Liquid Crystals (1986-2011)

Volume 38, Issue 1 (2011)

1-7	The orientational behaviour of some aminoanthraquinone dyes in E8 and ZLI-1132 nematic solvents and effect of addition of carbon nanotubes	Nihan Kaya
9-15	Liquid crystalline and thermo-optical properties of cyclic siloxane tetramers containing cholestryl-4-allyloxy-benzoate and biphenyl-4-yl 4-allyloxybenzoate	Zihui Cheng; Hui Cao; Dongyu Zhao; Wang Hu; Wanli He; Xiaotao Yuan; Jiumei Xiao; Haiquan Zhang; Huai Yang
17-23	Structural investigations of multiple gratings recorded in polymer-dispersed liquid crystals film by holography	Zhigang Zheng; Lishuang Yao; Li Xuan; Dong Shen
25-30	Photorefractive properties of new liquid crystals in the near-infrared range	Janusz Parka; Rafał Kowerdziej; Marcin Romaniuk
31-40	Designing bent-core nematogens towards biaxial nematic liquid crystals	Manoj Mathews; Shinwoong Kang; Satyendra Kumar; Quan Li
41-52	Electroconvection in dimeric nematic liquid crystals with short-range smectic C order: dynamical characteristics	M. Petrov; E. Keskinova; B. Katranchev; H. Naradikian
53-60	Room-temperature discotic cholesteric and nematic phases: influence of 3,7-dimethyloctane peripheral chain on the molecular self-assembly of radial polyalkynylbenzene	Sanjay K. Varshney; V. Prasad; H. Takezoe
61-64	A geometrical relation between the Miesowicz's coefficients	M. Simões; A. J. Palangana; S. M. Domiciano; F. S. Alves
65-86	The electro-optical characteristics and applicability evaluation of a photo-induced vertical alignment negative-type liquid crystal/photo-curable acrylic pre-polymer mixture system mixed with chiral smectic A phase liquid crystal	Czung-Yu Ho; Jiunn-Yih Lee
87-92	Temporal characteristics of the optical shutter of a vertical alignment liquid crystal cell designed for obliquely incident light	Hyung-Ki Hong; Hyun-Ho Shin
93-103	Electric field-induced fast nematic order dynamics	A. Amoddeo; R. Barberi; G. Lombardo
105-113	Photo-triggered assembly/disassembly of macroscopically ordered monodomain lamellar structure in side-chain liquid crystalline polymer containing strong polar azobenzene mesogens	Jian Liu; Mingle Wang; Yuanyuan Li; Hejin Zhong
115-120	Enhancement of the display parameters of 4′-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl due to the dispersion of functionalised gold nano particles	Abhay S. Pandey; R. Dhar; S. Kumar; R. Dabrowski
121	Erratum

Volume 37, Issue 12 (2010)

1471-1478	Non-symmetric liquid crystal dimers based on 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives: synthesis, photoluminescence and liquid crystal behaviour	Jie Han; Miao Zhang; Fuli Wang; Qiang Geng
1479-1492	Characterisation and mesomorphic behaviour of new aliphatic–aromatic azomethines containing ester groups	Agnieszka Iwan; Damian Pociecha; Andrzej Sikora; Henryk Janeczek; Marcin Wegrzyn
1493-1499	High performance dual frequency liquid crystal compounds and mixture for operation at elevated temperature	Haiqing Xianyu; Xiao Liang; Jie Sun; Shin-Tson Wu
1501-1513	[2]Benzothiophene bent-shaped liquid crystals	Anna Kovářová; Jiří Svoboda; Vladimíra Novotná; Milada Glogarová; Miroslaw Salamonczyk; Damian Pociecha; Ewa Gorecka
1515-1520	Supramolecular main-chain liquid crystalline polymers and networks with competitive hydrogen bonding: networks and linear polymers created from tris- and bis-functionalised pyridyl networking agents	Jason R. Greuel; Timothy E. Andrews; Justin J. Wichman; Joshua D. Tessner; Kurt N. Wiegel
1521-1527	Synthesis, mesomorphic behaviour and photo-luminescent property of new mesogens containing 1,3,4-oxadiazole fluorophore	Jie Han; Fu-Li Wang; Feng-Yan Zhang; Li-Rong Zhu
1529-1537	Synthesis and mesogenic properties of three- and four-ring compounds with a fluoroisothiocyanatobiphenyl moiety	R. Dąbrowski; J. Dziaduszek; K. Garbat; M. Filipowicz; S. Urban; S. Gauza; G. Sasnouski
1539-1547	Cholesterol-based unsymmetrical Schiff's base dimer terminated with 4-alkoxy-5-phenylthiophene unit: synthesis and characterisation	K. C. Majumdar; Tapas Ghosh; Santanu Chakravorty; Nilashis Pal; D.S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad
1549-1557	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 7-alkoxybezopyrano[2,3-c]pyrazol-3-one	Yan Li; Xinbing Chen; Pei Chen; Zhongwei An; Juan Li
1559-1568	Surface viscosity and reorientation process in an asymmetric nematic cell	Rodolfo Teixeira de Souza; Ervin Kaminski Lenzi; Luiz Roberto Evangelista
1569-1576	On the measurement of the orientational order parameters in biaxial liquid crystals using the polarised infrared technique	M. V. Gorkunov; M. A. Osipov
1577-1585	The binary system composed of a bent-core compound forming a B₇ phase and a nematogenic calamitic compound	S. Haddawi; W. Weissflog; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; U. Baumeister
1587-1599	Thermotropic liquid crystal behaviour of gemini imidazolium-based ionic amphiphiles	Jason E. Bara; Evan S. Hatakeyama; Brian R. Wiesenauer; Xiaohui Zeng; Richard D. Noble; Douglas L. Gin
1601-1604	Cholesteric materials with photonic band gap sensitive to shear deformation and mechanical sensors	Petr V. Shibaev; Cristina Schlesier; Robert Uhrlass; Sean Woodward; Eckhard Hanelt
ebi	Editorial Board

Volume 37, Issue 11 (2010)

1347-1359	The synthesis and thermal, optical and electrical properties of novel aromatic–aliphatic five- and six-membered thermotropic polyimides	Ewa Schab-Balcerzak; Marcin Wegrzyn; Henryk Janeczek; Bozena Jarzabek; Patrice Rannou; Agnieszka Iwan
1361-1372	Solid-phase combinatorial syntheses of mesomorphic 4-alkoxyphenyl 4-alkoxybenzoylaminobenzoates	Akira Mori; Issei Akahoshi; Masashi Hashimoto; Takayuki Doi; Takashi Takahashi
1373-1379	Cholesteric star-shaped liquid crystals induced by a maltose core: synthesis and characteristics	Mei Tian; Bao-Yan Zhang; Yue-Hua Cong; Xiao-Zhi He; Hui-Shu Chu; Xiao-Yu Zhang
1381-1384	Liquid crystal alignment on a ZrO₂ thin film as a function of ion beam incident angle	Byoung-Yong Kim; Young-Hwan Kim; Hong-Gyu Park; Dae-Shik Seo
1385-1392	The effect of mesogenic and non-mesogenic crosslinking units on the phase behaviour of side-chain smectic and cholesteric elastomers	Jian-She Hu; Li-Qun Yang; Dan-Shu Yao; Zhi-Wei Song
1393-1410	Fluorescent lanthanide complexes of Schiff base ligands possessing N-aryl moiety: influence of chain length on crossover (calamitic to discotic) phase behaviour	Nandiraju V. S. Rao; Trirup D. Choudhury; Rahul Deb; Manoj K. Paul; Thatavarthi R. Rao; Tuluri Francis; Ivan I. Smalyukh
1411-1418	Tunable optical and nonlinear optical response of smectic glasses based on cobalt alkanoates	Yu.A. Garbovskiy; A. V. Gridyakina; G. V. Klimusheva; A. S. Tolochko; I. I. Tokmenko; T. A. Mirnaya
1419-1426	Blue phase III widening in CE6-dispersed surface-functionalised CdSe nanoparticles	George Cordoyiannis; Patricia Losada-Pérez; Chandra Shekhar Pati Tripathi; Brigita Rožič; Uroš Tkalec; Vassilios Tzitzios; Eva Karatairi; George Nounesis; Zdravko Kutnjak; Igor Muševič; Christ Glorieux; Samo Kralj; Jan Thoen
1427-1431	Threshold field for switching the de Vries S_A* phase in a low molar mass organosiloxane material	Carlo Carboni; Abraham K. George; Wafa Al-Shizawi; Michael W. Zoghaib; Jawad Naciri
1433-1438	Low frequency dielectric relaxations of gold nanoparticles/ferroelectric liquid crystal composites	T. Joshi; A. Kumar; J. Prakash; A. M. Biradar
1439-1451	Lyotropic liquid crystal guest–host material and anisotropic thin films for optical applications	Irina Kasianova; Ellina Kharatyian; Artur Geivandov; Serguei Palto
1453-1457	Experimental investigation of liquid crystals in the millimetre frequency range	V. V. Meriakri; I. P. Nikitin; Ci-Ling Pan; Ru-Pin Pan; M. P. Parkhomenko; E. E. Chigryai
1459-1464	Synthesis and mesophase characterisation of a series of new triazine-based disc-shaped molecules	K. C. Majumdar; Nirupam De; B. Roy; Asim Bhaumik
1465-1470	The SmA phase of a bent-core V-shaped compound: structure and electric-field response	Ibon Alonso; Josu Martinez-Perdiguero; Josu Ortega; César Luis Folcia; Jesús Etxebarria; Nélida Gimeno; María Blanca Ros

Volume 37, Issue 10 (2010)

1225-1228	Phase diagrams for a semi-infinite nematic in contact with a micropatterned surface	T. J. Atherton
1229-1236	Inverse Langmuir–Schaefer films of bent-core molecules	Ji Wang; Liou Qiu; Antal Jákli; Wolfgang Weissflog; Elizabeth K. Mann
1237-1243	Synthesis and characterisation of unsymmetrical six-aromatic ring containing bent-shaped compounds	K. C. Majumdar; P. K. Shyam; S. Chakravorty
1245-1257	Lateral protrusion and mesophase behaviour in pure and mixed states of model compounds of the type 4-(4′-substituted phenylazo)-2-(or 3-)methyl phenyl-4'-alkoxy benzoates	M. M. Naoum; S. Z. Mohammady ^§; H. A. Ahmed
1259-1268	Synthesis and phase behaviour of new cholesteric monomers and side chain smectic polymers based on cholesterol	Jian-She Hu; Li-Qun Yang; Xia Zhang; Zhi-Wei Song
1269-1274	Detecting and differentiating Escherichia coli strain TOP10 using optical textures of liquid crystals	H. Xu; D. Hartono; K. -L. Yang
1275-1280	Broadband reflection characteristic of polymer-stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal with pitch gradient induced by a hydrogen bond	Lipei Zhang; Wanli He; Xiaotao Yuan; Wang Hu; Hui Cao; Huai Yang; Siquan Zhu
1281-1288	Mesogenic quinazolone derivatives: synthesis and characterisation	A. K. Prajapati; Vishal Modi
1289-1303	Carbazole nematic liquid crystals	Weixiao Bao; Muralidhar Reddy Billa; Krishna Kassireddy; Marta Haro; Michael J. Kelly; Stuart P. Kitney; Manea S. Al Kalifah; Pan Wei; Dewen Dong; Mary O'Neill; Stephen M. Kelly
1305-1311	An electro-rheological study of the nematic liquid crystal 4-n-heptyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl	M. T. Cidade; C. R. Leal; P. Patrício
1313-1319	Electroclinic effect in the chiral smectic A and cholesteric phases at the proximity of a N–SmA–SmC multicritical point	J. Hemine; A. Daoudi; C. Legrand; A. El Kaaouachi; A. Nafidi; H. T. Nguyen
1321-1330	Dielectric properties of selected laterally fluoro-substituted 4,4′′-dialkyl, dialkoxy and alkyl-alkoxy [1:1′;4′:1′′]terphenyls	S. Urban; P. Kula; A. Spadło; M. Geppi; A. Marini
1331-1337	Strong deformations induced by a DC electric field in homeotropic flexo-electric nematic layers	Mariola Buczkowska
1339-1346	Synthesis and characterisation of polymethacrylates containing para-, meta- and ortho-monosubstituted azobenzene moieties in the side chain	Chang-An Yang; Qing Wang; HeLou Xie; GuanQun Zhong; HaiLiang Zhang

Volume 37, Issue 9 (2010)

1111-1118	A new liquid crystal of considerable value for the separation of closely related solvents by gas chromatography	Oznur Yasa-Sahin; Ozlem Yazici; Burcu Karaagac; Dolunay Sakar; Ozlem Cankurtaran; Belkis Bilgin-Eran; Ferdane Karaman
1119-1126	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of three-benzene-ring-containing banana-shaped liquid crystals	Yuan Ming Huang; Qing-Lan Ma
1127-1131	Supramolecular main-chain liquid crystalline polymers and networks with competitive hydrogen bonding	Jason R. Greuel; David K. Witte; Christine M. Morales; Kurt N. Wiegel
1133-1138	A chemically modulated polystyrene surface for homogeneously aligned liquid crystals using various ion beam exposure angles	Jeong-Hwan Kim; Hong-Gyu Park; Young-Gu Gang; Ji-Hun Lim; Jeong-Yeon Hwang; Chul-Ho Ok; Dae-Shik Seo; Jeong-Min Han; Sung-Ho Kim; Tae-Kyu Park
1139-1149	Columnar liquid crystals derived from crown ethers with two lateral ester-substituted ortho-terphenyl units: unexpected destabilisation of the mesophase by potassium iodide	Nelli Steinke; Martin Kaller; Manfred Nimtz; Angelika Baro; Sabine Laschat
1151-1156	Director field of birefringent stripes in liquid crystal/nanoparticle dispersions	Martin Urbanski; Brandy Kinkead; Torsten Hegmann; Heinz-S. Kitzerow
1157-1163	Effects of combining of different flexible spacers in liquid crystal trimers and tetramers on transition properties	Toshio Itahara
1165-1169	Gravitational field-induced orientational transition of aligned nematic liquid crystals	Yang Zou; Yongbin Lin; Jun Namkung; Dan Ke; Robert Lindquist
1171-1181	Transient and steady electric currents through a liquid crystal cell	Platon P. Korniychuk; Alexander M. Gabovich; Kenneth Singer; Alexander I. Voitenko; Yuriy A. Reznikov
1183-1190	Anomalous thermotropic liquid crystalline phase behaviour in poly[n-decyl-(RS)-2-methylbutylsilane]s with narrow molecular weight distributions	Kento Okoshi; Takahiro Hagihara; Michiya Fujiki; Junji Watanabe
1191-1203	Synthesis and properties of novel columnar liquid crystals based on symmetrical and non-symmetrical 1,3,5-trisubstituted benzene derivatives	Philip J. Stackhouse; Adam Wilson; David Lacey; Michael Hird
1205-1213	Quantitative analysis of the packing of alkyl glycosides: a comparison of linear and branched alkyl chains	H. S. Nguan; T. Heidelberg; R. Hashim; G. J. T. Tiddy
1215-1220	Light-controlled movement of isotropic droplets in smectic films	M. Conradi
1221-1224	Thermal tuning band gap in cholesteric liquid crystals	S. -Y. T. Tzeng; C. -N. Chen; Y. Tzeng

Volume 37, Issue 8 (2010)

987-996	Non-symmetrical bent-shaped liquid crystals with five ester groups	Michal Kohout; Jiří Svoboda; Vladimíra Novotná; Milada Glogarová; Damian Pociecha
997-1012	Fabrication of pseudo-pi vertical alignment mode liquid crystal devices with ultra-violet polymerisation and investigations of their electro-optical characteristics	Czung-Yu Ho; Jiunn-Yih Lee
1013-1019	Effect of the skeleton structures in the side chain of polyimides on their film surface properties and pretilt angles of liquid crystal molecules	Hua Lai; Ming Li; Lin Qin; Xiangyang Liu; Yi Gu
1021-1031	Thermal and current–voltage behaviour of liquid crystal compounds with rod and bent shapes comprising alkoxysemifluorinated and imine segments	Agnieszka Iwan; Henryk Janeczek; Agnieszka Hreniak; Marcin Palewicz; Damian Pociecha
1033-1045	Synthesis, mesomorphic behaviour and optoelectronic properties of phosphorus-based thermotropic liquid crystalline dendrimers	A. Iwan; H. Janeczek; M. Domanski; P. Rannou
1047-1057	Double helical defects in smectic A and smectic A* phases	C. Meyer; H. Logbo; B. Briouel; J. -C. Picot; Yu.A. Nastishin; M. Kleman
1059-1065	Bicontinuous cubic phase with the Pn3m space group formed by N,N,N-tris(5-alkoxytroponyl)-1,5,9-triazacyclododecanes	Akira Mori; Emi Yamamoto; Kanji Kubo; Seiji Ujiie; Ute Baumeister; Carsten Tschierske
1067-1081	Phase modulation and ellipticity of the light transmitted through a smectic C* layer with short helix pitch	Evgeny Pozhidaev; Sofia Torgova; Maxim Minchenko; Cesar Augusto Refosco Yednak; Alfredo Strigazzi; Elio Miraldi
1083-1090	λ-Shaped azomesogens with polar chloro- and nitro-substituents	A. K. Prajapati; M. C. Varia
1091-1096	X-ray characterisation of local molecular orientation in the electroclinic effect of surface-stabilised SmA liquid crystals	Atsuo Iida; Yumiko Takahashi; Yoichi Takanishi
1097-1110	Symmetric and non-symmetric chiral liquid crystal dimers	T. Donaldson; H. Staesche; Z. B. Lu; P. A. Henderson; M. F. Achard; C. T. Imrie

Volume 37, Issue 6-7 (2010)

Commemorative Issue dedicated to Alfred Saupe

617-618	Editorial: A Commemorative Issue for Alfred Saupe	Geoffrey R. Luckhurst
619-624	Alfred Saupe – 50 Years of Research	H. Pleiner
625-626	The night I danced with Al Saupe. A reflection	Edward T. Samulski
627-640	Micelles forming biaxial lyotropic nematic phases	L. Q. Amaral
641-651	Uniaxial and biaxial liquid crystal phases in colloidal dispersions of board-like particles	E. van den Pol; D. M. E. Thies–Weesie; A. V. Petukhov; D. V. Byelov; G. J. Vroege
653-667	Study of the biaxiality in the nematic phase of liquid crystals in terms of orientational order parameters by infrared spectroscopy	A. Kocot; J. K. Vij
669-678	meta-Cybotaxis and nematic biaxiality	Edward T. Samulski
679-694	Ordered micellar and inverse micellar lyotropic phases	G. C. Shearman; A. I. I. Tyler; N. J. Brooks; R. H. Templer; O. Ces; R. V. Law; J. M. Seddon
695-700	Comparison of shear-induced conductivity anisotropy in a micellar system in the isotropic and the nematic phase	Panos Photinos
701-710	Molecular aggregation and chromonic liquid crystals	P. J. Collings; A. J. Dickinson; E. C. Smith
711-722	The influence of sodium chloride on the self-association and chromonic mesophase formation of Edicol Sunset Yellow	J. W. Jones; L. Lue; A. P. Ormerod; G. J. T. Tiddy
723-736	Dielectric studies of liquid crystals: the influence of molecular shape	D. A. Dunmur; M. R. de la Fuente; M.A. Perez Jubindo; S. Diez
737-745	Dielectric relaxation and memory effects in nematic liquid crystals	Sergij V. Shiyanovskii; Oleg D. Lavrentovich
747-771	Theory and numerical simulation of field-induced director dynamics in confined nematics investigated by nuclear magnetic resonance	A. F. Martins; A. Véron
773-784	Angular dependence of ²H-NMR longitudinal spin relaxation in aligned nematic 4-n-pentyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl: molecular rotation and director fluctuations	Mario Cifelli; Diego Frezzato; Geoffrey R. Luckhurst; Giorgio J. Moro; Akihiko Sugimura; Carlo A. Veracini
785-797	Reorientational dynamics of conjugated nematic point defects	A. M. Sonnet; E. G. Virga
799-809	The pumping phenomenon in smectic C* liquid crystals	I. W. Stewart
811-823	The theory of elastic constants	A. Ferrarini

Volume 37, Issue 6-7 (2010)

Commemorative Issue dedicated to Alfred Saupe

825-837	Electro-mechanical effects in liquid crystals	A. Jákli
839-852	Structural investigations on B₇ phases of new bent-core mesogens including a binary system	G. Pelzl; S. Diele; M. W. Schröder; W. Weissflog; M. G. Tamba; U. Baumeister
853-874	Banana-calamitic dimers: unexpected mesophase behaviour by variation of the direction of ester linking groups in the bent-core unit	Maria Gabriela Tamba; Ute Baumeister; Gerhard Pelzl; Wolfgang Weissflog
875-882	Cholesteric blue phases: effect of strong confinement	J. Fukuda; S. Žumer
883-892	Anchoring transition of bent-rod liquid crystal dimers on different surfaces	Guksik Lee; Hyeon-cheol Jeong; Fumito Araoka; Ken Ishikawa; Jong Gun Lee; Kyung-Tae Kang; Mojca Cepic; Hideo Takezoe
893-901	Critical behaviour in liquid-crystalline phase transitions: a comparative study of 9OCB in bulk and Anopore membranes	S. Diez-Berart; D. O. López; M. R. de la Fuente; J. Salud; M. A. Pérez-Jubindo; D. Finotello
903-912	Evolution of the Saupe order parameters of enantiomers from a racemic to a non-racemic liquid crystal solvent: an original light on the absolute configuration determination problem	J. Courtieu; C. Aroulanda; P. Lesot; A. Meddour; D. Merlet
913-921	Vibrational averaging of residual dipolar couplings: dependence on orientational order	J. W. Emsley
923-933	Exploiting the information content of dipolar couplings: determination of the temperature dependence of the inter-ring twist angle of biphenyl dissolved in uniaxial mesophases	G. Celebre; G. De Luca; M. Longeri
935-948	NMR studies of the ferroelectric SmC* phase	Mario Cifelli; Valentina Domenici; Alberto Marini; Carlo Alberto Veracini
949-959	Optical measurements of orientational order in uniaxial and biaxial nematic liquid crystals	H. F. Gleeson; C. D. Southern; P. D. Brimicombe; J. W. Goodby; V. Görtz
961-968	Determination of the translational order parameter for smectic liquid crystals using small-angle neutron scattering	G. G. Alexander; S. M. King; R. M. Richardson; H. Zimmermann
969-976	Extending the Maier–Saupe theory to cybotactic nematics	S. Droulias; A. G. Vanakaras; D. J. Photinos
977-985	Orientational order in nematic polymers – some variations on the Maier–Saupe theme	Stephen J. Picken

Volume 37, Issue 5 (2010)

497-498	Editorial: The 2009 Luckhurst-Samulski Prize	C. T. Imrie
499-506	Synthesis and mesomorphism of ether–ester mixed tail C₃-symmetrical truxene discotic liquid crystals	Li-Li Li; Ping Hu; Bi-Qin Wang; Wen-Hao Yu; Yo Shimizu; Ke-Qing Zhao
507-515	Amphiphilic taper-shaped oligomer exhibiting a monolayer smectic A to columnar phase transition	Kazuhito Takeuchi; Yoichi Takanishi; Jun Yamamoto; Atsushi Yoshizawa
517-525	Ferroelectric liquid crystal composites based on the porous stretched polyethylene films	Evgeny Pozhidaev; Alexey Bobrovsky; Valery Shibaev; Galina Elyashevich; Maxim Minchenko
527-536	Mesophase behaviour of binary mixtures of bell-shaped and calamitic compounds	D.Ž. Obadović; A. Vajda; A. Jákli; A. Menyhárd; M. Kohout; J. Svoboda; M. Stojanović; N. Éber; G. Galli; K. Fodor-Csorba
537-545	Properties of non-symmetric bent-core liquid crystals with variable flexible chain length	Michal Kohout; Martin Chambers; Aniko Vajda; Giancarlo Galli; Attila Domjan; Jiří Svoboda; Alexej Bubnov; Antal Jakli; Katalin Fodor-Csorba
547-554	Synthesis of new schiff base ester liquid crystals with a benzothiazole core	Sie-Tiong Ha; Teck-Ming Koh; Siew-Ling Lee; Guan-Yeow Yeap; Hong-Cheu Lin; Siew-Teng Ong
555-561	Ionic perylene-3,4-dicarboximide as chromonic mesogens and the use of a fluorescence technique in determining phase-transition temperatures	Liming Huang; Suk-Wah Tam-Chang
563-569	Magnetite nanoparticles/chiral nematic liquid crystal composites with magnetically addressable and magnetically erasable characteristics	Wang Hu; Haiyan Zhao; Liankun Shan; Li Song; Hui Cao; Zhou Yang; Zihui Cheng; Chunzhu Yan; Sijin Li; Huai Yang; Lin Guo
571-577	Static and dynamic critical behaviours in de Vries liquid crystals	Yuji Sasaki; Kenji Ema; Haruhiko Yao
579-586	A columnar mesophase with high lateral order from a triphenylene-hexa(3,5-dialkoxy)benzoate	Arkadiusz Kotlewski; Wolter F. Jager; Eduardo Mendes; Stephen J. Picken
587-592	Mechanism of colour changes in stretchable cholesteric films	Petr V. Shibaev; Robert Uhrlass; Sean Woodward; Cristina Schlesier; Md R. Ali; Eckhard Hanelt
593-598	Formation of a homochiral antiferroelectric ground state in asymmetric bent-shaped molecules	Seng Kue Lee; Sungmin Kang; Masatoshi Tokita; Junji Watanabe
599-605	Electro-rheological effect of blends composed of two liquid crystalline materials: composition dependence	Kosuke Kaneko; Atsuhiko Mandai; Yuichi Kamei; Yusuke Miwa; Naotake Nakamura
607-615	Non-symmetrical discotic liquid crystalline dimers: molecular design, synthesis and mesomorphic properties^‡	S. K. Varshney; H. Monobe; Y. Shimizu; H. Takezoe; V. Prasad

Volume 37, Issue 4 (2010)

355-368	Mesomorphic property of 2,5-dibenzoyloxy-, 5-benzoylamino-2-benzoyloxy-, and 2,5-dibenzoylamino-tropones with mono-, di-, and tri-alkoxyl groups on the benzoyl groups and their benzenoid derivatives	Akira Mori; Tomohiko Itoh; Hisashi Taya; Kanji Kubo; Seiji Ujiie; Ute Baumeister; Siegmar Diele; Carsten Tschierske
369-375	Dielectric relaxation spectroscopy and electro-optical studies of a new, partially fluorinated orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystal material exhibiting V-shaped switching	S. Ghosh; P. Nayek; S. Kr. Roy; Tapas Pal Majumder; R. Dabrowski
377-382	Shear-induced lamellar ionic liquid-crystal foam	A. J. Ferreira; C. Cruz; M. H. Godinho; P. S. Kulkarni; C. A. M. Afonso; P. I. C. Teixeira
383-388	Bold relief fabrication by means of electroconvection: basic properties of a suitable mixture	M. A. Zöller; N. Stich; S. A. Benning; A. Hoischen; H. -S. Kitzerow
389-397	Synthesis and thermotropic behaviour of imidazole-terminated liquid crystals	Supacharee Roddecha; Mitchell Anthamatten
399-406	Preparation of novel polyimides containing aryl ester side chains end-capped with alkoxy groups and studies on their surface properties	Xiangyang Liu; Ligang Ren; Xu Wang; Hua Lai; Jin Yang; Yi Gu
407-415	Bent-shaped mesogenic oxadiazole and thiadiazole derivatives from rod-shaped mesogenic hydrazide containing polar chloro group	A. K. Prajapati; Vishal Modi
417-425	Occurrence of a transition between two polar orthogonal smectic phases in a new homologous series of novel bent-core compounds	S. Radhika; B. K. Sadashiva; R. Pratibha
427-433	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of resorcyl di[4-(4-alkoxy-2,3-diflorophenyl)ethynyl] benzoate liquid crystals	Ziming Li; Peter Salamon; Antal Jakli; Kan Wang; Chuan Qin; Qing Yang; Cheng Liu; Jianxun Wen
435-443	Effect of mesogenic density on liquid-crystalline behaviours of polymethacrylates bearing azobenzene mesogen	Qing Wang; Chang-an Yang; Helou Xie; Xingzhu Wang; Hailiang Zhang
445-451	Study of selectively reflecting characteristics of polymer stabilised chiral nematic liquid crystal films with a temperature-dependent pitch length	Xiaotao Yuan; Lipei Zhang; Huai Yang
453-462	Preparation and properties of highly birefringent liquid crystalline materials: styrene monomers with acetylenes, naphthyl, and isothiocyanate groups	Lan-Ying Zhang; Xiao-Lin Guan; Zhen-Lin Zhang; Xiao-Fang Chen; Zhihao Shen; Xing-He Fan; Qi-Feng Zhou
463-473	Morphological phase behaviour of a homologous series of thermotropic cubic mesogens under pressure	Yoji Maeda; Hiroyuki Mori; Shoichi Kutsumizu
475-486	Effect of lateral substitution on supramolecular liquid crystal associates induced by hydrogen-bonding interactions between 4-(4′-pyridylazo-3-methylphenyl)-4′′-alkoxy benzoates and 4-substituted benzoic acids	Magdi M. Naoum; Abdelgawad A. Fahmi; Sayed Z. Mohammady; Amira H. Abaza
487-495	Influence of temperature and terminal chain length on helical pitch in homologue series nH6Bi	Marzena Tykarska; Michał Czerwiński; Joanna Miszkurka

Volume 37, Issue 3 (2010)

241-246	Use of a hybrid pseudospectral time-domain–finite-difference time-domain method for optical simulation of liquid crystals	Yun Fang; Xi Li; Jian Zhang; Liying Wu
247-253	Non-linear behaviour of phason mode with bias field in ferroelectric liquid crystals	A. Kumar; J. Prakash; A. M. Biradar
255-261	Enhancing the electro-optical properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals by doping ferroelectric nanoparticles	Hao-Hsun Liang; Ya-Zhi Xiao; Fu-Jhen Hsh; Che-Cheng Wu; Jiunn-Yih Lee
263-270	Structure peculiarities and optical properties of nanocomposite: 5CB liquid crystal–CTAB-modified montmorillonite clay	T. Bezrodna; I. Chashechnikova; V. Nesprava; G. Puchkovska; Ye. Shaydyuk; Yu. Boyko; J. Baran; M. Drozd
271-278	A study of the transition of liquid-crystal alignment from homeotropic to planar on a polyimide layer	Jian Wang; Lei Wang; Yu Zeng; Yu-Qing Fang; Qin Zhang; Yinghan Wang
279-284	Homogeneous liquid crystal orientation on ion beam exposure TiO₂ surfaces depending on an anisotropic dipole field	Jin-Woo Lee; Byung-Moo Moon; Kang-Min Lee; Young-Hwan Kim; Hong-Gyu Park; Ji-Hun Lim; Byeong-Yun Oh; Byoung-Yong Kim; Jeong-Yeon Hwang; Chul-Ho Ok; Dae-Shik Seo; Jeong-Min Han
285-291	Tris(β-diketonates) lanthanum nematic adducts	Vagif I. Dzhabarov; Andrey A. Knyazev; Mikhail V. Strelkov; Elena Yu. Molostova; Vladimir A. Schustov; Wolfgang Haase; Yury G. Galyametdinov
293-301	Synthesis and self-assembled nanostructures of novel chiral amphiphilic liquid crystals containing β-d-galactopyranoside end-groups	Ming-Shou Ho; Chain-Shu Hsu
303-309	Abnormal behaviour in colour tracking characteristics of the fringe-field switching liquid crystal display	Jun Ho Jung; Kyung Su Ha; Mina Chae; Wan Seok Kang; Gi-Dong Lee; Seung Hee Lee
311-316	Bandwidth-controllable reflective cholesteric gels from photo- and thermally-induced processes	Renwei Guo; Hui Cao; Chaoyong Yang; Xiaojuan Wu; Qingyong Meng; Tao Liu; Wanli He; Zihui Cheng; Huai Yang
317-324	Helical twisting behaviour of new chiral dopants with (S)-1, 2-propanediol units for nematic liquid crystals	Hai quan Zhang; Wen ke Liu; An lei Qin; Fei fei Wang; Li cheng Zhao; Shuai Zhang; Ying Li; Huai Yang
325-334	Synthesis and physical properties of a main-chain chiral smectic thiol-ene oligomer	Hong Yang; Jacqueline M. Richardson; David M. Walba; Chenhui Zhu; Renfan Shao; Noel A. Clark; Josu Ortega; Jesus Etxebarria; Patrick Keller
335-338	Nitroarenes – the simple way to liquid crystalline fluoroalkyl–aryl ethers	W. Drzewinski
339-343	Effects of the chain length of crosslinking agents on the electro-optical properties of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal films	Miki Kashima; Hui Cao; Huijing Liu; Qingyong Meng; Ding Wang; Fasheng Li; Huai Yang
345-348	Large pretilt angle induced by an anhydride-terminal hyperbranched polyimide liquid crystal alignment layer	Zhen Sun; Ailin Qin; Zihua Chen; Yinghan Wang
349-353	Thermal study of the Isotropic to Smectic C phase transition in main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers	G. Cordoyiannis; A. Sánchez-Ferrer; H. Finkelmann; B. Rožič; S. Žumer; Z. Kutnjak

Volume 37, Issue 2 (2010)

121-128	Self-assembly of azo molecules to mesogenic phasmid-like materials through inter-molecular hydrogen bonding	Veena Prasad; Shin-Woong Kang; Sanjay K. Varshney; N. G. Nagaveni
129-137	New compounds with a TGBA-TGBC-SmC* phase sequence	Miroslav Kašpar; Vladimíra Novotná; Milada Glogarová; Věra Hamplová; Damian Pociecha
139-147	High birefringence lateral difluoro phenyl tolane liquid crystals	Qiong Song; Sebastian Gauza; Haiqing Xianyu; Shin Tson Wu; Yung-Ming Liao; Chin-Yen Chang; Chain-Shu Hsu
149-158	Effect of a biphenyl side chain of polyimide on the pretilt angle of liquid crystal molecules: molecular simulation and experimental studies	Ming Li; Hua Lai; Boxun Chen; Xiangyang Liu; Yi Gu
159-169	Synthesis of liquid-crystalline 3,5-diarylisoxazolines	Aline Tavares; Olga M. S. Ritter; Ursula B. Vasconcelos; Bárbara C. Arruda; Abel Schrader; Paulo H. Schneider; Aloir A. Merlo
171-178	Realisation of cholesteric liquid-crystalline materials reflecting both right- and left-circularly polarised light using the wash-out/refill technique	Jinbao Guo; Fang Liu; Fengjin Chen; Jie Wei; Huai Yang
179-187	Ion beam induced liquid crystal alignment properties of 4-alkylphenoxymethyl-substituted polystyrenes	Hyo Kang; Byoung Har Hwang; Hong Koo Baik; Daeseung Kang; Jong-Chan Lee
189-193	Effects of the structures of epoxy monomers on the electro-optical properties of heat-cured polymer-dispersed liquid crystal films	Qingyong Meng; Hui Cao; Miki Kashima; Huijing Liu; Huai Yang
195-199	Controlling the orientation of microgrooves and the depth of the ripple structure in dye-doped liquid crystal cells	I. Palarie; C. Dascalu; G. E. Iacobescu
201-208	Optimisation of electrode structure to improve the electro-optic characteristics of liquid crystal display based on the Kerr effect	Sukin Yoon; Miyoung Kim; Min Su Kim; Byeong Gyun Kang; Mi-Kyung Kim; Anoop Kumar Srivastava; Seung Hee Lee; Zhibing Ge; Linghui Rao; Sebastian Gauza; Shin-Tson Wu
209-216	Liquid crystalline molecules with hydrogen-bonding networks in the direction of molecular short axes	Shigeo Kohmoto; Yasunobu Someya; Keiki Kishikawa
217-225	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of different liquid crystal methacrylic azo monomers with ‘de Vries’-like behaviour	C.M. González Henríquez; E.A. Soto Bustamante; D.A. Waceols Gordillo; W. Haase
227-232	Pressure-driven reentrant phenomena in liquid crystals: the role of inverse layer spacing	Shri Singh; Amit Srivastava; Debanand Sa
233-239	Approximate analytic solutions for the director profile of homogeneously aligned nematic liquid crystals	I. Abdulhalim; D. Menashe

Volume 37, Issue 1 (2010)

1-11	The kinetics of photo-polymerisation in the fabrication of polymer-dispersed liquid crystals doped with nano-graphite	J. H. Wang; B. Y. Zhang; W. Z. Qu; H. S. Chu; H. Li
23-30	Synthesis and mesomorphic studies on the series of 2-(4-alkoxyphenyl)-5-phenylpyridines and 2-(6-alkoxynaphthalen-2-yl)-5-phenylpyridines	Win-Long Chia; Ci-Lin Li; Chih-Hsun Lin
31-36	Surface nematic liquid crystal bistability on low-symmetry photoalignment micropatterns	J. Niitsuma; M. Yoneya; H. Yokoyama
37-43	Asymmetric synthesis of a highly soluble ‘trimeric’ analogue of the chiral nematic liquid crystal twist agent Merck S1011	James A. Rego; Jamie A. A. Harvey; Andrew L. MacKinnon; Elysse Gatdula
45-56	Density-functional study of defects in two-dimensional circular nematic nanocavities	D. de las Heras; L. Mederos; E. Velasco
57-67	Synthesis, characterisation and mesomorphic properties of unsymmetrical N-(o-hydroxybenzylidene)-N′-(4-n-alkoxybenzylidene)azines and their copper (II) complexes	Bachcha Singh; Ashwini Pandey
69-76	Synthesis and properties of highly birefringent liquid crystalline materials: 2,5-bis(5-alkyl-2-butadinylthiophene-yl) styrene monomers	Zhenlin Zhang; Lanying Zhang; Xiaolin Guan; Zhihao Shen; Xiaofang Chen; Guangzhong Xing; Xinghe Fan; Qifeng Zhou
77-84	On the smectic cybotactic groups and pretransition effects in the Miesowicz viscosity coefficient η₂	Joanna Janik-Kokoszka
85-92	Preparation of discotic metallomesogens based on phenacylpyridines showing room temperature columnar phases	Byung Mun Jung; Yao Dong Huang; Ji Young Chang
93-99	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of unsymmetrical banana-shaped 1,3-dihydroxybenzene esters	S. I. Maksimenko; E. Gorecka; N. S. Novikova; R. V. Kondratyeva
101-108	The synthesis and mesogenic behaviour of the first series of low molar mass thieno[3,2-b]thiophene-2-carboxylate ester-based mesogens	Raymond M. Gipson; Paul Sampson; Alexander J. Seed
109-114	Directional behaviour of liquid crystals on homogeneous polyimide surfaces induced by polarised ultraviolet exposure and rubbing	Hyun-Jae Na; Won-Kyu Lee; Ji-Hun Lim; Byoung-Yong Kim; Young-Hwan Kim; Chul-Ho Ok; Dae-Shik Seo; Sang-Do Lee; Jae-Hoon Lee; Jong-Gyu La
115-119	The influence of fluorine atoms introduced into the surface of polyimide films by direct fluorination on the liquid crystal alignment	Xiangyang Liu; Xu Wang; Hua Lai; Shengliang Chen; Ming Li; Chaorong Peng; Yi Gu

Volume 36, Issue 12 (2009)

1319-1327	Effect of chiral isosorbide groups on mesomorphic properties of side-chain liquid-crystalline polysiloxanes	Heng-Da Gu; Li Chen; Jing-Xi Yan
1329-1336	Synthesis, characterisation and behaviour under a field of a chiral smectic liquid crystal	T. Soltani; N. Bitri; H. Dhaouadi; A. Gharbi; J. P. Marcerou; H. T. Nguyen
1337-1347	Liquid crystal phases generated by supramolecular self-assembly of biforked amphiphilic imidazoles	Oleg N. Kadkin; Jigeon Tae; So Yeon Kim; Eun Ho Kim; Eunji Lee; Moon-Gun Choi
1349-1354	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of a novel series of cholesterol-based liquid crystalline tetramers	Xibing Zhan; Xiaoping Jing; Changcheng Wu
1355-1364	The influence of chirality on the difference in flexoelectric coefficients investigated in uniform lying helix, Grandjean and twisted nematic structures	P. S. Salter; C. Kischka; S. J. Elston; E. P. Raynes
1365-1372	Effect of the site of hydrogen-bonding on the liquid crystalline behaviour of supramolecular complexes	X. Y. Xu; B. Y. Zhang; L. X. Wang; W. M. Gu
1373-1377	Tunable quasi-homeotropic liquid crystal pretilt angle based on competing alignment layers	Pieter J. M. Vanbrabant; Jeroen Beeckman; Kristiaan Neyts
1379-1388	Anchoring transition and influence of director fluctuations in liquid crystal droplets	G. Sai Preeti; N. Satyavathi; K. P. N. Murthy; V. S. S. Sastry
1389-1399	Synthesis and characterisation of thermotropic liquid-crystalline properties of azomethine dimers	Pradip K. Bhowmik; Haesook Han; Alexi K. Nedeltchev; Hari D. Mandal; Jose A. Jimenez-Hernandez; Patrick M. McGannon; Leonardo Lopez; Shin-Woong Kang; Satyendra Kumar
1401-1408	High birefringence phenyl tolane positive compounds for dual frequency liquid crystals	Jie Sun; Haiqing Xianyu; Sebastian Gauza; Shin-Tson Wu
1409-1415	Octasubstituted dibenzochrysenes: discotic liquid crystals with a twisted core	Sanjay K. Varshney; Hiroki Nagayama; Hideo Takezoe; Veena Prasad
1417-1430	The synthesis and mesomorphic properties of liquid crystals with bulky terminal groups designed for bookshelf geometry ferroelectric mixtures	Ibrahim A. Radini; Michael Hird
1431-1441	Why do non-symmetric dimers intercalate? The synthesis and characterisation of the α-(4-benzylidene-substituted-aniline-4′-oxy)-ω-(2-methylbutyl-4′-(4″-phenyl)benzoateoxy)alkanes	Guan-Yeow Yeap; Tiang-Chuan Hng; Sue-Yi Yeap; Ewa Gorecka; Masato M. Ito; Koichi Ueno; Masaki Okamoto; Wan Ahmad Kamil Mahmood; Corrie T. Imrie
1443-1450	Synthesis of macrocyclised dimetric compounds and their liquid crystal transition behaviours	Manabu Itoh; Masatoshi Tokita; Kaoru Adachi; Teruaki Hayakawa; Sungmin Kang; Yasuyuki Tezuka; Junji Watanabe
1451-1457	Mesomorphic phase transition behaviour of photopolymerisable liquid crystalline triphenylene ether compounds	Jinsoo Kim; Young Ju Jung; Jae-Won Ka; Eun Chol Kim; Taek Ahn; Mi Hye Yi

Volume 36, Issue 10-11 (2009)

Special issue dedicated to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

(e)	Cover
1015	Editorial	C. T. Imrie
1017-1018	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nobel Prize laureate for physics (1991)	Le Monde
1019-1022	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932–2007)	T. J. Sluckin
1023-1029	Light-responsive wires from side-on liquid crystalline azo polymers	Wei Deng; Min-Hui Li; Xiaogong Wang; Patrick Keller
1031-1035	Tuning the sensitivity of a liquid crystal-based chemical/biological sensor using a novel double layer alignment film	Ke Zhang; Na Liu; Robert J. Twieg; Philip J. Bos
1037-1047	Cholesteric helix: topological problem, photonics and electro-optics	Lev M. Blinov; Serguei P. Palto
1049-1069	Thermopermeation in bicontinuous lyotropic crystals	P. Pieranski
1071-1084	Lehmann effect in chiral liquid crystals and Langmuir monolayers: an experimental survey	P. Oswald; A. Dequidt
1085-1099	Liquids with conics	M. Kleman; O. D. Lavrentovich
1101-1118	Degeneracy lifting near the frustration points due to long-range interlayer interaction forces and the resulting varieties of polar chiral tilted smectic phases	K. L. Sandhya; J. K. Vij; Atsuo Fukuda; A. V. Emelyanenko
1119-1124	Flexoelectric effect in a bent-core mesogen	Khoa Van Le; Fumito Araoka; Katalin Fodor-Csorba; Ken Ishikawa; Hideo Takezoe
1125-1137	Shape-dynamic growth, structure, and elasticity of homogeneously oriented spherulites in an isotropic/smectic-A mesophase transition	Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir; Alejandro D. Rey
1139-1156	Textured deformations in liquid crystal elastomers	J. S. Biggins
1157-1160	Twist penetration in single-layer smectic A discs of colloidal virus particles	Robert A. Pelcovits; Robert B. Meyer
1161-1172	Nematicons: self-localised beams in nematic liquid crystals	Gaetano Assanto; Mirosław A. Karpierz
1173-1184	On some liquid crystals made of banana-shaped molecules and their mixtures with rod-like molecules	N. V. Madhusudana
1185-1192	Flow and reorientation in the dynamics of nematic defects	André M. Sonnet; Epifanio G. Virga
1193-1199	Chiral liquid crystal dopants derived from optically active drugs	S. Jeeva; S. J. Cowling; E. P. Raynes; J. W. Goodby
1201-1214	Landau–de Gennes modelling of nematic liquid crystal colloids	Miha Ravnik; Slobodan Žumer

Volume 36, Issue 10-11 (2009)

Special issue dedicated to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

1215-1227	Numerical results for the blue phases	G. P. Alexander; J. M. Yeomans
1229-1240	Nuclear magnetic resonance of pretransitional ordering of liquid crystals in well defined nano-geometries: the utility of the Landau–de Gennes formalism	Xin Ma; Gregory P. Crawford; Renate J. Crawford; Ichiro Amimori; Slobodan Žumer; Gregor Skačej; Sylvain G. Cloutier
1241-1261	Twisted smectics as the liquid crystal analogues of type II superconductors	Laurence Navailles; Philippe Barois
1263-1280	Changing liquid crystal elastomer ordering with light – a route to opto-mechanically responsive materials	D. Corbett; M. Warner
1281-1288	Microscopic origin of ferroelectricity in chiral smectic C* liquid crystals and ordering of ‘ferroelectric fishes’ proposed by de Gennes	M. A. Osipov; M. V. Gorkunov
1289-1293	Photomechanical properties of azobenzene liquid-crystalline elastomers	Mizuho Kondo; Ryo Miyasato; Yumiko Naka; Jun-ichi Mamiya; Motoi Kinoshita; Yanlei Yu; Christopher J. Barrett; Tomiki Ikeda
1295-1308	Biaxial nematics composed of flexible molecules: a molecular field theory	Geoffrey R. Luckhurst
1309-1317	de Gennes' triclinic smectics – not so far-fetched after all	Nattaporn Chattham; Eva Korblova; Renfan Shao; David M. Walba; Joseph E. Maclennan; Noel A. Clark

Volume 36, Issue 9 (2009)

899-905	Dielectric and electro-optical properties of a photosensitive liquid crystal	Y. Boussoualem; M. Ismaili; J. M. Buisine; C. Binet; G. Joly; H. T. Nguyen
907-916	Surface disclination cores in the B₂ phase of bent-shaped molecules described by the Peierls–Nabarro model	Lubor Lejček
917-925	Heterocyclic benzothiazole-based liquid crystals: synthesis and mesomorphic properties	Sie-Tiong Ha; Teck-Ming Koh; Hong-Cheu Lin; Guan-Yeow Yeap; Yip-Foo Win; Siew-Teng Ong; Yasodha Sivasothy; Lay-Khoon Ong
927-931	Photo-induced control of bubble domains in chiral–nematic liquid crystal by a violet laser beam	Vincent K. S. Hsiao; Wei-Ting Chang
933-938	Control of liquid crystal droplet configuration in polymer dispersed liquid crystal with macro-iniferter polystyrene	Bin Yan; Jie He; Xin Du; Kai Zhang; Shoulian Wang; Cuihong Pan; Yinghan Wang
939-946	Characteristics of wide-band reflection of polymer-stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal cell prepared from an unsticking technique	Renwei Guo; Hui Cao; Huijing Liu; Kexuan Li; Wei Huang; Jiumei Xiao; Xiaotao Yuan; Zhou Yang; Huai Yang
947-951	A method for enlarging the Kerr constant of polymer-stabilised blue phases	Takashi Iwata; Ken Suzuki; Hiroki Higuchi; Hirotsugu Kikuchi
953-965	Influence of acetylene-containing peripheral chains on the mesomorphic properties of triphenylene-based liquid crystals	Philip J. Stackhouse; Michael Hird
967-975	Experimental study of the growth of cholesteric fingers subjected to an AC electric field and a temperature gradient	P. Oswald
977-987	Mesomorphism of a banana mesogen: influence of a fluoro substituent in the central core	Nandiraju V. S. Rao; Rajdeep Deb; Manoj Kr Paul; Tuluri Francis
989-997	Photoinduced phase transitions and helix untwisting in the SmC* phase of a novel cinnamoyl-based liquid crystal	Alexey Bobrovsky; Valery Shibaev; Věra Hamplová; Miroslav Kašpar; Vladimira Novotna; Milada Glogarová; Evgeniy Pozhidaev
999-1002	Response mechanism of a vertical alignment mode driven by fringe-field switching	Hongmei Ma; Yubao Sun; Guangsheng Fu
1003-1014	Electron beam irradiation-induced transformations in the electrical properties of 4’-octyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (8CB)	Rohit Verma; R. Dhar; V. K. Agrawal; M. C. Rath; S. K. Sarkar; V. K. Wadhawan; R. Dabrowski

Volume 36, Issue 8 (2009)

779-786	New method for measuring polar anchoring energy of nematic liquid crystals	Anatoli Murauski; Vladimir Chigrinov; Hoi-Sing Kwok
787-797	Synthesis and thermotropic liquid-crystalline properties of N-alkylpyridinium bromides substituted with a terphenylene moiety	R. G. Santos-Martell; A. Ceniceros-Olguín; L. Larios-López; R. J. Rodríguez-González; D. Navarro-Rodríguez; B. Donnio; D. Guillon
799-807	Synthesis and properties of (E)-1,2-difluoroethylene derivatives: improvement of the ultraviolet light stability	Osamu Yokokoji; Takashi Miyajima; Jun Irisawa; Tamaki Shimizu; Seiichi Inoue
809-816	Synthesis and liquid crystal properties of mixed alkynyl-alkoxy-triphenylenes	Andrew N. Cammidge; Hemant Gopee
817-824	The synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of tetracatenar di-hydrazine derivatives	Peng Zhang; Songnan Qu; Binglian Bai; Haitao Wang; Xia Ran; Chengxiao Zhao; Min Li
825-833	Synthesis and comparative study of the heterocyclic rings on liquid crystalline properties of 2,5-aryl-1,3,4-oxa(thia)diazole derivatives containing furan and thiophene units	Jie Han; Feng-Yan Zhang; Juan-Yu Wang; Yan-Mei Wang; Mei-Li Pang; Ji-Ben Meng
835-838	Temperature dependence of physical constants in binary-fluorinated liquid crystal mixtures	Heng Ma; Xinpu Fu; Hiroyuki Okada; Hiroyoshi Onnagawa
839-845	Optical and thermal properties of unsymmetrical liquid crystalline compounds based on isoxazole	Hugo Gallardo; Fernando R. Bryk; André A. Vieira; Tiago E. Frizon; Gilmar Conte; Bruno S. Souza; Juliana Eccher; Ivan H. Bechtold
847-854	Side-chain cholesteric liquid crystalline elastomers containing isosorbide as chiral agent – synthesis and characterisation	Xiao-Zhi He; Bao-Yan Zhang; Wen-Wen Ma; Lin Zhang
855-864	Liquid crystal alignment properties of n-alkylsulphonylmethyl-substituted polyoxyethylenes	Hyo Kang; Eun-Ho Sohn; Daeseung Kang; Jong-Chan Lee
865-872	Diluters' effects on high Δn and low-viscosity negative Δε terphenyl liquid crystals	Qiong Song; Sebastian Gauza; Jie Sun; Shin Tson Wu; Xiao Liang
873-883	Characterization, optical and thermal properties of new azomethines based on heptadecafluoroundecyloxy benzaldehyde	Agnieszka Iwan; Henryk Janeczek; Bozena Jarzabek; Marian Domanski; Patrice Rannou
885-888	The elastic distortion and stability of biaxial nematic liquid crystal on the surface grooves	Zhidong Zhang; Wenjiang Ye
889-898	Theoretical and numerical calculations for the dynamics of nematic liquid crystals with consideration of flow	Shouping Tang; Jack Kelly

Volume 36, Issue 6-7 (2009)

565-566	Reflections on the 22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC 2008) and looking forward to a major new prize	C. T. Imrie
567-605	Molecular complexity and the control of self-organising processes	John W. Goodby; Isabel M. Saez; Stephen J. Cowling; Julita S. Gasowska; Robert A. MacDonald; Susan Sia; Paul Watson; Kenneth J. Toyne; Michael Hird; Robert A. Lewis; Seung-Eun Lee; Valerij Vaschenko
607-638	Playing with discs	Sandeep Kumar
639-647	Forces in nematic liquid crystals: from nanoscale interfacial forces to long-range forces in nematic colloids	Igor Muševič
649-656	Asymmetric oxadiazole mesogens as candidates for low-temperature biaxial nematics	N. A. Zafiropoulos; Wenbin Lin; E. T. Samulski; T. J. Dingemans; S. J. Picken
657-668	Advanced wide viewing angle technology in liquid crystal display modes	Seung-Hoon Ji; Gi-Dong Lee
669-684	Investigations of phase transitions in liquid crystals by means of adiabatic scanning calorimetry	Jan Thoen; George Cordoyiannis; Christ Glorieux
685-703	Nanoscale segregation, molecular recognition and fluorophobic effect – from molecular design towards complex mesophase morphologies	Dietmar Janietz; Alexandra Kohlmeier
705-716	Photoinduced phase transitions	S. Krishna Prasad; Geetha G. Nair; D. S. Shankar Rao
717-726	Dual frequency liquid crystals: a review	Haiqing Xianyu; Shin-Tson Wu; Chih-Lung Lin
727-737	Biaxial nematics: symmetries, order domains and field-induced phase transitions	S. D. Peroukidis; P. K. Karahaliou; A. G. Vanakaras; D. J. Photinos
739-745	The effects of fluorescent probes on model membrane organization: photo-induced lipid sorting and soft structure formation	Linda S. Hirst; Jing Yuan
747-753	Controllable alignment of nematics by nanostructured polymeric layers	L. Komitov; G. Barbero ^†; I. Dahl; B. Helgee; N. Olsson
755-777	Liquid crystal oligomers: going beyond dimers	Corrie T. Imrie; Peter A. Henderson; Guan-Yeow Yeap

Volume 36, Issue 5 (2009)

443-453	The synthesis and physical evaluation of 5-alkoxy-1,3-thiazoles prepared via Lawesson's reagent-mediated cyclisation of α-benzamido esters	Alan M. Grubb; Sana Hasan; Andre A. Kiryanov; Paul Sampson; Alexander J. Seed
455-460	Liquid-crystalline behaviours of novel chitosan derivates containing singular and cholesteryl groups	Yue-Hua Cong; Wei Wang; Mei Tian; Fan-Bao Meng; Bao-Yan Zhang
461-477	Germanium liquid crystals	William N. Thurmes; Kundalika M. More; Michael R. Meadows; Matthew B. O'Neill; Rohini T. Vohra; Michael D. Wand
479-485	Liquid crystal alignment properties of 2-naphthoxymethyl-substituted polystyrenes	Hyo Kang; Jin Seol Park; Daeseung Kang; Jong-Chan Lee
487-492	Investigation of alignment direction in wide view film and rubbing angle of twisted nematic liquid crystal display mode	Ji Ma; Shawn Hurley; Zhigang Zheng; Bo Jin; Deng-Ke Yang
493-495	Crystallisation of nematic liquid crystal mixtures	Kotaro Araya; Koichi Igeta; Masato Shimura
497-501	Super wide-band reflective polarisers from polymer stabilised liquid crystal films	Wei Huang; Xiaoguang Zhang; Jinbao Guo; Lipei Zhang; Zhenyu Bian; Dongyu Zhao; Wanli He; Hui Cao; Huai Yang
503-520	Rod-shaped dopants for flexoelectric nematic mixtures	Nayyar Aziz; Stephen M. Kelly; Warren Duffy; Mark Goulding
521-529	Mesomorphic and dielectric properties of fluorosubstituted isothiocyanates with different bridging groups	Joanna Czub; Roman Dąbrowski; Jerzy Dziaduszek; Stanisław Urban
531-540	Study on the helical twisting behaviour of chiral 1,2-propanediol derivatives inducing chiral nematic liquid crystals with a helix inversion and controllable pitch variation	Xiaoguang Zhang; Wei Huang; Zhenyu Bian; Guangda Yang; Xiaojuan Wu; Xiuting Zhao; Guojing Ma; Haiquan Zhang; Huai Yang
541-547	Liquid crystalline side chain methacrylic azo containing polymers	C. M. González-Henríquez; E. A. Soto-Bustamante; D. A. Waceols-Gordillo; W. Haase
549-556	Comments on free elastic energy for uniaxial nematic liquid crystals	Marek Andrzej Kojdecki; Jerzy Kędzierski; Zbigniew Raszewski
557-563	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties on the series of 2-(4-alkylphenyl)-6-methylquinolines and 2-(4-alkoxyphenyl)-6-methylquinolines	Win-Long Chia; Kuei-Hsien Liao; Chu-Ying Ho

Volume 36, Issue 4 (2009)

347-352	Phase diagram and electro-optical Kerr effect of nematic mixtures containingtolane and biphenyl cores	A. Ghanadzadeh Gilani; H. Tajalli; A. Vahedi
353-358	Anomalous uniform domain in a twisted nematic cell constructed from micropatterned surfaces	T. J. Atherton; J. R. Sambles; J. P. Bramble; J. R. Henderson; S. D. Evans
359-364	Electric field-induced phase transitions in a smectic chiral liquid crystal	S. Essid; N. Bitri; H. Dhaouadi; A. Gharbi; J. P. Marcerou
365-370	Transient light scattering in helix ferroelectric liquid crystal cells	Valery A. Loiko; Alexander V. Konkolovich; Alexander A. Miskevich
371-377	Azomesogens containing a β-chloroethyl terminal chain: synthesis and characterisation	A. K. Prajapati; H. M. Pandya
379-387	Synthesis and thermal behaviours of side-chain liquid-crystalline poly[N-(4-methoxyazobenzene-4′-oxyalkyl)ethyleneimine]	Changhai He; Chaocan Zhang; Ousheng Zhang
389-396	Liquid crystalline properties of all symmetric p-phenylene and 2,5-thiophene pentamers	Stefan Kuiper; Wolter F. Jager; Theo J. Dingemans; Stephen J. Picken
397-407	Synthesis and photoswitching properties of bent-shaped liquid crystals containing azobenzene monomers	Lutfor Rahman; Sandeep Kumar; Carsten Tschierske; Gunter Israel; Diana Ster; Gurumurthy Hegde
409-423	Mononuclear and binuclear complexes of salicylidene Schiff bases: synthesis and mesogenic properties	Nandiraju V. S. Rao; Trirup D. Choudhury; Manoj K. Paul; Tuluri Francis
425-433	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of α-methylstilbene-based liquid crystals	Chin-Yen Chang; Kang-Wei Ho; Chain-Shu Hsu; Chih-Hung Lin; Sebastian Gauza; Shin-Tson Wu
435-442	A SAXS study of flow alignment of thermotropic liquid crystal mixtures	V. Castelletto; A. M. Squires; I. W. Hamley; J. Stasiak; G. D. Moggridge

Volume 36, Issue 3 (2009)

217-223	Inversion of the phase sequence between the cubic and smectic C phases under pressure	Yoji Maeda; Hiroyuki Mori; Shoichi Kutsumizu
225-230	Crystal structure of an optically active non-symmetric liquid crystal dimer: cholesteryl 5-[4-(4-n-heptylphenylethynyl)phenoxy]pentanoate	Rajneesh K. Sharma; Vivek K. Gupta; Manoj Mathews; C. V. Yelamaggad
231-237	High-resolution calorimetric investigation of the existence of a nematic phase for the dodecylcyanobiphenyl liquid crystal	George Cordoyiannis; Zdravko Kutnjak; Gojmir Lahajnar; Christ Glorieux; Jan Thoen
239-245	Reduced odd–even effects in liquid crystalline carbonate dimers: molecular field analysis	Roberto Centore
247-255	Optically active, mesogenic lanthanide complexes: design, synthesis and characterisation	Channabasaveshwar V. Yelamaggad; Rashmi Prabhu; Govindaswamy Shanker; Duncan W. Bruce
257-268	Polymorphism, crystal–crystal and liquid crystalline thermotropic phase transition behaviour of even chain length zinc(II) n-alkanoates	Richard A. Taylor; Henry A. Ellis
269-274	Self-assembly of discotic liquid crystal porphyrin into more controllable ordered nanostructure mediated by fluorophobic effect	Xiaoli Zhou; Shin-Woong Kang; Satyendra Kumar; Quan Li
275-299	p-Alkoxybiphenyls with guanidinium head groups displaying smectic mesophases	Sven Sauer; Sarmenio Saliba; Stefan Tussetschläger; Angelika Baro; Wolfgang Frey; Frank Giesselmann; Sabine Laschat; Willi Kantlehner
301-317	Novel amides and Schiff's bases derived from 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives: synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour	M. L. Parra; E. Y. Elgueta; V. Jimenez; P. I. Hidalgo
319-328	Kinetics of the nematic phase growth across the isotropic-nematic phase transition in polymer-dispersed liquid crystals	Sergei Bronnikov; Carmen Racles; Vasile Cozan
329-338	A new synthesis of alkylsulphanylnaphthalenes and the synthesis and mesomorphic properties of novel naphthylisothiocyanates	Alexander J. Seed; Kevin Pantalone; Uma Mishra Sharma; Alan M. Grubb
339-343	Crystal structure of bis(cholesteryl)4,4′-(1,2-phenylenebis(oxy))-dibutanoate: an oligomesogen	Vivek K. Gupta; Rajneesh K. Sharma; Manoj Mathews; C. V. Yelamaggad
345	Erratum

Volume 36, Issue 2 (2009)

115-122	Spontaneous deformation of main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers composed of smectic polyesters	Kazuyuki Hiraoka; Tohru Tashiro; Masatoshi Tokita; Junji Watanabe
123-132	Mesomorphic behaviour and TSDC measurements of ortho-metallated palladium(II) and platinum(II) complexes with S,O-donor co-ligands	Viorel Cîrcu; Doina Mănăilă-Maximean; Constantin Roşu; Monica Iliş; Yann Molard; Florea Dumitraşcu
133-145	Comparison of the rupture dynamics of smectic bubbles and soap bubbles	Frank Müller; Ralf Stannarius
147-156	Elastic, dielectric and optical constants of the nematic mixture E49	S. Faetti; B. Cocciaro
157-163	Microwave-assisted synthesis and liquid crystal properties of 1,3,4-thiadiazole-based liquid crystals	Jie Han; Xiaoyong Chang; Xiaoguang Wang; Lirong Zhu; Meili Pang; Jiben Meng
165-172	Effects of the preparing condition of a polymer-stabilised liquid crystal with a smectic-A-chiral nematic phase transition on its properties	Guohui Pan; Yubo Cao; Renwei Guo; Huicong Cheng; Zhou Yang; Jinbao Guo; Xiaokai Liang; Duowei Zhang; Hui Cao; Huai Yang
173-178	Preparation of vertical alignment layers by blending polyimide precursors with and without side chains	Hua Lai; Xiangyang Liu; Lin Qin; Ming Li; Yi Gu
179-185	A convenient preparation of long chain 4-(4-n-alkylphenylazo)phenols and their 4-pentylbenzoate esters	Lillian Johnson; Bryan Ringstrand; Piotr Kaszynski
187-195	Influence of substituting thioester for ester group and alkyloxy for alkyl chain on liquid-crystalline polymorphism of certain azobenzene derivatives	Urszula Jarek-Mikulska; Zbigniew Galewski
197-208	Influence of the molecular structure of thermotropic liquid crystals on their ability to form monolayers at interface	Anna Modlińska; Krzysztof Inglot; Tomasz Martyński; Roman Dąbrowski; Jan Jadżyn; Danuta Bauman
209-213	Synthesis, single crystal structure and liquid crystalline properties of bent-shaped 2,5-diaryl 1,3,4-oxadiazoles	Li-Rong Zhu; Fei Yao; Jie Han; Mei-Li Pang; Ji-Ben Meng
215	Optimal pixel design for low driving, single gamma curve and single cell-gap transflective fringe-field switching liquid crystal display

Volume 36, Issue 1 (2009)

1-6	5,6-Difluoro-1H-indene derivatives: novel core structure of liquid crystals with high Δn and Δε	Osamu Yokokoji; Kanetaka Shimizu; Seiichi Inoue
7-12	The synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of tetracatenar and hexacatenar bi-1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives	Peng Zhang; Binglian Bai; Haitao Wang; Songnan Qu; Zhixin Yu; Xia Ran; Min Li
13-19	Dielectric spectroscopy of unsymmetrical liquid crystal dimers showing wide temperature range TGBA and TGBC* phases	Abhay S. Pandey; R. Dhar; M. B. Pandey; A. S. Achalkumar; C. V. Yelamaggad
21-32	Synthesis and characterization of new azomethine derivatives exhibiting liquid crystalline properties	Luminita Marin; Silvia Destri; William Porzio; Fabio Bertini
33-41	Memory effects in randomly perturbed systems exhibiting continuous symmetry breaking	M. Cvetko; M. Ambrožič; S. Kralj
43-51	Photoalignment of liquid crystals in a hydrogen-bonding-directed layer-by-layer ultrathin film	Fengzhen Lv; Zenghui Peng; Lingli Zhang; Lishuang Yao; Yan Liu; Li Xuan
53-60	New heteropolynuclear metallomesogens: copper(II), palladium(II), nickel(II) and oxovanadium(IV) chelates with [3]ferrocenophane-containing Schiff's base and β-aminovinylketone	Hye Won Chae; Oleg N. Kadkin; Moon-Gun Choi
61-66	Synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of new 5-substituted 4-(thien-2-yl)phenyl benzoates	Yi Huang; Zhiwu Luo; Xiaohong Cheng; Carsten Tschierske
67-73	Synthesis and study of new liquid crystalline compounds with an epoxy group	Ewa Białecka-Florjańczyk; Irma Śledzińska; Izabela Stolarzewicz; Anna Makal; Ewa Górecka
75-92	Thermodynamic modelling of carbonaceous mesophase mixtures	Mojdeh Golmohammadi; Alejandro D. Rey
93-100	Studies on the electro-optical properties of polymer stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal/aerosil particles composites	Xiaokai Liang; Hui Cao; Guohui Pan; Xiaopeng Cui; Fasheng Li; Guoguang Niu; Duowei Zhang; Zhou Yang; Huai Yang; Siquan Zhu
101-107	Interaction of light with a NLC–dendrimer system	I. A. Budagovsky; V. N. Ochkin; M. P. Smayev; A. S. Zolot'ko; A. Yu. Bobrovsky; N. I. Boiko; A. I. Lysachkov; V. P. Shibaev; M. I. Barnik
109-113	Response time characteristics of optical shutter of vertical alignment liquid crystal cell for obliquely incident light	HyungKi Hong; Moojong Lim

Volume 35, Issue 12 (2008)

1339-1343	Study of the purifying affects of thermal annealing for polymer-wall liquid crystal cells	Hsin Her Yu; Shug June Hwang; Ren Long Chen; Chen Yu Yang
1345-1350	Electro-optical cells using a cellulose derivative and cholesteric liquid crystals	P. L. Almeida; S. Kundu; J. L. Figueirinhas; M. H. Godinho
1351-1358	Use of inverse gas chromatography for the physicochemical characterisation of a new synthesised liquid crystal: (S)-5-(2-methylbutoxy)-2-{[(4-dodecyloxyphenyl)imino]methyl}phenol	Hale Ocak; Dolunay Sakar; Fatih Cakar; Ozlem Cankurtaran; Belkis Bilgin Eran; Ferdane Karaman
1359-1365	Synthesis and liquid crystalline properties of substituted 2,5-diaryl 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives without flexible chains	Jie Han; Feng-Yan Zhang; Zhi Chen; Juan-Yu Wang; Li-Rong Zhu; Mei-Li Pang; Ji-Ben Meng
1367-1372	Non-linear electromechanical transformations and amplification acoustical signal in ferroelectric liquid crystals	Alexander P. Fedoryako; Lidia A. Kutulya; Ekaterina V. Popova; Valery Vashchenko
1373-1377	IPS mode investigation of liquid crystal alignment on organic hybrid overcoat layer via ion beam irradiation	Chul-Ho Ok; Byoung-Yong Kim; Byeong-Yun Oh; Young-Hwan Kim; Kang-Min Lee; Hong-Gyu Park; Jeong-Min Han; Dae-Shik Seo; Dong-Ki Lee; Jeong-Yeon Hwang
1379-1394	Synthesis and liquid crystal properties of a new class of calamitic mesogens based on substituted 2,5-diaryl-1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives with wide mesomorphic temperature ranges	Jie Han; Xiao-Yong Chang; Li-Rong Zhu; Yan-Mei Wang; Ji-Ben Meng; Siu-Wai Lai; Stephen Sin-Yin Chui
1395-1399	Virtual isotropic-nematic transitions in alkyl cyanobiphenyls	Thomas Moses; Jason Reeves
1401-1408	High birefringence and low viscosity negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystals	Sebastian Gauza; Meizi Jiao; Shin-Tson Wu; Przemysław Kula; Roman Dąbrowski; Xiao Liang
1409-1413	Sub-millisecond response phase modulator using a low crossover frequency dual-frequency liquid crystal	Haiqing Xianyu; Sebastian Gauza; Shin-Tson Wu
1415-1421	Liquid crystal of cobalt complex from 1-dodecyl-1H-benzo[d]imidazole	Fang-Fang Jian; Ke-Fei Wang

Volume 35, Issue 11 (2008)

1263-1270	Liquid crystalline banana-shaped monomers derived from 2,7-naphthalene: synthesis and properties	Md Lutfor Rahman; Jahimin Asik; Sandeep Kumar; Carsten Tschierske
1271-1277	Azomesogens with polar chloro, nitro and phenolic –OH substituents	A. K. Prajapati; M. C. Varia
1279-1292	Banana-shaped dopants for flexoelectric nematic mixtures	Nayar Aziz; Stephen M. Kelly; Warren Duffy; Mark Goulding
1293-1298	Self-assembling in a living supramolecular linear nematic polymer-like system	Vjacheslav V. Zuev; Sergei Bronnikov
1299-1305	New ionic liquid crystals based on azobenzene moiety with two symmetric imidazolium ion group substituents	Qixian Zhang; Changsheng Shan; Xiaodan Wang; Lili Chen; Li Niu; Bin Chen
1307-1312	X-ray studies of the crystalline and nematic phases of 4′-(3,4,5-trifluorophenyl)-4-propylbicyclohexyl	S. Haldar; P. K. Mandal; S. J. Prathap; T. N. Guru Row; W. Haase
1313-1320	Study on selective reflection properties of chiral nematic liquid crystalline composites with a non-uniform pitch distribution	Wei Huang; Zhenyu Bian; Kexuan Li; Jiumei Xiao; Hui Cao; Huai Yang
1321-1328	Synthesis and thermal properties of side-chain liquid crystalline poly[1-({(4-methoxyazobenzene-4′-oxy)alkyl}thio)-2.3-epoxypropane]s	Changhai He; Chaocan Zhang; Minli Xie; Shuangqing Zhang
1329-1337	Effect of lateral methoxy substitution on mesomorphic and structural properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals	Alexej Bubnov; Miroslav Kašpar; Vladimíra Novotná; Věra Hamplová; Milada Glogarová; Nadia Kapernaum; Frank Giesselmann

Volume 35, Issue 10 (2008)

1169-1190	Conformational effects on mesophase stability: numerical comparison of carborane diester homologous series with their bicyclo[2.2.2]octane, cyclohexane and benzene analogues	Piotr Kaszynski; Adam Januszko; Kiminori Ohta; Takashi Nagamine; Piotr Potaczek; Victor G. Young; Yasuyuki Endo
1191-1197	Pretilt study of double-layer alignment film (DLAF)	Ke Zhang; Na Liu; Robert J. Twieg; Brian C. Auman; Philip J. Bos
1199-1203	Influence of ions on stability of planar and homeotropic structures in hybrid aligned flexoelectric nematic layers subjected to electric field	Mariola Buczkowska
1205-1214	Synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of heterocycle-based liquid crystals containing 1,3,4-oxadiazole/thiadiazole and thiophene units	Jie Han; Juan-Yu Wang; Feng-Yan Zhang; Li-Rong Zhu; Mei-Li Pang; Ji-Ben Meng
1215-1224	Kinetics of nanocolloids in the aligned domain of octylcyanobiphenyl and aerosil dispersion	Dipti Sharma
1225-1235	Electro-optical properties of liquid crystal–polyacrylonitrile fibre composites	Masashi Chino; Kanji Kitano; Katsufumi Tanaka; Ryuichi Akiyama
1237-1249	Synthesis and mesophase behaviour of rigid rod-like phenylthiophene-based amphiphilic diol derivatives	Zhiwu Luo; Yi Huang; Guanghui Wei; Xiaohong Cheng; Marko Prehm; Carsten Tschierske
1251-1262	Novel chiral calamitic liquid crystalline oxadiazoles as ferroelectric materials	M. L. Parra; P. I. Hidalgo; E. A. Soto-Bustamante; J. Barberá; E. Y. Elgueta; V. H. Trujillo-Rojo

Volume 35, Issue 9 (2008)

1051	Obituary
1053-1059	Physical properties of two systems with induced antiferroelectric phase	Marzena Tykarska; Roman Dąbrowski; Jan Przedmojski; Wiktor Piecek; Katarzyna Skrzypek; Bertrand Donnio; Daniel Guillon
1061-1071	Calorimetric study of the isotropic to nematic phase transition in an aligned liquid crystal nano-colloidal gel	F. Crucenau; D. Liang; R. L. Leheny; G. S. Iannacchione
1073-1093	Thermotropic columnar mesophases of wedge-shaped benzenesulfonic acid mesogens	Uwe Beginn; Linglong Yan; Sergei N. Chvalun; Maxim A. Shcherbina; Artem Bakirov; Martin Möller
1095-1100	Morphology and electro-optical properties of nematic liquid crystal/Aerosil® nanoparticle composites	Sabrina Mormile; Giovanni De Filpo; Giuseppe Chidichimo; Fiore Pasquale Nicoletta
1101-1108	Switching and electrical properties of ferro- and antiferroelectric phases of MOPB(H)PBC	Anoop Kumar Srivastava; Ravindra Dhar; Vinai Krishna Agrawal; Seung Hee Leeb; Roman Dabrowski
1109-1128	Self-ordered states derived from 2-benzoyloxy- and 2-benzoylamino-5-cyanotroponoids and their corresponding benzenoids: formation of hexagonal self-assembly of liquid crystalline 2-trialkoxybenzoylamino-5-cyanotroponoids in gel states through intramolecular hydrogen bonding and π–π interaction	Akira Mori; Masashi Hashimoto; Seiji Ujiie
1129-1135	High performance dual frequency liquid crystal compounds	Haiqing Xianyu; Yue Zhao; Sebastian Gauza; Xiao Liang; Shin-Tson Wu
1137-1144	Electrically controlled birefringence colours in deformed helix ferroelectric liquid crystals	Gurumurthy Hegde; Peizhi Xu; Eugene Pozhidaev; Vladimir Chigrinov; Hoi Sing Kwok
1145-1150	Synthesis and liquid crystal properties of some 2,6-disubstituted anthracenes	Andrew N. Cammidge; Victoria H. M. Goddard
1151-1160	Effects on thermo-optical properties of the composition of a polymer-stabilised liquid crystal with a smectic A–chiral nematic phase transition	Guohui Pan; Lilong Yu; Hongbin Zhang; Jinbao Guo; Renwei Guo; Hui Cao; Zhou Yang; Huai Yang; Siquan Zhu
1161-1167	Crystal structure of cholesteryl 5-(4′-(n-decyloxy)-2′,3′-difluoro-biphenyl-4-yloxy)pentanoate – a liquid crystalline non-symmetric dimer	Rajneesh K. Sharma; Vivek K. Gupta; Manoj Mathews; C. V. Yelamaggad

Volume 35, Issue 8 (2008)

905-912	Synthesis, liquid crystalline properties and fluorescence of polycatenar 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives	Haitao Wang; Fenglong Zhang; Binglian Bai; Peng Zhang; Jianhua Shi; Dingyi Yu; Yunfeng Zhao; Yue Wang; Min Li
913-924	Investigation of anisotropic epoxy–amine thermosets synthesised in a magnetic field	Laurence Pottié; France Costa-Torro; Martine Tessier; Patrick Davidson; Alain Fradet
925-935	Synthesis, structure and properties of new chiral liquid crystalline monomers and homopolysiloxanes containing menthyl groups	Jian-She Hu; Ke-Qi Wei; Bao-Yan Zhang; Li-Qun Yang
937-951	Microdielectrometric monitoring of film preparation process with oriented domains for hydroxypropyl cellulose cast from isotropic aqueous solution under the sinusoidal electric field with large amplitude	Katsufumi Tanaka; Yuichiro Tanabe; Ryuichi Akiyama
953-965	Powerful helicity inducers: axially chiral binaphthyl derivatives	Munju Goh; Kazuo Akagi
967-974	Symmetric liquid crystal dimers containing hydrazide groups: parity-dependent smectic structure, hydrogen bonding and substitution effect	Haitao Wang; Renfan Shao; Chenhui Zhu; Binglian Bai; Chengbo Gong; Peng Zhang; Fan Li; Min Li; Noel A. Clark
975-985	Phase diagram of new lactic acid derivatives exhibiting ferro- and antiferroelectric phases	Miroslav Kašpar; Vladimíra Novotná; Věra Hamplová; Damian Pociecha; Milada Glogarová
987-994	Transmission holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystal based on fluorinated polymer matrices	Ju Yeon Woo; Byung Kyu Kim
995-1003	Synthesis of new chiral compounds for cholesteric liquid crystal display	Osamu Yokokoji; Masaki Oiwa; Takeshi Koike; Seiichi Inoue
1005-1013	Liquid crystal alignment properties of polystyrene derivatives containing coumarin side groups	Hyo Kang; Daeseung Kang; Jong-Chan Lee
1015-1022	Experimental investigations of a chiral smectic glass-forming liquid crystal	I. Dierking
1023-1036	Novel hockey-stick mesogens with the nematic, synclinic and anticlinic smectic C phase sequence	Vladimíra Novotná; Jiří Žurek; Václav Kozmík; Jiří Svoboda; Milada Glogarová; Jan Kroupa; Damian Pociecha
1037-1042	Polymer-stabilised cholesteric liquid crystals with a double helical handedness: influence of an ultraviolet light absorber on the characteristics of the circularly polarised reflection band	Sabrina Relaix; Michel Mitov **
1043-1050	Tailoring of ionic supramolecular assemblies based on ammonium carboxylates toward liquid-crystalline micellar cubic mesophases	Takao Noguchi; Keiki Kishikawa; Shigeo Kohmoto

Volume 35, Issue 7 (2008)

773-776	Critical behaviour of the order parameters at the SmC* to SmA phase transition in a ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture	Arvind K. Gathania
777-787	Amplitude and phase fluctuation modes in the smectic C_α* phase of an antiferroelectric compound	M. B. Pandey; R. Dhar; R. Dabrowski
789-791	Simple method for accurate measurements of the cholesteric pitch using a “stripe–wedge” Grandjean–Cano cell	D. Podolskyy; O. Banji; P. Rudquist
793-798	Non-symmetric liquid crystal dimers containing the 4-nitrobenzohydrazide group: synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour	Binglian Bai; Haitao Wang; Peng Zhang; Songnan Qu; Fan Li; Zhixin Yu; Beihong Long; Min Li
799-813	Mesophases of hockey stick mesogens	F. C. Yu; L. J. Yu
815-821	The torque exerted on a surface-stabilised ferroelectric liquid crystal cell in an electric field	Erfan Kadivar; Khosrow Rahimi; Mohammad Ali Shahzamanian
823-832	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of oxadiazole esters derived from (R)-2-octanol, (S)-2-n-octyloxypropanol and (2S,3S)-2-chloro-3-methylpentanol	M. L. Parra; P. I. Hidalgo; E. Y. Elgueta
833-840	Disubstituted 3,5-isoxazolines. An easy route to polymer liquid crystal materials	Joel A. Passo; Guilherme D. Vilela; Paulo H. Schneider; Olga M. S. Ritter; Aloir A. Merlo
841-845	Response times in Pi-cell liquid crystal displays	Rong-Hua Guan; Yu-Bao Sun; Guang-Sheng Fu
847-856	Cholesteric liquid crystal inductive asymmetric polymerisation of thiophene monomers	Hiromasa Goto; Fumihiro Togashi; Akitsu Tsujimoto; Reina Ohta; Kohsuke Kawabata
857-863	Non-symmetrical luminescent 1,2,4-oxadiazole-based liquid crystals	Hugo Gallardo; Rodrigo Cristiano; André A. Vieira; Ricardo A. W. Neves Filho; Rajendra M. Srivastava; Ivan H. Bechtold
865-884	The effect of the linking group on mesogenic properties of three-ring derivatives of p-carborane and biphenyl	Takashi Nagamine; Adam Januszko; Kiminori Ohta; Piotr Kaszynski; Yasuyuki Endo
885-893	Improvements in morphological and electro-optical properties of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal grating using a highly fluorine-substituted acrylate monomer	Zhigang Zheng; Ji Ma; Wencui Li; Jing Song; Yonggang Liu; Li Xuan
895-903	Liquid crystalline aryltriazene-1-oxides with two ester units: synthesis, characterisation, structure and thermal properties	Purak Das; Achintesh Narayan Biswas; Suvra Acharya; Amitava Choudhury; Pinaki Bandyopadhyay; Pradip Kumar Mandal

