Liquid Crystals Today (1991-2010)

Volume 19, Issue 2 (2010)

36	Editorial	Ingo Dierking
37-48	Chiral resolution in bent-core nematic liquid crystals	Verena Görtz
49-50	Freedericksz Medal for Professor Yu.M. Yevdokimov	S. G. Skuridin Leading Research Scientist
51-53	Gordon Tiddy: lifetime in formulation science, 7 May 2009, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester	John Lydon
54-56	Editor's interview with Professor Nadezhda Usoltseva	Ingo Dierking
57	Liquid Crystal Display Drivers – Techniques and Circuits by David J.R. Cristaldi, Salvatore Pennisi and Francesco Pulvirenti, Springer Verlag, 2009, 298 pp., US$159, ISBN: 978-9048122547.	Chih-Wen Lu
58-59	Equilibrium Statistical Physics – Phases of Matter and Phase Transitions by Marc Baus and Carlos F. Tejero (based on a series of lectures given in 2000 – translation by M. López de Haro), Springer, 2008, 364 pp., US$129, ISBN: 987-3-540-746317.	Germano Iannacchione
60-62	9^th International Meeting on Information Display, IMID 2009, Korea	Jong-Ho Hong
63-64	Japanese Liquid Crystal Conference 2009	Atsushi Shishido
65-66	JLCS Summer School 2009	Atsushi Kubono
67-70	The 13^th Topical Meeting on the Optics of Liquid Crystals	I. Abdulhalim
71-72	VII International Conference on Lyotropic Liquid Crystals and Nanomaterials – LLC-2009	S. G. Polushin
73-75	Liquid Crystals in Industry III	Simon Siemianowski

Volume 19, Issue 1 (2010)

1	Editorial	Ingo Dierking
2-12	Optical manipulation and self-assembly of nematic colloids: colloidal crystals and superstructures	Igor Muševič
13-16	British Liquid Crystal Society Annual Meeting, Bristol, April 2009	Doug Cleaver
17-19	10^th European Conference on Liquid Crystals (ECLC 2009)	Torsten Hegmann
20	European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on ‘Frontiers in European Research on Liquid Crystalline Soft Matter’, 26–29 May 2009, Bandol, France	Michel Mitov
21-22	12^th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (Zaragoza 2009)	Jesús Etxebarria
23-25	8^th Ibero-American Workshop on Complex Fluids and their Applications, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, 8–11 September 2009	Fernando Moraes; Marcelo Lyra; Antônio Martins Figueiredo Neto
26-27	XVIII Conference on Liquid Crystals (Chemistry, Physics & Applications)	Monika Marzec
28-30	Interview with Jan Lagerwall	Ingo Dierking
31-33	Photoalignment of Liquid Crystal Materials: Physics and Application by V. Chigrinov, V. Kozenkov and H.S. Kwok, UK, Wiley-SID series, 2008, 248 pp., US$130, ISBN: 978-0-470-06539-6.	Yuri Reznikov
34-35	News	Simon Siemianowski

Volume 18, Issue 2 (2009)

39	Editorial	Ingo Dierking
40-49	Spontaneous self-assembly of nucleic acids: liquid crystal condensation of complementary sequences in mixtures of DNA and RNA oligomers	Giuliano Zanchetta
50-51	2008 National Japanese Liquid Crystal Conference	Yoichi Takanishi
52-53	47^th SID International Symposium, 31 May – 5 June 2009, San Antonio, USA	Jong-Ho Hong
54-56	37^th German Topical Meeting on Liquid Crystals	Dr Alexey Eremin
57-58	Simple thoughts about the role of liquid crystals inspired by the liquid crystal sessions at the APS March Meeting 2009	Antal Jakli
59-60	Polarized Light in Liquid Crystals and Polymers by Toralf Scharf, Wiley, 2006, 400 pp., (hardback), ISBN: 0-471-74064-0	Sharon Jewell
61-62	The 2008 Fredericks medal goes to Noel A. Clark	Tommaso Bellini
63-65	Liquid crystals by Iam-Choon Khoo (2^nd edition), Wiley, 2007, 364pp. €128,30 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-471-75153-3.	Jan Lagerwall
66-67	Recent news from liquid crystals in industry	Simon Siemianowski

Volume 18, Issue 1 (2009)

