Liquid Crystals, Volume 38, Issue 11-12 (2011)

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Liquid Crystals that affected the World

Editorial

Editorial
Editorial
Pages: 1357-1358
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Obituary

Professor Kenneth Johnson Toyne 1937–2011
Mike Hird
Pages: 1359-1360
Published online: 20 Oct 2011
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Introduction
G.W. Gray
Pages: 1361-1362
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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The nanoscale engineering of nematic liquid crystals for displays
John W Goodby
Pages: 1363-1387
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Biaxial nematics from their prediction to the materials and the vicious circle of molecular design
Matthias Lehmann
Pages: 1389-1405
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Methylene-linked liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase
Peter A. Henderson & Corrie T. Imrie
Pages: 1407-1414
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Liquid crystals that affected the world: discotic liquid crystals
Richard J. Bushby & Ken Kawata
Pages: 1415-1426
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Carbon-based liquid crystals: art and science
Hari Krishna Bisoyi & Sandeep Kumar
Pages: 1427-1449
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Argentomesogens: a promising generation of metal-based liquid-crystalline materials
Daniela Pucci
Pages: 1451-1465
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Ferroelectricity in liquid crystals—materials, properties and applications
Michael Hird
Pages: 1467-1493
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Nanoparticles: complex and multifaceted additives for liquid crystals
Umadevi Shivakumar, Javad Mirzaei, Xiang Feng, Anshul Sharma, Paulo Moreira & Torsten Hegmann
Pages: 1495-1514
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Liquid crystalline imidazolium salts bearing 5-phenylpyrimidine: dependence of mesomorphic properties on spacer lengths, terminal N-alkyl group and counterions
Gundula Starkulla, Martin Kaller, Wolfgang Frey, Kirill V. Axenov & Sabine Laschat
Pages: 1515-1529
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Photochromic azobenzene functionalised banana–calamitic dimers and trimers: mesophase behaviour and photo-orientational phenomena
Maria-Gabriela Tamba, Alexey Bobrovsky, Valery Shibaev, Gerhard Pelzl, Ute Baumeister & Wolfgang Weissflog
Pages: 1531-1550
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Thermochromic liquid crystals
Ian Sage
Pages: 1551-1561
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Non-conventional liquid crystals: synthesis and mesomorphism of non-symmetric trimers and tetramers derived from cholesterol
A.S. Achalkumar, U.S. Hiremath, D.S. Shankar Rao & C.V. Yelamaggad
Pages: 1563-1589
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Liquid crystal main-chain polymers for high-performance fibre applications
S.J. Picken, D.J. Sikkema, H. Boerstoel, T.J. Dingemans & S. van der Zwaag
Pages: 1591-1605
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Liquid crystal polymers and ionomers for membrane applications
Alfonso Martínez-Felipe
Pages: 1607-1626
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Nanoporous membranes based on liquid crystalline polymers
Albertus P.H.J. Schenning, Youseli C. Gonzalez-Lemus, Ivelina K. Shishmanova & Dirk J. Broer
Pages: 1627-1639
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Photo-responsive doped cholesteric liquid crystals
Rienk Eelkema
Pages: 1641-1652
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Imidazolium-based liquid crystals: a modular platform for versatile new materials with finely tuneable properties and behaviour
Laurent Douce, Jean-Moïse Suisse, Daniel Guillon & Andreas Taubert
Pages: 1653-1661
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Chromonic liquid crystalline phases
John Lydon
Pages: 1663-1681
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Anthraquinone Liquid crystal dichroic dyes – a new form of chromonic dye?
Stephen J. Cowling, Colin Ellis & John W. Goodby
Pages: 1683-1698
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Living systems and liquid crystals
S.A. Jewell
Pages: 1699-1714
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Cationic liposome–nucleic acid complexes: liquid crystal phases with applications in gene therapy
C.R. Safinya, K.K. Ewert & C. Leal
Pages: 1715-1723
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystalline phases of Guerbet branched-chain -D-glucosides
Nicholas J. Brooks, Hairul A.A. Hamid, Rauzah Hashim, Thorsten Heidelberg, John M. Seddon, Charlotte E. Conn, Seyed M. Mirzadeh Husseini, N. Idayu Zahid & Rusnah Syahila Duali Hussen
Pages: 1725-1734
Published online: 17 Oct 2011
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Phase separation and critical phenomena in biomimetic ternary lipid mixtures
Linda S. Hirst, Pradeep Uppamoochikkal & Chai Lor
Pages: 1735-1747
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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Computer simulation of the columnar phases of liquid crystalline bolaamphiphiles
Martin A. Bates & Martin Walker
Pages: 1749-1757
Published online: 22 Nov 2011
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