Volume 35, Issue 6 (2008)

661-664	Transportation of a microdroplet on an oriented liquid crystal surface	Daisaku Kaneko; Kazumitsu Shibata; Tatsuo Kaneko; Yusuke Kawakami
665-673	Synthesis and characterisation of nematic liquid crystals containing a trans-decalin ring	W. Wan; C. Yang; H. Z. Jiang; H. M. Deng; J. Wang; J. Hao
675-679	A new memory effect: smectic liquid crystalline memory having both conductive and optical memory	Yuichiro Haramoto; Kohki Hiroshima; Takamasa Kato
681-687	Synthesis of new chiral dopants derived from naproxen for nematic liquid crystals	Kenta Tojo; Takuji Hirose; Yoshio Aoki
689-694	Liquid crystallinity in polythioethers of 1,4-bis(mercaptomethyl)benzene (MB) and 4,4′-bis(mercaptomethyl)biphenyl (MBP) with α,ω-dibromo-n-alkanes and polythioesters of MB and MBP with n-alkanedioyl dichlorides	Hideo Isogai; Kenji Tadano; Shinichi Yano
695-703	Overall analysis of first-order phase transitions in some alkyloxycyanobiphenyl liquid crystals	P. Cusmin; J. Salud; D. O. López; S. Diez-Berart; M. R. de la Fuente; M. A. Pérez-Jubindo; N. Veglio
705-710	A comparison of smectic phase induction in a series of isostructural two-ring esters by tail fluorination and tail elongation	Adam Januszko; Piotr Kaszynski
711-717	Fast switching near a smectic-to-nematic phase transition	Sebastian Gauza; Amanda Parish; Shin-Tson Wu; Anna Spadło; Roman Dabrowski
719-725	Synthesis, crystalline structure and mesomorphic properties of new liquid crystalline 1,2,3-triazole derivatives	Hugo Gallardo; Adailton J. Bortoluzzi; Deise Maria Pereira De Oliveira Santos
727-736	Application of a generalised thermodynamic model to study of the ferroelectric properties of DOBAMBC and DOBA-1-MPC	Abhilasha Singh; Shri Singh
737-742	Synthesis, optical properties and thermal behaviour of 1,3,4-oxadiazole-based twin dimers	Rajendra M. Srivastava; Ricardo A. W. Neves Filho; Ricardo Schneider; André A. Vieira; Hugo Gallardo
743-750	New bent-shaped liquid crystalline derivatives of 2,7-dihydroxynaphthalene containing lateral bromine atoms	N. S. Novikova; E. Gorecka; R. V. Kondratyeva; E. D. Kilimenchuk
751-756	Anomalous behaviour in the SmA–SmC_A pre-transitional regime of a chiral swallow-tailed antiferroelectric liquid crystal	Surjya Sarathi Bhattacharyya; M. Rahman; A. Mukherjee; B. K. Chaudhuri; S. L. Wu
757-764	Synthesis, thermal and lyotropic liquid crystalline properties of protic ionic salts	Pradip K. Bhowmik; Alexi K. Nedeltchev; Haesook Han
765-772	Synthesis and characterisation of novel imidazolium-based ionic liquid crystals with a p-nitroazobenzene moiety	Qixian Zhang; Liansheng Jiao; Changsheng Shan; Peng Hou; Bin Chen; Xiaoyu Xu; Li Niu

Volume 35, Issue 5 (2008)

519-520	Naomi Hoshino-Miyajima	Duncan W. Bruce; Yo Shimizu
521-525	Synthesis and characterisation of novel rod–disc oligomers	Santanu Kumar Pal; Sandeep Kumar; Jhumur Seth
527-531	Dielectric properties of three-ring fluorinated compounds	J. Czub; S. Urban; M. Geppi; A. Marini; R. Da˛browski
533-539	New photosensitive polymer composites based on oriented porous polyethylene filled with azobenzene-containing LC mixture: reversible photomodulation of dichroism and birefringence	Alexey Bobrovsky; Valery Shibaev; Galina Elyashevitch; Elena Rosova; Alexey Shimkin; Valery Shirinyan; Alexej Bubnov; Miroslav Kaspar; Vera Hamplova; Milada Glogarova
541-548	Novel synthetic route to liquid crystalline 4,4′-bis(n-alkoxy)azoxybenzenes: spectral characterisation, mesogenic behaviour and crystal structure of two new members	Purak Das; Achintesh Narayan Biswas; Amitava Choudhury; Pinaki Bandyopadhyay; Sripada Haldar; Pradip Kumar Mandal; Shailesh Upreti
549-553	Induction of smectic behaviour in a carborane-containing mesogen. Tail fluorination of a three-ring nematogen and its miscibility with benzene analogues	Adam Januszko; Kristin L. Glab; Piotr Kaszynski
555-568	Mixture of changing uniaxial micellar forms in lyotropic biaxial nematics	E. F. Henriques; C. B. Passos; V. B. Henriques; L. Q. Amaral
569-579	Effect of combined action of electric field and light on gliding of the easy axis in nematic liquid crystals	S. V. Pasechnik; A. V. Dubtsov; D. V. Shmeliova; V. A. Tsvetkov; V. G. Chigrinov
581-585	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of two series of new azine-type liquid crystals	Qiang Wei; Lin Shi; Hui Cao; Liping Wang; Huai Yang; Yangbin Wang
587-595	A study of electro-optical properties of PDLC films prepared by dual UV and heat curing	Xiaokang Ding; Ming Cao; Huijing Liu; Hui Cao; Wenbo Li; Huai Yang
597-607	Influence of branched chains on the mesomorphic properties of symmetrical and unsymmetrical triphenylene discotic liquid crystals	Philip J. Stackhouse; Michael Hird
609-624	Imperfect focal conic domains in A smectics: a textural analysis	Yu. A. Nastishin; C. Meyer; M. Kleman
625-632	New ferroelectric liquid crystals for high-performance optical devices	Roberta Cassano; Roman Da˛browski; Jerzy Dziaduszek; Sonia Trombino; Francesca Iemma; Fiore Pasquale Nicoletta; Giovanni De Filpo; Nevio Picci
633-639	Rotation of director during holographic recording in polymer-dispersed liquid crystals	Hiroshi Ono; Najmiah Radiah Binti Mohamad; Tomoyoki Sasaki; Nobuhiro Kawatsuki; Akifumi Ogiwara
641-651	New chlorine-substituted liquid crystals possessing frustrated TGB_A and SmQ phases	Miroslav Kašpar; Petra Bílková; Alexej Bubnov; Věra Hamplová; Vladimíra Novotná; Milada Glogarová; Karel Knížek; Damian Pociecha
653-660	Chiral liquid crystalline thiols for preparation of polybutadiene diols	Alexej Bubnov; Miroslav Kašpar; Zdena Sedláková; Michal Ilavský

Volume 35, Issue 4 (2008)

381-384	Novel triphenylene-based ionic discotic liquid crystalline polymers	Santanu Kumar Pal; Sandeep Kumar
385-388	Synthesis of novel hyperbranched polyimide for liquid crystal alignment	Qin Zhang; Jie He; Yu-Qing Fang; Ying-Han Wang
389-394	A new series of liquid-crystalline bi-1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives: synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour	Peng Zhang; Songnan Qu; Haitao Wang; Binglian Bai; Min Li
395-400	Piezoelectricity of phospholipids: a possible mechanism for mechanoreception and magnetoreception in biology	A. Jákli; J. Harden; C. Notz; C. Bailey
401-406	Odd–even effect in biphenyl-based symmetrical dimers with methylene spacer – evidence of the B4 phase	Ewa Białecka-Florjańczyk; Irma Śledzińska; Ewa Górecka; Jan Przedmojski
407-411	Effect of magnitude of dielectric anisotropy of a liquid crystal on light efficiency in the fringe-field switching nematic liquid crystal cell	Je Woo Ryu; Ji Youn Lee; Hyang Yul Kim; Ji Woong Park; Gi-Dong Lee; Seung Hee Lee
413-427	Electroluminescent segmented liquid crystalline trimers	M. P. Aldred; R. Hudson; S. P. Kitney; P. Vlachos; A. Liedtke; K. L. Woon; M. O'Neill; S. M. Kelly
429-441	Dielectric relaxation studies and electro-optical measurements in poly(triethylene glycol dimethacrylate)/nematic E7 composites exhibiting an anchoring breaking transition	A. R. E. Brás; O. García; M. T. Viciosa; S. Martins; R. Sastre; C. J. Dias; J. L. Figueirinhas; M. Dionísio
443-464	A comparison of proton-detected ¹³C local field experiments with deuterium NMR at natural abundance for studying liquid crystals	James W. Emsley; Philippe Lesot; Giuseppina De Luca; Anne Lesage; Denis Merlet; Giuseppe Pileio
465-481	Anchoring transitions of liquid crystals on SiO _x	Cheng Chen; Philip J. Bos; James E. Anderson
483-488	Physical properties of laterally fluorinated isothiocyanato phenyl-tolane liquid crystals	S. Gauza; A. Parish; S. -T. Wu; A. Spadło; R. Dabrowski
489-499	Single-step exposure for two-dimensional electrically-tuneable diffraction grating based on polymer dispersed liquid crystal	Zhigang Zheng; Jing Song; Yonggang Liu; Fuzhong Guo; Ji Ma; Li Xuan
501-505	Perturbative analysis of the magnetic field effect on the stability of the shear flow of a nematic polymer	J. L. Figueirinhas; J. P. Casquilho
507-512	Growth of a SmA* phase in the microconfinement of a polymer network	H. K. Chan; I. Dierking
513-518	X-ray studies on the crystalline E phase of the 4-n-alkyl-4′-isothiocyanatobiphenyl homologous series (nBT, n = 2–10)	M. Jasiurkowska; A. Budziak; J. Czub; M. Massalska-Arodź; S. Urban

Volume 35, Issue 3 (2008)

233-239	Nature-inspired light-harvesting liquid crystalline porphyrins for organic photovoltaics	Lanfang Li; Shin-Woong Kang; John Harden; Qingjiang Sun; Xiaoli Zhou; Liming Dai; Antal Jakli; Satyendra Kumar; Quan Li
241-251	Synthesis and characterisation of main-chain hydrogen-bonded supramolecular liquid crystalline complexes formed by azo-containing compounds	Cher Ling Toh; Jianwei Xu; Xuehong Lu; Chaobin He
253-264	In-situ monitoring of a film preparation process for hydroxypropyl cellulose cast from isotropic aqueous solution using microdielectrometry	Katsufumi Tanaka; Yuichiro Tanabe; Takatoshi Morina; Ryuichi Akiyama
265-274	Structure formation and its influence on thermodynamic and optical properties of montmorillonite organoclay–5CB liquid crystal nanocomposites	T. Bezrodna; I. Chashechnikova; T. Gavrilko; G. Puchkovska; Y. Shaydyuk; A. Tolochko; J. Baran; M. Drozd
275-285	Novel photo-crosslinkable liquid crystalline polymers containing vanillylidene cycloalkanones and azobenzene units	D. Jayalatha; R. Balamurugan; P. Kannan
287-298	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of new compounds exhibiting TGBA and TGBC liquid crystalline phases	Vladimíra Novotná; Miroslav Kašpar; Věra Hamplová; Milada Glogarová; Petra Bílková; Valentina Domenici; Damian Pociecha
299-313	Smectic ordering in side-chain liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) and in LCP–silica nanocomposites	Fabiano Vargas Pereira; Aloir Antonio Merlo; Françoise Bley; Isabelle Morfin; Olga Maria Ritter; Nádya Pesce da Silveira; Françoise Ehrburger-Dolle
315-323	Synthesis, thermal stabilities, and anisotropic properties of some new isoflavone-based esters 7-decanoyloxy-3-(4′-substitutedphenyl)-4H-1-benzopyran-4-ones	Guan-Yeow Yeap; Wan-Sinn Yam; Daisuke Takeuchi; Kohtaro Osakada; Ewa Gorecka; Wan Ahmad Kamil Mahmood; Peng-Lim Boey; Shafida Abd Hamid
325-331	Unusual electro-optical response of an oblique columnar phase formed by a bent-core mesogen	Martin W. Schröder; Kristin Brand; Gerhard PelzL; Ute Baumeister; Siegmar Diele; Wolfgang Weissflog
333-338	Synthesis and liquid crystalline properties of hydrazide derivatives: hydrogen bonding, molecular dipole, and smectic structures	Haitao Wang; Binglian Bai; Dongmei Pang; Zhongfei Zou; Li Xuan; Fan Li; Peng Zhang; Lihua Liu; Beihong Long; Min Li
339-342	Electro-optic response of cubic liquid crystal compounds in Kerr cell geometry	Makoto Yoneya; Shintarou Takada; Yoji Maeda; Hiroshi Yokoyama
343-350	Evaluation of carborane-containing nematic liquid crystals for electro-optical applications	M. Jasinski; A. Jankowiak; A. Januszko; M. Bremer; D. Pauluth; P. Kaszynski
351-356	The hexagonal to discotic phase transition in 1,4,8,11,15,18,22,25-octahexylphthalocyanine studied by differential scanning calorimetry	Ahmad A. Joraid; Saleh N. Alamri; Shaya Y. Al-Raqa; Ahmed A. Mohamed
357-364	Study of the influence of ester orientation on the thermal stability of the smectic C phase: experimental investigation	Richard Vadnais; Marc-André Beaudoin; Alexandre Beaudoin; Benoît Heinrich; Armand Soldera
365-371	Characterisation of polymer wall formation in nematic liquid crystal devices	S. J. Hwang
373-379	An improved equivalent circuit model and the dependence of hysteresis inversion frequency on typical parameters of V-shaped switching SSFLC cells for both bookshelf and chevron structures	M. Y. Wang; W. Pan; B. Luo; W. L. Zhang; X. H. Zou

Volume 35, Issue 2 (2008)

103-107	Shear-induced lamellar phase of an ionic liquid crystal at room temperature	M. H. Godinho; C. Cruz; P. I. C. Teixeira; A. J. Ferreira; C. Costa; P. S. Kulkarni; C. A. M. Afonso
109-118	X-ray diffraction from the uniaxial and biaxial nematic phases of bent-core mesogens	Bharat R. Acharya; Shin-Woong Kang; Satyendra Kumar
119-132	The synthesis and liquid crystalline behaviour of alkoxy-substituted derivatives of 1,4-bis(phenylethynyl)benzene	Donocadh P. Lydon; David Albesa-Jové; Gemma C. Shearman; John M. Seddon; Judith A. K. Howard; Todd B. Marder; Paul J. Low
133-141	Synthesis, characterisation and liquid crystal properties of 2,5-bis[5-alkyl(alkoxy)phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole]bromobenzenes	Chunpeng Chai; Qian Yang; Xinghe Fan; Xiaofang Chen; Zhihao Shen; Qifeng Zhou
143-147	How simple can a thermotropic mesogenic molecule be? Supramolecular layers through a network of hydrogen bonds	Adam Krowczynski; Kinga Trzcinska; Ewa Gorecka; Damian Pociecha
149-155	Viscosities of a bent-core nematic liquid crystal	E. Dorjgotov; K. Fodor-Csorba; J. T. Gleeson; S. Sprunt; A. Jákli
157-162	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 3-(4-n-alkyloxyarylaminomethylene)chroman-2,4-diones	J. Alderete; J. Belmar; M. Parra; M. Zárraga; C. Zúñiga
163-171	Photoinduced liquid crystal alignment by layer-by-layer ultrathin films with dual photoreaction moieties	Lingli Zhang; Zenghui Peng; Lishuang Yao; Fengzhen Lv; Li Xuan
173-177	Effects of rubbing angle on maximum transmittance of in-plane switching liquid crystal display	Hyung Ki Hong; Hyun Ho Shin
179-186	Rich polymorphism in 4-propyl-4′-thiocyanato-1,1′-biphenyl (3TCB) revealed by adiabatic calorimetry	R. Pełka; Yasuhisa Yamamura; M. Jasiurkowska; M. Massalska-Arodź; Kazuya Saito
187-194	Optimal pixel design for low driving, single gamma curve and single cell-gap transflective fringe-field switching liquid crystal display	Youn Hak Jeong; Young Jin Lim; Eun Jeong; Won Gun Jang; Seung Hee Lee
195-204	The dielectric relaxation processes in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal under cylindrical confinement	Stanisław A. Różański †; Jan Thoen
205-211	Do the molecules which form discotic liquid crystals have disc-like structures? The conformation of a simple model compound, 1,2-dihydroxydiacetylbenzene, determined from the NMR spectra of samples dissolved in liquid crystalline solvents	G. De Luca; M. Egan; J. W. Emsley; E. K. Foord; M. Longeri; G. Pileio
213-217	A novel photoalignment film for ferroelectric liquid crystal based on self-assembled monolayer method	Lishuang Yao; Zenghui Peng; Lingli Zhang; Fengzhen Lv; Li Xuan
219-231	Artificial enzymes based on imprinted liquid-crystalline materials	M. Weyland; S. Ferrère; A. Lattes; A. -F. Mingotaud; M. Mauzac

Volume 35, Issue 1 (2008)

1-9	Synthesis of laterally substituted α-methylstilbene-tolane liquid crystals	Chin-Yen Chang; Szu-Yuan Chien; Chain-Shu Hsu; Sebastian Gauza; Shin-Tson Wu
11-19	Twist deformation in anticlinic antiferroelectric structure in smectic B₂ imposed by the surface anchoring	Lubor Lejček; Vladimíra Novotná; Milada Glogarová
21-31	Liquid crystalline benzothiophene derivatives	Milan Kurfürst; Václav Kozmík; Jiří Svoboda; Vladimíra Novotná; Milada Glogarová
33-38	Photoinduced gliding of the surface director in azo-dye doped nematic liquid crystals	David Statman; Valerie Basore; Yusufu Sulai; Barbara Dunlap; István Jánossy
39-44	Synthesis and properties of non-symmetric liquid crystal dimers containing a cholesteryl moiety	Chunbo Zhang; Longyi Jin; Bingzhu Yin; M. Jamil; Young-Jae Jeon
45-48	UV tuning of the electro-optical and morphology properties in polymer-dispersed liquid crystals	Giovanni De Filpo; Roberta Cassano; Luana Tortora; Fiore P. Nicoletta; Giuseppe Chidichimo
49-54	Studies on the electro-optical properties of chiral nematic liquid crystal/aerosil particle composites	Bofu Li; Hua Huang; Xiaokang Ding; Wenbo Li; Yuhai Yin; Liping Wang; Hui Cao; Huai Yang
55-64	Novel chiral liquid crystals based on amides and azo compounds derived from 2-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazoles: synthesis and mesomorphic properties	M. L. Parra; C. G. Saavedra; P. I. Hidalgo; E. Y. Elgueta
65-77	A new series of nematic and smectic liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy: the effect of terminal chain substitution on thermal and electro-optical properties	Aleksandra Jankowiak; Adam Januszko; Bryan Ringstrand; Piotr Kaszynski
79-86	New fluorinated terphenyl isothiocyanate liquid crystals	Amanda Parish; Sebastian Gauza; Shin-Tson Wu; Jerzy Dziaduszek; Roman Dabrowski
87-97	Reflectance properties of polymer-stabilised cholesteric liquid crystals cells with cholesteryl compounds of different functionality	Jinbao Guo; Jie Sun; Kexuan Li; Hui Cao; Huai Yang
99-102	Electrically controlled defects at a liquid crystal–polyimide interface	F. Ciuchi; M. Giocondo; R. Barberi

Volume 34, Issue 12 (2007)

1349-1356	Thermoplastic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals prepared from solvent-induced phase separation with predictions using solubility parameters	Lu Guang Chen; Robert Shanks
1357-1367	Terminal end-group efficiency for the nematic phase using model bicyclo[2.2.2]octanes	Andreas Löbbert; Stuart P. Kitney; Stephen M. Kelly; Mary O'neill; Tom Stirner
1369-1375	Synthesis and study of 4-(4′-n-alkoxybenzoyloxybenzoyl)-4′′-n-butoxyanilides	R. C. Tandel; R. A. Vora
1377-1385	Contribution of monomer functionality and additives to polymerization kinetics and liquid crystal phase separation in acrylate-based polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs)	Timothy J. White; Lalgudi V. Natarajan; Timothy J. Bunning; C. Allan Guymon
1387-1396	Characterization of the interactions between synthetic nematic LCs and model cell membranes	Nathan A. Lockwood; Maria-Victoria Meli; Aditya Surjosantoso; Evelina B. Kim; Juan J. de Pablo; Nicholas L. Abbott
1397-1413	Computational modelling of nematic phase ordering by film and droplet growth over heterogeneous substrates	Benjamin Wincure; Alejandro D. Rey
1415-1424	Polar 2-alkoxyethoxy-substituted nematic liquid crystals	Neil L. Campbell; Stephen M. Kelly; Rachel P. Tuffin
1425-1431	The influences of surface polarization on NLC cells	Liu Jinwei; Zhang Suhua; Yang Yuying; An Hailong; Zhang Zhendong; Yang Guochen
1433-1441	Optical anisotropy and liquid-crystal alignment properties of rubbed polyimide layers	Fuzi Yang; G. Zoriniants; Lizhen Ruan; J. R. Sambles
1443-1453	Apolar 2-alkoxyalkoxy-substituted nematic liquid crystals	Neil L. Campbell; Stephen M. Kelly; Rachel P. Tuffin
1455-1462	Two origins for twisting power of a binaphthyl derivative in a host nematic liquid crystal	Keiko Kobayashi; Atsushi Yoshizawa
1463-1472	Mesomorphism of ortho-metallated imine complexes of the β-diketonatoplatinum(II) fragment. Crystal and molecular structure of three platinum imine complexes	Viorel Cîrcu; Peter N. Horton; Michael B. Hursthouse; Duncan W. Bruce
1473-1478	High birefringence and large negative dielectric anisotropy phenyl-tolane liquid crystals	Haiqing Xianyu; Sebastian Gauza; Qiong Song; Shin-Tson Wu
1479-1480	Augusto Sirigu (1939–2007)	U. Caruso; R. Centore; B. Panunzi; A. Roviello; A. Tuzi
1481	Statement of Retraction

Volume 34, Issue 11 (2007)

1233-1242	Bireactive calamitic liquid crystals derived from fluorene ester linkage	C. Aguilera; P. Sáez; M. Morel; P. Gallegos
1243-1248	New mesogen with thermotropic cubic phase: 3,4,5-tris-(11,11,12,12,13,13,14,14,15,15,16,16,16-tridecafluorohexadecyloxy)benzoic acid	Xiaoli Zhou; T. Narayanan; Quan Li
1249-1267	Heterocyclic polycatenar liquid crystals	Catherine Fang He; Gary J. Richards; Stephen M. Kelly; Adam E. A. Contoret; Mary O’neill
1269-1273	Mechanically activated cholesteric polymer dispersed liquid crystals	A. J. Ferreira; P. L. Almeida; I. Costa; P. Brogueira; M. H. Godinho
1275-1283	Synthesis and characterization of side-chain liquid-crystalline poly(ethyleneimine)s with cyanobiphenyl groups	Minli Xie; Chaocan Zhang
1285-1290	Characterization of focal conics in chiral smectic C liquid crystals by X-ray microdiffraction	Atsuo Iida; Yoichi Takanishi
1291-1297	Prediction of nematic transition temperatures in thermotropic liquid crystals by a heuristic method	Yueying Ren; Huanxiang Liu; Xiaojun Yao; Mancang Liu; Botao Fan
1299-1306	Dielectric versus optical response of chevron ferroelectric liquid crystals	W. Jeżewski; W. Kuczyński; J. Hoffmann
1307-1316	Polycatenar oligophenylene liquid crystals	Nayer H. Sultana; Stephen M. Kelly; Bassam Mansoor; Mary O’neill
1317-1336	Structure–property investigation of 2- and 3-thienylacrylates bearing laterally fluorinated azobenzene moieties	A. S. Matharu; D. Chambers-Asman
1337-1347	In situ photochemical conversion from cinnamoyl-functionalized liquid-crystalline monomers to liquid-crystalline dimers	Hideyuki Kihara; Nobuyuki Tamaoki

Volume 34, Issue 10 (2007)

1121-1128	Novel liquid crystal trimers exhibiting a monolayer smectic C phase containing strong macroscopic fluctuations	Atsushi Yoshizawa; Naoki Uehara; Mariko Kurauchi; Akihisa Yamaguchi
1129-1136	Synthesis and mesomorphism study of star-shaped carbohydrate liquid crystals containing glucosyl and glutamyl residues	Baoyan Zhang; Wenqiang Xiao; Yuehua Cong; Yuhong Zhang
1137-1143	Observations of focal conic domains in smectic liquid crystals aligned on patterned self-assembled monolayers	J. P. Bramble; S. D. Evans; J. R. Henderson; T. J. Atherton; N. J. Smith
1145-1149	Antiferroelectric liquid crystals with amide linking group positioned at chiral tail	Shune-Long Wu; Zih-Lang Yang; Liang-Jye Yu
1151-1158	Electro-optical properties of holographically patterned polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals	Eric R. Beckel; Lalgudi V. Natarajan; Vincent P. Tondiglia; Richard L. Sutherland; Timothy J. Bunning
1159-1165	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of fluoro-substituted chiral liquid crystals derived from (S)-lactic acid with alkoxyethanols	Shune-Long Wu; Hsiu-Nien Hsu
1167-1174	The effect of a single atom in the terminal position of a fluorocarbon chain on liquid crystalline properties	Yonggang Yang; Haitao Li; Jianxun Wen
1175-1184	Non-equilibrium molecular-dynamics measurement of the Leslie coefficients of a Gay–Berne nematic liquid crystal	Congmin Wu; Tiezheng Qian; Pingwen Zhang
1185-1192	Effect of lateral substitution by fluorine and bromine atoms in ferroelectric liquid crystalline materials containing a 2-alkoxypropanoate unit	Miroslav Kašpar; Alexej Bubnov; Věra Hamplová; Zuzana Málková; Slavomír Pirkl; Milada Glogarová
1193-1200	New (S)-1-phenylethylamine N-arylidene derivatives as chiral dopants to liquid crystalline systems	N. I. Shkolnikova; L. A. Kutulya; N. S. Pivnenko; A. D. Roshal; G. P. Semenkova
1201-1214	Stationary states of hybrid aligned flexoelectric nematic layers	Grzegorz Derfel
1215-1219	The influence of molecular structure on helical twisting power of chiral azobenzene compounds	Md. Zahangir Alam; Teppei Yoshioka; Tomonari Ogata; Takamasa Nonaka; Seiji Kurihara
1221-1226	Cholesteric liquid crystal displays as optical sensors of barbiturate binding	R. Carlisle Chambers; Elissa J. Bell; Tauni M. Records; Anna Cherian; Karen Ragan; Bonnie Swartout
1227-1232	Effect of the twisted alignment on the liquid crystal wave-front corrector	Zhaoliang Cao; Quanquan Mu; Guillaume Dovillaire; Thomas Grandin; Emeric Lavergne; Lifa Hu; Li Xuan

Volume 34, Issue 9 (2007)

1001-1007	Study on liquid crystallinity in 2,9-dialkylpentacenes	Kazuo Okamoto; Takumi Kawamura; Masato Sone; Kenji Ogino
1009-1018	Broadband reflective cholesteric liquid crystalline gels: volume distribution of reflection properties and polymer network in relation with the geometry of the cell photopolymerization	Sabrina Relaix; Christian Bourgerette; Michel Mitov
1019-1028	Concentration dependences of dielectric properties at 10⁵ Hz and 10⁶ Hz for aqueous solutions of hydroxypropyl cellulose	Katsufumi Tanaka; Takatoshi Morina; Yuichiro Tanabe; Ryuichi Akiyama
1029-1038	Amide, urea and thiourea-containing triphenylene derivatives: influence of H-bonding on mesomorphic properties	Ioan Paraschiv; Alistair Tomkinson; Marcel Giesbers; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter; Han Zuilhof; Antonius T. M. Marcelis
1039-1044	The role of a liquid crystal oligomer in stabilizing blue phases	Atsushi Yoshizawa; Hirotoshi Iwamochi; Shinpei Segawa; Masatada Sato
1045-1057	Synthesis and characterization of non-symmetric chiral dimers	C. V. Yelamaggad; G. Shanker
1059-1069	Nematic liquid crystal alignment on chemical patterns	J. P. Bramble; S. D. Evans; J. R. Henderson; C. Anquetil; D. J. Cleaver; N. J. Smith
1071-1093	The structure and conformation of a mesogenic compound between almost zero and almost complete orientational order	J. W. Emsley; G. De Luca; A. Lesage; D. Merlet; G. Pileio
1095-1106	Ferroelectric liquid crystals induced by dopants with axially chiral 2,2′-spirobiindan-1,1′-dione cores: diether vs. diester side-chains	Jeremy G. Finden; Eagranie Yuh; Christa Huntley; Robert P. Lemieux
1107-1114	Solution of the mixed Dirichlet–Neumann problem for molecular orientation in liquid crystals	J. C. Dias; C. A. R. Yednak; E. K. Lenzi; L. R. Evangelista
1115-1120	Photoswitching of holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals doped with chiral dopant	Ju Yeon Woo; Eun Hee Kim; Tae Hoon Yoon; Jae Chang Kim; Byung Kyu Kim

Volume 34, Issue 8 (2007)

903-910	Mesogenic cinnamates with a substituted ethyl terminal chain	A. K. Prajapati; H. N. Patel
911-917	Liquid crystalline properties of 4-hexyloxybenzylidene-4′-alkyloxyanilines	Joanna Godzwon; Monika J. Sienkowska; Zbigniew Galewski
919-926	Crystal-smectic E mesophases in a series of 2-(4-n-alkylphenyl)indenes	Steven M. Schultz; Gerald Kehr; Roland Fröhlich; Gerhard Erker; Nadia Kapernaum; Constanze Hägele; Frank Giesselmann; Sabine Laschat; Roxana Judele; Angelika Baro
927-934	Mesomorphic properties of troponoid esters and amides with cholest-5-ene-3β-carboxylic acid moiety	Gui-Xiang Sun; Chiaki Kakei; Etsuo Kume; Toshihide Hatsui; Seiji Ujiie; Akira Mori
935-943	Mesomorphic behaviour in bent-shaped molecules with side wings at different positions of a central naphthalene core	Seng Kue Lee; Yu Naito; Lu Shi; Masatoshi Tokita; Hideo Takezoe; Junji Watanabe
945-947	Broadband dielectric investigations on a compound consisting of bent-shaped molecules	Z. Vakhovskaja; W. Weissflog; G. Czechowski; J. Jadzyn; H. Kresse
949-954	Electrically induced and thermally erased properties of side-chain liquid crystalline polymer/liquid crystal/chiral dopant composites	Hua Huang; Jun Geng; Simin He; Bofu Li; Canbin Ouyang; Yuhai Yin; Hui Cao; Liping Wang; Mingtan Hai; Ge Wang; Huai Yang
955-961	Magnetic field-assisted liquid crystal alignment on a solid substrate: drift of easy orientation axis, anchoring energy and angular distribution of adsorbed liquid crystal molecules	Rui Guo; Yuriy Reznikov; Kostyantyn Slyusarenko; Satyendra Kumar
963-973	Electric field-induced birefringence, optical rotatory power and conoscopic measurements of a chiral antiferroelectric smectic liquid crystal	V. Manjuladevi; J. K. Vij
975-979	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of chiral fluorinated liquid crystals	Yonggang Yang; Haitao Li; Jianxun Wen
981-986	Dielectric spectroscopy of a smectic liquid crystal	Shyamal Kumar Kundu; S. Yagihara; A. Yoshizawa
987-994	Ferroelectric liquid crystal dopants with a chiral (R,R)-2,3-difluorooctyloxy side-chain: host dependence of the polarization power	Matthew P. Thompson; Torsten Hegmann; Michael D. Wand; Robert P. Lemieux
995-1000	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Volume 34, Issue 7 (2007)

775-785	The liquid crystalline behaviour of ferrocene derivatives containing azo and imine linking groups	Irina Cârlescu; Ana Maria Scutaru; Daniela Apreutesei; Valentina Alupei; Dan Scutaru
787-790	Iodo-substituted triphenylene-based discogens: by metal-mediated oxidative cross-coupling	Sanjay K. Varshney; C. V. Yelamaggad; H. Takezoe
791-797	Photo-optical properties of polymer composites based on stretched porous polyethylene filled with photoactive cholesteric liquid crystal	Alexey Bobrovsky; Valery Shibaev; Galina El'yashevitch; Alexey Shimkin; Valery Shirinyan
799-809	Mesomorphic chiral non-symmetrical dimers: synthesis and characterization	C. V. Yelamaggad; G. Shanker
811-817	Spacer length dependence of TGBC* and SmA phases in cholesteryl and dihydrocholesteryl-containing trimer liquid crystals	Antonius T. M. Marcelis; Marcel Giesbers; Arie Koudijs
819-831	Ferrocene-containing liquid crystals bearing a cholesteryl unit	Daniela Apreutesei; Georg H. Mehl; Dan Scutaru
833-840	Modular assembly of elliptical mesogens	Christine Lavigueur; Johan E. Foster; Vance E. Williams
841-854	Main chain, thermotropic, liquid crystalline, hydrogen-bonded polymers of 4,4′-bipyridyl with 4,4′-dicarboxy-α,ω-diphenoxyalkanes	Pradip K. Bhowmik; Xiaobin Wang; Haesook Han
855-860	Synthesis and phase behaviour of hydrogen-bonded liquid crystalline complexes of allyloxybenzoic acid compounds with 4,4′-bipyridine	Qiang Wei; Lin Shi; Xiaotao Yuan; Lipei Zhang; Hui Cao; Huai Yang
861-870	Liquid crystal droplet production in a microfluidic device	Benjamin D. Hamlington; Benjamin Steinhaus; James J. Feng; Darren Link; Michael J. Shelley; Amy Q. Shen
871-876	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of chiral liquid crystals derived from (S)-2-(6-hydroxy-2-naphthyl)propionic acid with a methyleneoxy linking group	Shune-Long Wu; Hung-Hsiang Huang
877-882	Microvibration-enhanced transparency of electrically aligned liquid crystals in nanoparticle networks	Sarik R. Nersisyan; Nelson V. Tabiryan
883-889	Studies of first- and second-order phase transitions in LC methacrylic monomers based on the ω-hexyloxysalicylaldimine group	E. A. Soto-Bustamante; C. M. González-Henríquez; G. A. Rodríguez-Lehyt; R. O. Vergara-Toloza
891-902	Photochemical tuning capability of cholesteric liquid crystal cells containing chiral dopants end capped with menthyl groups	Jui-Hsiang Liu; Po-Chih Yang; Hsien-Jung Hung; Der-Jang Liaw

Volume 34, Issue 6 (2007)

659-665	Liquid crystalline behaviour of benzoic acid derivatives containing alkoxyazobenzene	Binglian Bai; Haitao Wang; Hong Xin; Beihong Long; Min Li
667-672	Synthesis of oligofluorenes by endcapping	Esther Scheler; Peter Strohriegl
673-681	Liquid crystalline properties and dependence of transition temperatures on the length of the flexible alkylene spacer of symmetric dimers composed of bent-core units	S. Umadevi; B. K. Sadashiva
683-691	The phase diagram of the lyotropic nematic mesophase in the TTAB/NaBr/water system	Antonio A. de Melo Filho; Nader S. Amadeu; Fred Y. Fujiwara
693-696	On collagen II fibrillogenesis	A. Ciferri
697-699	Twisted wedges for the measurement of long pitch lengths in chiral nematic liquid crystals	E. P. Raynes
701-705	The electro-optical response of nematic emulsions	J. Lanzo; F. P. Nicoletta; G. De Filpo; G. Chidichimo
707-718	Trans–cis isomerization of an azoxybenzene liquid crystal	Dina Aronzon; Eric P. Levy; Peter J. Collings; Andro Chanishvili; Guram Chilaya; Gia Petriashvili
719-727	Determination of the elastic constants of nematic liquid crystals by means of the affine transformation model	M. Simões; A. de Campos
729-736	Mean field analysis of four liquid crystalline odd–even ester dimers	Roberto Centore
737-748	Orientational order parameters in biaxial nematics: Polymorphic notation	Riccardo Rosso
749-759	Dielectric pretransitional effects in the isotropic phase of chiral liquid crystals	J. Leys; C. Glorieux; M. Wübbenhorst; J. Thoen
761-765	A novel vertical alignment technology for nematic liquid crystals based on electrostatic self-assembled method	Lishuang Yao; Limei Shao; Zenghui Peng; Lingli Zhang; Chunhong Fei; Fengzhen Lv; Li Xuan
767-774	Hydrogen-bonded oxadiazole mesogens	Pamela J. Martin; Duncan W. Bruce

Volume 34, Issue 5 (2007)

535-545	Phase behaviour of mixtures of side-chain LC polyoxetanes with E7 and their field response	Kyu-Nam Kim; Young-Wan Kwon; Chi Woong Jang; Moo Jong Kim; Tong Kun Lim; Jung-Il Jin
547-553	Synthesis and physical properties of novel S-shaped liquid crystal oligomers	Atsushi Yoshizawa; Hisashi Kasai; Fumitaka Ogasawara; Nagashima Yoshihiro; Tetsuya Kawaguchi
569-576	Synthesis and properties of novel 1,1-difluoropropoxy-linked liquid crystalline compounds of negative dielectric anisotropy	Yasuyuki Sasada; Teru Shimada; Makoto Ushioda; SHuichi Matsui
577-583	Influence of anchoring at a nematic cell surface on threshold spatially periodic reorientation of a director	Mykhaylo Ledney; Igor Pinkevych
585-590	Synthesis and phase transition behaviour of novel liquid crystal trimers	Tsuyoshi Narumi; Masashi Miyamoto; Atsushi Yoshizawa
591-597	Characterization of a nematic mixture by reversed-phase HPLC and UV spectroscopy: an application to phase behaviour studies in liquid crystal–CO₂ systems	Ana R. E. Brás; Sara Henriques; Teresa Casimiro; Ana Aguiar-Ricardo; João Sotomayor; Jorge Caldeira; Celina Santos; Madalena Dionísio
599-603	Electrical conductivity of lyotropic and thermotropic ionic liquid crystals consisting of metal alkanoates	Yuriy Garbovskiy; Alexander Koval'chuk; Alexandra Grydyakina; Svitlana Bugaychuk; Tatyana Mirnaya; Gertruda Klimusheva
605-609	Nematic–isotropic phase transition of binary liquid crystal mixtures	Deng-Ke Yang; Y. Yin; H. Liu
611-620	Critical behaviour at the isotropic–nematic and nematic–smectic A phase transitions of 4-butyloxyphenyl 4′-decyloxybenzoate liquid crystal from refractive index data	S. Yildiz; H. Özbek; C. Glorieux; J. Thoen
621-631	A mathematical model for blade coating of a nematic liquid crystal	J. Quintans Carou; N. J. Mottram; S. K. Wilson; B. R. Duffy
633-639	Odd–even effects in the phase transition behaviour of novel U-shaped liquid crystals	Akihisa Yamaguchi; Mitsutoshi Watanabe; Atsushi Yoshizawa
641-647	A dual frequency addressed polymer stabilized pi-cell liquid crystal device	P. D. Brimicombe 1; S. J. Elston; E. P. Raynes
649-654	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 7-acyloxy-3-(4-acyloxyphenyl)-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one	Guan-Yeow Yeap; Wan-Sinn Yam; Masato M. Ito; Yumika Takahashi; Yoshiyuki Nakamura; Wan Ahmad Kamil Mahmood; Peng-Lim Boey; Shafida Abd Hamid; Ewa Gorecka
655-658	Characteristics of a liquid crystal display using optically isotropic phases of bent-core mesogens	I. Alonso; J. Martinez-Perdiguero; J. Ortega; C. L. Folcia; J. Etxebarria

Volume 34, Issue 4 (2007)

411-419	Photo-optical properties and photo-orientation phenomena in an immiscible blend of cholesteric copolymer with azobenzene-containing polymer	Alexey Bobrovsky; Valery Shibaev
421-429	Surface ordering at the air–nematic interface. Part 2. A spectroscopic ellipsometry study of orientational order	Y. G. J. Lau; S. Klein; C. J. P. Newton; R. M. Richardson
431-440	Conformational constraint in ferroelectric liquid crystals incorporating a pyrrolidine-type ring: FLC materials comprising parallel dipolar moments	Fernando Ely; Rodrigo Cristiano; Ricardo L. Longo; Rafael Vergara-Toloza; Eduardo Soto-Bustamante; Hugo Gallardo
441-445	Tilted supramolecular structures of amphiphilic glycolipids in straight-core smectic C liquid crystals	S. Abeygunaratne; L-C. Chien; V. Vill
447-455	Alignment behaviour of symmetrical and asymmetrical triphenylenes possessing fluoroalkylated side chains on modified substrates	Naohiro Terasawa; Hirosato Monobe
457-465	Equivalent anchoring energy formula of a NLC on a grating surface and VCT effect	Yang Guochen; Ye Wenjiang; Xing Hongyu; Yang Yuying
467-471	Response speed of in-plane switching mode liquid crystal displays	Guan Rong-Hua; Kang Wen-Xiu; Sun Yu-Bao
473-477	New micro-structure designs of a wide band reflective polarizer with a pitch gradient	Jiumei Xiao; Dongyu Zhao; Hui Cao; Huai Yang
479-487	Adaptive solution of a one-dimensional order reconstruction problem in Q-tensor theory of liquid crystals	Alison Ramage; Christopher J. P. Newton
489-506	Laterally fluorinated liquid crystals containing the 2,2′-bithiophene moiety	A. S. Matharu; S. J. Cowling; G. Wright
507-517	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of super high birefringence isothiocyanato bistolane liquid crystals	Yung-Ming Liao; Hsin-Lan Chen; Chain-Shu Hsu; Sebastian Gauza; Shin-Tson Wu
519-526	Collective and antiferroelectric dielectric modes in a highly tilted three-ring ester	StanisŁaw A. Różański; Jan Thoen
527-533	Morphology and switching of holographic gratings containing an azo dye	Ju Yeon Woo; Eun Hee Kim; Byung Kyu Kim; Young Hee Cho

Volume 34, Issue 3 (2007)

283-288	Synthesis and liquid crystalline properties of a series of cholesterol-based dimesogenic compounds	Chang-Cheng Wu
289-294	Mesomorphic complexes through hydrogen bonding between alkoxy-substituted triarylmelamines and semiperfluorinated benzoic acids	Alexandra Kohlmeier; Dietmar Janietz
295-303	Liquid crystalline semirigid polyesters based on phenylstilbene analogues of 1,3,4-thiadiazole	Moriyuki Sato; Rena Ohta
305-310	Collective fluctuation in chiral smectic phases of main-chain liquid crystalline polymers	Kazuyuki Hiraoka; Takuhei Nose; Yoshiko Uematsu; Masatoshi Tokita; Junji Watanabe
311-324	Mesomorphic properties of symmetrical and asymmetrical triphenylene homologues possessing fluoroalkylated side chains	Naohiro Terasawa; Hirosato Monobe; Kenji Kiyohara
325-331	Effect of lateral fluoro substituents on the chiral liquid crystal materials derived from (S)-1-methyl-2-(2′-methylsulphanylethoxy)ethanol	Mei-Ching Yu; Hau-Yun Chang; Shune-Long Wu
333-341	Surface ordering at the air–nematic interface. Part 1. A neutron reflection study of translational order	Y. G. J. Lau; R. M. Richardson; R. M. Dalgliesh; H. Zimmermann
343-348	Ionic relaxation in nematic liquid crystal cells	G. Barbero; A. M. Figueiredo Neto; J. Le Digabel; O. G. Martins
349-363	Computer modelling and simulations of thermotropic and lyotropic alkyl glycoside bilayers	Teoh Teow Chong; Thorsten Heidelberg; Rauzah Hashim; Saadullah Gary
365-372	X-ray diffraction and optical birefringence studies on four nematogenic difluorobenzene derivatives	S. Biswas; S. Haldar; P. K. Mandal; W. Haase
373-379	Synthesis and physical properties of novel liquid crystal oligomers possessing polar terminal groups	Atsushi Yoshizawa; Shota Chiba; Fumitaka Ogasawara
381-387	Influence of rubbing conditions of polyimide alignment layer on optical anisotropy of immobilized liquid crystal film	Motohiro Yamahara; Mariko Nakamura; Naoyuki Koide; Takeo Sasaki
389-393	Biphotonic recording effect of polarization gratings based on dye-doped liquid crystal films	Andy Ying-Guey Fuh; Ko-Ting Cheng; Chia-Rong Lee
395-400	Liquid crystalline semifluorinated ionic dendrimers	Rafael Martín-Rapún; Mercedes Marcos; Ana Omenat; José Luis Serrano; Elisabeth Taffin de Givenchy; Frédéric Guittard
401-410	Different disk structures in the hexagonal columnar mesophases of 2,3-dicyano-6,7,10,11-tetraalkoxy-1,4-diazatriphenylenes and 2,3-dicyano-6,7,10,11-tetraalkoxytriphenylenes	Masahiro Ichihara; Hiroomi Suzuki; Bernhard Mohr; Kazuchika Ohta

Volume 34, Issue 2 (2007)

135-141	Phase transitions in novel disulphide-bridged alkoxycyanobiphenyl dimers	Santanu Kumar Pal; V. A. Raghunathan; Sandeep Kumar
143-152	Alternative dynamics for the symmetric splay to bend transition in a nematic liquid crystal layer	Yanli Zhang; David B. Chung; Bin Wang; Philip J. Bos
153-167	Liquid crystal dimers possessing chiral rod-like anisometric segments: synthesis, characterization and electro-optic behaviour	Channabasaveshwar V. Yelamaggad; Indudhara Swamy Shashikala; Uma S. Hiremath; Doddamane S. Shankar Rao; Subbarao Krishna Prasad
169-176	Flow behaviours of liquid crystal droplets on polyimide alignment layers	Koichiro Yonetake; Kenichi Ito; YAsufumi Kiyokane; Hiroshi Kobayashi; Hiroshi Awano; Shigeru Ishida; YUkihiro Kawasumi; Akira Hirai; Takashi Murayama
177-181	Synthesis and transition properties of novel dimesogenic compounds possessing cis-1, 4-dioxa-2-butene as a linking group	Atsushi Yoshizawa; Tetsuya Kawaguchi
183-193	Cholesteric liquid crystalline materials reflecting more than 50% of unpolarized incident light intensity	Michel Mitov; Nathalie Dessaud
195-211	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some new chiral thiobenzoates containing three rings	M. D. Ossowska-Chruściel
213-217	Light-induced structural changes in chiral liquid crystals	Petr V. Shibaev; R. Lea Sanford
219-227	The vitreous gel: a composite structured network engineered by Nature	Alberto Ciferri; Alessandro Magnasco
229-234	A novel pre-shearing technique for measurement of the electrorheological effect of a side-chain liquid crystalline polysiloxane	Kosuke Kaneko; Naotake Nakamura
235-240	Wide temperature range mesomorphic behaviour of highly fluorinated 15-membered macrocycles and their open trisulphonamide precursor	R. Soler; E. Badetti; M. Moreno-Mañas; A. Vallribera; R. M. Sebastián; F. Vera; J. L. Serrano; T. Sierra
241-249	Influence of the proximity of a N–SmA–SmC multicritical point on the electroclinic effect in the cholesteric phase	J. Hemine; C. Legrand; A. Daoudi; N. Isaert; H. T. Nguyen
251-255	Determination of the difference of flexoelectric coefficients in a nematic liquid crystal using a conoscopic technique	E. K. Tidey; L. A. Parry-Jones; S. J. Elston
257-266	Gradient flexoelectric switching response in a nematic phenyl benzoate	Pramoda Kumar; K. S. Krishnamurthy
267-281	Computer modelling and simulation of thermotropic and lyotropic alkyl glycoside bilayers	Teoh Teow Chong; Thorsten Heidelberg; Rauzah Hashim; Saadullah Gary

Volume 34, Issue 1 (2007)

1-7	Comparative study of holographic recording in cholesteric and nematic azo-containing side-chain polymers	Alexey Bobrovsky; Valery Shibaev; Joachim Wendorff
9-18	Phase behaviour under pressure of a dichiral liquid crystal with an optically isotropic cubic phase: 2-{4-[(R)-2-fluorohexyloxy]phenyl}-5-{4-[(S)-2-fluoro-2-methyldecanoyloxy]phenyl}pyrimidine	Yoji Maeda; Hiroshi Yokoyama; Atsushi Yoshizawa; Tetsuo Kusumoto
19-24	Preparation of a discotic 2,4,7,9-tetraaryl-6H-dibenzo[c,e][1,2]thiazine and generation of a persistent Radical 1	Monika J. Sienkowska; John M. Farrar; Piotr Kaszynski
25-31	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of semi-fluorinated chiral liquid crystals with a tribenzoate mesogenic core	Shune-Long Wu; Cho-Ying Lin
33-47	Novel cholesteric glassy liquid crystals of monosubstituted ferrocenes: synthesis and selective reflection properties of a dimesogen, and crystal structure of a monomesogen	Tarimala Seshadri; Hans-Jürgen Haupt; Ulrich Flörke; Gerald Henkel
49-57	Synthesis of a novel liquid crystalline bisindenocarbazole derivative	Martin Sonntag; Peter Strohriegl
59-64	Liquid crystalline dimers with bent-core mesogenic units	Remko Achten; Arie Koudijs; Marcel Giesbers; Antonius T. M. Marcelis; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter; Martin W. Schroeder; Wolfgang Weissflog
65-71	Hydrogen-bonded block mesogens derived from semiperfluorinated benzoic acids and the non-mesogenic 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene	Alexandra Kohlmeier; Dietmar Janietz
73-77	Helical twisting power of chiral titanium complexes in nematic compounds	Marco Engelmann; Manfred Braun; Hans-Georg Kuball
79-85	Diffraction grating in a holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal based on polyurethane acrylate	EunHee Kim; JuYeon Woo; ByungKyu Kim
87-94	FTIR spectroscopy of smectic elastomer films under lateral strain	Victor Aksenov; Ralf Stannarius; Michael Tammer; Patrick Kölsch; Friedrich Kremer; Martin Rössle; Rudolf Zentel
95-100	Dynamics of biphotonic intensity holographic gratings based on dye-doped liquid crystal films	Ko-Ting Cheng; Chia-Rong Lee; Andy Ying-Guey Fuh
101-106	Influence of molecular mass on the liquid crystal alignment of photosensitive fluorinated polyester films	Chun-Hong Fei; Zeng-Hui Peng; Ling-Li Zhang; Li-Shuang Yao; Feng-Zhen Lv; Jing Song; Jing Li; Zhi-Gang Zheng; Li Xuan
107-112	Self-assembly of liquid crystalline triphenylene–oligo(ethylene oxide)–triphenylene molecules and their complexes with lithium triflate	Masaomi Kimura; Masaya Moriyama; Kenji Kishimoto; Masafumi Yoshio; Takashi Kato
113-125	Threshold voltage for purely flexoelectric deformations of conducting homeotropic nematic layers	Grzegorz Derfel; Mariola Buczkowska
127-133	Molecular alignment of the 4-octyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl liquid crystal filled with SiO₂	M. A. Zaki Ewiss; F. Moawia; B. Stoll

Volume 33, Issue 11-12 (2006)

1227-1228	Preface	Geoffrey R. Luckhurst; Edward T. Samulski
1229-1245	Liquid-crystalline glycolipids: towards understanding the roles of liquid crystals in biological and life processes	J. W. Goodby; B. Pfannemüller; W. Welte; E. Chin; J. W. Goodby
1247-1254	Genesis	J. -C. Marchon; D. Guillon; H. Abied; D. Guillon; A. Skoulios; P. Weber; A. M. Giroud-Godquin; J. C. Marchon
1255-1280	The writhing on the wall: first tentative steps toward a comprehensive theory of liquid crystal surfaces	T. J. Sluckin; A. Poniewierski; T. J. Sluckin
1281-1296	Putting liquid crystal droplets to work: a short history of polymer dispersed liquid crystals	Paul Drzaic; Paul S. Drzaic
1297-1311	Azobenzene containing polymers: what is yet viable with aged liquid crystals	Giancarlo Galli; Emo Chiellini; A. S. Angeloni; D. Caretti; C. Carlini; E. Chiellini; G. Galli; A. Altomare; R. Solaro; M. Laus
1323-1338	Tradition and innovation in science	Carlo-Lorentz Mertesdorf; Helmut Ringsdorf; C. Mertesdorf; H. Ringsdorf
1313-1322	PDLC shutters: where has this technology gone?	J. William Doane; Bao-Gang Wu; John H. Erdmann; J. William Doane
1339-1349	Back to the future: 30 years in challenging smectic liquid crystal displays and in clarifying scientific wonders	Atsuo Fukuda; Ichiro Kawamura; Y. Suzuki; T. Hagiwara; I. Kawamura; N. Okamura; T. Kitazume; M. Kakimoto; Y. Imai; Y. Ouchi; H. Takezoe; A. Fukuda
1351-1358	The stereochemistry of glycolipids. A key for understanding membrane functions?	V. Vill; Volkmar Vill; Thomas Böcker; Joachim Thiem; Fred Fischer
1359-1371	Switching the dipole moment for 5CB on and off	S. J. Picken; W. H. de Jeu; S. J. Picken; W. F. van Gunsteren; P. Th. van Duijnen; W. H. de Jeu
1373-1387	Liquid-crystalline phthalocyanines revisited	Roeland J. M. Nolte; J. F. van der Pol; E. Neeleman; J. W. Zwikker; R. J. M. Nolte; W. Drenth; J. Aerts; R. Visser; S. J. Picken
1389-1405	The Gay-Berne mesogen: a paradigm shift?	G. R. Luckhurst; G. R. Luckhurst; R. A. Stephens; R. W. Phippen
1407-1418	Liquid crystals: first active organics in electronics	R. A. M. Hikmet; R. A. M. Hikmet
1419-1427	Holographic storage via the liquid crystal state: a success story	J. H. Wendorff; Klaus Anderle; Richard Birenheide; Martin J. A. Werner; Joachim H. Wendorff
1429-1437	Hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals built from hydrogen-bonding donors and acceptors Infrared study on the stability of the hydrogen bond between carboxylic acid and pyridyl moieties	Takashi Kato; Jean M. J. Fréchet; Takashi Kato; Toshiyuki Uryu; Fumiko Kaneuchi; Chihiro Jin; Jean M. J. Fréchet
1439-1448	The synthesis of triphenylene-based discotic mesogens New and improved routes	Ruth C. Borner; Richard J. Bushby; Andrew N. Cammidge; N. Boden; R. C. Borner; R. J. Bushby; A. N. Cammidge; M. V. Jesudason
1449-1485	Non-symmetric dimeric liquid crystals The preparation and properties of the α-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)-ω- (4-n-alkylanilinebenzylidene-4′-oxy)alkanes	Corrie T. Imrie; G. S. Attard; R. W. Date; C. T. Imrie; G. R. Luckhurst; S. J. Roskilly; J. M. Seddon; L. Taylor
1487-1496	Synthesis and physical properties of liquid crystals having a chlorine atom in the lateral position of a benzene ring	R. Dąbrowski; V. Bezborodov; V. Bezborodov; R. Dąbrowski; J. Dziaduszek; K. Czupryński; Z. Raszewski
1497-1512	Liquid crystalline carbosilane dendrimers: first generation	V. P. Shibaev; S. A. Ponomarenko; E. A. Rebrov; A. Yu. Bobrovsky; N. I. Boiko; A. M. Muzafarov; V. P. Shibaev
1513-1523	Preliminary communication Helical superstructures in a novel smectic mesophase formed by achiral banana-shaped molecules	G. Pelzl; S. Diele; A. Jákli; W. Weissflog; G. Pelzl; S. Diele; A. Jákli; Ch. Lischka; I. Wirth; W. Weissflog

Volume 33, Issue 10 (2006)

1093	Letter to the Editor	Christopher J. Murphy; Nicholas L. Abbott
1095-1102	Self-assembled diols: synthesis, structure and dielectric studies	Jessie Lorenzo Chao; Ilja Grebenchtchikov; Robert Kieffer; Zinaida Vakhovskaya; Ute Baumeister; Carsten Tschierske; Horst Kresse
1103-1111	Quantum well/columnar discotic hybrids	A. Bayer; C. Stillings; J. H. Wendorff
1113-1119	Effects of organomontmorillonite concentration on the structure formation of nanocomposites with 5CB liquid crystal	T. Bezrodna; I. Chashechnikova; G. Puchkovska; A. Tolochko; E. Shaydyuk; N. Lebovka; J. Baran; M. Drozd; H. Ratajczak
1121-1125	Electrical conductivity and dielectric constant measurements of liquid crystal–gold nanoparticle composites	S. Krishna Prasad; K. L. Sandhya; Geetha G. Nair; Uma S. Hiremath; C. V. Yelamaggad; S. Sampath
1127-1131	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of tolane-based liquid crystals with a fluorinated polar end group	Hengfeng Li; Jianxun Wen
1133-1141	Model-independent structure and resonant X-ray spectra of intermediate smectic phases	Mikhail A. Osipov; Maxim V. Gorkunov
1143-1151	The influence of structural changes of the N-substituent on liquid crystalline behaviour of ester imides	Ewa BiaŁecka-Florjańczyk; Ewa Majewska; Dorota Melon-Ksyta; Irma Śledzińska; Jan Przedmojski; Ewa Górecka
1153-1165	Oscillating Poiseuille flow in photo-aligned liquid crystal cells	Sergey Pasechnik; Ildar Nasibullayev; Dina Shmeliova; Valentin Tsvetkov; Liu Zhijian; Vladimir Chigrinov
1167-1175	The influence of lateral and terminal substitution on the structure of a liquid crystal dendrimer in nematic solution: A computer simulation study	Mark R. Wilson; Lorna M. Stimson; Jaroslav M. Ilnytskyi
1177-1187	Transient effects in electrolytic cells submitted to an external electric field	A. L. Alexe-Ionescu; G. Barbero; F. C. M. Freire; M. Scalerandi
1189-1197	Synthesis of two naphthyl-containing homologous series of mesogenic ligands and the related metallomesogens containing Cu(II)	A. K. Prajapati; Nilesh Bonde
1199-1206	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of fluoro and isothiocyanato biphenyl tolane liquid crystals	Yung-Ming Liao; Narayanasamy Janarthanan; Chain-Shu Hsu; Sebastian Gauza; Shin-Tson Wu
1207-1214	Frequency response due to the orientational motion of the director around the smectic cone in a surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal	Muklesur Rahman; S. S. Bhattacharyya; B. K. Chaudhuri
1215-1218	The use of bowed reverse twist disclination lines for the measurement of long pitch lengths in chiral nematic liquid crystals	E. P. Raynes
1219-1225	Orientation effects of PTFE nanolayers upon the nematic 5CB	Y. Marinov; S. D'Elia; L. Todorova; A. G. Petrov; C. Versace; N. Scaramuzza

Volume 33, Issue 9 (2006)

961-978	Twin-like domains in chiral smectic C liquid crystals	Monique Brunet; Lubor Lejček; Laurence Navailles; Patrick Keller; Tinh Huu Nguyen; Eric Polossat; Emmanuel Rouy
979-986	Smectogenic properties of N,N′-bis[(2-hydroxy-4-alkoxyphenyl)methylene]benzene-1,4-diamine liquid crystals with double lateral H-bonds	Guan-Yeow Yeap; Tiang-Chuan Hng; Wan Ahmad Kamil Mahmood; Masato M. Ito; Yamashita Youhei; Yoichi Takanishi; Hideo Takezoe
987-996	Novel ferroelectric liquid crystals based on fused thieno[3,2-b]furan and thieno[3,2-b]thiophene cores	Kateřina Černovská; Bedřich Košata; Jiří Svoboda; Vladimíra Novotná; Milada Glogarová
997-1003	1,4-Diaryl and Schiff's base [1,2,3]-triazole derivative liquid crystalline compounds	Rodrigo Cristiano; Deise Maria Pereira de Oliveira Santos; Gilmar Conte; Hugo Gallardo
1005-1014	Banana-shaped molecules with 4,6-dichlorinated central core: effect of lateral substituents and terminal chains on the formation of antiferroelectric smectic mesophases	Soon-Sik Kwon; Tae-Sung Kim; Chong-Kwang Lee; Hong Choi; Sung-Tae Shin; Jeong-Kyu Park; Wang-Choel Zin; Liang-Chy Chien; Seung-Sock Choi; E-Joon Choi
1015-1019	Kinetics of the nematic ordered phase growth during a temperature quench of an isotropic siloxane-azomethine polymer	Sergei Bronnikov; Carmen Racleş; Alexander Nasonov; Maria Cazacu
1021-1026	A novel series of styrene-based liquid crystal monomers displaying either nematic or chiral nematic phases	Neil B. McKeown; Anthony Cook
1027-1041	Dispersion relations for liquid crystals using the anisotropic Lorentz model with geometrical effects	I. Abdulhalim
1043-1049	Evidence for a tilted smectic phase in Anopore membranes by dielectric spectroscopy	StanisŁaw A. Różański; Jan Thoen
1051-1057	Self-assembled submicron-height terrace structures of pentacene single crystals formed in liquid crystal cells	Hideo Fujikake; Takaaki Suzuki; Takeshi Murashige; Fumio Sato
1059-1063	Influence of silver nanoparticles on the order parameter of liquid crystalline polymers	E. B. Barmatov; D. A. Pebalk; M. V. Barmatova
1065-1076	Synthesis and characterization of homologous series with chiral (S)-1-methylpropyl terminal substituent	Pratik R. Patel; Jayrang S. Dave
1077-1082	Study on colour characteristics depending on orientation of liquid crystal in the in-plane switching mode	Byoung Sun Jung; In Su Baik; Ii Sub Song; Gi-Dong Lee; Seung Hee Lee
1083-1091	Dielectric relaxation in bulk and cylindrically confined octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB)	Sergio Diez; Miguel Ángel Pérez Jubindo; Rosario M. de la Fuente; David O. López; Josep Salud; L. Josep; Tamarit

Volume 33, Issue 8 (2006)

865-874	Morphological phase behaviour under pressure of polycatenar mesogens with a perfluorinated moiety	Yoji Maeda; Etsushi Nishikawa; Hiroshi Yokoyama
875-882	New 1,2,4- and 1,3,4-oxadiazole materials: synthesis, and mesomorphic and luminescence properties	M. Parra; P. Hidalgo; E. Carrasco; J. Barberá; L. Silvino
883-890	Side chain liquid crystalline diethanolamine-based polyesters with methoxy and/or nitroazobenzene mesogenic moieties	M. Huskić; M. Žigon
891-906	Synthesis and characterization of ionic liquids: viologen bis{tetrakis[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]borate} salts	Pradip K. Bhowmik; Haesook Han; Ivan K. Ndedeltchev; James J. Cebe; Shin-Woong Kang; Satyendra Kumar
907-912	Förster energy transfer in cholesteric mixtures: a new type of phototunable fluorescent material	Alexey Bobrovsky; Valery Shibaev; Joachim Wendorff
913-919	Synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of novel discotic meso-tetra(3,4,5-n-trialkoxybenzoylaminophenyl)porphyrins	Jianzhong Li; Hong Xin; Min Li
921-927	Improvement of the dopant compatibility in a chiral LC mixture by structural modification of lanthanide complexes	Frédéric Hapiot
929-933	Odd liquid crystalline dimers can be linear	Roberto Centore; Antonio Roviello; Angela Tuzi; Augusto Sirigu
935-940	Studies on the E7 liquid crystal orientations confined to perfluorinated carboxylic acid-treated cylindrical cavities of Anodisc membranes by FTIR spectroscopy	KiRyong Ha; Hee-Jun Ahn; CheolSoo Son
941-945	Disclinations dynamics in confined nematic liquid crystals: strong anchoring	M. A. Shahzamanian; E. Kadivar
947-951	Effects of plasma treatments on correlation between chemical structures of DLC films and liquid crystal alignment	Ji-Hyuk Choi; Moon-Ho Ham; Byeong-Yun Oh; Jeoung-Yeon Hwang; Sung-Ho Choi; Dae-Shik Seo; Jae-Min Myoung
953-960	The effect of lateral fluoro substituents on the mesomorphic properties of semi-fluorinated chiral liquid crystals	Shune-Long Wu; Cho-Ying Lin

Volume 33, Issue 7 (2006)

753-765	Optical microscopy, DSC and X-ray diffraction studies in binary mixtures of 4-pentyloxy-4′-cyanobiphenyl with three 4,4′-di(alkoxy)azoxybenzenes	B. R. Jaishi; P. K. Mandal
767-773	Sub-millisecond transient vertical chevron formation during the electroclinic effect in the smectic A* phase	L. A. Parry-Jones; S. M. Beldon; P. D. Brimicombe; R. M. Richardson; D. Rodriguez-Martin; S. J. Elston; J. G. Grossmann; G. R. Mant
775-788	Three-dimensional switchable polymer photonic crystals via various optical wave interference techniques	Gregory R. Yandek; Scott; Grigori M. Sigalov; Thein Kyu
789-794	Microscopic structures of the B₇ phase: AFM and electron microscopy studies	A. Eremin; L. Naji; A. Nemes; R. Stannarius; M. Schulz; K. Fodor-Csorba
795-801	Synthesis and liquid crystalline properties of novel compounds containing a 3-fluoro-4-cyanophenoxy group	Shu-Sheng Zhang; Rui Ren; Xue-Mei Li; Qiang Li; Xiu-Yan Song; Qing-Li Wei
803-809	Kojic acid—a new fragment for the preparation of bent-core mesogens	K. Pelz; S. Findeisen; G. Pelzl; S. Diele; W. Weissflog
811-818	Ionic interaction induced novel ordered columnar mesophases in asymmetric discotic triphenylene salts	Li Cui; Lei Zhu
819-828	High tilt antiferroelectric esters bearing a perfluorobutanoyloxy terminal chain: the influence of lateral fluoro substituents on mesomorphic behaviour, tilt angle, and spontaneous polarization	Andrew I. Stipetic; John W. Goodby; Michael Hird; Yann M. Raoul; Helen F. Gleeson
829-832	Rubbing angle effect on in-plane switching liquid crystal displays	Guan Rong-Hua; Sun Yu-Bao; Kang Wen-Xiu
833-840	Influence of hydrophilic and hydrophobic aerosil particles on the molecular modes in the liquid crystal 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl	Stanisław A. Różański; Ghanshyam P. Sinha; Jan Thoen
841-847	The effect of electric fields on light scattering in the isotropic phase of CE6/CE6R mixtures	Upindranath Singh; Carlos Hunte
849-854	Scaling properties of the Miesowicz coefficients	M. Simões; S. M. Domiciano; F. S. Alves
855-864	Influence of the alkyl chain length of some mesogenic molecules on their Langmuir film formation ability	Krzysztof Inglot; Tomasz Martyński; Danuta Bauman

Volume 33, Issue 6 (2006)

625-633	On the change in helix handedness at transitions between the SmC* and phases in chiral smectic liquid crystals	Jan P. F. Lagerwall; Frank Giesselmann; Mikhail Osipov
635-644	Synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of wedge-shaped nematic liquid crystals with flexoelectric properties	Janine H. Wild; Kevin Bartle; Mary O'Neill; Stephen M. Kelly; Rachel P. Tuffin
645-651	Non-monotonic temperature dependence of the alignment of a nematic mixture on a ferroelectric substrate	V. A. Gunyakov; A. M. Parshin; V. F. Shabanov
653-664	The stability of columns comprising alternating triphenylene and hexaphenyltriphenylene molecules: variations in the structure of the hexaphenyltriphenylene component	Richard J. Bushby; Julie Fisher; Owen R. Lozman; Stephan Lange; John E. Lydon; Sholto R. McLaren
665-670	Light diffraction studies on director arrangement in the polymer-pinned striped pattern obtained via the electric field-induced Fréedericksz transition of nematics	Ken-Ichi Izumi; Toshihiko Nagamura; Hirotsugu Kikuchi
671-679	Light-induced formation of curved needle texture by circularly polarized light irradiation on a discotic liquid crystal containing a racemic chromium complex	Nobuhiro Anzai; Hiroko Kurihara; Masato Sone; Hidemitsu Furukawa; Toshiyuki Watanabe; Kazuyuki Horie; Sandeep Kumar
681-688	Banana-shaped side chain liquid crystalline siloxanes	Remko Achten; Arie Koudijs; Marcel Giesbers; R. Amaranatha Reddy; Ton Verhulst; Carsten Tschierske; Antonius T. M. Marcelis; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter
689-696	First liquid crystalline cuneane-caged derivatives: a structure–property relationship study	Gyula Bényei; István Jalsovszky; Dietrich Demus; Krishna Prasad; Shankar Rao; Anikó Vajda; Antal Jákli; Katalin Fodor-Csorba
697-704	Modelling zenithal bistability at an isolated edge in nematic liquid crystal cells	C. Uche; S. J. Elston; L. A. Parry-Jones
705-710	High figure-of-merit nematic mixtures based on totally unsaturated isothiocyanate liquid crystals	Sebastian Gauza; Chien-Hui Wen; Benjamin Wu; Shin-Tson Wu; Ania Spadlo; Roman Dabrowski
711-722	Back-flow and flow-alignment in pulsatile flows of Leslie–Ericksen liquid crystals	L. R. P. de Andrade Lima; A. D. Rey
723-737	Patterned retarders prepared by photoisomerization and photopolymerization of liquid crystalline films	B. M. I. van der Zande; J. Lub; H. J. Verhoef; W. P. M. Nijssen; S. A. Lakehal
739-745	(S)-Isoleucine and (R)-2-octanol as chiral precursors of new chiral liquid crystalline thiadiazoles: synthesis, mesomorphic and ferroelectric properties	M. Parra; J. Vergara; P. Hidalgo; J. Barberá; T. Sierra
747-751	Kerr effect of low melting nematic liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy	H. Khoshsima; A. Ghanadzadeh; H. Tajalli

Volume 33, Issue 5 (2006)

511-519	Dimesogenic liquid crystal consisting of cholesterol and Schiff base moieties: dependence of LC properties on the spacer length and fluorination of the alkoxy tails	Eui-Doo Do; Kyu-Nam Kim; Young-Wan Kwon; Jung-Il Jin
521-530	Dimeric liquid crystals with 5-(4-alkoxybenzoyloxy)tropone or 4-(4-alkoxybenzoyloxy)phenyl cores: evaluation of the tilt angles of the cores, spacers, and side chains	Akira Mori; Kanji Kubo; Manabu Takemoto; Hayato Kitaura; Seiji Ujiie
531-535	Bent-shaped liquid crystals containing a furan bridge in the mesogenic core	K. C. Majumdar; Nilasish Pal; Nandiraju V. S. Rao
537-542	Synthesis and ferroelectric properties of chiral liquid crystals derived from (S)-1-propyloxy-2-propanol	S.–L. Wu; C.–Y. Lin
543-548	Liquid crystalline perfluoroazomethines and perfluoropropenes exhibiting large dielectric anisotropies	Takashi Kato; Makoto Ushioda; Kazutoshi Miyazawa
549-554	Liquid crystalline properties of penta(p-phenylene)s modified with short lateral and long terminal alkoxy chains	Leticia Larios-López; Dámaso Navarro-Rodríguez; Rosa Julia Rodríguez-González; Bertrand Donnio; Daniel Guillon
555-558	On the molecular mechanism of amyloid fibrillogenesis	Alberto Ciferri
559-566	Polar liquid crystalline monomers with two or three lactate groups for the preparation of side chain polysiloxanes	Alexej Bubnov; Miroslav Kašpar; Věra Hamplová; Milada Glogarová; Simona Samaritani; Giancarlo Galli; Gunnar Andersson; Lachezar Komitov
567-572	Supramolecular main chain liquid crystalline polymers utilizing azopyridine derivatives	Donald C. Rogness; Paul J. Riedel; Jonathan R. Sommer; Dwayne F. Reed; Kurt N. Wiegel
573-579	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of chiral swallow-tailed thioester liquid crystals with lateral substituents	Shune-Long Wu; Kuan-Ting Chen
581-585	Surface anchoring of nematic liquid crystal 8OCB on a DMOAP-silanated glass surface	M. Škarabot; E. Osmanagič; I. Muševič
587-603	Synthesis and characterization of achiral banana-shaped liquid crystalline molecules containing bisnaphthyl moieties	Po-Jen Yang; Hong-Cheu Lin
605-609	Phase transition behaviour of novel Y-shaped liquid crystal oligomers	Atsushi Yoshizawa; Megumi Nakata; Akihisa Yamaguchi
611-619	Synthesis and physical properties of α-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)-ω-[4-(5-alkylpyrimidine-2-yl)phenyloxy]alkanes	Atsushi Yoshizawa; Mariko Kurauchi; Yoshimitsu Kohama; Harutada Dewa; Kazuyuki Yamamoto; Isa Nishiyama; Takahiro Yamamoto; Jun Yamamoto; Hiroshi Yokoyama
621-624	Optical isotropic mesophase in side chain copolymers containing isophthalic acid groups	E. B. Barmatov; D. A. Pebalk; M. V. Barmatova

Volume 33, Issue 4 (2006)

373-380	Tuning the physical properties of a nematic liquid crystal elastomer actuator	Christopher M. Spillmann; Jawad Naciri; Mu-San Chen; Amritha Srinivasan; Banahalli R. Ratna
381-390	Synthesis and characterization of luminescent hockey stick-shaped liquid crystalline compounds	Rodrigo Cristiano; André Alexandre Vieira; Fernando Ely; Hugo Gallardo
391-397	Novel mesogenic asymmetric diacylhydrazines: synthesis, mesomorphic behaviour and X-ray study	M. Parra; P. Hidalgo; J. Barberá; E. Carrasco; C. Saavedra
399-407	Mesomorphism of complexed 2,6-disubstituted pyridine ligands: crystal and molecular structure of two bent-core pyridines	Mari Carmen Torralba; Deborah M. Huck; H. Loc Nguyen; Peter N. Horton; Bertrand Donnio; Michael B. Hursthouse; Duncan W. Bruce
409-415	Exact tilt angle profiles for splay–bend deformations in nematic liquid crystals	C. A. R. Yednak; F. C. M. Freire; E. K. Lenzi; L. R. Evangelista
417-438	Determinate and stochastic orientation dynamics of nematic liquid crystals in the cross electric fields with frequencies up to the megahertz range	S. I. Trashkeev; V. M. Klementev; P. A. Statsenko
439-443	Low molecular mass organogel from mesomorphic N-(4-hexyloxybenzoyl)-N′-(4′-nitrobenzoyl)hydrazine	Haitao Wang; Dongmei Pang; Hong Xin; Min Li; Peng Zhang; Wenjing Tian
445-450	Observation of intercalated smectic phases in symmetric liquid crystal dimers containing hydrazide groups	Haitao Wang; Binglian Bai; Peng Zhang; Beihong Long; Wenjing Tian; Min Li
451-457	Mechanisms of switching in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal device revealed by time-resolved X-ray scattering	Helen F. Gleeson; Nicholas W. Roberts; Julie Conn; Shaden Jaradat; Ying Wang
459-467	Organic electroluminescence using polymer networks from smectic liquid crystals	Matthew P. Aldred; Miguel Carrasco-Orozco; Adam E. A. Contoret; Dewen Dong; Simon R. Farrar; Stephen M. Kelly; Stuart P. Kitney; Dean Mathieson; Mary O'Neill; W. Chung Tsoi; Panos Vlachos
469-478	Polyurethane acrylate-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystal dispersions	Do Kyun Kim; Byung Kyu Kim
479-484	Molecular dynamics of a ferroelectric smectogen in its smectic phases by means of ²H NMR spectroscopy	Valentina Domenici; Marco Geppi; Carlo Alberto Veracini; Ronald Y. Dong
485-494	Thermotropic liquid crystals based on ferrocenylbiphenyl and ferrocenylterphenyl	Mikhail V. Makarov; Dimitri A. Lemenovskii; Alice E. Bruce; Mitchell R. M. Bruce; Victor P. Dyadchenko
495-502	Effect of the semi-fluorinated chiral alkane on the formation of the antiferroelectric phase	Shune-Long Wu; Cho-Ying Lin
503-510	An experimental investigation of discrete changes in pitch in a thin, planar chiral nematic device	H. G. Yoon; N. W. Roberts; H. F. Gleeson

Volume 33, Issue 3 (2006)

237-248	Optical behaviour of cholesteric liquid crystal cells with novel photoisomerizable chiral dopants	Jui-Hsiang Liu; Po-Chih Yang; Yu-Kan Wang; Chien-Chih Wang
249-256	Isolation techniques for long-term bistability of the bistable twisted nematic mode	E. J. Acosta; N. J. Smith; M. J. Towler
257-265	A bent-core dopant-induced smectic A* twist state	P. Archer; I. Dierking
267-288	2,5-Dibromopyridine as a key building block in the synthesis of 2,5-disubstituted pyridine-based liquid crystals	Y. A. Getmanenko; R. J. Twieg; B. D. Ellman
289-293	Synthesis and study of N,N-disubstituted 4-[(4-aminophenyl)diazenyl]benzylidene-4′-alkylanilines	Yang-Chu Lin; Kung-Lung Cheng; Woan-Shiow Tzeng; Chih-Lin Su; Long-Je Lee; Ling-Yung Wang; Chun-Ming Yang; Long-Li Lai
295-306	Computational study of the texture formation in mesophase pitch-based carbon fibres	Shujuan Hong; Philip K. Chan
307-319	Molecular organization in binary mixtures of derivatives of naphthalenebicarboxylic acid and naphthoylenebenzimidazole with a liquid crystal in two-dimensional layers II. Langmuir–Blodgett films	Andrzej Biadasz; Tomasz Martyński; Roland Stolarski; Danuta Bauman
321-326	Mesogenic behaviour of (4-alkoxybenzylideneamino)bromobenzene, (4-alkoxybenzylideneamino)benzenethiols, and thiolatonickel complexes of the thiols	Richard M. Moutloali; James Darkwa; Emmanuel Marfo-Owusu
327-334	Azimuthal director gliding at a strongly anchoring interface of polyimide	Sandro Faetti; Prisca Marianelli
335-339	Photocurrent increase by doping a liquid crystal host with a functionalized fullerene	J. Szydlowska; K. Trzcinska; P. Bilkova; J. Mieczkowski; D. Pociecha; E. Gorecka
341-351	Thermotropic liquid crystalline-cum-photocrosslinkable poly(benzylidene arylphosphate ester)s containing the cyclopentanone moiety	P. Sakthivel; P. Kannan
353-359	Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals derived from (S)-1-methyl-2-(2′-methylsulphanylethoxy)ethanol	Shune-Long Wu; Mei-Ching Yu
361-366	Thermotropic liquid crystalline properties of amphiphilic branched chain glycolipids	G. Liao; S. K. Zewe; J. Hagerty; R. Hashim; S. Abeygunaratne; V. Vill; A. Jákli
367-371	Induction of order in the isotropic phase of a lyotropic liquid crystal by pulsed light	P. R. G. Fernandes; H. Mukai; B. S. L. Honda; S. M. Shibli

Volume 33, Issue 2 (2006)

129	Editors' Note
131-138	Flexoelectric response at defect sites in nematic inversion walls	Pramoda Kumar; K. S. Krishnamurthy
139-147	The SmCP_A phase in five-ring bent-core compounds derived from 5-methoxyisophthalic acid	S. Umadevi; S. Radhika; B. K. Sadashiva
149-157	Factors in liquid crystal photoalignment on polymer films: photoorientation versus self-assembly	O. Yaroshchuk; V. Chigrinov; O. Nadtoka; H. Kwok
159-165	Photorefractive effect in composites of ferroelectric liquid crystal and photoconductive polymer	Yukihito Nakazawa; Takeo Sasaki
167-174	Bent-core mesogens based on semi-flexible dicyclohexylmethane spacers	Andreja Lesac; H. Loc Nguyen; Sanja Narančić; Ute Baumeister; Siegmar Diele; Duncan W. Bruce
175-185	Slow relaxation processes in nematic liquid crystals at weak surface anchoring	S. V. Pasechnik; V. G. Chigrinov; D. V. Shmeliova; V. A. Tsvetkov; V. N. Kremenetsky; Liu Zhijian; A. V. Dubtsov
187-194	Molecular dynamics simulation of polymer dispersed liquid crystal droplets under competing boundary conditions	L. V. Mirantsev; S. Romano
195-203	The effect of polymer chain length on the thermodynamics of acrylate/cyanobiphenyl mixtures	N. Crawford; M. D. Dadmun
205-211	Synthesis, physical and mesomorphic properties of Schiff's base esters containing ortho-, meta- and para-substituents in benzylidene-4′-alkanoyloxyanilines	Guan-Yeow Yeap; Sie-Tiong Ha; Phaik-Leng Lim; Peng-Lim Boey; Masato M. Ito; Shigeki Sanehisa; Yamashita Youhei
213-218	New metallomesogens with enaminoketonato ligands	Uladzimir M. Kauhanka; Mikalai M. Kauhanka
219-225	Analysis of the vibrational spectra of chiral liquid crystalline thioesters	R. Korlacki; K. Merkel; J. K. Vij; R. Wrzalik; A. Kocot; M. D. Ossowska-Chruściel; J. Chruściel; S. Zalewski
227-236	The bistable state of a twisted nematic liquid crystal cell with weak anchoring boundary	Zhang Suhua; An Hailong; Guan Ronghua; Yang Guochen

Volume 33, Issue 1 (2006)

