Liquid Crystals 2020

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on “Liquid Crystals” will address recent progress in both experimental and theoretical aspects of liquid crystals science and technology, including molecular design, synthesis, processing, fabrication, characterization and engineering. With their unique combination of properties related to anisotropic fluids (anisotropy of physical properties and fast orientational response to external fields), liquid crystals are among the most versatile and dynamic soft materials of the present day, and they have found important indispensable applications such as the manufacturing of display devices, molecular sensors and detectors, optical switches, spatial light modulators, and many others not mentioned here. Tremendous research efforts are also dedicated to the exploration of fundamental aspects related to self-assembly and supermolecular organization in thermotropic or lyotropic liquid crystals, contributing to the advancement of knowledge in liquid crystals science. This Special Issue will offer an appropriate opportunity to authors and research groups to make their studies visible to the liquid crystals scientific community. Contributions in the form of original research articles or comprehensive review papers from various fields are welcomed: biological, organic and inorganic liquid crystals; metallomesogens; ionic liquid crystals; and liquid crystalline polymers and liquid crystal composites, concerning both experimental and theoretical studies.

Prof. Dr. Viorel Circu
Prof. Dr. Doina Manaila-Maximean
Prof. Dr. Valery A. Loiko
Guest Editors

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