This book focuses on the exciting topic of nanoscience with liquid crystals: from self-organized nanostructures to applications. The elegant self-organized liquid crystalline nanostructures, the synergetic characteristics of liquid crystals and nanoparticles, liquid crystalline nanomaterials, synthesis of nanomaterials using liquid crystals as templates, nanoconfinement and nanoparticles of liquid crystals are covered and discussed, and the prospect of fabricating functional materials is highlighted. Contributions, collecting the scattered literature of the field from leading and active players, are compiled to make the book a reference book. Readers will find the book useful and of benefit both as summaries for works in this field and as tutorials and explanations of concepts for those just entering the field. Additionally, the book helps to stimulate future developments.
Author(s): Quan Li
Series: Nanoscience and technology
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 420
City: Cham
Tags: Nanoscale Science and Technology; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics; Physical Chemistry; Nanochemistry; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Holographic Liquid Crystals for Nanophotonics....Pages 1-34
Directing 3D Topological Defects in Smectic Liquid Crystals and Their Applications as an Emerging Class of Building Blocks....Pages 35-68
Liquid Crystalline 1D and 2D Carbon Materials....Pages 69-99
Liquid Crystal-Gold Nanoparticle Hybrid Materials....Pages 101-134
Photoresponsive Chiral Liquid Crystal Materials: From 1D Helical Superstructures to 3D Periodic Cubic Lattices and Beyond....Pages 135-177
Glassy Liquid Crystals as Self-Organized Films for Robust Optoelectronic Devices....Pages 179-208
Directing Self-Organized Columnar Nanostructures of Discotic Liquid Crystals for Device Applications....Pages 209-256
Discotic Liquid Crystalline Blends for Nano-Structure Formation Toward Bulk Heterojunction Active Layer in Organic Photovoltaics....Pages 257-280
Ion-Based Liquid Crystals: From Well-Defined Self-Organized Nanostructures to Applications....Pages 281-299
Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials in Photodeformable Liquid Crystalline Polymers....Pages 301-317
Self-Assembled Liquid Crystalline Conjugated Polymers: Synthesis, Development, and Their Advanced Electro-Optical Properties....Pages 319-353
Solubilization and Delivery of Drugs from GMO-Based Lyotropic Liquid Crystals....Pages 355-414
Back Matter....Pages 415-420