1-15	Adsorption–desorption phenomenon and the kinetic equation at interfaces in liquid crystalline systems	L. R. Evangelista; G. Barbero
17-23	The peculiar optic, dielectric and X-ray diffraction properties of a fluorinated de Vries asymmetric diffuse cone-model ferroelectric liquid crystal	Jan P. F. Lagerwall; David Coleman; Eva Körblova; Chris Jones; Renfan Shao; José M. Otón; David M. Walba; Noel Clark; Frank Giesselmann
25-32	Director structures in achiral smectic C liquid crystal cells: field-induced twist domain nucleation	C. D. Jones; R. -F. Shao; A. G. Rappaport; J. E. MacLennan; N. A. Clark; E. Körblova; D. M. Walba
33-39	Synthesis of UV-curable liquid crystalline diacrylates for the application of polarized electroluminescence	Yung-Hsin Yao; Liang-Rern Kung; Shu-Wen Chang; Chain-Shu Hsu
41-56	Novel polymerizable bent-shaped monomeric molecules	Václav Kozmík; Anna Kovářová; Martin Kuchař; Jiří Svoboda; Vladimíra Novotná; Milada Glogarová; Jan Kroupa
57-65	Monofluorinated unsymmetrical bent-core mesogens	Remko Achten; Evelien A. W. Smits; R. Amaranatha Reddy; Marcel Giesbers; Antonius T. M. Marcelis; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter
67-73	Rotational viscosity and molecular structure of nematic liquid crystals	M. L. Dark; M. H. Moore; D. K. Shenoy; R. Shashidhar
75-84	Cubic phase of 4′-n-Hexadecyloxy-3′-cyanobiphenyl-4-carboxylic acid (ACBC-16)	Shoichi Kutsumizu; Kazuya Saito; Shuichi Nojima; Michio Sorai; Yuri G. Galyametdinov; Irina Galyametdinova; Rudolf Eidenschink; Wolfgang Haase
85-89	High pressure studies of the static permittivity tensor components in the nematic phase of 6CB	Joanna Czub; StanisŁaw Urban; Albert Würflinger
91-98	A method to estimate the Leslie coefficients of liquid crystals based on MBBA data	Haiying Wang; Thomas X. Wu; Sebastian Gauza; Janet R. Wu; Shin-Tson Wu
99-102	Reentrant isotropic – discotic nematic phase transition: a critical exponent study	M. Simões; F. S. Alves; K. E. Yamaguti; P. A. Santoro; N. M. Kimura; A. J. Palangana
103-107	Columnar liquid crystals derived from ester-substituted tetraphenylenes	Eugen Wuckert; Sabine Laschat; Angelika Baro; Constanze Hägele; Frank Giesselmann; Heinrich Luftmann
109-114	Anisotropic cellulose-derived matrix for dispersed liquid crystals	D. Filip; I. Costa; J. L. Figueirinhas; M. H. Godinho
115-120	High birefringence difluoroisothiocyanate biphenyl tolane liquid crystals	Otilia Catanescu; Liang-Chy Chien
121-127	Synthesis of new liquid crystalline isoxazole-, pyrazole- and 2-isoxazoline-containing compounds	Uladzimir M. Kauhanka; Mikalai M. Kauhanka

Volume 32, Issue 11-12 (2005)

Special Issue dedicated to Geoffrey Luckhurst

1333-1334	A chemical physics approach to liquid Crystals: a symposium held in honour of Geoffrey Luckhurst Southampton, 29–30 July 2004	Martin A. Bates
1335-1364	Liquid crystals: a chemical physicist's view	Geoffrey R. Luckhurst
1365-1377	Testing experimental analysis techniques for liquid crystals using computer simulation	Martin A. Bates
1379-1387	The determination of molecular parameters from dielectric measurements on nematic liquid crystals	D. A. Dunmur
1389-1396	NMR determination of the physical properties of nematics	G. R. Luckhurst; A. Sugimura; B. A. Timimi; H. Zimmermann
1397-1407	On the molecular theory of dimeric liquid crystals	P. K. Karahaliou; A. G. Vanakaras; D. J. Photinos
1409-1417	Luckhurst–Romano model of thermotropic biaxial nematic phase	Lech Longa; Grzegorz Pająk
1419-1425	Addressing non-idealities in NMR experiments on rotating liquid crystals	Louis A. Madsen; Edward T. Samulski
1427-1436	Columnar and interdigitated structures from apolar discotic mesogens with radial dipoles: a Monte Carlo study	Roberto Berardi; Silvia Orlandi; Claudio Zannoni
1437-1447	Possible transition from rod-like to disc-like behaviour in ortho-metallated imine complexes of palladium(II): crystal and molecular structure of three palladium complexes	Laurent Omnès; Viorel Cîrcu; Peter T. Hutchins; Simon J. Coles; Peter N. Horton; Michael B. Hursthouse; Duncan W. Bruce
1449-1463	Electric field-driven director oscillations in nematic liquid crystals	Geoffrey R. Luckhurst; Akihiko Sugimura; Bakir A. Timimi
1465-1481	Density measurements through the gel and lamellar phase transitions of di-tetradecanoyl- and di-hexadecanoyl-phosphatidylcholines: observation of slow relaxation processes and mechanisms of phase transitions	J. W. Jones; L. Lue; A. Saiani; G. J. T. Tiddy
1483-1498	Effect of terminal functional group size on ferroelectric and antiferroelectric properties of liquid crystals	Stephen J. Cowling; Alan W. Hall; John W. Goodby
1499-1513	Methylene- and ether-linked liquid crystal dimers II. Effects of mesogenic linking unit and terminal chain length	Peter A. Henderson; John M. Seddon; Corrie T. Imrie
1515-1524	NMR methods of studying orientational order in the liquid crystalline and isotropic phases of mesogenic samples	J. W. Emsley
1525-1529	Nanospheres in a nematic liquid crystal solvent: the influence of particle size	Martin A. Bates
1531-1541	Liquid crystal tetramers: influence of molecular shape on liquid crystal behaviour	Peter A. Henderson; Corrie T. Imrie

Volume 32, Issue 10 (2005)

1205-1212	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of new chiral banana-shaped liquid crystals with chiral 3-(alkoxy)propoxy terminal groups	Seng Kue Lee; Chang Won Park; Jong Gun Lee; Kyung-Tae Kang; Koushi Nishida; Yoshio Shimbo; Yoichi Takanishi; Hideo Takezoe
1213-1222	An investigation of the synthesis of chiral LCs based on the [1,2,3]-triazole ring	Gilmar Conte; Fernando Ely; Hugo Gallardo
1223-1231	Liquid crystal molecules with an enyne rigid core	Armand Soldera; Marc-André Beaudoin; Gary O'Brien; Jean Lessard
1233-1241	New five-ring symmetrical bent-core mesogens exhibiting the fascinating B₇ phase	S. Umadevi; B. K. Sadashiva
1243-1249	Synthesis and ferroelectric properties of new chiral liquid crystals derived from (S)-lactic acid with alkoxyethanols	S. -L. Wu; F. -S. Lai
1251-1264	Synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of novel light-emitting liquid crystals	Matthew P. Aldred; Amanda J. Eastwood; Stuart P. Kitney; Gary J. Richards; Panos Vlachos; Stephen M. Kelly; Mary O'Neill
1265-1271	Improving the electro-optical properties of bistable reflective cholesteric liquid crystal displays	Woon-Seop Choi; Hee-Jeong Lee; Nam-Seok Lee
1273-1283	The influence of flow on symmetric and asymmetric splay state relaxations	P. D. Brimicombe; E. P. Raynes
1285-1293	Influence of ionic transport on deformations of homeotropic nematic layers with positive flexoelectric coefficients	Mariola Buczkowska; Grzegorz Derfel
1295-1300	Dielectric investigation of a binary system of self-organized diols	Jessie Lorenzo Chao; Zinaida Vakhovskaya; Ilja Grebenchikov; Carsten Tschierske; H. Kresse
1301-1306	Electrolyte effects on the nematic–isotropic phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals	Prabir K. Mukherjee; Jan P. F. Lagerwall; Frank Giesselmann
1307-1316	De Vries smectic A phase formed by a liquid crystal side chain copolymer? A ¹³C NMR study	L. Naji; R. Stannarius; S. Grande; M. Rössle; R. Zentel

Volume 32, Issue 9 (2005)

1089-1113	Triphenylene-based discotic liquid crystal dimers, oligomers and polymers	Sandeep Kumar
1115-1123	Switching of chirality from racemic to homochiral state in new liquid crystalline monomers with bent-core molecules	Vladimíra Novotná; Věra Hamplová; Miroslav Kašpar; Milada Glogarová; Damian Pociecha
1125-1138	Antiferroelectric siloxane liquid crystal dimers with large molecular tilt under an applied electric field	Nils Olsson; Gunnar Andersson; Bertil Helgee; Lachezar Komitov
1139-1150	A new series of siloxane liquid crystalline dimers exhibiting the antiferroelectric phase	Nils Olsson; Bertil Helgee; Gunnar Andersson; Lachezar Komitov
1151-1160	Laterally substituted naphthalene-2,7-diol-based bent-shaped liquid crystals	Václav Kozmík; Martin Kuchař; Jiří Svoboda; Vladimíra Novotná; Milada Glogarová; Ute Baumeister; Siegmar Diele; Gerhard Pelzl
1161-1167	Synthesis and characterization of side chain liquid crystalline polymers exhibiting cholesteric and blue phases	Bao-Yan Zhang; Fan-Bao Meng; Xiao-Zhi He; Da Lin
1169-1174	Alignment of liquid crystal molecules on oriented (E-CE)C/PAA films	Benqiao He; Yong Huang
1175-1181	Synthesis and physical properties of novel liquid crystal trimers containing resorcinol as a linking unit	Atsushi Yoshizawa; Hiroshi Kinbara; Tsuyoshi Narumi; Akihisa Yamaguchi; Harutada Dewa
1183-1190	Flexoelectric deformations of homeotropic nematic layers in the presence of ionic conductivity	Grzegorz Derfel; Mariola Buczkowska
1191-1194	Highly birefringent nematic and chiral nematic liquid crystals	K. L. Woon; M. O'neill; P. Vlachos; M. P. Aldred; S. M. Kelly
1195-1203	Ferroelectric liquid crystals with fluoro- and aza-fluorenone cores: the effect of stereo-polar coupling	Adam J. McCubbin; Victor Snieckus; Robert P. Lemieux

Volume 32, Issue 8 (2005)

951-965	Heterocyclic reactive mesogens: synthesis, characterisation and mesomorphic behaviour	Matthew P. Aldred; Panos Vlachos; Dewen Dong; Stuart P. Kitney; W. Chung Tsoi; Mary O'Neill; Stephen M. Kelly
967-975	The B₂–B₇ phase transition in symmetrical bent-shaped mesogens with methoxy substitution	Vladimíra Novotná; Věra Hamplová; Miroslav Kašpar; Milada Glogarová; Karel Knížek; Siegmar Diele; Gerhard Pelzl; Chris Jones; David Coleman; Noel A. Clark
977-983	Asymmetry in liquid crystalline hexaalkoxytriphenylene discotics	Ioan Paraschiv; Paul Delforterie; Marcel Giesbers; Maarten A. Posthumus; Antonius T. M. Marcelis; Han Zuilhof; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter
985-995	A comparison of mesogenic properties of p-carborane-1,12-dicarbaldehyde schiff's bases with their terephthaldehyde analogues	Takashi Nagamine; Adam Januszko; Kiminori Ohta; Piotr Kaszynski; Yasuyuki Endo
997-1003	Synthesis and characterization of main chain liquid crystalline ionomers containing sulphonate groups	Bao-Yan Zhang; Mei Tian; Fan-Bao Meng; Xiao-Zhi He
1005-1012	Effects of montmorillonite modification on optical properties of heterogeneous nematic liquid crystal – clay mineral nanocomposites	T. Bezrodna; I. Chashechnikova; L. Dolgov; G. Puchkovska; Ye. Shaydyuk; N. Lebovka; V. Moraru; J. Baran; H. Ratajczak
1013-1020	Dynamics of the Goldstone mode near the point of polarization sign reversal in ferroelectric liquid crystal–aerosil mixtures	StanisŁaw A. Różański; Jan Thoen
1021-1029	Non-symmetric calamitic liquid crystal dimers containing troponoid and benzenoid units	Akira Mori; Kanji Kubo; Manabu Takemoto; Seiji Ujiie
1031-1044	Photoisomerizable chiral compounds derived from isosorbide and cinnamic acid	J. Lub; W. P. M. Nijssen; R. T. Wegh; I. De Francisco; M. P. Ezquerro; B. Malo
1045-1051	Dielectric spectroscopy of the twist grain boundary phase and smectic-like behaviour in the Isotropic Phase	M. R. Dodge; J. K. Vij; S. J. Cowling; A. W. Hall; J. W. Goodby
1053-1059	Antiferroelectric liquid crystals having a semi-fluorinated alkane positioned at the chiral tail	Shune-Long Wu; Cho-Ying Lin
1061-1070	Comparative studies of three- and four-ring mesogenic esters containing p-carborane, bicyclo[2.2.2]octane, cyclohexane, and benzene	Bryan Ringstrand; Jacob Vroman; Dell Jensen; Adam Januszko; Piotr Kaszynski; Jerzy Dziaduszek; Witold Drzewinski
1071-1076	High pressure studies on a binary mixture exhibiting two TGB phases	V. Manjuladevi; N. V. Madhusudana
1077-1085	High birefringence and high resistivity isothiocyanate-based nematic liquid crystal mixtures	Sebastian Gauza; Jun Li; Shin-Tson Wu; Anna Spadło; Roman Da˛browski; Yu-Nan Tzeng; Kung-Lung Cheng
1087	Letter to the editor	B. Simon-Hettich; W. Becker

Volume 32, Issue 7 (2005)

805-813	Strain-induced compression of smectic layers in free-standing liquid crystalline elastomer films	V. Aksenov; J. Bläsing; R. Stannarius; M. Rössle; R. Zentel
815-821	Effect of carbon nanotubes on phase transitions of nematic liquid crystals	Hatice Duran; Bruce Gazdecki; Atsushi Yamashita; Thein Kyu
823-832	Studies on thermotropic liquid crystalline polyphosphates containing photoreactive dual mesogens	K. Rameshbabu; P. Kannan; R. Velu; P. Ramamurthy
833-845	Phase behaviour of three homologues of the discotic hexa-n-alkoxyanthraquinones under pressure	Yoji Maeda; Hiroshi Yokoyama; Sandeep Kumar
847-856	Quantum chemical studies on the conformational behaviour of substituted banana-shaped mesogens with a central 1,3-phenylene unit	S. Ananda Rama Krishnan; W. Weissflog; R. Friedemann
857-865	Unusual mesomorphic behaviour of new bent-core mesogens derived from 4-cyanoresorcinol	Laura Kovalenko; Martin W. Schröder; R. Amaranatha Reddy; Siegmar Diele; Gerhard Pelzl; Wolfgang Weissflog
867-876	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their mixtures XIV. Binary mixtures of 4-(4-substituted phenylazo) phenyl-4-alkoxybenzoates	Refaat I. Nessim; Magdi M. Naoum; Maher I. Nessim
877-887	The influence of terminal chlorine on the mesomorphic properties of new thiobenzoates containing two and three benzene rings	M. D. Ossowska-Chruściel; P. Roszkowski; A. Rudzki; J. Chruściel
889-900	Chiral liquid crystalline 3,6-disubstituted cyclohex-2-enones, their derivatives and FLC compositions based upon them	V. S. Bezborodov; V. I. Lapanik; G. M. SasnoVski; W. Haase
901-908	Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and alignment of novel azobenzene-containing monomers	Muhammed Selo; Jesper Osterman; Helena Tunell; Kent Skarp; Mikhail Kozlovsky
909-912	New possibility for an organic semiconductor: a smectic liquid crystalline semiconductor having a long conjugated core and two long alkyl chains	Yuichiro Haramoto; Yuko Kawada; Atushi Mochizuki; Masato Nanasawa; Seiji Ujiie; Masahiro Funahashi; Kohki Hiroshima; Takamasa Kato
913-919	Anchoring properties of a nematic liquid crystal on anisotropic hydroxypropylcellulose films	J. G. Fonseca; M. H. Godinho; A. C. Ribeiro
921-931	Syntheses of dialkenes and diepoxides, and the influence of their structural parameters on liquid crystalline properties	Torsten Kaese; Dieter Wöhrle; Andreas Hartwig; Günter Schnurpfeil
933-941	Dynamics of the acousto-optic effect in a nematic liquid crystal	V. A. Greanya; A. P. Malanoski; B. T. Weslowski; M. S. Spector; J. V. Selinger
943-949	Role of the diffuse layer of the ionic charge on the impedance spectroscopy of a cell of liquid	G. Barbero; A. L. Alexe-Ionescu

Volume 32, Issue 6 (2005)

667-671	Applying click chemistry to synthesis of chiral [1,2,3]-triazole liquid crystals	Hugo Gallardo; Fernando Ely; Adailton J. Bortoluzzi; Gilmar Conte
673-682	Non-symmetric liquid crystal trimers	Peter A. Henderson; Corrie T. Imrie
683-689	Mesogenic and optical properties of α,α′-bis(4-alkoxyphenylethynyl)oligothiophenes	Hsiu-Fu Hsu; Shih-Jay Chien; Hsiu-Hui Chen; Chien-Hsing Chen; Li-Ya Huang; Chung-Hao Kuo; Kwei-Ju Chen; Chi Wi Ong; Ken-Tsung Wong
691-697	Glass-forming cholesteric mixtures with photosensitive anthracene-containing fluorescent dopants	Alexey Bobrovsky; Natalia Boiko; Valery Shibaev; Joachim Wendorff
699-706	Optical response of a nematic liquid crystal cell at the splay – bend transition: a model and dynamic simulation	Peizhi Xu; Vladimir Chigrinov; Alexei D. Kiselev
707-715	Alignment and switching of AFLC materials using various boundary conditions	Artur Adamski; Kristiaan Neyts; Koen D'havé; Per Rudquist; Roman Dąbrowski
717-726	Dynamic and microscopic X-ray characterization of a compound chevron layer in electroclinic liquid crystals	Atsuo Iida; Yumiko Takahashi; Yoichi Takanishi; Michi Nakata; Ken Ishikawa; Hideo Takezoe
727-734	Perturbative analysis of the nematic director reorientation dynamics induced by a magnetic field rotation in confined media	J. L. Figueirinhas; J. P. Casquilho
735-739	Crystal structure of 1,2-[4-butoxybenzoyloxy-4′-pentyl]diphenylethane	Hassan Allouchi; Christian Courseille
741-747	Crystal structure of a liquid crystal non-symmetric dimer: cholesteryl 4-[4-(4-n-butylphenylethynyl)phenoxy]butanoate	Vivek K. Gupta; Pankaj Bandhoria; Mohit Kalyan; Manoj Mathews; C. V. Yelamaggad
749-754	Synthesis and ferroelectric properties of chiral swallow-tailed liquid crystals derived from (S)-2-[1-(2-ethylbutoxy)]propanol	S. -L. Wu; C. -Y. Lin
755-761	Synthesis, supramolecular structure and liquid crystalline behaviour of hydrazide-modified 4-methoxyazobenzene derivatives	Binglian Bai; Min Li; Dongmei Pang; Yuqing Wu; Haihao Zhang
763-769	Thermotropic mesomorphism in penta- and hepta-coordinated metal complexes	Iolinda Aiello; Mauro Ghedini; Annarita Grisolia; Daniela Pucci; Oriano Francescangeli
771-780	Synthesis and properties of 5,10,15,20-tetra[(4-alkoxy-3-ethyloxy)phenyl]porphyrin hydroxylanthanide liquid crystal complexes	Miao Yu; Guofa Liu; Yuchuan Cheng; Weiqing Xu
781-795	The effect of fluorinated terminal chains on the mesomorphic properties of 4,4′-disubstituted phenyl benzoates	Mary E. Neubert; Sandra S. Keast; Catherine C. Law; Mark C. Lohman; Jay C. Bhatt
797-804	Ferroelectric liquid crystals derived from (S)-2-(6-methoxy-2-naphthyl)propionic acid with non-fluorinated or semi-fluorinated alkanes at a chiral terminal chain	S. -L. Wu; T. -C. Lin

Volume 32, Issue 5 (2005)

533-538	Differences between smectic homo- and co-polysiloxanes as a consequence of microphase separation	M. Rössle; L. Braun; D. Schollmeyer; R. Zentel; J. P. F. Lagerwall; F. Giesselmann; R. Stannarius
539-551	Optical behaviour of photoimageable cholesteric liquid crystal cells with various novel chiral compounds	Jui-Hsiang Liu; Po-Chih Yang
553-563	Eutectic mixtures with plastic columnar discotics: molecular structure, phase morphology and kinetics of phase separation	B. Brandl; J. H. Wendorff
565-572	New ferroelectric liquid crystalline materials containing one and two lactate groups attached to the molecular core	M. Garić; A. Bubnov; V. Novotná; M. Kašpar; V. Hamplová; D. Ž. Obadović; M. Glogarová
573-577	Properties of thermotropic liquid crystals induced by hydrogen bonding between pyridyl-1,2,4-oxadiazole derivatives and benzoic acid, 4-chlorobenzoic acid or 4-methylbenzoic acid	María Parra; Paulina Hidalgo; Joaquín Barberá; Joel Alderete
579-584	Viscoelastic behaviour of the SmC* phase	Z. Hammami; T. Othman; A. Gharbi; H. T. Nguyen
585-598	Polycatenar mesogens with a perfluorinated moiety showing a variety of liquid crystalline polymorphism	Etsushi Nishikawa; Jun Yamamoto; Hiroshi Yokoyama
599-607	Azobenzene polymer stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals: simultaneous photopolymerization and photoalignment	Sonia Sévigny; Luc Bouchard; Shahrokh Motallebi; Yue Zhao
609-617	Optical studies on two tilted smectic phases of meta-substituted three-ring liquid crystal compounds	S. T. Wang; S. L. Wang; X. F. Han; Z. Q. Liu; S. Findeisen; W. Weissflog; C. C. Huang
619-624	X-ray studies of the layer thickness in smectic phases	Stanisław Urban; Jan Przedmojski; Joanna Czub
625-631	Static and dynamic dielectric effects in the vicinity of the isotropic to nematic phase transition in 7CB	M. Ginovska; G. Czechowski; J. -L. Déjardin; J. Jadżyn; L. Hellemans
633-642	Structures and properties of dendrimers having peripheral 2,3-difluorobiphenyl mesogenic units: effects of dendrimer generation	Osamu Haba; Ken-Ichi Okuyama; Hirotomo Osawa; Koichiro Yonetake
643-649	High contrast homeotropic alignment of difluorotolane liquid crystals	Chien-Hui Wen; Sebastian Gauza; Jun Li; Haying Wang; Shin-Tson Wu
651-658	Formation of mesophases by fluorinated enaminoketone Ni(II), Cu(II) and VO(II) complexes	Jadwiga Szydłowska; Adam Krówczyński; Urszula Pietrasik; Agnieszka Rogowska
659-661	The first examples of terminally thiol-functionalized alkoxycyanobiphenyls	Sandeep Kumar; Santanu Kumar Pal
663-665	Antiferroelectric phase induced by a semi-fluoroalkane positioned at the chiral tail of a molecule	S. -l. Wu; C. -Y. Lin

Volume 32, Issue 4 (2005)

407-415	ABC mesogens: a novel ‘hexagonal columns-in-lamellae’ morphology of low molar mass partially fluorinated ‘three-chain’ benzoic acids	A. Schaz; G. Lattermann
417-423	Liquid crystal effects on bacterial viability	Christopher J. Woolverton; Erin Gustely; Lanfang Li; Oleg D. Lavrentovich
425-430	Pressure effects in a plastic columnar discotic triphenylene	B. Brandl; J. H. Wendorff
431-439	Synthesis and characterization of a series of side chain chiral smectic liquid crystalline elastomers	Xiao-Zhi He; Bao-Yan Zhang; Qiu-Ju Sun; Hong-Wei Lu; Lin Li
441-447	Preparation and characterization of side chain cholesteric liquid crystalline polysiloxanes containing two chiral groups	Jian-She Hu; Bao-Yan Zhang; Wei Pan; Ai-Juan Zhou
449-455	New supramolecular liquid crystals induced by hydrogen bonding between pyridyl-1,2,4-oxadiazole derivatives and 2,5-thiophene dicarboxylic acid	M. Parra; P. Hidalgo; J. Alderete
457-462	New chiral Schiff's bases with a 1,3,4-thiadiazole ring in the mesogenic core: synthesis, mesomorphic and ferroelectric properties	M. Parra; J. Vergara; C. Zúñiga; E. Soto; T. Sierra; J. L. Serrano
463-468	Dielectric characterization of samples showing the SmCP_A/B₇ transition	Horst Kresse; Zinaida Vakhovskaya; Ulrike Dunemann; Anton Hauser
469-476	Nematic tribenzosilatranes	Rubén Alvarez; Georg H. Mehl
477-482	Effect of steric factors on mesomorphic stability I. 4-(4-Substituted phenylazo)-1-naphthyl 4-alkoxybenzoates	Sayed Z. Mohammady; Refaat I. Nessim; Ola R. Shehab; Magdi M. Naoum
483-497	Computational modelling of light propagation in textured liquid crystals based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method	Dae Kun Hwang; Alejandro D. Rey
499-512	Effect of connectivity and terminal functionality on mesophase behaviour of thermotropic liquid crystals containing biphenyl units	T. Ranganathan; C. Ramesh; Anil Kumar
513-525	Investigations on liquid crystalline partially fluorinated alkyl and succinimidyl benzoates	A. Schaz; E. Valaityte; G. Lattermann
527-531	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of fluorinated phenyl 4-[(4-n-alkoxy-2,3-difluorophenyl)ethynyl]benzoates	Lihua Yao; Hengfeng Li; Jianxun Wen

Volume 32, Issue 3 (2005)

277-285	Non-symmetric bent-core mesogens with one terminal vinyl group	Remko Achten; Arie Koudijs; Marcel Giesbers; Antonius T. M. Marcelis; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter
287-297	Banana-shaped mesogens: mesomorphic properties of seven-ring esters derived from 5-chlororesorcinol	S. Umadevi; B. K. Sadashiva
299-306	Synthesis and characterization of side chain cholesteric liquid crystalline elastomers derived from chiral bisolefinic crosslinking units	Xiao-Zhi He; Bao-Yan Zhang; Jian-She Hu; Mei Tian
307-314	Electro-optical switching properties for measuring the parameters of a ferroelectric liquid crystal	S. Essid; M. Manai; A. Gharbi; J. P. Marcerou; J. C. Rouillon
315-319	Photochromic reverse mode polymer dispersed liquid crystals	Marialuigia Macchione; Giovanni De Filpo; Fiore P. Nicoletta; Giuseppe Chidichimo
319-330	Synthesis and evaluation of some novel chiral heterocyclic liquid crystalline materials exhibiting ferro- and antiferro-electric phases	Robert Mcdonald; David Lacey; Paul Watson; Stephen Cowling; Paul Wilson
331-340	Collective dynamic modes in ferroelectric liquid crystal-aerosil dispersions	Stanisław A. Różański; Jan Thoen
343-347	Liquid crystal alignment on isotropic submicro-textured surfaces of homeotropic-planar states	I. H. Bechtold; E. A. Oliveira
349-357	Interfacial tension between polystyrene and a liquid crystal polymer	Danilo J. Carastan; Elaine Palmezan; Renato N. Shimizu; Nicole R. Demarquette
357-365	Synthesis and characterization of side chain cholesteric liquid crystalline polymers containing isosorbide as a chiral centre	Bao-Yan Zhang; Ying-Ying Zheng; Ye Xu; Hong-Wei Lu
365-372	Electro-optical effects of anchoring transition in polymer dispersed liquid crystal films	J. -W. Han
373-380	Raman study of a liquid crystalline gel consisting of photochromic 4-methyl-N-(4-n-heptyloxysalicylidene)aniline and a gelling agent (R,R′)-1,2-bis(dodecanoylamino)cyclohexane	K. Miyakawa; I. Ishizu; T. Koga; S. Sakagami; A. . Takase
381-389	Surface anchoring and the saturation behaviour of a NLC cell under external electric and magnetic fields	Guan Rong-Hua; Li Ran
389-394	Variation of molecular stacking with different length of alkyl chain: synthesis, structure determination, and mesogenic study of N,N-disubstituted aminophenylazo-(4)-p-alkylbenzenes	Long-Li Lai; Ling-Yung Wang; Hui-Fang Tzeng; Jian-Wen Lin; Sheng-Ming Huang; Kuang-Lieh Lu; Yi-Hung Liu; Yu Wang
395-400	The electro-optical properties of ‘charged’ PDLCs	D. Cupelli; F. P. Nicoletta; G. De Filpo; R. Cassano; F. Puoci; G. Chidichimo
401-405	Influence of chirality on the mesophase of side chain polymers with phenyl benzoate pendant groups	Mikhail Kozlovsky

Volume 32, Issue 2 (2005)

151-161	A new class of bent-shaped mesogens exhibiting unusual mesophase behaviour	Ulrike Dunemann; Martin W. Schröder; Gerhard Pelzl; Siegmar Diele; Wolfgang Weissflog
163-172	Synthesis and physical properties of difluoroterphenyl ferroelectric liquid crystal with mixed alkenyloxy-ester terminal ends	L. R. Manuel; L. G. Cada; L. C. Chien
173-181	Optical and electro-optical properties of bimesogenic organosiloxane antiferroelectric liquid crystals with molecular tilt approaching 45 degrees	M. N. Pivnenko; P. Lehmann; L. Komitov; H. J. Coles
183-189	Effect of ionic aggregates of sulphonate groups on the liquid crystalline behaviours of liquid crystalline elastomers	Fan-Bao Meng; Bao-Yan Zhang; Ying-Gang Jia; Dan-Shu Yao
191-195	Synthesis and characterization of a novel liquid crystal-bearing ionic mesogen	Fan-Bao Meng; Chun-Sheng Cheng; Bao-Yan Zhang; Xiao-Zhi He
197-205	Structure and properties of new liquid crystalline cubane-1,4-dicarboxylic acid derivatives	G. Y. Bényei; I. Jalsovszky; C. Slugovc; G. Trimmel; G. Pelzl; A. Vajda; N. Éber; K. Fodor-Csorba
207-212	Physical properties of a novel chiral material possessing a binaphthyl group	Juri Rokunohe; Akihisa Yamaguchi; Atsushi Yoshizawa
213-219	Dual nature of a tin-containing liquid crystalline side group homopolymer	H. Kresse; J. Lindau; J. Salfetnikova; D. Reichert; O. Pascui; E. Hempel
221-227	Rollable ferroelectric liquid crystal devices monostabilized with molecularly aligned polymer walls and networks	Hiroto Sato; Hideo Fujikake; Hiroshi Kikuchi; Taiichiro Kurita; Fumio Sato
229-237	Dimesogenic compounds consisting of cholesterol and azobenzene-based moieties: dependence of liquid crystal properties on spacer length and fluorination of the terminal chain	Kyu-Nam Kim; Eui-Doo Do; Young-Wan Kwon; Jung-Il Jin
239-246	Alignment of liquid crystals induced by a photopolymerized self-assembled film	Zenghui Peng; Li Xuan
247-266	The effect on mesomorphic properties of a triple bond in a terminal chain of 4,4′-disubstituted phenyl benzoates and phenyl thiobenzoates	Mary E. Neubert; Sandra S. Keast; Julie M. Kim; Aaron G. Norton; Mark J. Whyde; Michael J. Smith; Ryan M. Stayshich; Margaret E. Walsh; David G. Abdallah
267-275	Cell gap-dependent transmission characteristics of a fringe-electric field-driven homogeneously aligned liquid crystal cell, for a liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy	Song Hee Jung; Hyang Yul Kim; Myoung-Hoon Lee; John Moon Rhee; Seung Hee Lee

Volume 32, Issue 1 (2005)

1-6	TGB phases in chiral swallow-tailed liquid crystals with a methyleneoxy linking group	S. -L. Wu; J. -Y. Chuang
7-14	Synthesis and characterization of low molecular mass luminescent liquid crystalline materials with 1,3,4-oxadiazole units	Rodrigo Cristiano; Deise Maria Pereira de Oliveira Santos; Hugo Gallardo
15-25	Light-emitting bent-shape liquid crystals	Rodrigo Cristiano; Fernando Ely; Hugo Gallardo
27-30	Observation of scaling behaviour of dielectric relaxation in ferroelectric liquid crystals	Shyamal Kumar Kundu; B. K. Chaudhuri
31-38	Crystal and molecular structures of four model compounds for liquid crystal dimers with a methylene spacer of various lengths	Peter Zugenmaier
39-43	Hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals derived from supramolecular complexes of pyridylated poly(propyleneimine) dendrimers and a cholesterol-based carboxylic acid	Theodoros Felekis; Dimitris Tsiourvas; Leto Tziveleka; Constantinos M. Paleos
45-54	Method for measuring K₁₁/K₃₃ and ε_∥/ε_⊥ ratios of nematic liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy	N. Tsiberis; H. Zenginoglou; J. Kosmopoulos; P. Papadopoulos
55-61	Possible structures for the lamellar–isotropic (Lam-I) and lamellar–nematic (Lam-N) liquid crystalline phases	Neha M. Patel; Ishtiaque M. Syed; Charles Rosenblatt; Marko Prehm; Carsten Tschierske
63-68	Synthesis and frustrated phases of chiral liquid crystals derived from (R)-3-alkoxy-2-methylpropionic acids	S. -L. Wu; T. -S. Chen
69-75	Nature of disclination cores in liquid crystals	Shanju Zhang; Eugene M. Terentjev; Athene M. Donald
77-84	Selection of droplet size and the stability of nematic emulsions	M. Heppenstall-Butler; A. -M. Williamson; E. M. Terentjev
85-94	Heterocyclic benzoxazole-based liquid crystals	Chung K. Lai; Ho-Chih Liu; Fu-Joun Li; Kung-Lung Cheng; Hwo-Shuenn Sheu
95-105	Nematic liquid crystal in contact with periodically patterned surfaces	S. Kondrat; A. Poniewierski; L. Harnau
107-113	Mesomorphic properties of monocyclic troponoids with a semi-fluorinated side group	Akira Mori; Katsuyuki Uno; Hitoshi Takeshita; Shinji Takematsu
115-118	Effect of the pentafluorophenyloxy group on liquid crystalline behaviour	Toshio Itahara
119-124	Dielectric studies of tolane derivatives exhibiting the E and K phases	StanisŁaw Urban; Joanna Czub; Roman Dąbrowski; Horst Kresse
125-131	Synthesis of a liquid crystalline azobenzene monomer for photoalignment of ferroelectric liquid crystals	Guang Wang; Steve Leclair; Luise-Andree Roy; Shahrokh Motallebi; Yue Zhao
133-142	Fabrication and characterization of polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystal cells with chiral monomers derived from borneol	Jui-Hsiang Liu; Hsien-Jung Hung
143-149	Thermal properties and ionic conductivity of a polymer prepared by the in situ photopolymerization of a vinylimidazole monomer containing a mesogenic group	Hideyuki Yoshizawa; Takashi Mihara; Naoyuki Koide

Volume 31, Issue 12 (2004)

1555-1568	Siloxane antiferroelectric liquid crystalline dimer exhibiting two field-free zero birefringent states	N. Olsson; I. Dahl; B. Helgee; L. Komitov Corresponding author
1569-1572	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of new liquid crystalline compounds VIII. Indolinobenzospiropyranyl aryliminobenzoates	Sam-Rok Keum Corresponding author; Sung-Hoon Lee; Sang-Ook Kang
1573-1579	A study on the effect of carboxylate ester and thioester linking groups in ferroelectric liquid crystal dimers	S. -L. Wu Corresponding author; S. Senthil
1581-1585	Ferroelectric liquid crystals with a thioester linking group positioned at the chiral tail	S. -L. Wu Corresponding author; Z. -L. Yang
1587-1593	The influence of nematic liquid crystal content on the electro-optical properties of a polymer dispersed liquid crystal prepared with monodisperse liquid crystal microcapsules	Jee-Hyun Ryu; Sung-Guk Lee; Kyung-Do Suh Corresponding author
1595-1600	Field-induced reorientation dynamics in liquid crystalline hexatic phases	H. Schlacken Corresponding author; P. Schiller; H. Kresse
1601-1611	Effect of photoreactivity of polyimide on the molecular orientation of liquid crystals on photoreactive polymer/polyimide blends	Shi-Joon Sung; Jaemin Lee; Ki-Yun Cho; Won Sun Kim; Hyundae Hah; Hong-Ku Shim; Jung-Ki Park Corresponding author
1613-1617	Effect of core structures and swallow-tailed groups on the mesomorphic properties of chiral liquid crystals derived from (L)-lactic acid	S. -L. Wu Corresponding author; R. -B. Chen
1619-1625	Nucleation of the pi-cell operating state: a comparison of techniques	E. Acosta; B. Henley; D. Kean; M. Tillin; C. Tombling; M. Towler; E. Walton; H. Walton; R. Winlow
1627-1637	Synthesis, properties and photopolymerization of liquid crystalline dioxetanes	J. Lub Corresponding author; V. Recaj; L. Puig; P. Forcén; C. Luengo
1639-1648	Molecular organization in binary mixtures of derivatives of naphthalenebicarboxylic acid and naphthoylenebenzimidazole with a liquid crystal in two-dimensional layers I. Langmuir films	Andrzej Biadasz; Tomasz Martyński; Roland Stolarski; Danuta Bauman
1649-1653	STN-gels in fast passive matrix displays	Peter Cirkel Corresponding author; Takashi Kato; Norihiro Mizoshita; Henri Jagt; Kenji Hanabusa
1655-1662	Metallomesogens: enaminoketone derivatives of the 3-oxa, 3-thia- and 3-selena-butyric amides	Jadwiga Szydłowska; Andrzej Jurkiewicz Corresponding author; Adam Krówczyński
1663-1676	Electroconvective dendrites in nematic phases having short range smectic order exhibited by the 4,n-alkoxybenzoic acids	B. Katranchev; H. Naradikian; E. Keskinova; M. P. Petrov Corresponding author; J. P. Marcerou
1677-1679	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of cholesteryl p-2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5-octafluoropentoxybenzoate	Chuan Qin Corresponding author; Guobing Rong; Jianxun Wen; Aniko Vajda; Nandor Eber

Volume 31, Issue 11 (2004)

1427-1434	Oligomeric liquid crystals: From monomers to trimers	Peter Henderson; Andrew Cook; Corrie Imrie
1435-1444	Discotic salicylaldimato metal complexes exhibiting columnar mesophases and their mixtures with rod-like salicylaldimato complexes	Richard Date; Duncan Bruce
1445-1456	Liquid crystalline complexes of 4-alkoxystilbazoles with silver 1,12-dodecylene disulphate	H. Loc Nguyen; Peter Horton; Michael Hursthouse; Duncan Bruce
1457-1462	Synthesis and characterization of novel thermotropic liquid crystals containing a dimethylamino group	T. Narasimhaswamy; K. S. V. Srinivasan
1463-1467	Application of polyfluorophenazines to dichroic fluorescent dyes in guest-host liquid crystal displays	M. Matsui; M. Suzuki; K. Mizuno; K. Funabiki; S. Okada; T. Kobayashi; M. Kadowaki
1469-1477	Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals of chiral swallow-tailed materials with an ester group linked to achiral alkyl chains	S. -L. Wu; T. -C. Lin
1479-1485	Ultraviolet stability of liquid crystals containing cyano and isothiocyanato terminal groups	Chien-Hui Wen; Sebastian Gauza; Shin-Tson Wu
1487-1493	Liquid crystallinity in linear, helical, columnar supramolecular polymers	Alberto Ciferri
1495-1502	Effect of introducing thioether linkages on the molecular organization of chiral twin liquid crystals	Isa Nishiyama; Jun Yamamoto; John Goodby; Hiroshi Yokoyama
1503-1515	The geometrical optics approach for multidimensional liquid crystal cells	G. Panasyuk; J. R. Kelly; P. Bos; E. C. Gartland Jr.; D. W. Allender
1517-1523	Effect of the variation of swallow-tailed groups on the mesomorphic and electro-optical properties of chiral compounds derived from (<emph type="2">S</emph>)-2-(6-hydroxy-2-naphthyl)propionic acid	S. -L. Wu; F. -C. Lu
1525-1530	FTIR study of E7 liquid crystal orientations confined to cylindrical cavities of Anodisc membranes	Kiryong Ha; Hee-Jun Ahn
1531-1537	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of esters derived from Schiff's bases containing 1,3,4-thiadiazole	M. Parra; J. Vergara; J. Alderete; C. Zúñiga
1539-1546	The phase behaviour and optical properties of a nematic/chiral dopant liquid crystalline mixture system	Wen-Ren Chen; Jenn-Chiu Hwang
1547-1553	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of new liquid crystalline compounds with ß-hydroxy-, ß-chloroketone and a,ß-unsaturated ketone moieties in the terminal chains	Uladzimir Kauhanka; Mikalai Kauhanka

Volume 31, Issue 10 (2004)

1305-1309	Tetraphenylenes as novel saddle-shaped building blocks of columnar and smectic liquid crystals	Eugen Wuckert; Mike Dix; Sabine Laschat Corresponding author; Angelika Baro; Jörg L. Schulte; Constanze Hägele; Frank Giesselmann
1311-1321	Investigations on liquid crystalline partially fluorinated ‘one-chain’ and ‘two-chain’ benzoic acids	A. Schaz; E. Valaitytė; G. Lattermann Corresponding author
1323-1336	High speed parallel synthesis of banana-shaped molecules and phase transition behaviour of 4-bromo-substituted derivatives	Sungmin Kang; Jirakorn Thisayukta; Hideo Takezoe; Junji Watanabe Corresponding author; Kumiko Ogino; Takayuki Doi; Takashi Takahashi
1337-1346	Fluorine-substituted unsymmetrical bent-core mesogens derived from resorcinol	H. N. Shreenivasa Murthy; B. K. Sadashiva Corresponding author
1347-1356	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of unsymmetrical bent-core compounds containing 1,3-phenylene or 2,7-naphthylene as the central unit	H. N. Shreenivasa Murthy; B. K. Sadashiva Corresponding author
1357-1365	Synthesis, structure and characterization of side chain cholesteric liquid crystalline polysiloxanes	Jian-She Hu; Bao-Yan Zhang Corresponding author; Xiao-Zhi He; Chun-Zheng Cheng
1367-1380	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of liquid crystalline [1]benzothieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene derivatives	Bedřich Košata; Jiří Svoboda Corresponding author; Vladimíra Novotná; Milada Glogarová
1381-1386	Orientational transition of a bent-core dopant in an anticlinic liquid crystal matrix	Min Hua Zhu; M. R. Dodge; Tatsutoshi Shioda; Charles Rosenblatt Corresponding author; Dallas D. Parker; Julie M. Kim; Mary E. Neubert
1387-1392	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of chiral liquid crystals having thiolactate groups	S. -L. Wu Corresponding author; S. Senthil
1393-1397	A hybrid aligned nematic reflective liquid crystal display driven by a fringe-field	Tae Bong Jung; Yong-Bae Kim; Hyun Chol Choi; Seung Hee Lee Corresponding author
1399-1405	Intrinsic characteristic times in the drift-diffusion problem	L. R. Evangelista Corresponding author; G. Barbero
1407-1412	Study on the molecular orientation of an anti-ferroelectric liquid crystal by two-dimensional correlation polarized infrared spectroscopy	Yuchuan Cheng; Weiqing Xu; Xu Wang; Li Sun; Bing Zhao Corresponding author
1413-1425	A new synthetic approach based on (-)-menthone for chiral liquid crystals	Fernando Ely; Gilmar Conte; Aloir A. Merlo; Hugo Gallardo Corresponding author

Volume 31, Issue 9 (2004)

1175-1184	On the origin of high optical director tilt in a partially fluorinated orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystal mixture	Jan P. F. Lagerwall Corresponding author; Alexander Saipa; Frank Giesselmann; Roman Dabrowski
1185-1193	Synthesis and characterization of a novel liquid crystal series with tribenzoate cores and monofluoro-substitution on the phenyl ring near the chiral chain	S. Essid; M. Manai; A. Gharbi Corresponding author; J. P. Marcerou; J. C. Rouillon; H. T. Nguyen
1195-1205	The relationship between the structures of semi-rigid homo- and copolyesters based on 5,5′-diphenyl-2,2′-bis(1,3,4-thiadiazole)s and their liquid crystalline and optical properties	Moriyuki Sato Corresponding author; Miyuki Notsu; Shinji Nakashima
1207-1218	Orientational properties and dynamics of nematic liquid crystals mixed with dendrimers for electro-optical switches	M. C. W. Van Boxtel Corresponding author; M. Wübbenhorst; J. Van Turnhout; C. W. M. Bastiaansen; D. J. Broer
1219-1226	Liquid crystalline homopolyesters having main chain calamitic mesogens and one or two side chain azobenzene moieties in the repeat units	Moriyuki Sato Corresponding author; Miyuki Mizoi; Hiroko Yano
1227-1234	Studies on the liquid crystalline behaviour of novel N-alkyl-substituted ester imides	Ewa Białecka-Florjańczyk Corresponding author; Dorota Melon-Ksyta; Andrzej Orzeszko; Irma Śledzińska; Jan Przedmojski; Ewa Górecka
1235-1240	Shear-induced rotations in a weakly anchored nematic liquid crystal	O. S. Tarasov
1241-1250	Domain manipulation of ferroelectric BaTiO₃ thin films: application to the local reorientation of liquid crystal	J. F. Blach; R. Desfeux; A. Da Costa; D. Bormann; J. F. Henninot; M. Warenghem Corresponding author; W. Prellier
1251-1257	Thermal positioning of point defects in smectic films: the thermal tweezer	M. Veum Corresponding author; P. Messman; C. c. Huang
1259-1264	Washing effects on the anchoring energy and surface order parameter on rubbed polymer surfaces containing the trifluoromethyl moiety	Jeong-Mim Han; Jeoung-Yeon Hwang; Dae-Shik Seo Corresponding author; Sang-Keuk Lee; Joon-Ung Lee
1265-1270	Polymer network as a template for control of photoconductivity of a liquid crystal semiconductor	S. Krishna Prasad Corresponding author; Geetha G. Nair; Gurumurthy Hegde; Uma S. Hiremath; C. V. Yelamaggad
1271-1284	Texture dependence of capillary instabilities in nematic liquid crystalline fibres	Ae-Gyeong Cheong; Alejandro D. Rey Corresponding author
1285-1291	Photochemical tuning of the helical structure of cholesteric liquid crystals by photoisomerization of chiral azobenzenes, and their structural effects	Teppei Yoshioka; Md Zahangir Alam; Tomonari Ogata; Takamasa Nonaka; Seiji Kurihara Corresponding author
1293-1303	Structure–activity studies of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric imine ligands and their square-planar complexes	R. Piñol; M. B. Ros; J. L. Serrano Corresponding author; T. Sierra; M. R. De La Fuente

Volume 31, Issue 8 (2004)

1037-1059	Recent developments in the chemistry of triphenylene-based discotic liquid crystals	Sandeep Kumar
1061-1067	Viscoelastic behaviour of ferro- and antiferroelectric phases	T. Othman Corresponding author; Z. Hammami; A. Gharbi; H. T. Nguyen
1069-1081	Unusual mesomorphic behaviour in bent-core compounds derived from 5-cyanoresorcinol	R. Amaranatha Reddy; B. K. Sadashiva Corresponding author
1083-1091	Physical effects of the surface elastic term K₁₃ on weak anchoring nematic liquid crystal cells	Guan Ronghua Corresponding author; Huai Junxia; Yang Guochen
1093-1100	The formula of anchoring energy for a nematic liquid crystal	Yang Guo-Chen Corresponding author; Zhang Shu-Jing; Han Li-Jun; Guan Rong-Hua
1101-1108	Ferroelectric liquid crystals induced by atropisomeric biphenyl dopants: the effect of chiral perturbations on achiral dopants	C. Scott Hartley; Robert P. Lemieux Corresponding author
1109-1113	Observation of bubble domains at the cholesteric to homeotropic-nematic transition in a confined chiral nematic liquid crystal	C. Carboni Corresponding author; A. K. George; Afaf Al-Lawati
1115-1121	Phase characterization of LC (meth)acrylic monomers based on ω-hexyloxy- and ω-undecyloxy-salicylaldimine groups with different alkoxy tail substitutions	E. A. Soto-Bustamante Corresponding author; C. M. Gonzalez-Henriquez; G. A. Rodriguez-Lehyt; R. O. Vergara-Toloza
1123-1129	Weakly polar liquid crystal dispersed with hydrophobic and hydrophilic aerosils: a broadband dielectric study	G. Sinha; A. Oka; C. Glorieux; J. Thoen Corresponding author
1131-1141	Direct transition from the SmA phase to the tilted hexatic phase in liquid crystals with several lactate units	V. Novotná Corresponding author; M. Kašpar; V. Hamplová; M. Glogarová; I. Rychetský; D. Pociecha
1143-1150	Amphiphilic and mesogenic carbohydrates XIII. Perfluoroalkylated amphiphilic liquid crystals with inositol and carbohydrate head groups	Dirk Schwäbisch; Susanne Wille; Martin Hein; Ralf Miethchen Corresponding author
1151-1158	Synthesis and physical properties of laterally fluorinated liquid crystals containing 1,3,2-dioxaborinane and cyclohexyl units	Guixiang Sun Corresponding author; Bing Chen; Hong Tang; Gaoquan Shi; Shouyi Xu
1159-1165	A convenient synthesis and the mesomorphic properties of new chiral ferroelectric thiobenzoates	M. D. Ossowska-Chruściel
1167-1174	Asymmetric banana-shaped liquid crystals with two different terminal alkoxy chains	Remko Achten; Ruud Cuypers; Marcel Giesbers; Arie Koudijs; Antonius T. M. Marcelis Corresponding author; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter

Volume 31, Issue 7 (2004)

895-906	Study of smectic elastomer films under uniaxial stress	R. Stannarius Corresponding author; R. Köhler; M. Rössle; R. Zentel
907-912	An Ia3¯d thermotropic cubic phase from N-alkylpyridinium tetrahalocuprates	Francesco Neve; Marianne Impéror-Clerc Corresponding author
913-922	Dynamics of the surface layer in cyanobiphenyl–aerosil nanocomposites with a high silica density	S. Frunza Corresponding author; L. Frunza; M. Tintaru; I. Enache; T. Beica; A. Schönhals Corresponding author
923-933	Chiral ordering in the nematic and an optically isotropic mesophase of bent-core mesogens with a halogen substituent at the central core	Wolfgang Weissflog; Siegmar Sokolowski; Heinz Dehne; Banani Das; Siegbert Grande; Martin W. Schröder; Alexey Eremin; Siegmar Diele; Gerhard Pelzl Corresponding author; Horst Kresse
935-940	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of banana-shaped achiral molecules with central and lateral halogen substituents	Sung-Tae Shin; Hong Choi; Chong-Kwang Lee Corresponding author; Soon-Sik Kwon; Tae-Sung Kim; E-Joon Choi; Sea-Yun Kim; Wang-Choel Zin; Dae-Cheol Kim; Liang-Chy Chien
941-963	The effect of terminal chain modifications on the mesomorphic properties of 4,4′-disubstituted diphenyldiacetylenes	Mary E. Neubert Corresponding author; Michael R. Fisch; Sandra S. Keast; Julie M. Kim; Mark C. Lohman; Rachel S. Murray; Kyle J. Miller; Raj A. Shenoy; Michael J. Smith; Ryan M. Stayshich; Margaret E. Walsh; Rolfe G. Petschek; George A. Lorenzo; Dena C. Burrows; Shelly M. Oliver
965-971	Influence of azimuthal anchoring on the structure and range of occurrence of spontaneous periodic deformations in hybrid aligned nematic layers	Dariusz Krzyżażski Corresponding author; Grzegorz Derfel
973-987	Study of different modes of dielectric relaxation in a newly synthesized material exhibiting ferro-, ferri- and antiferro-electric phases	M. B. Pandey; R. Dhar Corresponding author; V. K. Agrawal; R. Dabrowski; M. Tykarska
989-992	Thermal phase transition behaviour of liquid crystals in submicron pores formed with stretched polymer fibrils	Hideo Fujikake Corresponding author; Masashi Kuboki; Takeshi Murashige; Hiroto Sato; Hiroshi Kikuchi; Taiichiro Kurita; Fumio Sato
993-996	Thermal switching of the optical anisotropy of a macroscopically aligned film of a discotic liquid crystal	Jorge Piris; Wojciech Pisula; Adam Tracz; Tadeusz Pakula; Klaus Müllen; John M. Warman Corresponding author
997-1005	Simulations of energy and switching in AFLCDs with different boundary conditions	Artur Adamski Corresponding author; Herman Pauwels; Kristiaan Neyts
1007-1017	Heterocyclic columnar pyrimidines: synthesis, characterization and mesomorphic properties	Chih-Wei Chien; Kwang-Ting Liu Corresponding author; Chung K. Lai Corresponding author
1019-1025	Mixed-valent diruthenium (II,III) aliphatic carboxylates: columnar mesophases in dodecylsulfate and octylsulfonate derivatives	Zulema Chaia; Andrés Zelcer; Bertrand Donnio; Marcia Rusjan; Fabio D. Cukiernik Corresponding author; Daniel Guillon
1027-1036	Bent-core V-shaped mesogens consisting of salicylaldimine mesogenic segments: synthesis and characterization of mesomorphic behaviour	C. V. Yelamaggad Corresponding author; I. Shashikala; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad

Volume 31, Issue 6 (2004)

753-757	Control of liquid crystal pretilt angles by chemical derivatization reaction of polyvinyl alcohol films	Kiryong Ha Corresponding author; John L. West
759-766	Diversity in the packing modes of mesogenic diphenylpyrimidines with two chiral centres in their crystal structures: the role of interactions between the pyrimidine rings	Kayako Hori Corresponding author; Yasuko Matsunaga; Atsushi Yoshizawa; Tetsuo Kusumoto; Tomoji Ozeki; Akifumi Iida; Hirokazu Chiba
767-772	Synthesis and properties of new three-ring phenylacetylene liquid crystals containing the cyclohexyl unit	Bing Chen Corresponding author; Guixiang Sun; Shouyi Xu
773-779	Synthesis and study of azo dye compounds: variation of mesogenic behaviour with length of alkyl chains	Long-Li Lai Corresponding author; Feng-Ya Su; Chen-Hsiung Hung
781-786	Cyclic versus linear siloxane liquid crystalline oligomers: phase behaviour	Lu-Mei Liu; Bao-Yan Zhang Corresponding author; Xiao-Zhi He; Chun-Sheng Cheng
787-790	Dielectric spectroscopy of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal showing an antiferroelectric–ferrielectric transition	Shyamal Kumar Kundu; Y. Aoki; B. K. Chaudhuri Corresponding author
791-800	Spectroscopic studies of Langmuir–Blodgett films of 3,4,9,10-tetra(heptyloxycarbonyl)perylene and its mixtures with a liquid crystal	Robert Hertmanowski; Łukasz Chudziński; Tomasz Martyński; Paweł Stempniewicz; Eryk Wolarz; Danuta Bauman Corresponding author
801-806	Phase grating generation and optical phase conjugation in photorefractive polymer/dissolved liquid crystal composites	Hiroshi Ono Corresponding author; Keiko Kitamura; Nobuhiro Kawatsuki
807-820	Phase behaviour of the thermotropic cubic mesogens 1,2-bis-(4-n-undecyl- and 4-n-dodecyl-oxybenzoyl)hydrazine under pressure	Yoji Maeda Corresponding author; Takeya Ito; Shoichi Kutsumizu
821-830	New ferroelectric liquid crystalline materials with an azo group in the molecular core	Miroslav Kašpar; Alexej Bubnov Corresponding author; Věra Hamplová; Slavomír Pirkl; Milada Glogarová
831-840	Effect of polar substituents on the properties of 1,3,4-oxadiazole-based liquid crystalline materials containing asymmetric cores	Hsiao-Hsien Sung; Hong-Cheu Lin Corresponding author
843-851	Synthesis and characterization of thermotropic liquid crystalline polyphosphates containing photoreactive moieties	K. Rameshbabu; P. Kannan Corresponding author
853-857	Temperature and field dependence of the optical activity in the ferroelectric, antiferroelectric and subphases of AS661	Upindranath Singh Corresponding author; Omari Harris; Carlos Hunte
859-869	Planar and tilted uniform alignment of liquid crystals by plasma-treated substrates	O. Yaroshchuk; R. Kravchuk; A. Dobrovolskyy; L. Qiu; O. D. Lavrentovich Corresponding author
871-881	Molecular design of liquid crystalline poly(ester-amide)s with perfluoroalkyl spacers	May May Teoh; Tai-Shung Chung Corresponding author; Si-Xue Cheng; Ting Ting Lin; K. P. Pramoda
883-887	Ferroelectric polysiloxane liquid crystals with ‘de Vries’-type smectic A–smectic C transitions	M. Rössle; R. Zentel Corresponding author; J. P. F. Lagerwall; F. Giesselmann
889-894	Azomesogens containing an ethoxyethyl terminal chain: synthesis and characterization	A. K. Prajapati Corresponding author; H. M. Pandya

Volume 31, Issue 5 (2004)

611-621	Non-toxic thermotropic liquid crystals for use with mammalian cells	Yan-Yeung Luk; Sean F. Campbell; Nicholas L. Abbott Corresponding author; Christopher J. Murphy Corresponding author
623-632	Phase behaviour of the thermotropic cubic mesogen 1,2-bis(4-n-decyloxybenzoyl)hydrazine under pressure	Yoji Maeda Corresponding author; Takeya Ito; Shoichi Kutsumizu
633-637	Chiral domains of the SmCP_A phase formed by cooling the isotropic liquid or by field-induced nucleation above the clearing temperature	Martin W. Schröder; Gerhard Pelzl Corresponding author; Ulrike Dunemann; Wolfgang Weissflog
639-647	Photo-dimerization of a chalcone-based side chain polymer for the alignment of ferroelectric liquid crystals	Kyung-Soo Choi; Hyun-Wuk Kim; Yong-Bae Kim; Jong-Duk Kim Corresponding author
649-654	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their mixtures XIII. 4-(4-Substituted phenylazo)phenyl 4-alkoxybenzoates	Refaat I. Nessim Corresponding author; Magdi M. Naoum; Soad Z. Mohamed; Maher I. Nessim
655-661	Small angle X-ray scattering study of chiral side chain liquid crystalline polymers in 5CB and 8CB solvents	Fabiano V. Pereira; Redouane Borsali; Aloir A. Merlo; Nadya P. Da Silveira Corresponding author
663-670	Structure and shear orientation of a side chain liquid crystal polymer studied by small angle X-ray scattering	Valeria Castelletto Corresponding author; Ian W. Hamley; Patrick Davidson
671-682	Structural effects in three-ring mesogenic derivatives of p-carborane and their hydrocarbon analogues	Kiminori Ohta; Adam Januszko; Piotr Kaszynski Corresponding author; Takashi Nagamine; Genadz Sasnouski; Yasuyuki Endo
683-695	Quasi-mesoscopic model for ferroelectric switching in the chevron geometry	L. D. Hazelwood; T. J. Sluckin Corresponding author
697-703	Effect of counterions on the thermotropic and thermochromic properties of ionic liquid crystals	Denis Haristoy Corresponding author; Dimitris Tsiourvas
705-711	Electrical model of a liquid crystal pixel with dynamic, voltage history-dependent capacitance value	Herbert De Smet Corresponding author; Jean Van den Steen Corresponding author; Dieter Cuypers Corresponding author
713-717	Synthesis and study of novel azopyridine-containing hexacatenar silver mesogens	P. K. Sudhadevi Antharjanam; V. Ajay Mallia; Suresh Das Corresponding author
719-726	Mechanism of inclusion chaining in SmC* free-standing films	Philippe Cluzeau; Fatiha Bougrioua; Gilles Joly; Lubor LejčEk Corresponding author; Huu Tinh Nguyen
727-752	Raman studies in SmC_FI* phases	P. Simeão Carvalho Corresponding author; Yu. I. Yuzyuk; A. Almeida; M. R. Chaves; F. Pinto; C. Da Cruz; H. T. Nguyen
733-737	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of new liquid crystalline stilbene derivatives containing vinyloxyalkoxy chains	Giuseppe Chidichimo; Giuseppe Salerno; Lucia Veltri; Bartolo Gabriele; Fiore P. Nicoletta Corresponding author
739-744	Ionic liquid crystals derived from the protonation of poly(propylene imine) dendrimers with a cholesterol-based carboxylic acid	Dimitris Tsiourvas Corresponding author; Theodoros Felekis; Zili Sideratou; Constantinos M. Paleos
745-749	Heterocyclic 1,2,4-triazoles as calamitic mesogens	Chaochin Su; Li-Xiang Lee; Shang-Hsun Yu; Ying-Kai Shih; Jen-Chun Su; Fu-Joun Li; Chung K. Lai Corresponding author
751-752	Professor Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar, FRS	Professor George W. Gray

Volume 31, Issue 4 (2004)

443-471	Liquid crystals in biology II. Origins and processes of life	Gordon T. Stewart
473-479	Achiral bent-core azo compounds: observation of photoinduced effects in an antiferroelectric tilted smectic mesophase	Veena Prasad Corresponding author; Antal Jákli
481-489	Self-assembled monolayers for liquid crystal alignment: simple preparation on glass using alkyltrialkoxysilanes	David M. Walba Corresponding author; Charles A. Liberko; Eva Korblova; Matthew Farrow; Thomas E. Furtak; Bruce C. Chow; Daniel K. Schwartz; Adam S. Freeman; Kenneth Douglas; Scott D. Williams; Arthur F. Klittnick; Noel A. Clark
491-495	Nitro and bromo derivatives of a highly fluorinated thiobenzoate	Giulia Fornasieri; Frédéric Guittard Corresponding author; Serge Géribaldi
497-502	Preparation of cholesteric liquid crystal microcapsules for application in colour image storage media	Jae-Seok Heo; No-Hyung Park; Jee-Hyun Ryu; Kyung-Do Suh Corresponding author
503-507	Polycatenar, bent-core pyridines and their discotic complexes with silver(I)	Deborah M. Huck; H. Loc Nguyen; Bertrand Donnio; Duncan W. Bruce Corresponding author
509-518	Synthesis and properties of side chain liquid crystalline ionomers containing quaternary ammonium salt groups	Bin Tong; Yan Yu; Rongji Dai; Bao Yan Zhang Corresponding author; Yulin Deng
519-524	Direct decoration of disclinations by solidification-induced band texture for a nematic side chain liquid crystalline polymer	Qincui Gu; Changcheng Wu; Shouxi Chen; Yong Huang Corresponding author
525-534	Phase transitions and molecular properties of new divinyl and diepoxy compounds	M. Wlodarska; B. Mossety-Leszczak; H. Galina; G. W. Bak Corresponding author; T. Pakula
535-539	Achromatic polarization switch using a film-compensated twisted nematic liquid crystal cell	Qiong-Hua Wang; Thomas X. Wu; Xinyu Zhu; Shin-Tson Wu Corresponding author
541-555	Tailoring the physical properties of some high birefringence isothiocyanato-based liquid crystals	Carmen Otilia Catanescu; Shin-Tson Wu; Liang-Chy Chien Corresponding author
557-566	Wetting behaviour of 5CB and 8CB and their binary mixtures above the isotropic transition	M. A. Zaki Ewiss Corresponding author; G. Nabil; Stefan Schlagowski; Stephan Herminghaus
567-578	A polar biaxial smectic A phase in new unsymmetrical compounds composed of bent-core molecules	H. N. Shreenivasa Murthy; B. K. Sadashiva Corresponding author
579-584	Second harmonic generation measurements in aligned samples of liquid crystals composed of bent-core molecules	J. Ortega Corresponding author; J. A. Gallastegui; C. L. Folcia; J. Etxebarria; N. Gimeno; M. B. Ros
585-592	Anisotropic shear viscosity in nematic liquid crystals: new optical measurement method	S. V. Pasechnik; V. G. Chigrinov Corresponding author; D. V. Shmeliova; V. A. Tsvetkov; A. N. Voronov
593-599	Rheological properties of chiral liquid crystals possessing a cholesteric–smectic A transition	S. Asnacios Corresponding author; C. Meyer; Yu. A. Nastishin; M. Kleman; J. Malthete
601-605	Temperature-driven luminescence switching of europium(III) in a glass dispersed liquid crystal film	Kris Driesen; Koen Binnemans Corresponding author
607-610	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of achiral swallow-tailed liquid crystals derived from diethylaminoalkanols	S. -L. Wu Corresponding author; Y. -P. Chen

Volume 31, Issue 3 (2004)

303-310	Influence of hydrogen bonding on phase abundance in ferroelectric liquid crystals	B. Sridevi; P. V. Chalapathi; M. Srinivasulu; V. G. K. M. Pisipati; D. M. Potukuchi Corresponding author
311-316	Dendrite-like texture growth in the nematic liquid crystal phase of 4-n-heptyl- and 4-n-octyl-oxybenzoic acids aligned by a polyimide coating	J. P. Marcerou; M. P. Petrov Corresponding author; H. Naradikian; H. T. Nguyen
317-324	Adsorption processes during the filling of a display with a smectic A LC mixture	M. V. Mitrokhin Corresponding author; L. Johnsen; R. Fagerberg; B. Holter; V. L. Arisov
325-332	Nematic–isotropic interfacial tension anisotropy of a calamitic lyotropic liquid crystal	T. Beica; R. Moldovan Corresponding author; M. Tintaru; M. R. Puica; I. Enache; S. Frunza
333-337	Relationship between the pitch and elastic constants of the transient planar state in cholesteric liquid crystals	Min-Hyong Lee; Jae-Eun Kim; Hae Yong Park Corresponding author
339-345	Preparation and properties of siloxane liquid crystalline elastomers with a mesogenic crosslinking agent	Bao-Yan Zhang Corresponding author; Ying-Gang Jia; Dan-Shu Yao; Xue-Wen Dong
347-350	Reentrant isotropic–discotic nematic lyotropic phase transition: a refractive index study	N. M. Kimura; P. A. Santoro; P. R. G. Fernandes; A. J. Palangana Corresponding author
351-359	Photoinduced textural and optical changes in a cholesteric copolymer with azobenzene-containing side groups	Alexey Bobrovsky Corresponding author; Natalia Boiko; Valery Shibaev; Joachim Wendorff
361-370	Observation of filamentary growth patterns at the isotropic–SmCP_A phase transition in new unsymmetrical compounds composed of bent-core molecules	H. N. Shreenivasa Murthy; B. K. Sadashiva Corresponding author
371-375	Effect of substituents and alkoxy chain length on the phase behaviour and optical properties of 4-substituted-phenyl 4-alkoxybenzoates	M. Roushdy Corresponding author
377-385	Field-induced reorientation dynamics of a surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture	Wen-Tse Shih; Jung Y. Huang Corresponding author; Jing Y. Zhang
387-392	Synthesis and properties of polysiloxane side chain cholesteric elastomers	Bao-Yan Zhang Corresponding author; Ying-Gang Jia; Jian-She Hu; Fan-Bao Meng
393-400	Cholesteric liquid crystalline thermosets: synthesis, structure and properties of ChLCTs/precursor polymers	Jian-She Hu; Bao-Yan Zhang Corresponding author; Dan-Shu Yao; Ai-Juan Zhou
401-420	New mesomorphic organocyclosiloxanes II. Thermal behaviour and mesophase structure of organocyclohexasiloxanes	Elena V. Matukhina Corresponding author; Olga I. Shchegolikhina; Yulia A. Molodtsova; Yulia A. Pozdniakova; Konstantin A. Lyssenko; Viktor G. Vasil'ev; Mikhail I. Buzin; Dimitris E. Katsoulis
421-429	Synthesis and properties of some novel fluoro-substituted liquid crystals that contain phenyl and cyclohexyl rings linked by ethynyl units	Bing Chen Corresponding author; Guixiang Sun; Shouyi Xu
431-442	X-ray diffraction analysis of the layer structure in a ferroelectric liquid crystal with a chiral nematic–chiral smectic C phase transition	Ray Hasegawa Corresponding author; Aira Hotta; Kohki Takatoh

Volume 31, Issue 2 (2004)

137-143	Synthesis and lyotropic liquid crystal properties of chiral helical polycarbodiimides	Qingbin Xue; Tatsumi Kimura; Takashi Fukuda; Satoru Shimada; Hiro Matsuda Corresponding author
145-152	Chiral banana liquid crystals derived from sugars	G. Gesekus; I. Dierking Corresponding author; S. Gerber; M. Wulf; V. Vill
153-159	Alpha sub-phase in a new ferroelectric fluorinated compound	M. Marzec Corresponding author; A. MikuŁko; S. WrÓbel; R. Da˛browski; M. Darius; W. Haase
161-167	New mesogens with a fluoro-substituted bent core	Renu Mahajan; Himani Nandedkar; Alpesh Vora Corresponding author; K. K. Raina
169-174	Novel bent-shaped liquid crystalline compounds II. Synthesis and properties of the 1,3-bis{4-[4-(4-alkyloxybenzoyloxy)benzylidene]aminophenoxy}propan-2-ols	Bong-keun So; Yon-suk Kim; Man-muk Choi; Soo-min Lee Corresponding author; Jung-eun Kim; Hyun Hoon song; Joo-hoon Park
175-184	The effect of replacing a benzene ring with a saturated six-membered ring on the mesomorphic properties of 4,4′-disubstituted diphenyldiacetylenes	Mary E. Neubert Corresponding author; Sandra S. Keast; Julie M. Kim; Kyle J. Miller; Rachel M. Murray; Aaron G. Norton; Raj A. Shenoy; Margaret E. Walsh; Rolfe G. Petschek
185-199	Polymerizable hexacatenar liquid crystals containing a luminescent oligo(p-phenylenevinylene) core	Benjamin P. Hoag; Douglas L. Gin Corresponding author
201-205	Polarized electroluminescence of a discotic mesogenic compound	Stephan A. Benning; Reinhold Oesterhaus; Heinz-siegfried Kitzerow Corresponding author
207-213	Liquid crystals derived from multi-cationic azamacrocyclic alkylsulphates	Aspasia Nikokavoura; Dimitris Tsiourvas Corresponding author; Michael Arkas; Zili Sideratou; Constantinos M. Paleos
215-227	Liquid crystalline properties of salicylaldimine-based dimers: influence of terminal alkyl chain length and central part	Remko Achten; Arie Koudijs; Zbigniew Karczmarzyk; Antonius T. M. Marcelis Corresponding author; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter
229-240	Determination of the order parameter and its critical exponent for nCB (n=5–8) liquid crystals from refractive index data	I. Chirtoc; M. Chirtoc; C. Glorieux Corresponding author; J. Thoen
241-269	Engineering liquid crystals for optimal uses in optical communication systems	J. L. De Bougrenet De La Tocnaye
271-277	Liquid crystal properties of a mesogenic polyacetylene, poly(11-[(4′-heptoxy-4-biphenylyl)carbonyloxy]-1-undecyne)	Jianxin Geng; Fengxia Geng; Jiku Wang; Baocai Zhu; Gao Li Corresponding author; Enle Zhou; Jacky Wing; Yip Lam; Ben Zhong Tang
279-283	First observation of a smectic A–cholesteric phase transition in a thermotropic liquid crystal consisting of a rigid-rod helical polysilane	Kento Okoshi Corresponding author; Anubhav Saxena; Masanobu Naito; Goro Suzaki; Masatoshi Tokita; Junji Watanabe; Michiya Fujiki
285-294	Effects of benzoyl group substituents on the mesomorphic properties of 5-alkoxy-2-benzoylaminotropones	Akira Mori Corresponding author; Katsuyuki Uno; Kanji Kubo; Nobuo Kato; Hitoshi Takeshita; Ken Hirayama; Seiji Ujiie
295-297	New liquid crystalline 3,4-disubstituted furoxanes	V. S. Bezborodov Corresponding author; M. M. Kauhanka; V. I. Lapanik
299-300	Mesogenic properties of cycloalkylmethyl 4-(4′-octoxybiphenyl-4-carbonyloxy)benzoate	Wen-Liang Tsai Corresponding author; Fang-Ming Hsu; Jo-Nan Chen
301-302	New smectic C mesogens containing the benzyl, phenylethyl or phenylpropyl moiety	Wen-Liang Tsai; Hui-Chen Lee; Ming-Yung Hong; Li-Nien Chen; Mei-Yueh Hu; Fang-Ming Hsu

Volume 31, Issue 1 (2004)

1-14	Short chain copper(II) n-alkanoate liquid crystals	J. A. R. Cheda Corresponding author; M. V. García; M. I. Redondo; S. Gargani; P. Ferloni
15-19	Discontinuous change in the helical pitch of cholesteric liquid crystals by photoisomerization of a chiral azobenzene molecule	Teppei Yoshioka; Tomonari Ogata; Alam Md Zahangir; Takamasa Nonaka; Seiji Kurihara Corresponding author
21-29	Proton NMR investigation of a hydrogen-bonded liquid crystal gel	Jianjun Li Corresponding author; Dieter Geschke; Ralf Stannarius
31-38	Broadband dielectric studies of weakly polar and non-polar liquid crystals	A. Oka; G. Sinha; C. Glorieux Corresponding author; J. Thoen Corresponding author
39-53	A new approach to lamellar phases (L_α) in water – non-ionic surfactant systems	C. Stubenrauch Corresponding author; S. Burauer; R. Strey; C. Schmidt
55-60	Thermally enhanced photoinduced molecular reorientation in a photo-crosslinkable polymer liquid crystal based on polarization triplet energy transfer	Nobuhiro Kawatsuki Corresponding author; Ming-Xing An; Yasushi Matsuura; Takeya Sakai; Hirofumi Takatsuka
61-70	Hysteresis-free electro-optical switching in conductive ferroelectric liquid crystals: experiments and modelling	L. M. Blinov Corresponding author; S. P. Palto; F. V. Podgornov; H. Moritake; W. Haase
71-79	Structure and liquid crystalline properties of 5-[(4′-heptoxy-4-biphenylyl)carbonyloxy]-1-pentyne	Jianxin Geng; Shuyun Wang; Wei Ling; Gao Li; Enle Zhou Corresponding author; Jacky Wing Yip Lam; Benzhong Tang
81-89	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of compounds exhibiting the undulated twist grain boundary smectic C* phase	S. Shubashree; B. K. Sadashiva Corresponding author
91-99	Dynamics of 4,4′-di-n-heptylazoxybenzene (HAB) studied using dielectric and ²H NMR relaxation measurements	Valentina Domenici; Joanna Czub; Marco Geppi; Bo Gestblom; StanisłAw Urban Corresponding author; Carlo-Alberto Veracini
101-108	Mesomorphic properties of a tetraphenylporphyrin metallomesogen with a weak hydrogen bond interaction between axial ligands: dihydroxo[5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-n-dodecylphenyl)porphinato]silicon(IV)	Takushi Sugino; Julio Santiago; Yo Shimizu Corresponding author; Benoît Heinrich; Daniel Guillon
109-118	Thermal properties of non-symmetric bibenzoate liquid crystalline dimers	Aránzazu Del Campo Corresponding author; Andreas Meyer; Ernesto Pérez; Antonio Bello
119-125	Experimental characterization of hexatic smectic phases through electro-optic studies and dielectric relaxation spectroscopy	S. Kundu; T. Ray; S. K. Roy Corresponding author; R. Dabrowski
127-135	Optical, resonant X-ray scattering, and calorimetric investigations of two liquid crystal compounds exhibiting the SmA-SmC_α-SmC transitions	C. C. Huang Corresponding author; Z. Q. Liu; A. Cady; R. Pindak; W. Caliebe; P. Barois; H. T. Nguyen; K. Ema; K. Takekoshi; H. Yao

Volume 30, Issue 12 (2003)

1371-1375	Liquid crystalline N-substituted-3,4-difluoropyrroles exhibiting large positive dielectric anisotropy	Yasuyuki Sasada Corresponding author; Kazutoshi Miyazawa; Dietrich Demus
1377-1390	Electric field-induced nucleation and growth of focal-conic and stripe domains in a smectic A liquid crystal	Shila Garg Corresponding author; Kirstin Purdy; Erica Bramley; I. I. Smalyukh; O. D. Lavrentovich
1391-1400	Lasing from chiral photonic band gap materials based on cholesteric glasses	P. V. Shibaev Corresponding author; V. Kopp; A. Genack; E. Hanelt
1401-1406	Synthesis and properties of new materials with banana-shaped achiral cores and chiral end groups	Chong-Kwang Lee Corresponding author; Soon-Sik Kwon; Tae-Sung Kim; E-Joon Choi; Sung-Tae Shin; Wang-Cheol Zin; Dae-Cheol Kim; Jae-Hoon Kim; Liang-Chy Chien
1407-1412	The effect of high electric fields on the structure and dielectric properties of the B₂ phase	S. Diez; M. R. De La Fuente Corresponding author; M. A. Pérez Jubindo; B. Ros
1413-1422	Influence of temperature on surface tension of three liquid crystal polymers and polyethylene terephtalate	Lincoln S. Gomes; Nicole R. Demarquette Corresponding author; Renato N. Shimizu; Musa R. Kamal
1423-1431	Morphology control of liquid crystalline composite gels based on molecular self-assembling kinetics	Hiroshi Abe; Hirotsugu Kikuchi Corresponding author; Kenji Hanabusa; Takashi Kato; Tisato Kajiyama
1433-1440	Ambient temperature thermotropic liquid crystalline viologen bis(triflimide) salts	Pradip K. Bhowmik Corresponding author; Haesook Han; James J. Cebe; Ronald A. Burchett; Bharat Acharya; Satyendra Kumar
1441-1447	On the non-symmetric planar aligned NLC cell	Yang Guo Chen Corresponding author; Zhang Zhi Guo; Li Li; Guan Rong Hua
1449-1454	N,N-Disubstituted-4-aminophenylazostyrylformate derivatives: their synthesis, mesogenic behaviour and photostability	Long-Li Lai Corresponding author; Jo-jin Chen; Yi-ging Lin; Yang-chu Lin; Woan-shiow Tzeng; Kung-lung Cheng
1455-1462	Anisotropy of domain growth in nematic liquid crystals	Jinkyung Jung; Colin Denniston; Enzo Orlandini; Julia M. Yeomans Corresponding author
1463-1469	New antiferroelectric liquid crystalline materials containing a keto group and two lactate groups	Věra Hamplová; Alexej Bubnov Corresponding author; Miroslav Kašpar; Vladimíra Novotná; Yveta Lhotáková; Milada Glogarová

Volume 30, Issue 11 (2003)

1255-1257	Synthesis and characterization of liquid crystalline 5, 10, 15, 20-tetrakis(4-n-alkanoyloxyphenyl)porphyrins	Wei Liu; Yuhua Shi; Tongshun Shi Corresponding author; Guofa Liu; Yongxin Liu; Ce Wang; Wangjin Zhang
1259-1264	Synthesis and liquid crystal properties of dinuclear cyclopalladated 5-alkyl-2-(4′-alkoxyphenyl)pyrimidine and 3-(4′-alkoxyphenyl)-6-alkoxypyridazine complexes	Wenjie Guang; Jie Han; Wen Wan; Keqing Zhao; Liangfu Zhang Corresponding author
1267-1275	Side chain cholesteric liquid crystalline elastomers: synthesis and phase behaviour	Jian-she Hu; Bao-yan Zhang Corresponding author; Ke Sun; Qian-yue Li
1277-1283	Phase behaviour of thermotropic banana-shaped compounds under pressure	S. Krishna Prasad; Yoji Maeda Corresponding author; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Anitha Nagamani; Uma S. Hiremath; C. V. Yelamaggad
1285-1292	Analysis of cell gap-dependent driving voltage in a fringe field-driven homogeneously aligned nematic liquid crystal display	Hyang Yul Kim; Seung Ho Hong; John Moon Rhee; Seung Hee Lee Corresponding author
1293-1317	A further experimental study of parallel surface-induced flexoelectric domains (PSIFED) (flexo-dielectric walls)	H. P. Hinov Corresponding author; I. Bivas; M. D. Mitov; K. Shoumarov; Y. Marinov
1319-1325	Esters derived from 7-decanoyloxychromone-3-carboxylic acid: synthesis and mesomorphic properties	J. Alderete; J. Belmar; M. Parra; C. Zúñiga Corresponding author; V. Jimenez
1327-1333	The molecular and crystal structure of a polar mesogen 4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-hexylbiphenyl carboxylate	B. R. Jaishi; P. K. Mandal Corresponding author; K. Goubitz; H. Schenk; R. Dabrowski; K. Czuprynski
1335-1342	Experimental study of the director pattern dynamics in the vicinity of the Fréedericksz twist geometry	L. N. Gonçalves; J. P. Casquilho; A. C. Ribeiro; J. L. Figueirinhas Corresponding author
1343-1350	Electro-optic properties of thiol-ene polymer stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals	Eric R. Beckel; Neil B. Cramer; Adam W. Harant; Christopher N. Bowman Corresponding author
1351-1355	Effect of pressure on liquid crystal dimers	K. L. Sandhya; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad Corresponding author; Uma S. Hiremath; C. V. Yelamaggad
1357-1364	Cholesterol-containing liquid crystal dimers with ether linkages between the spacer and mesogenic units	Antonius T. M. Marcelis Corresponding author; Arie Koudijs; Zbigniew Karczmarzyk; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter
1365-1368	Narrowing of spontaneous emission and lasing in lyotropic and thermotropic liquid crystals	P. V. Shibaev Corresponding author; A. Z. Genack

Volume 30, Issue 10 (2003)