1	Editorial	Ingo Dierking
2-27	Hierarchical discs	Sandeep Kumar
28-29	One- and two-dimensional fluids Properties of smectic, lamellar and columnar liquid crystals by A. Jákli and A. Saupe, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2006, 352pp., US$139.46 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-7503-0969-1 or 0-7503-0969-5	Ingo Dierking
30	Liquid Crystals - Frontiers in Biomedical Applications edited by Scott J. Woltman, Gregory D. Jay and Gregory P. Crawford, World Scientific, 2007, 516 pp., (hardback), ISBN: 9812705457 or 978–9812705457	Nicholas Roberts
31-34	The dawn in the area of thermotropic biaxial nematics Symposium on Biaxial Liquid Crystals, Kent, 27–28 October 2008	Matthias Lehmann
35	Meeting report – Nematic Biaxiality, 16 January 2009, University of Hull, UK	Andrew Masters
36	Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Award presented to Professor John Goodby at a Symposium on 11 March 2009 in York, United Kingdom	Duncan Bruce
37-38	Recent news on liquid crystals in industry	Simon Siemianowski

Volume 17, Issue 1-2 (2008)

1	Editorial	Ingo Dierking
2-8	Polarisation-independent liquid crystal devices	Yi-Hsin Lin; Hongwen Ren; Shin-Tson Wu
9-10	Meeting report – the 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference	Daeseung Kang
11-13	Report on the symposium ‘Liquid Crystal Micro- and Nano-Composites’	Isabel M. Saez
14-15	Book Review
16	Liquid Crystals: Science meets Art
17-18	Conference calendar 2009

Volume 16, Issue 2 (2007)

12	Editorial	Alex Seed
13-27	A personal history of the early days of chromonics	John Lydon

Volume 16, Issue 1 (2007)

1-11

Carbon nanotubes and liquid crystalline phases

Cecile Zakri

Volume 15, Issue 4 (2006)

19-24

All-aromatic liquid crystal thermosets: New high-performance materials for structural applications

T. Dingemans; A. Knijnenberg; M. Iqbal; E. Weiser; T. Stclair

Volume 15, Issue 3 (2006)

11-18

Geometry and the nonlinear elasticity of defects in smectic liquid crystals

Christian D. Santangelo

Volume 15, Issue 2 (2006)

1-10

Microtubules: Nature's smartest mesogens — a liquid crystal model for cell division

John Lydon

Volume 15, Issue 1 (2006)

1-3

Thermal-lens effect of low-density lipoprotein lyotropic-like aggregates investigated by using the Z-scan technique

S. L. Gómez; R. F. Turchiello; M. C. Jurado; P. Boschcov; M. Gidlund; A. M. Figueiredo Neto

Volume 14, Issue 4 (2005)

1-15

Photo-aligning by azo-dyes: Physics and applications

Vladimir Chigrinov; Hoi Sing Kwok; Hirokazu Takada; Haruyoshi Takatsu

Volume 14, Issue 3 (2005)

1-3

A new hexatic phase observed in biomembrane-like films

C. Y. Chao; W. J. Hsieh; M. T. Hsu; J. T. Ho; I. J. B. Lin

Volume 14, Issue 2 (2005)

1-7	Surface controlled orientation of a novel star-shaped discotic oligomesogen	Annett Grafe; Christoph Jung; Dessislava Sainova; Hans Sawade; Joachim Stumpe; Dietmar Janietz
9-21	Banana-shaped and other bent-core liquid crystals	Michael Hird

Volume 14, Issue 1 (2005)

1-14	Colloidal inclusions in liquid crystals: Phase separation mechanisms and some dynamical aspects	J. C. Loudet
15-18	Preliminary communication: The synthesis of new mesogenic 1,3,4-thiadiazole-2-carboxylate esters via a novel ring-closure	Patrick Bradley; Paul Sampson; Alexander J. Seed

Volume 13, Issue 3 (2004)

15-22

Resonant scattering from liquid crystal devices: an in-situ structural probe for the smectic phases

L. S. Hirst

Volume 13, Issue 2 (2004)

1-7	Liquid Crystals, the Visual System and Polarization Sensitivity	Nicholas W. Roberts; Shelby Temple; Theodore Haimberger; Helen F. Gleeson; Craig W. Hawryshyn
1-15	Complex Liquid Crystals - Big is Beautiful	Isabel M. Saez Corresponding author; John W. Goodby

Volume 13, Issue 1 (2004)

