on the Crystal-Nematic Transition....Pages 303-310
The Alignment of Molecules in the Nematic Liquid Crystal State....Pages 311-320
Polymorphism of Smectic Phases with Smectic a Morphology....Pages 321-332
Effect of Solvent Type on the Thermodynamic Properties of Normal Aliphatic Cholesteryl Esters....Pages 333-349
Molecular Structure of Cyclobutane from Its Proton NMR in a Nematic Solvent....Pages 351-359
Magnetic Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals....Pages 361-363
The Aggregation of Poly-γ-Benzyl-L-Glutamate in Mixed Solvent Systems....Pages 365-373
Liquid Crystals III. Nematic Mesomorphism in Benzylidene Anils Containing a Terminal Alcohol Group....Pages 375-381
Mesomorphic Properties of the Heterocyclic Analogs of Benzylidene-4-Amino-4′-Methoxybiphenyl....Pages 383-392
Effect of End-Chain Polarity on the Mesophase Stability of Some Substituted Schiff-Bases....Pages 393-403
Capillary Viscometry of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals....Pages 405-418
Kinetic Study of the Electric Field-Induced Cholestericnematic Transition in Liquid Crystal Films: 1. Relaxation to the Cholesteric State....Pages 419-445
Recent Experimental Investigations in Nematic and Cholesteric Mesophases....Pages 447-453
Small Angle X-Ray Studies of Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions II. Surface, Impurity and Electric Field Effects....Pages 455-462
The Effective Rotary Power of the Fatty Esters of Cholesterol....Pages 463-475
Mesomorphic Behaviour of the Cholesteryl Esters-I: p-n-Alkoxybenzoates of Cholesterol....Pages 477-487
Back Matter....Pages 489-494