1139-1149	Phase behaviour of the thermotropic cubic mesogen 1,2-bis-(4- n -octyloxybenzoyl)hydrazine under pressure	Yoji Maeda; Kazuya Saito; Michio Sorai
1151-1158	Various columnar phases formed by bent-core mesogens	K. Pelz; W. Weissflog; U. Baumeister; S. Diele
1159-1170	Preparation and evaluation of novel ferroelectric liquid crystalline cyclic siloxane tetramers	D. Lacey; E. T. Mann
1171-1174	Nematic liquid crystal droplets with an enhanced quasi-linear electro-optical response	F. P. Nicoletta; D. Cupelli; G. De Filpo; G. Chidichimo
1175-1179	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of a new chiral series with a heterocycle in the molecular core	C. Da Cruz; J. C. Rouillon; J. P. Marcerou; H. T. Nguyen
1181-1187	Striped pattern formation in polymer dispersed liquid crystal films	Atsushi Kubono; Takumi Sato; Koji Takemoto; Ryuichi Akiyama; Katsufumi Tanaka
1189-1191	On the interpretation of the racemic states of the B 2 phase of banana-shaped mesogens	C. L. Folcia; J. Ortega; J. Etxebarria
1193-1199	Cholesterol-based hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals	Jun-woo Lee; Jung-il Jin; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin
1201-1206	Spatial frequency selective reconstruction using Fourier transform holograms generated in functionalized mesogenic composites	Akira Emoto; Hiroshi Ono; Nobuhiro Kawatsuki
1207-1218	Synthesis and properties of chiral stilbene diacrylates	J. Lub; A. Ferrer; C. Larossa; B. Malo
1219-1223	Synthesis of chiral azobenzene-based compounds for use in the photochemical tuning of the helical structure of liquid crystals	Seiji Kurihara; Teppei Yoshioka; Tomonari Ogata; Alam Md Zahangir; Takamasa Nonaka
1225-1233	Multiple discrete energy levels and the bistable state of weak anchoring NLC cells	Yang Guochen; Guan Ronghua; Huai Junxia
1235-1239	Dielectric relaxation spectroscopy of a nematic liquid crystal doped with ferroelectric Sn 2 P 2 S 6 nanoparticles	E. Ouskova; O. Buchnev; V. Reshetnyak; Yu. Reznikov; H. Kresse
1241-1250	Molecular dynamics and alignment studies of silica-filled 4-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) liquid crystal	M. A. Zaki Ewiss; G. Nabil; B. Stoll; Stephan Herminghaus
1251-1254	Towards a new class of ferroelectric liquid crystal molecules for nonlinear optical applications	Armand Soldera; RenÉ ThÉberge

Volume 30, Issue 9 (2003)

1007-1014	Synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of novel chiral nematic side chain liquid crystalline polysiloxanes	Bao-yan Zhang Corresponding author; Jun-ge Zhi; Fan-bao Meng
1015-1019	Mesomorphic properties of liquid crystalline polysiloxanes and elastomers based on a tri-vinyl crosslinker	Bao-Yan Zhang Corresponding author; Lu-Mei Liu; Zhi-Liu Feng; Ying-Gang Jia
1021-1030	Dielectric studies of a laterally-linked siloxane ester dimer	Sergio Diez; David A. Dunmur Corresponding author; M. Rosario De La Fuente; Panagiota K. Karahaliou; Georg Mehl; Thomas Meyer; Miguel Ángel PerÉz Jubindo; Demetri J. Photinos
1031-1050	Influence of fluorine substituent on the mesomorphic properties of five-ring ester banana-shaped molecules	R. Amaranatha Reddy; B. K. Sadashiva Corresponding author
1051-1055	Banana-shaped mesogens: a new homologous series of compounds exhibiting the B₇ mesophase	H. N. Shreenivasa Murthy; B. K. Sadashiva Corresponding author
1057-1074	Liquid crystalline dispersions of complexes formed by chitosan with double-stranded nucleic acids	Yu. M. Yevdokimov Corresponding author; V. I. Salyanov
1075-1078	Induction of the chiral nematic phase in hydrogen-bonded blends of smectic copolymers and low molar mass dopant	E. B. Barmatov Corresponding author; M. V. Barmatova
1079-1087	Mesogenic Unsymmetric dimers containing cholesteryl ester and tolane moieties	C. V. Yelamaggad Corresponding author; Manoj Mathews; Taketoshi Fujita; Nobuo Iyi
1089-1107	Novel, highly polarizable thiophene derivatives for use in nonlinear optical applications	Alexander J. Seed Corresponding author; Gregory J. Cross; Kenneth J. Toyne; John W. Goodby
1109-1114	Thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers containing five-membered heterocyclic groups IX. Synthesis and optical properties of liquid crystalline semi-rigid polyesters composed of a quinquephenyl analogue containing 1,3,4-thiadiazole and aliphatic chains	Moriyuki Sato Corresponding author; Yuka Kitani
1115-1122	Continuum modelling of hybrid-aligned nematic liquid crystal cells: optical response and flexoelectricity-induced voltage shift	N. T. Kirkman; T. Stirner Corresponding author; W. E. Hagston
1123-1128	Preparation and liquid crystalline properties of a new type of hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals containing an aryl-acetylene moiety	Xiangzhi Song; Jiaxin Li; Shiwei Zhang Corresponding author
1129-1137	Relaxation Processes in sheared films of ethyl-cyanoethyl cellulose cholesteric liquid crystalline solutions	Linge Wang; Yong Huang Corresponding author

Volume 30, Issue 8 (2003)

877-888	Free-standing films of twist grain boundary TGB_A and UTGB_C* liquid crystals studied by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy	I. I. Smalyukh; R. Pratibha; O. D. Lavrentovich; N. V. Madhusudana
889-897	Quantitative conoscopic imaging of cholesteric thin films	K. Bjorknas; M. A. Geday; E. P. Raynes
899-908	Synthesis and thermal behaviour of salicylaldimine-based liquid crystalline symmetrical dimers	C. V. Yelamaggad; Manoj Mathews; Uma Hiremath; Geetha Nair; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad
909-920	Layer distortions induced by a magnetic field in planar samples of smectic C liquid crystals	I. W. Stewart
921-926	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of four-ring liquid crystals containing 2,3-difluorophenyl and 1,3-dioxane units	Guixiang Sun; Bing Chen; Hong Tang; Shouyi Xu
927-930	Mid-infrared refractive indices of the nematic mixture E7	S. Brugioni; S. Faetti; R. Meucci
931-938	Laser Raman studies on compounds 7.O4O.7 and 7.O5O.7	B. Gogoi; A. Bhattacharjee; P. R. Alapati; A. L. Verma
939-944	Effects of reducing structural symmetry on mesophase behaviour: the synthesis and characterization of the 2-alkoxy-6-[4-(4-alkoxyphenyl)buta-1,3-diynyl]naphthalenes	Hsiu-fu Hsu; Wei-chung Lin; Ying-hui Lai; Shu-yu Lin
945-959	Rubbing-induced surface textures in nematic MBBA layers and their behaviour under applied d.c. or a.c. voltages	H. P. Hinov; I. Bivas; M. D. Mitov; K. Shoumarov
961-977	Liquid crystalline properties of dissymmetric molecules part X: The effect of a terminal nitro group on molecular arrangement in smectic phases in three aromatic ring systems with two ester groups	Takeyasu Tasaka; Hiroaki Okamoto; Yuki Morita; Kazuo Kasatani; Shunsuke Takenaka
979-984	Synthesis and photoinitiated polymerization of diacrylate derivates of halobenzoates	P. Sáez; C. Aguilera
985-990	Alignment mechanism of a nematic liquid crystal on a pre-rubbed polyimide film with laser-induced periodic surface structure	Xuemin Lu; Qinghua Lu; Zikang Zhu
991-995	Novel chiral swallow-tailed amide liquid crystals possessing antiferroelectricity	S. -l. Wu; F. -d. Chen

Volume 30, Issue 7 (2003)

753-764	Thin-film polymerization and characterization of Sumitomo's Sumikasuper^®-type liquid crystalline polymers	Yan Wang; Jingmei Xu; Si-xue Cheng; K. P. Pramoda; Tai-shung Chung; Suat Hong Goh
765-774	Elastic constant anisotropy and disclination interaction in nematic polymers I. Apparent variation in anisotropy	Wenhui Song; Xudong Fan; Alan H. Windle Corresponding author; Shouxi Chen; Renyuan Qian
775-784	Elastic constant anisotropy and disclination interaction in nematic polymers II. Effect of disclination interaction	Wenhui Song; Houjie Tu; Gerhard Goldbeck-wood; Alan H. Windle Corresponding author
785-798	Nano-segregated structures of hydrogen-bonded mesogens with perfluorinated moieties: cubic phase formation and first order smectic A to smectic C phase transition	Etsushi Nishikawa Corresponding author; Jun Yamamoto; Hiroshi Yokoyama
799-809	Morphological studies of a hydrogen-bonded LC polymer obtained by photopolymerization in LC solvents	Hideyuki Kihara Corresponding author; Toshiaki Miura; Ryoichi Kishi; Takashi Yoshida; Mitsuhiro Shibata; Ryutoku Yosomiya
811-821	Effects of the H-bond donor structure on the properties of supramolecular side chain liquid crystalline polymers based on poly(3-carboxypropylmethylsiloxane-co-dimethylsiloxane)s and stilbazoles	Xu Li; Suat Hong Goh Corresponding author; Yee Hing Lai
823-830	Theory of nematic–smectic phase separation in thin twisted liquid crystal cells	M. A. Osipov Corresponding author; J. R. Sambles; L. Ruan
831-837	Adiabatic calorimetry of the metallomesogen purple cobalt stearate Co(O₂CC₁₇H₃₅)₂	Gerald R. Van Hecke Corresponding author; Tadahiro Nakamoto; Todd G. Clements; Michio Sorai
839-843	Influence of cell and LC parameters on the dynamics of STN liquid crystal displays	Hongfei Cheng Corresponding author; Hongjin Gao
845-850	Raman spectroscopy of liquid crystalline N-[4-(4-n-alkoxybenzoyloxy)-2-hydroxybenzylidene]-3-aminopyridines	A. Takase; K. Nonaka; T. Koga; S. Sakagami Corresponding author
851-859	Planar and twisted lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal cells as optical compensators for twisted nematic displays	M. Lavrentovich Corresponding author; T. Sergan; J. Kelly
861-869	Calorimetric study of the cubic mesogen, ACBC(16)	Michio Sorai Corresponding author; Kazuya Saito Corresponding author; Tadahiro Nakamoto; Mayumi Ikeda; Yuri G. Galyametdinov; Irina Galyametdinova; Rudolf Eidenschink; Wolfgang Haase
871-875	Density and refractive index measurements in hexaheptyloxytriphenylene, a discotic liquid crystal	V. A. Gunyakov; N. P. Shestakov; S. M. Shibli Corresponding author

Volume 30, Issue 6 (2003)

643-649	Influence of substrate nature and growth conditions on the morphology of thin DMOAP films	I. Lelidis; C. Öedman
651-661	Bis(salicylaldiminate) copper(II) and palladium(II) complexes: towards columnar mesophases	Joaquín Barberá; Raquel Giménez; Nélida Gimeno; Mercedes Marcos; Maria Del Carmen Pina; José Luis Serrano
663-669	Microphasic separation-induced enantiotropic liquid crystal behaviour single phenyl unit series based on the fluorophobic effect	G. Fornasieri; F. Guittard; S. Géribaldi
671-680	Photo-optical behaviour of a photosensitive chiral nematic copolymer and mixtures containing non-chiral photoactive azobenzene groups	Alexey Bobrovsky; Valery Shibaev
681-690	Novel chiral dimesogenic bidentate ligands and their Cu(II) and Pd(II) metal complexes	C. V. Yelamaggad; Uma S. Hiremath; S. Anitha Nagamani; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad; Nobuo Iyi; Taketoshi Fujita
691-696	The synthesis and mesogenic properties of side chain polymethacrylates with terminal branched groups	Pratik R. Patel; Jayrang S. Dave
697-700	Experimental determination of molecular polarizability anisotropy of nematogens by depolarized Rayleigh light scattering	Kazuhiro Yokota; Tatsutoshi Shioda; Michi Nakata; Yoichi Takanishi; Ken Ishikawa; Hideo Takezoe; Masamitsu Ishitobi; Chizu Sekine
701-709	Metastable states in antiferroelectric liquid crystalline mixtures	W. Kuczyński; F. Goc
711-731	The effect of olefinic terminal chains on the mesomorphic properties of 4,4′-disubstituted diphenyldiacetylenes	Mary E. Neubert; David G. Abdallah Jr.; Sandra S. Keast; Julie M. Kim; Soonnam Lee; Ryan M. Stayshich; Margaret E. Walsh; Rolfe G. Petschek; Shin-Tson Wu
733-737	The synthesis and thermotropic behaviour of an ethyl cellulose derivative containing azobenzene-based mesogenic moieties	Changcheng Wu; Qincui Gu; Yong Huang; Shouxi Chen
739-746	Threshold flexoelectric deformations in homeotropic nematic layers	Mariola Felczak; Grzegorz Derfel
747-749	Preliminary communication Liquid crystalline cardanyl β-D-glucopyranosides	George John; Hiroyuki Minamikawa; Mitsutoshi Masuda; Toshimi Shimizu
751	Alteration by the Author	Toshimi Shimizu

Volume 30, Issue 5 (2003)

529-539	Structural and conformational investigations in SmA and different SmC phases of new hockey stick-shaped compounds	B. Das; S. Grande; W. Weissflog; A. Eremin; M. W. Schröder; G. Pelzl; S. Diele; H. Kresse
541-557	Liquid crystals in biology I. Historical, biological and medical aspects	Gordon T. Stewart
559-563	Surface alignment and control of a dendritic liquid crystal in ultrathin films	Dong Ki Yoon; Young Koan Ko; Hee-Tae Jung
565-570	Synthesis and characterization of 6-[4-(trans -4-pentylcyclohexyl)phenoxy]hexyl acrylate homopolymer and copolymers	A. V. Sesha Sainath; K. Yonetake; T. Aita; T. Inoue; K. Koyama
571-578	Mesomorphic properties of copolyesters of 3,6-linked triphenylene-based units and polymethylene spacers	Wen Wan; Hirosato Monobe; Yuko Tanaka; Yo Shimizu
579-583	New liquid crystalline 3-methyl-6-(4-substituted phenyl)-4,5-dihydrobenzo [d] isoxazoles and 3,5-disubstituted 4,5-dihydroisoxazoles: synthesis and mesomorphic properties	V. S. Bezborodov; N. N. Kauhanka; V. I. Lapanik; C. J. Lee
585-589	X-ray study of bilayered tilted structures in liquid crystalline side chain methacrylic polymers	Eduardo A. Soto-Bustamante; Rafael Vergara-Toloza; Danilo Saldaño-Hurtado; Patricio Navarrete-Encina
591-598	Rubbing-induced charge domains observed by electrostatic force microscopy: effect on liquid crystal alignment	I. H. Bechtold; M. P. De Santo; J. J. Bonvent; E. A. Oliveira; R. Barberi; Th. Rasing
599-602	Determination of the permittivity of nematic liquid crystals in the microwave region	Fuzi Yang; John Roy Sambles
603-610	Novel liquid crystals based on [1]benzothieno[3,2- b][1]benzothiophene	Bedřich Košata; Václav Kozmik; Jiří Svoboda; Vladimíra Novotná; Přemysl Vaněk; Milada Glogarová
611-615	A study of long range dipolar coupling constants in 4′-pentyloxy-4-biphenylcarbonitrile (5OCB)	Chibing Tan; Cécile Canlet; B. M. Fung
617-621	Synthesis and characterization of laterally substituted bis(alkoxybenzoyloxy)hydroquinones	Craig Whitaker; Garrett Burkholder; Sandra Smith; Jawad Naciri; Brian Weslowski; Ranganathan Shashidhar
623-626	A practical liquid crystal mixture for IR applications	Chibing Tan; B. M. Fung
627-631	New ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystalline materials containing differing numbers of lactate units	V. Hamplová; A. Bubnov; M. Kašpar; V. Novotná; D. Pociecha; M. Glogarová
633-642	Role of the linear elastic term in the spatial derivatives of the nematic director in a 1D geometry	G. Barbero; L. R. Evangelista

Volume 30, Issue 4 (2003)

399-414	On the phase sequence of antiferroelectric liquid crystals and its relation to orientational and translational order	Jan P. F. Lagerwall; Per Rudquist; Sven T. Lagerwall; Frank Gießelmann
415-421	Mesomorphic properties of achiral halogen-substituted banana-shaped compounds	Chong-Kwang Lee; Soon-Sik Kwon; Wang-Choel Zin; Dae-Cheol Kim; Sung-Tae Shin; Joon-Ho Song; E.-Joon Choi; Liang-Chy Chien
423-433	Oligo (p -phenylene)s substituted with long alkoxy chains I. Thermotropic liquid crystalline properties and UV absorption/emission characteristics	L. Larios-López; D. Navarro-Rodríguez; E. M. Arias-Marín; I. Moggio; C. V. Reyes-Castañeda; B. Donnio; J. LeMoigne; D. Guillon
435-443	Suspension polymerization of thermotropic monomer: Formation of droplets or beads	Clara Fournier; Jean-Daniel Marty; Christian Bourgerette; Alain Boudet; Monique Mauzac
445-450	Synthesis and liquid crystal properties of new banana-shaped cinnamoyl derivatives	E. Mátyus; K. Fodor-Csorba
451-461	Synthesis and characterization of a range of heterocyclic liquid crystalline materials incorporating the novel thiophene-pyrimidine moiety	Sanjay Sharma; David Lacey; Paul Wilson
463-469	Alignment of a nematic liquid crystal using substituted calixarene Langmuir-Blodgett films	S. Peralta; F. Hapiot; Y. Barbaux; M. Warenghem
471-477	Synthesis and ferroelectric properties of chiral swallow-tailed liquid crystals derived from (L)-lactic acid	S. -L. Wu; C. -Y. Lin
479-486	Influence of the ligand structure on the liquid crystalline properties of lanthanide-containing salicylaldimine mesogens	Rik van Deun; Koen Binnemans
487-491	Calorimetric studies of poly (2-phenoxyethylacrylate)/5CB mixtures	Tewfik Bouchaour; Frédérick Roussel; Jean-Marc Buisine; Xavier Coqueret; Mustapha Benmouna; Ulrich Maschke
493-497	New series of chiral ferroelectric liquid crystals with the keto group attached to the molecule core	V. Hamplová; A. Bubnov; M. Kas˘par; V. Novotná; M. Glogarová
499-505	Helix unwinding process in the chiral smectic C phase of MHPOBC as observed by conoscopy	Shun-Ichi Suwa; Yoichi Takanishi; Hajime Hoshi; Ken Ishikawa; Hideo Takezoe
507-527	X-ray diffraction, optical birefringence, dielectric and phase transition properties of the long homologous series of nematogens 4-(trans -4′- n -alkylcyclohexyl) isothiocyanatobenzenes	Parimal Sarkar; Pradip Mandal; Sukla Paul; Ranjit Paul; Roman Dabrowski; Krzysztof Czuprynski

Volume 30, Issue 3 (2003)

265-271	A bent-shape liquid crystal compound with antiferroelectric triclinic-monoclinic phase transition	A. Jákli; G. G. Nair; H. Sawade; G. Heppke
273-283	Occurrence of the B 7 mesophase in two homologous series of seven-ring achiral compounds composed of banana-shaped molecules	R. Amaranatha Reddy; B. K. Sadashiva
285-296	Photoaligned bistable twisted nematic liquid crystal displays	Martin Stalder; Martin Schadt
297-304	Hydrogen-bonded complexes between mesogenic heterocyclic Schiff's bases and mesogenic 4- n -nonyloxybenzoic acid: mesomorphic behaviour, FTIR study and PM3 semi-empirical calculations	M. Parra; J. Alderete; C. Zunñiga; V. Jimenez; P. Hidalgo
305-311	DTA, X-ray and dielectric relaxation studies of 14CB at atmospheric and elevated pressures	Stanisław Urban; Albert Würflinger; Bo Gestblom; Roman Dąbrowski; Jan Przedmojski
313-318	Pressure-temperature phase diagrams of smectogenic 4′-alkyl-4-cyanobiphenyls (9CB, 10CB, 11CB and 12CB)	Stanisław Urban; Maria Massalska-Arodź; Albert Würflinger; Roman Dąbrowski
319-323	Novel monofunctionalized electron-deficient anthraquinone-based discotic liquid crystals	Sandeep Kumar; Jaishri J. Naidu; Sanjay K. Varshney
325-329	Impact on the mesophase transition temperatures of 1,4-bis(naphthyl)-1,3-butadiyne of the attachment of terminal alkoxy chains	Hsiu-Fu Hsu; Ying-Hui Lai; Shu-Yu Lin; Wei-Chung Lin; Jen-Fon Chen
331-335	Supramolecular liquid crystals induced by intermolecular hydrogen bonding between benzoic acid and 4-(alkoxyphenylazo) pyridines	Xiangzhi Song; Jiaxin Li; Shiwei Zhang
337-344	Photoaddressable polymers for liquid crystal alignment	S. Lucht; D. Neher; T. Miteva; G. Nelles; A. Yasuda; R. Hagen; S. Kostromine
345-353	Numerical methods for light propagation in large LC cells: a new approach	D. Olivero; C. Oldano
355-358	Mesogenic properties of chiral compounds derived from 2(S)-[2(S)-ethylhexyloxy] propionic acid and its (S, R)-diastereomer	Wen-Liang Tsai; Yu-Kai Lin; Jin-Mei Wu; Jung-Hui Chen; Pao-Swu Cheng
359-366	Light-induced control of textures and cholesteric pitch in liquid crystals containing chromium complexes, by means of circular and linear polarized light	Nobuhiro Anzai; Shinjiro Machida; Kazuyuki Horie
367-375	Optical wave propagation in a cholesteric liquid crystal using the finite element method	Qi Hong; Thomas X. Wu; Shin-Tson Wu
377-389	Simulation of texture formation processes in carbonaceous mesophase fibres	Dinesh Sharma; Alejandro D. Rey
391-397	A triphenylene-containing side chain liquid crystalline ladder-like polysiloxane and its highly ordered superstructure	Chao-Yi Ba; Zhong-Rong Shen; Hai-Wen Gu; Guang-Qing Guo; Ping Xie; Rong-Ben Zhang; Chuan-Feng Zhu; Li-Jun Wan; Fu-You Li; Chun-Hui Huang

Volume 30, Issue 2 (2003)

117-123	Direct decoration of disclinations by solidification-induced band texture and focal-conic texture for a low molar mass liquid crystal	Qincui Gu; Changcheng Wu; Shouxi Chen; Yong Huang
125-133	Unsymmetrical dimers possessing a cholesteryl ester moiety and a difluoro-substituted biphenyl core: synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour	C. V. Yelamaggad; Manoj Mathews
135-141	Synthesis and studies of some 4-substituted phenyl-4′-azopyridine-containing hydrogen-bonded supramolecular mesogens	V. Ajay Mallia; P. K. Sudhadevi Antharjanam; Suresh Das
143-148	Mesophase behaviour and thermal stability of octa-alkoxy substituted phthalocyaninatocobalt (II) complexes	Jurgen Sleven; Thomas Cardinaels; Koen Binnemans; Daniël Nelis; Jules Mullens; Dirk Hinz-Hübner; Gerd Meyer
149-156	Molecular arrangement in a chiral smectic liquid crystal cell studied by polarized infrared spectroscopy	A. A. Sigarev; J. K. Vij; Yu. P. Panarin; P. Rudquist; S. T. Lagerwall; G. Heppke
157-164	Thermal behaviour under pressure of the thermotropic cubic mesogen 4′- n -alkoxy-3′-nitrobiphenyl-4-carboxylic acids	Yoji Maeda; Koushi Morita; Shoichi Kutsumizu
165-172	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their mixtures XII. Binary mixtures of homologues of unsymmetrical 1,4-phenylene bis (4-substituted benzoates)	Magdi M. Naoum; Refaat I. Nessim; Gamal R. Saad; Tayseer Y. Labeeb
173-179	Dimeric liquid crystalline compounds having a central malonic acid moiety: effect of the length of the spacers and terminal chains	Young Suk Park; Kyung-Hoon Lee; Jun-Woo Lee; Jung-Il Jin
181-190	Modelling the chemically induced liquid crystalline phases in mixtures of disc-shaped mesogens: the phase diagram of quadrupolar Gay-Berne discs revisited	Martin A. Bates
191-198	Synthesis, mesomorphic and optical properties of isothiocyanatotolanes	Anna Spadło; Roman Da˛browski; Marek Filipowicz; Zofia Stolarz; Jan Przedmojski; Sebastian Gauza; Claire Y. H. Fan; Shin-Tson Wu
199-204	Ordering of fluoro-mesogens: a statistical approach based on quantum mechanics and computer simulation	Durga Prasad Ojha; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
205-210	V-shaped switching in ferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures induced by an achiral swallow-tailed material	S. -L. Wu; C. -Y. Lin
211-218	Phase behaviour of binary mixtures of 4-substituted phenyl 4′-n-alkoxybenzoates	Refaat I. Nessim
219-225	Low transition temperature organosiloxane liquid crystals displaying a de Vries smectic A phase	J. Naciri; C. Carboni; A. K. George
227-234	Dielectric evidence of an electroclinic effect in the cholesteric phase near a N * -SmA-SmC * multicritical point	J. Hmine; C. Legrand; N. Isaert; H. T. Nguyen
235-249	A dielectric study on the relaxation and switching behaviour of liquid crystals confined within a colloidal network	M. C. W. van Boxtel; M. Wübbenhorst; J. van Turnhout; C. W. M. Bastiaansen; D. J. Broer
251-257	Influence of the structure of the mesogenic core on the thermotropic properties of ω-unsaturated fluorinated liquid crystals	Giulia Fornasieri; Frédéric Guittard; Serge Géribaldi
259-263	High strength disclinations in the nematic and smectic states of 2,5-bis(4-alkoxybenzoyloxy)- p -benzoquinones	Lei Li; Ruigang Liu; Shuyuan Zhang; Zifa Li

Volume 30, Issue 1 (2003)

1-5	Rigorous calculation of pixel and inter-electrode capacitances of thin-film transistor liquid crystal displays using three-dimensional simulation	Sung-Min Jung; Woo-Sang Park
7-16	In situ observation of the pressure-induced mesophase for 4′-n-hexadecyloxy-3′-nitrobiphenyl-4-carboxylic acid	Yoji Maeda; S. Krishna Prasad; Shoichi Kutsumizu; Shinichi Yano
17-22	Phase characterization of two homologous series of LC methacrylic monomers based on ω-hexyl- and ω-butyl-oxysalicylaldimine groups with different alkoxy tail substitutions	E. A. Soto-Bustamante; D. Saldaño-Hurtado; R. O. Vergara-Toloza; P. A. Navarrete-Encina; M. A. Athanassopoulou
23-30	Synthesis, regioisomerism and characterization of unsymmetrical alkenyl-terminated isoxazole liquid crystals	David H. Brown; Peter Styring
31-37	Effect of a rigid, non-polar solute on the dielectric anisotropy, the splay and bend elastic constants, and on the rotational viscosity coefficient of 4-4′-n-heptylcyanobiphenyl	Sudeshna Dasgupta; Soumen Kumar Roy
39-48	A comparison of mesogenic properties for one- and two-ring dipentyl derivatives of p-carboranes, bicyclo[2.2.2]octane, and benzene	Wiktor Piecek; Jacob M. Kaufman; Piotr Kaszynski
49-58	Polymer nanostructure development of fluorinated and aliphatic monoacrylates in smectic liquid crystals via photopolymerization	Demetrius T. McCormick; Zackary W. Fordham; C. Allan Guymon
59-64	Structural ordering and molecular-optical properties of a discotic liquid crystal (Col_ho)	V. A. Gunyakov; S. M. Shibli
65-69	Liquid crystal alignment generated by linearly polarized UV light on photoactive low molecular mass compounds	Chun-Hua Zhang; Zheng-Hua Yang; Meng-Xian Ding
71-80	Ferroelectric liquid crystalline polymers based on mesogens with halogen-containing terminal groups	Yi-An Sha; Ging-Ho Hsiue; Chih-Ho Chiu; Ru-Jong Jeng; Hsing-Chieh Tai
81-86	Use of a gelator in a ferroelectric liquid crystal: pitch compensation and nanofibres	Yue Zhao; Li Guan
87-92	Polarization holographic techniques: a method to produce diffractive devices in polymer dispersed liquid crystals	A. Mazzulla; A. Dastoli; G. Russo; L. Lucchetti; G. Cipparrone
93-108	Synthesis and properties of phenyl benzoate-based and biphenyl-based liquid crystalline thiol-ene monomers	H. T. A. Wilderbeek; M. G. M. van der Meer; M. A. G. Jansen; L. Nelissen; H. R. Fischer; J. J. G. S. van Es; C. W. M. Bastiaansen; J. Lub; D. J. Broer
109-115	Determination of the helical pitch in the smectic C*α phase by means of gyrotropy measurements	J. Ortega; C. L. Folcia; J. Etxebarria; M. B. Ros

Volume 29, Issue 12 (2002)

1491-1495	Anisotropic hydroxypropylcellulose films as alignment layers of a bistable ferroelectric device	P. J. Sebastião; C. Cruz; D. Pires; A. Ferraz; P. Brogueira; M. H. Godinho
1497-1501	Temperature dependence of pitch and twist elastic constant in a cholesteric to smectic A phase transition	F. Zhang; D. -K. Yang
1503-1508	Morphological studies of a (self-assembling oil gelator/liquid crystal) composite system	Hiroshi Abe; Hirotsugu Kikuchi; Tisato Kajiyama; Kenji Hanabusa; Takashi Kato
1509-1512	Dielectric investigations on oriented phases formed by banana-shaped molecules	H. Kresse; H. Schlacken; U. Dunemann; M. W. Schröder; G. Pelzl; W. Weissflog
1513-1519	Surface energy of biaxial nematics	Hong Liu
1521-1528	Determination of symmetry and molecular arrangements of free-standing liquid crystal films using null-transmission ellipsometry	D. A. Olson; X. F. Han; P. M. Johnson; A. Cady; C. C. Huang
1529-1532	Synthesis of terminally substituted stilbene-tolane liquid crystals	Darrell J. Spells; Christopher Lindsey; Larry R. Dalton; Shin-Tson Wu
1533-1537	A new type of liquid crystal involving hydrogen bonding: single crystal X-ray structure characterization and properties of the liquid crystal	Xiangzhi Song; Jiaxin Li; Guang Liu; Shiwei Zhang; Chun Ye; Erqiang Chen
1539-1545	Mesomorphic properties of 2-acyloxy5-(4-alkoxyphenylazo)tropones, 2-acyloxy-5-(4-alkylphenylazo)tropones, and 2-acyloxy-5-(4-alkoxycarbonylphenylazo)tropones	Akira Mori; Katsuyuki Uno; Hitoshi Takeshita; Yasuo Kakihara; Seiji Ujiie
1547-1553	Thermotropic liquid crystalline behaviour of piperazinium and homopiperazinium alkylsulphates	A. Nikokavoura; D. Tsiourvas; M. Arkas; Z. Sideratou; C. M. Paleos
1555-1564	Vitrifying star-shaped liquid crystals: synthesis and application in cholesteric polymer networks	Thomas Pfeuffer; Doris Hanft; Peter Strohriegl
1565-1568	Temperature dependence of the helical period in the ferrielectric smectic phases of MHPOBC and 10OTBBB1M7	I. Muševič; M. Škarabot; G. Heppke; H. T. Nguyen
1569-1573	Liquid crystal orientation in elliptic droplets in nematic emulsions	Giovanni De Filpo; Marialuigia MacChione; Fiore P. Nicoletta; Daniela Cupelli; Giuseppe Chidichimo
1575-1580	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of chiral liquid crystals derived from (^S)-lactic acid with 3-pentanol	S. -L. Wu; C. -Y. Lin
1581-1584	Luminescent lanthanide complexes with liquid crystalline properties	Yury G. Galyametdinov; Larisa V. Malykhina; Wolfgang Haase; Kris Driesen; Koen Binnemans

Volume 29, Issue 11 (2002)

1375-1382	Symmetric esters derived from 1,3,4-oxadiazole: synthesis, mesomorphic properties and structural study by semi-empirical calculations	M. Parra; J. Alderete; C. Zúñiga; P. Hidalgo; J. Vergara; G. Fuentes
1383-1392	Synthesis and liquid crystalline properties of low molecular mass compounds containing the 1,4-bis(5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazolyl)benzene unit	Domenico Acierno; Simona Concilio; Angela Diodati; Pio Iannelli; Stefano P. Piotto; Paola Scarfato
1393-1399	Organometallic chiral liquid crystals: bis{4-[ω-(cholest-5-en-3-yloxycarbonyl)alkoxy]phenylethynyl}mercury complexes	C. V. Yelamaggad; S. Anitha Nagamani; Taketoshi Fujita; Nobuo Iyi
1401-1408	Salicylaldimine-based symmetric dimers: synthesis and thermal behaviour	C. V. Yelamaggad; S. Anitha Nagamani; Uma S. Hiremath; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad
1409-1423	Ferrielectric and antiferroelectric chiral twin liquid crystals showing a stable chiral nematic phase	Isa Nishiyama; Jun Yamamoto; John W. Goodby; Hiroshi Yokoyama
1425-1433	Thermal and optical behaviour of octa-alkoxy substituted phthalocyaninatovanadyl complexes	Jurgen Sleven; Thomas Cardinaels; Koen Binnemans; Daniel Guillon; Bertrand Donnio
1435-1439	New chlorine-substituted ferroelectric liquid crystals with four aromatic rings in the mesogenic core	V. Novotná; V. Hamplová; M. Kašpar; M. Glogarová
1441-1446	Thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers containing five-membered heterocyclic groups VIII. Synthesis, and liquid crystalline and photoluminescent properties of semi-rigid polyesters based on a distyrylbenzene analogue of 1,3,4-thiadiazole	Moriyuki Sato; Rena Ohta; Makoto Handa; Kuninobu Kasuga
1447-1458	Cubic phases of 4′-n-alkoxy-3′-nitrobiphenyl-4-carboxylic acids (ANBC-n)	Shoichi Kutsumizu; Koushi Morita; Tatsuya Ichikawa; Shinichi Yano; Shuichi Nojima; Takanari Yamaguchi
1459-1468	Cubic phases of binary systems of 4′-n-tetradecyloxy-3′-nitrobiphenyl-4-carboxylic acid (ANBC-14)-n-alkane	Shoichi Kutsumizu; Koushi Morita; Shinichi Yano; Shuichi Nojima
1469-1476	Photo-orientation phenomena in photosensitive chiral nematic copolymers	Alexey Bobrovsky; Natalia Boiko; Valery Shibaev; Joachim Stumpe
1477-1482	Synthesis and study of N,N-disubstituted 4-aminophenylazobenzaldehydes	Long-Li Lai; Yu-Jen Lin; Chia-Husan Ho; Eshin Wang; Yi-Hung Liu; Yu Wang; Yang-Chu Lin; Kung-Lung Cheng
1483-1490	First synthesis of liquid crystalline 2,3-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl derivatives exhibiting large negative dielectric anisotropy	Kazutoshi Miyazawa; Takashi Kato; Maiko Itoh; Makoto Ushioda

Volume 29, Issue 10 (2002)

1253-1258	Photochromic characteristics of monodisperse microcapsules containing azobenzene derivative-doped nematic liquid crystals	No-Hyung Park; Sung-Ll Park; Kyung-Do Suh
1259-1264	A vector grouping algorithm for liquid crystal tensor field visualization	Yang-Ming Zhu; Paul A. Farrell
1265-1273	New low viscosity liquid crystal compounds containing the 2,3,4-trifluorophenyl moiety for active matrix displays	Il-Kook Huh; Yong-Bae Kim
1275-1278	Temperature dependence of the density of calamitic and discotic nematic lyotropic liquid crystals containing sodium lauryl sulphate/decanol/water	T. Beica; Rodica Moldovan; Madalina R. Puica; S. Frunza
1279-1281	Stationary statistical size distribution of nematic droplets in the course of the isotropic liquid-nematic phase transition	Vyacheslav Zuev; Sergei Bronnikov
1283-1290	Molecular alignment and field-induced reorientation in a twisted nematic liquid crystal pi-cell	Wen-Tse Shih; Jung Y. Huang
1291-1296	Formation of a host nanostructure for ferroelectric liquid crystals using thiol-ene polymers	Neil B. Cramer; Eric R. Beckel; Adam W. Harant; Tanner Davies; Donald L. Williamson; Christopher N. Bowman
1297-1303	Thermotropic main chain liquid crystalline polyesters containing ferrocene and phosphate units: synthesis and characterization	S. Senthil; P. Kannan
1305-1310	Comparative analysis of basic physical properties of a ferroelectric liquid crystal and a polymer dispersed ferroelectric liquid crystal	E. P. Pozhidaev; D. Ganzke; V. Ya. Zyryanov; S. L. Smorgon; W. Haase
1311-1319	Liquid crystalline properties of dissymmetric molecules IX. The effect of a terminal nitro group on the thermal properties of the smectic A phase in 4-nitrophenyl 4-(4-alkoxybenzoyloxyphenyl)benzoates	Takeyasu Tasaka; Vladimir F. Petrov; Hiroaki Okamoto Yuki Morita; Kazuyuki Suetake; Shunsuke Takenaka
1321-1327	Synthesis and properties of azo dye aligning layers for liquid crystal cells	Hidenari Akiyama; Tatsuo Kawara; Hirokazu Takada; Haruyoshi Takatsu; Vladimir Chigrinov; Elena Prudnikova; Vladimir Kozenkov; Hoi Kwok
1329-1333	Determination of the second order susceptibility tensor in banana-shaped liquid crystals	J. A. Gallastegui; C. L. Folcia; J. Etxebarria; J. Ortega; I. De Francisco; M. B. Ros
1335-1337	The first lanthanide(III) monoporphyrin complex liquid crystal	Zhixin Zhao; Guofa Liu
1339-1345	Optical phase conjugation from phase-shifted gratings in photorefractive mesogenic composites	Hiroshi Ono; Keiko Kitamura; Nobuhiro Kawatsuki
1347-1354	Phase diagrams and physical properties of binary ferroelectric mixtures based on a series of chiral α-cyanocinnamate derivatives	A. Vajda; M. Kaspar; V. Hamplova; A. Bubnov; K. Fodor-Csorba; N. E. ber
1355-1359	A homologous series of chiral swallow-tailed materials possessing an antiferroelectric phase with V-shaped switching property	S. -L. Wu; P. -L. Chang
1360-1363	Formation of lanthanide ion networks by orientation of the mesophases of their complexes in magnetic fields	Yury G. Galyametdinov; Wen Wan; Larisa Malykhina; Michael Darius; Wolfgang Haase
1365-1367	Helical superstructures in the mesophase of compounds derived from 2-cyanoresorcinol	R. Amaranatha Reddy; B. K. Sadashiva
1369-1371	The first columnar discotic liquid crystalline anthraquinone metal complexes	Sandeep Kumar; Jaishri J. Naidu

Volume 29, Issue 9 (2002)

1113-1119	Dimeric compounds containing malonic acid as the central linking unit: synthesis and mesomorphic properties	Veena Prasad; Kyung-Hoon Lee; Young Suk Park; Jun-Woo Lee; Dong-Keun Oh; Duk Young Han; Jung-Il Jin
1121-1132	Synthesis and thermal behaviour of liquid crystalline pyridinium bromides containing a biphenyl core	Li Cui; Vytenis Sapagovas; Günter Lattermann
1133-1139	Chiralization in mesogenic 1,3-diacylaminobenzenes	Chantal Garcia; Jacques Malthête
1141-1149	Thermal switching characteristics based on smectic-A↔chiral nematic phase transitions of (liquid crystals/chiral dopant) composites, with and without side chain-type liquid crystalline polymer	Huai Yang; Hirotsugu Kikuchi; Tisato Kajiyama
1151-1159	Synthesis and lyotropic liquid crystalline behaviour of a taper-shaped phosphonic acid amphiphile	Scott R. Hammond; Wen-Jing Zhou; Douglas L. Gin; Jamshid K. Avlyanov
1161-1167	Chiral two ring compounds exhibiting antiferroelectric phases	T. Fütterer; G. Heppke; D. Lötzsch; D. Moro; J. W. Goodby; R. P. Tuffin
1169-1176	Scanning tunnelling microscopy study of a columnar metallomesogen: bis(β-diketonato)palladium(II) complexes on graphite	C. Su; C. -R. Shu; C. -C. Wu
1177-1180	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 4-methoxyphenyl 4′- n -alkoxy-2′,3′,5′,6′-tetrafluorobiphenyl-1-carboxylates	Ximin Chen; Jingkui Chen; Jianxun Wen
1181-1185	Achiral banana-shaped mesogenic bidentate ligands and their Cu(II) and Pd(II) complexes	C. V. Yelamaggad; S. Anitha Nagamani; Geetha G. Nair; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad; A. Jakli
1187-1200	Synthesis and characterization of new chiral liquid crystalline polyacrylates from L-isoleucine	Olga M. S. Ritter; Aloir A. Merlo; Fabiano V. Pereira; Nadya P. Da Silveira; Erik Geissler; J. Zukerman-Schpector
1201-1207	Dielectric, viscous and elastic properties of nematogenic 1-(4- trans -propylcyclohexyl)-2-(4-cyanophenyl)ethane	M. Ginovska; G. Czechowski; A. Andonovski; J. Jadzyn
1209-1216	Mesomorphism of lanthanide-containing Schiff's base complexes with chloride counterions	Koen Binnemans; Dries Moors; Tatjana N. Parac-Vogt; Rik Van Deun; Dirk Hinz-Hübner; Gerd Meyer
1217-1222	Thermotropic liquid crystalline α-[bis(2-hydroxyethyl)amino]ω-(4 ′-methoxybiphenyl-4-oxy)alkane hydrochlorides	M. Huskić; M. Zigon
1223-1234	Banana-shaped mesogens: effect of lateral substituents on seven-ring esters containing a biphenyl moiety	H. N. Shreenivasa Murthy; B. K. Sadashiva
1235-1241	Liquid crystals with a 5-phenyltropone core	Akira Mori; Hitoshi Takeshita; Kouki Katahira; Katsuhiko Kida; Chihiro Jin; Seiji Ujiie
1243-1246	The synthesis of liquid crystalline lanthanide complexes of Schiff's base ligands: N -(4- n -alkoxysalicylidene)-4′- n -alkylanilines	Nandiraju V. S. Rao; Manoj K. Paul; Thatavarthi R. Rao; Archana Prasad
1247-1250	A new route for the preparation of liquid crystalline polyorganosiloxanes containing laterally linked mesogenic units on the main chains	Guangqing Guo; Chaoyi Ba; Hui Li; Xiaoshu Zhou; Ping Xie; Rongben Zhang
1251	Electroclinic effect around a smectic A-chiral nematic phase transition	C. L. Folcia; J. Ortega; J. Etxebarria

Volume 29, Issue 8 (2002)

1001-1005	Studies of the alignment properties of antiferroelectric liquid crystals by X-ray diffraction	L. A. Parry-Jones; S. M. Beldon; D. Rodriguez-Martin; R. M. Richardson; S. J. Elston
1007-1013	Ferroelectric liquid crystals from banana-shaped achiral molecules with vinyl end groups	Chong-Kwang Lee; Soon-Sik Kwon; Seung-Tae Shin; E-Joon Choi; Soonnam Lee; Liang-Chy Chien
1015-1024	Smectic liquid crystal alignment using mechanically rubbed n-octadecylsiloxane self-assembled monolayers	David M. Walba; Charles A. Liberko; Renfan Shao; Noel A. Clark
1025-1029	Flow-induced grating from cholesteric mixtures	Giovanni De Filpo; Marialuigia MacChione; Fiore P. Nicoletta; Daniela Cupelli; Roberta Cassano; Giuseppe Chidichimo
1031-1037	Design and characterization of novel supramolecular liquid crystals involving multiple hydrogen bonds	Min Li; Chaowei Guo; Yuqing Wu
1039-1046	Transitions between the B₂ phase and more usual smectic phases in binary systems of banana-shaped with calamitic mesogens	M. W. Schröder; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; N. Pancenko; W. Weissflog
1047-1050	Liquid crystal alignment and pretilt angle generation on a photopolymer layer based on N-(phenyl)maleimide	Jeoung-Yeon Hwang; Dae-Shik Seo; Jun-Young Kim; Tae-Ho Kim
1051-1054	Residual d.c. characteristics in the in-plane switching liquid crystal display by the capacitance-voltage hysteresis method on a polymer surface	Hyang-Yul Kim; Jae-Hyung Kim; Eun-Joo Hahn; Dae-Shik Seo
1055-1057	Residual d.c. measurement in in-plane switching liquid crystal displays by a new light minimum/maximum method on a polyimide layer	Hyang-Yul Kim; Eung-Sang Kim; Dae-Shik Seo
1059-1062	Grey behaviour analysis of in-plane switching mode liquid crystal displays with weak-anchoring effects	Yu-Bao Sun; Hong-Mei Ma; Zhi-Dong Zhang
1063-1072	Dielectric response and quasielastic light scattering on freely suspended films of the SmC * α phase in an external transverse electric field	M. Conradi; I. Muševič; M. ČepiČ
1073-1085	Mean field theory-based calculation of FLC polarization	Matthew A. Glaser; Noel A. Clark; David M. Walba; Michael P. Keyes; Marc D. Radcliffe; Daniel C. Snustad
1087-1088	Liquid crystalline properties of 4-isopropyl- and 4-isopropoxy- N -(4- n -alkoxysalicylidene)anilines	S. Sakagami; T. Koga; A. Takase
1089-1095	Visco-elastic properties of reentrant nematic liquid crystalline mixtures	Atsushi Kubono; Kazuki Yoshino; Toshiro Ninomiya; Ryuichi Akiyama; Katsufumi Tanaka
1097-1100	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 4-cyanophenyl and 4-nitrophenyl 4- n -alkoxytetrafluorobiphenyl-4′-carboxylates	Ximin Chen; Jingkui Chen; Jianxun Wen
1101-1104	Resonant X-ray scattering studies of the B2 phase formed by bent-core molecules	A. Cady; R. Pindak; W. Caliebe; P. Barois; W. Weissflog; H. T. Nguyen; C. C. Huang
1105-1107	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of four-ring liquid crystals containing cyclohexyl, phenyl and pyridyl units	Ximin Chen; Kan Wang; Hengfeng Li; Jianxun Wen
1109-1111	Conductive liquid crystalline compounds having a piperazine structure	Yuichiro Haramoto; Taito Yamada; Masato Nanasawa; Masahiro Funahashi; Junichi Hanna; Seiji Ujiie

Volume 29, Issue 7 (2002)

881-887	Smectic layer structure of ferroelectric liquid crystal formed between fine polymer fibres	Hideo Fujikake; Takashi Toyooka; Takeshi Murashige; Hiroto Sato; Yoshiki Iino; Masahiro Kawakita; Hiroshi Kikuchi
889-897	Polarized states of hybrid aligned nematic layers	Grzegorz Derfel; Mariola Felczak
899-906	Novel hexasubstituted triphenylene discotic liquid crystals having three different types of peripheral substituent	Sandeep Kumar; Jaishri J. Naidu
907-913	Synthesis of alkyl-branched main chain copolyimides and their effect on the pretilt angles of liquid crystal alignment	Wen-Chin Lee; Jiun-Tai Chen; Chain-Shu Hsu; Shin-Tson Wu
915-920	Heterocyclic 1,3,4-oxadiazole as columnar core	Chung K. Lai; Ying-Chieh Ke; Jen-Chun Su Chien-Shen; Wen-Ren Li
921-928	Multiple scattering in polymer dispersed liquid crystal films	Valery A. Loiko; Vladimir V. Berdnik
929-943	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their mixtures XI. Binary mixtures of unsymmetrical 1,4-phenylene bis-(4-substituted benzoates)	Magdi M. Naoum; Refaat I. Nessim; Gamal R. Saad; Tayseer Y. Labeeb
945-950	New bent core mesogens with exceptionally high clearing points	Kevin Pantalone; Alexander J. Seed
951-959	Periodic deformations induced by a magnetic field in planar twisted nematic layers	Dariusz Krzyzański; Grzegorz Derfel
961-966	Induced G phase through intermolecular hydrogen bonding: X. Crystallization kinetics study on two structural isomers	Pisupati Swathi; P. A. Kumar; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
967-977	Crystallization kinetics study on higher homologues of benzylidene aniline compounds: impact of phase variant on nucleation process	P. A. Kumar; Swathi Pisupati; V. G. K. M. Pisipati; CH. Srinivasu; P. Narayana Murty
979-984	Molecular ordering of a cyano compound at a displacive transition temperature: a statistical analysis based on quantum mechanics and computer simulations	Durga Prasad Ojha; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
985-988	Mesogenic study of the H-bonded complexes of N, N -disubstituted aminophenylazo-(4)-1,3,4-thiadiazole with p -alkoxybenzoic acids	Long-Li Lai; Yuh-Ging Yang; Jo-Jin Chen; Wei-Yu Chen; Eshin Wang
989-993	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of three- and four-ring liquid crystals containing cyclohexyl, phenyl and pyridyl units	Ximin Chen; Kan Wang; Hengfeng Li; Jianxun Wen
995-1000	The effect of the position of the methyl group on the helical twisting powers of aldol condensation products of methyl cyclohexanones	J. Lub; W. Ten Hoeve; W. P. M. Nijssen; L. Diaz; R. T. Wegh

Volume 29, Issue 6 (2002)

755-763	Anomalies of periodicity in TGB structures in new liquid crystal dimers	Soon Wook Cha; Jung-Il Jin; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin
765-773	Electroclinic effect around a smectic A-chiral nematic phase transition	C. L. Folcia; J. Ortega; J. Etxebarria
775-782	Structural characterization of the new polymorphic mesophases formed by bent-core molecules	A. Eremin; I. Wirth; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; H. Schmalfuss; H. Kresse; H. Nádasi; K. Fodor-Csorba; E. Gács-Baitz; W. Weissflog
783-787	The effect of mono-sized liquid crystal domains on electro-optical properties in a polymer dispersed liquid crystal prepared by using monodisperse poly(methylmethacrylate)/liquid crystal microcapsules	Sung-Il Park; No-Hyung Park; Kyung-Do Suh
789-797	Banana-shaped mesogens: effect of 2-methylresorcinol as the central unit on the mesomorphic properties of five-ring esters	S. Shubashree; B. K. Sadashiva; Surajit Dhara
799-804	PVT measurements on n -octyl-isothiocyanato-biphenyl (8BT) at elevated pressures	Albert Würflinger; Stanislaw Urban
805-835	Alkoxylation in achiral calamitic liquid crystals	Vladimir F. Petrov
837-842	Soft mode and related behaviour in the SmA and SmC* phases of a ferroelectric liquid crystalline polymer by dielectric spectroscopy	S. K. Kundu; B. K. Chaudhuri; L. Catala; S. Mery
843-848	High contrast ratio of a vertically aligned liquid crystal cell using photocrosslinking alignment	Hyun-Wuk Kim; Kyung-Soo Choi; Jin-Yool Kim; Tae-Min Kim; Jong-Duk Kim
849-853	Analytical approach to V-shaped characteristics in antiferroelectric liquid crystal displays	H. Pauwels
855-861	Fixation of a cholesteric helical structure by the photopolymerization of a cholesteryl derived monomer	T. Mihara; T. Uedaira; N. Koide
863-869	Nematic-isotropic phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals	Prabir K. Mukherjee
871-875	Variation in molecular stacking resulting from the different polarity of liquid crystalline molecules: synthesis and study of azo dye compounds	Long-Li Lai; Eshin Wang; Yi-Hung Liu; Yu Wang
877-880	Material characterization for electroconvection	J. Shi; C. Wang; V. Surendranath; K. Kang; J. T. Gleeson

Volume 29, Issue 5 (2002)

619-626	Isodesmic self-assembly in lyotropic chromonic systems	Prabal K. Maiti; Yves Lansac; M. A. Glaser; N. A. Clark
627-633	Structural characterization of organosiloxane liquid crystals with a transverse or longitudinal dipole	T. Murias; A. C. Ribeiro; D. Guillon; D. Shoosmith; H. J. Coles
635-640	Structural study of a smectic C phase of biforked molecules	A. C. Ribeiro; C. Cruz; H. T. Nguyen; S. Diele; B. Heinrich; D. Guillon
641-646	The first order Freedericksz transition at saturation point for weak anchoring NLC cells	Yang Guochen; Zhang Suhua
647-652	Synthesis, mesomorphic properties and structural study by semi-empirical calculations of amides containing the 1,3,4-thiadiazole unit	M. Parra; J. Alderete; C. Zúñiga; S. Hernández
653-656	Circularly polarized emission from a narrow bandwidth dye doped into a chiral nematic liquid crystal	M. Voigt; M. Chambers; M. Grell
657-661	Crystal structure of the mesogenic alkene monomer, 3-[4-(4′-ethylbiphenyl)]-1-propene	Sakuntala Gupta; Guo-Ping Chang-Chien; Wei-Shan Lee; R. Centore; S. P. Sen Gupta
663-667	New mesogenic compounds having fork-like or cyclic amide terminal groups	Damian Pociecha; Jadwiga Szydlowska; Julita Gasowska; Dorota Kardas; Józef Mieczkowski; Wieslaw Tlaczala
669-673	Liquid crystal photo-alignment layers made from aromatic bismaleimides	Hideya Murai; Taisaku Nakata; Tomohisa Goto
675-685	Effect of electron donor-acceptor interaction on the thermal stability of supramolecular side chain liquid crystalline polymers based on poly(3-carboxypropylmethylsiloxane)	Suat Hong Goh; Yee Hing Lai
687-695	Dimeric liquid crystals with two troponoid mesogenic moieties: effect of the direction of the carbonyl group on the mesomorphic properties	Manabu Takemoto; Akira Mori; Seiji Ujiie; Volkmar Vill
697-706	Electro-optical properties of conic cylindrical-cavities liquid crystal displays	Bau-Jy Liang; Shu-Hsia Chen; Chi-Ray Wu
707-712	Synthesis of perfluorobutyl-substituted ester-disazo dyes and their application to guest-host liquid crystal displays	M. Matsui; S. Okada; M. Kadowaki; M. Yamada
713-718	X-ray investigations on some liquid crystalline methacrylic polymers with ω-hexyloxysalicylaldimine side groups carrying p -alkyl or p -alkyloxy terminal substituents	R. Werner; E. A. Soto Bustamante; P. A. Navarrete Encina; W. Haase
719-723	Dynamic response of super-twisted nematic liquid crystal displays	Hongfei Cheng; Hongjin Gao
725-731	A comparative study of the properties of the liquid crystalline compounds 5O.5 and 5O.6 in solid, solution and thin film forms by laser Raman spectroscopy	A. Bhattacharjee; P. R. Alapati; A. L. Verma
733-742	Temperature dependence of the director reorientation of dye-doped nematic liquid crystals subjected to an optical field and its relation with the non-linear absorption coefficient	J. Esteves; A. M. Figueiredo Neto
743-754	The influence of a bulk twist on the surface memorization in the liquid crystal HOBA	M. Petrov; L. Tsonev

Volume 29, Issue 4 (2002)

483-496	Liquid crystal phases of achiral banana-shaped molecules: a computer simulation study	R. Memmer
497-504	Introduction of bis-discotic and bis-calamitic mesogenic addends to C 60	M. Manickam; Alun Smith; Maura Belloni; Elwyn J. Shelley; Peter R. Ashton; Neil Spencer; Jon A. Preece
505-513	Free-standing smectic films at high temperature	P. Cluzeau; G. Joly; H. T. Nguyen; C. Gors; V. K. Dolganov
515-519	Optical storage of hidden images in ultraviolet-cured polymer dispersed liquid crystals	L. Lucchetti; S. Di Bella; F. Simoni
521-527	New liquid crystalline cyclohexene and cyclohexane derivatives and compositions based upon them	V. S. Bezborodov; V. I. Lapanik; G. M. Sasnouski
529-536	Liquid crystal polysiloxane networks as materials for molecular imprinting technology: memory of the mesomorphic organization	J. -D. Marty; M. Mauzac; C. Fournier; I. Rico-Lattes; A. Lattes
537-542	Development of non-reactive fluorine-rich biphenyl molecules and their incorporation into a PDLC system	Michael D. Schulte; Lalgudi V. Natarajan; Stephen J. Clarson; Timothy J. Bunning
543-549	Synthesis and mesomorphic characterization of azoesters with a coumarin ring	Jayrang S. Dave; Meera R. Menon; Pratik R. Patel
551-557	Neutron reflectivity studies of the interface between a small molecule liquid crystal and a polymer	Gary W. Lynn; M. D. Dadmun; Wen-Li Wu; Eric K. Lin; William E. Wallace
559-565	First asymmetrically beta-tetrasubstituted porphyrin-based discotic lamellar liquid crystal	M. Castella; F. López-Calahorra; D. Velasco; H. Finkelmann
567-572	Electro-optical characteristics of photo-aligned vertical-alignment cells on photo-crosslinkable copolymer surfaces containing the cholesteryl moiety	Jeoung-Yeon Hwang; Dae-Shik Seo; Eun-Joo Hahn
573-581	Liquid crystals derived from 2-phenylisoindoles: synthesis and characterization	Kenny G. Jow; Theo J. Dingemans
583-587	Contrast ratio and switching of zigzag defect-free surface stabilized FLCD by photoinduced alignment	Won-Seok Kang; Hyun-Wuk Kim; Jong-Duk Kim
589-596	The electro-optic properties of colloidal silica filled nematics	N. J. Diorio Jr; M. R. Fisch; J. W. West
597-603	Fine structure of the repolarization current in the B 2 phase of a banana compound	M. I. Barnik; L. M. Blinov; N. M. Shtykov; S. P. Palto; G. Pelzl; W. Weissflog
605-611	study of liquid crystalline N -[4-(4- n -alkoxybenzoyloxy)-2-hydroxybenzylidene]methylanilines	A. Takase; K. Nonaka; T. Koga; S. Sakagami
613-618	Hairpin conformation of a chiral siloxane-based dimesogenic compound by single crystal analysis	Peter Zugenmaier

Volume 29, Issue 3 (2002)

325-334	A tensor model of liquid crystalline polymers: application to basic disclination processes	Houjie Tu; Gerhard Goldbeck-Wood; Alan H. Windle
335-345	Simulation of texture evolution for nematic liquid crystalline polymers under shear flow	Houjie Tu; Gerhard Goldbeck-Wood; Alan H. Windle
347-353	A high resolution temperature scanning technique for optical studies of liquid crystal phase transitions	A. Saipa; F. Giesselmann
355-367	Novel high birefringence dibenzothiophenylacetylene liquid crystals	Chizu Sekine; Masamitsu Ishitobi; Kazunori Iwakura; Masayoshi Minai; Koichi Fujisawa
369-375	Liquid crystalline behaviour of hydrogen-bonded complexes of alkoxycinnamic acids with octyloxystilbazole	Yoon-Sok Kang; Wang-Cheol Zin
377-381	Light shutters from antiferroelectric liquid crystals of bent-shaped molecules	Antal Jákli; L. -C. Chien; Daniel Krüerke; Hans Sawade; Gerd Heppke
383-389	Electric field effects on director pattern and disclinations in free standing nematic films of 8CB	K. S. Krishnamurthy; R. Balakrishnan
391-395	Evidence for the non-uniform distribution of polymer networks formed in liquid crystal devices	N. Dessaud; E. P. Raynes
397-404	Liquid crystal comb polymer with polar mesogenic and aliphatic side groups I. Preparation and structural properties	B. Gallot; P. Allia; P. Taverna; L. Trossi; C. Cucinelli; S. Ponti
405-411	Liquid crystal comb polymer with polar mesogenic and aliphatic side groups II. Noise of the scattered light	P. Allia; C. Cucinelli; S. Ponti; P. Taverna; L. Trossi; B. Gallot
413-420	Spontaneous polarization and electro-optic behaviour of a ferroelectric liquid crystal cell fabricated with polyimide Langmuir-Blodgett films	Hyun-Wuk Kim; Hyun-Sang Lee; Jong-Duk Kim
421-428	First carbazole-based lamellar liquid crystal system	Eva Perea; Francisco López-Calahorra; Dolores Velasco
429-441	Dielectric studies of the nematic mixture E7 on a hydroxypropylcellulose substrate	M. T. Viciosa; A. M. Nunes; A. Fernandes; P. L. Almeida; M. H. Godinho; M. D. Dionísio
443-448	The molecular and crystal structure of bipolar, mesogenic biphenyls: a comparison of similar compounds HO(CH 2) 6 OC 6 H 4 C 6 H 4 R with R = cyano and nitro terminal groups	P. Zugenmaier
449-457	Ordering of a lateral crown ether and terminal short POE chains in some symmetrical nematogens by 13 C NMR	Neeraj Sinha; K. V. Ramanathan; K. Leblanc; P. Judeinstein; J. P. Bayle
459-466	Broadband dielectric relaxation study of 6CB and 6CB-aerosil dispersions in the nematic and isotropic phases	A. Hourri; P. Jamée; T. K. Bose; J. Thoen
467-473	A hybrid-aligned polymer network liquid crystal: optical and electro-optical properties	P. Sixou; C. Gautier
475-477	Flexible cellulose derivative PDLC type cells	P. L. Almeida; G. Lavareda; C. Nunes De Carvalho; A. Amaral; M. H. Godinho; M. T. Cidade; J. L. Figueirinhas
479-482	Preliminary in situ X-ray diffraction measurements of UV-induced photomechanical effects in a mesogenic material	P. J. Sebastião; E. Corsellis; B. Heinrich; D. Guillon

Volume 29, Issue 2 (2002)

163-178	Phases, phase transitions and confinement effects in a series of antiferroelectric liquid crystals	Jan P. F. Lagerwall; Deven D. Parghi; Daniel Krüerke; Fathi Gouda; Pontus Jägemalm
179-189	The antiferroelectric TGB phase: textures, field-induced effects and microscopic model	J. G. Meier; P. Rudquist; A. S. Petrenko; J. W. Goodby; S. T. Lagerwall
191-197	Flow activation free energy in cholesteric lyotropic liquid crystals	M. Regina Alcantara; A. F. De Moura; E. G. Fernandes Jr
199-202	Liquid crystalline thiadiazole derivatives: new ferroelectric thiadiazole derivatives	Yan Xu; Baolong Li; Huibiao Liu; Zijian Guo; Zihou Tai; Zheng Xu
203-208	Unexpected high ordering of a [60]Fullerene nitroxide in the nematic phase of 4-4′-azoxyanisole	Martina Mazzoni; Lorenzo Franco; Alberta Ferrarini; Carlo Corvaja; Giovanni Zordan; Gianfranco Scorrano; Michele Maggini
209-212	Non-monotonic exposure dependence of the pretilt angle and surface polarity of the photo-orientant F-PVCN	L. Bugayova; I. Gerus; A. Glushchenko; A. Dyadyusha; Yu. Kurioz; V. Reshetnyak; Yu. Reznikov; J. West
213-219	Dynamics of nematic point defects in a capillary with tilted boundary conditions	J. Bajc; G. Guidone Peroli; E. G. Virga; S. Žumer
221-225	Anomalous behaviours of the heat capacity in a liquid crystal showing a re-entrant isotropic phase	K. Ema; H. Yao; Y. Takanishi; H. Takezoe; T. Kusumoto; T. Hiyama; A. Yoshizawa
227-229	Crucial influence of polar alignment on the dynamics of in-plane switching cells	Yu-Bao Sun; Zhi-Dong Zhang
231-236	The first examples of monodispersive liquid crystalline tetramers possessing four non-identical anisometric segments	C. V. Yelamaggad; S. Anitha Nagamani; U. S. Hiremath; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad
237-242	Formation of hexagonal columnar phases by heterocyclic pyrimidine derivatives	Yang-Chu Lin; Chung K. Lai; Yuan-Chieh Chang; Kwang-Ting Liu
243-250	Photo-induced liquid crystal alignment on polyimide containing fluorinated groups	Shi-Joon Sung; Jong-Woo Lee; Hee-Tak Kim; Jung-Ki Park
251-253	Effect of the naphthalene moiety on the mesogenic properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals containing diastereomeric propionic acids	Wen-Liang Tasi; Shu-Wen Yeh; Ming-Jing Hsie; Hui-Chen Lee; Chao-Ming Fu
255-261	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of several series of fluorinated ester liquid crystals	Yong-Gang Yang; Hao Chen; Geng Tang; Jian-Xun Wen
263-271	Modelling of addressing schemes in surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells using a three variable model in one dimension	S. M. Said; S. J. Elston
273-279	Dynamics of liquid crystal azimuthal anchoring at a poly(vinyl cinnamate) interface measured in situ during polarized UV light irradiation	V. V. Lazarev; R. Barberi; M. Iovane; L. Papalino; L. M. Blinov
281-288	Alignment of liquid crystal and dichroic dye molecules in mixed Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett films	Tomasz Martyński; Andrzej Biadasz; Danuta Bauman

Volume 29, Issue 2 (2002)

289-294	Influence of molecular structure on the cholesteric liquid crystalline behaviour of ethyl-cyanoethyl cellulose/acrylic acid solutions	Guanqi Zhang; Yong Huang
295-300	Anisometric, non-mesogenic, tailor-made monomer for reverse-mode shutters	Giovanni De Filpo; Nevio Picci; Rita Muzzalupo; Francesca Iemma; Fiore P. Nicoletta; Giuseppe Chidichimo
301-307	Dielectric studies of two liquid crystalline benzoates with coupled and decoupled CN groups	Stanisław Urban; Bo Gestblom; Dirk Tuma; Roman Dąbrowski
309-314	Dendrimers with laterally grafted mesogens	Joaquín Barberá; Raquel Giménez; Mercedes Marcos; José Luis Serrano
315-319	Viewing angle characteristics of a homogeneously aligned two-domain liquid crystal cell with an inter-digitated electrode	Seung Ho Hong; Hyang Yul Kim; Myong-Hoon Lee; Seung Hee Lee
321-324	New SmC* V-shaped switching FLC compounds	V. Bezborodov; V. Lapanik; G. Sasnouski

Volume 29, Issue 1 (2002)

1-8	Synthesis and characterization of a wholly aromatic rod-like macrocyclic tetraester mesogen from 4,4'-biphenyldicarboxylic acid and catechol	Adela Negredo; Fernando Navarro
9-18	Polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystal microgratings: a comparison of polymer network formation and electro-optic properties for mesogenic and non-mesogenic monomers	Kyongok Kang; L. C. Chien; S. Sprunt
19-26	Laser-induced concentric colour domains in a cholesteric liquid crystal mixture containing a nematic azobenzene dopant	S. V. Serak; E. O. Arikainen; H. F. Gleeson; V. A. Grozhik; J. -P. Guillou; N. A. Usova
27-37	Transition moment orientation and rotational bias of three carbonyl groups in large polarization FLCs observed by polarized FTIR	J. Matsushima; Y. Takanishi; K. Ishikawa; H. Takezoe; A. Fukuda; C. S. Park; W. G. Jang; K. H. Kim; J. E. MacLennan; M. A. Glaser; N. A. Clark; K. Takahashi
39-45	V-shaped switching in binary mixtures of an achiral swallow-tailed material with the antiferroelectric liquid crystal (S)-MHPOBC	S. L. Wu; C. T. Chiang
47-55	Orientational relationship among main and side chains of a polyimide alignment layer, liquid crystals monolayer and bulk pretilt angle	Takahiro Sakai; Ken Ishikawa; Hideo Takezoe
57-66	Liquid crystal binary mixtures 8CB+8OCB: critical behaviour at the smectic A-nematic transition	M. B. Sied; D. O. López; J. Ll. Tamarit; M. Barrio
67-70	Synthesis of novel nematic liquid crystals containing 3,3'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridyl	Chi-Han Lee; Takakazu Yamamoto
71-77	The effect of substituents on the helical twisting power of aldol condensation products of menthone	J. Lub; W. Ten Hoeve; W. P. M. Nijssen; R. T. Wegh
79-85	The realignment of an achiral smectic C chevron structure with applied field	Alison Findon; Helen F. Gleeson; John E. Lydon
87-90	Liquid crystal properties of new ionic liquid crystal compounds having a 1,3-dioxane ring	Yuichiro Haramoto; Tomomi Miyashita; Masato Nanasawa; Yoshio Aoki; Hiroyuki Nohira
91-98	Characterization of a new chiral antiferroelectric liquid crystal with a lateral bromo substituent	P. Gisse; P. Cluzeau; V. Ravaine; H. T. Nguyen
99-105	Molecular organization in two-dimensional films of liquid crystalline mixtures III. Langmuir films of binary mixtures of liquid crystal materials with terminal CN o r NCS group	Tomasz Martynski; Robert Hertmanowski; Danuta Bauman
107-113	Band formation in a CPLC subjected to rectilinear oscillatory shear	F. Sanaa; M. Gharbia; A. Gharbi; H. T. Nguyen; J. P. Marcerou
115-119	Dielectric characterization of the B₇ and a B_X phase	J. Salfetnikova; H. Nadasi; W. Weissflog; A. Hauser; H. Kresse
121-125	Criteria for the first order Freedericksz transitions	Jianru Shi
127-132	Linear analysis of transient pattern evolution in the non-Freedericksz twist geometry	J. P. Casquilho; J. L. Figueirinhas
133-139	Enhanced conductivity and dielectric absorption in discotic liquid crystalline columnar phases of a vanadyl complex	W. Haase; D. Kilian; M. A. Athanassopoulou; D. Knawby; T. M. Swager; S. Wróbel
141-153	Synthesis and liquid crystalline structures of poly(L-lysine) containing undecanamidobiphenyl units in the side chains	Céline Guillermain; Bernard Gallot
155-158	Comparative dielectric investigations on samples consisting of fluorinated bent core molecules	J. Salfetnikova; T. Zhuchkova; G. Dantlgraber; C. Tschierske; H. Kresse
159-160	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of two semi-fluorocarbon chain liquid crystals	Yong-Gang Yang; Jian-Xun Wen
161-162	Synthesis and properties of some semi-fluoroalkoxy chain liquid crystals	Yong-Gang Yang; Jian-Xun Wen

Volume 28, Issue 12 (2001)

1739-1748	2,3,7,8,12,13-Hexakis[2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethoxy]tricycloquinazoline: a discogen which allows enhanced levels of n-doping	Neville Boden; Richard J. Bushby; Kevin Donovan; Quanying Liu; Zhibao Lu; Theo Kreouzis; Andrew Wood
1749-1754	Antiferroelectric liquid crystal from a banana-shaped achiral molecule	Chong-Kwang Lee; Jae-Hoon Kim; E-Joon Choi; Wang-Cheol Zin; Liang-Chy Chien
1755-1760	3-Aryl- or 3-(trans-4-alkylcyclohexyl)- 6-arylcyclohex-2-enones: synthesis, transformations and mesomorphic properties	V. S. Bezborodov; G. M. Sasnouski; V. I. Lapanik; Roman Dabrowski; Jerzy Dziaduszek; V. I. Tyvorskii
1761-1765	A study of enthalpic relaxation of a liquid crystal	Nicola A. Bailey; Darran R. Cairns; Gregory P. Crawford; James N. Hay
1767-1773	Phase ordering of the liquid crystalline 'B₇' phase by analysis of fractal growth patterns	I. Dierking; H. Sawade; G. Heppke
1775-1778	Observation of spatial distribution of laser-induced refractive index change in dye-doped liquid crystals	Hiroshi Ono; Hajime Saeki
1779-1783	Ionic impurities in nematic liquid crystal displays	M. R. Costa; R. A. C. Altafim; A. P. Mammana
1785-1791	Thermal behaviour of the thermotropic cubic mesogen 4'-n-hexadecyloxy-3'-nitrobiphenyl-4-carboxylic acid (ANBC-16) under hydrostatic pressure	Yoji Maeda; Gui-Ping Cheng; Shoichi Kutsumizu; Shinichi Yano
1793-1798	Droplet-size distribution gradient induced by laser curing in polymer dispersed liquid crystals	D. E. Lucchetta; O. Francescangeli; L. Lucchetti; F. Simoni
1799-1803	Optical activity of chiral thin film and liquid crystal hybrids	S. R. Kennedy; J. C. Sit; D. J. Broer; M. J. Brett
1805-1812	Chiral recognition in the crystal structure of a dichiral mesogen with a unique isotropic mesophase: 2-{4-[(R)-2-fluorohexyloxy]phenyl}-5-{4-[(S)-2-fluoro-2-methyldecanoyloxy]phenyl}pyrimidine	Yasuko Matsunaga; Kayako Hori; Atsushi Yoshizawa; Tetsuo Kusumoto
1813-1821	Nematic reorientation in electric and magnetic fields	Michael Bender; Peter Holstein; Dieter Geschke
1823-1829	Thermal and optical properties of newly synthesized dicholesteryl esters with a phenylene oxide link in the normal and solidified cholesteric phases	Nobuyuki Tamaoki; Hiro Matsuda; Atsushi Takahashi
1831-1837	Optical switching property from a laser beam propagating in a polymer dispersed liquid crystal film	L. Petti; P. Mormile; Y. Ren; M. Abbate; P. Musto; G. Ragosta; W. J. Blau
1839-1845	Anomalous thermal hysteresis in the SmC* phase of 10FHBBBM7*, revealed by dielectric measurements	S. Sarmento; P. Simeão Carvalho; M. R. Chaves; F. Pinto; H. T. Nguyen
1847-1853	Dynamics of the two-dimensional melting transition of a liquid crystal confined in Anopore membranes	K. L. Sandhya; Geetha G. Nair; S. Krishna Prasad; Anjuli Khandelwal
1855-1862	Study of the surface and interfacial tensions in systems containing a low molar mass liquid crystal	Renato Norio Shimizu; Nicole Raymonde Demarquette
1863-1872	Determination of long range dipolar couplings in ferroelectric liquid crystals	C. Canlet; B. M. Fung
1873-1876	Synthesis and characterization of a trefoil-shaped liquid crystal based on 1,3,5-triazine with carbazole groups	Ruke Bai; Siqi Li; Yingfang Zou; Caiyuan Pan; Ping Xie; Bin Kong; Xiaoshu Zhou; Rongben Zhang
1877-1879	Lyotropic mesomorphism of rare-earth trisalkylsulphates in the water-ethylene glycol system	Yury G. Galyametdinov; Helen B. Jervis; Duncan W. Bruce; Koen Binnemans

Volume 28, Issue 11 (2001)

1587-1595	Synthesis and characterization of new liquid crystalline materials containing a non-activated arylazoindolinobenzospiropyranyl group as a chiral unit. Part II	Sam-Rok Keum; Myung-Jin Lee; Sung-Tae Shin
1597-1601	Appearance of liquid crystals in acupuncture points	Ma Wentao; Tong Hua; Hu Jiming; Cao Lianxin
1603-1609	The N,N'-bis[4-(4-n-alkyloxybenzoyloxy)benzylidene]phenylene-1,3-diamines: mesophase behaviour and physical properties	W. Weissflog; I. Wirth; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; H. Schmalfuss; T. Schoss; A. Würflinger
1611-1621	New liquid crystalline di- and tetra-acrylates for network formation	Gerold Schmitt; Hans-Werner Schmidt; Reiner Giesa
1622-1625	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 4-[(4-n-polyfluoroalkoxy-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorophenyl)ethynyl]phenyl fluoro-substituted benzoates	Geng Tang; Kan Wang; Yonggang Yang; Jianxun Wen
1627-1647	Nitro substitution in achiral calamitic liquid crystals	Vladimir F. Petrov; Yo Shimizu
1649-1653	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of mesogens containing 1,1,2,2-tetrahydroperfluorodecaoxy terminal chains	Kan Wang; Yonggang Yang; Jianxun Wen
1655-1658	Thermomechanical analysis of a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a thermoplastic elastomer	Hideyuki Kihara; Ryoichi Kishi; Toshiaki Miura; Shin Horiuchi; Yuji Okada; Kiyoshi Yase; Hisao Ichijo
1659-1666	Azo compounds and Schiff 's bases derived from 5-(4-pyridyl)-2-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazole: synthesis, mesomorphic properties and structural study by semi-empirical calculations	M. Parra; J. Alderete; C. Zuńñiga; H. Gallardo; P. Hidalgo; J. Vergara; S. Herna ndez
1667-1671	Characterization of mesophases of a spontaneously gel-forming compound	George Wong; Basant Sharma; Thomas Schultz; Satyendra Kumar
1673-1677	Concentration dependence of magnetic field effects on the ethyl-cyanoethyl cellulose/dichoroacetic acid cholesteric phase	Linge Wang; Yong Huang
1679-1690	Phase behaviour of the discotic mesogen 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexahexylthiotriphenylene (HHTT) under hydrostatic pressure	Yoji Maeda; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad; S. Chandrasekhar; Sandeep Kumar
1691-1698	Nematogens containing oxyethylene units at a lateral or terminal position and their mixtures with salts	P. Judeinstein; P. Berdagué; J. -P. Bayle; Neeraj Sinha; K. V. Ramanathan
1699-1704	Dielectric and optical rotatory power investigations of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal 12OF1M7 in a homeotropic cell: implications for models of the structure of ferrielectric phases	N. M. Shtykov; J. K. Vij; R. A. Lewis; M. Hird; J. W. Goodby
1705-1708	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of resorcyl di[4-(4-alkoxy-2,3-difluorophenyl)ethynyl]benzoate: a novel achiral antiferroelectric banana-shaped mesogen	Kan Wang; Antal Jákli; Hengfeng Li; Yonggang Yang; Jianxun Wen
1709-1713	Anchoring of a liquid crystal on a photoaligning layer with varying surface morphology	Igor Gerus; Anatoliy Glushchenko; Soon-Bum Kwon; Victor Reshetnyak; Yuriy Reznikov
1715-1721	Zigzag defect-free alignment of surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells with a polyimide irradiated by polarized UV light	Won-Seok Kang; Hyun-Wuk Kim; Jong-Duk Kim
1723-1725	Temperature effect on the rubbing-induced optical phase retardation of a side group liquid crystalline polymer film	V. N. Raja; Jong-Cheon Lee
1727-1733	Thermal behaviour of lanthanum(III) alkanoates	Liesbet Jongen; Koen Binnemans; Dirk Hinz; Gerd Meyer
1735-1737	Synthesis and liquid crystalline properties of several compounds with semi-fluorocarbon chains	Yong-Gang Yang; Jian-Xun Wen

Volume 28, Issue 10 (2001)

1439-1449	Textures of homologous 4-n-alkyloxybenzoic acids: spontaneous chirality and surface memory	S. I. Torgova; M. P. Petrov; A. Strigazzi
1451-1461	Polymorphic smectic A phases in perfluoroalkylated mesogenic dimers	A. Eremin; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; L. Kovalenko; K. Pelz; W. Weissflog
1463-1467	Synthesis and characterization of novel fluorinated bistolane-type liquid crystals	Kegang Liu; Hengfeng Li; Kan Wang; Jianxun Wen
1469-1474	Orientational ordering in the nematic phase of 4-alkyl-4'-cyanobicyclohexanes	Hong Sun; M. David Roth; B. M. Fung
1475-1481	Studies on thermotropic main chain liquid crystalline segmented polyurethanes I. Synthesis and properties of polyurethanes from high aspect ratio mesogenic diol as chain extender	T. Padmavathy; S. Sudhakar; K. S. V. Srinivasan
1483-1486	Liquid crystal mixtures for potential infrared applications	Hong Sun; Frederick Roussel; Wing Shun Cheung; B. M. Fung; Sandy S. Keast; Mark Lohman; Julie Kim; Mary E. Neubert
1487-1493	Temperature dependence of electro-optical characteristics of polymer dispersed liquid crystal films	J. -W. Han
1495-1503	Synthesis and physical properties of high birefringence phenylacetylene liquid crystals containing a cyclohexyl group	Chizu Sekine; Naoto Konya; Masayoshi Minai; Koichi Fujisawa
1505-1512	High birefringence photopolymerizable phenylacetylene liquid crystals	Chizu Sekine; Kazunori Iwakura; Masayoshi Minai; Koichi Fujisawa
1513-1518	N,N-Disubstituted aminophenylazo-4-benzoates: preparation, mesogenic study, structure determination and molecular modelling	Long-Li Lai; Long-Je Lee; Gene-Hsiang Lee; Yu Wang; Kuang-Lieh Lu; Shwu-Jian Lee
1519-1525	Liquid crystalline compounds having a tribranched structure: substituted malonic esters consisting of two Schiff's base units and a cholesteryloxyalkyl substituent	Kyung-Hoon Lee; Jun-Woo Lee; Jung-Il Jin
1527-1538	Supramolecular side chain liquid crystalline polymers assembled via hydrogen bonding between carboxylic acid-containing polysiloxane and azobenzene derivatives	Suat Hong Goh; Yee Hing Lai; Si Xue Cheng
1539-1545	Phase behaviour of nematic liquid crystal/hyperbranched polymer systems	Dong Kyu Yoon; Young Chan Bae
1547-1551	Theory of the temperature-concentration phase diagrams of lyotropic liquid crystals	P. Tolédano; C. E. I. Carneiro; A. M. Figueiredo Neto
1553-1559	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some fluorinated phenyl 4-[(4-n-alkoxyphenyl)ethynyl]benzoates	Yong-Gang Yang; K. Wang; J. X. Wen
1561-1571	Experimental study of a SmA-SmC_A phase transition	S. Sarmento; M. R. Chaves; P. Simeão Carvalho; H. T. Nguyen
1573-1574	Mesomorphic properties of 4-(polyfluoroalkoxycarbonyl)phenyl 4-(4-n-heptoxy-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorophenyl)benzoates	Kan Wang; Hengfeng Li; Kegang Liu; Jianxun Wen
1575-1577	Positive dipole correlation at the I/B₂ transition in the isotropic phase	H. Kresse; J. Salfetnikova; C. Tschierske; G. Dantlgraber; T. Zhuchkova
1579-1580	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of steroidal liquid crystals containing perfluoroalkoxycarbonylphenyl units	Kan Wang; Yuehai Shen; Yonggang Yang; Jianxun Wen
1581-1583	Unsymmetrical trimesogens exhibiting the undulated twist grain boundary (UTGBC*) mesophase	C. V. Yelamaggad; S. Anitha Nagamani; U. S. Hiremath; D. S. Rao; S. Krishna Shankar Prasad
1585-1586	Mesogens containing p-polyfluoro-m-nitrobenzoate and 2,3-difluorotolane groups	Kan Wang; Hengfeng Li; Kegang Liu; Jianxun Wen

Volume 28, Issue 9 (2001)

