1 Holographic Liquid Crystals for Nanophotonics |
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1.2 Computer Generated Holography |
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1.2.1 Diffraction Through an Aperture |
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1.2.2 Calculating Computer Generated Holograms |
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1.4 The Optics of Nematic Liquid Crystals |
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1.5 Carbon Nanotube Plasmonic Devices |
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1.6 Quasi Crystalline Diffraction from Nanotube Arrays |
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1.7 CNT Based CGH Holograms |
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1.8 Nanophotonic Antennas |
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1.9 Conclusions and Discussion |
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2 Directing 3D Topological Defects in Smectic Liquid Crystals and Their Applications as an Emerging Class of Building Blocks |
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2.2 Engineering Focal Conic Domain Structure Through Confinement |
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2.2.1 Confinement: Chemically Patterned Surfaces |
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2.2.2 Confinement: Topographical Surfaces |
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2.2.3 3D Confinement of Focal Conic Domains |
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2.2.4 Generation of Focal Conic Domains with Non-zero Eccentricity in Thin Films |
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2.3 Applications of Focal Conic Domain Arrays |
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2.4 Conclusions and Perspective |
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2.4.2 Directed Assemblies from Other LC Phases |
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2.4.3 Templating Nanomaterials and Other Applications of SmA LCs |
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3 Liquid Crystalline 1D and 2D Carbon Materials |
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69 | (2) |
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3.2 Carbon Nanotube Based LCs |
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3.2.1 Acid Functionalized CNTs |
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3.2.3 Biopolymer Functionalized CNTs |
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3.2.4 Polymer Functionalized CNTs |
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3.2.5 Other Methods of Fabricating Liquid Crystalline Phase of CNTs |
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3.3.1 Protonated Graphenes |
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3.3.2 Graphene Oxide Based LCs |
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3.3.3 Reduced Graphene Oxide Based LCs |
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3.3.4 Thermotropic LCs of Synthetic Nanographenes |
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3.4 Conclusions and Outlook |
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4 Liquid Crystal-Gold Nanoparticle Hybrid Materials |
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4.2 Fundamentals of LCs and GNPs |
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4.3 LC/GNP Hybrid Materials |
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4.3.2 Rod-Like Mesogen Coated GNPs |
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4.3.3 Bent-Core Mesogen Coated GNPs |
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4.3.4 Mesogenic Dendron Coated GNPs |
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4.3.5 Disc-Like Mesogen Coated Gold Nanoparticles |
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4.3.6 Hybrid Gold Nanorods |
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118 | (5) |
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5 Photoresponsive Chiral Liquid Crystal Materials: From 1D Helical Superstructures to 3D Periodic Cubic Lattices and Beyond |
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136 | (1) |
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5.2 Chiral Liquid Crystals |
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136 | (4) |
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5.2.1 Chiral Nematic Phase |
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5.2.2 Chiral Smectic C Phase |
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5.3 Photoresponsive Chiral LCs |
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140 | (3) |
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5.4 Photoresponsive Cholesteric LCs |
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5.4.1 Azobenzene-Based CLCs |
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5.4.2 Overcrowed Alkene-Based CLCs |
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5.4.3 Diarylethene-Based CLCs |
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156 | (3) |
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5.4.4 Other CLC Systems Based on Photochromic Molecules |
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159 | (1) |
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5.5 Photoresponsive Chiral Smectic LCs |
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160 | (4) |
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5.6 Photoresponsive Blue Phase LCs |
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5.7 Conclusions and Outlook |
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6 Glassy Liquid Crystals as Self-Organized Films for Robust Optoelectronic Devices |
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6.1 Concept and Relevance of Glassy Liquid Crystals |
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6.2 Prior Empirical Approaches to GLCs |
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6.3 Modular Approaches to GLCs |
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6.4 Optical Properties of Cholesteric LC Films |
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6.5 Synthesis of Core-Pendant Cholesteric GLCs |
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6.5.1 Statistical Synthesis |
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6.5.2 Deterministic Synthesis |
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6.6 Hairy Rods for Preparation of Conjugated GLC Films |
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6.7 Optoelectronic Devices Utilizing GLCs |
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6.7.1 Circular Polarizers, Optical Notch Filters and Reflectors |
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189 | (1) |
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6.7.2 Modulating Circular Polarization and Reflective Coloration |
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6.7.3 Circularly Polarized Fluorescence |
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6.7.4 Photoswitchable Nematic GLC Film |
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6.7.5 Photoswitchable Cholesteric GLC Film |
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6.7.6 Linearly Polarized Fluorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes |
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6.7.7 Linearly Polarized Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes |
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6.7.8 Circularly Polarized Fluorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes |
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6.7.9 Cholesteric GLC Film as Robust Solid-State Laser. |
