Thermotropic Liquid Crystals as Novel Functional Materials
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Liquid Crystals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 December 2025 | Viewed by 644
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic synthesis; bent-core liquid crystals; thermotropic properties; thermal properties; structural characterisation
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Interests: liquid crystals; electrooptics; displays; photonics; photoalignment; photopatterning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The design and synthesis of new functional materials is essential nowadays, considering the explosive growth of technological applications that require compounds with suitable physical properties. In this regard, thermotropic liquid crystals have taken up an important role in technical applications. Because their mesomorphic and physical properties vary with the structural moieties and their combinations, the methods of synthesis affect the physical properties and consequently the uses of liquid crystals in various applications. Considering that a minimal difference in the structure of the compounds is enough to change the physical properties, a wide range of techniques to identify and characterise the liquid crystalline phases are required. Molecular simulations help to develop new products as well and accelerate liquid crystal research by theoretical characterization of mesogens and understanding the mesophase behaviour. As the physical identification techniques become more advanced, new, more ordered mesophases are going to be discovered, and new applications will be developed as a result.
This Special Issue of Crystals is addressed to all research scientists including experimental chemists, physicist, and physical chemists, encouraging them to report their results and findings in the synthesis of liquid crystal systems, especially with ferro- or antiferroelectric properties, physical characterisation techniques, structure–property relationships correlated with computational theory and their potential applications in opto-electronic devices.
Dr. Irina Cârlescu
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Chigrinov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- synthesis
- ferroelectrics
- antiferroelectrics
- structure-property relationship
- investigation techniques
- applications
- computational modelling
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