1285-1292	New switchable smectic phases in banana-shaped compounds	J. P. Bedel; J. C. Rouillon; J. P. Marcerou; M. Laguerre; H. T. Nguyen; M. F. Achard
1293-1299	Ferroelectric smectic meso-phase formed by banana-shaped achiral liquid crystals	Chong-Kwang Lee; Andrew Primak; Antal Ja kli; E.-Joon Choi; Wang-Cheol Zin; Liang-Chy Chien
1301-1308	A racemic layer structure in a chiral bent-core ferroelectric liquid crystal	M. Nakata; D. R. Link; F. Araoka; J. Thisayukta; Y. Takanishi; K. Ishikawa; J. Watanabe; H. Takezoe
1309-1313	Structural analysis of a mesogenic 4-alkenyl bicyclohexylnitrile	Sakuntala Gupta; R. A. Palmer; M. Schadt; S. P. Sen Gupta
1315-1320	Dynamics of phase transitions in a liquid crystal probed by Raman spectroscopy	A. Bhattacharjee; P. R. Alapati; A. L. Verma
1321-1329	Induced crystal G phase through intermolecular hydrogen bonding VII. Influence of non-covalent interactions on mesomorphism and crystallization kinetics	M. Srinivasulu; P. V. V. Satyanarayana; P. A. Kumar; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
1331-1336	Phase diagram and dielectric relaxation studies of n-octyl-isothiocyanato-biphenyl (8BT) in the crystalline E phase under high pressure	Stanislaw Urban; Albert Würflinger; Antoni Kocot
1337-1341	Dynamic simulation of Pi-cell liquid crystal displays	Hongfei Cheng; Hongjin Gao
1343-1352	Synthesis, characterization and mesomorphic properties of Ag(I) and Pd(II) complexes containing the pyridyl and tetrazoyl rings: crystal structure of [C₃₀H₄₆N₁₀Ag ClO₄]	Hugo Gallardo; Rachel Magnago; Adailton J. Bortoluzzi
1353-1360	Dynamic light scattering from liquid crystal polymer brushes swollen in a nematic solvent	Farida Benmouna; Bin Peng; Jacek Gapinski; Adam Patkowski; Jürgen Rühe; Diethelm Johannsmann
1361-1367	Synthesis and properties of high birefringence liquid crystals: thiophenylacetylene and benzothiazolylacetylene derivatives	Chizu Sekine; Naoto Konya; Masayoshi Minai; Koichi Fujisawa
1369-1373	Computer simulation of diffuse X-ray scattering by an aligned smectic C-like nematic phase	Bin Yang; Ying Qiao
1375-1387	Synthesis and properties of some novel high birefringence phenylacetylene liquid crystal materials with lateral substituents	Chizu Sekine; Kazunori Iwakura; Naoto Konya; Masayoshi Minai; Koichi Fujisawa
1389-1402	Backflow-affected relaxation in nematic liquid crystals	D. Svenšek; S. Žumer
1403-1413	The use of heteronuclear multiple quantum spectra in the automatic analysis of NMR spectra of samples dissolved in liquid crystalline phases	Franca Castiglione; Giorgio Celebre; Giuseppina De Luca; Marcello Longeri
1415-1423	A new series with smectic blue phases and SmC^*-BP_Sm2 direct transition	C. Da Cruz; E. Grelet; J. C. Rouillon; J. P. Marcerou; G. Sigaud; B. Pansu; H. T. Nguyen
1425-1433	Roles of sigmatropic migration of a benzoyl group and intermolecular hydrogen bonding between a tropone carbonyl and an NH group on the mesomorphic properties of 2-(4-alkoxybenzoyloxy)-5-alkylaminotropones and 5-alkoxy-2-(4-alkylaminobenzoyloxy)tropo	Akira Mori; Nobuo Kato; Hitoshi Takeshita; Ryuko Nimura; Masahiro Isobe; Chihiro Jin; Seiji Ujiie
1435-1437	First rational synthesis of dibenzo[fg,op]naphthacene discotics	Sandeep Kumar; Jaishri J. Naidu

Volume 28, Issue 8 (2001)

1127-1161	Supramolecular hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals	Constantinos M. Paleos; Dimitris Tsiourvas
1163-1169	Crystal G phase induced through intermolecular hydrogen bonding IV: a study of crystallization kinetics	Pisupati Swathi; P. A. Kumar; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
1171-1176	Photoinduced anisotropy and photoalignment of nematic liquid crystals by a novel polymer liquid crystal with a coumarin-containing side group	N. Kawatsuki; K. Goto; T. Yamamoto
1177-1183	X-ray structures of dilaterally substituted racemic nematogens containing a chiral centre in one of the lateral chains	H. Allouchi; M. Cotrait; C. Canlet; J. -P. Bayle
1185-1192	Influence of the position and number of fluorine atoms and of the chiral moiety on a newly synthesized series with anticlinic properties	C. Da Cruz; J. C. Rouillon; J. P. Marcerou; N. Isaert; H. T. Nguyen
1193-1198	Model for coherent transmittance calculation for polymer dispersed liquid crystal films	Vladimir P. Dick; Valery A. Loiko
1199-1202	Liquid crystalline properties and photochromism of 4-alkyl-N-(4-alkloxysalicylidene)anilines	S. Sakagami; T. Koga; A. Takase
1203-1209	New series of ferroelectric liquid crystals with two or three chiral centres exhibiting antiferroelectric and hexatic phases	M. Ka�par; V. Hamplová; V. Novotná; M. Glogarová; D. Pociecha; P. Van�k
1211-1214	Photo- and electro-luminescent properties of thermotropic liquid crystalline quaterphenyl analogues comprising a 2,2'-bi-1,3,4-thiadiazole unit	Moriyuki Sato; Ryuji Ishii; Shinji Nakashima; Koichiro Yonetake; Junji Kido
1215-1234	Computer simulations of the interactions between liquid crystal molecules and polymer surfaces III. Use of pseudopotentials to represent the surface	D. R. Binger; S. Hanna
1235-1237	A phenomenological model for dielectric relaxation processes in the B₂ phase	H. Schlacken; P. Schiller; H. Kresse
1239-1243	Experimental studies on the B₇ phase of a banana-shaped achiral mesogen	D. S. Shankar Rao; Geetha G. Nair; S. Krishna Prasad; S. Anita Nagamani; C. V. Yelamaggad
1245-1252	Cell gap optimization and alignment effects in reflective PDLC microdisplays	Filip Bruyneel; Herbert De Smet; Jan Vanfleteren; André van Calster
1253-1258	Alignment behaviour of the discotic nematic phase of 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexa(4-n-octyloxybenzoyloxy)triphenylene on polyimide and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide coated substrates	Hirosato Monobe; Shoji Mima; Takushi Sugino; Yo Shimizu; Masakatsu Ukon
1259-1268	Carbosilane liquid crystalline dendrimers with terminal chiral mesogenic groups: structure and properties	X. -M. Zhu; N. I. Boiko; E. A. Rebrov; A. M. Muzafarov; M. V. Kozlovsky; R. M. Richardson; V. P. Shibaev
1269-1277	New banana-shaped mesogens with bromine-substituted central core	H. Dehne; M. Pötter; S. Sokolowski; W. Weissflog; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; I. Wirth; H. Kresse; H. Schmalfuss; S. Grande
1279-1283	Ferroelectric lyo-mesophase of banana-shaped molecules	A. Jákli; W. Cao; Y. Huang; C. K. Lee; L. -C. Chien

Volume 28, Issue 7 (2001)

969-972	The first 'banana phase' found in an original Vorländer substance	G. Pelzl; I. Wirth; W. Weissflog
973-982	Nematic liquid crystals in frequency and amplitude modulated electric fields	B. I. Lev; V. N. Sergienko; P. M. Tomchuk; E. K. Frolova
983-989	Mesogenic properties and the effect of 1,2,4-trisubstitution on the central benzene nucleus of a three-ring mesogen	R. A. Vora; A. K. Prajapati; J. B. Kevat; K. K. Raina
991-1001	Induction of smectic layering in nematic liquid crystals using immiscible components IV. The effect of bulky lateral carboxyl substituents on the thermotropic behaviour of 2,5-bis[4-(n-perfluoroheptyloctyloxy)benzoyloxy]toluene	Coleen Pugh; Aaron C. Small; Carin A. Helfer; Wayne L. Mattice
1003-1008	Liquid crystalline properties of and intramolecular hydrogen bonding in 4-methyl-2'-hydroxy-4'-alkoxyazobenzenes	J. Pajak; Z. Galewski; M. Rospenk; L. Sobczyk
1009-1015	Cholesterol-based dimeric liquid crystals: synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour	C. V. Yelamaggad; S. Anitha Nagamani; Uma S. Hiremath; Geetha G. Nair
1017-1023	Characterization of the B₄ phase by dielectric and AFM measurements	H. Kresse; J. Salfetnikova; H. Nadasi; W. Weissflog; A. Hauser
1025-1034	Liquid crystalline properties of dissymmetric molecules VI. The effect of alkyl chain length on molecular arrangement in the smectic A phase in three-aromatic-ring systems with two ester groups	Takeyasu Tasaka; Hiroaki Okamoto; Vladimir F. Petrov; Shunsuke Takenaka
1035-1039	Cholesteric polymeric networks with steroids as chiral components	F. Brandenburger; B. Matthes; K. Seifert; P. Strohriegl
1041-1045	Effect of the temperature range of the nematic phase on the induction of a twist grain boundary phase in non-chiral liquid crystals	V. N. Raja; C. V. Yelamaggad; Uma S. Hiremath
1047-1055	synthesis, phase transitions and optical properties of novel tetrathiafulvalene derivatives with extremely high molecular polarizabilities	Alexander J. Seed; Kenneth J. Toyne; John W. Goodby
1057-1062	A note on observability of fluctuation-induced structural interaction in a nematic mesophase	P. Ziherl; I. Mu�evi�
1065-1069	Electro-optical characteristics for the photoaligned vertical alignment cell using photopolymer surfaces containing chalconyl and cholesterly groups	Jeoung-Yeon Hwang; Dae-Shik Seo
1071-1083	Structure and dynamics of ferroelectric liquid crystals under random geometrical restrictions	Stanislaw A. Rózański; Ralf Stannarius; Friedrich Kremer; Siegmar Diele
1085-1092	Thermal properties of a disc-like compound benzene-hexa-n-pentanoate: a precursor of a discotic mesogen	Shuichi Asahina; Michio Sorai
1093-1098	Liquid crystalline behaviour of thienyl-enaminoketone derivatives containing halogen atoms	Damian Pociecha; Adam Królwczyński; Urszula Maciejczuk; Jadwiga Szydlowska
1099-1104	Photochromic chiral liquid crystalline systems containing spiro-oxazine with a chiral substituent II. Photoinduced behaviour	Hideshi Hattori; Toshiyuki Uryu
1105-1113	Absorption and luminescence spectra of electroluminescent liquid crystals with triphenylene, pyrene and perylene units	Susanne Keuker-Baumann; Harald Bock; Fabio Della Sala; Stephan A. Benning; Thomas Haßheider; Thomas Frauenheim; Heinz-S. Kitzerow
1115-1120	Bent-core mesogens with biphenyl moieties: observation of a B₇ to B₄ phase transition	Veena Prasad
1121-1125	A chiral material with a new phase sequence: twist grain boundary smectic C phase-smectic blue phases	Eric Grelet; Brigitte Pansu; Huu Tinh Nguyen

Volume 28, Issue 6 (2001)

811-817	Differing applications of Raman scattering to liquid crystals	P. Etchegoin; J. M. Seddon
819-825	Mesomorphic behaviour of praseodymium(III) alkanoates	Liesbet Jongen; Koen Binnemans; Dirk Hinz; Gerd Meyer
827-831	Viscoelastic director rotation of a low molecular mass liquid crystal	A. Jákli; A. Saupe
833-839	Influence of weak anchoring on flow instabilities in nematic liquid crystals	O. S. Tarasov; A. P. Krekhov; L. Kramer
841-844	On the thickness dependence of ferroelectric polarization in smectic C* liquid crystal cells	D. Shenoy; A. Lavarello; J. Naciri; R. Shashidhar
845-850	Magnetic anisotropy of the smectic A phases of lanthanide complexes derived from Schiff's bases and DOS, NO₃ anions	A. Turanov; I. Ovchinnikov; Yu. Galyametdinov; D. Bruce
851-860	Conformational behaviour of laterally dialkoxy branched mesogens. Part two	H. Allouchi; M. Cotrait; E. Lafontaine; P. Berdague; J. -P. Bayle
861-868	Cone motion viscosity and optical second harmonic generation of ferroelectric liquid crystalline dendrimers	Jonas Örtegren; Philippe Busson; Ulf W. Gedde; Anders Hult; Anders Eriksson; Mikael Lindgren; Gunnar Andersson
869-879	New mesomorphic organocyclosiloxanes I. Thermal behaviour and mesophase structure of organocyclotetrasiloxanes	Elena V. Matukhina; Olga I. Shchegolikhina; Natalia N. Makarova; Yulia A. Pozdniakova; Dimitris E. Katsoulis; Yuli K. Godovsky
881-887	Influence of spacer and terminal group lengths on the smectic ordering of cholesterol-containing dimer liquid crystals	Antonius T. M. Marcelis; Arie Koudijs; Enno A. Klop; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter
889-896	Backflow effects in the Goldstone mode dielectric response of chiral smectic C* liquid crystals	Tomas Carlsson
897-900	3-(2-Cyanoethyl)-6-aryl- or 6-(trans-4-alkylcyclohexyl)cyclohex-2-enones: synthesis, transformations and mesomorphic properties	V. S. Bezborodov; G. M. Sasnouski; V. I. Lapanik
901-912	The synthesis and transition temperatures of 5-(4-alkyl- and 4-alkoxy-phenyl)-2-cyanobenzo[b]furans and a 5-(4'-alkylbiphenyl-4-yl)-2-cyanobenzo[b]furan: a comparison with their biphenyl and terphenyl analogues	Mark R. Friedman; Kenneth J. Toyne; John W. Goodby; Michael Hird
913-917	Fluorinated tolan-type nematic mesogens containing a 1,3-dioxan unit	Hengfeng Li; Jianxun Wen
919-931	Photosensitive cholesteric polymers with azobenzene-containing chiral groups and mixtures of cholesteric copolymer with chiral-photochromic dopants	A. Yu. Bobrovsky; N. I. Boiko; V. P. Shibaev; J. Springer
933-944	Active broadband polymer stabilized liquid crystals	H. Guillard; P. Sixou
945-968	Study of relaxations in cholesteric liquid crystals after reduction of an electric field	James E. Anderson; Philip Watson; Philip J. Bos

Volume 28, Issue 5 (2001)

651-656	Formation of polymer network liquid crystal microcomposites: evolution of mechanical properties during the curing process	J. Nourry; P. Sixou
657-661	CPI induction of liquid crystal behaviour in triphenylenes with a mixture of hydrophobic and hydrophilic side chains	Neville Boden; Richard J. Bushby; Zhibao Lu; Owen R. Lozman
663-671	Incommensurability induced by intermolecular hydrogen bonding	Jung-Woo Lee; Jung-Il Jin; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin
673-690	A dielectric study of three chiral liquid crystals presenting SmC*_FI phases	S. Sarmento; P. Simeão Carvalho; M. R. Chaves; F. Pinto; H. T. Nguyen
691-696	Dielectric studies of the 4-n-alkyl-4'-thiocyanatobiphenyl (nBT) homologous series (n=2-10) in the isotropic and E phases	Stanislaw Urban; Krzysztof Czuprynski; Roman Dąbrowski; Bo Gestblom; Joanna Janik; Horst Kresse; Heiko Schmalfuss
697-701	Optical activity of a side group cholesteric liquid crystalline silicone	Upindranath Singh; Carlos Hunte; Helen Gleeson
703-707	Anisotropic surface morphology of azopolymer films generated by polarized UV light irradiation	O. Yaroshchuk; Deña Mae G. Agra; Yu Zakrevskyy; L. -C. Chien; J. Lindau; Satyendra Kumar
709-715	Phase behaviour of hydrogen-bonded liquid crystalline complexes of alkoxycinnamic acids with 4,4'-bipyridine	Yoon-Sok Kang; Heesub Kim; Wang-Cheol Zin
717-720	On the flow-phase diagram for discotic liquid crystals in uniaxial extension and compression	M. Gregory Forest; Qi Wang; Hong Zhou
721-727	Main chain liquid crystalline polymers with laterally linked organometallic mesogens	U. Caruso; A. Roviello; A. Sirigu; C. Troise
729-739	Elastic, dielectric and optical constants of 4'-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl	A. Bogi; S. Faetti
741-748	Light modulation characteristics of a single-polarizer electro-optical cell based on polymer dispersed ferroelectric liquid crystals	V. Ya. Zyryanov; E. P. Pozhidaev; S. L. Smorgon; A. L. Andreev; D. Ganzke; V. F. Shabanov; I. N. Kompanets; W. Haase
749-759	Aromatic liquid crystals with a trifluoromethyl group in the terminal chain for use in nematic LC mixtures	G. W. Skelton; J. C. Jones; S. M. Kelly; V. Minter; R. P. Tuffin
761-767	Liquid crystalline dimeric compounds with an alkylene spacer	Veena Prasad; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad
769-778	Monte Carlo lattice simulations of the elastic behaviour of nematic liquid crystals	P. J. Le Masurier; G. R. Luckhurst; G. Saielli
779-784	Brownian reorientation in smectic phases	H. Schlacken; P. Schiller
785-791	Synthesis and physical properties of laterally fluoro substituted ferroelectric liquid crystals with a fluoro substituted chiral terminal chain	Riswoko Asep; Yoshio Aoki; Takuji Hirose; Hiroyuki Nohira
793-797	Surface tension of some liquid crystals in the cyanobiphenyl series	M. Tintaru; R. Moldovan; T. Beica; S. Frunza
799-801	Characterization of the B₆ phase by dielectric measurements	Horst Kresse; Heiko Schmalfuss; Wolfgang Weissflog
803-807	How to broaden the light reflection band in cholesteric liquid crystals? A new approach based on polymorphism	Alexandrine Lavernhe; Michel Mitov; Corinne Binet; Christian Bourgerette
809	Photochromic chiral liquid crystalline systems containing spiro-oxazine with a chiral substituant I. Synthesis and characterization of compounds	Hideshi Hattori; Toshiyuki Uryu

Volume 28, Issue 4 (2001)

489-494	Electro-disclinic effect in tilted smectic phases of banana-shaped liquid crystal materials	A. Jákli; G. G. Nair; C. K. Lee; L. C. Chien
495-502	Antiferroelectric alignment and mechanical director rotation in a hydrogen-bonded chiral SmC^*_A elastomer	Alexei S. Merekalov; Sergei A. Kuptsov; Georgii A. Shandryuk; Raisa V. Talroze; Vladimir S. Bezborodov; Eugene M. Terentjev
503-509	Shear-induced band texture of side group liquid crystalline polymers	Zhongming Hu; Shouxi Chen; Shufan Zhang; Renyuan Qian
511-523	Side group functionalized liquid crystalline polymers and blends VIII. Nematic and SmA_re phase formation in hydrogen-bonded blends of smectic side group LC polymers and a low molar mass dopant	E. B. Barmatov; A. P. Filippov; V. P. Shibaev
525-533	A phenomenological model for the undulating twist grain boundary-C* phase	P. A. Pramod; Yashodhan Hatwalne; N. V. Madhusudana
535-548	Infrared spectroscopic and mesomorphic studies of 4,4'-bis(?-hydroxyalkoxy)-a-methylstilbenes	Chieh-Hao Wan; Jen-Feng Kuo
549-556	Generalized nematostatics	Alejandro D. Rey
557-560	New 1,3-dioxan-type ionic liquid crystal compounds having a large dielectric constant	Yuichiro Haramoto; Masato Nanasawa; Seiji Ujiie
561-571	Modelling of switching in surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells using a three-variable model in one dimension	S. M. Said; S. J. Elston
573-580	Analytical approach to grey levels in ferroelectric liquid crystal displays	H. Pauwels; S. T. Lagerwall
581-589	Synthesis and mesogenic properties of a novel family of oligothiophene derivatives	Ping Liu; Hideyuki Nakano; Yasuhiko Shirota
591-598	Optical properties of short pitch cholesteric liquid crystals	S. Ponti; M. Becchi; C. Oldano; P. Taverna; L. Trossi
599-606	AFM study of forces in and structures of nematic liquid crystal interfaces on silanated glass	K. Ko�evar; I. Mu�evi�
607-613	Electro-optic response of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal in submicron cells	M. �karabot; R. Blinc; G. Heppke; I. Mu�evi�
615-620	A field-reversal method for measuring the parameters of a ferroelectric liquid crystal	V. Panov; J. K. Vij; N. M. Shtykov
621-627	Mesomorphism of lanthanide-containing Schiff's base complexes with dodecyl sulphate counterions	Rik van Deun; Koen Binnemans
629-635	Short range order in the isotropic phase of antiferroelectric liquid crystals	Gil M. Barretto; Peter J. Collings; Dirk Bennemann; Detlef Lötzsch; Gerd Heppke
637-641	Morphology-dependent switching of polymer-stabilized cholesteric gratings	S. N. Lee; S. Sprunt; L. -C. Chien
643-646	A novel class of banana-shaped azo compounds exhibiting antiferroelectric switching behaviour	Veena Prasad; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad
647-650	Liquid crystalline properties in a series of disc-like compounds with two long alkyloxy chains attached to the core	Veena Prasad

Volume 28, Issue 3 (2001)

327-331	Polarized infrared spectroscopic study on changes in molecular orientation and interaction during phase transitions of a ferroelectric liquid crystal with a naphthalene ring	Yoshihisa Nagasaki; Toshiaki Yoshihara; Yukihiro Ozaki
333-337	Effects of the cinnamoyl group on liquid crystal aligning capabilities on PCEMA surfaces	Jeoung-Yeon Hwang; Dae-Shik Seo; Obum Kwon; Dong Hack Suh
339-345	Regioselective synthesis of 2,4-disubstituted thiophenes	Eun Kyong Kim; Kyung Uk Lee; Bo Young Cho; Yong Bae Kim; Kyung-Tae Kang
347-350	Spectroscopic study of liquid crystalline N-[4-(4-n-alkoxybenzoyloxy)2-hydroxybenzylidene]hydroxyanilines	S. Sakagami; T. Koga; M. Nakamizo; A. Takase
351-355	Cholesterol-based dimesogenic bidentate ligands and their Cu(II) and Pd(II) metallomesogens	C. V. Yelamaggad; U. S. Hiremath; D. S. Shankar Rao
357-363	Crystal structure and packing analysis of the liquid crystal dimer alpha,omega-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4-yloxy)octane	Luciana Malpezzi; Sergio Brückner; Dino R. Ferro; Geoffrey R. Luckhurst
365-374	Synthesis and characterization of halogen-containing ferroelectric liquid crystals and side chain liquid crystalline polymers	Ging-Ho Hsiue; Yi-An Sha; Shih-Jung Hsieh; Ru-Jong Jeng; Wen-Jang Kuo
375-379	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of fluoro-containing azobenzene liquid crystals	Yonggang Yang; Hengfeng Li; Kan Wang; Jianxun Wen
381-386	Study of the mesogenic behaviour of hydrogen-bonded complexes prepared from aminophenylazopyridines and benzoic acid derivatives	Long-Li Lai; Long-Je Lee; Eshin Wang; Feng-Ya Su
387-410	Halogenation in achiral liquid crystals: terminal and linking substitutions	Vladimir F. Petrov; Meili Duan; Hiroaki Okamoto; Jin Mu; Yo Shimizu; Shunsuke Takenaka
411-415	Ionic hexagonal columnar metallomesogens derived from tetrabenzo[b,f,j,n] [1,5,9,13]tetraazacyclohexadecine	Huang-Chun Wu; Jang-Hung Sung; Cheng-Da Yang; Chung K. Lai
417-435	Terminal trifluoromethyl-alkoxy and-alkenyloxy nematic liquid crystals for LCDs with active matrix addressing	G. W. Skelton; P. Brett; J. C. Jones; S. M. Kelly; V. Minter; R. P. Tuffin
437-444	Molecular organization in two-dimensional films of liquid I. Langmuir films of binary mixtures of liquid crystals with a crystalline mixtures terminal cyano group	Tomasz Martynski; Robert Hertmanowski; Danuta Bauman
445-450	Molecular organization in two-dimensional films of liquid II. Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett films of a perylene-like dye mixed with liquid crystals having a terminal cyano group crystalline mixtures	Tomasz Martynski; Robert Hertmanowski; Danuta Bauman
451-455	Direct observation of director fields of disclinations in the nematic mesophase of a main chain thermotropic aromatic polyester by surface microcrack decoration	Zhongming Hu; Shouxi Chen; Renyuan Qian
457-462	Solubility of thioindigo dopants in a smectic liquid crystal host evaluated by ²H NMR spectroscopy	Kenneth E. Maly; Gang Wu; Robert P. Lemieux
463-472	Methylene-linked liquid crystal dimers	Peter A. Henderson; Olaf Niemeyer; Corrie T. Imrie
473-475	Thermal stability of alignment of a nematic liquid crystal induced by polyimides exposed to linearly polarized light	Yinghan Wang; Chunying Xu; Akihiko Kanazawa; Takeshi Shiono; Tomiki Ikeda; Yasuo Matsuki; Yasumasa Takeuchi
477-481	Synthesis and characterization of a metal chelate-bridged quasi-ladder main chain discotic liquid crystal polymer	Ping Xie; Zhongrong Shen; Yubiao Liu; Bin Kong; Chunqing Liu; Rongben Zhang; Zhen Fan; Ruke Bai; Tai-Shung Chung; Chaobin He
483-487	Effect of lateral substituents on the mesophases formed by some achiral banana-shaped molecules	B. K. Sadashiva; H. N. Shreenivasa Murthy; Surajit Dhara

Volume 28, Issue 2 (2001)

165-170	Chiral dopant induced twist grain boundary phases	I. Dierking
171-178	Monocyclic rod-type liquid crystals; 2,5-dialkanoyloxytropones and 5-alkanoyloxy-2-alkoxytropones	Akira Mori; Hitoshi Takeshita; Ryoji Mori; Shinji Takematsu; Manabu Takemoto; Seiji Ujiie
179-189	Ising wall instability in a nematic liquid crystal	C. Chevallard; M. Nobili; J. -M. Gilli
191-195	Columnar metallomesogens based on vanadyl(VI) and cobalt(II) complexes of N,N'-bis[3-(3,4-dialkoxyphenyl)3-oxopropenyl]ethylenediamines	Cheng-Da Yang; Yung-Shyen Pang; Chung K. Lai
197-205	Ordering of some liquid crystals containing the 2-phenylindazole core	P. Berdague; P. Judeinstein; J. P. Bayle; C. S. Nagaraja; Neeraj Sinha; K. V. Ramanathan
207-215	Computer simulation of elongated bipolar nematic droplets II. External field aligned normal to the droplet axis of symmetry	Philip K. Chan
217-240	Nitrogen-containing fused heterocycles as the structural fragments in calamitic liquid crystals	Vladimir F. Petrov
241-252	Surface tensions of smectic liquid crystals	H. Schüring; C. Thieme; R. Stannarius
253-258	Influence of the thickness and polarization charges on the electro-optical behaviour of twisted smectic C* cells	M. Ismaili; G. Joly; N. Isaert; A. Anakkar
259-264	Synthesis and studies of some cholest-5-en-3-ol-(3β)[4-phenylpyridylazo]carbonate-containing supramolecular hydrogen-bonded mesogens	V. Ajay Mallia; Suresh Das
265-269	Nematogens incorporating a lateral flexible ring	K. Leblanc; P. Berdague; P. Judeinstein; J. P. Bayle; M. H. Guermouche
271-277	Application of photosensitive polyimides as alignment layer to optical switching devices of a nematic liquid crystal	Gi Heon Kim; Shintaro Enomoto; Akihiko Kanazawa; Takeshi Shiono; Tomiki Ikeda; Lee-Soon Park
279-285	Rare-earth complexes of mesomorphic Schiff's base ligands	Koen Binnemans; Katleen Lodewyckx; Rik Van Deun; Yury G. Galyametdinov; Dirk Hinz; Gerd Meyer
287-290	Surface anchoring, polarization fields and memory states in polymer dispersed liquid crystals	Daniela Cupelli; Marialuigia MacChione; Fiore P. Nicoletta; Giovanni De Filpo; Giuseppe Chidichimo
291-297	Pressure effect on the nematic-isotropic transition in dilaterally substituted nematogens	A. Daoudi; S. Longuemart; F. Roussel; C. Kolinsky; J. P. Bayle
299-306	Travelling fingers in two-frequency cholesteric liquid crystals: fragments, loops and spirals	S. Pirkl; P. Oswald
307-312	Electro-optic behaviour of a non-polar nematic liquid crystal and its mixtures	N. Scaramuzza; G. Strangi; C. Versace
313-316	Pretilt angle generation by UV exposure during imidization of polyimide	Dae-Shik Seo; Hyung-Kyu Kim; Hee-Jong Jeon
317-320	Photo-alignment of liquid crystals using a crosslinked discotic film	Long-Hai Wu; Wen-Chin Lee; Chain-Shu Hsu; Shin-Tson Wu
321-325	A novel dimeric discotic liquid crystal based on anthraquinone	K. Krishnan; V. S. K. Balagurusamy

Volume 28, Issue 1 (2001)

1-15	Computer simulation of the homeotropic to planar transition in cholesteric liquid crystals	P. Watson; J. E. Anderson; V. Sergan; P. J. Bos
17-24	Synthesis and characterization of naphthalene-substituted triphenylene discotic liquid crystals	Long-Hai Wu; N. Janarthanan; Chain-Shu Hsu
25-34	Photochromic chiral liquid crystalline systems containing spiro-oxazine with a chiral substituent I. Synthesis and characterization of compounds	Hideshi Hattori; Toshiyuki Uryu
35-43	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of a novel ladder-like 1,4-phenylene-bridged liquid crystalline polysiloxane containing ester-based mesogenic side groups	Chun-Qing Liu; Yang Liu; Bin Kong; Ping Xie; Rong-Ben Zhang; Chao-Bin He; Neal Tai-Shung Chung
45-49	Crystal structure of a cholesterol-based dimesogen	M. A. Sridhar; N. K. Lokanath; J. Shashidhara Prasad; C. V. Yelammagad; S. K. Varshney
51-57	Determination of the torsional anchoring of a twisted nematic liquid crystal using the half-leaky guided mode technique	F. Z. Yang; H. F. Cheng; H. J. Gao; J. R. Sambles
59-67	Comparison of liquid crystalline properties of dimeric compounds of different skeletal shapes	Woo-Sung Bae; Jun-Woo Lee; Jung-Il Jin
69-75	Stable frustrated phases in chiral liquid crystals derived from optically active (R)- and (S)-3-ethylmercapto-2-methylpropionic acids	S. L. Wu; J. H. You; B. J. Uang
77-88	Packing modes in crystals of mesogenic biphenyl esters with normal alkyl and/or alkoxy chains	Noriko Seo; Kayako Hori
89-95	Charge transfer interaction between the nematogen 5CB and non-liquid crystal	T. Ito; A. Kato; S. Kobinata
97-101	Steric effect on the formation of columnar phases in β-diketonate copper(II) complexes	Chung K. Lai; Horng-Bin Pan; Lie-Fan Yang; Kwang-Ting Liu
103-107	Analysis of operation mode of reflective twisted nematic liquid crystal display devices with rear film compensation	Hongfei Cheng; Fuzi Yang; Hongjin Gao
109-115	Comparisons of the vector method and tensor method for simulating liquid crystal devices	J. E. Anderson; P. Watson; P. J. Bos
117-123	Giant surface electroclinic effect in a chiral smectic A liquid crystal	Ren-Fan Shao; Joseph E. MacLennan; Noel A. Clark; Daniel J. Dyer; David M. Walba
125-137	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of a new chiral series with anticlinic and TGB phases	C. Da Cruz; J. C. Rouillon; J. P. Marcerou; N. Isaert; H. T. Nguyen
139-144	Syntheses of new 'large core' discogens based on the triphenylene, azatriphenylene and hexabenztrinaphthylene nuclei	Neville Boden; Richard J. Bushby; Gareth Headdock; Owen R. Lozman; Andrew Wood
145-150	Liquid crystalline compounds with V-shaped molecular structures: synthesis and characterization of new azo compounds	Veena Prasad
151-155	Achiral diacrylate with an anticlinic smectic phase	M. Rosario De La Fuente; Enrique Martín; Miguel Ángel Pérez Jubindo; Carmen Artal; Blanca Ros; José Luis Serrano
157-159	H-Bonded complexes of N, N-disubstituted aminophenylazo-(4)-pyridine and benzoic acid derivatives: preparation, mesogenic study and molecular modelling	Long-Li Lai; Eshin Wang; Long-Je Lee; Jo-Jin Chen; Dee-Way Yang
161-163	A new form of discotic metallomesogens: the synthesis of metal-bridged triphenylene discotic dimers	Sandeep Kumar; Sanjay K. Varshney

Volume 27, Issue 12 (2000)

1561-1571	Cholesteric liquid crystals as weathering indicators for marble surfaces	M. Koui; A. Moropoulou; K. Bisbikou
1573-1583	Simulation studies of dipole correlation in the isotropic liquid phase	Melanie J. Cook; Mark R. Wilson
1585-1593	Side group functionalized liquid crystalline polymers and blends VII. Phase behaviour and elastic constants K₁ and K₃ for hydrogen bonded blends of a functionalized LC copolymer with a low molecular mass non-mesogenic dopant	A. P. Filippov; V. V. Andropov; E. B. Barmatov; F. Kremer; M. V. Barmatova; V. P. Shibaev
1595-1611	Polymerizable liquid crystalline twin molecules: synthesis and thermotropic properties	Kathrin Kürschner; Peter Strohriegl
1613-1623	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of banana-shaped compounds derived from 2,7-dihydroxynaphthalene	R. Amaranatha Reddy; B. K. Sadashiva
1625-1631	Structural study of smectic A phases in homologous series of N-alkylpyridinium alkylsulphates	C. Cruz; B. Heinrich; A. C. Ribeiro; D. W. Bruce; D. Guillon
1633-1640	Alignment control of liquid crystals on surface relief gratings	Mu-Hyun Kim; Jong-Duk Kim; Takashi Fukuda; Hiro Matsuda
1641-1645	Side chain liquid crystalline elastomers II. Thermal properties and orientational behaviour of the LCE based on unsaturated copolyesters	Min Li; Hongjin Qiu; Xinfang Chen
1647-1651	The synthesis and liquid crystalline behaviour of 2-(4-n-alkoxyphenyl)-5-methylpyridines	Keiichi Moriya; Fumihiko Harada; Shinichi Yano; Shinzo Kagabu
1653-1662	Thermotropic liquid crystals from a monosubstituted 2,2'-bipyridine	A. El-Ghayoury; L. Douce; R. Ziessel; A. Skoulios
1663-1667	Dielectric characterization of B₃ and B₄ phases	J. Salfetnikova; H. Schmalfuss; H. Nadasi; W. Weissflog; H. Kresse
1669-1673	Micellar shape dependence of cholesteric pitch in lyotropic liquid crystals	L. Longa; M. Bachteler; A. M. Figueiredo Neto; G. Cholewiak; F. A. Oliveira
1675-1681	Dielectric relaxation studies of 6OCB/8OCB mixtures with the nematic-smectic A-nematic re-entrant phase sequence	Stanislaw Urban; Roman Dabrowski; Bo Gestblom; Antoni Kocot
1683-1689	Improvement of LPS-based command surfaces: effect of inserting a flexible disiloxane segment into the azo side chain on photo-driven response	Bin Kong; Li Cui; Ping Xie; Rongben Zhang; Chaobin He; Neal Tai-Shung Chung
1691-1694	Scanning of the surface polar angle values in liquid crystal cells using the surface memory effect	L. Tsonev; M. Petrov
1695-1699	Temperature dependent light transmission-light scattering switching of (homeotropic liquid crystalline polymer network/liquid crystals/chiral dopant) composite film	Huai Yang; Hirotsugu Kikuchi; Tisato Kajiyama

Volume 27, Issue 11 (2000)

1399-1403	Mesomorphic behaviour of N,N-dialkanoyl-3,4,5,6-tetramethylbenzene-1,2-diamines and related compounds	T. Akutagawa; K. Iuchi; Y. Matsunaga
1405-1409	Helical filamentary growth in liquid crystals consisting of banana-shaped molecules	A. Ja kli; Ch. Lischka; W. Weissflog; G. Pelzl; A. Saupe
1411-1421	Novel mesophases in fluorine substituted banana-shaped mesogens	J. P. Bedel; J. C. Rouillon; J. P. Marcerou; M. Laguerre; H. T. Nguyen; M. F. Achard
1423-1430	Alignment of polymer network-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal using a magnetic field	Wenjun Zheng; G. H. Milburn
1431-1436	Properties of the discotic-nematic to isotropic transition: influence of short range orientational order	Kalyan Singh; Shri Singh; T. K. Lahiri
1437-1443	Smectic A and smectic C materials: partially deuteriated chiral liquid crystals (S)-(^-)-2-methylbuty 4-(4-(d₁₃)-hexyloxyphenyl)benzoate and (S)-(^-)-2-methylbutyl 4-(4-(d₁₇)-octyloxyphenyl)benzoate	Guan-Yeow Yeap; Michi Nakata; Yoichi Takanishi; Ken Ishikawa; Hideo Takezoe
1445-1449	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 4-[(4n-alkoxy-2,3-difluorophenyl)ethynyl]phenyl fluoro-substituted benzoates	Hengfeng Li; Yonggang Yang; Jianxun Wen
1451-1456	Synthesis and characterization of thermotropic amphiphilic liquid crystals: semiperfluoroalkyl-β-D-glucopyranosides	Huy Loc Nguyen; James Dedier; Huu Tinh Nguyen; Gilles Sigaud
1457-1462	New mesogens with cubic phases: hydrogen-bonded bipyridines and siloxane-containing benzoic acids I. Preparation and phase behaviour	Etsushi Nishikawa; Edward T. Samulski
1463-1471	New mesogens with cubic phases: hydrogen-bonded bipyridines and siloxane-containing benzoic acids II. Structural studies	Etsushi Nishikawa; Edward T. Samulski
1473-1479	Diazo liquid crystals for potential infrared applications	Hong Sun; Wing Shun Cheung; B. M. Fung
1481-1484	Negative uniaxial films from lyotropic liquid crystalline material for liquid crystal display applications	T. Sergan; J. Kelly
1485-1495	Rayleigh scattering of a new lyotropic nematic liquid crystal system: crossover of propagative and diffusive behaviour	M. B. Lacerda Santos; E. A. Oliveira; A. M. Figueiredo Neto
1497-1502	An azobenzene-containing side-on liquid crystal polymer	Min-Hui Li; Philippe Auroy; Patrick Keller
1503-1513	Synthesis and characterization of thiophene-containing liquid crystals	Long-Hai Wu; Yen-Chih Wang; Chain-Shu Hsu
1515-1523	Dimer liquid crystals with bent mesogenic units	Antonius T. M. Marcelis; Arie Koudijs; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter
1525-1532	Synthesis, characterization and thermal properties of 4,4'-bis(4-n-alkoxybenzoyloxy)benzylideneanilines and bis(4-benzylidene-4'-n-alkoxyaniline) terephthalates	S. Sudhakar; T. Narasimhaswamy; K. S. V. Srinivasan
1533-1537	Evidence of re-entrant ferroelectric ordering in an achiral AFLC: a detailed study by spontaneous polarization	P. A. Kumar; M. L. N. Madhu Mohan; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
1539-1542	Relationship between surface anchoring strength and surface ordering on weakly rubbed polyimide surfaces	Dae-Shik Seo
1543-1550	Self-assembly of a coil-rod-coil block molecule complexed with LiCF₃SO₃	Yoon-Sok Kang; Wang-Cheol Zin; Dong-Woo Lee; Myongsoo Lee
1551-1554	Liquid crystalline properties and photochromism of N-[4-(4-n-alkoxybenzoyloxy)-2-hydroxybenzylidene]-methoxy and -ethoxy anilines	S. Sakagami; T. Koga; A. Takase
1555-1559	Towards the molecular-statistical modelling of the optically isotropic mesophase in neat systems: from the thermodynamic point of view	Kazuya Saito; Takashi Shinhara; Michio Sorai

Volume 27, Issue 10 (2000)

1259-1260	Obituary: Professor Frank M. Leslie FRS (1935-2000)	Tim Sluckin
1261-1265	Combination of molecular rods and half-discs: transition from lamellar to columnar order in multichain mononuclear ortho-palladated metallomesogens	Torsten Hegmann; Filippos Peidis; Siegmar Diele; Carsten Tschierske
1267-1275	Imaging of micropatterned self-assembled monolayers with adsorbed liquid crystals	Y. L. Cheng; D. N. Batchelder; S. D. Evans; J. R. Henderson; J. E. Lydon; S. D. Ogier
1277-1283	Coordinatively saturated cyclometallated Pt(IV) azobenzene complexes: synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour	Mauro Ghedini; Daniela Pucci; Giovanna Barberio
1285-1293	Anchoring of a nematic liquid crystal on an anisotropic substrate	A. Poniewierski; A. Samborski
1295-1300	Dielectric investigations of the N-SmB transition in a porous glass	J. Werner; K. Otto; D. Enke; G. Pelzl; F. Janowski; H. Kresse
1301-1304	Defect-induced melting in nematic liquid crystals	N. J. Mottram; T. J. Sluckin
1305-1316	Liquid crystal electrohydrodynamics in the presence of a magnetic field: the dynamic scattering transition	H. M. Shehadeh; J. P. McClymer; E. F. Carr
1317-1323	Correlation of structure and phase behaviour for a series of modular, chiral liquid crystal diacrylates based on lactic acid	Brian C. Baxter; Benjamin J. Gross; Douglas L. Gin; Raisa V. Talroze
1325-1328	Investigation of electro-optical characteristics of photo-aligned TN-LCDs on PCEMA surfaces	Jeoung-Yeon Hwang; Dae-Shik Seo; Obom Kwon; Dong Hack Suh; Eun-Joo Hahn
1329-1335	On the response speed of pi-cells	H. G. Walton; M. J. Towler
1337-1341	Morphology and electro-optical properties of reverse mode polymer dispersed liquid crystals	Marialuigia MacChione; Daniela Cupelli; Giovanni De Filpo; Fiore P. Nicoletta; Giuseppe Chidichimo
1343-1356	Synthesis, photo-reaction and photo-induced liquid crystal alignment of soluble polyimide with pendant cinnamate group	Hee-Tak Kim; Jong-Woo Lee; Shi-Joon Sung; Jung-Ki Park
1357-1367	Linear dichroism of perylene derivatives in a nematic liquid crystal	Danuta Bauman; Hartmut Schulze; Hans-Georg Kuball
1369-1380	Shape of the nematic-isotropic interface in conditions of partial wetting	A. Poniewierski
1381-1387	Cholesteric mixture containing a chiral azobenzene-based dopant: material with reversible photoswitching of the pitch of the helix	A. Yu. Bobrovsky; N. I. Boiko; V. P. Shibaev; E. Prudnikova; S. I. Torgova
1389-1392	A comparison of ferroelectric liquid crystals containing diastereomeric propionic acids derived from natural ethyl lactate	Wen-Liang Tsai; Tzu-Chi Lu; Hong-Wei Liu; Meng-Yen Tsai; Chao-Ming Fu
1393-1397	Side chain type ionic liquid crystalline polymers having high Preliminary communication molecular weight	Yuichiro Haramoto; Yoshiharu Kusakabe; Masato Nanasawa; Seiji Ujiie; Stephan Mang; Cladius Schwarzwalder; Andrew B. Holmes

Volume 27, Issue 9 (2000)

1129-1135	Effect of chemical structure on the liquid crystallinity of banana-shaped molecules	Jirakorn Thisayukta; Yusuke Nakayama; Junji Watanabe
1137-1146	Electrostatic properties of cyano-containing mesogens	Frank Eikelschulte; Sergei Ye Yakovenko; Dietmar Paschek; Alfons Geiger
1147-1150	Wide viewing angle and fast response time using a novel vertical-alignment-pi cell mode on a homeotropic alignment layer	Dae-Shik Seo; Jeong-Ho Lee; Hyang-Yul Kim
1151-1160	Molecular shape and flexoelectricity	Jeffrey L. Billeter; Robert A. Pelcovits
1161-1169	Molecular dynamics and conformational behaviour of mesogenic resorcinarenes	Enrico Dalcanale; Giancarlo Antonioli; Mauro Ricco; Herbert Groothues; Friedrich Kremer
1171-1182	Monohalocyclohexanes in liquid crystalline solution: the molecular behaviour of chloro- and iodo-cyclohexane	Sabine Ternieden; Diana Zauser; Klaus Müller
1183-1187	Orientation and anchoring effects in stretched polymer dispersed nematic liquid crystals	Yue Zhao; Shuying Bai; Thanh-Nha Banh; Julien Brazeau
1189-1193	Response time mechanism for a photo-aligned vertical-alignment liquid crystal display on a homeotropic alignment layer	Dae-Shik Seo; Doo-Seok Park; Hee-Jong Jeon
1195-1205	Liquid crystalline properties of dissymmetric molecules IV. The substituent effect on thermal properties of nematic and smectic A phases in three aromatic ring systems with ester linkages	Meili Duan; Takeyasu Tasaka; Hiroaki Okamoto; Vladimir F. Petrov; Shunsuke Takenaka
1207-1211	Groove depth dependence of the anchoring strength of a zero order grating-aligned liquid crystal	B. T. Hallam; J. R. Sambles
1213-1217	Thermotropic liquid crystal behaviour of alkaline-earth-metal dihexadecyl phosphate salts	Dimitris Tsiourvas; Dimitra Kardassi; Constantinos M. Paleos; Antoine Skoulios
1219-1227	Cotton-Mouton constants and pretransitional phenomena in the isotropic phase of liquid crystals	N. Blachnik; H. Kneppe; F. Schneider
1229-1233	The synthesis and structure of 1,3,4-trisubstituted 2,5-dioxopyrrolidines and their behaviour in liquid crystalline systems	A. I. Galatina; L. G. Derkach; H. D. Kilimenchuk; R. V. Kondratyeva; N. S. Novikova; Ju. K. Jarovoy
1235-1238	Dielectric behaviour of the B₁ phase	H. Schmalfuss; D. Shen; C. Tschierske; H. Kresse
1239-1248	Novel glass-forming liquid crystals V. Nematic and chiral-nematic systems with an elevated glass transition temperature	Fred Y. Fan; John C. Mastrangelo; Dimitris Katsis; Shaw H. Chen
1249-1258	A molecular theory including hard rod interactions of liquid crystalline phases exhibited by highly polar compounds	A. S. Govind; N. V. Madhusudana

Volume 27, Issue 8 (2000)

995-1000	New Schiff's bases containing 1,3,4-thiadiazole and 1,3,4-oxadiazole units: a study of the effect of the heterocyclic ring and the position of the lateral alkoxy group on liquid crystalline properties	M. Parra; S. Hernandez; J. Alderete; C. Zuniga
1001-1009	Crystal shapes of cubic mesophases in pure and mixed carboxylic acids observed by optical microscopy	M. Imperor-Clerc; P. Sotta; M. Veber
1011-1016	Photoinduced anchoring transitions in a nematic doped with azo dyes	L. Komitov; C. Ruslim; Y. Matsuzawa; K. Ichimura
1017-1020	Effect of a lateral methyl group on azo-mesogens containing the naphthalene moiety	A. K. Prajapati
1021-1027	Synthesis, characterization and coating applications of liquid crystalline acrylic copolymers	V. D. Athawale; R. S. Bailkeri
1029-1033	Thermal behaviour of switchable nematic emulsions	Jessica Lanzo; Fiore P. Nicoletta; Giovanni De Filpo; Giuseppe Chidichimo
1035-1038	Polymorphic crystalline forms of 8OCB	A. Jakli; I. Janossy; A. Vajda
1039-1043	Rotational dynamics of a chiral mesogen by ²H NMR study: can it be anomalous?	Ronald Y. Dong; M. Cheng; K. Fodor-Csorba; C. A. Veracini
1045-1048	Electro-optical characteristics of photo-aligned TN-LCD on PM4Ch surface	Jeoung-Yeon Hwang; Dae-Shik Seo; O Bom Kwon; Dong Hack Suh
1049-1057	Optical storage in a smectic mesophase: thermal amplification of light-induced chromophore orientations and surface relief gratings	A. Stracke; J. H. Wendorff; D. Goldmann; D. Janietz
1059-1067	Smectic C* layer directional instabilities in cells with twist geometry	I. Dierking; G. Scalia
1069-1073	A tin-containing liquid crystalline polymer with two glass temperatures	Uwe Emmerling; Jurgen Lindau; Siegmar Diele; Johannes Werner; Horst Kresse
1075-1085	A novel series of anthraquinone-based discotic liquid crystals with bulky substituents: synthesis and characterization	Veena Prasad; K. Krishnan; V. S. K. Balagurusamy
1087-1096	Conformational behaviour of laterally dialkoxy branched mesogens. Part one	H. Allouchi; A. Belaaraj; M. Cotrait; E. Lafontaine; P. Judeinstein; J. -P. Bayle
1097-1101	A comparative study of photo-optical behaviour of photosensitive chiral copolymers with cholesteric mesophases induced in nematogenic and smectogenic matrices	A. Yu. Bobrovsky; N. I. Boiko; V. P. Shibaev
1103-1112	Fused-ring and linking group effects of proton donors and acceptors on simple H-bonded liquid crystals	Hong-Cheu Lin; Ji-Mei Shiaw; Chin-Yi Wu; Chiitang Tsai
1113-1118	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of Cu-coordinating liquid crystalline polysilsesquioxanes with heptyl side groups	Youzhi Wan; Hui Qi; Lijuan Zhang; Ruofeng Wang; Ping Xie; Rongben Zhang
1119-1122	Dielectric anisotropy in the nematic phase of 8PCH as a function of temperature and pressure	Stanislaw Urban; Albert Wurflinger
1123-1128	Thermotropic semi-rigid copoly(imide-carbonate)s composed of 3,4,3",4"-p-terphenyltetracarboxdi-imide and 3,4,3',4'-biphenyltetracarboxdi-imide rings	Moriyuki Sato; Atsumi Kogawa

Volume 27, Issue 7 (2000)

865	Editorial	George Gray
867-873	Synthesis and properties of three novel series of monomers containing para-methoxyazobenzene as the mesogenic group	Guojie Wang; Min Li; Mingming Yu; Chaowei Guo; Xinfang Chen; Gao Li; Enle Zhou
875-882	Surface anchoring energy and the first order Fréedericksz transition of a NLC cell	Yang Guochen; Shi Jianru; Liang Ying
883-887	Liquid crystal alignment capabilities on rubbed organic solvent soluble polyimide surfaces with trifluoromethyl moieties	Dae-Shik Seo
889-895	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their mixtures IX. Multi-mixtures of a monotrope and enantiotropes	Magdi M. Naoum; Refaat I. Nessim; Tayseer Y. Labeeb
897-900	Rotational dynamics of a discotic liquid crystal studied by deuteron spin relaxation	Ronald Y. Dong; C. R. Morcombe
901-906	Fluorescent columnar liquid crystalline 3,4,9,10-tetra-(n-alkoxycarbonyl)-perylenes	S. Benning; H. -S. Kitzerow; H. Bock; M. -F. Achard
907-916	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of novel fishbone-like liquid crystalline polysilsesquioxanes VI. Fishbone-like, ester-based liquid crystalline polysilsesquioxanes	Chun-Qing Liu; Li Cui; Yang Liu; Zhong-Rong Shen; Ping Xie; Rong-Ben Zhang
917-920	Rough surfaces for orientation control in reverse mode polymer dispersed liquid crystal films	Marialuigia Macchione; Daniela Cupelli; Giovanni De Filpo; Fiore P. Nicoletta; Giuseppe Chidichimo
921-927	Pretransitional phenomena in acrylate-based liquid crystal networks	A. S. Merekalov; J. Berkmans; E. R. Zubarev; N. A. Plate; R. V. Talroze; H. Finkelmann
929-933	Camphor and nopinone derivatives as new photosensitive chiral dopants	Estrella Mena; Peter Van De Witte; Johan Lub
935-941	LC diketones: synthesis, transformations and mesomorphic properties	V. S. Bezborodov; G. M. Sasnouski; V. I. Lapanik
943-955	A ²H NMR study of order and dynamics in the cubic I₁ phase of the dodecyltrimethylammonium chloride/water system	Maria Törnblom; Ruslan Sitnikov; Ulf Henriksson
957-963	Theoretical model for layer reorientation in smectic A* liquid crystals subject to an oblique magnetic field	Tomas Carlsson
965-975	An effective method for evaluating the image-sticking effect of TFT-LCDs by interpretative modelling of optical measurements	Po-Lun Chen; Shu-Hsia Chen; Feng-Cheng Su
977-984	The role of surface tilt in the operation of pi-cell liquid crystal devices	E. J. Acosta; M. J. Towler; H. G. Walton
985-990	Electrostatics and the electro-optic behaviour of chiral smectics C: 'block' polarization screening of applied voltage and 'V-shaped' switching	N. A. Clark; D. Coleman; J. E. Maclennan
991-994	An example of an unsymmetrically substituted, monofunctionalized anthraquinone-based discotic liquid crystal	K. Krishnan; V. S. K. Balagurusamy

Volume 27, Issue 6 (2000)

715-719	Textural transformations of a smectic phase with asymmetric banana-shaped molecules	A. Jakli; Ch. Lischka; W. Weissflog; G. Pelzl
721-725	Thermo-recording in (side chain type smectic A liquid crystal polymer/nematic liquid crystal/chiral dopant/dichroic dye) composite with a low power laser	Huai Yang; Hirokazu Yamane; Hirotsugu Kikuchi; Tisato Kajiyama
727-735	Crystallization kinetics study on N-(p-n-alkyloxybenzylidene)-p-n-alkylanilines (nO.m compounds)	P. A. Kumar; M. L. N. Madhu Mohan; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
737-742	Robust liquid crystal droplets	Daniel Harrison; Michael R. Fisch
743-747	Novel intermediate phases in an ionic fluorocarbon surfactant/water system	S. Puntambekar; M. C. Holmes; M. S. Leaver
749-753	Photoinduced alignment of polymer liquid crystals containing azobenzene moieties in the side group VII. On He-Ne laser beam irradiation	Yiliang Wu; Jun-Ichi Mamiya; Osamu Tsutsumi; Akihiko Kanazawa; Takeshi Shiono; Tomiki Ikeda
755-761	Orientational ordering of a nematic liquid crystal and its mixture with its chain-perfluorinated analogue	Hong Sun; B. M. Fung
763-766	Analysis of the operation mode of reflective liquid crystal display devices with front film compensation	Hongfei Cheng; Fuzi Yang; Hongjin Gao
767-774	Crystal structure of 4-n-nonylbenzoic acid	N. K. Lokanath; M. A. Sridhar; D. Revannasiddaiah; J. Shashidhara Prasad
775-787	The liquid crystal properties of symmetric and non-symmetric dimers based on the azobenzene mesogenic group	A. E. Blatch; G. R. Luckhurst
789-793	Influence of the washing process on the aligning capability of a nematic liquid crystal on polymer surfaces	Dae-Shik Seo
795-800	Swelling behaviour of poly(butadiene) gels in liquid crystal solvents	M. De Sarkar; K. Urayama; T. Kawamura; S. Kohjiya
801-812	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 4-alkylamino-4'-substituted diphenyldiacetylenes	Rajesh A. Shenoy; Mary E. Neubert; David G. Abdallah; Sandra S. Keast; Rolfe G. Petschek
813-824	Thermodynamic and orientational properties of two-dimensional multicomponent hard rectangle fluids	E. P. Sokolova; N. P. Tumanyan
825-830	Electrical driving of the surface memorization in dimerized nematics with short range smectic order	L. Tsonev; M. Petrov; G. Barbero
831-837	The crystalline and liquid crystalline structures of benzyl-tri-octadecylammonium bromide complete the puzzle: how do Group VA halide salts with one-four long n-alkyl chains pack?	David J. Abdallah; Liangde Lu; T. Matthew Cocker; Robert E. Bachman; Richard G. Weiss
839-844	Mesomorphic phase transitions and electro-optical properties of benzyl fluoroalkyl thioether liquid crystalline compounds	Kazuki Abe; Xiaotun Yang; Shinichi Yano; Takashi Kato; Hiroyuki Takeuchi
845-850	Structure and properties of isolated liquid crystal molecules: jet spectroscopy and ab initio calculations of 4-cyanobiphenyl	Patricia R. Richardson; Simon P. Bates; Jason Crain; Anita C. Jones
851-858	Supramolecular liquid crystals formed by hydrogen bonding between a benzocrown-bearing stilbazole and carboxylic acids	Bilgi Gundogan; Koen Binnemans
859-863	The synthesis of low melting liquid crystalline lanthanide complexes with triflate counter-anions	Francoise Martin; Simon R. Collinson; Duncan W. Bruce

Volume 27, Issue 5 (2000)

555-558	Optical switching and alignment of antiferroelectric liquid crystals containing an azo group	Koichiro Shirota; Ichirou Yamaguchi; Kiyoshi Kanie; Tomiki Ikeda; Tamejiro Hiyama; Ichiro Kobayashi; Yoshiichi Suzuki
559-566	Phase transitions in the antiferroelectric liquid crystal C8 tolane determined by dielectric and electro-optical measurements	V. Bourny; J. Pavel; V. Lorman; H. T. Nguyen
567-572	Polarizing-alignment layers for twisted nematic cells	Tatiana Sergan; Tod Schneider; Jack Kelly; O. D. Lavrentovich
573-578	Proton magnetic relaxation study of pretransitional phenomena in the isotropic phase of a nematic liquid crystal I. Dynamics of local order fluctuations	E. R. Gasilova; V. A. Shevelev; S. Ya. Frenkel
579-584	Proton magnetic relaxation study of pretransitional phenomena in the isotropic phase of a nematic liquid crystal II. Presence of inner magnetic field gradients as revealed by self-diffusion study	E. R. Gasilova; V. A. Shevelev
585-590	Ferroelectric switching in a novel bent-shaped mesogen having two non-mesogenic units linked by an alkylene spacer	Veena Prasad; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad
591-603	A mesoscale modelling study of nematic liquid crystals confined to ellipsoidal domains	Rishikesh K. Bharadwaj; Timothy J. Bunning; B. L. Farmer
605-611	Hydrogen-bonded polycatenar mesogens	Benedicte Friot; David Boyd; Kimberley Willis; Bertrand Donnio; Goran Ungar; Duncan W. Bruce
613-619	Dielectric and viscous properties of 6CHBT in the isotropic and nematic phases	J. Jadzyn; L. Hellemans; G. Czechowski; C. Legrand; R. Douali
621-627	²H NMR spectroscopy of liquid crystals: structure and orientational order of a chiral smectogen in its A, C* and J* phases	D. Catalano; M. Cavazza; L. Chiezzi; M. Geppi; C. A. Veracini
629-634	AFM investigations of a sample showing the B₂ phase	A. Hauser; H. Schmalfuss; H. Kresse
635-641	Laterally dibenzyloxy-branched nematogens with large nematic range and rich solid polymorphism	Cecile Canlet; Bing M. Fung; Frederick Roussel; Karine Leblanc; Philippe Berdague; Jean-Pierre Bayle
643-648	Columnar discotics in confined geometries	J. Kopitzke; J. H. Wendorff; B. Glusen
649-655	Electro-optic effect, propagation loss, and switching speed in polymers containing nano-sized droplets of liquid crystal	Shiro Matsumoto; Yasuyuki Sugiyama; Seizou Sakata; Takayoshi Hayashi
657-663	Chiral liquid crystalline m-nitrotolans and tolans: synthesis and mesomorphic properties	Aloir A. Merlo; Jose E. Braun; Ursula Vasconcelos; Fernando Ely; Hugo Gallardo
665-669	Induced crystal G phase through intermolecular hydrogen bonding II. Influence of alkyl chain length of n-alkyl p-hydroxybenzoates on thermal and phase behaviour	Swathi Pisupati; P. A. Kumar; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
671-676	Ionic liquid crystals: synthesis and mesomorphic properties of dimeric 2,4,6-triarylpyrylium tetrafluoroborates	M. Veber; G. Berruyer
677-681	SmA-SmC-B₂ polymorphism in an achiral cyano substituted banana-shaped mesogen	W. Weissflog; L. Kovalenko; I. Wirth; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; H. Schmalfuss; H. Kresse
683-687	Dimorphism SmA-B₂ in bent-core mesogens with perfluorinated terminal chains	L. Kovalenko; W. Weissflog; S. Grande; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; I. Wirth

Volume 27, Issue 5 (2000)

689-692	Intermolecular organization of triphenylene-based discotic mesogens by interdigitation of alkyl chains	M. T. Allen; K. D. M. Harris; B. M. Kariuki; N. Kumari; J. A. Preece; S. Diele; D. Lose; T. Hegmann; C. Tschierske
693-696	Observation of the internal network structure of a polymer-stabilized liquid crystal via transmission electron microscopy	M. Brittin; G. R. Mitchell; A. S. Vaughan
697-701	Amphotropic liquid crystallinity of N,N'-diundecenoylbenzene-1,4-diamine (DUBDA)	Hui Xu; Ning Kang; Ping Xie; Rongben Zhang; Duanfu Xu
703-706	The first hexagonal columnar discotic liquid crystalline carbazole derivative	M. Manickam; Sandeep Kumar; Jon A. Preece; Neil Spencer
707-709	Synthesis and mesogenic properties of azo-dye liquid crystals	Long-Li Lai; Hong-Cheu Lin
711-713	Novel alignment method for control of high pretilt angle by using a solvent dipping effect on polymer surfaces	Jeong-Ho Lee; Dae-Shik Seo

Volume 27, Issue 4 (2000)

443-449	The synthesis of cholest-5-ene-3beta-carboxylates and a comparison of their mesomorphic behaviour with isomeric cholesterol esters with a reversed ester linkage	Simon M. Harwood; Kenneth J. Toyne; John W. Goodby; Michael Parsley; George W. Gray
451-458	Liquid crystalline polymers V. Thermotropic liquid crystalline poly(azomethine-ether)s containing a cycloalkanone moiety in the polymer backbone	Kamal I. Aly; Ragaa A. Ahmed
459-465	Oriented polymer dispersed discotic liquid crystals	Yanick Chenard; Nadine Paiement; Yue Zhao
467-475	The effect of fluorine-substituted acrylate monomers on the electro-optical and morphological properties of polymer dispersed liquid crystals	M. D. Schulte; S. J. Clarson; L. V. Natarajan; D. W. Tomlin; T. J. Bunning
477-482	3D mapping of the output laser beam from a PDLC sample	L. Petti; P. Mormile; P. Musto; G. Ragosta; P. Villano; F. Simoni
483-489	Liquid crystalline comb-like polyimides with biphenyl-based side groups	Didier Brunet; Regis Mercier; Bernard Gallot
491-499	Behaviour of free-standing smectic A films upon heating	L. V. Mirantsev
501-507	Atomic Force Microscopy of freely suspended liquid crystal films transferred to octadecyltriethoxysilane self-assembled monolayers	Baek-Woon Lee; Darren R. Link; Noel A. Clark
509-521	Columnar phases of achiral vanadyl liquid crystalline complexes	D. Kilian; D. Knawby; M. A. Athanassopoulou; S. T. Trzaska; T. M. Swager; S. Wrobel; W. Haase
523-532	Synthesis and mesomorphism of 4,4'-bis(omega-hydroxyalkoxy)-alpha-methylstilbenes	Chieh-Hao Wan; Jen-Feng Kuo; Chuh-Yung Chen
533-546	Computer simulation of chiral liquid crystal phases VIII. Blue phases of the chiral Gay-Berne fluid	R. Memmer
547-550	Preliminary communication:Novel method for uniform orientation of liquid crystal molecules by a polyimide surface exposed to a water flow	Sung-Kyu Hong; Hirotsugu Kikuchi; Tisato Kajiyama
551-553	Preliminary communication: Magnetic-field-induced Freedericksz transition of a planar aligned liquid crystal doped with porphyrinatozinc(II): influence of the substituent of the porphyrin ring	Tao Li; Xiang Ying; Long-Pei Shi; Jin-Wang Huang; Lin Ziyang; Jue Shi; Liang-Nian Ji

Volume 27, Issue 3 (2000)

313-320	Novel sulphur-containing banana-shaped liquid crystal molecules	G. Heppke; D. D. Parghi; H. Sawade
321-328	Structure and photoconductive behaviour of a sanidic liquid crystal	D. Haristoy; S. Mery; B. Heinrich; L. Mager; J. F. Nicoud; D. Guillon
329-340	Photoinduced orientation in poly(vinylcinnamate) and poly(7-methacryloyloxycoumarin) thin films and the consequences on liquid crystal alignment	Sebastien Perny; Pierre Le Barny; Jacques Delaire; Thierry Buffeteau; Claude Sourisseau; Ivan Dozov; Sandrine Forget; Philippe Martinot-Lagarde
341-348	Molecular orientation and liquid crystal alignment properties of new cinnamate-based photocrosslinkable polymers	S. Perny; P. Le Barny; J. Delaire; T. Buffeteau; C. Sourisseau
349-358	Synthesis and liquid crystal alignment properties of new cinnamate-based photocrosslinkable polymers	Sebastien Perny; Pierre Le Barny; Jacques Delaire; Ivan Dozov; Sandrine Forget; Philippe Auroy
359-363	Polarized infrared study of a polymer network deformation in a nematic liquid crystal host	C. D. Hoke; J. -F. Li; Y. -H. Lin; L. -C. Chien; P. J. Bos; S. Hudson; J. L. Koenig
365-370	Electrically controlled director slippage over a photosensitive aligning surface; in-plane sliding mode	Denis Andrienko; Francoes Barbet; Denis Bormann; Yuriy Kurioz; Soon-Bum Kwon; Yuriy Reznikov; Mark Warenghem
371-376	Liquid crystals comprising hydrogen-bonded organic acids I. Mixtures of non-mesogenic acids	Seung Koo Kang; Edward T. Samulski
377-385	Liquid crystals comprising hydrogen-bonded organic acids II. Heterodimers in mixed mesogenic acids	Seung Koo Kang; Edward T. Samulski; Pilsoo Kang; Jaebum Choo
387-391	Alignment and switching of nematic liquid crystals embedded in porous chiral thin films	J. C. Sit; D. J. Broer; M. J. Brett
393-405	The oxadiazole as a structural fragment in liquid crystals	Ludmila A. Karamysheva; Sofia I. Torgova; Irina F. Agafonova; Vladimir F. Petrov
407-411	The H₂-phase of the lyotropic liquid crystal sodium 3,4,5-tris(omega-acryloyloxyundecyloxy)benzoate	R. Resel; U. Theissl; C. Gadermaier; E. Zojer; M. Kriechbaum; H. Amenitsch; D. Gin; R. Smith; G. Leising
413-420	Phase equilibrium of poly(n-butyl acrylate) and E7	T. Bouchaour; F. Benmouna; L. Leclercq; B. Ewen; X. Coqueret; M. Benmouna; U. Maschke
421-428	PDLC films prepared by electron beam and ultraviolet curing: influence of curing conditions on the electro-optical properties	Frederic Gyselinck; Ulrich Maschke; Andre Traisnel; Xavier Coqueret
429-436	Nematic phase formed by banana-shaped molecules	J. Matraszek; J. Mieczkowski; J. Szydlowska; E. Gorecka
437-441	Preliminary communication ¹³C CPMAS NMR of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-n-dodecylphenyl)-porphyrin: dynamics of aliphatic chains in discotic lamellar mesophases	T. Akai; Y. Shimizu

Volume 27, Issue 2 (2000)

157-161	Nematic director configurations in high pretilt, parallel aligned layers	H. G. Walton; M. J. Towler
163-168	Amphipilic and mesogenic carbohydrates XII. New thermotropic mesogens based on perfluoroalkyl-substituted carbohydrates	Martin Hein; Ralf Miethchen; Dirk Schwaebisch; Christoph Schick
169-176	Synthesis and characterization of a hydrogen-bonded nematic network based on 4-propoxybenzoic acid side groups grafted onto a polysiloxane	Hui Xu; Ning Kang; Ping Xie; Rong-Ben Zhang; Duan-Fu Xu
177-181	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their mixtures VIII. Quaternary mixtures of enantiotropes	Magdi M. Naoum; Ashraf A. Mansour; Abeer A. Bayoumy
183-189	Optical studies of dynamic director configurations in ferroelectric liquid crystal devices	Debinder S. Pabla; Steve J. Elston
191-194	Kerr effect investigations in a liquid crystal	Aloka Sinha; T. A. Prasada Rao; V. R. K. Murthy; Roman Dabrowski
195-200	The Neumann and Young equations for nematic contact lines	Alejandro D. Rey
201-209	Photoracemization broadening of selective reflection and polarization band of glassy chiral-nematic films	Shaw H. Chen; Richard J. Jin; Dimitris Katsis; John C. Mastrangelo; Semyon Papernov; Ansgar W. Schmid
211-214	Magnetic field induced Freedericksz transition of a planar aligned liquid crystal doped with metalloporphyrins FeTPPCl, MnTPPCl and ZnTPP	Xiang Ying; Shi Jue; Lin Ziyang; Li Tao; Jin-Wang Huang; Liang-Nian Ji
215-218	A simple molecular model for N-SmA_d-N_dRe-N_1Re-SmA₁ phase sequence in highly polar compounds	A. S. Govind; N. V. Madhusudana
219-223	Photosensitive cholesteric copolymers with spiropyran-containing side groups II. Kinetic features of the photo- and thermo-chromic processes	A. Yu. Bobrovsky; N. I. Boiko; V. P. Shibaev
225-231	A sub-hertz frequency dielectric relaxation process in a ferroelectric liquid crystal material	A. M. Biradar; D. Kilian; S. Wrobel; W. Haase
233-242	Numerical analysis of nematic liquid crystal alignment on asymmetric surface grating structures	Carl V. Brown; Mike J. Towler; V. C. Hui; Guy P. Bryan-Brown
243-247	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their mixtures VII. Ternary mixtures of enantiotropes	Magdi M. Naoum; Ashraf A. Mansour; Abeer A. Bayoumy
249-253	Ultrafast, electric field-induced fingers in an anticlinic liquid crystal	Shiyong Zhang; Xin-Yi Wang; T. Z. Qian; Milind P. Mahajan; S. S. Keast; M. E. Neubert; P. L. Taylor; Charles Rosenblatt
255-262	Copper-containing dendromesogens: the influence of the metal on the mesomorphism	Joaquin Barbera; Mercedes Marcos; Ana Omenat; Jose-Luis Serrano; Jesus I. Martinez; Pablo J. Alonso
263-267	New 1,3-dioxane type ionic liquid crystal materials having a terminal double bond	Yuichiro Haramoto; Yoshiharu Kusakabe; Masato Nanasawa; Seiji Ujiie; Stephan Mang; Stephen C. Moratti; Andrew B. Holmes
269-276	Pre-resonance Raman studies of some mesogens-TB4A, TB7A and TB10A	S. K. Dash; Ranjan K. Singh; P. R. Alapati; A. L. Verma
277-281	Impurities in nematic liquid crystal samples inducing changes in the DSM1-DSM2 transition phase diagram	D. E. Lucchetta; N. Scaramuzza; G. Strangi; C. Versace
283-287	Synthesis of laterally substituted bistolane liquid crystals	C. S. Hsu; K. F. Shyu; Y. Y. Chuang; Shin-Tson Wu
289-297	Measurement of the pyroelectric response and of the thermal diffusivity of microtomized sections of 'single crystalline' ferroelectric liquid crystalline elastomers	Norbert Leister; Walter Lehmann; Uwe Weber; Dieter Geschke; Friedrich Kremer; Peter Stein; Heino Finkelmann
299-311	The effect of molecular structure on the thermal properties of ferroelectric liquid crystalline cyclic siloxane tetramers	T. E. Mann; D. Lacey

Volume 27, Issue 1 (2000)

1-4	Elaboration and electro-optic study of a new type of open porosity PDLC	A. Andreau; R. Farhi; J. -M. Tarascon; P. Gisse
5-10	Synthesis and low dimensional conductive behaviour of columnar bis(beta-diketonato)copper(II) complexes with oligo(ethylene oxide) groups	Yubiao Liu; Chunqing Liu; Li Cui; Zhan Fan; Ping Xie; Rongben Zhang
11-16	A three-dimensional mesophase with rhombohedral structure formed by double-swallow-tailed compounds	J. Kain; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; Ch. Lischka; W. Weissflog
17-25	An investigation of patterning anisotropic gels for switchable recordings	R. A. M. Hikmet; H. L. P. Poels
27-34	Optical textures in TGBA mesophases	A. C. Ribeiro; H. T. Nguyen; Y. Galerne; D. Guillon
35-42	Evolution of the switching current during the preparation of polymer network-ferroelectric liquid crystal microcomposites	J. Nourry; P. Sixou; M. Mitov; M. Glogarova; A. M. Bubnov
43-50	The inverse phase sequence SmA-SmC in symmetric dimeric liquid crystals	W. Weissflog; Ch. Lischka; S. Diele; I. Wirth; G. Pelzl
51-55	Light-induced anchoring transition in a 4,4'-disubstituted azobenzene nematic liquid crystal	L. Komitov; K. Ichimura; A. Strigazzi
57-62	Photosensitive cholesteric copolymers with spiropyran-containing side groups I. Phase behaviour and photo-optical properties	A. Yu. Bobrovsky; N. I. Boiko; V. P. Shibaev
63-68	Mesogenic ketohexose and aldopentose derivatives: anomalous behaviour of the alkyl D-fructopyranosides	Henk A. van Doren; Anna M. van der Heijden; A. T. J. W. De Goede; Fred van Rantwijk; Herman van Bekkum
69-74	Induction of mesophases through the complexation between benzoic acids with lateral groups and polyamides containing a 2,6-diaminopyridine moiety	Osamu Ihata; Hideyuki Yokota; Kiyoshi Kanie; Seiji Ujiie; Takashi Kato
75-80	Permeative flow and the compatability of smectic C zig-zag defects with compressive and dilative regions	M. J. Towler; D. C. Ulrich; I. W. Stewart; H. G. Walton; P. Gass
81-88	Evidence for three typical behaviours of the helicity in the SmC_alpha* phase from recent benzoate ester series	Valerie Laux; Noel Isaert; Valerie Faye; Huu Tinh Nguyen
89-102	Computer simulations of interactions between liquid crystal molecules and polymer surfaces II. Alignment of smectic C-forming mesogens	D. R. Binger; S. Hanna
103-113	Physical characterization of B1 and B2 phases in a newly synthesized series of banana shaped molecules	J. P. Bedel; J. C. Rouillon; J. P. Marcerou; M. Laguerre; M. F. Achard; H. T. Nguyen
115-123	Oligothiophene dyes for guest-host liquid crystal displays	Hiroki Iwanaga; Katsuyuki Naito; Franz Effenberger
125-130	Pretilt angle for BTDA, PMDA and CPDA series polyimides with various side chain lengths	B. S. Ban; Y. N. Rim; Y. B. Kim
131-136	Non-linear boomerang-shaped liquid crystals derived from 2,5-bis(p-hydroxyphenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole	Theo J. Dingemans; Edward T. Samulski
137-143	Confinement effect on phase transitions of a discotic liquid crystal: a calorimetric study	Laurence Corvazier; Yue Zhao
145-152	Dimesogenic compounds with an electron-attracting terminal group	Dong Won Lee; Jung-Il Jin; M. Laguerre; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin
153-156	Mesomorphic imines and their complexes with rhenium(I): a cubic mesophase in a rod-like mesogen with perfluorinated terminal chains	Marie-Andree Guillevic; Duncan W. Bruce

Volume 26, Issue 12 (1999)

1723-1734	Comparative lyotropy study of homologous hexaesters of hexahydroxy-benzene and -cyclohexane (scyllitol) in linear and cyclic hydrocarbons: microsegregation and mesophase formation of discotics [1]	N. Usol'Tseva; K. Praefcke; A. Smirnova; D. Blunk
1735-1741	PDLC-like patterns at the isotropic to cholesteric transition entrapped by in situ photopolymerization	C. Binet; M. Mitov; A. Boudet; M. Mauzac; P. Sopena
1743-1747	2,3-Difluorinated phenyl and cyclohexane units in the design and synthesis of liquid crystals having negative dielectric anisotropy	Ximin Chen; Hengfeng Li; Zhang Chen; Juxing Lou; Jianxun Wen
1749-1765	New chiral photochromic menthone-containing homopolymers and copolymers - synthesis, phase behaviour and photo-optical properties	A. Yu. Bobrovsky; N. I. Boiko; V. P. Shibaev
1767-1770	Dielectric investigations of the B₂ phase	H. Scmalfuss; D. Shen; C. Tschierske; H. Kresse
1771-1776	The effect of molecular broadening on liquid crystal behaviour in oligoaryl mesogens	Andrew N. Cammidge; Matthieu Fugier; Amy S. H. King
1777-1786	Computer simulation of elongated bipolar nematic droplets 1. External field aligned parallel to the droplet axis of symmetry	Philip K. Chan
1787-1796	Mesogenic derivatives of 2S,3S-2-halogeno-3-methylpentanoic acid with helix twist inversion in the smectic C* phase	J. Szydlowska; D. Pociecha; J. Matraszek; J. Mieczkowski
1797-1803	Mesomorphic bipyridine building blocks bearing an sp³ carbon and a hydroxy function	Laurent Douce; Raymond Ziessel; Hsuan-Hong Lai; Hong-Cheu Lin
1805-1811	Phase transition sequence in the chiral compound 10FHBBBM7* studied by Raman scattering	Yu. I. Yuzyuk; S. Sarmento; P. Simeao Carvalho; A. Almeida; Filipa Pinto; M. R. Chaves; H. T. Nguyen
1813-1816	Effect of polymer polarity on transcription-aligned TN-LCDs for various polyimide surfaces	Dae-Shik Seo; Jin-Ho Kim
1817-1823	Phase transition and dielectric studies of a three-ring homologous series with the -NCS terminal group	Stanislaw Urban; Roman Dabrowski; Jerzy Dziaduszek; Joanna Janik; Jozef K. Moscicki
1825-1832	A statistical study for evolving arrays of nematic point defects	P. Biscari; G. Guidone Peroli; E. G. Virga
1833-1834	The first series of ferroelectric steroidal fluorinated liquid crystals	Jianxun Wen; Hao Chen; Yuehai Shen
1835-1836	Steryl polyfluorobenzoate liquid crystals	Yuehai Shen; Jianxun Wen
1837-1840	Twist molecular orientation transition in a nematic liquid crystal cell	L. Vicari
1841-1843	Vanadium oxytrichloride, a novel reagent for the oxidative trimerization of o-dialkoxybenzenes to hexaalkoxytriphenylenes	Sandeep Kumar; Sanjay K. Varshney
1845-1848	Interdependence of liquid crystal phase transitions in mixed systems	P. Pollmann; H. Stegemeyer
1849-1851	Calculation of optical properties of liquid crystal devices using the transmission line matrix (TLM) method	Garry A. Lester
1853-1856	Thresholdless switching induced by polar anchoring in antiferroelectric liquid crystals	N. J. Mottram; S. J. Elston

Volume 26, Issue 11 (1999)

1573-1578	Analysis of operation mode of reflective liquid crystal display devices	Hongfei Cheng; Hongjin Gao; Fushan Zhou
1579-1585	Surface morphology at nanometer level and optical phase retardation of rubbed alignment films	Y. B. Kim; B. S. Ban
1587-1590	Non-linear dielectric response of a ferroelectric liquid crystal	S. K. Prasad; G. G. Nair; D. S. Shankar Rao
1591-1597	On the molecular interpretation of the dielectric relaxation of nematic liquid crystals	Jan Jadzyn; Grzegorz Czechowski; Redouane Douali; Christian Legrand
1599-1602	Material characteristics of an active matrix LCD based upon chiral smectics	Toshiaki Nonaka; Ji Li; Ayako Ogawa; Barbara Hornung; Wolfgang Schmidt; Rainer Wingen; Hans-Rolf Dubal
1603-1607	AFM investigations of a glassy cholesteric liquid crystal with hydrophobic aerosil particles	A. Hauser; H. Kresse; A. Glushchenko; O. Yaroshchuk

Volume 26, Issue 10 (1999)

1425-1428	New ionic liquid crystal compounds having a 1,3-dithiane or 1,3-dioxane ring	Yuichiro Haramoto; Yoshiharu Akiyama; Ryouichi Segawa; Masato Nanasawa; Andrew B. Holmes; Seiji Ujiie
1429-1435	Structure and energy of the wall separating two states in surface-stabilized smectic C chevron cells	N. Vaupotic; M. Copic
1437-1444	Supramolecular organization in the solid state of a novel soluble polydiacetylene	B. Gallot; A. Cravino; I. Moggio; D. Comoretto; C. Cuniberti; C. Dell'Erba; G. Dellepiane
1445-1454	Ferroelectric side group liquid crystalline polysiloxanes containing a chiral sulphinate derivative	S. Mery; L. Catala; P. Sebastiao; B. Heinrich; J. F. Nicoud; D. Guillon
1455-1466	Electrophilic aromatic substitution in triphenylene discotics: Synthesis of alkoxynitrotriphenylenes	S. Kumar; M. Manickam; V. S. K. Balagurusamy; H. Schonherr
1467-1478	Streamline Image Analysis: a new tool for investigating defects in nematic liquid crystals	A. Sparavigna; A. Sanna; B. Montrucchio; A. Strigazzi
1479-1484	Dynamics of a low temperature phase transition in liquid crystal TB10A probed by Raman spectroscopy	P. R. Alapati; A. L. Verma; S. K. Dash; R. K. Singh
1485-1491	Mesomorphic phase transitions and electro-optical properties of benzyl fluoroalkyl ether derivatives	Xiaotun Yang; Kazuki Abe; Ryuji Kato; Shinichi Yano; Takashi Kato; Kazutoshi Miyazawa; Hiroyuki Takeuchi
1493-1499	Grain boundaries and stacking faults in a Pm3n cubic mesophase	S. D. Hudson; H. -T. Jung; P. Kewsuwan; V. Percec; W. -D. Cho
1501-1509	Discotic liquid crystalline crosslinkers and anisotropic networks	C. D. Braun; J. Lub
1511-1519	Horizontal chevron domain formation and smectic layer reorientation in SmC* liquid crystals stabilized by polymer networks	I. Dierking; L. Komitov; S. T. Lagerwall; T. Wittig; R. Zentel
1521-1530	Modelling of shear flow in liquid crystalline materials	M. S. Lavine; A. H. Windle
1531-1540	Monodomain liquid crystalline networks: reorientation mechanism from uniform to stripe domains	Eugene R. Zubarev; Sergei A. Kuptsov; Tatyana I. Yuranova; Raissa V. Talroze; Heino Finkelmann
1541-1546	Photo-driven liquid crystal cell with high sensitivity	Li Cui; Ping Xie; Rongben Zhang; Tonghua Yang
1547-1554	Synthesis and characterization of some new dimesogenic compounds	C. V. Yelamaggad; A. Srikrishna; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad
1555-1561	Polar electro-optic switching in droplets of an achiral nematic liquid crystal	P. Rudquist; E. Korblova; D. M. Walba; R. Shao; N. A. Clark; J. E. MacLennan
1563-1565	The mesomorphic anomaly of 4-[2-(4-alkoxy-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorophenyl)ethynyl] phenyl trans-4-pentylcyclohexyl-1-carboxylates	Ximin Chen; Jianxun Wen
1567-1571	First examples of functionalized triphenylene discotic dimers: molecular engineering of advanced materials	S. Kumar; M. Manickam; H. Schonherr