1-4

The Bent-Core Biaxial Nematic Phase

Bharat R. Acharya; Andrew Primak; Satyendra Kumar

Volume 12, Issue 4 (2003)

1-5

Liquid-crystalline smectic blue phases

Eric Grelet

Volume 12, Issue 3 (2003)

1-2	Liquid crystal blue phases—recent advances	Selin Hekimoglu; Julie Conn
3-8	Structural forces in liquid crystals	K. Kočevar Corresponding author; I. MuševiČ

Volume 12, Issue 2 (2003)

1-9	The DNA double helix—the untold story	J. E. Lydon
10-15	New insights into the nematic to smectic-A transition: X-ray measurements in a strong magnetic field	Andrew Primak Corresponding author; Michael Fisch; Satyendra Kumar

Volume 12, Issue 1 (2003)

1-10

Liquid crystalline fractals: dilatation invariant growth structures in the phase ordering process of 'banana-phases'

Ingo Dierking

Volume 11, Issue 4 (2002)

1-2	A liquid crystal microwave wavelength selector	Fuzi Yang; J. R. Sambles
3-7	Tunable photonic crystals	Heinz Kitzerow
8-12	Steroid motor: dynamics of cholesteric helix induction in the nematic droplet	I. Gvozdovskyy; I. Terenetskaya

Volume 11, Issue 3 (2002)

1-5	Scattering displays from 'banana-smectics'	Antal Jákli
6-33	Mechanisms of giant optical nonlinearity in light-absorbing liquid crystals: a brief primer	Lorenzo Marrucci

Volume 11, Issue 2 (2002)

1-5

Fluctuation-induced forces in liquid crystals: stability of thin nematic films and fine nematic colloidal dispersions

P. Ziherl

Volume 11, Issue 1 (2002)

1-5

Polarization-analysed resonant X-ray scattering study of chiral smectic-C variant phases in freely-suspended liquid-crystal films

Peter Mach

Volume 10, Issue 3 (2001)

1-4	High-resolution study of fluctuation effects at the nematic-smectic-A phase transition	Anand Yethiraj; John Bechhoefer
5-9	Unconventional states of liquid crystals: an analogy with unconventional superconductivity	P. Tolédano; A. M. Figueiredo Neto

Volume 10, Issue 2 (2001)

1-2	Smectic A liquid single crystal elastomers—hard! Soft, soft!!	Etsushi Nishikawa
3-5	The application of nematic liquid crystals for objective microscopic diagnosis of cancer	M. G. Tomilin; S. A. Povzun; A. F. Kurmashev; E. V. Gribanova; T. A. Efimova
6-10	In-plane switching electro-optical effect of nematic liquid crystals	Masahito Oh-e

Volume 10, Issue 1 (2000)

1-4

Modal liquid crystal lenses

Gordon D. Love; Alexander F. Naumov

Volume 9, Issue 3-4 (1999)

1-6	Fluid Biaxial Banana Smectics: Symmetry at Work	P. E. Cladis; H. R. Brand; H. Pleiner
7-13	Rhapsody in Blue	Richard Miller
14	The New Editorial Team
14	The International Liquid Crystal Society: Y2K Multimedia Prize	Pat Cladis
15	Kent Displays, Honeywell and DARPA Team Up on E-Book Development
15	People In The News	Professor S. Chandrasekhar; J. Cliff Jones
16-17	6th International Symposium on Metallomesogens ISMM 99	Daniel Guillon
17-18	Workshop on Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals	L. Kramer
18	Information from Standford Resources Inc
18	4th International Meeting on Lyotropic Liquid Crystals LLC 2000
19	VIIIth International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals (OLC'99)	Marc Warenghem
20	Forthcoming Meetings

Volume 9, Issue 2 (1999)

4-5	On the European Conference on Liquid Crystals ECLC99
5	Molecular Physics of LSquld Crystals: RecoIkdOorrs and Perspectives
6	The International Liquid Crystal Society	Glenn H. Brown Prizes
6	International Liquid Crystal Society Annual Report of the Treasurer 1998	Peter Palffy-muhoray
1	Liquid Crystals Tomorrow
2-3	Freederiksz Medals awarded to Professor Shibaev and Professor Saupe	Anatoly Sonin
3-4	The George Gray Laboratories, University of Hull	John Lydon

Volume 9, Issue 1 (1999)

