Liquid Crystals, Volume 45, Issue 1 (2018)

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Editorial
Corrie T Imrie
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 18 Jan 2018
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Liquid crystals alignment with PbS nanosculptured thin films
Ashok Chaudhary, Matvey Klebanov & Ibrahim Abdulhalim
Pages: 3-10
Published online: 15 Feb 2017
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Smectic behaviour of methyl 4-alkoxybenzoates with a partially fluorinated alkyl chain
Sylwia Ciastek, Katarzyna Szymańska, Piotr Kaszyński, Marcin Jasiński & Damian Pociecha
Pages: 11-21
Published online: 15 Feb 2017
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Calculating elastic constants of bent–core molecules from Onsager-theory-based tensor model
Jie Xu & Pingwen Zhang
Pages: 22-31
Published online: 19 Feb 2017
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High-contrast electrically switchable light-emitting liquid crystal displays based on α-cyanostilbenic derivative
Hongbo Lu, Chao Xu, Zhiyuan Li, Guo Xia, Shuaicheng Jing, Xiangyang Bai, Jiaxiang Yang, Longzhen Qiu & Yunsheng Ding
Pages: 32-39
Published online: 19 Feb 2017
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Influence of floating-ring-electrode on large-aperture liquid crystal lens
Che-Ju Hsu, Jyun-Jia Jhang, Jia-Cih Jhang & Chi-Yen Huang
Pages: 40-48
Published online: 20 Feb 2017
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Investigation of thermal and luminescent properties in 4,7-diphenylethynyl-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole systems
Leonardo de O. Aguiar, Elias Regis, Patricia Tuzimoto, Edivandro Girotto, Ivan H. Bechtold, Hugo Gallardo & André A. Vieira
Pages: 49-58
Published online: 21 Feb 2017
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Molecular simulations of entangled defect structures around nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals
Anja Humpert, Samuel F. Brown & Michael P. Allen
Pages: 59-69
Published online: 13 Mar 2017
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Mimicking the behaviour of rigid rod molecules. Smectic H liquid crystals from amphiphilic quaternary ammonium salts
M. Arkas, I. Kitsou & F. Petrakli
Pages: 70-83
Published online: 02 Mar 2017
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Free energy in vertically aligned liquid crystal mode
Jieh-Wen Tsung, Tien-Lun Ting & Wen-Hao Hsu
Pages: 84-94
Published online: 02 Mar 2017
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Homogeneously aligned liquid crystal molecules on unidirectional buckle pattern of polyurethane films
Hae-Chang Jeong, Jonghoon Won, Ju Hwan Lee, Hyo-Young Mun, Dong Hyun Kim, Dong Wook Lee, Byeong-Yun Oh, Jeong-Min Han & Dae-Shik Seo
Pages: 95-101
Published online: 09 Mar 2017
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Bipolar to toroidal configuration transition in liquid crystal droplets
Jinghua Jiang & Deng-Ke Yang
Pages: 102-111
Published online: 16 Mar 2017
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Composite liquid crystal-polymer electrolytes in dye-sensitised solar cells: effects of mesophase alkyl chain length
Muhammad Akmal Kamarudin, Ammar A. Khan, Suhana Mohd Said, Malik M. Qasim & Timothy D. Wilkinson
Pages: 112-121
Published online: 13 Mar 2017
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Enhancement of the optical absorption in cholesteric liquid crystals due to photonic effects: an experimental study
J. Etxebarria, J. Ortega & C. L. Folcia
Pages: 122-128
Published online: 16 Mar 2017
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Evaluation of phase state and rotational viscosity of fast response liquid crystals using a fully atomistic molecular dynamics
Qidong Wang, Guiyang Zhang, Yonggang Liu, Lishuang Yao, Dayu Li, Shaoxin Wang, Zhaoliang Cao, Quanquan Mu, Chengliang Yang, Li Xuan, Xinghai Lu & Zenghui Peng
Pages: 129-135
Published online: 15 Mar 2017
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To be or not to be – nematic liquid crystals from shape-persistent V-shaped nematogens with the ‘magic angle’
Stefan Maisch, Ana-Maria Krause, David Schmidt & Matthias Lehmann
Pages: 136-151
Published online: 17 Sep 2017
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Field-induced oblique helicoidal cholesteric phases in mixtures of chiral and achiral liquid crystalline molecules
Akihiko Matsuyama
Pages: 153-164
Published online: 08 May 2017
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Dendrimeric triphenylbenzenes: helical versus zig-zag arrangement in columnar mesophases
Abdirashid Obsiye, Tobias Wöhrle, Johannes Christian Haenle, Andrea Bühlmeyer & Sabine Laschat
Pages: 164-172
Published online: 02 Aug 2017
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