Volume 26, Issue 9 (1999)

1257-1266	Calculation of molecular, dielectric and optical properties of 4'-n-pentyl-4-cyano-biphenyl (5CB)	D. Demus; T. Inukai
1267-1280	The development of theory for flow and dynamic effects for nematic liquid crystals	Tomas Carlsson; Frank M. Leslie
1281-1293	The lyotropic polymorphism of two pharmacologically active molecules	Y. Bouligand; F. Boury; B. Pech; J. -P. Benoit; J. -C. Gautier; J. -E. Proust
1295-1300	The impact of NMR on the field of liquid crystals	R. Blinc
1301-1305	Quantified chirality, molecular similarity, and helical twisting power in lyotropic chiral nematic guest/host systems	Egbert Figgemeier; Karl Hiltrop
1307-1314	The transition mechanism of the transient planar to planar director configuration change in cholesteric liquid crystal displays	P. Watson; J. E. Anderson; V. Sergan; P. J. Bos
1315-1324	Effect of enantiomeric excess on thermotropic and electro-optical properties of ferroelectric sulphinate liquid crystals	Mohammed Zoubair Cherkaoui; Jean-Francois Nicoud; Yves Galerne; Daniel Guillon
1325-1337	Dimesogenic compounds consisting of a cholesteryl moiety and an aromatic mesogen interconnected through a central pentamethylene spacer	Soon Wook Cha; Jung-Il Jin; M. Laguerre; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin
1339-1343	Induced smectic G phase through intermolecular hydrogen bonding	Poluri A. Kumar; M. Srinivasulu; Venkata G. K. M. Pisipati
1345-1350	Numerical investigation of surface distortion and order parameter variation in nematics	V. Mocella; C. Ferrero; M. Iovane; R. Barberi
1351-1357	Direct smectic A-smectic C*A phase transition	F. Beaubois; V. Faye; J. P. Marcerou; H. T. Nguyen; J. C. Rouillon
1359-1369	Novel donor-acceptor triple mesogens incorporating disc-like and rod-like molecular sub-units	S. Mahlstedt; D. Janietz; C. Schmidt; A. Stracke; J. H. Wendorff
1371-1377	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of perfluorinated rod-like liquid crystals with sulphur-containing spacers	Elisabeth Taffin De Givenchy; Frederic Guittard; Frederic Bracon; Aime Cambon
1379-1386	Optical Bragg reflection from the TGBA phase	Pascal Hubert
1387-1392	The director structure and electroclinic fast optical switching in a grating-coupled ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal cell	Lizhen Ruan; J. R. Sambles; E. L. Wood
1393-1402	Equilibrium statistics of irregularly branched and dendrimeric polymeric liquid crystals	Jonathan J. Stott; Rolfe G. Petschek
1403-1407	Monodomain alignment of thermotropic fluorene copolymers	M. Grell; M. Redecker; K. S. Whitehead; D. D. C. Bradley; M. Inbasekaran; E. P. Woo
1409-1413	Reorientation behaviour of bent core molecules in response to an external electric field as detected by time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy	S. V. Shilov; S. Rauch; H. Skupin; G. Heppke; F. Kremer
1415-1419	A possible structural model of the SmC*beta phase	H. F. Gleeson; L. Baylis; W. K. Robinson; J. T. Mills; J. W. Goodby; A. Seed; M. Hird; P. Styring; C. Rosenblatt; S. Zhang
1421-1422	Steryl polyfluorobenzoate liquid crystals	Yuehai Shen; Jianxun Wen

Volume 26, Issue 8 (1999)

1107-1114	The semi-phenomenological model of antiferroelectricity in chiral smectic liquid crystals I. The structure of short pitch modes and a thermodynamical approach	S. Pikin; M. Gorkunov; D. Kilian; W. Haase
1115-1122	The semi-phenomenological model of antiferroelectricity in chiral smectic liquid crystals II. The phase transitions and phase diagrams	S. Pikin; M. Gorkunov; D. Kilian; W. Haase
1123-1128	The semi-phenomenological model of antiferroelectricity in chiral smectic liquid crystals III. Dielectric spectroscopy	S. Pikin; D. Kilian; M. Gorkunov; W. Haase
1129-1133	Chiral smectic C phases exhibited by biphenyl resorcylate and vanillate derivatives	B. Shivkumar; Y. J. Jeon; J. C. Lee
1135-1140	Synthesis and mesophase behaviour of mesogens bearing omega, alpha, alpha-trihydroperfluoroalkoxy end tails	Bao-Quan Chen; Jian-Xun Wen
1141-1162	The trans-1,4-cyclohexylene group as a structural fragment in liquid crystals	Vladimir F. Petrov; Sofia I. Torgova; Ludmila A. Karamysheva; Shunsuke Takenaka
1163-1170	Influence of different spacers on the mesomorphic properties of 4-biphenyl derivatives within the F-alkylated series	E. Taffin De Givenchy; F. Guittard; F. Bracon; A. Cambon
1171-1177	Flexoelectro-optic effect in a hybrid nematic liquid crystal cell	S. Ponti; P. Ziherl; C. Ferrero; S. Zumer
1179-1184	Electric field induced birefringence in a ferroelectric liquid crystal	M. Conradi; A. V. Kityk; M. Skarabot; R. Blinc; I. Musevic
1185-1195	Possibility of isostructural condensed states of matter in the D phase of ANBC and the cubic mesophase of BABH: heat capacity of 4'-n-octadecyloxy-3'-nitrobiphenyl-4-carboxlic acid, ANBC(18)	Ayako Sato; Yasuhisa Yamamura; Kazuya Saito; Michio Sorai
1197-1203	Novel antiferroelectric liquid crystals with a phenylpiperazine moiety in the mesogenic core structure	Nawalage F. Cooray; Y. Suzuki; I. Kawamura
1205-1224	Computer simulation of interactions between liquid crystal molecules and polymer surfaces I. Alignment of nematic and smectic A phases	D. R. Binger; S. Hanna
1225-1234	Critical radius of loop defects in homeotropic nematic liquid crystals	S. Thiberge; C. Chevallard; J. M. Gilli; A. Buka
1235-1249	A new series of chiral nematic bimesogens for the flexoelectro-optic effect	B. Musgrave; P. Lehmann; H. J. Coles
1251-1255	Light induced shifts of ferroelectric mesophase transitions	G. Joly; A. Anakkar; H. T. Nguyen

Volume 26, Issue 7 (1999)

943	Obituary	A. P. Filippov
945-952	Rheology of a pyramidal liquid crystal	M. Muller; G. Heppke; A. Jakli
953-957	Smectic liquid crystalline character of n-alkylammonium pyroglutamates	Dimitris Tsiourvas; Constantinos M. Paleos; Antoine Skoulios
959-964	Generation of pretilt angle in NLCs and EO characteristics of a photo-aligned TN-LCD with oblique non-polarized UV light irradiation on a polyimide surface	Dae-Shik Seo; Jeong-Min Han
965-971	A new lyotropic liquid crystalline phase formed in hydrocarbon solvents by a deoxyguanosine derivative through extensive hydrogen bonding	Giovanni Gottarelli; Stefano Masiero; Elisabetta Mezzina; Silvia Pieraccini; Gian Piero Spada; Paolo Mariani
973-984	Long alkyl chain dimethylammonioalkoxydicyanoethenolates as new zwitterionic thermotropic liquid crystals	A. Mathis; M. Galin; J. C. Galin; B. Heinrich; C. G. Bazuin
985-997	Synthesis and mesomorphism of 6-Z-n-alkyl-alpha-D-galactopyranoses	P. Bault; P. Gode; G. Goethals; J. W. Goodby; J. A. Haley; S. M. Kelly; G. H. Mehl; P. Villa
999-1005	Perturbation theory for discotic nematic liquid crystals of axially symmetric molecules: effect of dispersion interaction	Kalyan Singh; N. S. Pandey; T. K. Lahiri
1007-1019	Synthesis, properties and crystal structure of chiral semiperfluorinated liquid crystals with ferro and anticlinic smectic phases	H. T. Nguyen; J. C. Rouillon; A. Babeau; J. P. Marcerou; H. Allouchi; G. Sigaud; M. Cotrait
1021-1027	Detection of highly oriented aggregation of L-glutamic acid-derived lipids in dilute organic solution	Hirotaka Ihara; Miho Yoshitake; Makoto Takafuji; Taisuke Yamada; Takashi Sagawa; Chuichi Hirayama; Hiroshi Hachisako
1029-1037	New side chain liquid crystalline polymers: synthesis and thermal properties of side chain polyacrylates having segmented spacers	Eiichi Akiyama; Yu Nagase; Naoyuki Koide; Kazuo Araki
1039-1046	Optical components from a new vitrifying liquid crystal	Peter Van De Witte; Johan Lub
1047-1051	Convective flow in the liquid crystal heat switch	E. F. Carr
1053-1058	Study of the effect of hydrogen bonding on the phase behaviour of p-nitro azobenzene derivatives with hydrophilic tails	Min Li; Hongjin Qiu; Xinfang Chen; Gao Li; Enle Zhou
1059-1065	Stability of the formation of the chevron structure	N. Ul Islam; N. J. Mottram; S. J. Elston
1067-1078	Phase behaviour of the discotic mesogen 5,10,15,20-tetrakis (4-n-dodecylphenyl)porphyrin under pressure	Yoji Maeda; Yo Shimizu
1079-1084	Elliptical diffusion of dye in hexagonal columnar polycatenar mesophases	K. Rais; M. Gharbia; A. Gharbi; H. T. Nguyen; C. Destrade; M. Daoud
1085-1095	Synthesis and characterization of polymerizable photochromic liquid crystals containing a spiro-oxazine group	Hideshi Hattori; Toshiyuki Uryu
1097-1099	Synthesis of phenanthro[a] phenazine derivatives: a novel ring structure forming discotic liquid crystals	Sandeep Kumar; M. Manickam
1101-1105	Supermolecular liquid crystal dendrimers based on the octasilsesquioxane core	Isabel M. Saez; John W. Goodby

Volume 26, Issue 6 (1999)

789-794	Smectic A and C materials with novel director tilt and layer thickness behaviour	Marc D. Radcliffe; Myles L. Brostrom; Kenneth A. Epstein; Aaron G. Rappaport; Britt N. Thomas; Renfan Shao; Noel A. Clark
795-807	Electrohydrodynamic instability in a binary mixture of cyanobiphenyls in a d.c. field	R. K. Medya; R. N. P. Choudhary; P. K. Mahapatra
809-815	Crystal structures of 4-cyano-4-hexylbiphenyl (6CB) and 4-cyano-4-heptylbiphenyl (7CB) in relation to odd-even effects	Miki Kuribayashi; Kayako Hori
817-823	Elastic deformations of nematic laterally attached dimers	A. P. Filippov; V. Surendranath
825-833	Theoretical analysis of texture dependent extensional viscosity of discotic mesophases	Arvinder P. Singh; Alejandro D. Rey
835-847	Broad band dielectric relaxation spectroscopy of molecular reorientation in smectic liquid crystalline phases (SmA, SmB, and CrE)	J. Schacht; M. Buivydas; F. Gouda; L. Komitov; B. Stebler; S. T. Lagerwall; P. Zugenmaier; F. Horii
849-857	Induction of smectic layering in nematic liquid crystals using immiscible components III. The effect of lateral n-alkanoyl substituents on the thermotropic behaviour of 2,5-bis[4-(n-perfluoroheptyloctyloxy)benzoyloxy] toluene	Aaron C. Small; Diana K. Hunt; Coleen Pugh
859-862	Synthesis of a novel antiferroelectric liquid crystal with high Ps	P. A. Kumar; M. Srinivasulu; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
863-870	Investigation of thermotropic phase transitions in a triple chain amphiphile forming hexagonal columnar and inverse micellar cubic mesophases: a positron annihilation lifetime study	Gunter Dlubek; David Bamford; Ian Wilkinson; Konstanze Borisch; M. Ashraf Alam; Carsten Tschierske
871-884	Computer simulation study of a nematogenic lattice model based on an elastic energy mapping of the pair potential	G. R. Luckhurst; S. Romano
885-891	Liquid crystalline and dielectric properties of homologous series of substituted 1,3,4-oxadiazoles	Annemarie Hetzheim; Christina Wasner; Johannes Werner; Horst Kresse; Carsten Tschierske
893-896	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of semi-perfluorinated chain liquid crystals	Yong-Gang Yang; Bao-Quan Chen; Jian-Xun Wen
897-912	Anisotropic phases of six positional isomers of n-butyl stearate and factors influencing their mesomorphism	Jon E. Baldvins; Richard G. Weiss
913-917	Nemato-capillarity theory and the orientation-induced Marangoni flow	Alejandro D. Rey
919-924	Synthesis and liquid crystalline properties of new 1,6-bis[2,5-bis(4-alkoxyphenoxycarbonyl)phenoxy] hexanes H-shaped twin compounds: a series of	Seung-Moo Huh; Jung-Il Jin; Marie-France Achard; Francis Hardouin
925-930	Novel phase behaviour in two (smectic/cholesteric) liquid crystal mixtures	Jenn Chiu Hwang; Shi Chang Liang; Kung Heng Liang; Jenn Rong Chang
931-937	Detailed experimental investigation on recording of switchable diffraction gratings in polymer dispersed liquid crystal films by UV laser curing	D. Duca; A. V. Sukhov; C. Umeton
939-941	Preliminary communication First example of a functionalized triphenylene discotic trimer: molecular engineering of advanced materials	Sandeep Kumar; M. Manickam

Volume 26, Issue 5 (1999)

621-622	Obituary
623-627	A case of mistaken identity: spontaneous formation of twisted bipolar droplets from achiral nematic materials	Paul S. Drzaic
629-636	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their binary mixtures VI[1]. The effect of molecular length	Gamal R. Saad; Refaat I. Nessim
637-648	Solid state crystalline and liquid crystalline structure of semifluorinated 1-bromoalkane compounds	Jianguo Wang; Christopher K. Ober
649-655	EPR anisotropy induced by a magnetic field in the smectic A phase of a mesogenic Cu(II) complex derived from a Schiff's base	P. J. Alonso; J. I. Martinez; V. M. Orera
657-662	Quantification of the azimuthal anchoring of a homogeneously aligned nematic liquid crystal using fully-leaky guided modes	B. T. Hallam; F. Yang; J. R. Sambles
663-668	Discotic liquid crystals of transition metal complexes: 22. synthesis and mesomorphism of octa-alkoxy-substituted tetraphenylporphyrin derivatives and their copper(II) complexes	Kazuchika Ohta; Nobuo Ando; Iwao Yamamoto
669-677	Twist-grain-boundary phase diagrams in chiral liquid crystals	C. W. Garland
679-684	A highly bistable fast-shear aligned polymer dispersed ferroelectric liquid crystal device	M. J. Coles; C. Carboni; H. J. Coles
685-689	Rod-like phases formed by Ni(II) and VO(II) complexes of tetradentate enaminoketone ligands	Adam Krowczynski; Jadwiga Szydlowska; Ewa Gorecka
691-697	Liquid crystalline properties of 4-alkoxyphenyl 3-fluoro- and 3-methyl-4-thiocyanatophenyl terephthalates	Hiroaki Okamoto; Vladimir. F. Petrov; Shunsuke Takenaka
699-703	Mesomorphic behaviour of N,N-dialkanoyl-2,3,5-trimethylbenzene1,4-diamines and 2,3,5,6-tetramethylbenzene-1,4-diamines	H. Hosokai; K. Iuchi; T. Kumagai; Y. Matsunaga
705-708	Dielectric measurements on the 'isotropic smectic phase' of dyed side group polymers	D. Kilian; M. V. Kozlovsky; W. Haase
709-716	The structure of homeotropic smectic C (SmC) alignment within liquid crystal cells	N. Ul Islam; S. J. Elston
717-722	Investigation of the thickness mode in surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells	O. E. Kalinovskaya; J. K. Vij; Yu. V. Tretyakov; Yu. P. Panarin; Yu. P. Kalmykov
723-729	The smectic A-smectic C* phase transition in submicron confined geometry	M. Skarabot; S. Kralj; R. Blinc; I. Musevic
731-736	Characteristic times in the homeotropic to planar transition in cholesteric liquid crystals	P. Watson; V. Sergan; J. E. Anderson; J. Ruth; P. J. Bos
737-741	Liquid crystalline properties of asymmetric molecules: II. Smectic properties of 4-alkoxyphenyl 4-(4-trifluoromethylbenzoyloxy)benzoates	Meili Duan; Hiroaki Okamoto; Vladimir F. Petrov; Shunsuke Takenaka
743-751	The effect of splay-bend elasticity on Freedericksz transitions in an annulus	P. J. Barratt; B. R. Duffy

Volume 26, Issue 5 (1999)

753-758	Twist transition in nematic droplets: a stability analysis	Andreas Rudinger; Holger Stark
759-769	Substituted cyclohexanes in liquid crystalline solution: the molecular behaviour of bromocyclohexane	Sabine Ternieden; Diana Muller; Klaus Muller
771-774	On the reported mesomorphism of lanthanide complexes containing the hemicyanine structural unit	Koen Binnemans; Cindy Bex; Duncan W. Bruce
775-778	Homostructural two-ring mesogens: a comparison of p-carboranes, bicyclo[2.2.2]octane and benzene as structural elements	Krzysztof Czuprynski; Piotr Kaszynski
779-786	Frustrated liquid crystalline side group polymers for optical storage	Th. Fuhrmann; M. Hosse; I. Lieker; J. Rubner; A. Stracke; J. H. Wendorff
787-788	Corrigendum: Enantiotropic and monotropic transitions of the discotic mesogen 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-n-dodecylphenyl)porphyrin under pressure	Yoji Maeda; Yo Shimizu

Volume 26, Issue 4 (1999)

469-482	Molecular dynamics simulations of a liquid crystalline molecule in the smectic A and E phases and in vacuum	Kuei-Jen Lee; Ging-Ho Hsiue; Jung-Lung Wu; Jr-Hong Chen
483-487	Modifications of the mesophase formation of discotic triphenylene compounds by substituents	A. Kettner; J. H. Wendorff
489-494	Supramolecular liquid crystallinity as a mechanism of supramolecular polymerization	Alberto Ciferri
495-499	Cyano substituted triphenylene-based discotic mesogens	N. Boden; R. J. Bushby; Z. B. Lu; A. N. Cammidge
501-515	Remarks on the geometry of micelles, bilayers and cell membranes	Y. Bouligand
517-524	Linear analysis of pattern formation in nematics in oblique magnetic fields	J. P. Casquilho
525-533	Determination of the enantiomeric excess of ferroelectric liquid crystals derived from three natural amino acids	J. Schacht; P. Zugenmaier; F. Horii
535-539	Calorimetric and dielectric investigations of smectic liquid crystals with aerosil	S. L. Abd-El-Messieh; J. Werner; H. Schmalfuss; W. Weissflog; H. Kresse
541-551	The influence of charge-transfer interactions on solid and cholesteric liquid crystalline mixtures of cholesteryl anthraquinone-2-carboxylate and cholesteryl 9,10-dimethoxyanthracene-2-carboxylate	Emanuele Ostuni; Richard G. Weiss
553-556	Electro-optic characteristics of surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal devices with the stripe-shaped domain structure	Ruibo Lu; Keshu Xu; Zuhong Lu
557-565	Mid-wavelength IR (MWIR) polarizers from glassy cholesteric liquid crystals	T. J. Bunning; P. T. Mather; P. J. Hood; W. Barnes
567-573	Isotropic cubic phase of 4-n-pentadecyloxy-3-nitrobiphenyl4-carboxylic acid (ANBC-15): DSC, microscopic and dynamic viscoelastic studies	Shoichi Kutsumizu; Takanari Yamaguchi; Ryuji Kato; Shinichi Yano
575-580	Effect of chemical structures of polyimides on photosensitivity of liquid crystal alignment using a polarized UV exposure	M. Nishikawa; Yu. Reznikov; J. L. West
581-587	Induction of the cholesteric mesophase in hydrogen-bonded blends of polymers with a low molecular mass chiral dopant	E. B. Barmatov; A. Yu. Bobrovsky; M. V. Barmatova; V. P. Shibaev
589-599	Influence of the molecular length on the occurrence of incommensurate low ordered smectic phases for non-symmetric dimesogenic compounds	F. Hardouin; M. F. Achard; M. Laguerre; Jung-Il Jin; Doo-Hyun Ko
601-604	Local Freedericksz transitions at a nematic liquid crystal/thin film oxide ferroelectric interface	J. F. Hubbard; H. F. Gleeson; R. W. Whatmore; C. P. Shaw; Q. Zhang; A. J. Murray
605-608	High strength disclinations induced by hydrogen bond dissociation in the nematic phases of p-alkoxycinnamic acids	Li Cui; Jinnan Liu; Ping Xie; Rongben Zhang
609-612	First observation of double-twisted helical structure in a banana-shaped achiral molecule	Chong-Kwang Lee; Liang-Chy Chien
613-618	Supramolecular liquid crystals containing isoquinoline hydrogen-bonded acceptors	Hong-Cheu Lin; Chung-Wen Ko; Kermin Guo; Tze-Wen Cheng
619	Book review	G. W. Gray

Volume 26, Issue 3 (1999)

305-339	Invited article Liquid crystal templating of porous materials	Maria E. Raimondi
341-349	Calorimetric study on the thermotropic cubic mesogen, 4'-n-hexadecyloxy-3'-nitrobiphenyl-4-carboxylic acid, ANBC(16)	Ayako Sato
351-359	Synthesis and characterization of novel ferroelectric liquid crystals and copolymers containing biphenyl azobenzene and / or phenyl biphenyl carboxylate mesogenic groups	Zu-Sheng Xu
361-373	Helicity of the SmC*alpha phase and its variations in a thiobenzoate series	Valerie Laux
375-381	Second harmonic generation in planar samples of ferroelectric liquid crystals	N. Pereda
383-387	Frequency dependence of the electrorheological effect in the nematic phase of pentyl cyanobiphenyl	Keishi Negita
389-396	New liquid crystals containing the benzothiazol unit: amides and azo compounds	J. Belmar
397-400	Generation of pretilt angle in NLC and EO characteristics of transcription-aligned TN-LCD fabricated by transcription alignment on polyimide surfaces	Dae-Shik Seo
401-413	Structural and electro-optical investigations of the smectic phase of chlorine-substituted banana-shaped compounds	G. Pelzl
415-425	Light scattering from acrylate-based polymer dispersed liquid crystals: theoretical considerations and experimental examples	L. Leclercq
427-436	Liquid crystal orientation by holographic phase gratings recorded on photosensitive Langmuir-Blodgett films	L. M. Blinov
437-442	On the molecular interpretation of the static dielectric properties of nematic liquid crystals	J. Jadzyn
443-448	Liquid crystal bridges	Milind P. Mahajan
449-452	Design and synthesis of nematic liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy	Peer Kirsch
453-456	Dielectric relaxation in polymer dispersed nematic liquid crystal films	J. Jadzyn
457-464	Order parameter theory of the pre-transitional behaviour in antiferroelectric liquid crystals	N. J. Mottram
465-467	Preliminary communication Low frequency dielectric relaxation in the smectic C* phase of a ferroelectric liquid crystal	S. Havriliak Jr.

Volume 26, Issue 2 (1999)

143-149	Elasticity and the electroclinic effect at the SmA-SmC phase transition	Steve M. Beldon
151-161	Bulk optical properties in binary mixtures of antiferroelectric liquid crystal compounds showing V-shaped switching	San-Seong Seomun
163-166	Non-linear polarization effects in guest-host liquid crystals	Hiroshi Ono
167-179	Effect of alignment layer on V-shaped switching in a chiral smectic liquid crystal	A. D. L. Chandani
181-185	Mechanistic insight into circularly polarized photoluminescence from a chiral-nematic film	Dimitris Katsis
187-199	Influence of dimerization on the nematic-isotropic phase transition in strongly polar liquid crystals	A. V. Emelyanenko
201-210	Molecular surface and order parameters in liquid crystals	Alberta Ferrarini
211-218	Nematogens with more flexible chains than aromatic rings in the core	P. Berdague
219-228	Thermodynamic investigation of the thermotropic cubic mesogen, 1,2-bis(4- n -octyloxybenzoyl)hydrazine	Nobuyuki Morimoto
229-233	Biaxial ordering and field-induced configurational transition in nematic liquid crystals	Tiezheng Qian
235-240	Nematic structures in cylindrical cavities	A. M. Smondyrev
241-250	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some asymmetrical pyrimidinylphenyldiacetylenes	C. M. Hudson
251-260	Nematic ordering and crystal structure of liquid crystals containing a 4-chlorophenyldifluoroethylene unit	Frederick Roussel
261-269	Carborane-containing liquid crystals: a comparison of 4-octyloxy-4-(12-pentyl-1,12-dicarbadodecaboran-1-yl)biphenyl with its hydrocarbon analogues	Krzysztof Czuprynski
271-280	Liquid crystalline 1,4-disubstituted cyclohexenylene derivatives	V. S. Bezborodov
281-289	Unusual thermal behaviour of mesogens containing an N,N-dialkylaminomethylene lateral substituent	Cecile Canlet
291-293	Preliminary communication Generation of high pretilt angle in a nematic liquid crystal with single oblique polarized UV light irradiation on polyimide surfaces	Dae-Shik Seo
295-298	Preliminary communication Modulated structures with field-controlled direction and periodicity in SmC liquid crystals	D. Subacius
299-302	Preliminary communication of network formation on the soft-mode in ferroelectric LC elastomers	Elisabeth Gebhard

Volume 26, Issue 1 (1999)

1-7	Electric field-induced component dynamics in a binary liquid crystal mixture studied using two-dimensional Raman scattering	Kelly Huang
9-15	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 2,6-disubstituted derivatives of quinoline: amides and esters	J. Belmar
17-21	Determination of order parameters of liquid crystals: use of dipolar oscillations enhanced by Lee-Goldburg decoupling	C. S. Nagaraja
23-30	Raman studies of some cyanobiphenyl derivatives under pressure	S. Ye. Yakovenko
31-36	Structural phase transition in ultrathin films of disk-shaped molecules	Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj
37-43	Crystalline polymorphs of higher homologues of 4-alkoxy-4-cyanobiphenyl, nOCB (n=8,9,10 and 12)	Kayako Hori
45-49	Dielectric study of the liquid crystalline dimer alpha, omega-bis(4'-cyanobiphenyl-4-yloxy)decane	Danuta Bauman
51-55	Critical heat capacity at the smectic A-smectic C transition in a partially fluorinated liquid crystal	G. S. Iannacchione
57-62	The cholesteric-nematic transition in droplets subjected to electric fields	R. R. Swisher
63-67	Influence of cooling rate on the phase transitions of ferroelectric liquid crystals, MBOPDOB and MBOPDoOB	Lei He
69-74	Twist-grain-boundary transitions in a chiral tolane compound	G. S. Iannacchione
75-81	Synthesis of new mesogenic compounds having the isoflavone core group	J. Belmar
83-95	A review of textures of the TGBA* phase under different anchoring geometries	I. Dierking
97-100	A novel liquid crystal showing antiferroelectric smectic C* and twist grain boundary phases	Yoshio Aoki
101-108	Liquid crystalline dendrimer of the fifth generation: From lamellar to columnar structure in thermotropic mesophases	R. M. Richardson
109-125	The structure, conformation and orientational order of fluorinated liquid crystals determined from carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy	E. Ciampi
127-129	Preliminary communication Natural abundance 2H NMR for liquid crystal studies: deuterium isotope effect on microscopic order	Kazuteru Tabayashi
131-134	Novel ferroelectric liquid crystals based on optically active Preliminary communication propargylic alcohols	Ralph Lunkwitz
135-139	Preliminary communication Helical superstructures in a novel smectic mesophase formed by achiral banana-shaped molecules	G. Pelzl
140	Erratum Obituary: Sir Frederick Charles Frank, OBE (1911-1998)	Maurice Kleman

Volume 25, Issue 6 (1998)

643-654	Comparison of bulk and thin film structures of the liquid crystal 28OBC: measurements and simulations	J. Reibel
655-660	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their binary mixtures V. Mixtures of bimolecular smectics and linear mesogens	Gamal R. Saad
661-678	Molecular modelling of the structures of liquid crystals based on phenyl ester mesogens in the smectic phase	Kuei-Jen Lee
679-687	Photochromism in mixtures of liquid crystalline chiral copolymers with a photosensitive chiral dopant	A. Yu. Bobrovsky
689-698	Smectic bimetallomesogens: synthesis, characterization and mesomorphic properties and the crystal structure of bis[N-(3-hydroxypropyl)-4-octanoylsalicylaldiminato]copper(II) complex	Chung K. Lai
699-709	Advantageous voltage-holding ratio characteristics induced by in-plane electric fields, and the optimization concept of liquid crystals for an in-plane switching electro-optical effect	Masahito Oh-E
711-719	Liquid crystalline 1,3,5-triazines incorporating rod-like azobenzene sub-units	Daniela Goldmann
721-726	An old model for magnetic nematics	P. I. C. Teixeira
727-732	Orientational elasticity of nematic alpha,omega 4-bis(-cyanobiphenyl-4'yloxy)alkanes	Nikolai V. Tsvetkov
733-744	Phase transitions in mixtures of a side-on-side chain liquid crystalline polymer and low molar mass nematic liquid crystals	M. -C. Chang
745-755	Two-dimensional Raman study of the submolecular, electric field-induced reorientation of a nematic liquid crystal	Kelly Huang
757-764	Stable photoalignment layer for nematic liquid crystals based on ladder-like polysilsesquioxanes	Li Cui
765-766	Preliminary communication A novel series of liquid crystalline organomercury complex liquid crystals	Yong-Gang Yang
767-769	Preliminary communication Liquid crystalline polyacrylates using hyperbranched poly(p-chloromethylstyrene) as initiator	Xi Zhang

Volume 25, Issue 5 (1998)

543-544	Obituary Sir Frederick Charles Frank, OBE (1911-1998)	Maurice Kleman
545-552	Two-dimensional hydrodynamical description of a rotating nematic sample in a magnetic field	Antonino Polimeno; Assis F. Martins
553-560	Investigation of the helix unwinding process in thick freely suspended smectic films	A. Dahlgren; M. Buivydas; F. Gouda; L. Komitov; M. Matuszczyk; S. T. Lagerwall
561-565	Viscoelastic behaviour of a disk-like thermotropic nematic phase (ND) versus temperature	N. Derbel; T. Othman; A. Gharbi
567-572	Mesogenic homologous series with a naphthalene moiety	R. A. Vora; A. K. Prajapati
573-577	Evaluation of optical anisotropy in the pretransitional regime in antiferroelectric liquid crystals	R. Beccherelli; S. J. Elston
579-587	Topological inclusions in 2D smectic C films	David Pettey; T. C. Lubensky; Darren R. Link
589-595	Frequency shift in smectic multiple relaxations and the effect of a flexible end chain	G. Padmajarani; D. M. Potukuchi; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
597-601	Atomic force microscopy of mechanically rubbed and optically buffed polyimide films	K. R. Brown; D. A. Bonnell; S. -T. Sun
603-612	Polymer dispersed liquid crystal droplets: methods of calculation of optical characteristics	V. A. Loiko; V. I. Molochko
613-620	A novel order transition inside the nematic phase of trans -4-hexylcyclohexane-1-carboxylic acid discovered by image processing	B. Montrucchio; A. Sparavigna; S. I. Torgova; A. Strigazzi
621-630	Phenomenological description of the crystal-liquid crystal phase diagram	Valeriy V. Ginzburg
631-638	An unusual chevron structure in an achiral smectic C liquid crystal device	Alison Findon; Helen F. Gleeson; John Lydon
639-641	Preliminary communication Electro-optical properties of benzyl fluoroalkyl ether derivatives	Xiaotun Yang; Kazuki Abe; Ryuji Kato; Shinichi Yano; Takashi Kato; Kazutoshi Miyazawa; Hiroyuki Takeuchi

Volume 25, Issue 4 (1998)

441-448	3,4-Dialkoxybenzoyl substituted derivatives of hexahydro-1,3,5-triazine with hexagonal columnar mesophases	A. Facher; U. Stebani; G. Lattermann; S. Diele; M. Neundorf
449-457	Investigations of a homologous series of chiral siloxane based dimesogenic compounds	Annett Kaeding; Peter Zugenmaier
459-465	A comparative laser Raman study on TB4A, TB7A and TB10A	S. K. Dash; Ranjan K. Singh; P. R. Alapati; A. L. Verma
467-474	The cubic mesophase of analogous chiral and achiral hydrazine derivatives	P. Goring; S. Diele; S. Fischer; A. Wiegeleben; G. Pelzl; H. Stegemeyer; W. Thyen
475-479	Kerr effect in solutions of carbosilane dendrimers with terminal mesogenic groups	E. I. Ryumtsev; N. P. Evlampieva; A. V. Lezov; S. A. Ponomarenko; N. I. Boiko; V. P. Shibaev
481-485	Dielectric study of the tilted columnar mesophase in three new chiral metallorganic discotic mesogens	Beatriz Palacios; M. Rosario De La Fuente; Miguel Angel Perez Jubindo; Raquel Iglesias; Jose Luis Serrano; Teresa Sierra
487-494	An accurate optical method for measuring the azimuthal anchoring energy of nematic liquid crystals	S. Faetti; M. Nobili
495-504	Detailing smectic SSFLC director profiles by half-leaky guided mode technique and genetic algorithm	D. J. Mikulin; D. A. Coley; J. R. Sambles
505-515	The cholesteric-smectic A transition	L. Benguigui
517-523	Polymorphism and dynamics of MBBA as studied by NMR	R. Decressain; E. Cochin; T. Mansare; M. More
525-530	Do alkoxy chains behave like a solvent in the D phase? DSC study of binary systems, ANBC (nC) (nC = 8, 16 and 18)-n-tetradecane	Kazuya Saito; Ayako Sato; Michio Sorai
531-536	Prewetting transition induced by an external bulk field	I. Lelidis
537-542	Preliminary communication Enantiotropic and monotropic transitions of the discotic mesogen 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-n-dodecylphenyl)porphyrin under pressure	Yoji Maeda; Yo Shimizu

Volume 25, Issue 3 (1998)

285-293	H-shaped dimeric LC compounds: synthesis and thermotropic properties of alpha, omega -bis\[2,5-bis(4-ethoxyphenoxycarbonyl)phenoxy]alkanes	Seung-Moo Huh; Jung-Il Jin; Marie-France Achard; Francis Hardouin
295-300	Solute induced liquid crystalline behaviour of a quaternary ammonium salt and its application to structure determination	Liangde Lu; G. A. Nagana Gowda; N. Suryaprakash; C. L. Khetrapal; Richard G. Weiss
301-307	Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric low molar mass organosiloxane liquid crystals	W. K. Robinson; C. Carboni; P. Kloess; S. P. Perkins; H. J. Coles
309-318	Synthesis and characterization of new ferroelectric liquid crystals containing oligomethylene spacers	Yun Chen; Wei-Jen Wu
319-327	A backflow effect in smectic C liquid crystals	George I. Blake; Frank M. Leslie
329-339	Analytical solutions for rotational diffusion in the mean field potential: application to the theory of dielectric relaxation in nematic liquid crystals	Yuri P. Kalmykov; William T. Coffey
341-347	Second harmonic generation (SHG) investigations of different phases of banana shaped molecules	Florian Kentischer; Rainer MacDonald; Peter Warnick; Gerd Heppke
349-355	Nucleus growth in liquid crystals	K. Diekmann; M. Schumacher; H. Stegemeyer
357-362	Experimental study of the molecular reorientation induced by the ordinary wave in a nematic liquid crystal film	E. Santamato; P. Maddalena; L. Marrucci; B. Piccirillo
363-369	Collective dynamics of a ferroelectric smectogen in geometrical confinement	L. Naji; F. Kremer; R. Stannarius
371-373	Freedericksz transition in polymeric hexatic liquid crystals	P. Schiller; K. Camara; G. Pelzl; U. Emmerling; J. Lindau; F. Zeitler
375-385	Dielectric, optical and TSM measurements on semi-perfluoro ferro- and antiferro-electric liquid crystals	S. Sarmento; P. Simeao; Carvalho M. Glogarova; M. R. Chaves; H. T. Nguyen; M. J. Ribeiro
387-391	An adiabatic scanning calorimetry study of a chiral liquid crystal tolane with blue phases and twist grain boundary phases	M. Young; G. Pitsi; M. -H. Li; H. -T. Nguyen; P. Jamee; G. Sigaud; J. Thoen
393-401	Photo-optical properties of new combined chiral photochromic liquid crystalline copolymers	A. Yu. Bobrovsky; N. I. Boiko; V. P. Shibaev
403-410	Induction of smectic A phases with calamitic molecules and 2,4,7-trinitrofluorenone: the influence of branching and chain length	Ralph Lunkwitz; Bernhard Neumann; Carsten Tschierske
411-417	Elastic constants of discotic (nematic) liquid crystals: effect of packing	Kalyan Singh; N. S. Pandey
419-425	Synthesis and properties of two series of H-bonded and non-H-bonded thermotropic liquid crystal monomers	Hongjin Qiu; Min Li; Xinfang Chen; Fengying Jing; Enle Zhou
427-436	NMR investigation of the oxyethylene unit ordering in some related dialkoxy laterally substituted nematogens	Vincent Rayssac; Patrick Judeinstein; Jean-Pierre Bayle; Daisuke Kuwahara; Hironori Ogata; Seiichi Miyajima
437-439	Ionic liquid crystalline hydrogen-bonded associates based on phenols	H. Kresse

Volume 25, Issue 2 (1998)

131-138	Random and position-controlled 4-domain CTN-LCDs with wide viewing angle	Hideya Murai; Masayoshi Suzuki; Teruaki Suzuki; Takayuki Konno; Setsuo Kaneko
139-147	The dependence of mesomorphic behaviour on the extent of hydrogen-bonding in sugar derived polyols	John W. Goodby; Marcus J. Watson; Graham Mackenzie; Stephen M. Kelly; Sabrina Bachir; Phillipe Bault; Paul Gode; Gerard Goethals; Patrick Martin; Gino Ronco; Pierre Villa
149-151	Negative birefringence ferroelectric liquid crystals	William N. Thurmes; Michael D. Wand; Rohini T. Vohra; Charles M. Crandall; Jiuzhi Xue; David M. Walba
153-163	Evidence of a phase with two-dimensional positional order in a side group liquid crystalline polymer	B. I. Ostrovskii; S. N. Sulyanov; N. I. Boiko; V. P. Shibaev
165-173	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their binary mixtures III. Binary mixtures of alkoxyphenyl arylates and arylalkoxybenzoates	Magdi M. Naoum; Gamal R. Saad; Refaat I. Nessim; Talal A. Abdel Aziz
175-178	Liquid crystalline hydrogen-bonded ionic associates	Y. M. Sahin; S. Diele; H. Kresse
179-187	Structural characterization of thermotropic liquid crystalline dihydroxydicarbosilane mesophase	Kyrill Yu. Suponitsky; Konstantin A. Lyssenko; Tatiana V. Astapova; Natalia N. Makarova; Elena V. Matukhina; Kuohsiang Chen; Tatiana V. Timofeeva
189-197	Non-local description of nematic liquid crystals	A. L. Alexe-Ionescu; G. Barber
199-206	Twin nematic phenylbenzoates in a.c. electric fields	Atsushi Shiota; Hilmar Korner; Christopher K. Ober
207-215	Synthesis, mesomorphic properties and crystal structure studies of a chiral ferroelectric liquid crystal series	H. Allouchi; M. Cotrait; M. Laguerre; J. C. Rouillon; J. P. Marcerou; H. T. Nguyen
217-223	Smectic Cu(II), Pd(II) and VO(IV) complexes: synthesis, EPR and thermogravimetric studies	F. R. Diaz; N. Valdebenito; J. L. Serrano; M. Marcos; J. I. Martinez; P. J. Alonso
225-233	Metallorganic side group liquid crystalline polymers containing pi-allylpalladium(II) groups	M. Ghedini; B. Panunzi; A. Roviello
235-240	Fluorine-containing benzothiazolyl bisazo dyes-their application to guest-host liquid crystal displays	M. Matsui; Y. Kamino; M. Hayashi; K. Funabiki; K. Shibata; H. Muramatsu; Y. Abe; M. Kaneko
241-252	The investigation of the relaxation processes in antiferroelectric liquid crystals by broad band dielectric and electro-optic spectroscopy	Yu. P. Panarin; O. Kalinovskaya; J. K. Vij
253-261	Dielectric studies of trans-4-n-octyl-(4-cyanophenyl)cyclohexane (8PCH) at ambient and high pressure	S. Urban; D. Busing; A. Wurflinger; B. Gestblom
263-266	Liquid crystalline phase transitions of the 2-(4-alkoxybiphenyl-4-yl)-5-(4-methylphenyl)pyridines	Tetsuya Asano; Keiichi Moriya; Shinichi Yano; Shingo Takatani; Shinzo Kagabu
267-275	Cubic and columnar thermotropic mesophases of potassium dialkylphosphate salts	C. M. Paleos; D. Kardassi; D. Tsiourvas; A. Skoulios
277-283	Preliminary communication Properties of nonlinear supramolecular liquid crystals containing thiophenedicarboxylic acids	Hong-Cheu Lin; Ji-Mei Shiaw; Ri-Chen Liu; Chiitang Tsai; Hsi-Hwa Tso

Volume 25, Issue 1 (1998)

1-11	Unsymmetrical alkoxy-substituted triphenylenes: the dependence of mesomorphism on molecular shape	S. J. Cross; J. W. Goodby; A. W. Hall; M. Hird; S. M. Kelly; K. J. Toyne; C. Wu
13-22	Unusual molecular packing within the low symmetry mesophases of alkyl- and alkoxy-acylhydrazinatonickel(II) liquid crystals	Martin Bellwood; Christina M. Buckley; Michael C. Holmes; RICHARD W. McCABE; Patrick D. Cookson
23-29	Nematic anchoring transitions on bistable SiO films driven by temperature and impurities	R. Barberi; M. Giocondo; M. Iovane; I. Dozov; E. Polossat
31-45	Liquid crystalline derivatives of galactose and galactitol: dependence of thermotropic mesomorphism on carbohydrate form	P. Bault; P. Gode; G. Goethals; J. W. Goodby; J. A. Haley; S. M. Kelly; G. H. Mehl; G. Ronco; P. Villa
47-58	A rational synthesis of polyacrylates with discogenic side groups	N. Boden; R. J. Bushby; Z. B. Lu
59-62	Effect of spontaneous polarization on smectic C-smectic A phase transition temperature and the thickness dependence of the spontaneous polarization of ferroelectric liquid crystal	Susanta Sinha Roy; Tapas Pal Majumder; Subir Kumar Roy; Prabir K. Mukherjee
63-72	On the structure of binary mixtures of non-symmetric liquid crystal dimers: the alpha-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4-yloxy)-omega(4-alkylanilinebenzylidene-4-oxy) alkanes	P. J. Le Masurier; G. R. Luckhurst
73-83	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their binary mixtures IV. Dependence of Tc on the anisotropy of the aryl-X of polarizability bond	Magdi M. Naoum; Refaat I. Nessim; Gamal R. Saad; Talal A. Abdel Aziz
85-94	Side-on fixed polysiloxanes and 'diluted' copolysiloxanes with nematic and smectic C phases	S. Lecommandoux; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin
95-100	Light-induced Freedericksz transition in a nematic liquid crystal with chiral dopant	Denis Andrienko; Igor Pinkevich; Victor Reshetnyak
101-107	Domain growth dynamics and Freedericksz transitions of liquid crystals: Brownian dynamics simulations on lattices	Jiandong Ding; Yuliang Yang
109-116	Smectic, columnar and cubic mesophases in binary systems of hemiphasmidic and calamitic amphiphilic diols	Christiane Sauer; Siegmar Diele; Niels Lindner; Carsten Tschierske
117-121	Calamitic or columnar mesomorphism determined by number and position of substituents in enaminoketone Cu(II), Ni(II) and Co(II) complexes	Adam Krowczynski; Jadwiga Szydlowska; Damian Pociecha; Jan Przedmojski; Ewa Gorecka
123-127	Preliminary communication The magnetohydrodynamics of a chiral nematic liquid crystal: the existence of two critical speeds revealed by deuterium NMR	P. Lesot; J. W. Emsley; J. Courtieu
129	Book review

Volume 24, Issue 6 (1998)

793-798	Self-screening of Langmuir-Blodgett films by a discotic micellar lyotropic liquid crystal	S. Fontanini; A. Strigazzi; G. Barbero; M. C. Salvadori; A. M. Figueiredo Neto
799-803	Biaxial smectic phases in non-linear optical properties and phase behaviour of an oxdiazole liquid crystal	Klaus J. K. Semmler; Theo J. Dingemans; Edward T. Samulski
805-809	Computer simulation of chiral liquid crystal phases VI. A temperature induced helix inversion in a single component cholesteric liquid crystal	R. Memmer; F. Janssen
811-818	Optimization of film-compensated homogeneous cells for liquid crystal displays	Shin-Tson Wu; Chiung-Sheng Wu
819-827	Modification of the pitch of chiral nematic liquid crystals by means of photoisomerization of chiral dopants	Peter Van De Witte; Juan Carlos Galan; Johan Lub
829-834	On the analogy between the field-induced and flow-induced deformations in nematic liquid crystals	Grzegorz Derfel
835-840	Influence of measurement frequency on the pretransitional behaviour of the no-linear dielectric effect in the isotropic phase of liquid crystalline materials	Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska
841-852	A new image processing method for enhancing the detection sensitivity of smooth transitions in liquid crystals	B. Montrucchio; A. Sparavigna; A. Strigazzi
853-859	The surface memory effect at conducting and dielectric surface coatings	Lyubomir V. Tsonev; Minko P. Petrov
861-869	Synthesis and SmC* properties of chiral liquid crystalline terephthalates	K. Fodor-Csorba; E. Szabo; A. Vajda; A. Jakli; L. Bata
871-876	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of fishbone-like liquid crystalline polysilsesquioxanes V. Pd-coordinating, fishbone-like azo-based liquid crystalline polysilsesquioxanes	Youzhi Wan; Lei Xu; Lingling Ren; Lijuan Zhang
877-880	New 1,3-dithiane type ionic liquid crystal compounds	Yuichiro Haramoto; Yoshiharu Akiyama; Ryouichi Segawa; Seiji Ujiie; Masato Nanasawa
881-890	Mesomorphic donor-acceptor twin molecules with covalently linked sheet-like pentaalkyne and nitrofluorenone sub-units	D. Goldmann; S. Mahlstedt; D. Janietz
891-894	Preliminary communication Nematic-substrate repulsion in the nematic-isotropic phase coexistence region	Anjun J. Jin; Yi-Kuo Yu; Philip L. Taylor; Charles Rosenblatt
895-897	Preliminary communication Hydrogen-bonded ionic liquid crystals	H. Bernhardt; W. Weissflog

Volume 24, Issue 5 (1998)

639-645	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some esters of trans-4-n-alkoxycinnamic and trans-4-n-alkoxy-alpha-methylcinnamic acids exhibiting ferroelectric and antiferroelectric phases	N. Kasthuraiah; B. K. Sadashiva; S. Krishnaprasad; Geetha G. Nair
647-655	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some cyclohex-2-en-1-one derivatives	V. S. Bezborodov; R. Dabrowski; J. Dziaduszek; G. Sasnovski; V. F. Petrov
657-671	Temperature dependence of the properties of simulated PCH5	Sergei Ye. Yakovenko; Anatoli A. Muravski; Frank Eikelschulte; Alfons Geiger
673-680	Mesomorphic 4'-functionalized 6'-phenyl-2,2'-bipyridines: tridentate ligands for organopalladium mesogens	Francesco Neve; Mauro Ghedini; Oriano Francescangeli; Sebastiano Campagna
681-688	Dielectric studies of a 5-n-alkyl-2-(4'-isothiocyanatophenyl)- 1,3-dioxane (nDBT) homologous series (n=4-10)	S. Urban; B. Gestblom; R. Dabrowski
689-694	Dielectric relaxation processes in the nematogen 4-cyanophenyl 4-n-heptylbenzoate	Jan Jadzyn; Christian Legrand; Grzegorz Czechowski; Danuta Bauman
695-699	Amphiphilic and mesogenic carbohydrates IX. Perfluoroalkyl substituted monosaccharides: a new group of amphiphilic liquid crystals	C. Zur; A. O. Miller; R. Miethchen
701-705	Visco-elastic modes in some ferroelectric liquid crystals	Yuvaraj Sah; K. A. Suresh
707-717	Frustrated smectic phases in swallow-tailed compounds with perfluorinated chains	D. Lose; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; E. Dietzmann; W. Weissflog
719-726	Influence of fluorination extent on liquid crystalline properties of semi-perfluorinated phenylpyrimidine ferroelectric liquid crystals	Hong Liu; Hiroyuki Nohira
727-733	Temperature gradient-cooled smectic A phase orientation and its effects on Cl orientation in ferroelectric liquid crystals	T. Minato; K. Suzuki
735-740	A study of the stability and phase behaviour of some smectic liquid crystalline biphenyl derivatives	Andrew J. Eagle; Thelma M. Herrington; Neil S. Isaacs
741-746	TGB A phase in a series of swallowtailed chiral liquid crystals	Shung-Long Wu; Ping-Chung Yen; Wen-Jiunn Hsieh
747-758	Synthesis and characterization of a chiral antiferroelectric series with new SmC A*-L transition	V. Faye; J. C. Rouillon; H. T. Nguyen; L. Detre; V. Laux; N. Isaert
759-767	A new approach to photorecording based on hindering a phase transition in photochromic chiral liquid crystalline polymers	M. V. Kozlovsky; V. P. Shibaev; A. I. Stakhanov; T. Weyrauch; W. Haase
769-774	Formation characteristics of horizontal chevron structures in ferroelectric liquid crystal cells	I. Dierking; L. Komitov; S. T. Lagerwall
775-782	Dynamics of the smectic layer reorientation of ferroelectric liquid crystals	I. Dierking; L. Komitov; S. T. Lagerwall
783-785	Preliminary communication - Novel dipolar metallomesogen: an octa-substituted vanadyl phthalocyanine with low clearing temperature	S. Tantrawong; T. Sugino; Y. Shimizu; A. Takeuchi; S. Kimura; T. Mori; H. Takezoe
787-791	Preliminary communication - The effect of a substituent in the central ring on the liquid crystalline properties of di(4-alkoxycarbonylphenyl) terephthalates	S. K. Filippov; I. P. Kolomiets; O. S. Sokolova; E. A. Antonov; I. M. Zorin; A. Yu. Bilibin

Volume 24, Issue 4 (1998)

483-488	Tunable chiral materials for multicolour reflective cholesteric displays	Frederic Vicentini; Julie Cho; Liang-Chy Chien
489-500	Phase diagrams and optical properties of new menthyl-containing LC copolymers forming chiral mesophases	A. Yu. Bobrovsky; N. I. Boiko; V. P. Shibaev
501-517	Frequency variation of periodic distortion thresholds in a nematic liquid crystal	Shila Garg; Steven Wild; Ben Zurn Salman Saeed; U. D. Kini
519-523	Improved analysis of the Landau theory of the uniaxial-biaxial nematic phase transition	Prabir K. Mukherjee
525-529	14N NMR studies on an optically isotropic liquid crystalline D phase of 4'-n-alkoxy-3'-nitrobiphenyl-4-carboxylic acids (ANBC)	Masataka Tansho; Yoshito Onoda; Shoichi Kutsumizu; Shinichi Yano; Ryuji Kato
531-537	FTIR spectroscopic determination of quadrupolar order parameters in smectic C phases	H. Stegemeyer; F. Stockel; R. Meister
539-542	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 4-(1,1,7-trihydroperfluoroheptyloxycarbonyl)phenyl 4'-n-alkoxybiphenyl-4-carboxylate	Bao-Quan Chen; Yong-Gang Yang; Jian-Xun Wen
543-548	Preparation and mesomorphic properties of a homologous series of N,N'-(2-chloroterephthalylidene)bis(4-n-alkylaniline)s	Goro Yasuda; Hiroshi Kimoto
549-554	Critical behaviour of nematic liquid crystals in oblique magnetic fields	J. P. Casquilho
555-561	Photopolymerization kinetics and phase behaviour of acrylate based polymer dispersed liquid crystals	Frederick Roussel; Jean-Marc Buisine; Ulrich Maschke; Xavier Coqueret
563-568	Phase separation kinetics in mixtures of polymers and liquid crystals	A. Golemme; A. Urso; B. C. De Simone; A. Mashin; G. Chidichimo
569-581	The structure of 2,2'-difluorobiphenyl in solid crystalline and liquid crystalline phases	B. Aldridge; G. De Luca; M. Edgar; S. J. Edgar; J. W. Emsley; M. I. C. Furby; M. Webster
583-586	Dielectric studies of smectogenic dioxane mixtures revealing a nematic gap	R. Dabrowski; S. Urban
587-598	The optical response of liquid crystal cells to a low frequency driving voltage	Stephen Palmer
599-605	New series of ferroelectric liquid crystals with four ester groups	M. Kaspar; V. Hamplova; S. A. Pakhomov; A. M. Bubnov; F. Guittard; H. Sverenyak; I. Stibor; P. Vanek; M. Glogarova
607-612	Magnetic field controlled optical phase retardation in a hybrid nematic cell	P. Ziherl; D. Subacius; A. Strigazzi; V. M. Pergamenshchik; A. L. Alexe-Ionescu; O. D. Lavrentovich; S. Zumer
613-618	Switching in a simple bistable nematic cell	P. J. Kedney; F. M. Leslie
619-626	Polar and quadrupolar order in smectic liquid crystals	P. Schiller; H. Schlacken
627-637	Orientational ordering in some nematogens deviating from the classical rod-shape	Felix Perez; Patrick Judeinstein; Jean-Pierre Bayle; Hassan Allouchi; Michel Cotrait; Frederick Roussel; Bing M. Fung

Volume 24, Issue 3 (1998)

329-334	Volume-stabilized ULH structure for the flexoelectro-optic effect and the phase-shift effect in cholesterics	P. Rudquist; L. Komitov; S. T. Lagerwall
335-340	Opto-thermal reorientation of nematics with two-fold degenerate alignment	Pontus Jagemalm; David Sparre Hermann; Lachezar Komitov; Francesco Simoni
341-346	Synthesis and characterization of liquid crystals containing a non-activated 1',3',3'-trimethylspiro\[2H-1-benzopyran-2,2-indoline] group	Susan Swansburg; Yoon-Ki Choi; Sam-Rok Keum; Erwin Buncel; Robert P. Lemieux
347-359	New AFLC: a trimesogen presenting antiferroelectric smectic C phase (SmCA) and twist grain boundary smectic A phase (TGBA)	Min-Hui Li; Laurent Detre; Philippe Cluzeau; Noel Isaert; Huu-Tinh Nguyen
361-368	Crystal structure of di-(2,7-disubstituted-9 fluorenyl)glutamate	V. Surendranath; N. K. Lokanath; M. A. Sridhar; J. Shashidhara Prasad
369-373	Comparison of the pitch induced from lamellar and nematic regions in some lyotropic liquid crystal systems	M. Acimis; A. Agar; A. Gok
375-379	The formation of a liquid crystalline main chain polymer by means of photopolymerization	J. Lub; D. J. Broer; M. E. Martinez Antonio; G. N. Mol
381-385	Study on binary system comprising a non-mesogen and a mesogen	Min Li; Enle Zhou; Jiping Xu
387-395	Polymer network structure and electro-optic performance of polymer stabilized cholesteric textures I. The influence of curing temperature	I. Dierking; L. L. Kosbar; A. C. Lowe; G. A. Held
397-406	Polymer network structure and electro-optic performance of polymer stabilized cholesteric textures II. The effect of UV curing conditions	I. Dierking; L. L. Kosbar; A. C. Lowe; G. A. Held
407-411	Sheet-shaped mesogens based on 1,3,5-triazines: variation of columnar mesophases through intermolecular hydrogen bonding	Daniela Goldmann; Reinhard Dietel; Dietmar Janietz; Claudia Schmidt; Joachim H. Wendorff
413-418	Induction of a cholesteric phase via self-assembly in supramolecular networks built of non-mesomorphic molecular components	Hideyuki Kihara; Takashi Kato; Toshiyuki Uryu; Jean M. J. Frechet
419-425	Model of a disclination core in nematics	Immacolata Sigillo; Francesco Greco; Giuseppe Marrucci
427-433	Alignment and alignment dynamics of nematic liquid crystals on Langmuir-Blodgett mono-layers	V. S. U. Fazio; L. Komitov; S. T. Lagerwall
435-440	Sub-twisted nematic liquid crystal display	X. J. Wang; K. C. Su
441-449	Pyroelectric investigations of polarization and charge distributions in sandwich cells containing a ferroelectric liquid crystalline polymer	N. Leister; D. Geschke
451-456	Temperature dependence of the second-order susceptibility in calamitic ferroelectric liquid crystals	N. Pereda; C. L. Folcia; J. Etxebarria; J. Ortega; M. B. Ros
457-465	Phase behaviour and structural characterization of poly(1,3-propylene adipate)s with cyanoazobenzene side groups	E. L. Tassi; M. Paci; P. L. Magagnini; B. Yang; O. Francescangeli; F. Rustichelli
467-472	First observation of electromechanical effects in a chiral ferroelectric columnar liquid crystal	A. Jakli; M. Muller; D. Kruerke; G. Heppke
473-476	Preliminary communication Generation of pretilt angles in a nematic liquid crystal by transcription alignment on polyimide surfaces	Dae-Shik Seo; Shunsuke Kobayashi
477-480	Preliminary communication Thermotropic liquid crystals of polyesters having a mesogenic p,p' -bibenzoate unit X. Distinct orientation of molecules in a thin SmCA film stretched from isotropic melt, providing evidence for the biaxiallity of the SmCA p	Masatoshi Tokita; Kensuke Osada; Junji Watanabe

Volume 24, Issue 2 (1998)

163-172	Circularly polarized fluorescence from chiral nematic liquid crystalline films: theory and experiment	Hongqin Shi; Brooke M. Conger; Dimitris Katsis; Shaw H. Chen
173-175	Liquid crystals with a terminal oxime group	Renu Mahajan; Himani Nandedkar
177-199	Magnetic and electric field induced periodic deformations in planar oriented nematics	U. D. Kini
201-210	Calorimetric study of the relationship between molecular structure and liquid crystallinity of rod-like mesogens II. Heat capacities and phase transitions of 4-(trans-4-propylcyclohexyl)benzonitrile	S. Asahina; M. Sorai; R. Eidenschink
211-213	Determination of the water content of amphiphilic liquid crystals by coulometric Karl Fischer titration	Ralf Dunkel; Michael Hahn; Konstanze Borisch; Bernhard Neumann; Hans-Hermann Ruttinger; Carsten Tschierske
215-218	Elastic model for twisted nematic textures in OOBA layers	S. Frunza; L. Frunza; M. Petrov; G. Barbero
219-227	Twisting power of bridged binaphthol derivatives: comparison of theory and experiment	A. Ferrarini; P. L. Nordio; P. V. Shibaev; V. P. Shibaev
229-241	Computer simulation studies of anisotropic systems XXIX. Quadrupolar Gay-Berne discs and chemically induced liquid crystal phases	M. A. Bates; G. R. Luckhurst
243-246	Rheological properties in cholesteric and blue phases of cholesteryl isostearyl carbonate: viscosity and effect of electric field on the rheology	K. Negita
247-253	Ferroelectric liquid crystals derived from isoleucine I. Synthesis and characterization	Theo J. Dingemans; Chi-Duen Poon; Edward T. Samulski; Hiroyuki Uehara; Jun Hatano
255-262	Ferroelectric liquid crystals derived from isoleucine II. Orientational ordering by carbon-13 separated local field spectroscopy	Aidi Chen; Chi-Duen Poon; Theo J. Dingemans; Edward T. Samulski
263-270	Polymerization of polymer/ferroelectric liquid crystal composites formed with branched liquid crystalline bismethacrylates	C. Allan Guymon; Renfan Shao; Dirk Holter; Holger Frey; Noel A. Clark; Christopher N. Bowman
271-281	A new class of liquid crystals: methylene-1,4-dihydropyridines	Daniel J. Dyer; Victor Y. Lee; Robert J. Twieg
283-293	An homologous series of 6-O-n-alkyl-alpha-D-galactopyranoses: synthesis and thermotropic mesomorphic properties	P. Bault; P. Gode; G. Goethals; J. W. Goodby; J. A. Haley; S. M. Kelly; G. H. Mehl; G. Ronco; P. Villa
295-310	Second-harmonic generation in a novel crosslinked pyroelectric liquid crystal polymer (PLCP)	D. S. Hermann; P. Rudquist; S. T. Lagerwall; L. Komitov; B. Stebler; M. Lindgren; M. Trollsas; F. Sahlen; A. Hult; U. W. Gedde; C. Orrenius; T. Norin
311-314	Preliminary communication - The synthesis and thermotropic liquid crystalline behaviour of novel main chain poly(aryl ether ketone)s containing a lateral phenyl group	Shanju Zhang; Yubin Zheng; Zhongwen Wu; Mingwen Tian; Decai Yang; Ryutoku Yosomiya
315-323	Preliminary communication - The effects of bending sites on unconventionally shaped hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals	Hong-Cheu Lin; Yu-Sheng Lin
325-327	Preliminary communication - Miscibility of a hydrogen-bonded mesogenic complex with normal liquid crystals	Mitsuo Fukumasa; Ken'Ichi Takeuchi; Takashi Kato

Volume 24, Issue 1 (1998)

1-4	Liquid crystals Present, past and future Symposium held in honour of George W. Gray, FRS
5-14	Reminiscences from a life with liquid crystals	George W. Gray
15-20	The re-entrant nematic and the compounds of Gray	P. E. Cladis
21-24	Grey levels in the history of liquid crystals	Volkmar Vill
25-38	Liquid crystals and life	J. W. Goodby
39-48	Structure of organized organic mono- and multi-layer films	F. Rustichelli
49-66	Fluid self-organized machines	Hans Gruler
67-70	Schlieren textures in free-standing nematic films: evidence of biaxiality	S. Chandrasekhar; Geetha G. Nair; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Krishna Prasad; K. Praefcke; D. Blunk
71-82	Anisotropic networks, elastomers and gels	S. M. Kelly
83-90	Non-linear optics in liquid crystals: basic ideas and perspectives	F. Simoni
91-98	Liquid crystals for display applications	T. Geelhaar
99-104	Some remarks on the evolution of research into the structures of mesogens and mesophases	Jean Billard
105-116	Structural investigations on 'smectic D' and related mesophases	Anne-Marie Levelut; Marianne Clerc
117-126	Topological defects in dispersed words and worlds around liquid crystals, or liquid crystal drops	O. D. Lavrentovich
127-130	Defects in liquid crystals and cosmology	Hans-Rainer Trebin
131-142	Spontaneous chiral domains in the nematic phase of achiral trans-4-alkylcyclohexanecarboxylic acids	S. I. Torgova; L. Komitov; A. Strigazzi
143-152	On the way to polar achiral liquid crystals	L. M. Blinov
153-156	Novel family of liquid crystals based on a known biheterocyclic pigment material: mesomorphic derivatives of 2,5-dihydropyrrolo [3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4-dione	Klaus Praefcke; Markus Jachmann; Dirk Blunk; Matthias Horn
157-162	Structural studies of columnar phases of some chiral disc-like molecules	Gunter Scherowsky; Xin Hua Chen

Volume 23, Issue 6 (1997)

771-788	Lateral substitution in nematic systems	V. S. Bezborodov; V. F. Petrov
789-795	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their binary mixtures II. 4-Hexadecyloxyphenyl arylates and aryl 4-hexadecyloxy benzoates	Magdi M. Naoum; Gamal R. Saad; Refaat I. Nessim; Talal A. Abdel-Aziz; H. Seliger
797-802	Surface modification and the switching processes in ferroelectric liquid crystals	D. C. Ulrich; M. J. Cherrill; S. J. Elston
803-811	Stable configurations in hybrid nematic cells in relation to thickness and surface order	H. G. Galabova; N. Kothekar; D. W. Allender
813-819	Vorlander's wheel	Duncan W. Bruce; Kurt Heyns; Volkmar Vill
821-832	Fluorine-containing negative dichroic 1,4-bis(acylamino)anthraquinone dyes	M. Matsui; Y. Sumiya; K. Shibata; H. Muramatsu; Y. Abe; M. Kaneko
833-843	The elastic behaviour of liquid crystal dimers: an ESR investigation of their induced chiral nematic phases	D. Ionescu; G. R. Luckhurst; D. S. De Silva
845-859	Light transmission, linear dichroism and birefringence of nematic/polymer dispersions	O. A. Aphonin; V. F. Nazvanov
861-867	Haze and opacity control in polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films with phase separation method	S. Pane; M. Caporusso; H. Hakemi
869-878	Structure and order of the discotic compound 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexakispentyloxytriphenylene as revealed by diffraction and molecular simulation studies	Tao Wang; Donghang Yan; Jun Luo; Enle Zhou; O. Karthaus; H. Ringsdorf
879-881	Dielectric behaviour of liquid crystals with a pyramidal central unit	H. Kresse; S. Heinemann; R. Lunkwitz; C. Tschierske
883-889	Highly conjugated 4-ring nematic liquid crystals with a lateral alkoxy branch	T. -H. Tong; B. M. Fung
891-896	Low-frequency dielectric relaxation in columnar hexagonal and micellar inverse cubic mesophases	H. Kresse; H. Schmalfuss; B. Gestblom; K. Borisch; C. Tschierske
897-901	The influence of spontaneous polarization on symmetry recovery addressing schemes for ferroelectric liquid crystal devices	S. J. Elston; E. A. Coleman
903-910	Morphological study of a chiral polymer network in a nematic liquid crystal from a concentration gradient	Michel Mitov; Alain Boudet; Pierre Sopena; Pierre Sixou
911-917	Formation of columnar mesophases by calamitic molecules: a modulated SmA phase in mixtures of amphiphilic and bolaamphiphilic biphenyl derivatives	Christiane Sauer; Siegmar Diele; Carsten Tschierske
919-922	Preliminary communication Optical storage effect in a discotic columnar liquid crystal	Sandrine Forget; Heinz S. Kitzerow
923-925	Preliminary communication Investigation of pretilt angle generation in nematic liquid crystal with oblique non-polarized UV light irradiation on polyimide films	Dae-Shik Seo; Lyul-Yeon Hwang; Shunsuke Kobayashi
927-931	Preliminary communication Dispersion of the optical axes in smectic C* liquid crystals	F. Giesselmann; A. Langhoff; P. Zugenmaier

Volume 23, Issue 5 (1997)

619-628	Inversion walls in homeotropic nematic and cholesteric layers	J. M. Gilli; S. Thiberge; A. Vierheilig; F. Fried
629-644	Antiferroelectric and ferrielectric liquid crystalline low molar mass materials and polymers	S. Mery; D. Lotzsch; G. Heppke; R. Shashidhar
645-652	Thermal study of the influence of aerosils on the phase transitions of heptyloxybenzylidene butylaniline	H. Haga; C. W. Garland
653-658	Effect of molecular structure on the phase behaviour of some liquid crystalline compounds and their binary mixtures. I. 4-Hexadecyloxyphenyl-4-carboxybenzoate and 4-carboxyphenyl-4-hexadecyloxybenzoate	Magdi M. Naoum; G. Hohne; H. Seliger; E. Happ
659-666	Novel liquid crystal mixtures for a surface-stabilized ferroelectric LCD	Sei'Ichi Arakawa; Eriko Matsui; Kei'Ichi Nito; Akio Yasuda
667-676	The thermally sensitive characteristics of a (smectic LCP/ nematic LC/chiral dopant) ternary composite system	Yang Huai; Hirokaku Yamane; Hirotsuku Kikuchi; Zhang Guo; Chen Xinfang; Tisato Kajiyama
677-688	Simulation of reorientation dynamics in bipolar nematic droplets	Philip K. Chan; Alejandro D. Rey
689-698	Mesomorphic and dynamic properties of discotic alkanoyloxybenzene dimers as studied by X-ray and NMR: The effect of spacer length	S. Zamir; E. J. Wachtel; H. Zimmermann; S. Dai; N. Spielberg; R. Poupko; Z. Luz
699-708	An investigation of the porosity and surface roughness of liquid crystal alignment layers using neutron reflectivity	P. L. Phillips; R. M. Richardson; A. Zarbakhsh; S. D. Haslam
709-715	Systematic study of pretransitional orientational order at the free surface of nCB liquid crystals (n=5-12) in the isotropic phase	P. De Schrijver; C. Glorieux; W. Van Dael; J. Thoen
717-722	Time resolved X-ray diffraction studies of electric field induced layer motion in a chevron geometry smectic A liquid crystal device	A. S. Morse; H. F. Gleeson; S. Cummings
723-739	Collective and non-collective excitations in antiferroelectric and ferrielectric liquid crystals studied by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy and electro-optic measurements	M. Buivydas; F. Gouda; G. Andersson; S. T. Lagerwall; B. Stebler; J. Bomelburg; G. Heppke; B. Gestblom
741-748	Modelling of the simple shear flow of a flow-aligning nematic	Grzegorz Derfel; Barbara Radomska
749-758	Complex study of reorientational dynamics of the liquid crystal in PDLC films	M. Mucha; E. Nastal
759-769	N-Acyl-beta-D-glycopyranosylamines and 2-alkylamido-2- deoxy-alpha / beta-D-glucopyranoses: relationship between molecular structure and mesomorphism	D. F. Ewing; J. W. Goodby; J. A. Haley; S. M. Kelly; P. Letellier; G. Mackenzie

Volume 23, Issue 4 (1997)

467-473	WAXS studies of global molecular orientation induced in nematic liquid crystals by simple shear flow	J. A. Pople; G. R. Mitchell
475-479	Studies of the thermotropic mesophase behaviour exhibited by a highly asymmetric tetrabenzotriazaporphyrin derivative	E. A. Corsellis; H. J. Coles; N. B. Mckeown; P. Weber; D. Guillon; A. Skoulios
481-488	Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystalline behaviour of 4-alkoxyphenyl beta-D-glucopyranosides	Elly Smits; Jan B. F. N. Engberts; Richard M. Kellogg; Henk A. Van Doren
489-502	Structural aspects of the nematic-isotropic transition in liquid crystals: an investigation using a development of the Lebwohl-Lasher lattice model	Dominique Gonin; Alan Windle
503-510	On the flexoelectric effect in nematics	P. Rudquist; S. T. Lagerwall
511-518	Thickness dependent low frequency relaxations in ferroelectric liquid crystals with different temperature dependence of the helix pitch	V. Novotna; M. Glogarova; A. M. Bubnov; H. Sverenyak
519-524	Phase separation in polymer dispersed liquid crystals with two different reacting monomers	Z. Huang; G. Chidichimo; A. Golemme; H. A. Hakemi; M. Santangelo; F. P. Nicoletta
525-529	Freedericksz transitions in smectic liquid crystals in annular geometries	P. J. Barratt; B. R. Duffy
531-535	Observation of a chevron hybrid structure in the smectic A phase of a liquid crystal device	A. S. Morse; H. F. Gleeson
537-546	The synthesis and mesomorphic properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals with a fluorinated asymmetric frame	Yutaka Nagashima; Tetsuya Ichihashi; Koji Noguchi; Masayuki Iwamoto; Yoshio Aoki; Hiroyuki Nohira
547-550	Magnetic levitation of liquid crystals	Milind P. Mahajan; P. L. Taylor; Charles Rosenblatt
551-560	The forgotten liquid crystals of Daniel Vorlander: A new look at mesogenic 4-pyridones	Daniel J. Dyer; Victor Y. Lee; Robert J. Twieg
561-567	On the relation between tensor and vector approaches of nematodynamics	Masahiro Nakagawa
569-573	A re-entrant Col ho phase	W. Fimmen; B. Glusen; A. Kettner; M. Wittenberg; J. H. Wendorff
575-588	The synthesis and comparison of the liquid crystalline properties of certain 1-(4'-n-alkoxypolyfluorobiphenyl-4-yl)-2-(trans-4-n- pentylcyclohexyl)-ethenes and -ethanes carrying four, six or eight fluoro-substituents	A. S. Matharu; R. C. Wilson; D. J. Byron
589-596	Hysteresis and ferroelectric liquid crystal displays	Eriko Matsui; Nobuyuki Matsuzawa; Akio Yasuda
597-601	Crystal structure of 4-n-nonyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl	T. Manisekaran; R. K. Bamezai; N. K. Sharma; J. Shashidhara Prasad
603-612	Synthesis and characterization of new liquid crystalline monomers for non-linear optics. X-ray study of re-entrant nematic behaviour with smectic-like fluctuations of C-type	E. A. Soto Bustamante; W. Haase
613-617	Preliminary communication Multilayer light emitting diodes based on columnar discotics	Inga H. S. Tapff; Volker Stumpflen; Joachim H. Wendorff; Daniela B. Spohn; Dietmar Mobius

Volume 23, Issue 3 (1997)

313-315	Hexagonal columnar mesophases in oxygen-bridged dicopper complexes	Chung K. Lai; Min-Yi Lu; Fun-Jane Lin
317-325	A kinetics study of crystallization from discotic mesophases	Ziru He; Yue Zhao; Alain Caille
327-337	A simple molecular theory of the SmA nematic lake in highly polar compounds -SmA critical point and 1 d	A. S. Govind; N. V. Madhusudana
339-348	Heat capacities and phase transitions of the antiferroelectric liquid crystals MHPOBC and MHPOCBC	S. Asahina; M. Sorai; A. Fukuda; H. Takezoe; Y. Suzuki; I. Kawamura; K. Furukawa; K. Terashima
357-363	Synthesis of novel liquid crystal compounds with aromatic amide mesogenic cores	Dong Zhang; Qi-Feng Zhou; Yu-Guo Ma; Xin-Jiu Wang; Xin-Hua Wan; Xin-De Feng
365-369	Polymesomorphism in a homologous series of 2-(4-alkoxyphenyl)-5-(4-methylphenyl)pyridines	Tetsuya Asano; Mayo Uenoyama; Keiichi Moriya; Shinichi Yano; Shingo Takatani; Shinzo Kagabu
371-375	Surface tension measurements in freely suspended bubbles of thermotropic smectic liquid crystals	Ralf Stannarius; Christiane Cramer
377-388	A thermodynamic approach to the anchoring phenomenon in the nematic liquid crystal-substrate system	A. Poniewierski; A. Samborski
389-408	Blue phases and twist grain boundary phases (TGBA and TGBC) in a series of fluoro-substituted chiral tolane derivatives	Min-Hui Li; Valerie Laux; Huu-Tinh Nguyen; Gilles Sigaud; Philippe Barois; Noel Isaert
409-424	Thermotropic and lyotropic phase behaviour of monoalkyl glycosides	P. Sakya; J. M. Seddon
425-438	A new synthetic approach to side-chain liquid crystalline polyacrylates containing siloxane spacers and their thermal behaviours	Eiichi Akiyama; Norihiro Matsui; Yu Nagase
439-442	Preliminary communication First observation of an optically controlled electro-optic effect in nematic-discotic liquid crystals	David Sikharulidze; Gouram Chilaya; Klaus Praefcke; Dirk Blunk
443-445	Preliminary communication Anomalous behaviour of photoactive free-standing smectic films under illumination	E. I. Demikhov; M. John; K. Krohn
447-451	Preliminary communication Induction of the smectic phase in comb-shaped liquid crystalline ionogenic copolymers by hydrogen bond formation	E. B. Barmatov; D. A. Pebalk; M. V. Barmatova; V. P. Shibaev
453-456	Preliminary communication Thermotropic liquid crystals in main chain polyesters having a mesogenic 4,4-biphenyldicarboxylate unit. 9. Chain folding in solid polyesters crystallized from smectic A	Masatoshi Tokita; Kensuke Osada; Junji Watanabe
457-461	Preliminary communication Electron beam cured liquid crystal-polymer composite materials: electro-optical enhancement effect	Ulrich Maschke; Nicolas Gogibus; Andre Traisnel; Xavier Coqueret
463-465	Preliminary communication Optical investigation of the Goldstone mode in free-standing films of ferroelectric smectic C* phases	A. Becker; H. Stegemeyer

Volume 23, Issue 2 (1997)

157-173	A numerical technique for predicting microstructure in liquid crystalline polymers	John Hobdell; Alan Windle
175-184	Comparison of the anchoring of nematic liquid crystals on self-assembled monolayers formed from semifluorinated thiols and alkanethiols	William J. Miller; Vinay K. Gupta; Nicholas L. Abbott; Mei-Wei Tsao; John F. Rabolt
185-191	Effect of chirality on phase transitions in re-entrant liquid crystals	E. Gorecka; J. Mieczkowski; Li Chen
193-203	Numerical analysis of the radial-axial structure transition with an applied field in a nematic droplet	S. Komura; R. J. Atkin; M. S. Stern; D. A. Dunmur
205-212	Glass formation in the Gay-Berne nematic liquid crystal	A. M. Smondyrev; Robert A. Pelcovits
213-216	Determining the anchoring strength in a capillary using topological defects	Randall D. Kamien; Thomas R. Powers
217-225	Synthesis of fluorine-containing disazo dyes extended with ester linkages and their application to guest-host liquid crystal displays	M. Matsui; N. Tanka; K. Nakaya; K. Funabiki; K. Shibata; H. Muramatsu; Y. Abe; M. Kaneko
227-234	Liquid crystal phase diagram of the Gay-Berne fluid by density functional theory	Valeriy V. Ginzburg; Matthew A. Glaser; Noel A. Clark
235-239	Structural characterization of mono- and di-mesogenic organosiloxanes: The impact of siloxane content on biphenyl benzoate systems	Emily Corsellis; Daniel Guillon; Petra Kloess; Harry Coles
241-246	Memory effect in filled nematic liquid crystals	A. Glushchenko; H. Kresse; V. Reshetnyak; Yu. Reznikov; O. Yaroshchuk
247-253	Effect of structural changes on mesophase stability of some model compounds based on the aryl benzoate group	Magdi M. Naoum; H. Seliger; E. Happ
255-261	Electrooptic investigations of enantiomeric mixtures of the antiferroelectric liquid crystal TFMHPOBC	Jian-Feng Li; Jonathan J. Stott; Elizabeth A. Shack; Xin-Yi Wang; Rolfe G. Petschek; Charles Rosenblatt; Yoshi-Ichi Suzuki
263-267	New side chain liquid crystalline polysiloxanes containing 1,3-dithiane or 1,3-dioxane rings as mesogenic side groups	Yuichiro Haramoto; Masato Nanasawa
269-274	Thermotropic liquid crystals from alkali metal dihexadecylphosphates	D. Tsiourvas; D. Kardassi; C. M. Paleos; S. Gehant; A. Skoulios
275-283	Molecular and collective modes in ferroelectric liquid crystals studied by dielectric spectroscopy	S. Merino; F. De Daran; M. R. Dela Fuente; M. A. Perez Jubindo; T. Sierra
285-291	Non-linear optical properties of metallorganic ferroelectric liquid crystals	J. Ortega; C. L. Folcia; J. Etxebarria; M. B. Ros; J. A. Miguel
293-298	Photochemical phase transition behaviour of polymer azobenzene liquid crystals with flexible siloxane units as a side-chain spacer	Akihiko Kanazawa; Shigenobu Hirano; Atsushi Shishido; Makoto Hasegawa; Osamu Tsutsumi; Takeshi Shiono; Tomiki Ikeda; Yu Nagase; Eiichi Akiyama; Yuriko Takamura
299-307	High pressure optical studies of the chirality and phase behaviour of liquid crystalline blue phases	P. Pollmann; E. Voss
309-312	Preliminary communication Bi-mesogenic organosiloxane liquid crystal materials exhibiting antiferroelectric phases	W. K. Robinson; P. S. Kloess; C. Carboni; H. J. Coles

Volume 23, Issue 1 (1997)

