State-of-the-Art Liquid Crystals Research in Japan

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: 3-diene; aggregated structure; aggregation; amphiphilicity; binary mixture; carbazole moiety; Chemistry; chromonic liquid crystal; composite alignment layer; cyanobiphenyl dimer; diphenylacetylene; direct twist–bend nematic phase transition; electrochromism; fluorinated tolanecarboxylic acid; fluorine; gel; gold(I) complex; hexagonal columnar phase; high pretilt angle; homeotropic alignment; incidence angle dependence; ionic liquid; liquid crystal; liquid crystal dimer; liquid crystals; Mathematics and Science; mechanofluorochromic dye; molecular chirality; nematic; nematic phase; phase transition; photoalignment; photoluminescence; Physical chemistry; polysiloxane; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; rubbing method; segregated columns; self-sort; short spacer; tetrafluorocyclohexa-1; tricyclic molecule; twist–bend nematic phase; UV curing; white emission; π-conjugated compound
• ISBN: 9783036595498; 3036595481; 9783036595481; 303659549X
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-9549-8

This Special Issue includes ten papers by 45 authors, including excellent cutting-edge research from Japan. Looking at the papers reported here, Japan’s liquid crystalline research is a global pioneer within this field. It is clear that Japanese liquid crystalline research will further develop in the future.