8	Nomenclature of Liquid Crystals
7	Company News
13	George Gray Medal to Professor Roy Sambles
14	CRL Launch Colour VGA and Monochrome XGA Miniature Displays
14	Liquid Crystals Today goes electronic
10	The Categorization of Blue Phases	H. Stegemeyer
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1-7	From Chiral Molecules to Chiral Phases¹: Comments on the Chirality of Liquid Crystalline Phases	Hans-Georg Kuball
8-9	Smectic Mesophases Formed by Banana-Shaped Molecules	S. Diele; G. Pelzl; W. Weissflog
11	CCMM′98 Chemistry and Characterization of Mesophase Materials	Duncan W. Bruce
11-13	In Memoriam of Professor Pier Luigi Nordio, 1936–1998	C. Zannoni

Volume 8, Issue 4 (1998)

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1-6	Smectic Liquid Crystals as Model Systems of Low-dimensional Order From conformal and independent fluctuations in freely suspended films to true long-range order in smectic elastomers	Wim H. de Jeu; Elisabeth A. L. Mol; Gerard C. L. Wong
6-8	Devil' Staircase and Frustoelectricity in Chiral Smectic-C like Liquid Crystals	Takahiro Matsumoto; Atsuo Fukuda
9	Message from the President, Professor Atsuo Fukuda
9-11	Summary of the Minutes of Officers and Board Directors Meetings held on Tuesday 21 July and Thursday 23 July 1998, Strasbourg
11-13	On the 17th International Liquid Crystal Conference 19–24 July 1998, Palais des Congres, Strasbourg	Antoine Skoulis; Daniel Guillon
14	High Reflective TFT-LCDs and Plastic LCD Modules from Sharp
14	Otto Lehman Prize 1999

Volume 8, Issue 3 (1998)

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1-5	Professor Sir Charles Frank (1911–1998) Historical Perspectives on the Development of Liquid Crystal Continuum Theory	Tim Sluckin
6-7	Professor K. Praefcke Symposium	G. W. Gray
7-12	Industrial Development of Plastic PDLC: Is There a Future?	H. Hakemi
12	Free On-Line Access for LiqCryst Database
13-14	New Board Members

Volume 8, Issue 2 (1998)

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1-7	Surface Controlled Nematic Bistability From Surface Anchoring Bifurcation to Fast Displays with Video Compatibility	I. Dozov; G. Durand
7-10	Lasing Pixels: A New Application for PDLCs	Gregory P. Crawford; Joel A. Firehammer; Nabil M. Lawandy
10	Market Trends for Flat Panel Displays
11	A review of: “The Optics of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals”	Steve Elston; Christian Bahr
11	Peter Raynes Moves To Oxford University
12	BLCS 98 13th British Liquid Crystal Society Annual Meeting Bodington Hall, Leeds, UK, 6–8 April, 1998	Alastair Smith
13	New Products
14	Gold Medal for Professor Chandrasekhar

Volume 8, Issue 1 (1998)

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1-5	Early Cases of Reentrant Behaviour	D. Demus; G. Pelzl
5-9	Important Physical Properties of Smectic Liquid Crystals¹	M. J. Towler; H. G. Walton; I. W. Stewart
9	Product News Sharp Announces Big Improvements in Performance for STN Displays
9	UK Display Technology Alliance
10	Nominations for President and Vice-President
11	Stanford Resources Market Analysis for LCD Industry 1997	Tim Carli
11	The 11th Session of the Liquid Crystal Society “Sodruzhestvo”, St. Petersburg, Russia, 21–23 May, 1997	Vladimir Chigrinov
12	People in the News Professor Guram Chilaya, Founder of Georgian Liquid Crystal School, Celebrates his Sixtieth Birthday
12	Company News Intense Competition Forces Merck Plant Closure
13-15	Interview With Dr Andy Cumming, Director, Merck R&D UK	Rosie Erol

Volume 7, Issue 4 (1997)

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1	Liquid Crystals Today
1-7	Morphology Development in Liquid-Crystal/Polymer Mixtures	Andrea J. Liu
8	FLC'97, 6th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals ENST, Brest, France, 20–24 July 1997	J. L. De
9	17th International Liquid Crystal Conference 19–24 July 1998, Strasbourg, France
11	Education Liquid Crystal Outreach: The human Nematic Experiment	Joseph Maclennan
12	Professor Frank M. Leslie Recipient of the G. W. Gray Medal (1997) "Mathematical models for liquid crystals"	I. W. Stewart
13-14	Biaxial Nematics: Fact or Fiction The Oxford Workshop