1-8	Temperature induced anchoring transition in nematic liquid crystals with two-fold degenerate alignment	P. Jagemalm; L. Komitov
9-16	Smectic polymorphism of the 4-butyl-4-alkoxyazobenzenes and 4-pentyl-4-alkoxyazobenzenes	J. Zienkiewicz; Z. Galewski
17-25	A fractal model for the molecular organization in the alkylbenzenesulphonate/electrolyte/water system	D. Tezak; S. Puncec; M. Martinis
27-33	Evidence of nematic, hexagonal and rectangular columnar phases in thermotropic ionic liquid crystals	Franck Artzner; Michele Veber; Marianne Clerc; Anne-Marie Levelut
35-41	New carbohydrate amphiphiles I. Synthesis	Uwe Beginn; Sandra Keinath; Martin Moller
43-50	Orientation of temperature gradient-cooled ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals in restricted rectilinear space	T. Minato; K. Suzuki
51-58	The stabilization of smectic A phases in mixtures of twinned-calamitic, metal organic complexes with 2,4,7-trinitro-9-fluorenone	I. D. Fletcher; D. Guillon; B. Heinrich; A. Omenat; J. L. Serrano
59-67	Liquid crystallinity of newly synthesized glucose derivatives with mesogenic side chains	Bhavna Hirani; Hiroshi Kou-Shou; Junji Watanabe
69-75	The synthesis and properties of some mesomorphic cyclohexene derivatives	V. S. Bezborodov; R. Dabrowski; J. Dziaduszek; V. F. Petrov
77-86	Polarization and dielectric properties of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal	J. W. O'Sullivan; J. K. Vij; H. T. Nguyen
87-92	A novel ferroelectric liquid crystal having a trifluoromethyl group at the chiral centre	Yoshio Aoki; Hiroyuki Nohira
93-111	Pattern formation and non-linear phenomena in stretched discotic liquid crystal fibres	L. Wang; A. D. Rey
113-126	Electric field studies of liquid crystal droplet suspensions	Eleanor M. De Groot; Gerald G. Fuller
127-136	The effects of the bulkiness of terminal chains on the stability of smectics deduced from the crystal structures of isomeric chiral biphenyl esters	Shoko Kurogoshi; Kayako Hori
137-146	Poly(L-lysine) containing azobenzene units in the side chains: influence of the degree of substitution on liquid crystalline structure and thermotropic behaviour	Bernard Gallot; Marc Fafiotte
147-153	Freeze-fracture electron microscopy of thermotropic cubic and columnar mesophases	Bertrand Donnio; Duncan W. Bruce

Volume 22, Issue 6 (1997)

669-677	Effect of a lateral substituent on the mesomorphic properties of ferroelectric side chain liquid crystalline polysiloxanes	Chain-Shu Hsu; Chia-Hsun Tsai
679-684	A small angle neutron scattering study of the conformation of a side chain liquid crystal poly(methacrylate) in the smectic C phase	I. W. Hamley; J. P. A. Fairclough; S. M. King; J. Skov Pedersen; R. M. Richardson; C. T. Imrie; A. A. Graig
685-692	Backbone effects on the anchoring of side-chain polymer liquid crystals	B. Jerome; J. Commandeur; W. H. De Jeu
693-696	Mesomorphic behaviour of 4-benzoyloxybenzoic acid and its binary mixture with 4-acetoxybenzoic acid	Jing Yuan; Guang-Li Zhang; Di-Yun Huang
697-704	Mole fraction dependence of physical properties for a binary cyanobiphenyl liquid crystal system	Atsushi Kubono; Hitoshi Suenaga; Hitoshi Hayashi; Ryuichi Akiyama; Katsufumi Tanaka
705-710	Specific optical properties of blends of cholesteric copolymers	N. I. Boiko; V. V. Kitaev; V. P. Shibaev
711-719	The effect of a lateral aromatic branch on the orientational ordering of laterally alkoxy substituted nematics	Felix Perez; Patrick Judeinstein; Jean-Pierre Bayle; Frederick Roussel; B. M. Fung
721-726	Structural compatibility of smectic sublayers: liquid crystals from oxynitrostilbene derivatives of dialkyldimethylammonium bromides	F. Tittarelli; P. Masson; A. Skoulios
727-733	Experimental investigation of the compressible continuum theory of a homeotropically aligned ferroelectric liquid crystal	A. Mazzulla; J. R. Sambles
735-742	Crystal and liquid crystal behaviour of N-cyanoalkyl-N-alkyl-N,N -dimethylammonium bromides: Role of the dipole interactions of the cyano groups	M. Arkas; C. M. Paleos; A. Skoulios
743-747	Relationship between order parameter and physical constants in fluorinated liquid crystals	H. Ishikawa; A. Toda; H. Okada; H. Onnagawa
749-751	Vitrification and water induced crystallization of zinc(II) dodecylbenzene sulphonate	Farshad Motamedi
753-756	Preliminary Communication Characterisation by X-ray diffraction of the S4 phase of some silver(I) complexes of alkoxystilbazoles	Anne-Marie Levelut; Bertrand Donnio; Duncan W. Bruce

Volume 22, Issue 5 (1997)

525-530	Modelling monopolar and bipolar switching in ferroelectric liquid crystal devices using a three variable theory	D. S. Pabla; S. J. Elston
531-534	Dynamics of vacancy defects in 2-D crystalline monolayers under chiral smectic thin films studied by scanning tunnelling microscopy	F. Stevens; D. J. Dyer; D. M. Walba; R. Shao; N. A. Clark
535-541	Twist grain boundary states in non-chiral smectogen-chiral dopant	N. L. Kramarenko; V. I. Kulishov; L. A. Kutulya; G. P. Semenkova; V. P. Seminozhenko; N. I. Shkolnikova
543-547	Rotation in a magnetic field of nematic liquid crystalline samples with a negative anisotropy of their magnetic susceptibility	Elisabetta Ciampi; James W. Emsley
549-555	Are nematic side-on polymers totally extended? A SANS study	S. Lecommandoux; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin; A. Brulet; J. P. Cotton
557-561	The effect of a lateral substituent on the mesomorphic properties in a series of ferroelectric liquid crystals with a 2-alkoxypropionate unit	M. Kaspar; V. Hamplova; S. A. Pakhomov; I. Stibor; H. Sverenyak; A. M. Bubnov; M. Glogarova; P. Vanek
563-566	The self-assembly and lyotropic mesomorphism of riboguanylic acids (GMP)	Giovanni Gottarelli; Gloria Proni; Gian Piero Spada
567-574	Influence of the thickness of a Ni x O y support on the reflected wavelength from cholesteric liquid crystals	M. Koui; H. S. Karayannis; M. Kartsonakis
575-578	Elastic constants of uniaxial nematic liquid crystals of non-cylindrically symmetric molecules	T. K. Lahiri; K. Rajesh; S. Singh
579-583	Temperature-dependent FTIR study of a supramolecular mesophase from the self-assembly of melamine and barbituric acid derivatives	Wensheng Yang; Xiangdong Chai; Yanqing Tian; Siguang Chen; Yunwei Cao; Ran Lu; Yueshun Jiang; Tiejin Li
585-594	Non-linear solutions for smectic C liquid crystals in wedge and cylinder geometries	R. J. Atkin; I. W. Stewart
595-603	Fluorescence behaviour of cyanobiphenyl liquid crystal molecules in liquid crystal/polymer composite films	Shinji Kato; Bong Lee; Chyongjin Pac
605-608	Proposal of a new method to determine tilt angles of absorption transition moments in host-guest liquid crystal cells	Horst W. Becker; Joachim Bargon
609-620	The effect of hydrogen bonding, molecular shape, dipole moments, and chain length on the mesomorphism of some D-glucose and D-glucosamine derivatives	P. Letellier; D. F. Ewing; J. W. Goodby; J. Haley; S. M. Kelly; G. Mackenzie
621-630	Stabilization and induction of discotic mesophases by trifluoroacetic acid	L. Calucci; H. Zimmermann; E. J. Wachtel; R. Poupko; Z. Luz
631-642	The synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of the 1,2,4,5-tetrasubstituted benzenes with (4-tridecyloxyphenyl)ethynyl and (4-tridecyloxyphenyl)carbonyloxy substituents	W. D. J. Amilaprasadh Norbert; John W. Goodby; Michael Hird; Kenneth J. Toyne
643-653	Glasses of new 2,3,9,10,16,17,23,24-octasubstituted phthalocyanines forming thermotropic and lyotropic discotic mesophases	H. Eichhorn; D. Wohrle; D. Pressner
655-657	Preliminary communication Lyotropic mesomorphism of AB block copolymers in a nematic solvent	Mathias Walther; Heino Finkelmann
659-660	Preliminary communication Photopyroelectric investigation of the thermal conductivity anisotropy in oriented liquid crystals	J. Caerels; E. Schoubs; J. Thoen
661-667	Preliminary communication A novel class of heterocyclic liquid crystals with broad smectic C phase	Hong-Cheu Lin; Long-Li Lai; Wei Pin Hsieh; Wen-Yao Huang

Volume 22, Issue 4 (1997)

379-390	The in-plane switching of homogeneously aligned nematic liquid crystals	Masahito Oh-E; Katsumi Kondo
391-400	Dependence of viewing angle characteristics on pretilt angle in the in-plane switching mode	Masahito Oh-E; Makoto Yoneya; Masuyuki Ohta; Katsumi Kondo
401-407	Investigations on the field-induced switching behaviour in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal	J. Hou; J. Schacht; F. GIEssELMANN; P. Zugenmaier
409-417	Temperature and bias-field dependences of dielectric behaviour in the antiferroelectric liquid crystal, (R)-MHPOBC	J. Hou; J. Schacht; F. GIEssELMANN; P. Zugenmaier
419-425	A surface-induced transition in polymeric nematics	Paolo Biscari; Epifanio G. Virga
427-443	Amphiphilic N-benzoyl-1-amino-1-deoxy-D-glucitol derivatives forming thermotropic lamellar, columnar and different types of cubic mesophases	Konstanze Borisch; Siegmar Diele; Petra Goring; Henning Muller; Carsten Tschierske
445-449	The flexoelectro-optic effect in cholesterics	P. Rudquist; T. Carlsson; L. Komitov; S. T. Lagerwall
451-457	Novel atropoisomeric binaphthyl-containing liquid crystalline copolymers forming chiral nematic phases	V. P. Shibaev; H. J. DEUssEN; A. Yu. Bobrovsky; P. V. Shibaev; N. I. Boiko; T. Bjornholm; K. Schaumburg; K. Bechgaard
459-462	Dielectric characterization of substituted diols	B. Gestblom; H. Kresse; C. Tschierske; S. Urban
463-468	Shear flow induced deformations of planar cholesteric layers	Grzegorz Derfel; Dariusz Krzyzanski
469-475	Properties of liquid crystal molecules from first principles computer simulation	S. J. Clark; C. J. Adam; G. J. Ackland; J. White; J. Crain
477-482	Conformational energy landscapes of liquid crystal molecules	S. J. Clark; C. J. Adam; D. J. Cleaver; J. Crain
483-495	Hydroxy-functionalized liquid crystalline polyazomethines II. Study of new central cores and synthesis of coordination polymers	J. Barbera; P. Cerrada; L. Oriol; M. Pinol; J. L. Serrano; P. J. Alonso
497-508	The effect of substituent position on the liquid crystalline properties of dodecyl-D-xylitols	John W. Goodby; Julie A. Haley; Marcus J. Watson; Grahame Mackenzie; Stephen M. Kelly; Philippe Letellier
509-513	Preliminary Communication : Induction of smectic A phases by electron donor-acceptor interaction between calamitic mesogens and 2,4,7-trinitrofluorenone	Bernhard Neumann; Detlev Joachimi; Carsten Tschierske
515-517	Preliminary Communication : Generation of high pretilt angles of nematic liquid crystal (5CB) on rubbed organic solvent soluble polyimide surfaces with helical backbone structure and trifluoromethyl moieties	Dae-Shik Seo; Michinori Nishikawa; Shunsuke Kobayashi
519-523	Preliminary communication : Development of an incremental system for the prediction of the nematic-isotropic phase transition temperature of liquid crystals with two aromatic rings	Thies Thiemann; Volkmar Vill

Volume 22, Issue 3 (1997)

223	Obituary Professor Victor Vasil'evich Titov (1935-1996)	V. P. Shibaev
225-238	Studies on the texture of nematic solutions of a rod-like polymer 1. Distortion of the director field in a magnetic field	Beibei Diao; Guy C. Berry
239-243	Influence of non-mesogenic impurities on a nematic to isotropic phase transition	Prabir K. Mukherjee
245-253	Electro-optical properties of 4,4-bis-[omega-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4yloxy)alkyloxy]biphenyls nematics	Nikolai V. Tsvetkov; Vjacheslav V. Zuev; Victor N. Tsvetkov
255-264	Multiple scattering of light from polymer dispersed liquid crystal material	Jaap H. M. Neijzen; Henk M. J. Boots; Frank A. M. A. Paulissen; Martin B. Van Der Mark; Hugo J. Cornelissen
265-273	beta-Diketone, pyrazole and isoxazole derivatives with polar groups: Liquid crystalline and non-linear optical properties	Joaquin Barbera; Raquel Gimenez; Jose Luis Serrano; Rafael Alcala; Belen Villacampa; Julio Villalba; Isabelle Ledoux; Joseph Zyss
275-277	Calorimetric study of heptyloxybenzylidene butylaniline in silica aerogels	Hisashi Haga; Carl W. Garland
279-286	Optical noise and dynamical properties of liquid crystal comb polymers with different mesogenic groups	P. Allia; P. Taverna; L. Trossi; B. Gallot; Siyuan He
287-296	Polymer dispersed liquid crystals: relation between formulation, electro-optical properties and morphology	C. Grand; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin
297-300	Dynamics of the field-induced twist deformation in weakly anchored nematic layers	Grzegorz Derfel; Barbara Gajewska
301-307	Fitting reflectivity data from liquid crystal cells using genetic algorithms	D. J. Mikulin; D. A. Coley; J. R. Sambles
309-316	Indication of ferroelectricity in columnar mesophases of pyramidic molecules	A. Jakli; A. Saupe
317-326	A perturbed hard-sphere-chain equation of state for nematic liquid crystals and their mixtures with polymers	Toshiaki Hino; John M. Prausnitz
327-333	Two new measurement methods for determining TN structure	Ken Sumiyoshi; Yoriko Hatada
335-339	Calorimetric study of phase transitions for octylphenylthiolpentyloxybenzoate in silica aerogels	B. Zhou; G. S. Iannacchione; C. W. Garland
341-348	A study of the self-assembly of 2-deoxyguanosine 3 5-cyclic monophosphate, d(cGp), by CD and X-ray diffraction	Gian Piero Spada; Stefania Bonazzi; Anna Garbesi; Stefania Zanella Federica Ciuchi; Paolo Mariani
349-358	U-Shaped dimeric liquid crystals derived from phthalic acid	G. S. Attard; A. G. Douglass
359-365	Phase behaviour of aqueous hydroxypropylcellulose mesophase mixtures: Molecular weight considerations	Bo-Chy Wang; Richard J. Spontak
367-378	Substitution effects on the liquid crystalline properties of D,L-xylitol amphiphiles	John W. Goodby; Julie A. Haley; Marcus J. Watson; Grahame Mackenzie; Stephen M. Kelly; Philippe Letellier; Olivier Douillet; Paul Gode; Gerard Goethals; Gino Ronco; Pierre Villa

Volume 22, Issue 2 (1997)

99-106	Orientational order of p-n-alkoxybenzylidene-p-fluoroanilines. X-ray diffraction and electro-optic response of the chiral (S)-p-2-methylbutyloxy derivative	L. Calucci; O. Francescangeli; C. Gandolfo; L. Komitov; C. A. Veracini
107-111	Laterally 4-nitrobenzyloxycarbonyl substituted phenyl benzoates: The first two-ring mesogens with a lateral branch containing a phenyl ring	Andrea Jacobi; Wolfgang Weissflog
113-119	Core-halogenated, helical-chiral triphenylene-based columnar liquid crystals	Klaus Praefcke; Andreas Eckert; Dirk Blunk
121-135	On Poiseuille flow of liquid crystals	M. Carme Calderer; Bagisa Mukherjee
137-144	Liquid crystalline compounds in the thiophene series XIII. Synthesis and characterization of ‘oligomeric’ liquid crystalline model compounds with vinylene units, thiophene ring systems and hexamethylene chains	GERHARD KOssMEHL; Frank Dirk Hoppe
145-156	Polymerization-induced phase separation III. Morphologies and contrast ratios of polymer dispersed liquid crystals	C. Serbutoviez; J. G. Kloosterboer; H. M. J. Boots; F. A. M. A. Paulissen; F. J. Touwslager
157-164	Structure of polymer networks in liquid crystals studied by 13C NMR	A. Riede; S. Grande; A. Hohmuth; W. Weissflog
165-169	A database for the determination of orientational ordering of nine classes of liquid crystals using carbon-13 chemical shifts	T. -H. Tong; B. M. Fung; J. P. Bayle
171-175	A detailed derivation of extended Jones matrix representation for twisted nematic liquid crystal displays	A. Lien
177-183	Synthesis of a series of chiral copolymers with azo groups and investigations of reversible liquid crystalline alignment induced by the LB films of these materials	Yanqing Tian; Yanzhi Ren; Ruipen Sun; Yingying Zhao; Xinyi Tang; Ximin Huang; Shiquan Xi
185-192	A technique for measurement of pretilt angles arising from alignment layers	Marie-Pierre Cuminal; Monique Brunet
193-201	Influence of spacer variation on phase behaviour of liquid crystalline copolymethacrylates containing cholesteryl and S-(-)-4-chloropropionyloxybiphenyl-4-yl groups	S. Weidner; D. Wolff; J. Springer
203-210	Segmental orientation and mobility of ferroelectric liquid crystal polymers	S. V. Shilov; H. Skupin; F. Kremer; E. Gebhard; R. Zentel
211-215	Dielectric behaviour of two dimeric liquid crystalline siloxanes	A. Hohmuth; B. Schiewe; S. Heinemann; H. Kresse
217-222	Effects of fluorination extent and direction of ester group in semiperfluorinated phenyl benzoate FLCs on mesomorphic properties	Hong Liu; Hiroyuki Nohira

Volume 22, Issue 1 (1997)

1-9	A deuterium NMR investigation of polymorphism in benzene pizzanes	L. Calucci; S. Zamir; D. Singer; H. Zimmermann; E. J. Wachtel; R. Poupko; Z. Luz
11-16	The tumbling or flow-aligning nature of nematics as predicted from the Slightly Bending Rod molecular model	F. Greco; G. Marrucci
17-22	Metal-containing liquid crystals with potential application in optical storage devices	Sukrit Tantrawong; Peter Styring
23-28	Enantiotropic nematic phases of quaternary ammonium halide salts based on trioctadecylamine	N. Sharma; G. A. Nagana Gowda; C. L. Khetrapal; R. G. Weiss
29-35	Kerr effect studies on mixtures of liquid crystals	L. Schneider; J. H. Wendorff
37-46	FLCs with a five-membered ring in the mesogenic core	R. Iglesias; J. L. Serrano; T. Sierra
47-50	Some novel disaccharide-derived liquid crystals	Thomas Hanemann; Elcio Schumacher; Wolfgang Haase; Frieder W. Lichtenthaler
51-60	Liquid crystalline behaviour of hydrogen bonded complexes of a non-mesogenic anil with p-n-alkoxybenzoic acids	Z. Sideratou; D. Tsiourvas; C. M. Paleos; A. Skoulios
61-64	A note on proton cross-relaxation in polymer dispersed liquid crystals	O. Jarh; M. Vilfan
65-74	The packing of azobenzene dye moieties and mesogens in polysiloxane copolymers and its impact on the opto-dielectric effect	B. Fischer; C. Thieme; T. M. Fischer; F. Kremer; T. Oge; R. Zentel
75-85	Molecular organization in liquids consisting of anisometric molecules: Monte Carlo simulations and comparison with theories	Michele Vacatello; Mariacristina Iovino
87-96	New cholesteric liquid crystals induced by intermolecular hydrogen bonding	Yanqing Tian; Xiaohe Xu; Yingying Zhao; Xinyi Tang; Tiejin Li
97	First Announcement BLCS 1997

Volume 21, Issue 6 (1996)

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769-776	Novel memory effect found in nematic liquid crystal/fine particle system	Masaya Kawasumi; Naoki Hasegawa; Arimitsu Usuki; Akane Okada
777-782	Rotation relaxation in a side chain liquid crystal polymer in the vicinity of the nematic-isotropic transition temperature	E. I. Rjumtsev; S. G. Polushin; K. N. Tarasenko; E. B. Barmatov; V. P. Shibaev
783-790	TGB_A phase in a series of propionates containing two stereocenters	Shung-Long Wu; Wen-Jiunn Hsieh
791-799	The magnetic field-induced deformations in nematic layers with non-zero splay-bend elastic constant	Grzegorz Derfel
801-806	Synthesis and properties of some laterally substituted liquid crystals	V. S. Bezborodov; R. Dabrowski; V. F. Petrov; V. I. Lapanik
807-815	Steep electro-optical response of nematic liquid crystalline molecules induced by addition of polymeric chains	Shigeru Kibe; Hirotsugu Kikuchi; Tisato Kajiyama
817-827	Effects of polymer surface structures on liquid crystal alignment studied with molecular dynamics simulations	Makoto Yoneya; Yasushi Iwakabe
829-839	Antiferroelectric behaviour of achiral mesogenic polymer mixtures	E. A. Soto Bustamante; S. V. Yablonskii; B. I. Ostrovskii; L. A. Beresnev; L. M. Blinov; W. Haase
841-846	Birefringence measurements of liquid crystals and an application: An achromatic waveplate	Peter Kohns; Jörg Schirmer; Anatoli A. Muravski; Sergei Ye. Yakovenko; Vladimir Bezborodov; Roman Dãbrowski
847-853	Measurement of the viscosity of ferroelectric liquid crystals in free-standing films	G. Hauck; H. D. Koswig; C. Selbmann
855-864	Evidence for lateral chain conformation change in the solid phase of substituted nematogens	F. Perez; P. Judeinstein; J. P. Bayle; H. Allouchi; M. Cotrait; E. Lafontaine
865-869	A backflow effect in smectic C liquid crystals in a bookshelf geometry	P. J. Barratt; B. R. Duffy
871-876	Director fluctuations in inhomogeneously ordered nematic liquid crystals: An extension of elastic molecular field	P. Ziherl; S. Žumer
877-883	The conformation of phenyl benzoate when dissolved in a nematic liquid crystalline solvent	J. W. Emsley; M. I. C. Furby; G. De Luca
885-891	Enaminoketones as new hydrogen bonded liquid crystals	Wieslaw Pyzuk; Ewa Gorecka; Adam Krowczynski; Damian Pociecha; Jadwiga Szydlowska; Jan Przedmojski; Li Chen
893-901	Arch-texture in cholesteric liquid crystals	J. Baudry; M. Brazovskaia; L. Lejcek; P. Oswald; S. Pirkl

Volume 21, Issue 6 (1996)

903-907	Polarized electroluminescence of light emitting liquid crystalline polymers	G. Lüssem; F. Geffarth; A. Greiner; W. Heitz; M. Hopmeier; M. Oberski; C. Unterlechner; J. H. Wendorff
909-914	Director configuration of a ferroelectric liquid crystal in a cell with antiparallel surface tilt	L. Z. Ruan; J. R. Sambles; J. Seaver
915-921	Tricritical behaviour of the smectic A to smectic C transition for binary liquid crystal mixtures	Thilo Dollase; B. M. Fung
923-925	New pyridinium type ionic liquid crystal compounds with a 1,3-dioxane ring in the principal structure	Yuichiro Haramoto; Seiji Ujiie; Masato Nanasawa
927-932	A ²H NMR study of orientational order, phase transitions and dynamics in a liquid crystalline compound	D. Catalano; E. Ciampi; K. Fodor-Csorba; C. Forte; M. Geppi; D. Imbardelli
933-934	Book reviews

Volume 21, Issue 5 (1996)

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603-608	Liquid crystalline phases of perfluorinated compounds with segregated sublayers	S. Diele; D. Lose; H. Kruth; G. Pelzl; F. Guittard; A. Cambon
609-618	The role of hydrogen bonding on a hydroxylated liquid crystal, bis [4-(5-hydroxypentyloxycarbonyl)phenylene] terephthalate	Chih-Hsiung Lin; Yen-Long Hong; Fu-Shan Yen; Jin-Long Hong
619-623	New disc-shaped triarylamino-1,3,5-triazines with heteroaromatic central cores	Daniela Goldmann; Dietmar Janietz; Reinhard Festag; Claudia Schmidt; Joachim H. Wendorff
625-630	On the thermal behaviour of palladium (II) macrocyclic polycatenars	Francesco Neve; Mauro Ghedini; Oriano Francescangeli
631-643	Synthesis and thermal properties of dimeric alkoxy-substituted tolans	Igor L. Rozhanskii; Ikuyoshi Tomita; Takeshi Endo
645-650	Critical behaviour of the cholesteric to nematic transition in an electric field	Serguey V. Shiyanovskii; Julia G. Terentieva
651-661	On the influence of the Frank elasticity on the magnetic reorientation of nematic polymers	J. P. Casquilho; L. N. Gon�alves; A. F. Martins
663-667	Observations of the break-up of liquid crystalline polymer threads imbedded in an isotropic fluid	V. T. Tsakalos; P. Navard; E. Peuvrel-Disdier
669-682	Synthesis of perfluoroalkylated azo dyes and their application to guest-host liquid crystal display	M. Matsui; H. Nakagawa; B. Joglekar; K. Shibata; H. Muramatsu; Y. Abe; M. Kaneko
683-694	Novel glass-forming liquid crystals. IV. Effects of central core and pendant group on vitrification and morphological stability	Shaw H. Chen; John C. Mastrangelo; Thomas N. Blanton; A. Bashir-Hashemi; Kenneth L. Marshall
695-706	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some biphenyl-phenyl triesters as potential longitudinal ferroelectrics	S. S. Keast; M. E. Neubert; R. G. Petschek
707-711	Relaxation time of polymer ball type PDLC films	Shoou-Jinn Chang; Yuh-Cheng Yin; Chin-Maw Lin; Andy Y. G. Fuh
713-726	Crossed fields induced periodic deformations in nematics: Effect of weak anchoring	U. D. Kini
727-732	Determination of coherence length of a smectic liquid crystal	M. Osipov; J. R. Sambles; F. Yang
733-743	Spontaneously created ring structures in free-standing liquid crystal films and their dependence on temperature and material parameters	C. Dasc�lu; G. Hauck; H. D. Koswig; U. Labes
745-749	Surface-induced pretransitional order in the isotropic phase near the isotropic-nematic phase transition	P. De Schrijver; W. Van Dael; J. Thoen
751-753	Mössbauer spectroscopy of ferrocene in a crystal G liquid crystal	Robert P. Marande; Nathan Viswanathan
755-758	Microsecond studies of layer motion in a ferroelectric liquid crystal device	H. F. Gleeson; A. S. Morse
759-763	Estimation of microscopic rubbing alignment parameters	A. J. Pidduck; G. P. Bryan-Brown; S. D. Haslam; R. Bannister
765-766	Reversible electro-optical switching of a memory type PDLC using two-frequency-addressing liquid crystals	Naoki Hasegawa; Masaya Kawasumi; Arimitsu Usuki; Akane Okada

Volume 21, Issue 4 (1996)

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449-459	Synthesis and characterization of new ferroelectric liquid crystals containing a phenyl biphenyl carboxylate mesogenic group and oligooxyethylene spacers	Ging-Ho Hsiue; Jung-Lung Wu; Jr-Hong Chen
461-467	Synthesis of Schiff's base and azo liquid crystalline crown ethers	Ming-Gui Xie; Ming-Sheng Peng; Qing Jiang; Zi-Lun Hu; Xue-Jun Wang
469-483	Novel liquid crystalline structures of a chiral side chain polymer and its phase transitions	L. S. Li; X. J. Hong; S. I. Stupp
485-503	S_CA and S_� phases in chiral non-symmetric dimesogens	V. Faye; A. Babeau; F. Placin; H. T. Nguyen; P. Barois; V. Laux; N. Isaert
505-510	Fluorescence study of a thermotropic liquid crystal: Bis (p-hexyloxyphenyl) terephthalate	Hiromitsu Takahashi; Kazuyuki Horie; Takashi Yamashita; Masato Sone; Junji Watanabe
511-521	Polar phases in chiral thiobenzoate liquid crystals	P. Simeão Carvalho; M. Glogarová; M. R. Chaves; H. T. Nguyen; C. Destrade; J. C. Rouillon; S. Sarmento; M. J. Ribeiro
523-530	Influence of structure on smectic A-smectic A phase separation	P. Gorria; H. T. Nguyen; R. J. Twieg; K. Betterton; G. Sigaud
531-541	Novel ferroelectric liquid crystals and dopants for induced ferroelectric phases containing 3,4-epoxy-2-octanols as chiral unit	Günter Scherowsky; Dirk Hentschel
543-555	Surface memory effect in nematics with smectic C short-range order and hydrogen bonded molecules	Minko P. Petrov; Lyubomir V. Tsonev
557-563	Helical twisting power of laterally aryl substituted chiral mesogens	C. Stützer; W. Weissflog; H. Stegemeyer
565-574	Synthesis, characterization, electro-optical studies and crystal structure of a chiral mesogenic compound	Isabelle Zaréba; Hassan Allouchi; Michel Cotrait; Marie-Flore Nabor; Christian Destrade; Huu Tinh Nguyen
575-580	In situ determination of glass transition temperatures in thin polymer films	C. Benecke; K. Schmitt; M. Schadt
581-584	On the effects of doping calamitic and discotic nematics with materials of the opposite aspect ratio	T. J. Phillips; V. Minter; J. C. Jones
585-587	On the mesomorphism of hydrogen bonded complexes formed between decyloxystilbazole and phthalic acid	Kimerley Willis; Joanne E. Luckhurst; Daniel J. Price; Jean M. J. Fréchet; Hideyuki Kihara; Takashi Kato; Goran Ungar; Duncan W. Bruce
589-596	Coupling of liquid crystalline and polymer network properties in LC-elastomers	M. Brehmer; R. Zentel; F. Gießbtelmann; R. Germer; P. Zugenmaier
597-601	Relationship between the magnetic field induced orientation in the mesophases of metallomesogens derived from Schiff's bases and their mesophase structure	P. J. Alonso; J. I. Martínez

Volume 21, Issue 3 (1996)

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295-305	Synthesis and thermotropic properties of new discotic 1,3,5-trisubstituted s-triazinetriones obtained by cyclotrimerization of isocyanates	Christoph Irle; Werner Mormann
307-312	Liquid crystalline side group polymers with azo-chromophores and fluorinated tails of varying length	Ralf Ruhmann; Thomas Thiele; Dietmar Wolff; Dietrich Prescher; Jürgen Springer
313-316	Synthesis of diaza-crown-ether cholesteric liquid crystals	Ming-Gui Xie; Shi-Kui Liu; Gang-Liu; Long-Zhang Li; Qing Jiang
317-325	Anisotropic liquid crystalline epoxy thermoset	E. Amendola; C. Carfagna; M. Giamberini; L. Komitov
327-340	New 6,6′-disubstituted-binaphthol derivatives as chiral dopants: Synthesis and temperature dependence of molecular conformations	H-J. Deuβen; P. V. Shibaev; R. Vinokur; T. Bjørnholm; K. Schaumburg; K. Bechgaard; V. P. Shibaev
341-346	New liquid crystal polymers with 1,3-dithiane or 1,3-dioxane rings	Yuichiro Haramoto; Masato Nanasawa; Seiji Ujiie
347-359	Molecular dynamics simulations of liquid crystal molecules on a polyimide monolayer	Makoto Yoneya; Yasushi Iwakabe
361-364	Cholesteric pitch of rigid and semi-flexible chiral liquid crystals	Robert A. Pelcovits
365-371	High pressure differential thermal analysis of dimer liquid crystals: α, ω-Bis [(4,4′-cyanobiphenylyl) oxy] alkanes	Yoji Maeda; Hidemine Furuya; Akihiro Abe
373-382	Understanding the dependence of the transitional properties of liquid crystal dimers on their molecular geometry	A. Ferrarini; G. R. Luckhurst; P. L. Nordio; S. J. Roskilly
383-388	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of naphth-2-yl 2-pyridylmethyl ketones and their copper (II) complexes	Andreja Šuste; Davorka Moslavac; Vitomir Šunjić
389-395	Dielectric relaxation study of 1-n hexyl-4-(4-isothiocyanatophenyl)bicyclo [2,2,2] octane in the nematic and isotropic phases	D. Bauman; P. Kędziora; C. Legrand; J. Jadzyn
397-413	Structure of surface-stabilized antiferroelectric liquid crystals cells	J. Sabater; J. M. Otón
415-426	Molecular ordering in microconfined liquid crystals: An infrared linear dichroism study	H. Binder; H. Schmiedel; G. Lantzsch; C. Cramer; G. Klose
427-435	Discrimination and analysis of the NMR spectra of enantiomers dissolved in chiral liquid crystal solvents through 2D correlation experiments	P. Lesot; D. Merlet; J. Courtieu; J. W. Emsley
437-447	Molecular modelling of liquid crystal systems: An internal coordinate Monte Carlo approach	Mark R. Wilson

Volume 21, Issue 2 (1996)

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157-174	Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals: Preparation, operation and application	L. Bouteiller; P. Le Barny
175-187	Statistical model of greyscale in antiferroelectric liquid crystal cells	J. Sabater; J. M. Otón
189-195	Synthesis and properties of new mesomorphic side-on systems	N. Leroux; L-C. Chien
197-201	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some aryl β-D-C-glycosides	M. Veber; E. Cheylan; S. Czernecki; J. Xie
203-208	The temperature behaviour of a ferroelectric smectic mixture and the detection of ferroelectric switching by NMR	M. Winkler; A. Gil; D. Geschke
209-216	A tilted ferroelectric smectic phase emerging from monomer/polymer mixtures	Alexander Beer; Günter Scherowsky; H. Cackovic; Harry Coles
217-223	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some novel chiral fluorinated liquid crystals containing a flexible oxymethylene linkage in the core	Huiyong Yin; Jianxun Wen
225-232	Transient excited-state absorption of the liquid crystal CB15 [4-(2-methylbutyl)-4-cyanobiphenyl] in its isotropic phase	G. E. O'Keefe; J. C. De Mello; G. J. Denton; K. J. McEwan; S. J. Till
233-236	Enhancement of second harmonic generation in helical S_c liquid crystals	Martin Čopič; Irena Drevenšek-Olenik
237-241	A convenient method of synthesis of mesomorphic 2,5-disubstituted cyclohexan-1-ones by a catalytic reduction of 3,6-disubstituted cyclohex-2-en-1-ones	V. Bezborodov; G. Sosnovskij; R. Dabrowski; J. Dziaduszek; J. Schirmer; P. Kohns
243-253	Cubic bond orientational order in the liquid crystalline blue phases	Jochen Englert; Lech Longa; Hans-Rainer Trebin
255-263	Liquid crystalline compounds in the thiophene series. X. Synthesis and characterization of liquid crystalline vinylenes with thiophene and benzene moieties	Frank Dirk Hoppe; Gerhard Koβmehl
265-271	Studies of nematic-isotropic transition for a Gay-Berne fluid using the second virial approximation	Valeriy V. Ginzburg; Matthew A. Glaser; Noel A. Clark
273-277	Mean-field behaviour of the low frequency non-linear dielectric effect in the isotropic phase of nematic and smectic n-alkylcyanobiphenyls	A. Drozd-Rzoska; S. J. Rzoska; J. Zioło
279-289	An investigation into the effect of lateral fluoro substitution in the molecular core on the spontaneous polarization of chiral cyclohexanes	S. J. Lock; J. W. Goodby; M. Hird; K. J. Toyne
291-293	Chiral butadiene-tricarbonyliron liquid crystal complexes; racemates and enantiomers	Philippe Jacq; Jacques Malthěte

Volume 21, Issue 1 (1996)

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1-12	Liquid crystalline carbosilane dendrimers: First generation	S. A. Ponomarenko; E. A. Rebrov; A. Yu. Bobrovsky; N. I. Boiko; A. M. Muzafarov; V. P. Shibaev
13-17	The homologous series of some new six-ring double-swallow-tailed compounds	W. Weissflog; M. Rogunova; I. Letko; S. Diele; G. Pelzl
19-23	Studies of polymer ball type polymer dispersed liquid crystal films	S. J. Chang; C. M. Lin; A. Y. G. Fuh
25-30	Supramolecular ferroelectric liquid crystals. Hydrogen-bonded complexes between benzoic acids and chiral stilbazoles	Hideyuki Kihara; Takashi Kato; Toshiyuki Uryu; Seiji Ujiie; Uday Kumar; Jean M. J. Fréchet; Duncan W. Bruce; Daniel J. Price
31-37	Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric modes in a new chiral thiobenzoate liquid crystal	P. Simeão Carvalho; M. R. Chaves; C. Destrade; Huu Tinh Nguyen; M. Glogarová
39-50	Columnar mesophases of octa-alkyloxydibenzopyrenes and their charge transfer complexes: Synthesis, X-ray and NMR	S. Zamir; D. Singer; N. Spielberg; E. J. Wachtel; H. Zimmermann; R. Poupko; Z. Luz
51-63	Synthesis and liquid crystalline properties of novel laterally connected twins	Jens Andersch; Carsten Tschierske
65-71	Synthesis and transition temperatures of novel fluorinated chiral liquid crystals containing 1,4-tetrafluorophenylene units	Yuelian Xu; Weili Wang; Qi Chen; Jianxun Wen
73-86	Self-assembly of twin tapered bisamides into supramolecular columns exhibiting hexagonal columnar mesophases. Structural evidence for a microsegregated model of the supramolecular column	Goran Ungar; Darija Abramic; Virgil Percec; James A. Heck
87-93	Influence of spacer lengths on the properties of chiral triplet liquid crystals based on estradiol	Antonius T. M. Marcelis; Arie Koudijs; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter
95-102	Synthesis, characterization and crystal structure of mesogenic compounds with an alkyloxy and a semi-perfluorinated chain. Influence of the alkyloxy chain length on molecular arrangement and molecular interactions	Philippe Kromm; Michel Cotrait; Huu Tinh Nguyen
103-113	Synthesis and liquid crystalline properties of novel laterally connected trimesogens and tetramesogens	Jens Andersch; Siegmar Diele; Dirk Lose; Carsten Tschierske
115-119	New temperature scan method (TSM) for revealing the chiral smectic polar phases	P. Simeão Carvalho; M. Glogarová; M. R. Chaves; C. Destrade; Huu Tinh Nguyen
121-131	Synthesis, characterization and crystal structures of two polyphilic mesogenic compounds	Philippe Kromm; Michel Cotrait; Jean Claude Rouillon; Philippe Barois; Huu Tinh Nguyen
133-142	Adequate measuring techniques for ions in liquid crystal layers	C. Colpaert; B. Maximus; A. De Meyere
143-146	Preliminary Communications Thermotropic liquid crystal behaviour of 5,5′-[(4-hexadecyloxyphenyl)ethynyl]-2,2′-bipyridine	Abdelkrim El-Ghayoury; Laurent Douce; Raymond Ziessel; Rachid Seghrouchni; Antoine Skoulios
147-151	Angular dependence of absorbance on the polarization angle of an IR beam in liquid crystals	A. Kocot; R. Wrzalik; J. K. Vij
153-155	Mesomorphic self-assembly of 1,3-Diacylaminobenzenes	Daniela Pucci; Michèle Veber; Jacques Malthěte

Volume 20, Issue 6 (1996)

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673-679	The influence of a γ-oxygen in the spacer of liquid crystal side group polysiloxanes on their ferroelectric properties	Günter Scherowsky; Ute Fichna; Dietmar Wolff
681-689	Synthesis and characterization of chiral smectic C liquid crystalline terpolysiloxanes	Andy J. Walz; Ibrahim G. Shenouda; L. -C. Chien
691-696	Side-on liquid crystal polyacrylate in Langmuir–Blodgett films	C. Jego; N. Leroux; B. Agricole; C. Mingotaud
697-704	Theoretical study of layer alignment in shear flow of smectic A liquid crystals	T. Carlsson; F. M. Leslie
705-714	Synthesis, micro structure, and thermal stability of side chain liquid crystalline polysiloxane polymers with an oligo (ethylene oxide) unit in the side chain	Guo-Ping Chang-chien; Jen-Feng Kuo
715-720	Multiple dielectric relaxations in liquid crystals, their analysis and interpretation
721-729	Anomalous relaxation of a twisted cell under an external magnetic field: The nearly homogeneous relaxation	Luca Carlotti; Sandro Faetti; Maurizio Nobili
731-739	On the nematic-nematic phase transition in mixtures composed of sheet-shaped palladium organyls and apolar organic solvents	N. Usol'tseva; G. Hauck; H. D. Koswig; K. Praefcke; B. Heinrich
741-749	Modulating the spontaneous polarization of a ferroelectric liquid crystal via the photoisomerization of a chiral thioindigo dopant: (R,R)-6,6′-bis(1-methylheptyloxy) thioindigo	Liviu Dinescu; Robert P. Lemieux
751-755	Structure-property correlations of new materials comprising of a cyclic enone for TFT-LCD applications	Louise D. Farrand; Y. Utsumi; H. Kagawa; K. Kondo
757-763	Monte Carlo simulations on mesophase formation using dipolar Gay–Berne model	Katsuhiko Satoh; Shigeru Mita; Shoichi Kondo
765-770	Structural analysis by X-ray diffraction of a non-polar alkenyl liquid crystalline compound	A. Nath; S. Gupta; P. Mandal; S. Paul; H. Schenk
771-775	Birefringence in the smectic and hexatic chiral phases of CE-8	I. Muševič; M. ŠKarabot; R. Blinc; W. Schranz; P. Dolinar
777-784	Comparison of calculated and observed CD spectra of liquid crystalline dispersions formed from double-stranded DNA and from DNA complexes with coloured compounds	V. A. Belyakov; V. P. Orlov; S. V. Semenov; S. G. Skuridin; Y. M. Yevdokimov
785-796	Liquid crystalline oxygen containing heterocyclic derivatives	V. S. Bezborodov; V. F. Petrov; V. I. Lapanik
797-806	Elastic constants of uniaxial nematic liquid crystals: A comparison between theory and experiment	Shri Singh
807-809	Functional organic gels. Enantioselective elution using chiral gels from amino acid-derived lipids	Hirotaka Ihara; Ken Shudo; Chuichi Hirayama; Hiroshi Hachisako; Kimiho Yamada
811-814	Some studies on liquid crystals incorporating three membered linking units combined with 1,3 linked rings	Richard Buchecker; Martin Schadt
815-823	The ferro-, ferri- and antiferro-electric properties of a series of novel 2- or 3-substituted-alkyl 4-(4′-dodecyloxybiphenyl-4-carbonyloxy)-benzoate esters	Christopher J. Booth; David A. Dunmur; John W. Goodby; Kenneth J. Toyne
825-829	Photoinduced ordering and alignment properties of polyvinylcinnamates	G. P. Bryan-brown; I. C. Sage
831-833	X-ray and magnetic birefringence studies of some lanthanide metallomesogens with Schiff's base ligands	Yury G. Galyametdinov; Galina Ivanova; Igor Ovchinnikov; Andrey Prosvirin; Daniel Guillon; Benoît Heinrich; David A. Dunmur; Duncan W. Bruce

Volume 20, Issue 5 (1996)

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493-515	The Effect Of The Position And Configuration Of Carbon–Carbon Double Bonds On The Mesomorphism Of Thermotropic, Non-Amphiphilic Liquid Crystals	S. M. Kelly
517-525	A relationship between dielectric permittivity of the nematic continuous phase material and the shear stresses of electro-rheological fluids containing liquid crystalline materials	Christopher Malins; David Lacey
527-538	Flow patterns and disclination-density measurements in sheared nematic liquid crystals I: Flow-aligning 5CB	P. T. Mather; D. S. Pearson; R. G. Larson
539-546	Flow patterns and disclination-density measurements in sheared nematic liquid crystals II: Tumbling 8CB	P. T. Mather; D. S. Pearson; R. G. Larson
547-552	Re-entrant and induced mesophases: Mixed systems showing re-entrant TGB_A and re-entrant cholesteric phases	Volkmar Vill; Hanns-Walter Tunger; Daniel Peters
553-557	Liquid crystalline side group polymers with fluorine-containing azo-chromophores	Dietmar Wolff; Ralf Ruhmann; Thomas Thiele; Dietrich Prescher; Jürgen Springer
559-567	Polarizerless electro-optic IR shutter based on a cholesteric scattering effect	A. E. Stieb
569-575	The conformation of the aromatic rings relative to the alkyl chain in 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl	J. W. Emsley; G. De Luca; G. Celebre; M. Longeri
577-579	Cross-sectional observations of the cholesteric texture in a Cano wedge cell	Shin Masuda; Toshiaki Nose; Usumu Sato
581-586	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of fluorinated liquid crystals obtained from optically active 2-fluoro-octanol	Hong Liu; Hiroyuki Nohira
587-593	Phase behaviour of copolymers containing cholesterol and 4-methoxybiphenyl as mesogenic groups	S. Weidner; D. Wolff; J. Springer
595-606	Angular and frequency dependent spin relaxation study of liquid crystalline cyanobiphenyls	J. Struppe; F. Noack
607-610	Mesogenic properties of 1,2,3-tri-[3′-(4″-alkoxyphenyl)-3′-oxo-1′-propenylamino]propane	Adam Krowczynski; Ewa Gorecka; Damian Pociecha; Jadwiga Szydlowska; Jan Przedmojski
611-618	On chirality induction in lyotropic nematic liquid crystals	J. Partyka; K. Hiltrop
619-625	Supramolecular side chain liquid crystal polymers II. Interaction of mesogenic acids and amorphous polymers	David Stewart; Corrie T. Imrie
627-633	A plastic columnar discotic phase D_p	B. Glüsen; W. Heitz; A. Kettner; J. H. Wendorff

Volume 20, Issue 5 (1996)

635-640	Dielectric relaxation in ‘diluted’ siloxanes with swallow-tailed side groups	B. Schiewe; H. Kresse
641-646	Switching dynamics of first order phase transition FLCs on a polymer rubbed surface	A. M. Biradar; S. Hiller; W. Haase; E. P. Haridas; S. S. Bawa; S. Chandra
647-651	Novel liquid crystals having a thiocyano group at the terminal position	Hiroaki Okamoto; Mitsuaki Hayashi; Shunsuke Takenaka
653-664	Twist grain boundary and antiferroelectric smectic C* phases in a new chiral compound	L. Navailles; H. T. Nguyen; P. Barois; N. Isaert; P. Delord
665-668	Flow past finite obstacles in smectic liquid crystals: permeative flow induced S_A to S_C phase transition	H. G. Walton; I. W. Stewart; M. J. Towler
669-672	Symmetry-breaking and symmetry-recovering occurring during coalescence of nematic droplets with a bipolar structure	Wei Wang; Takeji Hashimoto

Volume 20, Issue 4 (1996)

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381-385	The cellular optical texture of the lyotropic nematic phase of the caesium pentadecafluoro-octanoate(CsPFO)/water system in cylindrical tubes	John D. Bunning; John E. Lydon
387-392	Achiral swallow-tailed materials with ‘antiferroelectric-like’ structure and their potential use in antiferroelectric mixtures	Christopher J. Booth; David A. Dunmur; John W. Goodby; Julie Haley; Kenneth J. Toyne
393-398	Liquid crystal properties of N-alkyl(ethylpyridinium) bromides ω-substituted with a mesogenic group	E. Bravo-grimaldo; D. Navarro-Rodríguez; A. Skoulios; D. Guillon
399-409	Molecular theory of smectic C liquid crystals	E. Velasco; L. Mederos; T. J. Sluckin
411-415	Experimental observation of multicritical points with TGB phases on a pure compound	A. Anakkar; A. Daoudi; J. -M. Buisine; N. Isaert; F. Bougrioua; H. T. Nguyen
417-422	Layer-thinning transitions in free-standing smectic A films	L. V. Mirantsev
423-435	Command surfaces 12 [1]. Factors affecting in-plane photoregulation of liquid crystal alignment by surface azobenzenes on a silica substrate	Kunihioro Ichimura; Haruhisa Akiyama; Kazuaki Kudo; Norio Ishizuki; Shigeo Yamamura
437-447	Synthesis and evaluation of a series of novel 2-substituted poly(allylalcohol) side chain liquid crystalline oligomers exhibiting ferroelectricity	A. W. Hall; D. Lacey; J. S. Hill; K. M. Blackwood; M. Jones; D. G. McDonnell; I. C. Sage
449-452	Cholesteric helix inversion: Novel nitro compounds showing unusual changes of the cholesteric helical pitch	Volkmar Vill; Hanns-Walter Tunger; Katrin Hensen; Horst Stegemeyer; Karsten Diekmann
453-458	New ways to produce and measure low pre-tilt angles	J. T. Gleeson
459-467	Oligomeric 1,3,5-triazines containing disc-shaped penta-alkyne and triphenylene side groups	D. Janietz; R. Festag; C. Schmidt; J. H. Wendorff
469-482	Lamellar-non-lamellar phase transitions in synthetic glycoglycerolipids studied by time-resolved X-ray diffraction	Rumiana Tenchova; Boris Tenchov; Hans-JÜRgen Hinz; Peter J. Quinn
483-487	A new high temperature mesophase of a double-swallow-tailed compound with weak optical anisotropy	W. Weissflog; A. Saupe; I. Letko; S. Diele; G. Pelzl
489-492	Magnetic properties of rare-earth β-enaminoketone metallomesogens	Ildar Bikchantaev; Yury G. Galyametdinov; Olga Kharitonova; Igor V. Ovchinnikov; Duncan W. Bruce; David A. Dunmur; Daniel Guillon; Benoît Heinrich

Volume 20, Issue 3 (1996)

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267-276	Ferrielectric smectic phases: Liquid crystal structure and macroscopic fluctuations	V. L. Lorman
277-282	Dynamic mechanical properties of cyclohexane-based glass-forming liquid crystals and a linear side chain polymer analogue	Hongqin Shi; Shaw H. Chen; Mike E. De Rosa; Timothy J. Bunning; W. Wade Adams
283-286	The effect of fluorocarbon tails on the phase behaviour of some Schiff's base liquid crystals	W. J. Cumming; R. A. Gaudiana
287-292	Tolane oligomers: Model thermotropic liquid crystals	Robert J. Twieg; Vano Chu; Cattien Nguyen; Christine M. Dannels; Christopher Viney
293-301	Dual alignment of liquid crystals under non-equilibrium conditions	Matthew L. Magnuson; B. M. Fung
303-309	Cell thickness dependence of dielectric properties of ferroelectric liquid crystal (CS-1022)	Hidekazu Miyata; Masaki Maeda; Ikuo Suzuki
311-319	Crystal structures of ferro- and antiferroelectric mesogens with a 1-methylalkoxycarbonyl group	Kayako Hori; Sumie Kawahara
321-330	Structure of planar solitons in nematic and smectic liquid crystals	N. Andal; G. S. Ranganath
331-335	Temperature induced surface transitions in liquid crystal tilted homogeneous cells	R. Moldovan; S. Frunza; T. Beica; M. Tintaru
337-348	Liquid crystalline paracyclophane derivatives	Detlev Joachimi; Peter R. Ashton; Christiane Sauer; Neil Spencer; Carsten Tschierske; Kerstin Zab
349-359	Preparation and evaluation of polyimide layers as materials for nematic liquid crystal orientation	Małgorzata Okulska-Bozek; Tomasz Prot; Jerzy Borycki; Jerzy Kedzierski
361-365	A chiral material with a new phase sequence: Twist grain boundary smectic A phase—blue phases	Min-Hui Li; Huu-Tinh Nguyen; Gilles Sigaud
367-371	Synthesis of novel liquid crystals having the perfluoropyrrolidino group	Yoshio Hayakawa; Eiji Hayashi; Haruhiko Fukaya; Naohiro Terasawa; Takashi Abe; Kota Omori; Koichi Murai
373-376	Novel PDLC type display based on cellulose derivatives	M. H. Godinho; A. F. Martins; J. L. Figueirinhas
377-379	Optoelectronic polarizer by PDLC	F. Bloisi; C. Ruocchio; P. Terrecuso; L. Vicari

Volume 20, Issue 2 (1996)

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105-108	On the validity of the elastic model for the nematic surface anchoring energy	S. Ponti; L. R. Evangelista
109-118	A study of the electroclinic effect in the smectic A* phase of mixtures with strongly chiral alkoxybiphenyl-phenyl carboxylate dopants	Jaskaran S. Kang; David A. Dunmur; Christopher J. Booth; John W. Goodby; Kenneth J. Toyne
119-124	Structure of the liquid crystalline state in hexakis (4-(4′-alkyloxy)biphenoxy)cyclotriphosphazenes	Anne Marie Levelut; Keiichi Moriya
125-138	The synthesis of nitroaniline monomers and polymers as non-linear optical ferroelectric liquid crystals	X. H. Chen; R. P. Herr; K. Schmitt; R. Buchecker
139-145	Synthesis of a new series of chiral Schiff's bases and their copper complexes	Yanqing Tian; Fengyu Su; Peixiang Xing; Yingying Zhao; Xinyi Tang; Xiaoguang Zhao; Enle Zhou
147-159	Flow-alignment and viscosity rules for single-phase binary mesomorphic mixtures	Alejandro D. Rey
161-169	Command surfaces 14 [1]. Photoregulation of in-plane alignment of a liquid crystal by the photoisomerization of stilbenes chemisorbed on a substrate silica surface	Kunihiro Ichimura; Hidetoshi Tomita; Kazuaki Kudo
171-176	Command surfaces 15 [1]. Photoregulation of liquid crystal alignment by cinnamoyl residues on a silica surface	Hidetoshi Tomita; Kazuaki Kudo; Kunihiro Ichimura
177-182	Pretransitional effects at the isotropic-mesomorphic phase transitions in the TBAA series	S. Lakshminarayana; C. R. Prabhu; D. M. Potukuchi; N. V. S. Rao; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
183-193	Mesomorphic 2,2′-bipyridine diesters and their related metal complexes	Kathryn E. Rowe; Duncan W. Bruce
195-200	Intermolecular interactions in mixtures of dichroic dyes with n-alkyl-4-(4-isothiocyanatophenyl)bicyclo[2,2,2]octanes	Danuta Bauman; Aldona Wasik; Jan Jadzyn
201-217	Dipolar relaxation mechanisms in the vitreous state, in the glass transition region and in the mesophase, of a side chain polysiloxane liquid crystal	João F. Mano; Natália T. Correia; Joaquim J. Moura-ramos; Stuart R. Andrews; Graham Williams
219-224	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of novel phenacylpyridines and their copper (II) complexes	Andreja Šuste; Vitomir Šunjić
225-234	Temperature behaviour of a liquid crystal comb polymer: Light scattering and noise of the scattered light	P. Allia; C. Oldano; M. Rajteri; P. Taverna; L. Trossi; B. Gallot; F. Monnet
235-242	5,5′-Substituted-2,2′-bipyridines: A new series of liquid crystalline materials	Laurent Douce; Raymond Ziessel; Rachid Seghrouchni; Antoine Skoulios; Eduardo Campillos; Robert Deschenaux
243-245	On the observation of flow-induced order in the isotropic phase of a nematic discogen	T. J. Phillips; V. Minter
247-251	Surface molecular relaxation in smectic C* phase as studied by dielectric spectroscopy	A. M. Biradar; S. Hiller; S. A. Pikin; W. Haase
253-260	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 6-n-decyloxy-2-[4′-N-alkoxyphenylimino)methyl]quinolines (IV)	C. Zúñiga; J. Belmar; M. Parra; A. Ramírez; J. Decap; B. Ros; J. L. Serrano
261-264	Synthesis and characterization of block copolymers having liquid crystalline behaviour	Yang Hongli; Wu Xuqin; Li Shijin
265	The Ericksen Number And Deborah Number Cascades In Sheared Polymeric Nematics	R. G. Larson; D. W. Mead

Volume 20, Issue 1 (1996)

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1-8	Synthesis and physical properties of liquid crystals having a chlorine atom in the lateral position of a benzene ring	V. Bezborodov; R. Dabrowski; J. Dziaduszek; K. Czuprynski; Z. Raszewski
9-16	Elastic theory for Langmuir–Blodgett films	A. L. Alexe-ionescu; G. Barbero; A. Th. Ionescu; A. K. Zvezdin
17-22	Anchoring energy for the nematic liquid crystal–Langmuir Blodgett film interface	A. L. Alexe-ionescu; G. Barbero; S. Ponti
23-28	A pyroelectric liquid crystal polymer (PLCP) for second-harmonic generation	A. Hult; F. Sahlén; M. Trollsås; S. T. Lagerwall; D. Hermann; L. Komitov; P. Rudquist; B. Stebler
29-34	Dynamics of chiral antiferroelectric liquid crystal materials exhibiting the S*_C_α phase	M. ČEpiČ; B. ŽEkš
35-40	New side chain LC polysiloxanes with carbonyl-bound chiral terminal group	Mikhail V. Kozlovsky; Eduardo Arturo Soto Bustamante; Wolfgang Haase
41-44	Rubbing induced orientation of a side chain liquid crystalline polymer with high pretilt angle	V. N. Raja; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. W. Kang; J. C. Lee; S. S. Lee; S. H. Jin
45-57	Synthesis and characterization of new ferroelectric liquid crystals containing a (2S)-2-[6-(4-hydroxybiphenyl-4′-carbonyloxy)-2′- naphthyl] propionate mesogenic group and oligo(oxyethylene) spacers	Ging-Ho Hsiue; Cheng-Pei Hwang; Jr-Hong Chen; Rong-Chi Chang
59-66	Dielectric properties of the nematic liquid crystal 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl in porous membranes	Stanislaw A. Rozanski; Ralf Stannarius; Herbert Groothues; Friedrich Kremer
67-76	Mesomorphic behaviour, single crystal and low angle variable temperature X-ray diffraction studies of the chloro-bridged cyclopalladated dimer obtained from 4,4′-hexyloxyazobenzene	A. Crispini; M. Ghedini; S. Morrone; D. Pucci; O. Francescangeli
77-93	Novel 2-(4-octylphenyl)pyridin-5-yl alkanoates and alkenoates: Influence of dipoles and chain conformation on smectic C formation	S. M. Kelly; J. Fünfschilling
95-98	Kerr-effect in solutions and molecular polarity of liquid crystalline fluorenes	E. I. Rjumtsev; A. P. Kovshik; N. P. Yevlampieva; G. Kossmehl; M. Schulz
99-102	Induction of the smectic A_d phase in polar systems II. Role of steric effects in the smectic A_d phase induction	M. Brodzik; R. Dabrowski
103-104	X-ray diffraction studies of the liquid crystal phases formed by certain 4′-n-alkylbiphenyl-4-yl 5-n-alkylthiophene-2-carboxylates	John D. Bunning; Jane L. Butcher

Volume 19, Issue 6 (1995)

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717	Editorial	G. W. Gray
719-727	Phase behaviour and electro-optic characteristics of a polymer stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal	C. Allan Guymon; Erik N. Hogga; David M. Walba; Noel A. Clark; Christopher N. Bowman
729-741	Liquid crystals for AMLCD and TFT-PDLCD applications	V. F. Petrov
743-748	Synthesis and variable-temperature FTIR study of five chiral liquid crystals induced by intermolecular hydrogen bonding	Yanqing Tian; Fengyu Su; Yingying Zhao; Xuyang Luo; Xinyi Tang; Xiaoguang Zhao; Enle Zhou
749-753	Computer simulation of chiral liquid crystal phases. IV. Intermolecular chirality transfer to rotamers in a cholesteric phase	R. Memmer; H. -G. Kuball; A. Schönhofer
755-758	Thermo-mechanical and electro-optical properties of polymer dispersed liquid crystal films	Y. W. Jin; S. J. Im; J. H. Sung; C. H. Noh; D. S. Sakong
759-764	Fluoroalkylated discotic liquid crystals	U. Dahn; C. Erdelen; H. Ringsdorf; R. Festag; J. H. Wendorff; P. A. Heiney; N. C. Maliszewskyj
765-774	Liquid crystal properties of some substituted pyrazines	J. W. Brown; D. T. Hurst; J. P. O'donovan; D. Coates; J. D. Bunning
775-778	The effect of a lateral methoxy group on the mesomorphic properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals	M. Kašpar; H. Sverenyák; V. Hamplová; M. Glogarová; S. A. Pakhomov; P. Vaněk; B. Trunda
779-783	Dielectric relaxation in coexisting nematic and smectic B phases	D. A. Dunmur; S. P. Farnan; C. I. Murray
785-790	Effects of stereochemistry, mesogenic core and spacer length on crystallization from nematic and isotropic melts of cyclohexane-based glass-forming liquid crystals	Hongqin Shi; Shaw H. Chen
791-795	Polymerization induced phase separation (PIPS) in a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) system: A Monte-Carlo simulation approach	Jian-Min Jin; K. Parbhakar; L. H. Dao
797-801	Polymer networks formed in liquid crystals	Y. K. Fung; D. -K. Yang; S. Ying; L. -C. Chien; S. Zumer; J. W. Doane
803-806	Broad liquid crystalline temperature range of ferroelectric liquid crystals	Jr-Hong Chen; Ging-Ho Hsiue; Cheng-Pei Hwang; Jung-Lung Wu
807-810	New fluorescent mesogens with benzopyran-4[H] one heterocyclic moiety	N. K. Chudgar; M. K. Parekh; S. S. Madhavrao; H. C. Sharma
811-821	Liquid crystalline 2,5-disubstituted pyridine derivatives	A. I. Pavluchenko; V. F. Petrov; N. I. Smirnova
823-832	On the temperature dependence of the order parameter of liquid crystals over a wide nematic range	Matthew L. Magnuson; B. M. Fung; J. P. Bayle
833-837	Characterization by mirage effect technique of dye diffusion in columnar discotic liquid crystals	M. Daoud; G. Louis; X. Quélin; M. Gharbia; A. Gharbi; P. Peretti

Volume 19, Issue 6 (1995)

839-847	Unsymmetrically disubstituted mesogens with a phenyl ring containing lateral branch. Crystal and molecular structure of smectogenic 4-nitrobenzyl 2-(3-chloro-4-n-octyloxybenzoyloxy)-5-(4-n-octyloxybenzoyloxy)benzoate	Helmut Hartung; Frank Hoffmann; Cornelia Stützer; Wolfgang Weissflog
849-861	Novel glass-forming liquid crystals. III Helical sense and twisting power in chiral nematic systems	Hongqin Shi; Shaw H. Chen
863-869	Tricritical points of smectic A to nematic phase transitions for binary liquid crystal mixtures containing cyanobiphenyls	Collin W. Cross; B. M. Fung
871-881	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some disubstituted unsymmetrical phenyl-1,2,4,5-tetrazines	Christine M. Hudson; Mary E. Neubert; A. M. Lackner; J. D. Margerum; E. Sherman
883-885	Molecular theory for the Leslie viscosities of nematics	R. G. Larson; L. A. Archer
887-889	Stable glass formation by a hexagonal ordered columnar mesophase of a low molar mass phthalocyanine derivative	Kevin E. Treacher; Guy J. Clarkson; Neil B. McKeown
891-893	The relationship between the polar anchoring strength and the memory capability of surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals on rubbed polyimide surfaces	Dae-Shik Seo

Volume 19, Issue 5 (1995)

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549-555	Solidification-induced and shear-induced band texture in thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer films	Song Wenhui; Chen Shouxi; Jin Yongze; Qian Renyuan
557-563	Multilayered crystalline structures and liquid crystalline phases in a mesogen with siloxane tails	Cary A. Vieth; Edward T. Samulski; N. Sanjeeva Murthy
565-572	Fluorescent ferroelectric liquid crystalline copolyacrylates	Alexander Beer; Günter Scherowsky; Hywel Owen; Harry Coles
573-579	On the determination of orientational order parameters in liquid crystals from Raman scattering: CB9 revisited	M. Sidir; R. Farhi
581-587	X-ray diffraction study of ‘side-on fixed’ homopolysiloxanes from nematic to smectic C phases	M. F. Achard; S. Lecommandoux; F. Hardouin
589-594	Helix twist inversion in ferroelectric liquid crystals with one chiral centre	M. Kašpar; E. Górecka; H. Sverenyák; V. Hamplová; M. Glogarová; S. A. Pakhomov
595-602	Restructuring space ordering of (DNA-protamine) complexes in liquid crystalline dispersions under proteolytic enzyme treatment	S. G. Skuridin; J. Hall; A. P. F. Turner; Yu. M. Yevdokimov
603-613	Magnetic exchange effects in nematogenic Schiff's base Cu(II) complexes. An EPR study	J. I. Martínez; M. Marcos; J. L. Serrano; V. M. Orera; P. J. Alonso
615-620	Liquid crystal properties of novel diacetylenes having a pyridine end group	J. Wright; G. H. W. Milburn; A. R. Werninck; A. J. Shand
621-627	Ferroelectric liquid crystalline side group polymers derived from mesogenic vinyl ether monomers	G. Scherowsky; U. Fichna; D. Wolff
629-635	Phase transitions between smectic A phases as well as smectic C* phases and undulated structures in terminal non-polar compounds	P. Göring; G. Pelzl; S. Diele; P. Delavier; K. Siemensmeyer; K. H. Etzbach
637-642	Mössbauer studies of DNF and FMA in a smectic B liquid crystal	Robert P. Marande; Nathan Viswanathan
643-646	Solidification-induced and shear-induced band texture in thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer films	I. Letko; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; W. Weissflog
647-651	Quasi-uniaxial treatment of elasticity in smectic C* liquid crystals	S. Stallinga; G. Vertogen
653-658	Dynamics of FLCs with a tilted bookshelf structure using time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy	Keiichi Nito; Hidehiko Takanashi; Akio Yasuda
659-665	Comparative investigations of linear and cyclic siloxanes with a swallow-tailed liquid crystal as side chain	B. Schiewe; H. Kresse
667-673	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some bisegmented compounds derived from 4,4′-disubstituted biphenyl	F. Guittard; P. Sixou; A. Cambon

Volume 19, Issue 5 (1995)

675-677	Binuclear liquid crystals incorporating dia- or para-magnetic transition metals	Wieslaw Pyzuk; Adam Krowczynski; Li Chen; Ewa Gorecka; Ildar Bickczantaev
679-691	Ordered structure of thermotropic liquid crystalline copolymers 2. Observation of annihilation kinetics of wedge disclinations	Toshio Shiwaku; Akemi Nakai; Wei Wang; Hirokazu Hasegawa; Takeji Hashimoto
693-698	X-ray diffraction studies of the liquid crystal phases of certain 4-n-alkoxyphenyl 4-(5-n-alkyl-2-thienyl)benzoates	John D. Bunning; Jane L. Butcher; David J. Byron; Avtar S. Matharu; Robert C. Wilson
699-702	Crystal structure of 4′-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (5CB)	T. Hanemann; W. Haase; I. Svoboda; H. Fuess
703-709	Lattice melting at the clearing point in frustrated systems	J. W. Goodby; D. A. Dunmur; P. J. Collings
711-713	Liquid crystalline phase transitions in cyclotriphosphazenes with different mesogenic moieties in the side chains	K. Moriya; T. Suzuki; S. Yano; M. Kajiwara

Volume 19, Issue 4 (1995)

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401-407	Topological point defects in liquid crystalline polymers	John Hobdell; Alan Windle
409-414	Synthesis of fluorinated naphthylphenylacetylenic and naphthylphenyldiacetylenic liquid crystals	C. S. Hsu; K. T. Tsay; A. C. Chang; S. R. Wang; S. T. Wu
415-419	Shear aligned polymer dispersed ferroelectric liquid crystal devices	C. M. Leader; W. Zheng; J. Tipping; H. J. Coles
421-425	Dielectric permittivity properties of a fulgide dye guest-host liquid crystal	H. Allinson; H. F. Gleeson
427-431	A simple and reliable method for measuring the liquid crystal anchoring strength coefficient	Dong-Feng Gu; Serif Uran; Charles Rosenblatt
433-440	Side chain liquid crystal polymers observed by transmission electron microscopy: Microstructure of polymethacrylates and a polyacrylate	V. Tournier-lasserve; A. Boudet; P. Sopéna
441-448	Discotic columnar liquid crystals in oligosaccharide derivatives III. Anomeric effects on the thermo-mesomorphic properties of cellobiose octa-alkanoates	A. Takada; N. Ide; T. Fukuda; T. Miyamoto; K. Yamagata; J. Watanabe
449-458	New method and results of Raman studies of non-diffusional reorientational dynamics of molecules in the nematic phase	S. Ye. Yakovenko; A. A. Minko; B. Arnscheidt; J. Pelzl
459-467	Isotropic-cholesteric phase transition in colloidal suspensions of filamentous bacteriophage fd	Jianxin Tang; Seth Fraden
469-480	Optical properties of stretched polymer dispersed liquid crystal films: Angle-dependent polarized light scattering	Oleg A. Aphonin
481-488	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of cyanurates and isocyanurates. Branched mesogens as model crosslinks for liquid crystalline thermosets	Werner Mormann; Jörg G. Zimmermann
489-496	Atomic force microscopy characterization and liquid crystal aligning effect of polymerizable diacetylene Langmuir Blodgett films	Dong-Feng Gu; Charles Rosenblatt; Zili Li
497-500	Organic lyotropic lamellar liquid crystals	Thomas P. Rieker
501-509	Thermotropic liquid crystalline comb-like polymers with polyacrylamide main chain. (2) Influence of the nature of the substituents of the biphenyl mesogenic core	Bernard Gallot; Florence Monnet; Siyuan He
511-517	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 4-n-alkoxy 4′-[4-((4-n-alkoxy-2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-phenyl)ethynyl)benzyloxy]benzoates	Jianxun Wen; Huiyong Yin; Minquan Tian; Qi Chen
519-536	Alkyl/alkenyloxy phenyl/biphenylpyrimidines: Dependence of the liquid crystal transition temperatures on the position of the nitrogen atoms and the position and configuration of carbon-carbon double bonds	S. M. Kelly; J. Fünfschilling
537-539	The synthesis and mesomorphism of a new series of silver(I) complexes showing glassy mesophases	Duncan W. Bruce; Bertrand Donnio; Daniel Guillon; Benoit Heinrich; Mohammed Ibn-elhaj
541-544	A re-entrant smectic C phase in a sequence smectic C–oblique columnar–smectic C–nematic	W. Weissflog; M. Rogunova; I. Letko; S. Diele; G. Pelzl
545-547	Determination of Leslie's viscosities with high accuracy directly from the electro-optic response of a LCD	O. Cossalter; D. A. Mlynski

Volume 19, Issue 3 (1995)

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295-300	Synthesis of some chiral liquid crystals and study of the effect of intramolecular hydrogen bonding on the phase behaviour	Yanqing Tian; Xiaohe Xu; Yingying Zhao; Xinyi Tang; Fengyu Su; Xiaoguang Zhao; Enle Zhou
301-305	Mesomorphic N-alkylpyridinium dodecylsulphates	Duncan W. Bruce; Siân Estdale; Daniel Guillon; Benoît Heinrich
307-311	Photopolymerization induced orientation transition in a nematic liquid crystal cell	Zili Li
313-318	Textures and defects in lyotropic liquid crystals of ethyl-cyanoethyl cellulose	Y. Huang; J. R. Shen
319-320	A new ionic liquid crystal compound with viologen group in the principal structure	Y. Haramoto; M. Yin; Y. Matukawa; S. Ujiie; M. Nanasawa
321-324	Amorphous twisted nematic liquid crystal displays: The characteristics and the theoretical considerations	Shi-De Cheng; Zheng-Min Sun
325-331	Bifurcational analysis of the isotropic-discotic nematic phase transition in the presence of extensional flow	Alejandro D. Rey
333-338	Orientational ordering of liquid crystals containing a difluoro-substituted phenyl ring	Matthew L. Magnuson; B. M. Fung; Martin Schadt
339-344	Some dynamic features of the preparation of liquid crystalline elastomers	Conor J. Twomey; Thomas N. Blanton; Kenneth L. Marshall; Shaw H. Chen; Stephen D. Jacobs
345-352	Change of the lateral chain conformation in the solid and the nematic phase in laterally substituted nematogens	F. Perez; P. Berdagué; P. Judeinstein; J. P. Bayle; H. Allouchi; D. Chasseau; M. Cotrait; E. Lafontaine
353-365	Lyotropic mesomorphism of alkyl esters of acyl-L-carnitines	Paolo De Maria; Sara Frascari; Paolo Mariani; Letizia Saturni; Gian Piero Spada; Maria Ornella Tinti
367-371	²H NMR study of phase transitions and orientational order in a side chain liquid crystal polymer: Evidence of a nematic-nematic transition	R. Muzzalupo; G. A. Ranieri; D. Catalano; G. Galli; C. A. Veracini
373-378	Structural characterization of linear dimeric and cyclic tetrameric liquid crystalline siloxane derivatives	Mohammed Ibn-elhaj; Antoine Skoulios; Daniel Guillon; Joanna Newton; Philip Hodge; Harry J. Coles
379-386	Optical activity studies in the pretransitional isotropic region of strongly chiral propiolate ester liquid crystals	Jaskaran S. Kang; David A. Dunmur; Christopher J. Booth; John W. Goodby; Kenneth J. Toyne; Isa Nishiyama
387-396	Properties of the liquid crystals formed by certain 4′-n-alkylbiphenyl-4-yl 5-n-alkylthiophene-2-carboxylates	Jane L. Butcher; David J. Byron; Avtar S. Matharu; Robert C. Wilson
397-399	A shape model for the twisting power of chiral solutes in nematics	A. Ferrarini; G. J. Moro; P. L. Nordio

Volume 19, Issue 2 (1995)

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149-150	Obituary	G. W. Gray
151-157	Mesomorphic properties of a homologous series of chiral liquid crystals containing the α-chloroester group	J. Schacht; I. Dierking; F. Gießelmann; K. Mohr; H. Zaschke; W. Kuczyński; P. Zugenmaier
159-167	Multifractality of lyotropic liquid crystal formation of aluminium dodecylbenzenesulphonate	D. TežAk; M. Martinis; S. Punčec; I. Fischer-Palković; F. Strajnar
169-178	Investigation of flexoelectric properties of a palladium-containing nematic liquid crystal, Azpac, and its mixtures with MBBA	A. G. Petrov; A. Th. Ionescu; C. Versace; N. Scaramuzza
179-187	Horizontal chevron configurations in ferroelectric liquid crystal cells induced by high electric fields	I. Dierking; F. Gießelmann; J. Schacht; P. Zugenmaier
189-195	Synthesis and thermal behaviour of non-linear optical materials. 1: Liquid crystals containing long conjugate and high polar terminal groups	Ging-Ho Hsiue; Long-Hai Wu; Chang-Jyh Hsieh; Ru-Jong Jeng
197-205	Viscosity coefficients of smectics C*	M. A. Osipov; T. J. Sluckin; E. M. Terentjev
207-211	Mesomorphic phase transitions of 4,4′″-dialkyloxyquaterphenyls and dialkyl quaterphenyl-4,4′″-dicarboxylates	Masahiko Sahara; Shinichi Yano; Kenichi Ikemoto; Kazuo Maejima
213-220	Modelling a nematic liquid crystal	Soumya S. Patnaik; Steven J. Plimpton; Ruth Pachter; W. Wade Adams
221-226	Order parameter of side groups of a polysiloxane in liquid crystalline uniaxial phases	Eryk Wolarz; Danuta Bauman
227-233	Synthesis and mesogenic properties of diaromatic cyanates and isocyanates-monomers for liquid crystalline thermosets	Werner Mormann; Jörg Zimmermann
235-240	Side chain liquid crystalline polypyrrole. Part I: Synthesis and characterization	F. Vicentini; J. Barrouillet; R. Laversanne; M. Mauzac; F. Bibonne; J. P. Parneix
241-249	X-ray investigations on a homologous series of mesogenic azo compounds complexed with palladium (II)	A. M. Levelut; M. Veber; O. Francescangeli; S. Melone; M. Ghedini; F. Neve; F. P. Nicoletta; R. Bartolino
251-255	Observation of the annihilation process of wedge disclinations in P-4-BCMU liquid crystals	Wei Wang
257-267	Cholesteric textures observed by transmission electron microscopy in diffraction contrast	J. Pierron; A. Boudet; P. Sopena; M. Mitov; P. Sixou
269-276	Order parameter dependence of the nematic liquid crystal anchoring energy: A numerical approach	Angelo Di Garbo; Maurizio Nobili
277-287	Structuring cholesteric polysiloxanes by photoinduced rotational diffusion	A. Petri; S. Kummer; C. Bräuchle
289-292	Effects of the crystallinity of orientation film and mesogenic core of liquid crystals for pretilt angle generation on rubbed polyimide surfaces	Dae-Shik Seo; Shunsuke Kobayashi; Michinori Nishikawa; Yoshikazu Yabe

Volume 19, Issue 1 (1995)

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1-13	Inversion line in finite samples of ferroelectric liquid crystals with the chevron layer structure	Monique Brunet; Lubor Lejčarek
15-19	New antiferroelectric liquid crystals with a trifluoromethyl group at the chiral centre	Yoshio Aoki; Hiroyuki Nohira
21-37	Stimulated light scattering in smectic A liquid crystals	G. F. Kventsel; B. I. Lembrikov
39-45	The synthesis and liquid crystal properties of certain 1-(4′-n-alkoxy-2,2′,3,3′,5,5′,6,6′-octafluorobiphenyl-4-yl)- 2-(trans-4-n-pentylcyclohexyl)-ethanes and -ethenes	D. J. Byron; A. S. Matharu; R. C. Wilson
47-56	The effect of the position of lateral fluoro-substituents on the stability of the S_C_α and S_C_A phases	V. Faye; J. C. Rouillon; C. Destrade; H. T. Nguyen
57-63	Weak-anchoring effects on a Freedericksz transition in an annulus	P. J. Barratt; B. R. Duffy
65-76	Ferroelectric liquid crystal gels Network stabilized ferroelectric display	R. A. M. Hikmet; H. M. J. Boots; M. Michielsen
77-83	The synthesis and transition temperatures of some 4′-alkyl- and 4′-alkoxy-4-cyano-3-fluorobiphenyls	George W. Gray; Michael Hird; Anderson D. Ifill; Wendy E. Smith; Kenneth J. Toyne
85-91	Orthogonal hexatic smectic phase-rare or common?	Wiesdłsaw Pyzuk; Adam Krówczyński; Jadwiga Szydłsowska; Ewa Górecka
93-97	Investigations of polarization profiles in sandwich cells containing a liquid crystalline polymer by using the heat wave method (LIMM)	M. Steffen; P. Bloss; H. Schäfer; M. Winkler; D. Geschke
99-105	The mesomorphism of 4-dodecyloxy-2-hydroxybenzoic acid and its sodium salt	Duncan W. Bruce; Gordon J. T. Tiddy; Jonathan M. Watkins
107-112	The intercalation of ethidium bromide in the chromonic lyotropic phases of drugs and nucleic acids	K. Mundy; J. C. Sleep; J. E. Lydon
113-117	Threshold voltage of the Freedericksz transition in a hexatic smectic I phase	P. Schiller; G. Pelzl; C. Camara
119-125	Reversible alignment change of liquid crystals induced by photochromic molecular films: Properties of azobenzene chromophores covalently attached to silica surfaces	Koso Aoki; Yuji Kawanishi; Takahiro Seki; Masako Sakuragi; Takashi Tamaki; Kunihiro Ichimura
127-132	Mesophase order of a new smectic paramagnetic copper complex detected by EPR	J. I. Martínez; D. W. Bruce; D. J. Price; P. J. Alonso
133-138	Guided wave study of electroclinic effects in a homogeneously aligned smectic A liquid crystal	Lizhen Ruan; J. R. Sambles; J. Seaver
139-148	Smectic mesophase properties of dimeric compounds. 1. Dimeric compounds based on the mesogenic azobenzene unit	Teruki Niori; Seiji Adachi; Junji Watanabe

Volume 18, Issue 6 (1995)

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825-828	The crystal K phase of 4,4′-di-(2-methoxyethoxy)biphenyl	C. J. Bowden; T. M. Herrington; A. M. Moseley; R. Richardson
829-837	Dynamics of phase separation in mesomorphic mixtures	Y. Lansac; F. Fried; P. Maïssa
839-842	Orientational diffusivities measurement by light-beating spectroscopy for a disk-like thermotropic nematic phase (N_D)	T. Othman; M. Gharbia; A. Gharbi; C. Destrade; G. Durand
843-850	Odd-even effects in the thermotropic and optical properties of three series of chiral twin liquid crystals	Antonius T. M. Marcelis; Arie Koudijs; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter
851-855	Odd-even effects in the thermotropic and optical properties of chiral triplet liquid crystals	Antonius T. M. Marcelis; Arie Koudijs; Ernst J. R. Sudhölter
857-865	On the molecular and mesophase structures of disc-like tetrapalladium liquid crystals	K. Praefcke; S. Diele; J. Pickardt; B. Gündogman; U. Nütz; D. Singer
867-870	Re-entrant isotropic behaviour of a pure double-swallow-tailed compound	W. Weissflog; I. Letko; G. Pelzl; S. Diele
871-878	Ferroelectric, pyroelectric and electro-optic properties of a chiral side chain copolymer with high polarization and a broad C* phase	B. Helgee; T. Hjertberg; K. Skarp; G. Andersson; F. Gouda
879-886	The molecular aspect of the double absorption peak in the dielectric spectrum of the antiferroelectric liquid crystal phase	M. Buivydas; F. Gouda; S. T. Lagerwall; B. Stebler
887-902	Landau-de Gennes theory of the core structure of a screw dislocation in smectic A liquid crystals	S. Kralj; T. J. Sluckin
903-910	Dye-containing S*_c side-on/end-on copolymers	M. Dumon; R. Zentel; C. Kulinna; H. W. Siesler
911-914	Amorphous chiral smectic A phase of side chain copolymers	E. I. Demikhov; M. V. Kozlovsky
915-918	The first high polarization ferroelectric main chain liquid crystalline polymers	Patrick Keller; Renfan Shao; David M. Walba; Monique Brunet
919-921	Ferroelectric liquid crystalline phase transition of (S)-hexakis(4-(4′-(6-methyl)octyloxy)biphenoxy) cyclotriphosphazene	Keiichi Moriya; Shigekazu Nakagawa; Shinichi Yano; Meisetsu Kajiwara
923-926	Temperature dependent smectic mesophase ordering in fluorocarbon side chain polyesters	L. M. Wilson; B. Stuhn; A. R. Rennie
927-932	In situ observation of smectic layer reorientation during the switching of a ferroelectric liquid crystal	R. A. M. Hikmet

