Liquid Crystals, Volume 43, Issue 1 (2016)

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Editorial

Editorial
Editorial: 30 years of Liquid Crystals
Corrie T. Imrie
Page: 1
Published online: 02 Feb 2016
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On the twist-bend nematic phase formed directly from the isotropic phase
Alya A. Dawood, Martin C. Grossel, Geoffrey R. Luckhurst, Robert M. Richardson, Bakir A. Timimi, Neil J. Wells & Yousif Z. Yousif
Pages: 2-12
Published online: 08 Jan 2016
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Etheric bimesogens and the twist-bend nematic phase
Richard J. Mandle, Constantin C.A. Voll, Daniel J. Lewis & John W. Goodby
Pages: 13-21
Published online: 06 Oct 2015
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Critical behaviour of a polar-polar binary system from optical birefringence measurements
Sudipta Kumar Sarkar, Anish Chakraborty & Malay Kumar Das
Pages: 22-31
Published online: 30 Jun 2015
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Generalised descriptions on orientational order parameters and mean field theory for uniaxial and biaxial nematic liquid crystals
Chong Hoon Kwak & Gun Yeup Kim
Pages: 32-48
Published online: 30 Jun 2015
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The quadratic electro-optical effect in ferroelectric liquid crystal helical nanostructures: role of cell thickness and voltage frequency
Alfredo Strigazzi, Evgeny Pozhidaev, Sofia Torgova, Antonio S. Gliozzi & Cesar Augusto Refosco Yednak
Pages: 49-60
Published online: 02 Jul 2015
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Temperature-controllable beam splitter and optical filter based on filling liquid crystal into both ends of photonic crystal fibres
Jialu Wang, Yongjun Liu, Lingli Zhang, Yu Jiang, Ji Ma & Weimin Sun
Pages: 61-65
Published online: 24 Sep 2015
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Study of polymer-stabilised blue phase liquid crystal on a single substrate
Naoto Endo, Takahiro Matsumoto, Hirotsugu Kikuchi & Munehiro Kimura
Pages: 66-76
Published online: 30 Jun 2015
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Fabrication of coloured liquid crystal device using photoluminescent biomolecular chlorophyll
Chunho Kim, Intae Son, Byungsun Lee, Seung-Woo Cho, Jong-Pyo Wu & Jun Hyup Lee
Pages: 77-82
Published online: 30 Jun 2015
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Phase modulation using different orientations of a chiral nematic in liquid crystal over silicon devices
Rachel M. Hyman, Alexander Lorenz & Timothy D. Wilkinson
Pages: 83-90
Published online: 07 Jul 2015
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Synthesis and phase behaviour of new biodegradable liquid crystalline polycarbonate derived from side chain cholesteryl derivative
Zhihao Guo, Qun Li, Xiaofeng Liu, Jianshe Hu & Liqun Yang
Pages: 91-101
Published online: 24 Jul 2015
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Influence of the chain length on the nematic-to-isotropic phase transition for the odd members of a highly non-symmetric pyrene-based series of liquid crystal dimers
J. Salud, D.O. López, N. Sebastián, M.R. de la Fuente, S. Diez-Berart & M.B. Ros
Pages: 102-111
Published online: 24 Sep 2015
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Thermal characterisation of thermotropic nematic liquid-crystalline elastomers
David Thomas, Matt Cardarelli, Antoni Sánchez-Ferrer, Badel L. Mbanga, Timothy J. Atherton & Peggy Cebe
Pages: 112-123
Published online: 16 Jul 2015
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Improvement of permanent memory effect in PDLC films using TX-100 as an additive
Maria Catarina Coutinho Varela da Silva, João Luís Maia Figueirinhas & João Carlos da Silva Barbosa Sotomayor
Pages: 124-130
Published online: 14 Jul 2015
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Synthesis of novel soluble rubbing-resistant polyimides used as liquid crystal vertical alignment layers
Qing Gong, Xinguo Zheng, Shiming Gong, Heng Zhang, Lulu Liu & Yinghan Wang
Pages: 131-141
Published online: 18 Sep 2015
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Thermodynamic and surface characterisation of 4-[4-((S)-citronellyloxy)benzoyloxy]benzoic acid thermotropic liquid crystal
Ismail Erol, Fatih Cakar, Hale Ocak, Husnu Cankurtaran, Özlem Cankurtaran, Belkis Bilgin-Eran & Ferdane Karaman
Pages: 142-151
Published online: 24 Jul 2015
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