Volume 7, Issue 3 (1997)

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1-6	Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets	J. Bajc; P. P. Crooker; S. Zumer
6	Research Awards Glenn H. Brown Prizes
7-8	Russian Liquid Crystal Society awards first Freederiksz Medals	A. S. Sonin; V. G. Chigrinov
9-10	ECLC '97 Conference—European Conference on Liquid Crystal Science and Technology	Dagmara Sokolowska; Maciej Wnek; Jozef K. Moscicki
10-11	Fifth International Symposium on Metallomesogens Neuch�tel, Switzerland, 3–6 June 1997	Günter Lattermann
11-12	1977 Society for Information Display (SID) Symposium	Gregory P. Crawford
13	A review of: “Introduction to Liquid Crystals: Chemistry and Physics”

Volume 7, Issue 2 (1997)

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1-9	Fluid bilayer vesicles Statistical physics of soft two-dimensional surfaces	Udo Seifert
9	Research Awards Glenn H. Brown Prizes
10	Entrepreneur acquires Rolic Ltd from F. Hoffman-La Roche	Mr Karl Nicklaus; Dr Martin Schadt
10	Increasing Interest in Lyotropics	Nadejda Usol'tseva
11	Liquid Crystals Institutionalized at Southampton
12	The Japanese Liquid Crystal Society (JLCS)	Hiro Toriumi; Masaki Hasegawa
13-14	Stanford Resources Releases Report on Flat Panel Display Industry
14	British Liquid Crystal Society Annual Conference 1997	Tim Sluckin

Volume 7, Issue 1 (1997)

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1-4	Electrically Switchable Holograms: Novel PDLC Structures	Richard L. Sutherland; Lalgudi V. Natarajan
5	Liquid Crystals - Present, Past and Future	George W. Gray FRS
6-7	A review of: “Liquid Crystals in Complex Geometries”
7	Glenn H. Brown Prizes
8	Xerox launches new company with advanced liquid crystal technologies
8	Sharp develops the world's largest 40 inch colour TFT LCD
9-11	65th Bunsen-Kolloquium, “Lyotropic Liquid Crystals” held at Pederborn, Germany, 14–15 October 1996	K. Hiltrop; H. Stegemeyer
12-14	The Contributions of Horst Stegemeyer to Blue Phase Research Remarks Made on the Occasion of His Retirement 14 October 1996	Peter J. Collings

Volume 6, Issue 4 (1996)

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1-6	Anisotropic Networks, Elastomers and Gels	S. M. Kelly
2	1st Polish—German Seminar Self-organization in Chiral Liquid Crystals	Horst Stegemeyer
7	Euro Display 96	David Dunmur
8	Professor Victor Titov, 1935–1996
9-10	Society News
11-12	The Life and Times of Vsevolod Konstantinovich Frederiks: 1885–1944	V. G. Chigrinov; V. V. Belyaev
13-14	The G. W. Gray Medal an Introduction by Professor G. W. Gray	John W. Gray

Volume 6, Issue 3 (1996)

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1	In Memoriam	Richard M. Hornreich
1-2	Editorial Comment
3-5	Product News
6-7	Meeting Report 16th International Liquid Crystal Conference 24–28 June 1996	Sam Sprunt
8-11	Society News	Giancarlo Galli
11-12	A review of: “Liquid Crystals in the Nineties and Beyond”	Satyen Kumar
13	In Memoriam
14	Company News

Volume 6, Issue 2 (1996)

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1	Editorial	David Dunmur
2	The G. W. Gray Medal
3	From the Membership Secretary	Chuck Rosenblatt; Charles Rosenblatt
3	Liquid Crystals in Literature
5-7	Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Displays with Greyscale	Sven T. Lagerwall
8-9	A review of: “Molecular Dynamics of Liquid Crystals”
10-11	Liquid Crystals Spanning the Globe	Louise Farrand
11	Letter to Editor	J. Bahnmueller
12	Report on the 11th Annual British Liquid Crystal Society Meeting, 1–3 April 1996
13	Centre For Liquid Crystal Research, Bangalore
14	1996 Society For Information Display, 12–17 May, San Diego, California	Gregory P. Crawford

Volume 6, Issue 1 (1996)