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6.7.10 Spatially Resolved Lasing from a Cholesteric GLC Film |
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6.8 Solvent-Vapor Annealing of Conjugated Oligomers |
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7 Directing Self-Organized Columnar Nanostructures of Discotic Liquid Crystals for Device Applications |
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7.2 Homeotropic Columnar Orientation |
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7.2.1 Thermal Alignment Method |
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7.2.2 Chemical Structure Modification |
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7.2.3 Surface Modification of Substrates |
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7.2.5 Infrared Irradiation |
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7.3 Homogeneous (Planar) Columnar Orientation |
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228 | (13) |
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7.3.1 Mechanical Shearing |
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7.3.3 Polytetrafluoroethylene Alignment Layer |
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7.3.4 Langmuir-Blodgett Technique |
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7.4 Alignment of DLCs in Micro- and Nanopores and Channels |
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7.5 Conclusions and Outlook |
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8 Discotic Liquid Crystalline Blends for Nano-Structure Formation Toward Bulk Heterojunction Active Layer in Organic Photovoltaics |
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257 | (24) |
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8.2 Miscibility and Phase Separation in Liquid Crystals |
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260 | (3) |
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8.3 Liquid Crystalline Blends Toward Semiconductors |
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8.4 Liquid Crystalline Blends in Organic Photovoltaics |
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9 Ion-Based Liquid Crystals: From Well-Defined Self-Organized Nanostructures to Applications |
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281 | (20) |
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9.2 Solid-State Ion-Based Assembled Structures |
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283 | (2) |
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9.3 Thermotropic Liquid Crystals Based on Planar Receptor-Anion Complexes and Appropriate Cations |
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285 | (9) |
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9.4 Thermotropic Liquid Crystals Based on Planar Ion Pairs |
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10 Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials in Photodeformable Liquid Crystalline Polymers |
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10.2 Mechanism of Photoinduced Deformation in LCPs |
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10.3 Application of Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials in Photo-Driven Actuators of LCPs |
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10.3.1 Template for Alignment of Mesogens |
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10.3.2 Nanomaterials for Wavelength Regulation |
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10.4 Soft Actuators Based on Nanomaterials Functionalized LCPs |
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10.4.1 Optically Controlled Switching |
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10.4.2 IR-Triggered Artificial Arm |
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10.4.3 Inchworm Walker Devices |
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10.5 Conclusions and Outlook |
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11 Self-Assembled Liquid Crystalline Conjugated Polymers: Synthesis, Development, and Their Advanced Electro-Optical Properties |
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11.2 Hierarchical Self-assembly of Liquid Crystalline Conjugated Polymers |
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11.2.1 Whisker Morphology Consisting of Hierarchically Self-assembled Polymer Helices |
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11.2.2 Macroscopic Alignment of the Self-assembled Polymer Helix by a Magnetic Field |
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11.3 Helical ir-Stacked Self-assemblies of Liquid Crystalline Conjugated Polymers Showing Circularly Polarized Luminescence with High Dissymmetry Factors |
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11.3.1 Lyotropic Di-substituted Polyacetylenes that Exhibit High Dissymmetry Factors in Circularly Polarized Luminescence Through the Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Phase |
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11.3.2 Helically n-Stacked Thiophene-based Copolymers that Exhibit RGB and White Circularly Polarized Luminescence |
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11.4 Dynamic Switching Functionalities of Liquid Crystalline Conjugated Polymers |
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11.4.1 Ferroelectric Liquid Crystalline Poly(meta-phenylene) |
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11.4.2 Dynamic Switching of Linearly and Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Liquid Crystalline Photoresponsive Conjugated Polymers |
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12 Solubilization and Delivery of Drugs from GMO-Based Lyotropic Liquid Crystals |
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12.1 Characterization and Structural Considerations |
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12.1.4 The Reverse Hexagonal Mesophase |
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12.1.5 The Lamellar Mesophase |
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12.1.7 HII Mesophase Composed of GMO/Triglyceride/ Water as Drug Delivery Systems |
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12.1.8 Molecular Interactions of LLCs with Proteins and Nucleotides |
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12.1.9 Solubilization and Delivery of Biomacromolecules. |
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12.2 LLC as Drug Delivery Vehicles |
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12.2.1 Monoolein and Phytantriol: Main Building Blocks of Lipids Mesophases |
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12.2.2 Hexagonal and Cubic Mesophases and Their Dispersions as Carriers of Hydrophilic Drugs Cubosomes, Hexosomes and Micellosomes |
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12.2.3 Oral Administration Using LLC |
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12.2.4 Transdermal Delivery from LLC |
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12.2.5 Delivery of Lipophilic Drugs from LLC Systems |
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12.2.6 Administration of an Amphiphilic Drug |
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12.2.7 Release of Proteins as Drugs |
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12.2.8 Specific Utilization of Penetration Enhancers for Delivery of Hydrophilic Drugs from LLC |
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12.2.9 Probable Mechanisms of Delivery |
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Index |
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