Liquid Crystals, Volume 42, Issue 5-6 (2015)

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Commemorative Issue dedicated to George W Gray, CBE, FRS - Guest Editor: John W Goodby, FRS, Editor: Corrie T. Imrie

Editorial

Editorial
Editorial
Corrie T. Imrie & John W. Goodby FRS
Page: 555
Published online: 03 Jul 2015
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George Gray by John Goodby
John W. Goodby
Pages: 556-563
Published online: 09 Apr 2015
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Recollections of Professor George W. Gray
C.T. Imrie
Pages: 564-592
Published online: 03 Jul 2015
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What makes a liquid crystal? The effect of free volume on soft matter
John W. Goodby, Richard J. Mandle, Edward J. Davis, Tingjun Zhong & Stephen J. Cowling
Pages: 593-622
Published online: 23 Jun 2015
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My way to George Gray and liquid crystal polymers
Valery Shibaev
Pages: 623-642
Published online: 10 Jun 2015
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Merck and George Gray: a 30-year relationship
Mark Goulding & Thomas Geelhaar
Pages: 643-645
Published online: 18 Jun 2015
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Nematic liquid crystals and twisted-nematic LCDs
Martin Schadt
Pages: 646-652
Published online: 22 Jun 2015
AbstractforNematic liquid crystals and twisted-nematic LCDs | Full Text | References | PDF (362.7 KB)
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Development and applications of cholesteric liquid crystals
David Coates
Pages: 653-665
Published online: 18 Jun 2015
AbstractforDevelopment and applications of cholesteric liquid crystals | Full Text | References | PDF (671.7 KB)
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The prehistory of discotic mesophases – a personal account of the study of the mesophase of diisobutylsilane diol
John Lydon
Pages: 666-677
Published online: 13 Feb 2015
AbstractforThe prehistory of discotic mesophases – a personal account of the study of the mesophase of diisobutylsilane diol | Full Text | References | PDF (924.5 KB)
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The magic of cyanobiphenyls: celebrity molecules
D.A. Dunmur
Pages: 678-687
Published online: 27 Mar 2015
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The relationship between molecular structure and the incidence of the NTB phase
R.J. Mandle, E.J. Davis, C.-C.A. Voll, C.T. Archbold, J.W. Goodby & S.J. Cowling
Pages: 688-703
Published online: 25 Nov 2014
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Memories of George W. Gray
Geoffrey R. Luckhurst
Pages: 704-707
Published online: 01 Jul 2015
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Twist-bend nematic phase of the liquid crystal dimer CB7CB: orientational order and conical angle determined by 129Xe and 2H NMR spectroscopy
Jukka P. Jokisaari, Geoffrey R. Luckhurst, Bakir A. Timimi, Jianfeng Zhu & Herbert Zimmermann
Pages: 708-721
Published online: 26 Jun 2015
AbstractforTwist-bend nematic phase of the liquid crystal dimer CB7CB: orientational order and conical angle determined by 129Xe and 2H NMR spectroscopy | Full Text | References | PDF (439.6 KB)
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Chemicals to calculators: the early exploitation of cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals
E.P. Raynes & I.C. Sage
Pages: 722-731
Published online: 10 Jun 2015
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On the biaxiality of smectic C and ferroelectric liquid crystals
J.C. Jones
Pages: 732-759
Published online: 18 Jun 2015
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Liquid crystal blue phases: stability, field effects and alignment
Helen F. Gleeson, R.J. Miller, L. Tian, V. Görtz & J.W. Goodby
Pages: 760-771
Published online: 31 Mar 2015
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The influence of polar additives on chromonic mesophase formation of Edicol Sunset Yellow
Andrew P. Ormerod, John W. Jones, Helen Wheatcroft, Abdullatif Alfutimie & Gordon J.T. Tiddy
Pages: 772-782
Published online: 31 Mar 2015
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From the discovery of the partially bilayer smectic A phase to blue phases in polar liquid crystals
Roman Dąbrowski
Pages: 783-818
Published online: 15 Apr 2015