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1-4	Discotic Liquid Crystals Self-Organizing Molecular Wires	Neville Boden; Richard Bissell; Jonathan Clements; Bijan Movaghar
4-5	Dynamics and Defects in Liquid Crystals Honouring Alfred Saupe Honouring Alfred Saupe	O. D. Lavrentovich
6	FLC 1995 5th International Conference on Ferrolectric Liquid Crystals Cambridge University, England 23–25 July 1995	Richard J. Miller
7-8	Magnetic Field Induced Deformations in Nematic Liquid Crystals	T. Kosa; P. Palffy-muhoray
9-10	Demonstrates Liquid Crystals
11	A review of: “Liquid Crystal Dispersions”	David Coates
12-15	Applications of Liquid Crystal Polymers: Part 1: Fibre Spinning	S. J. Picken

Volume 5, Issue 4 (1995)

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1-2	Glass Dispersed Liquid Crystals	David Levy
3-4	ASIA Display '95 15th International Display Research Conference, Hamamatsu, Japan 16-19 October 1995	David Dunmur; Hirohisa Kawamoto
5-6	Materials Highlights	Corrie T. Imrie
7-8	The Nematic-Isotropic Transition	Thomas M. Ciferno; Renata Marroum
9-11	Liquid Crystals in China	X. J. Wang
12	Wide angle viewing on a par with conventional CRTs
13	Nominations for President and Vice-President
13	The Glenn Brown Awards
14-15	VI^th International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals 25–29 September 1995, Hotel Westminster, Le Touquet, France

Volume 5, Issue 3 (1995)

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1	Professor George Gray, Honoured as 1995 Kyoto Laureate in Advanced Technology
3-5	Merck's Success in the Japanese Liquid Crystal Market
6-7	Conception and Realization of a Liquid Crystal Database LIQCRYST	V. Vill
8-9	Conference Reports 1995 Society for Information Display International Symposium	G. P. Crawford
9	The Third Russian Symposium on Liquid Crystal Polymers	V. E. Dreval; E. M. Antipov
9	Correction and Apology
10	Metallomesogens Assemble in Italy	Timothy M. Swager
11-12	The Japanese Association of Liquid Crystal Scientists (JALCS)	Hiro Toriumi
12	Inter-regional Liquid Crystal Society “Sodruzhestvo” (“Commonwealth”)	V. G. Chigrinov
12-13	In-Plane Switching: A Novel Electro-optic Effect	G. Baur; R. Kiefer; H. Klausmann; F. Windscheid
15	Redefining the State-of-the Art for STN LCDs
15	From 3 inches to 200 inches

Volume 5, Issue 2 (1995)

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1-2	Glenn Halstead Brown, 1915–1995	Mary E. Neubert
3-4	Materials Highlights	Corrie T. Imrie
5-6	Scientific Note Nematic Structures in Composite Materials	O. D. Lavrentovich; P. Palffy-muhoray
6	A review of: “Liquid Cvystuls Topics in Physical Chemistry”	J. W. Emsley
7	Annual Meeting of the American Chemical Society	George Nounesis
8	European Conference on Liquid Crystals
9	11th Conference on Solid and Liquid Crystals—Material Science and Applications Zakopana, Poland, 23–27 October, 1994	Waclaw Witko
10-11	Liquid Crystals in Education Liquid Crystals Beyond Research and Development: An Educational Perspective	Gregory P. Crawford
12	The world's largest LCD production facility nears completion in Japan
12	ROLIC
12	HALLCREST
13	Fellowship of the Royal Society for Professor Frank Leslie	J. W. Doane
13	Ukranian Liquid Crystal Society	J. W. Doane
13-14	Membership	J. W. Doane

Volume 5, Issue 1 (1995)

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1	A New Beginning for Liquid Crystals Today
2-4	Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals: A Look Back, A Look Ahead	Paul S. Drzaic
5	From Chiral Molecules to Chiral Liquid Crystal Phases Report on a workshop held in Berlin 1–2 December 1994	H. -G. Kuball; G. Heppke
5-6	Polymer Liquid Crystals One day meeting 8 February 1995 London	Helen Gleeson
7	The First Liquid Crystal Summer School: 1912	H. Stegemeyer
8-11	Captured Orientational Order in Polymer Network Assemblies	Gregory P. Crawford; William Doane; Slobodan Zumer
12-13	Material Highlights: Liquid Crystal Polymers A Digest of the Recent Literature	Corrie T. Imrie
13	International Liquid Crystal Conferences in 1998 and 2000	Geoffrey R. Luckhurst
13-14	Liquid Crystals Today and Tomorrow	Geoffrey R. Luckhurst

