Anisotropic Organic Materials: Approaches to Polar Order

Preface; Characterization of Polar Materials; 1. Characterization of NLO-Materials for Photonic Application; 2. Quantitative Measurement of Internal Molecular Electric Fields in Solids; ORGANIC THIN FILMS; 3. Self-Assembly Growth of Organic Thin Films and Nanostructures by Molecular Beam Deposition; 4. Unimolecular Rectification between 370 K and 105 K and Spectroscopic Properties of Hexadecylquinolinium Tricyanoquinodimethanide; Molecular Materials and Crystals; 5. closo Boranes as chi Structural Elements for Advanced Anisotropic Materials; 6. Iodine and Organoiodide Templates in Supramolecular Synthesis; 7. Arene-Arene Double T-Contacts: Lateral Synthons in the Engineering of Highly Anisotropic Organic Molecular Crystals; 10. Optical Probes of Crystal Growth Mechanisms: Intrasectoral Zoning; Liquid and Crystals; 11. Fabrication of Organic Microcrystals and Their Optical Properties; 12. Some Applications of Organic Microcrystals; Liquid and Crystals; 13. Molecular Design of Highly Fluorinated Liquid Crystals; 14. First Nematic Calamitic Liquid Crystals with Negative Birefringence; 15. Liquid Crystalline Trioxadecalins: The Mesogenic Chirality as Sensor for Molecular Conformation and Orientation; 16. Spontaneous Polarization in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: Role of the Molecular Architecture and Optical Purity; 17. Optical Switching of a Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator Using Chiral Thioindigo Dopants; 18. Order-Disorder and Order-Order Transitions in Smectic C* Liquid Crystalline Diblock Copolymers; 19. Ferroelectric Liquid Crystalline Polymers; 20. Design of Smectic Liquid Crystal Phases Using Layer Interface Clinicity; 21. Control of Structure Formation of 1,3,5-Triazines through Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding and CT-Interactions; Author Index; Subject Index

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