Pentacoordinated Liquid Crystalline Zn(II) Complex Organized in Smectic Mesophase: Synthesis, Structural and Electrochemical Properties

Liquid-crystalline nanoparticles: Hybrid design and mesophase structures

Liquid-crystalline nanoparticles represent an exciting class of new materials for a variety of potential applications. By combining supramolecular ordering with the fluid properties of the liquid-crystalline state, these materials offer the possibility to organise nanoparticles into addressable 2-D and 3-D arrangements exhibiting high processability and self-healing properties. Herein, we revie...

Sub-layer adequacy in smectic ordering : structural charcterization of new low molar mass liquid-crystalline siloxanes

Thi~ paper deal~ with the structural characterization of a new ~eries of

Synthesis and Liquid Crystalline Properties of 4,4'-disubstituted Biphenyls

Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in the Liquid Crystalline Phases with Smectic Ordering

An investigation has been made of the frequency characteristics of the threshold voltage of domain instabilities induced by an electric field in both homogeneously and homeotropically oriented liquid crystal layers. The mesogens had the nematic and smectic A phases and their anisotropy of the electrical conductivity changed its sign at the critical temperature somewhat above the nematic-smectic...

Microdeformation of a polydomain, smectic liquid crystalline thermoset

The microdeformation and fracture mechanisms of a densely crosslinked, polydomain, smectic liquid crystalline thermoset (LCT) were investigated in order to gain some insight into its interesting mechanical properties (e.g. improved fracture toughness). A difunctional LC epoxy monomer, diglycidyl ether of 4,4′-dihydroxy-α-methylstilbene (DGDHMS), was crosslinked with the tetrafunctional, aromati...