Volume 4, Issue 3 (1994)

1	A New Beginning for Liquid Crystals Today	David Dunmur
1-6	NEW APPLICATIONS FOR FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS	T. D. Wilkinson; W. A. Crossland; S. T. Warr; T. C. B. Yu; A. B. Davey; R. J. Mears
4	International Conference on Liquid Crystal Polymers, 6–9 September 1994, Beijing, China	Q. F. Zhou; X. J. Wang
5	Impressions of China. …	W. Doane
5	Impressions of China … . … . and Impressions of Beijing	W. Doane; Elaine Landry
5	Liquid Crystals arrive in Malaysia
7	The Physics of Liquid Crystals, Second Edition, by PG de Gennes and J Prost, International Series of Monographs on Physics No 83, published OUP (1993) ISBN 0 19852024 7	O. D. Lavrentovich
8	FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

Volume 4, Issue 2 (1994)

1-5	APresidential Message	Geoffrey R. Luckhurst
1-4	OPTICALLY CONTROLLED ALIGNMENT OF LIQUID CRYSTALS	Wayne M. Gibbons; Paul J. Shannon; Shao-Tung Sun
6	15th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Budapest, Hungary, July 3/8 1994	Agnes Buka
6	Nuclear and Dielectric Relaxation in Liquid Crystals, 29/30 March 1994, Cordoba, Argentina	Daniel Pusiol
8	FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

Volume 4, Issue 1 (1994)

1	EDITORIAL	David Dunmur
1-2	PROFESSOR HORST SACKMANN, 1921 – 1993	H. Stegemeyer
3	Scientific Meeting to mark the retirement of Professor George Gray, London, 9th February 1994	Duncan Bruce
3	In Memoriam — Janina Maria Janik (1925 – 1993)	W. Witko
4-5	A Note on the Melting Point of α-solanine: The solution to a riddle	V. Grassert; V. Vill
6	Liquid Crystals & IT
7	British Liquid Crystal Society Annual Conference, 28–30 March 1994, University of Hull, UK
8	FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

Volume 3, Issue 3 (1993)

1-2	FLCDs: the route to Market	A. Mosley; B. M. Nicholas
1-4	Ferroelectrics & Antiferro-electrics enter the Display market	S. T. Lagerwall
5	Liquid Crystal Meeting of Japan, Sept 20–22 1993, Tokyo	Hiro Toriumi
5	FLC 93: 4th International Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Conference, 28 Sept - 1 Oct 1993, Tokyo	Hideo Takezoe
6	OLC '93 - V International Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, 4–8 October 1993, Siofok, Hungary	Francesco Simoni
6	1st Iberoamerican Workshop on Anisotropic Fluids, 5–8 June 1993, Cordoba, Argentina	Daniel Pusiol
7	LIQUID CRYSTALS — Second Edition, by S CHANDRASEKHAR, Cambridge University Press, (1992), ISBN 0-521-41747-3 (HB), ISBN 0-521-42741-X (PB)	Peter Raynes
8	FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

Volume 3, Issue 2 (1993)

1-12	Liquid Crystals — as seen by the Scanning Tunnelling and Force Microscopes	Jane Frommer
2	NEWS from around the Liquid Crystal World: EC LIQUID CRYSTAL NETWORKS
3	15th International Liquid Crystal Conference, 3–8 July 1994, Budapest, HUNGARY
3-4	ECLC 93 — European Conference on Liquid Crystals Science and Technology, 7–12 March 1993, Flims, Switzerland	D. A. Dunmur
4	High Contrast Liquid Crystal Shutter
12	FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

Volume 3, Issue 1 (1993)

1	Liquid Crystals on top of the World!
3-5	What creates liquid crystal phases?	Geoffrey R. Luckhurst
6-8	Misinterpretations of DSC Data	Mary E. Neubert
6-7	2^nd Ukrainian Liquid Crystal Conference, Christmas 92, Kiev, Ukraine	A. A. Gerasimov
7	FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
8	10th School of Physics and Applications of Liquid Crystals and Single Crystals, Zakopane, Poland, 12–17 October 1992	Jósef Zmija