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The synthesis of unsymmetrically substituted triphenylenes through controlled construction of the core and subsequent aromatic substitution reactions – a perspective and update
Andrew N. Cammidge, Grace Obi, Rebecca J. Turner, Simon J. Coles & Graham J. Tizzard
Pages: 819-825
Published online: 05 Mar 2015
AbstractforThe synthesis of unsymmetrically substituted triphenylenes through controlled construction of the core and subsequent aromatic substitution reactions – a perspective and update | Full Text | References | PDF (404.5 KB) | Supplemental
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Meeting George Gray
Edward T. Samulski
Pages: 826-828
Published online: 11 Jun 2015
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Molecular engineering room-temperature bent-core nematics
Agata Glebowska, Francesco Vita, Oriano Francescangeli, Theo Dingemans & Edward Samulski
Pages: 829-839
Published online: 27 Mar 2015
AbstractforMolecular engineering room-temperature bent-core nematics | Full Text | References | PDF (707 KB)
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Dipolar origin of tilting of rod-like molecules in the smectic C phase
N.V. Madhusudana
Pages: 840-863
Published online: 11 Feb 2015
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Renewed focus on the small temperature change of smectic layer spacing in ferroelectric and antiferroelectric LCs
Yuichiro Yamada, Atsuo Fukuda, Jagdish K. Vij, Naoki Hayashi & Tomohiro Ando
Pages: 864-876
Published online: 10 Apr 2015
AbstractforRenewed focus on the small temperature change of smectic layer spacing in ferroelectric and antiferroelectric LCs | Full Text | References | PDF (676.1 KB)
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Synthesis, mesomorphic behaviour and optical anisotropy of some novel liquid crystals with lateral and terminal fluoro substituents and a 2,6-disubstituted naphthalene core
Qiang Chen & Michael Hird
Pages: 877-886
Published online: 27 Mar 2015
AbstractforSynthesis, mesomorphic behaviour and optical anisotropy of some novel liquid crystals with lateral and terminal fluoro substituents and a 2,6-disubstituted naphthalene core | Full Text | References | PDF (441.3 KB)
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Alignment behaviour and molecular dynamics of liquid crystalline side-chain polymers
Graham Williams
Pages: 887-899
Published online: 09 Apr 2015
AbstractforAlignment behaviour and molecular dynamics of liquid crystalline side-chain polymers | Full Text | References | PDF (316.2 KB)
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The adsorption of fluorinated dopants at the surface of 5CB: a neutron reflection study
Laura L.E. Mears, Wiebe M. de Vos, Stuart W. Prescott, Germinal Magro, Sarah Rogers, Maximilian W.A. Skoda, Erik B. Watkins, Herbert Zimmermann & Robert M. Richardson
Pages: 900-908
Published online: 27 Mar 2015
AbstractforThe adsorption of fluorinated dopants at the surface of 5CB: a neutron reflection study | Full Text | References | PDF (555.9 KB) | Supplemental
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Design of liquid crystals: from a nematogen to thiophene-based π-conjugated mesogens
Masahiro Funahashi & Takashi Kato
Pages: 909-917
Published online: 10 Jun 2015
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Low molar mass thieno[3,2-b] and thieno[2,3-b]thiophenes in liquid crystal materials science: recent synthetic approaches
Alexander J. Seed, Jonathan I. Tietz, Raymond M. Gipson, Yong Yu & Paul Sampson
Pages: 918-927
Published online: 23 Jun 2015
AbstractforLow molar mass thieno[3,2-b] and thieno[2,3-b]thiophenes in liquid crystal materials science: recent synthetic approaches | Full Text | References | PDF (355.3 KB)
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New insights into the liquid crystal behaviour of hydrogen-bonded mixtures provided by temperature-dependent FTIR spectroscopy
Daniel A Paterson, Alfonso Martínez-Felipe, Suzanne M Jansze, Antonius TM Marcelis, John MD Storey & Corrie T Imrie
Pages: 928-939
Published online: 25 Jun 2015
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Elegy written in a Yorkshire Laboratory1
(with apologies to both Grays)
John Lydon
Page: 940
Published online: 13 Feb 2015
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