Liquid Crystals and Ordered Fluids: Volume 2

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Binding of Divalent Ions to the Phosphoglycoprotein Phosvitin....Pages 1-9
Liquid Crystalline Behavior of Biologically Important Lipids Polyunsaturated Cholesterol Esters and Phospholipids....Pages 11-22
An E.P.R. Investigation of the Alignment of Two Smectic a Liquid Crystals....Pages 23-32
Pretransitional Behavior in the Isotropic Phase of Homologous Compounds Showing Nematic and Smectic C Type Order....Pages 33-37
Electric Field Effects in the Nematic and Smectic Phases of P-N-Nonyloxybenzoic Acid....Pages 39-51
Stability of Molecular Order in the Smectic a Phase of a Liquid Crystal....Pages 53-61
Molecular Diffusion in the Nematic and Smectic C Phase of 4–4′-Di- n -Heptyloxyazoxybenzene (HOAB)....Pages 63-66
Diffusion in Oriented Lamellar Phases by Pulsed NMR....Pages 67-71
Rotational Diffusion in the Nematic Phase: Part I....Pages 73-79
Possible Phase Diagrams for Mixtures of ‘Positive’ and ‘Negative’ Nematic Liquid Crystals....Pages 81-84
Vibrational Spectra of Liquid Crystals. VIII. Infrared Spectroscopic Measurements of Order in Nematics and Nematic Solutions....Pages 85-95
Changes in Thermodynamic and Optical Properties Associated with Mesomorphic Transitions....Pages 97-114
Kinetics of Field Alignment and Elastic Relaxation in Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystals....Pages 115-123
Studies on the Molecular Arrangement in Liquid Crystals by Polarization of Fluorescence....Pages 125-139
Molecular Order and Molecular Theories of Liquid Crystals....Pages 141-146
A New Lyotropic Nematic Mesophase....Pages 147-160
NMR Studies of the Interaction Between Sodium Ions and Anionic Surfactants in Some Amphiphile-Water Systems....Pages 161-176
The Dependence of Some Properties of Aqueous Liquid Crystalline Phases on Their Water Content....Pages 177-197
Dielectric Relaxation in Lipid Bilayer Membranes....Pages 199-209
Numerical Computations for the Flow of Liquid Crystals....Pages 211-223
The Investigation of Lipid-Water Systems Part 5 Infrared Spectra of Mesophases....Pages 225-236
Optical Properties of Nematic Poly-γ-Benzyl-L-Glutamate....Pages 237-242
Liquid Crystal-Isotropic Phase Equilibria in Stiff Chain Polymers....Pages 243-255
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Polypeptide Liquid Crystals....Pages 257-266
Magnetic Relaxation of Poly-γ-Benzyl-L-Glutamate Solutions in Deuterochloroform....Pages 267-276
Polymerization of P-Methacryloyloxybenzoic Acid and Methacrylic Acid in Mesomorphic N-Alkoxy-Benzoic Acids....Pages 277-291
Thermotropic Liquid Crystals VI. The Preparation and Mesophase Properties of Asymmetrically 4,4′-Disubstituted Phenyl Benzoates....Pages 293-306
Effects of Certain Central Groups on the Liquid Crystal Properties of Dicarboxylic Esters....Pages 307-314
Relations of Two Continuum Theories of Liquid Crystals....Pages 315-330
Structure and Thermal Conductivity of Supercooled MBBA....Pages 331-339
The Dielectric Properties of Nematic MBBA in the Presence of Electric and Magnetic Fields....Pages 341-350
Bulk Viscosities of MBBA from Ultrasonic Measurements....Pages 351-356
Order Parameters and Conformation of Nematic p -Methoxybenzylidene- p -n-Butylaniline (MBBA) by NMR Studies of Some Specifically Deuterated Derivatives....Pages 357-366
The Anisotropic Electrical Conductivity of MBBA Containing Alkyl Ammonium Halides....Pages 367-381
Continuum Theory of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals....Pages 383-402
Chirality in Mixed Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals....Pages 403-410
Cylindrically Symmetric Textures in Mesophases of Cholesteryl Esters....Pages 411-419
Induced Rotary Power in Ternary Mixtures of Liquid Crystals....Pages 421-428
Conductivity Differences in the Cholesteric Textures....Pages 429-435
Electro-Optical Properties of Imperfectly Ordered Planar Cholesteric Layers....Pages 437-448
Temperature Dependence and Rheological Behavior of the Shear-Induced Grandjean to Focal Conic Transition in the Cholesteric Mesophase....Pages 449-459
Mesomorphic Behaviour of Optically Active Anils: 4- n -Alkoxybenzylidene-4′-Methylalkylanilines....Pages 461-482
Comments on the Relaxation Process in the Cholesteric-Nematic Transition....Pages 483-494
Effects of Detergents on Isolated Rat Lymphocyte Plasma Membranes....Pages 495-506
Heterocyclic Liquid Crystals and Some Air Force Applications of Mesomorphic Compounds....Pages 507-514
Catalysis in Micellar and Liquid Crystalline Phases....Pages 515-523
Liquid Crystal Dynamics as Studied by EPR and NMR....Pages 525-539
Influence of Molecular Structural Changes on the Mesomorphic Behavior of Benzylideneanilines....Pages 541-556
Domain Formation in Homogeneous Nematic Liquid Crystals....Pages 557-571
Phase Diagram of Mixed Mesomorphic Benzylideneanilines — MBBA/EBBA....Pages 573-579
Some Mechanistic Aspects of the Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Induced Circular Dichroism (LCICD) Phenomenon....Pages 581-592
Effect of Cholesteryl Alkanoate Structure on the Pitch of the Cholesteric Mesophase....Pages 593-606
On the Theories of Optical Reflection from Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Films....Pages 607-612
Some Mesomorphic Properties of N-(p-Azidobenzylidene) — Anilines....Pages 613-616
Stable, Low Melting Nematogens of Positive Dielectric Anisotropy for Display Devices....Pages 617-643
Electric Field Induced Deformation in Nematic Phenyl Benzoates....Pages 645-656
Kerr Effect in the Isotropic Phase of p-Azoxyanisole....Pages 657-662
Correlation Time of the Proton-Electron Interaction in MBBA with Traces of Nitroxyde Molecules....Pages 663-669
Brillouin Scattering in the Isotropic Phase of MBBA....Pages 671-675
Periodic Distortions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal....Pages 677-703
Erasure of Textures Stored in Nematic-Cholesteric Mixtures....Pages 705-710
Rheological Properties of Thermotropic and Lyotropic Mesophases Formed by Ammonium Laurate....Pages 711-721
Liquid Crystals II. Liquid Crystalline Properties of Transcinnamic Acid Esters....Pages 723-731
Effect of Structure on the Stability of Nematic Mesophases....Pages 733-741
Quantum Chemical Evaluation of Intermolecular Forces in a Compound Producing Lyotropic Liquid Crystal: Part I....Pages 743-758
Quantum Chemical Evaluation of Intermolecular Forces in a Compound Producing Lyotropic Liquid Crystal: Part II, Consequences of Introduction of a Dissimilar Molecule....Pages 759-771
Back Matter....Pages 773-783