supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21174077, 21121004);the National Basic Research Program of China (2013CB932803)
Liquid crystals (LCs) are often known as electronic displays and have become ubiquitous in our daily life, apart from that, in the past 10 years, LCs have been investigated as exquisitely sensitive reporters for devel...
Disklike liquid crystals possess a columnar phase as liquid crystalline state. The degree of order of the molecular system describes the aggregation properties of individual liquid crystalline molecules. In the author...
The elec rooptic effect of a smectic A liquid crystal has been investigated by many authors. When an appropriate electric field is applied to the smectic A liquid crystal, the transparent texture is transformed to the...
I.INTRODUCTION In 1977, Chandrasekhar et al. synthesized a new type of disc-like liquid crystals completely different from rod-like liquid crystal molecules in structure. Then other types of disc-like liquid crystals ...
Liquid crystals containing heterocyclic ring might provide a stationary phase of them for gas chromatography, which can stand high temperature and resist hydrolysis by acidic catalyst. This possibility aroused., our i...
Recently, Keyes has pointed out that oven though the nematic-isotropic (N-I) transition in liquid crystals is first order, the critical behavior of which is actually tricritical in nature. Moreover, some authors even ...
Ⅰ. INTRODUCTIONNonlinear effect in liquid crystals is an important subject which has been widely investigated (see Ref. [1] and references therein). Generally speaking, nonlinear effects in liquid crystals may be div...