Synthesis and characterization of non conventional liquid crystals

Abstract

Liquid crystals LCs are unique functional soft materials combining both order and mobility on molecular supramolecular and macroscopic levels Conventionally the anisometric molecules employed to stabilize thermotropic LC phases are either rod like calamitic or disc like discotic Calamitics form the backbone of the well established flat panel display industry Discotic LCs which mainly stabilize columnar Col phases have made notable progress in recent years and slowly they are findin