Volume 2, Issue 3 (1992)

1-2	Commercial Comment: High-Information Content Liquid Crystal Displays	Joseph A. Castellano
3	Speckle Observation of Molecular Dynamics in a Guest-Host Smectic A Liquid Crystal	Mark Guardalben; Nicholas George
4-5	Just thin nematic films…	Oleg D. Lavrentovich
6	14th International Liquid Crystal Conference Pisa, Italy, June 21–26 1992	Giancarlo Galli
7	Recent Advances in Understanding Smectics O,O* and C_A, C_A* — developments reported at the 14th ILCS, Pisa	Pat E. Cladis
8	FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

Volume 2, Issue 2 (1992)

1-3	The World of Liquid Crystals	D. A. Dunmur
3	NEWS from around the LIQUID CRYSTAL WORLD: BRITISH LIQUID CRYSTAL SOCIETY —
4-6	AERODYNAMIC and HEAT TRANSFER testing	Terry Jones
6	PROFESSOR MARIAN MIESOWICZ, 1907–1992: A Scientific Appreciation	J. A. Janik
7	SPIE/IS&T Conference — “Liquid Crystal Materials, Applications & Devices” San José, California, USA, February 1992	Paul S. Drzaic
7	British Liquid Crystal Society Annual Meeting, Oxford, 6–8 April 1992	J. W. Emsley
7	Brazilian Liquid Crystal Group, Annual Meeting Caxambu, Brazil, May 1992	Marcos B Lacerda Santos
8	FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

Volume 2, Issue 1 (1992)

1	Priorities in a Changing Scientific World
3	A New World of Science: Potential for Gain…	M. Fontana
3	Incommensurate Smectic Phases?	Prem Patel; Li Chen; S Sabol Keast; Mary E. Neubert; Satyendra Kumar
4-5	Electroconvection in a Suspended Smectic Film	Stephen Morris
6	“Whitenights Conference” St Petersburg, Russia, May 27 - June 2, 1992	E. I. Riumisev; F. M. Aliev
6	Summer European Liquid Crystal Conference Vilnius, Lithuania, August 19–23 1992	Waclaw Witko
7	KIT International Workshop on the Physics of Pattern Formation Kitakyushu, Japan, 18–20 September 1992	Peter Palffy-Muhoray
7	IV International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA, 7–11 October 1991	David W. Allender
8	FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

Volume 1, Issue 3 (1991)

1-2	NOBEL PRIZE FOR DE GENNES	D. A. Dunmur
3	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes	Jacques Prost
4	Third International Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Conference (FLC 91) University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, June 24–28 1991	Noel A. Clark; David M. Walba
5	MIT SYMPOSIUM to honour Professor S Chandrasekhar, June 1991	S Krishna Prasad; V. N. Raja
7	Coming Up — 14th ILCC, Pisa 1992	Emo Chiellini
7	ALCOM High School project at Kent, Ohio	Elaine Landry
8	FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

Volume 1, Issue 2 (1991)

1	KEEPING UP-TO-DATE?
2	BOOK REVIEW	David Lacey
3	CHOLESTERICS ALREADY DESCRIBED IN 1838!	H. Stegemeyer; H. Kelker
4-7	AROUND THE LIQUID CRYSTAL WORLD FOCUS ON: ITALY	Marco Fontana
6	E C L C '91, Courmayeur, Valle d'Aosta, Italy, 10–17 March 91	Claudio Zannoni
6-7	British Liquid Crystal Society Annual Conference, 1991 Reading, UK	Geoffrey Mitchell
7	“New Short-Pitch Bistable Ferroelectric (SBF) Liquid Crystal Displays”	J. Fünfschilling; M. Schadt
8	FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

Volume 1, Issue 1 (1991)

3	British Liquid Crystal Society — DR BEN STURGEON An Appreciation by Prof G W Gray
3	Consortium headed by Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University awarded NSF Science & Technology Center	Peter Palffy-Mulwray
4-6	LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPLICATIONS: Past, Present & Future	Joseph A. Castellano
7	13th INTERNATIONAL LIQUID CRYSTAL CONFERENCE VANCOUVER, 22 — 27 July 1990	Peter Palffy-Muhoray
7	OPTICS OF LIQUID CRYSTALS, Cetraro, Italy, 1 — 5 October 1990	Sally Day
8	FORTHCOMING MEETINGS