Liquid Crystals, Volume 36, Issue 10-11 (2009)

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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Commemoration

Editorial

Editorial
Editorial
C. T. Imrie
Page: 1015
Published online: 18 Nov 2009
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Obituary

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel Prize laureate for physics (1991)
Le Monde
Pages: 1017-1018
Published online: 18 Nov 2009
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Appreciation

Article
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932–2007)
T. J. Sluckin
Pages: 1019-1022
Published online: 18 Nov 2009
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Invited Articles

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Light-responsive wires from side-on liquid crystalline azo polymers
Wei Deng, Min-Hui Li, Xiaogong Wang & Patrick Keller
Pages: 1023-1029
Published online: 03 Jun 2009
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Tuning the sensitivity of a liquid crystal-based chemical/biological sensor using a novel double layer alignment film
Ke Zhang, Na Liu, Robert J. Twieg & Philip J. Bos
Pages: 1031-1035
Published online: 21 May 2009
AbstractforTuning the sensitivity of a liquid crystal-based chemical/biological sensor using a novel double layer alignment film | Full Text | References | PDF (778.5 KB)
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Cholesteric helix: topological problem, photonics and electro-optics
Lev M. Blinov & Serguei P. Palto
Pages: 1037-1047
Published online: 10 Jul 2009
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Thermopermeation in bicontinuous lyotropic crystals
P. Pieranski
Pages: 1049-1069
Published online: 14 Aug 2009
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Lehmann effect in chiral liquid crystals and Langmuir monolayers: an experimental survey
P. Oswald & A. Dequidt
Pages: 1071-1084
Published online: 29 Jun 2009
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Liquids with conics
M. Kleman & O. D. Lavrentovich
Pages: 1085-1099
Published online: 23 Jul 2009
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Degeneracy lifting near the frustration points due to long-range interlayer interaction forces and the resulting varieties of polar chiral tilted smectic phases
K. L. Sandhya, J. K. Vij, Atsuo Fukuda & A. V. Emelyanenko
Pages: 1101-1118
Published online: 26 Aug 2009
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Flexoelectric effect in a bent-core mesogen
Khoa Van Le, Fumito Araoka, Katalin Fodor-Csorba, Ken Ishikawa & Hideo Takezoe
Pages: 1119-1124
Published online: 06 Jul 2009
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Shape-dynamic growth, structure, and elasticity of homogeneously oriented spherulites in an isotropic/smectic-A mesophase transition
Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir & Alejandro D. Rey
Pages: 1125-1137
Published online: 25 Aug 2009
AbstractforShape-dynamic growth, structure, and elasticity of homogeneously oriented spherulites in an isotropic/smectic-A mesophase transition | Full Text | References | PDF (1.4 MB)
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Textured deformations in liquid crystal elastomers
J. S. Biggins
Pages: 1139-1156
Published online: 07 Jul 2009
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Twist penetration in single-layer smectic A discs of colloidal virus particles
Robert A. Pelcovits & Robert B. Meyer
Pages: 1157-1160
Published online: 07 Jul 2009
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Nematicons: self-localised beams in nematic liquid crystals
Gaetano Assanto & Mirosław A. Karpierz
Pages: 1161-1172
Published online: 18 Nov 2009
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On some liquid crystals made of banana-shaped molecules and their mixtures with rod-like molecules
N. V. Madhusudana
Pages: 1173-1184
Published online: 03 Aug 2009
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Flow and reorientation in the dynamics of nematic defects
André M. Sonnet & Epifanio G. Virga
Pages: 1185-1192
Published online: 22 Jul 2009
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Chiral liquid crystal dopants derived from optically active drugs
S. Jeeva, S. J. Cowling, E. P. Raynes & J. W. Goodby
Pages: 1193-1199
Published online: 12 Oct 2009
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Landau–de Gennes modelling of nematic liquid crystal colloids
Miha Ravnik & Slobodan Žumer
Pages: 1201-1214
Published online: 08 Oct 2009
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Numerical results for the blue phases
G. P. Alexander & J. M. Yeomans
Pages: 1215-1227
Published online: 18 Nov 2009
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Nuclear magnetic resonance of pretransitional ordering of liquid crystals in well defined nano-geometries: the utility of the Landau–de Gennes formalism
Xin Ma, Gregory P. Crawford, Renate J. Crawford, Ichiro Amimori, Slobodan Žumer, Gregor Skačej & Sylvain G. Cloutier
Pages: 1229-1240
Published online: 14 Aug 2009
AbstractforNuclear magnetic resonance of pretransitional ordering of liquid crystals in well defined nano-geometries: the utility of the Landau–de Gennes formalism | Full Text | References | PDF (894 KB)
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Twisted smectics as the liquid crystal analogues of type II superconductors
Laurence Navailles & Philippe Barois
Pages: 1241-1261
Published online: 12 Aug 2009
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Changing liquid crystal elastomer ordering with light – a route to opto-mechanically responsive materials
D. Corbett & M. Warner
Pages: 1263-1280
Published online: 12 Oct 2009
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Microscopic origin of ferroelectricity in chiral smectic C* liquid crystals and ordering of ‘ferroelectric fishes’ proposed by de Gennes
M. A. Osipov & M. V. Gorkunov
Pages: 1281-1288
Published online: 12 Oct 2009
AbstractforMicroscopic origin of ferroelectricity in chiral smectic C* liquid crystals and ordering of ‘ferroelectric fishes’ proposed by de Gennes | Full Text | References | PDF (228.6 KB)
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Article
Photomechanical properties of azobenzene liquid-crystalline elastomers
Mizuho Kondo, Ryo Miyasato, Yumiko Naka, Jun-ichi Mamiya, Motoi Kinoshita, Yanlei Yu, Christopher J. Barrett & Tomiki Ikeda
Pages: 1289-1293
Published online: 18 Nov 2009
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Biaxial nematics composed of flexible molecules: a molecular field theory
Geoffrey R. Luckhurst
Pages: 1295-1308
Published online: 18 Nov 2009
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de Gennes' triclinic smectics – not so far-fetched after all
Nattaporn Chattham, Eva Korblova, Renfan Shao, David M. Walba, Joseph E. Maclennan & Noel A. Clark
Pages: 1309-1317
Published online: 18 Nov 2009
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Cover
Page: e
Published online: 17 Dec 2009
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