Volume 18, Issue 5 (1995)

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683-692	On higher order variational analysis in one and three dimensions for soft boundaries	Ingolf Dahl; Arnout De Meyere
693-698	Thermotropic liquid crystalline ionic stilbazoles and their miscible mixtures with non-ionic carbazolyl compounds	Yozo Kosaka; Takashi Kato; Toshiyuki Uryu
699-705	Structures, properties and miscibility behaviour of liquid crystalline polycatenar tetrone derivatives	U. Nütz; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; H. Ringsdorf; W. Paulus; G. Willson
707-713	Field dependent switching angle of a columnar pyrene	Harald Bock; Wolfgang Helfrich
715-721	Antiferroelectric liquid crystals derived from a new optically active (R)-3-ethylmercapto-2-methylpropionic acid	S. L. Wu; F. K. Huang; B. J. Uang; W. J. Tsai; J. J. Liang
723-731	Pretilt angle measurements on smectic A cells with chevron and tilted bookshelf layer structures	J. J. Bonvent; J. A. M. M. Van Haaren; G. Cnossen; A. G. H. Verhulst; P. Van Der Sluis
733-741	Novel glass-forming liquid crystals. II. Systems containing 1-phenyl-2-(6-cyanonaphth-2-yl)ethyne as a high optical birefringence moiety	Hongqin Shi; Shaw H. Chen
743-744	Nematic liquid crystalline structures in dilute surfactant solutions	B. K. Mishra; Sushama B. Mishra; D. O. Shah; B. S. Valaulikar; C. Manohar
745-749	Dimesogenic liquid crystalline oligosiloxanes	Erik Wischerhofft; Rudolf Zentel
751-760	Naphthyl benzoates versus phenyl benzoates A molecular structure-liquid crystal and ferroelectric behaviour relationship study	Yolanda González; M. Blanca Ros; Jose Luis Serrano; Miguel Angel Perez-jubindo
761-768	Molecular conformation and packing of smectogenic dimeric liquid crystals in the crystalline state	J. M. Seddon; D. J. Williams
769-774	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some homologues of fluorinated 4-chlorobenzoate-tolanes	Jian-Xun Wen; Hong-Bin Yu; Qi Chen
775-779	Helical structures induced by laterally-connected chiral twin molecules	Hidemi Ishizuka; Isa Nishiyama; Atsushi Yoshizawa
781-786	On the solid polymorphs of the discotic mesogen hexa-octanoyloxytriphenylene	S. Zamir; N. Spielberg; H. Zimmermann; R. Poupko; Z. Luz
787-794	The effect of electric and magnetic fields on the melt organization of a nematic cyclic siloxane liquid crystal	S. G. McNamee; T. J. Bunning; S. S. Patnaik; C. M. McHugh; C. K. Ober; W. W. Adams
795-800	Liquid crystalline phase transitions in hexakis(4-(4′-heptyloxy)biphenoxy)cyclotriphosphazene	K. Moriya; H. Mizusaki; M. Kato; S. Yano; M. Kajiwara
801-809	The intercalated smectic A phase. The liquid crystal properties of the α-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)-ω)-(4-alkyloxycinnamoate)alkanes	A. E. Blatch; I. D. Fletcher; G. R. Luckhurst
811-818	From monomeric to polymeric ferroelectric liquid crystals A comparative study of ferroelectric properties	Holger Poths; Erik Wischerhoff; Rudolf Zentel; Axel Schönfeld; Guido Henn; Friedrich Kremer
819-822	Preliminary Communication Dielectric relaxation in monotropic liquid crystals	E. I. Rjumstev; A. P. Kovshik
823	Erratum

Volume 18, Issue 4 (1995)

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519-527	Cis, cis-(3,5-dihydroxycyclohexyl) 3,4-bis(alkoxy)benzoates Thermal behaviour and water absorption	Günter Staufer; Matthias Schellhorn; Günter Lattermann
529-537	Dielectric spectroscopy of an aligned liquid crystalline side chain polymer using high pressures	G. McMullin; W. G. Scaife; R. Zentel
539-543	Momentum space imaging of a liquid crystal filled Fabry-Perot	M. McSweeney; G. W. Bradberry; J. R. Sambles; G. S. Taylor
545-553	Molecular segregation and aggregate shape in a lyotropic rectangular phase	Stefan Gustafsson; Per-Ola Quist; Bertil Halle
555-562	Stationary noise of the light scattered by a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal	P. Allia; C. Oldano; M. Rajteri; P. Taverna; L. Trossi; R. Aloe
563-569	The mesomorphic behaviour of cyanopropylalkyldimethylammonium bromides	M. Arkas; K. Yannakopoulou; C. M. Paleos; P. Weber; A. Skoulios
571-580	Induced circular dichroism as a probe of handedness in chiral nematic polymer solutions	J. -X. Guo; D. G. Gray
581-594	Polar nematic trans-4-substituted-cyclohexyl (E)-alk-2-enoates The influence of dipoles and double bonds on the transition temperatures and other physical properties	S. M. Kelly; M. Schadt; H. Seiberle
595-600	Liquid crystalline order in fluids with hydrogen bonds	Boris A. Veytsman
601-605	Anisotropy of non-mesogenic polymer networks dispersed in a liquid crystal matrix	A. Jákli; L. Rosta; L. Noirez
607-613	Influence of substituent length in dichroic dye molecules on the orientational properties of guest-host liquid crystal mixtures	Danuta Bauman; Tomasz Martyński; Ewa Mykowska
615-621	An NMR study of the conformational flexibility of phenyl acetate dissolved in a nematic liquid crystalline solvent	E. K. Foord; J. Cole; M. J. Crawford; J. W. Emsley; G. Celebre; M. Longeri; J. C. Lindon
623-629	First order transitions to a lyotropic biaxial nematic	Per-Ola Quist
631-637	Heterotrimeric liquid crystalline thiadiazole derivatives	Kerstin Zab; Detlev Joachimi; Eva Novotna; Siegmar Diele; Carsten Tschierske
639-643	Binary mass diffusion in smectic C and C^A phases as observed by forced Rayleigh scattering	Takashi Moriyama; Yoichi Takanishi; Ken Ishikawa; Hideo Takezoe; Atsuo Fukuda
645-649	Side-chain liquid crystalline homo- and copolymethacrylates with a carbonate linkage between the benzylideneaniline mesogen and ethylene chain	Moriyuki Sato; Takashi Nakano; Ken-Ichi Mukaida

Volume 18, Issue 4 (1995)

651-656	Liquid crystals of 4-octyloxy-N-(benzylidene)aniline derivatives bearing trifluoromethyl or trifluoromethoxy end groups	Seiichi Miyajima; Ayumi Nakazato; Noriko Sakoda; Takehiko Chiba
657-664	Influence of the molecular structure of a nematic solvent on hydrogen bonding with non-mesomorphic proton donors	V. A. Burmistrov; V. V. Alexandriysky; O. I. Koifman
665-672	Nematogenic laterally fluorinated biphenyls with polar terminal groups	S. Greenfield; D. Coates; M. Goulding; R. Clemitson
673-676	Preliminary Communications Functionalization of discotic liquid crystals by direct substitution into the discogen ring α-Nitration of triphenylene-based discogens	N. Boden; R. J. Bushby; A. N. Cammidge
677-679	New approximate formulae for the retardation factors of nematic liquid crystals with simple uniaxial anisotropy	W. T. Coffey; Yu. P. Kalmykov; J. T. Waldron
681	Erratum

Volume 18, Issue 3 (1995)

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351-366	Microscopic organization of molecules in smectic A and chiral (racemic) smectic C phases: Dynamic molecular deformation effect on the S_A to S_C* (S_C) transition	Atsushi Yoshizawa; Hiroshi Kikuzaki; Mitsuo Fukumasa
367-380	Synthesis of highly chiral multisubstituted binaphthyl compounds as potential new biaxial nematic and NLO materials	J. C. Bhatt; S. S. Keast; M. E. Neubert; R. G. Petschek
381-385	A highly ordered hydrogen-bonded network	L. M. Wilson
387-399	Two ferroelectric phases of a columnar dibenzopyrene	Harald Bock; Wolfgang Helfrich
401-405	Electroclinic effects in a homogeneously aligned smectic A cell	Lizhen Ruan; J. R. Sambles; E. L. Wood; J. Seaver
407-412	A study of the electroclinic effect using half-leaky guided modes with a homeotropically aligned liquid crystal	Fuzi Yang; J. R. Sambles; G. W. Bradberry
413-417	Characterization of the alignment of a nematic liquid crystal using half leaky guided modes	R. A. Stevens; J. R. Sambles
419-422	Measurement of twist angle and surface torsional anchoring strength in a nematic liquid crystal cell	Jiang Min; Huang Ximin; Wang Zongkai; Ma Kai; Sun Ruipeng; Zhang Xinyi
423-430	Influence of bilayer fluctuations on the steric interactions between polymer-grafted bilayers	Kalina Hristova; David Needham
431-441	Thermophysical study of lead(II) n-alkanoates by DSC, optical microscopy, FTIR and Raman spectroscopy	A. Sanchez Arenas; M. V. Garcia; M. I. Redondo; J. A. R. Cheda; M. V. Roux; C. Turrion
443-449	New diastereomeric compound with cholesteric twist inversion	I. Dierking; F. Gieβelmann; P. Zugenmaier; K. Mohr; H. Zaschke; W. Kuczynski
451-456	Mesomorphic properties and magnetic behaviour of di-(5-substituted-salicylidene)ethylenediaminato cobalt(II) complexes	R. Paschke; S. Diele; I. Letko; A. Wiegeleben; G. Pelzl; K. Griesar; M. Athanassopoulou; W. Haase
457-461	New ferroelectric liquid crystals containing 2(S)-[2(S)-methylbutyloxy]propanol moiety	Wen-Liang Tsai; Shu-Hui Yang; Shih-Yiing Sheu
463-473	Structural characterization of the smectic polymorphism of chiral liquid crystalline polysiloxanes containing biphenyl mesogens	Bernard Gallot; Giancarlo Galli; Eleftheria Dossi; Emo Chiellini
475-482	Pyridinium salt liquid crystals Effect of mesogen extension and alkyl chain length	Maryam Tabrizian; Armand Soldera; Michel Couturier; C. Geraldine Bazuin
483-488	Microscopic origin of spontaneous polarization in ferroelectric S_C* liquid crystals	B. Kutnjak-urbanc; B. Žekš
489-494	Trimeric and tetrameric liquid crystalline thiadiazole derivatives	K. Zab; D. Joachimi; O. Agert; B. Neumann; C. Tschierske
495-502	Molecular dynamics and ordering of side chain liquid crystal polymers as studied by paramagnetic resonance	S. H. Lee; V. Surendranath; Y. C. Kim; E. Gelerinter
503-509	On the interaction of the morphological structure and the LC behaviour of LC side group block copolymers	H. Fischer; S. Poser; M. Arnold
511-517	The influence of ionic and elastic effects on partial switching in ferroelectric liquid crystal devices	D. C. Ulrich; S. J. Elston

Volume 18, Issue 2 (1995)

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175-183	The synthesis and characterization of novel non-symmetric dimers with rod-like and disc-like mesogenic units	I. D. Fletcher; G. R. Luckhurst
185-190	Star-like discotic liquid crystals	T. Plesnivy; H. Ringsdorf; P. Schuhmacher; U. Nüutz; S. Diele
191-195	Synthesis of functionalized triphenylenes and dibenzopyrenes Precursor molecules for polymeric discotic liquid crystals	P. Henderson; H. Ringsdorf; P. Schuhmacher
197-205	Synthesis and properties of optically active α-trifluoromethylbenzyl derivatives for ferroelectric liquid crystals	Yoshio Aoki; Hiroyuki Nohira
207-212	Interaction and orientation of a chiral solute in cholesteric lyotropic mesophases	Maria Regina Alcantara; José Atilio Vanin
213-218	Mesomorphic properties of phenyl 4-(5-alkyl-1,3,2-dioxaborin-2-yl) benzoates Influence of terminal and lateral substitution	R. Dabrowski; V. S. Bezborodov; V. J. Lapanik; J. Dziaduszek; K. Czupryński
219-230	Computer simulation of dynamics and morphology of discotic mesophases in extensional flows	Arvinder P. Singh; Alejandro D. Rey
231-237	Correlation between magnetic properties and molecular structure of some metallo-mesogens	I. Bikchantaev; Yu. Galyametdinov; A. Prosvirin; K. Griesar; E. A. Soto-bustamante; W. Haase
239-250	Circular dichroism in ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals	Ji Li; Hideo Takezoe; Atsuo Fukuda; Junji Watanabe
251-256	Chirality, surface anchoring, and the cholesteric-smectic A phase transition	Karl A. Crandall; Charles Rosenblatt; R. M. Hornreich z′1
257-262	Liquid crystalline model compounds based on 3,3′,4,4′-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride (BPDA)	Petra Eiselt; Steffen Denzinger; Hans-Werner Schmidt
263-269	Synthesis and X-ray investigation of liquid crystalline polymers containing laterally methyl-substituted tolane-based mesogenic side groups	Chang-Jyh Hsieh; Ging-Ho Hsiue
271-286	The relationship between the chemical structure of nematic liquid crystals and their pretilt angles	Bernt O. Myrvold; Katsumi Kondo
287-290	A weak surface memory effect in liquid crystal cells with rubbed polyimide layers	Bernt O. Myrvold
291-301	Synthesis and characterization of new series of ferroelectric liquid crystals containing oligooxyethylene spacers	Jr-Hong Chen; Rong-Chi Chang; Ging-Ho Hsiue; Feng-Wei Guu; Shung-Long Wu
303-307	Investigation of the crystal structure of two amphiphilic diols	D. Joachimi; G. Latterman; M. Schellhorn; C. Tschierske; P. Zugenmaier
309-318	Dynamics and structure of a flexible columnar liquid crystal based on tetrabenzocyclododecatetraene	S. C. Kuebler; C. Boeffel; H. W. Spiess
319-326	Synthesis and photopolymerization of cholesteric liquid crystalline diacrylates	J. Lub; D. J. Broer; R. A. M. Hikmet; K. G. J. Nierop
327-335	Orientation of mesophase pitch in capillary and channel flows	John J. McHugh; Dan D. Edie
337-345	Crystal structure of 4-methoxybenzylidene-4′-n-butylaniline (MBBA) The C₄ and C₃ phases	M. More; C. Gors; P. Derollez; J. Matavar
347-350	Preliminary Communication Novel fluorocarbon side-chain polyesters based on 3,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid	L. M. Wilson

Volume 18, Issue 1 (1995)

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1-11	The relationship between molecular structure and mesomorphic properties of 2,2′- and 3,2′-difluoroterphenyls synthesized by palladium-catalysed cross-couplings	Michael Hird; Kenneth J. Toyne; George W. Gray; Damien G. McDonnell; Ian C. Sage
13-19	X-ray diffraction study on liquid crystals from 4-hexylphenyl 4-cyanobenzoyloxybenzoate and 4-heptyloxyphenyl 4-cyanobenzoyloxybenzoate	Z. X. Fan; L. Y. Chiang; W. Haase
21-29	Collective and molecular processes in a new class of ferroelectric liquid crystals	S. Wróbel; S. Hiller; M. Pfeiffer; M. Marzec; W. Haase; R. Twieg; K. Betterton
31-35	A thin cell dielectric spectroscopy method for liquid crystals	Bo Gestblom; Stanislaw Wróbel
37-43	Novel structures of a smectic C* phase with high spontaneous polarization in free-standing films	E. Demikhov; H. Stegemeyer
45-49	Molecular dynamics simulations of liquid crystal molecules adsorbed on graphite	Makoto Yoneya; Yasushi Iwakabe
51-60	Phase diagram of the tetramethylammonium heptadecafluorononanoate (TMAHFN)/D₂O system as determined by ²H and ¹⁴N NMR	J. P. Dombroski; P. J. B. Edwards; K. W. Jolley; N. Boden
61-66	Induction of smectic A_d phase in polar systems I. Mixtures of nCBB and nOCB	M. Brodzik; R. Dabrowski
67-71	Observation of textures of nematic polymers and estimation of the elastic constants	T. De'Nève; M. Kléman; P. Navar
73-79	Degree of polymerization and dynamics in liquid crystalline poly-(1-subst.-ethylenes)	E. Novotná; S. G. Kostromin; H. Kresse
81-86	The effect of an electric field on a homeotropically aligned smectic C liquid crystal	Lizhen Ruan; J. R. Sambles; M. J. Towler
87-95	Electric field effect on the nematic-isotropic phase transition	E. I. Rjumtse; M. A. Osipov; T. A. Rotinyan; N. P. Yevlampieva
97-99	Functional organic gels Chirality induction through formation of highly-oriented structure	Makoto Takafuji; Hirotaka Ihara; Chuichi Hirayama; Hiroshi Hachisako; Kimiho Yamada
101-103	Novel fluorinated liquid crystals. X. The synthesis and mesomorphic states of 1-(4-bromophenyl)2-(4′-n-alkoxy- 2,3,5,6-tetrafluorobiphenyl-4-yl) acetylene	Jiaqi Lu; Minquan Tian; Qi Chen; Jianxun Wen
105-108	Synthesis and transition temperatures of liquid crystals incorporating a 1,4-tetrafluorophenylene unit	Yuelian Xu; Yueqing Hu; Qi Chen; Jianxun Wen
109-116	Novel frequency dependence of dielectric biaxiality of surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals	Nobuyuki Itoh; Mitsuhiro Koden; Shuji Miyoshi; Tadashi Akahane
117-121	Dynamic properties of discotic liquid crystals with triphenylene and benzene cores, studied by broadband dielectric spectroscopy	Herbert Groothues; Friedrich Kremer; David M. Collard; C. P. Lillya
123-127	Direct observation of the main-chain conformation of a combined liquid-crystal polymer	L. Noirez; H. Poths; R. Zentel; C. Strazielle

Volume 18, Issue 1 (1995)

129-148	On the structure and the chain conformation of side-chain liquid crystal polymers	L. Noirez; P. Keller; J. P. Cotton
149-150	Preliminary Communications First liquid crystalline derivatives of umbelliferyl β-D-glucoside [1]	Dirk Blunk; Klaus Praefcke; Günter Legler
151-155	An amphiphile system forming a lyotropic blue phase	K. Radley
157-159	Synthesis and properties of a novel family of liquid crystalline building blocks based on 5,5′-substituted-2,2′-bipyridine	Laurent Douce; Raymond Ziessel; Rachid Seghrouchni; Antoine Skoulios; Eduardo Campillos; Robert Deschenaux
161-163	Mesomorphic 2,2′-bipyridine diesters	Duncan W. Bruce; Kathryn E. Rowe
165-166	Mesomorphic complexes of rhenium(I) and manganese(I)	Duncan W. Bruce; Xiao-Hua Liu
167-169	Detection of phase transitions in liquid crystals using the mirage effect	K. Rajasree; V. Vidyalal; P. Radhakrishnan; V. P. N. Nampoori; C. P. G. Vallabhan; A. K. George
171-174	Anchoring anisotropy of a nematic liquid crystal on a bistable SiO evaporated surface	V. Sergan; G. Durand

Volume 17, Issue 6 (1994)

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745	Editorial	George Gray
746	Selection of 16 of the best papers published in Liquid Crystals January 1993 to June 1994
747-758	Crystal structures of chiral mesogenic 4-hexylphenyl 4′-[(S)-2-methylbutyl]biphenyl-4-carboxylate and 4-[(S)-2-methylbutyl]phenyl 4′hexylbiphenyl-4-carboxylate	Kyoko Ito; Kyoko Endo; Kayako Hori; Takashi Nemoto; Hidehiro Uekusa; Yuji Ohashi
759-773	Magnetic-field induced biaxiality in nematic liquid crystals. Consequences for nuclear spin relaxation	Bertil Halle
775-801	Structural changes in discotic samples during transition from crystal to discotic mesophase as revealed by electron microscopy and diffraction	I. G. Voigt-martin; R. W. Garbella; M. Schumacher
803-810	New switchable columnar liquid crystals	Günter Scherowsky; Xin Hua Chen
811-826	Synthesis and characterization of a semiflexible liquid crystalline polyester with a broad nematic region	Patrick Mather; Nino Grizzuti; Glenn Heffner; Mathias Ricker; Willie E. Rochefort; Markus Seitz; Hans-Werner Schmidt; Dale S. Pearson
827-839	Thermotropic liquid crystalline properties of 1,2Ψ,ω-n-alkan-tetraols	Frank Hentrich; Siegmar Diele; Carsten Tschierske
841-846	A new family of carbohydrate liquid crystals. N-Alkylated 1-deoxynojirimycin derivatives [1]	Dirk Blunk; Klaus Praefcke; Günter Legler
847-854	Hysteresis behaviour of the nematic-cholesteric phase transition for liquid crystals on polyimide films without use of the rubbing technique	Yoshikazu Yabe; Dae-Shik Seo
855-861	On the structure of the thermotropic cubic mesophases	S. Fischer; H. Fischer; S. Diele; G. Pelzl; K. Jankowski; R. R. Schmidt; V. Vill
863-877	Twisted grain boundary phases in three new chiral azobenzene series	M. Werth; H. T. Nguyen; C. Destrade; N. Isaert

Volume 17, Issue 5 (1994)

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605-615	Liquid crystalline behaviour from binary mixtures of non-mesogenic 4-alkyl-N-(4-cyanophenyl) piperidines [1]	Bashir M. Sheikh-ali; Richard G. Weiss
617-628	The thermotropic liquid crystals formed by anhydrous sodium ricinoleate	K. S. Narayan; Neeta Shinde; Gordon J. T. Tiddy; Michael C. Holmes
629-633	Classical behaviour of the non-linear dielectric effect in the isotropic phase of nematogens	S. J. Rzoska; J. Zioło
635-649	Numerical analysis for a nematic droplet in polymer dispersed liquid crystals	T. Onozawa
651-658	DNA liquid crystalline blue phases. Electron microscopy evidence and biological implications	Amélie Leforstier; Françoise Livolant
659-666	Mesomorphic behaviour of 1,3-phenylene bis[4-(4-alkoxyphenyliminomethyl)benzoates] and related compounds	T. Akutagawa; Y. Matsunaga; K. Yasuhara
667-679	Stochastic model for the reorientation of molecules around their long axes in a smectic C phase	P. Schiller
681-687	Enhanced thermal response of the S_{A_d1} layer thickness in highly fluorinated thermotropic liquid crystals	Thomas P. Rieker; Eugene P. Janulis
689-697	Some three-ring esters containing a pyrazine ring. A comparison of their liquid crystal properties	J. W. Brown; D. T. Hurst; J. P. O'Donovan; D. Coates
699-707	Novel liquid crystalline compounds having an enyne unit	Atsuko Fujita; Yasuyuki Goto; Etsuo Nakagawa
709-716	Liquid crystal-polymer composites. Anomalous electro-optical curve	L. Bouteiller; P. Le Barny; Ph. Martinot-Lagarde
717-728	The effect of the cryoprotective sugar, trehalose on the phase behaviour of mixed dispersions of dioleoyl derivatives of phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine	L. I. Tsonev; M. G. Tihova; A. P. R. Brain; Z. -W. Yu; P. J. Quinn
729-739	Synthesis and properties of new chiral dopants containing a δ-lactone ring for practical ferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures	Tetsuya Ikemoto; Yoshitaka Kageyama; Fumiko Onuma; Yuriko Shibuya; Kiyoshi Ichimura; Keiichi Sakashita; Kenji Mori
741-744	On the relationship between electro-optic and dielectric parameters of a smectic C* ferroelectric liquid crystal	Yu P. Kalmykov; J. K. Vij

Volume 17, Issue 4 (1994)

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457-485	Comparison of short range interactions in nematic liquid crystals A ²H-NMR study of 5CB-d₁₉ as a solute	T. Chandrakumar; Dan S. Zimmerman; G. S. Bates; E. Elliott Burnell
487-498	Solubility of liquid crystalline side-chain polymers in smectic A solutions	J. -D. Laffitte; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin; H. T. Nguyen; G. Sigaud
499-505	Study of the liquid crystalline phases of benzopurpurin in water	A. Loewenstein; M. Brenman
507-512	Effect of salt on the phase diagrams of two binary lyotropic liquid crystalline solutions	Brian Cull; M. Heino; S. H. Lee; Satyendra Kumar; S. S. Keast; M. E. Neubert
513-528	Vinamidines and vinamidinium salts. New thermotropic liquid crystals	A. Zinsou; M. Veber; H. Strzelecka; C. Jallabertz; A. M. Leveluts
529-542	Synthesis and characterization of liquid crystalline monofunctionalized ‘two chain’ diols and corresponding low molecular weight siloxane derivatives	Matthias Schellhorn; Günter Lattermann
543-554	Electric field transport of biphilic ions and anchoring transitions in nematic liquid crystals	A. G. Petrov; G. Durand
555-569	Chirality-induced phase transitions in some liquid crystalline binary mixtures	Isa Nishiyama; Atsushi Yoshizawa
571-583	New chiral thiobenzoate series with antiferroelectric mesophases	H. T. Nguyen; J. C. Rouillon; P. Cluzeau; G. Sigaud; C. Destrade; N. Isaert
585-588	Anchoring of 4-n-alkyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl liquid crystal molecules on rubbed polyimides	N. A. J. M. Van Aerle
589-595	Mesomorphic amino sugars	P. Stangier; V. Vill; S. Rohde; U. Jeschke; J. Thiem
597-603	Electro-optic effect in polymer-dispersed cholesteric liquid crystals with medium chirality	Ulrike Behrens; Heinz-S. Kitzerow; Gouram Chilaya

Volume 17, Issue 3 (1994)

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303-309	Assignment of the quadrupolar splittings in fully deuteriated alkyl chains of liquid crystalline compounds The case of 4-n-hexyloxy-4′-cyanobiphenyl	J. W. Emsley; E. K. Foord; P. J. F. Gandy; D. L. Turner; H. Zimmermann
311-322	FT-IR study of liquid crystal molecules on alignment layers	Eriko Matsui; Keiichi Nito; Akio Yasuda
323-332	Experimental evidence of a conic helical liquid crystalline structure in cylindrical microcavities	H. Schmiedel; R. Stannariu; G. Feller; Ch. Cramer
333-349	Photomechanically induced ferroelectricity in smectic liquid crystals	H. G. Walton; H. J. Coles; D. Guillon; G. Poeti
351-360	Helical smectic A (S*_A) in polymorphic liquid crystalline systems with induced spiral structure	N. L. Kramarenko; G. P. Semenkova; V. I. Kulishov; A. S. Tolochko; L. A. Kutulya; V. V. Vaschenko; T. V. Handrimajlova
361-366	Electron diffraction studies of surface freezing in hexatic B films	Ming Cheng; John T. Ho; S. W. Hui; Ronald Pindak; J. W. Goodby
367-379	Broad band dielectric relaxation spectroscopy of a chiral smectic B-crystal phase	F. Gouda; S. T. Lagerwall; K. Skarp; B. Stebler; F. Kremer; S. U. Vallerien
381-395	Molecular dynamics of discotic charge-transfer complexes, dielectric spectroscopy and ²H NMR studie	M. Möller; J. H. Wendorff; M. Wert; H. W. Spiess; H. Bengs; O. Karthaus; H. Ringsdorf
397-412	Modelling the molecular distribution in chevron FLCDs	Arnout de Meyere; Ingolf Dahl
413-428	Novel glassy nematic and chiral nematic oligomers derived from 1,3,5-cyclohexanetricarboxylic and (1R,3S)-( )-camphoric acids	Hongqin Shi; Shaw H. Chen
429-436	Effect of weak anchoring on the electric field induced deformations of nematic layers	Grzegorz Derfel
437-455	A population distribution model for the alignment of nematic liquid crystals	Bernt O. Myrvold; K. Kondo

Volume 17, Issue 2 (1994)

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149-155	Theory of orientational modes at a nematic-solid interface When do surface modes appear?	Martin Copic; Noel A. Clark
157-177	Ribbon phases in surfactant systems Comparisons between experimental results and predictions of a theoretical model	Håkan Hagslätt; Olle Söderman; Bengt Jönsson
179-190	Probing the electric field alignment of a thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer by synchrotron radiation	S. G. McNamee; T. J. Bunning; C. M. McHugh; C. K. Ober; W. W. Adams
191-198	Structural and dielectric investigations of a binary system of a bi-swallow-tailed and a terminally-polar compound	S. Haddawi; S. Diele; H. Kresse; G. Pelzl; W. Weissflog; A. Wiegeleben
199-209	Influence of spacer length on the dielectric relaxation of a side chain liquid crystal polymer	Z. Z. Zhong; D. E. Schuele; W. L. Gordon
211-225	The synthesis and liquid crystal transition temperatures of some weakly polar nematic trans-4-substituted-cyclohexyl (E)-alk-2-enoates	S. M. Kelly
227-234	Structure of polymer networks dispersed in liquid crystals: Small angle neutron scattering study	A. Jákli; L. Bata; K. Fodor-csorba; L. Rosta; L. Noirez
235-242	X-ray study of the highly ordered smectic phases of N-pentyl-N'-(p-pentyloxyphenyl)piperazine	Z. X. Fan; H. J. Müller; W. Haase
243-261	Properties of higher-ordered ferroelectric liquid crystal phases of a homologous series	I. Dierking; F. Gießelmann; J. Kßerow; P. Zugenmaier
263-276	Neutron scattering experiments on magnetically aligned liquid crystalline DNA fragment solutions	Leonore C. A. Groot; Maxim E. Kuil; Jaap C. Leyte; Johan R. C. Van Der Maarel; Richard K. Heenan; Steve M. King; Gerard Jannink
277-282	Mesophase behaviour in fluorocarbon-hydrocarbon polyesters	L. M. Wilson
283-290	Orientational behaviour of a liquid crystalline side chain polymer in applied electric and magnetic fields as detected by NMR	M. Winkler; D. Geschke; P. Holstein
291-297	Evidence of electroclinic effect in some TGBA mesophases	C. Destrade; S. Payan; P. Cluzeau; H. T. Nguyen
299-302	Chiral induction of micellar cholesterics from lamellar phases	M. Acimis; E. Dorr; H. -G. Kuball

Volume 17, Issue 1 (1994)

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1-15	Static and dynamic textures obtained under an electric field in the neighbourhood of the winding transition of a strongly confined cholesteric	J. M. Gilli; L. Gil
17-22	TGB A* state in a homologous series of diarylethane α-chloroester ferroelectric liquid crystals	I. Dierking; F. Gießelmann; P. Zugenmaier
23-30	Stressed states in domain switching of ferroelectric liquid crystal devices	D. C. Ulrich; S. J. Elston
31-45	Phase diagrams of binary mixtures of biaxial nematogens	Jon M. Goetz; Gina L. Hoatson
47-63	Correlated chain dynamics in the nematic phase of 4-cyano-4′-hexyloxybiphenyl	Ronald Y. Dong; G. Ravindranath
65-93	Magnetic field induced bistability in distorted nematic ground states	U. D. Kini
95-107	Theoretical consideration of the drop in threshold voltage at low frequencies in nematic liquid crystals	M. Oh-e; K. Kondo; Y. Kando
109-126	X-ray diffraction study of the intermediate phases formed by sodium dodecylsulphate in aqueous mixtures of N-methylformamide	X. Auvray; C. Petipas; I. Rico; A. Lattes
127-145	Static and dynamic molecular properties of real and simulated PCH5	S. Ye. Yakovenko; A. A. Minko; G. Krömer; A. Geiger
147-148	Erratum

Volume 16, Issue 6 (1994)

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911-923	A molecular simulation study of a cyclic siloxane with attached biphehylyl 4-allyloxybenzoate mesogens	Soumya S. Patnaik; Ruth Pachter; Timothy J. Bunning; Robert L. Crane; W. Wade Adams
925-940	The influence of the liquid crystalline core geometry on the mesogenicity of novel chiral 2-(4-substituted-phenoxy)propanonitriles	Christopher J. Booth; John W. Goodby; Judith P. Hardy; Olwen C. Lettington; Kenneth J. Toyne
941-954	Study of the nematic electroclinic effect in mixtures	J. Zubia; J. Etxebarria; M. Perez Jubindo
955-971	The synthesis and characterization of a new class of liquid crystalline polymers based on s-triazine	R. Fornasier; L. L. Chapoy
973-982	Phase diagram of a two-frequency chiral nematic mixture in an electric field	Slavomír Pirkl
983-991	Pretransitional electro-optic response of 6CB liquid crystal in the isotropic phase	E. L. Wood; J. R. Sambles; P. S. Cann
993-1003	The molecular and crystal structure of N-(4-n-butyloxybenzylidene)-4′-ethylaniline (4O.2) and N-(4-n-heptyloxybenzylidene)-4′-hexylaniline (7O.6)	Wolfgang Thyen; Frauke Heineman; Peter Zugenmaier
1005-1014	Liquid crystalline 3-, 4- and 6-armed star molecules based on nitromethane-trispropanol or pentaerythritol without mesogen spacers	L. M. Wilson
1015-1025	Study of an anisotropic lattice model with interactions of rank higher than four	S. Romano
1027-1036	The alignment of nematic liquid crystals on photolithographic micro-groove patterns	Yasushi Kawata; Kohki Takatoh; Makoto Hasegawa; Masanori Sakamoto
1037-1049	A comparison of the structure, flexibility and mesogenic properties of 4-methoxy-4′-cyanobiphenyl and the α,α,α-trifluorinated derivative	J. W. Emsley; G. Celebre; G. De Luca; M. Longeri; F. Lucchesini
1051-1063	Low and high frequency dielectric spectroscopy on a liquid crystal with the phase sequence N-S_A-S_c
1065-1072	Experimental evidence for the breakdown of conventional elasticity in smectics A	J. C. Rouillon; M. Benzekri; T. Claverie; J. P. Marcerou; H. T. Nguyen; J. Prost
1073-1079	Consequences of the ‘jacketed’ effect on mesomorphic and orientational properties of ‘side-on fixed’ liquid crystalline polymers	N. Leroux; M. F. Achard; P. Keller; F. Hardouin
1081-1092	Side-chain liquid crystal polymers. A study by neutron diffraction of the backbone distribution profile in the smectic A phase	L. Noirez; P. Davidson; W. Schwarz; G. Pépy
1093-1099	On the transitional properties of rigid oligomers. The orientational order of the monomer 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl and its platinum dichloride linked dimer	D. W. Bruce; S. M. Fan; G. R. Luckhurst
1101-1104	Nuclear spin relaxation in biaxial liquid crystal phases	Ronald Y. Dong
1105-1107	Di[2-(4-substituted-phenyl)-3-mercapto-propenato]-nickel(II) complexes. Metallo-mesogens exhibiting broad nematic ranges	R. Paschke; D. Balkow; I. Letko; G. Pelzl
1109-1113	Mesomorphic phase transitions of a series of D-phase compounds	Shoichi Kutsumizu; Minoru Yamada; Shinichi Yano

Volume 16, Issue 5 (1994)

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719-720	Obituary: Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. H. Sackmann	Gerhard Pelzl
721-733	Coupling order and conductivity. Liquid crystalline conjugated polymers	F. Vicentini; M. Mauzac; R. Laversanne; P. Pochat; J. P. Parneix
735-748	Switching on stray electric fields in ferroelectric liquid crystal cells	J. A. M. M. Van Haaren; W. J. A. M. Hartmann; A. G. H. Verhulst
749-767	Structure–property relationships of ‘diluted’ ferroelectric polysiloxanes	Holger Poths; Rudolf Zentel
769-781	Cholesteric liquid crystals: Image contrast in the TEM	Timothy J. Bunning; Deborah L. Vezie; Pamela F. Lloyd; Peter D. Haaland; Edwin L. Thomas; W. Wade Adams
783-803	Infrared spectroscopic study of a phenyl benzoate side group—methacrylate main chain polymeric liquid crystal	E. Hild; A. Kocot; J. K. Vij; R. Zentel
805-812	On the refractive indices, polarizabilities and order parameter of a nematic discogenic mixture	T. J. Phillips; J. C. Jones
813-829	2-(4-Alkylphenyl)-5-(alkenyloxy)pyrimidines: Synthesis, liquid crystal transition temperatures and some physical properties	S. M. Kelly; J. Fünfschilling; A. Villiger
831-843	Liquid crystal anchoring transitions induced by thermal motion	B. Lin; P. L. Taylor
845-851	Elastic constants of nematics. Comparison between molecular theory and computer simulations	M. A. Osipov; S. Hess
853-856	X-ray study of the backbone conformation of a comb-shaped polyacrylate with nematic to smectic A phase transitions	Wim G. Bouwman; Wim H. De Jeu
857-867	Determination of order parameters from carbon–fluorine dipolar coupling	Matthew L. Magnuson; Laura F. Tanner; B. M. Fung
869-875	X-ray investigations of Langmuir-Blodgett multilayer films of side-chain liquid crystal copolymers	R. Geer; S. Qadri; R. Shashidhar; A. F. Thibodeaux; R. S. Duran
877-882	Photosensitive chiral dopants with high twisting power	S. N. Yarmolenko; L. A. Kutulya; V. V. Vashchenko; L. V. Chepeleva
883-892	Ferroelectric properties of mixtures of a liquid crystalline polymer and its side-group mesogen	J. Ruth; J. Naciri; R. Shashidhar
893-903	NMR self-diffusion measurements in inverse micellar cubic phases	Y. Hendrikx; P. Sotta; J. M. Seddon; Y. Dutheillet; E. A. Bartle
905-910	Nematic colloidal suspensions of V₂O₅ in water—or Zocher phases revisited	P. Davidson; A. Garreau; J. Livage

Volume 16, Issue 4 (1994)

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529-581	Non-symmetric dimeric liquid crystals The preparation and properties of the α-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)-ω-(4-n-alkylanilinebenzylidene-4′-oxy)alkanes	G. S. Attard; R. W. Date; C. T. Imrie; G. R. Luckhurst; S. J. Roskilly; J. M. Seddon; L. Taylor
583-599	Liquid crystalline hexa-amides and side chain polysiloxanes of azacrown [18]-N₆	Mingyang Zhao; Warren T. Ford; Stefan H. J. Idziak; Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj; Paul A. Heiney
601-616	Lyotropic phase behaviour of disc-shaped tetra-palladium organyls in apolar organic solvents [1]	N. Usol'tseva; K. Praefcke; D. Singer; B. Gündogan
617-623	The first case of a lyotropic twisted nematic (N*) phase induced by a chiral charge transfer complex [1]	N. Usol'tseva; K. Praefcke; D. Singer; B. Gündogan
625-641	The synthesis and transition temperatures of some ferroelectric host materials based on 4- and 4′-(trans-4-alkylcyclohexylmethoxy)-2,3-difluorobiphenyls	Michael Hird; Kenneth J. Toyne; George W. Gray
643-653	The synthesis of laterally fluorinated alkoxystilbazoles and some of their mesogenic complexes with Ir(I). The molecular structure of trans-4-undecyloxy-3-fluoro-4′-stilbazole	Harry Adams; Neil A. Bailey; Duncan W. Bruce; Sarah A. Hudson; Julian R. Marsden
655-670	Conformational analysis of 1,2-dimethoxyethane and 1,2-diphenyloxyethane incorporated in nematic liquid crystals	Akihiro Abe; Emi Iizumi; Noritaka Kimura
671-674	The conformations adopted by α,δ-bis(phenoxy)ethane in isotropic and nematic solutions	J. W. Emsley
675-685	Discotic metallomesogens: Synthesis and properties of square planar metal bis(β-diketonate) complexes	Sybout N. Poelsma; Alastair H. Servante; Francesco P. Fanizzi; Peter M. Maitlis
687-692	Electrostatic stabilization of liquid crystalline ordering in binary melts of sodium and potassium alkanoates	T. A. Mirnaya; S. V. Volkov
693-702	Octahedral metallo-mesogens of chromium, molybdenum and tungsten with 1,4,7-trisubstituted 1,4,7-triazacyclononane and three carbonyl groups as ligands	Steven Schmidt; Günter Lattermann; Ralf Kleppinger; Joachim H. Wendorff
703-712	Third order optical non–linearities of nematic liquid crystals	L. Li; H. J. Yuan; G. Hu; P. Palffy-muhoray
713-718	A new configurational transition in inhomogeneous nematics	P. Palffy-muhoray; E. C. Gartland; J. R. Kelly

Volume 16, Issue 3 (1994)

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351-371	The case of missing incommensurate smectic A phases	Prem Patel; Satyendra Kumar; Paul Ukleja
373-380	Transition metals complexed in ordered mesophases. XV. Synthesis, characterization and mesomorphic properties of new potentially ferroelectric liquid crystals: Acetylacetonate p,p′-dialkoxyazobenzene mononuclear palladium(II) complexes	Mauro Ghedini; Daniela Pucci; Edoardo Cesarotti; Oriano Francescangeli; Roberto Bartolino
381-397	The rotational-conformational distribution of 2,2′-bithienyl in liquid crystals	Roberto Berardi; Francesco Spinozzi; Claudio Zannoni
399-403	A new smectic phase between S_E and S_B in 4,4′-dipentylbiphenyl	Krzysztof Czupryński
405-412	Visualization of enantiomers through deuterium NMR in cholesterics. Optimization of the chiral liquid crystal solvent	I. Canet; J. Løvschall; J. Courtieu
413-420	Electroconvective flow propagation and defect formation in MBBA	K. S. Krishnamurthy; R. Balakrishnan
421-428	Some relevant parameters on the ‘jacketed’ effect in side-on fixed polysiloxanes	N. Leroux; M. Mauzac; L. Noirez; F. Hardouin
429-443	λ-Shaped mesogens. Structure, phase formation and properties	D. Braun; M. Reubold; L. Schneider; M. Wegmann; J. H. Wendorff
445-451	Novel fluorinated liquid crystals. II. The synthesis and phase transitions of a novel type of ferroelectric liquid crystals containing 1,4-tetrafluorophenylene moiety	Jianxun Wen; Minquan Tian; Qi Chen
453-459	Lamellar liquid crystals of zwitterionic surfactants with hydrocarbon and polyisobutylene chains	Stig E. Friberg; Teanoosh Moaddel; Arun K. Chattopadhyay
461-467	Conservation of disclination strength in two-dimensional lattice models of liquid crystalline textures	Tsunehisa Kimura
469-477	Synthesis and thermotropic behaviour of liquid crystals containing tolane-based mesogenic units	Chang-Jyh Hsieh; Ging-Ho Hsiue
479-489	On surface biaxiality	Paolo Biscari; Gianfranco Capriz; Epifanio G. Virga
491-507	The synthesis and liquid crystal transition temperatures of some weakly polar nematic methyl (E)-[trans-4-substituted-cyclohexyl]-allyl ethers	S. M. Kelley; A. Germann; M. Schadt
509-527	Isomorphism within the hexagonal columnar mesophase of molecular and macromolecular self- and co-assembled columns containing tapered groups	Dimitris Tomazos; Gerardus Out; James A. Heck; Gary Johansson; Virgil Perce; Martin Möller

Volume 16, Issue 2 (1994)

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173-183	A microscopic model considering the effect of molecular biaxiality on ferroelectric ordering of liquid crystalline smectic C* phases	M. A. Osipov; R. Meister; H. Stegemeyer
185-202	Phase transitions and conformational changes in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal 4-(1-methylheptyloxycarbonyl)phenyl 4′-octyloxybiphenyl-4-carboxylate (MHPOBC)	Kyeong Hyeon Kim; Yoichi Takanishi; Ken Ishikawa; Hideo Takezoe; Atsuo Fukuda
203-221	Optical properties of frustrated cholesteric liquid crystals	P. Ribière; S. Pirkl; P. Oswald
223-233	Side chain polysiloxanes with fluorinated mesogenic groups. The role of the fluorine content on the properties of the smectic A state	J. -D. Laffitte; M. Mauzac; R. J. Twieg; H. T. Nguyen; G. Sigaud
235-256	Microstructure and thermodynamics of a lamellar phase with disrupted surfactant bilayers	P-O. Quest; K. Fontell; B. Halle
257-266	Molecular dynamics simulations of discotic liquid crystals using a hybrid Gay–Berne Luckhurst–Romano potential	M. D. De Luca; M. P. Neal; C. M. Care
267-276	Raman spectroscopic investigations of the structure and phase transitions of liquid crystalline lead(II) alkanoates	J. Schwede; L. Köhler; H. P. Großmann; M. Pietralla; H. D. Burrows
277-285	On some transition metal complexes having orientational properties	S. Frunzå; M. Fiti; L. Frunzå; D. N. Stoenescu; R. Moldovan; T. Beica
287-298	Micellar fluctuations in a calamitic nematic phase of a lyotropic liquid crystal studied by photon correlation	M. B. Lacerda Santos; W. B. Ferreira; M. A. Amato
299-313	The effect of a lateral hydroxy substituent on the thermal stability of the chiral smectic C phase	Russell A. Lewthwaite; John W. Goodby; Kenneth J. Toyne
315-322	Manifestation of biquadratic coupling in the smectic C* phase soft mode dielectric response	F. Gouda; T. Carlsson; G. Andersson; S. T. Lagerwall; B. Stebler
323-331	High pressure differential thermal analysis of nematic compounds with different molecular shapes	C. Rein; D. Demus
333-342	The mesophases of octa-alkanoyloxy-9,10-anthraquinone	J. Billard; Z. Luz; R. Poupko; H. Zimmermann
343-348	Relationship between the Frank elastic constant anisotropy measured from the lamellar director and that of the molecular director around disclinations in main chain liquid crystalline polymers	Wei Wang
349-350	Blends from redox active liquid crystal ionomers and amorphous ionomers	Amadeus Wiesemann; Rudolf Zentel

Volume 16, Issue 1 (1994)

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1-31	Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals From the nematic curvilinear aligned phase to ferroelectric films	Heinz-S. Kitzerow
33-42	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some platinum(II) and oxovanadium(IV) complexes	B. K. Sadashiva; Archana Ghode
43-51	The observation of a novel twist inversion in a chiral nematic phase and an induced TGBA* phase in a binary liquid-crystalline mixture of a chiral propanonitrile and a chiral 1-alkoxypropane	C. J. Booth; J. W. Goodby; J. P. Hardy; K. J. Toyne
53-65	Induction of nematic cholesteric (N*) phases by charge transfer complexation of disc-shaped multiynes [1]	K. Praefcke; D. Singer; A. Eckert
67-93	Polar nematic methyl (E)-[trans-4-cyclohexyl-substituted]allyl ethers: Synthesis, liquid crystal transition temperatures and some physical properties	S. M. Kelly; A. Germann; R. Buchecker; M. Schadt
95-104	Structure-property relationships in dopant-induced ferroelectric liquid crystals	D. A. Dunmur; M. Grayson; S. K. Roy
105-113	Synthesis and characterization of twin mesogens containing siloxane units as central spacers	F. Dia; N. Valdebenito; L. H. Tagle; C. Aguilera
115-125	Synthesis and thermotropic properties of new polyacrylates containing alkanoyl-substituted azobenzene mesogens	Giancarlo Galli; Emo Chiellini; Michele Laus; Sante A. Angeloni; Daniele Caretti; Enzo Fanelli; Giovanni Poeti; Bernard Gallot
127-134	Chiral nematic suspensions of cellulose crystallites; phase separation and magnetic field orientation	Jean-François Revol; Louis Godbout; Xue-Min Dong; Derek G. Gray; Henri Chanzy; Georg Maret
135-142	Dynamic behaviour at a nematic liquid crystal-rubbednylon interface using evanescent wave photon correlation spectroscopy	C. S. Park; M. Copic; R. Mahmood; N. A. Clark
143-150	Liquid crystalline side chain polymers consisting of acrylate and 2(S)-[2(S)-methylbutoxy]propionate	Wen-Liang Tsai; Hwei-Long Kuo; Shu-Hui Yang
151-157	The alignment of a liquid crystal in the smectic A phase in a high surface tilt cell	S. J. Elston
159-172	Two-wave mixing on the cubic non-linearity in the smectic A liquid crystals	G. F. Kventsel; B. I. Lembrikov

Volume 15, Issue 6 (1993)

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757-778	Structural analysis of the lyotropic polymorphism of four-stranded aggregates of 2′-deoxyguanosine 3′-monophosphate derivatives	Paolo Mariani; Monica M. De Morais; Giovanni Gottarelli; Gian Piero Spada; Hervé Delacroix; Luisa Tondelli
779-785	Structure and kinetics of ferroelectric smectic nuclei at the chiral nematic–smectic C* phase transition under the influence of electric fields	W. Haase; S. A. Pikin; L. A. Beresnev; S. Hiller
787-797	Polarization dynamics of an ordinary light wave interacting with a nematic liquid crystal	A. S. Zolotko; V. F. Kitaeva; N. N. Sobolev; V. Yu. Fedorovich; A. P. Sukhorukov; N. Kroo; L. Csillag
799-806	Oscillations of the Fréedericksz critical field in a superthin nematic layer in the vicinity of the second order nematic-smectic A phase transition	L. V. Mirantsev
807-818	On the K₁₃ surface-like elastic constant An experimental method to test different theoretical models	S. Faetti
819-834	An addressing effective computer model for surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells	P. Maltese; R. Piccolo; V. Ferrara
835-849	The molecular and crystal structures of a homologous series of bipolar, mesogenic biphenyls–HO(CH₂)_nOC₆H₄.C₆H₄CN	P. Zugenmaier; A. Heiske
851-858	The synthesis of triphenylene-based discotic mesogens New and improved routes	N. Boden; R. C. Borner; R. J. Bushby; A. N. Cammidge; M. V. Jesudason
859-869	On the parabolic cyclide focal-conic defect in smectic liquid crystals	I. W. Stewart
871-882	Transient leakage current in nematic LCDs	B. Maximus; C. Colpaert; A. de Meyere; H. Pauwels; H. J. Plach
883-892	Simulation of dynamic response to an electric field of surface stabilized antiferroelectric liquid crystals	Tadashi Akahane; Atsushi Obinata
893-898	New ferroelectric liquid crystals having a trifluoromethyl group at the asymmetric centre and a three-ring heterocyclic core	Akira Sakaigawa; Shinichi Imamura; Hiroyuki Nohira
899-908	Lyotropic liquid crystal phase behaviour of the zwitterionic surfactants 4-n-tridecyl- and 4-n-heptadecyl-pyridinium N-oxide in water	H. Morgans; G. Williams; G. J. T. Tiddy; A. R. Katritzky; G. P. Savaget
909-914	Density studies in terephthalylidene-bis-p-n-alkylanilines	S. Lakshminarayana; C. R. Prabhu; D. M. Potukuchi; N. V. S. Rao; V. G. K. M. Pisipati; D. Saran
915-918	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of the homologous series of 4′-bromophenyl 4′'-[(4-n-alkoxy-2,3,5,6 tetrafluorophenyl)ethynyl]benzoates	Yuelian Xu; Qi Chen; Jianxun Wen
919-927	Dielectric studies of liquid crystals under high pressure. IV. Static permittivity and low frequency relaxation process in 4-n-hexyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl (6CB)	S. Urban; T. Brückert; A. Würflinger
929-931	Liquid crystalline phase transitions for 4,4′”-dialkyloxyquaterphenyl homologues	Masahiko Sahara; Shinichi Yano; Kenichi Ikemoto; Kazuo Maejima
933-937	Observation of an electric field-induced metastable blue phase in supercooled liquid crystalline systems	H. Stegemeyer; M. Schumacher; E. Demikhov
939	Erratum

Volume 15, Issue 5 (1993)

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565-574	Highly photoconductive discotic liquid crystals Structure–property relations in the homologous series of hexa-alkoxytriphenylenes	H. Bengs; F. Closs; T. Frey; D. Funhoff; H. Ringsdorf; K. Siemensmeyer
575-589	Structural characteristics of some metallo-organic discogens	K. Usha; Kalyani Vijayan; S. Chandrasekhar
591-604	Orientational characteristics of liquid crystals (5CB) by means of optical study	V. S. Ratchkevitch; S. Ye. Yakovenko; J. Pelzl
605-625	Freeze–fracture electron microscopy of lyotropic lipid systems Quantitative analysis of cubic phases of space group Ia3d (Q²³⁰)	H. Delacroix; T. Gulik-krzywicki; P. Mariani; J. -L. Risler
627-642	Electro-optic properties of liquid crystal phase gratings and their simulation using a homogeneous alignment model	Hideya Murai
643-649	Experimental investigation of the surface energy of a nematic liquid crystal	V. A. Korjenevsky; M. G. Tomilin
651-658	High pressure optical measurements on BP III and the isotropic phase of a highly chiral liquid crystal	J. Hollmann; P. Pollmann; P. J. Collings
659-667	Axial propagation in a magnetic-dielectric cholesteric medium	Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Werner S. Weiglhofer
669-687	Study of molecular orientational states of ferroelectric liquid crystals in a surface stabilized geometry	N. Itoh; M. Koden; S. Miyoshi; T. Wada
689-700	Synthesis and characterization of two isomeric liquid crystal series with reactive double bonds	R. M. Tejedor; J. L. Rodríguez; L. Oriol; J. L. Serrano
701-708	A DSC study of the liquid crystalline phases of salmon sperm DNA	D. Grasso; R. Gabriele-campisi
709-722	Mesomorphic molecular materials. Influence of chain length on the structural properties of octa-alkyl substituted phthalocyanines	M. K. Engel; P. Bassoul; L. Bosio; H. Lehmanns; M. Hanacks; J. Simon
723-727	Planarity recognition of cationic dyes by anionic, crystalline bilayer aggregates	Hiroshi Hachisako; Tetsuya Yamazaki; Ryoichi Murakami; Kimiho Yamada
729-732	Magnetohydrodynamic effects in nematic liquid crystals	S. K. Khoo; G. R. Luckhurst
733-737	A carbohydrate with a rectangular columnar phase	H. Fischer; V. Vill; C. Vogel; U. Jeschke
739-744	New low molar mass organosiloxanes with unusual ferroelectric properties	Harry J. Coles; Hywel Owen; Joanna Newton; Philip Hodge
745-748	Visualization of the cholesteric texture near a Grandjean line	I. Heynderickx; D. J. Broer; Y. Tervoort-engelen
749-755	A preliminary investigation of the anomalous out-of-plane tilt alignment in an orthogonal-twist ferroelectric liquid crystal cell using the prism-coupling technique	C. R. Lavers; J. R. Sambles; E. P. Raynes; P. S. Cann

Volume 15, Issue 4 (1993)

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435-449	Phasmid and biforked mesogens with thiobenzoate end groups	H. T. Nguyen; C. Destrade; H. Allouchi; J. P. Bideau; M. Cotrait; D. Guillon; P. Weber; J. Malthěte
451-460	Liquid-crystalline behaviour of some bis(4-alkyloxyphenyl) thiazolo [5,4-d] dithiazoles	Yousif Z. Yousif; Ahood J. Al-hamdani
461-477	Theoretical studies of the influence of backflow on the dynamical behaviour of a Fredericks transition of a ferroelectric smectic C* liquid crystal in the bookshelf geometry	Tomas Carlsson; Noel A. Clark; Zhong Zou
479-495	Smectic A twist grain boundary phase in three new series with chiral (L) lactic acid derivatives	L. Navailles; H. T. Nguyen; P. Barois; C. Destrade; N. Isaert
497-511	Side-chain liquid crystalline polysiloxanes containing a cyanohydrin chiral centre	L. -C. Chien; I. G. Shenouda; A. Saupe; A. Jákli
513-519	Branched chain discotics Phase structure and orientation behaviour	H. Fischer; F. E. Karasz
521-527	The stability diagram of a nematic liquid crystal confined to a cylindrical cavity	S. Kralj; S. Žumer
529-540	Synthesis and characterization of novel fluorinated diphenyldiacetylenic liquid crystals	T. M. Juang; Y. N. Chen; S. H. Lung; Y. H. Lu; C. S. Hsu; S. T. Wu
541-549	Anomalous anisotropy of the elastic constants in the induced smectic O film	V. Candel; Y. Galerne
551-558	Photomechanically induced phase transitions in ferroelectric liquid crystals	H. J. Coles; H. G. Walton; D. Guillon; G. Poetti
559-561	Pyrazolo[1, 2-a]pyrazoliumolates as novel structure elements in liquid crystals [1]	Birgit Künkemeier-Schröder; Astrid-C. Koch; Gerhard Pelzl; Willy Friedrichsen
563	Errata

Volume 15, Issue 3 (1993)

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283-309	Computer simulation studies of anisotropic systems. XXII. An equimolar mixture of rods and discs: A biaxial nematic?	R. Hashim; G. R. Luckhurst; F. Prata; S. Romano
311-330	The discotic mesophases of octaalkyloxy-and octaalkanoyloxyorthocyclophanes	N. Spielberg; M. Sarkar; Z. Luz; R. Poupko; J. Billard; H. Zimmermann
331-344	Transition metals complexed to ordered mesophases. XIII. Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of potentially ferroelectric Schiff's base palladium(II) complexes	M. Ghedini; D. Pucci; E. Cesarotti; O. Francescangeli; R. Bartolino
345-360	Computer simulation of chiral liquid crystal phases. I. The polymorphism of the chiral Gay-Berne fluid	R. Memmer; H. -G. Kuball; A. Schönhofer
361-376	X-ray diffraction study of smectic A layering in terminally fluorinated liquid crystal materials	T. A. Lobko; B. I. Ostrovskii; A. I. Pavluchenko; S. N. Sulianov
377-381	Latent heat measurements of the smectic A–cholesteric transition on binary mixtures	A. J. Palangana; L. R. Evangelista; M. Simöes; S. Jayaraman
383-393	Liquid crystalline compounds in the thiophene series. VIII. Synthesis and characterization of liquid crystalline vinylenes with thiophene moieties and carbaldehyde groups	G. Koßmehl; F. D. Hoppe
395-407	Optical properties of stretched polymer dispersed liquid crystal films	O. A. Aphonin; Yu. V. Panina; A. B. Pravdin; D. A. Yakovlev
409-415	Dielectric investigations of two liquid crystalline diols	B. Gestblom; H. Kresse; C. Tschierske; S. Urban; S. Wróbel
417-427	The mountain defect. A new kind of planar defect in surface stabilized smectic C liquid crystals	Zhiming Zhuang; Aaron G. Rappaport; Noel A. Clark
429-433	The relationship between liquid crystal alignment in the nematic and smectic C* phases	Bernt O. Myrvold; Katsumi Kondo; Shuichi Oh-hara

Volume 15, Issue 2 (1993)

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123-150	The synthesis and high optical birefringence of nematogens incorporating 2,6-disubstituted naphthalenes and terminal cyano-substituent	M. Hird; K. J. Toyne; G. W. Gray; S. E. Day; D. G. McDonnell
151-169	The Ericksen number and Deborah number cascades in sheared polymeric nematics	R. G. Larson; D. W. Mead
171-183	Odd–even effect in miscibility of main-chain liquid crystal polymers with low molar mass nematogens	Fu-Lung Chen; A. M. Jamieson
185-191	6,6-Di-C-alkyl-d-galactopyranoses. A new group of liquid crystalline compounds forming columnar phases [1]	R. Miethchen; M. Schwarze; J. Holz
193-202	High pressure differential thermal analysis of laterally substituted nematic liquid crystalline compounds	C. Rein; D. Demus
203-215	On the influence of short range order upon the physical properties of triphenylene nematic discogens	T. J. Phillips; J. C. Jones; D. G. McDonnell
217-231	Chemical reactivity within a smectic B liquid crystalline phase: A model of enzyme catalysis?	B. Samori; S. Masiero; G. R. Luckhurst; S. K. Heeks; B. A. Timimi; P. Mariani
233-238	Observing molecular motions of a fluorinated ferroelectric liquid crystal using fluorine-19 NMR	C. Loubser; P. L. Wessels; J. W. Goodby; P. Styring
239-246	Induction of smectic mesomorphism by mixing a non-liquid-crystalline methacrylate with a nematic liquid-crystalline compound having a cyano-containing mesogen	T. Shindo; T. Uryu
247-254	Banded texture decoration of disclinations in a main chain thermotropic aromatic copolyester observed by optical microscopy	Shouxi Chen; Wenhui Song; Yongze Jin; Renyuan Qian
255-258	Some novel liquid crystalline derivatives of 4-carboxyphthalimide	E. Białecka-Florjańczyk; A. Orzeszko
259-263	A novel transition in the lyotropic cholesteric mesophase induced by the helix sense inversion of α-helical poly(β-phenethyl l-aspartate)	J. Watanabe; S. Okamoto; A. Abe
265-268	Paramagnetic chiral mesophases of Shiff's base complexes of transition metals	W. Pyżuk; Yu. Galyametdinov
269-274	A new class of high birefringence smectic C liquid crystals. 3,3′-Difluorodiphenyldiacetylenes	M. D. Wand; R. Vohra; S. Monahan
275-279	²H NMR spectra of 2-(p-heptylbenzoyloxy)-5-(p-heptylbenzenazo)tropone. A new sigmatropic liquid crystal	M. Cavazza; C. Forte; G. Galli; M. Geppi; F. Pietra; C. A. Veracini
281-282	A new set of high speed matrix addressing schemes for ferroelectric liquid crystal displays	J. R. Hughes; E. P. Raynes

Volume 15, Issue 1 (1993)

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1-24	Lyotropic liquid crystals of a soluble polydiacetylene. A comparative investigation by means of optical and electron microscopy	Wei Wang; Günter Lieser; Gerhard Wegner
25-30	Optical properties of magnetically doped cholesterics	Yuvaraj Sah; K. A. Suresh; G. S. Ranganath
31-63	Modelling of microstructure in mesophases	S. E. Bedford; A. H. Windle
65-74	A time-resolved X-ray diffraction study of the lamellar to non-lamellar phase transitions in 1,2-distearoylmonogalactosylglycerol	N. M. Tsvetkova; M. F. Kapasi; P. J. Quinn
75-85	Theoretical study of mechanisms of non-linear optical response in liquid crystals	C. W. Greeff; J. Lu; Michael A. Lee
87-102	Order parameters of the mesogenic core in two nematic liquid crystals containing a four-unit link	J. -P. Bayle; B. M. Fung
103-111	Dielectric response of ferroelectric*_C liquid crystals in a bias electric field	B. Žekš; T. Carlsson; I. Muševič; B. Kutnjak-Urbanc
113-121	Cholesteric liquid crystalline siloxanes with azo dye. Generation of additional reflection bands with linearly polarized light	A. Petri; Ch. Bräuchle; H. Leigeber; A. Miller; H. -P. Weitzel; F. -H. Kreuzer

Volume 14, Issue 6 (1993)

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1607-1614	On the stability of Langmuir films of pyramidic mesogens	A. El Abed; P. Peretti; J. Billard
1615-1620	Investigation of the structure of polymer diacetylene Langmuir-Blodgett films	L. Yanusova; V. Klechkovskaya; L. Sveshnikova; N. Stiopina; V. Kruchinin
1621-1626	Investigation of alignment mechanism of liquid crystal on polyimide Langmuir-Blodgett films by scanning tunnelling microscopy	J. Y. Fang; Z. H. Lu; G. W. Min; Y. Wei
1627-1634	In plane and out of plane anisotropy in Langmuir-Blodgett films of discogenic molecules	J. Pérez; M. Vandevyver; H. Strzelecka; M. Verber; C. Jallabert; A. Barraud
1635-1644	Molecular model for cholesteric polymers including biaxiality and chain flexibility	L. Varichon; A. Ten Bosch
1645-1654	Synthesis and thermal properties of side chain-type liquid crystalline polyurethanes	Eiichi Akiyama; Naoyuki Koide
1655-1659	Non-equilibrium thermal behaviour of a main chain thermotropic polymer	Evgeniy E. Pashkovsky; Tamara G. Litvina
1661-1666	Synthesis of several series of liquid crystalline polyaroyl-bis-oxyarylates and their structure-property relationships	A. Yu. Bilibin; A. V. Ten'kovtsev; A. R. Stepanova
1667-1682	Structural studies of laterally attached liquid crystalline polymers
1683-1694	Multiple scattering effects in polymer dispersed liquid crystals	J. R. Kelly; Wei Wu
1695-1713	Chiral nematic liquid crystals in cylindrical cavities. A classification of planar structures and models of non-singular disclination lines	J. Bezić; S. Žumer
1715-1723	The Goldstone mode in mixtures containing ferroelectric liquid crystals	Z. Raszewski; J. Rutkowska; J. Kedzierski; J. Zieliński; J. Żmija; R. Dabrowski; P. Perkowski
1725-1734	Time-resolved FT-IR study of ferroelectric liquid crystals with SiO obliquely evaporated alignment layers	Akio Yasuda; Keiichi Nito; Eriko Matsui
1735-1752	Strongly non-linear optical ferroelectric liquid crystals for frequency doubling	K. Schmitt; R. -P. Herr; M. Schadt; J. Fünfschilling; R. Buchecker; X. H. Chen; C. Benecke
1753-1761	New ferroelectric liquid crystals with a trifluoromethyl group	Goroh Saitoh; Toyokazu Nakamura; Masayoshi Suzuki; Masahiro Satoh; Kunikio Yoshio; Tetsuya Watanabe
1763-1784	On the dynamics of ferro- and antiferro-electric liquid crystals	Masahiro Nakagawa
1785-1791	Characterization of the electroclinic effect of smectic LCs in terms of the transitional dielectric constant in the S_A phase	M. Kimura; Y. B. Yang; Y. Iimura; S. Kobayashi
1793-1800	Optical activity and light scattering in the isotropic and smectic A* phases of a highly chiral smectic liquid crystal	Brian D. Yanoff; Andrew A. Ruether; Peter J. Collings; Andrew J. Slaney; John W. Goodby

Volume 14, Issue 6 (1993)

1801-1830	Spatial dispersion in chiral liquid crystals. Effects of higher orders	E. Demikhov; H. Stegemeyer
1831-1836	Induced helical structure of nematics in a magnetic field	A. Fedoryako; A. Popov; A. Tolmachev
1837-1846	Smectic polymorphism in a series of three-ring enaminoketone compounds	Ewa Górecka; Wiesław Pyżuk; Adam Krówczyński; Jan Przedmojski
1847-1862	Mesomorphic properties of some 1,4,8,11,15,18,22,25-octa-alkoxymethylphthalocyanines	A. N. Cammidge; M. J. Cook; S. D. Haslam; R. M. Richardson; K. J. Harrison
1863-1872	Deuterium labelled liquid crystalline compounds	K. Fodor-csorba; L. Bata; S. Holly; E. Gács-Baitz; K. Ujszászy
1873-1876	Reentrant solitons	L. Lam
1877-1883	X-ray study of substrate-induced alignment of a smectic A liquid crystal	E. Smela; L. J. Martínez-Miranda
1885-1893	A study of the surface anchoring at a polymer/liquid crystal interface in the neighbourhood of the glass transition	Yimin Ji; Jack R. Kelly; John L. West
1895-1900	A study of molecular dynamics and phase transitions in solid MBBA	V. K. Dolganov; I. Pócsik; L. Rosta
1901-1904	Plane hydrodynamic flow in thin free suspended nematic liquid crystal films	Y. Marinov; P. Simova
1905-1923	Shear flow and magnetic field effects on smectic C, C, C_M and C_M liquid crystals	S. P. A. Gill; F. M. Leslie
1925-1934	Blends from redox active liquid crystal ionomers and amorphous ionomers	Amadeus Wiesemann; Rudolf Zentel
1935-1943	Director patterns and inversion walls in 2D inhomogeneously deformed nematic LC layers	H. Schmiedel; Ch. Cramer; R. Stannarius; K. Eidner; M. Grigutsch
1945-1952	Bend-stripes in hybrid aligned nematic layers	A. Sparavigna; L. Komitov; P. Palffy-Muhoray; A. Strigazzi
1953-1957	Controllable source-object light scattering imaging in optical systems	A. V. Gitin; M. G. Tomilin
1959-1966	Dielectric investigation of the diamagnetic anisotropy and elasticity of 4-trans-4′-n-hexyl-cyclohexyl-isothiocyanatobenzene (6CHBT)	Z. Raszewski; J. Kedzierski; J. Rutkowska; J. Zieliński; J. Żmija; R. D. Dabrowski; T. Opara
1967-1976	The existence of four dielectric modes in the planar oriented S*_c phase of a fluorinated substance	M. Marzec; W. Haase; E. Jakob; M. Pfeiffer; S. Wróbel; T. Geelhaar
1977-1989	Non-linear liquid crystal waveguides	H. Lin; P. Palffy-muhoray
1991-2000	A specialized apparatus for the study of liquid crystals at high pressures	C. Carboni; H. F. Gleeson; J. W. Goodby; A. J. Slaney
2001-2011	The influence of pretransitional phenomena on blue phase range	R. J. Miller; H. F. Gleeson

Volume 14, Issue 5 (1993)

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1255-1267	Invited Lecture. Ferroelectric liquid crystalline polymers and related model compounds with a low–moderate degree of polymerization	T. Sekiya; K. Yuasa; S. Uchida; S. Hachiya; K. Hashimoto; K. Kawasaki
1269-1282	Calculation of chevron profiles in ferroelectric liquid crystal cells	Arnout De Meyere; Herman Pauwels; Erwin De Ley
1283-1293	Optical and dielectric properties of antiferroelectric liquid crystals and their surface effects	H. Moritake; N. Shigeno; M. Ozaki; K. Yoshino
1295-1302	Chiral 2,2-disubstituted oxirane ethers and carboxylic esters. New ferroelectric liquid crystals and dopants for induced ferroelectric phases	G. Scherowsky; A. Lotz
1303-1309	Hydrogen bond-induced ferroelectric liquid crystals	L. J. Yu
1311-1317	Hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals built from hydrogen-bonding donors and acceptors. Infrared study on the stability of the hydrogen bond between carboxylic acid and pyridyl moieties	Takashi Kato; Toshiyuki Uryu; Fumiko Kaneuchi; Chihiro Jin; Jean M. J. Fréchet
1319-1325	A new type of electrohydrodynamic instability in nematic liquid crystals with positive dielectric anisotropy	P. R. Kishore; T. F. S. Raj; A. W. Iqbal; S. S. Sastry; G. Satyanandam
1327-1349	Electrooptic response of smectic O and smectic O	P. E. Cladis; Helmut R. Brand
1351-1358	The temperature dependence of nematic liquid crystalline polymer melt diffusion	E. Hall; C. K. Ober; G. Galli
1359-1369	Creation of nematic and reentrant nematic phases in bi- and multi-component smectic mixtures	R. Dabrowski; K. Czupryński; J. Przedmojski; B. Ważyńska
1371-1375	Detailed study of a two component smectic 4TPB–8OCB system with a nematic gap. Phase diagram and viscosity study	K. Czupryński; J. Janik; J. K. Mościcki
1377-1387	Three ring dioxanes as dopants enhancing the stability of the smectic C phase	J. Szulc; K. Czupryński; R. Dabrowski; J. Przedmojski
1389-1395	Epitaxygens: mesomorphic properties of triptycene derivatives	S. Norvez; J. Simon
1397-1408	Lateral fluoro substituted 4-alkyl-4″-chloro-1,1′:4′,1″-terphenyls and derivatives. Useful high birefringence, high stability liquid crystals	M. J. Goulding; S. Greenfield; D. Coates; R. Clemitson
1409-1420	A study of two dimensional smectic layer structure	S. Mukai; M. Nakagawa
1421-1429	The development of polar discotic metallomesogens Vanadyl 1,3-diketonate complexes	Hanxing Zheng; Patrick J. Carroll; Timothy M. Swager
1431-1438	Optical reorientation in cholesteric nematic mixtures	G. Abbate; A. Ferraiuolo; P. Maddalena; L. Marrucci; E. Santamato
1439-1443	Field dependence of the optical activity of a chiral liquid crystal near the isotropic–smectic A transition	L. J. Martínez-Miranda; R. Kawakami; N. Engheta; K. B. O'brien

Volume 14, Issue 5 (1993)

1445-1456	Orientation order and dynamics of CDCl₃ in ethylcellulose/chloroform liquid crystal phases	C. T. Yim; D. F. R. Gilson; D. R. Budgell; D. G. Gray
1457-1468	Orientational order and dynamics of fluorescent probes in aligned lyotropic phases by fluorescence depolarization spectroscopy. Perylene in a nematic discotic phase. A comparison with ²H NMR	D. Catalano; A. Lenzi; C. A. Veracini
1469-1478	Physical properties of mixtures of low molar mass nematic liquid crystals with photochromic fulgide guest dyes	H. Allinson; H. F. Gleeson
1479-1484	Solvent–solute and solute–solute interactions from NMR in nematic phases	C. L. Khetrapal; N. Suryaprakash
1485-1493	NMR study of the long time, defect-controlled, magnetic reorientation of a nematic polymer liquid crystal	L. N. Gonçalves; J. P. Casquilho; J. Figueirinhas; C. Cruz; A. F. Martins
1495-1506	Study of phase transitions in 4-n-alkoxybenzilidene-4′-n-alkylanilines by one and two dimensional ¹³C NMR	B. M. Fung; Matthew L. Magnuson; Tat-Hung Tong; Mei-Sing Ho
1507-1517	High field carbon 13 relaxation of 5CB. Chemical shift anisotropy as a probe of nematic dynamics	John S. Lewis; E. Tomchuk; E. Bock
1519-1528	Quasielastic scattering of neutrons by a liquid crystal substance with flexible molecules	R. Podsiadły; J. A. Janik; J. M. Janik; K. Otnes
1529-1537	ESR studies of the orientational and reorientational properties of mesomorphic polymers	L. Andreozzi; E. Chiellini; M. Giordano; D. Leporini
1539-1551	A simple molecular theory of a nematic–nematic phase transition in highly polar compounds	A. S. Govind; N. V. Madhusudana
1553-1560	Optical pattern simulations for closed cylinders of liquid crystals	B. -J. Liang; J. -G. Wei; Shu-Hsia Chen
1561-1571	Free-surface effects on the response of nematic liquid crystal films to a laser pulse	Ru-Pin Pan; Shyu-Mou Chen; Hung-Yu Yang
1573-1585	Alignment and ordering mechanisms at a liquid crystal–solid interface	G. P. Crawford; R. J. Ondris-Crawford; S. Žumer; S. Keast; M. Neubert; J. W. Doane
1587-1598	Phase transitions in ferroelectric liquid crystals in a restricted geometry	T. Povše; I. Muševič; B. Žekš; R. Blinc
1599-1606	The application of thin nematic liquid crystal layers to mineral analysis	M. G. Tomilin; G. Yu. Ivanyuk

Volume 14, Issue 4 (1993)

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929-935	Highly transparent memory states in polymer dispersed liquid crystal films	R. Yamaguchi; S. Sato
937-946	The second and third order non-linear optical properties of liquid crystalline polymers	D. A. McL. Smith; H. J. Coles
947-958	Synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of comb-like polymers based on lipopeptides with two hydrophobic chains	Bernard Gallot; Tiejun Diao
959-970	Preparation and characterization of fibres from a thermotropic liquid crystal polyester with non-coplanar biphenylene units	Farshad Motamedi; Ulrich Jonas; Andreas Greiner; Hans-Werner Schmidt
971-979	Analogy between liquid crystal side chain polysiloxanes and liquid crystal twins with siloxane spacers	F. Hardouin; H. Richard; M. F. Achard
981-990	X-ray diffraction study of the smectic mesophase of some azobenzene-containing polyacrylates	Oriano Francescangeli; Bin Yang; Emo Chiellini; Giancarlo Galli; Annino Sante Angeloni; Michele Laus
991-997	Electric field induced structure formation in free standing ferroelectric films	G. Hauck; H. D. Koswig; U. Labes
999-1005	The influence of finite dimensions on the static ordering of the S*_C phase in an electric field	B. Kutnjak-urbanc; B. Žekš; B. Rovšek
1007-1019	Ferroelectricity of induced S*_C phases with novel chiral dopants	H. Stegemeyer; R. Meister; H. -J. Altenbach; D. Szewczyk
1021-1032	Second harmonic generation in ferroelectric liquid crystals and their mixtures	K. Yoshino; M. Utsumi; Y. Morita; Y. Sadohara; M. Ozaki
1033-1038	Interaction potentials and free energies for ferroelectric liquid crystals in the model of polar non-uniaxial molecules	K. Szumilin; J. J. Milczarek
1039-1045	Fluorescent dye guest-host effects in advanced ferroelectric liquid crystals	H. J. Coles; G. A. Lester; H. Owen
1047-1053	Broadband dielectric relaxation study on a diluted solution of a ferroelectric liquid crystal by time domain reflectometry	W. Otowski; R. Nozaki; T. K. Bose
1055-1060	Domain structures in ferroelectric liquid crystals	V. P. Vorflusev; Yu. P. Panarin; S. A. Pikin; V. G. Chigrinov
1061-1068	Ferroelectric properties of a series of core-fluorinated dopants containing the 2,3-difluoroalkoxy tail	William N. Thurmes; Michael D. Wand; Rohini T. Vohra; Kundalika M. More; David M. Walba
1069-1077	Hindered reorientation of chiral molecules around their long axes in the S*_C phase	B. Gestblom; M. Makrenek; W. Haase; S. Wróbel
1079-1086	Are short-pitch bistable ferroelectric liquid crystal cells surface stabilized?	Renfan Shao; Zhiming Zhuang; Noel Clark
1087-1094	Electroclinic behaviour of polymer doped low molar mass ferroelectric liquid crystals	P. Tuli; H. J. Coles

Volume 14, Issue 4 (1993)

1095-1105	Studies of the higher order smectic phase of the large electroclinic effect material W317	P. A. Williams; L. Komitov; A. G. Rappaport; B. N. Thomas; N. A. Clark; D. M. Walba; G. W. Day
1107-1124	An AC electro-optic technique of comparing the two anchoring energies of a hybrid aligned nematic cell	P. Maheswara Murthy; V. A. Raghunathan; N. V. Madhusudana
1125-1134	Influence of the surface topography on the surface transitions in nematics	G. Barbero; T. Beica; A. L. Alexe-ionescu; R. Moldovan
1135-1142	Confinement and orientational study at liquid crystal phase transitions	Germano Iannacchione; Daniele Finotello
1143-1151	Saddle-splay and mechanical instability in nematics confined to a cylindrical annular geometry	P. Palffy-muhoray; A. Sparavigna; A. Strigazzi
1153-1161	Interface influenced phase transitions of alkylcyanobiphenyl liquid crystals A calorimetric study	Germano Iannacchione; Alfredo Strigazzi; Daniele Finotello
1163-1167	Synthesis and study of mesogenic compounds having a methylene ketone (-CH₂-CO-) linking group	N. K. Chudgar; Alpana Shah
1169-1180	Smectic C phenylpyridines with an alkenyloxy chain	S. M. Kelly; J. Fünfschilling; A. Villiger
1181-1187	Substitution pattern and stereochemistry versus liquid crystalline behaviour [1]	Klaus Praefcke; Dirk Blunk
1189-1198	Computer simulations of nematic droplets	Axel Kilian
1199-1208	A two dimensional liquid crystal simulation for thin film transistor liquid crystal displays	K. Sumiyoshi; K. Takatori; N. Takahashi; Y. Hirai
1209-1215	Phase diagram of the face-centred cubic Blume–Emery–Griffiths model in the cluster variation method tetrahedron approximation	C. Buzano; L. R. Evangelista
1217-1220	Comparison of experimental order parameters of nematogens with Faber's theory	Banani Adhikari; Gurupada Chaudhuri; Ranjit Paul
1221-1226	A continuum theory for liquid crystals describing different degrees of orientational order	S. Blenk; H. Ehrentraut; W. Muschik
1227-1236	On the calculation of the dielectric relaxation times of a nematic liquid crystal from the non-inertial Langevin equation	W. T. Coffey; Yu. P. Kalmykov
1237-1242	Constant pressure molecular dynamics simulations of the crystal–smectic transition in systems of soft parallel spherocylinders as a model for liquid crystals	Keiko M. Aoki; Fumiko Yonezawa
1243-1253	Landau–de Gennes theory of anchoring transitions at a nematic liquid crystal–substrate interface	P. I. C. Teixeira; T. J. Sluckin; D. E. Sullivan

Volume 14, Issue 3 (1993)

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603-609	Selective reflection in the cholesteric and blue phases of a chiral-racemic mixture of CE6	H. Zink; W. van Dael
611-615	Optical activity in CE6 A new metastable blue phase?	F. Vanweert; W. van Dael
617-627	Investigation of the chirality dependence of thermal properties in chiral-racemic mixtures of the cholesteric ester CE6	G. Voets; W. van Dael
629-634	Liquid crystalline photoconductors	F. Closs; K. Siemensmeyer; Th. Frey; D. Funhoff
635-643	Synthesis and characterization of new liquid-crystalline dyes for non-linear optics	T. Hanemann; E. Soto Bustamante; T. Weyrauch; W. Haase
645-652	A study of homologation and the occurrence of an S_A-S_C-S_A sequence of phases in the 4-n-alkoxy-3-fluorophenyl 4-(5-n-alkyl-2-thienyl)benzoates	D. J. Byron; A. S. Matharu; S. N. R. Shirazi; A. R. Tajbakhsh; R. C. Wilson
653-659	Preparation and liquid-crystalline properties of toluene-4-sulphonyl urethane of hydroxypropylcellulose	M. H. Godinho; J. P. Borges; J. C. Bordado; M. T. Cidade; A. F. Martins
661-666	Ferroelectric liquid crystal materials synthesized from 2(S)-[2(S)-methylbutyloxy]propanol	W. L. Tsai; S. H. Yang
667-674	New laterally aromatic branched liquid crystal materials with large nematic ranges	P. Berdagué; J. P. Bayle; Mei-Sing Ho; B. M. Fung
675-698	2-[4-Alkenyloxy)phenyl]-5-alkylpyrimidines The relationship between position and nature (E/Z) of the double bond and transition temperatures	S. M. Kelly
699-712	4-(5-Alkyl-2-pyridinyl)phenyl alkanoates: Some novel smectic materials for display devices	S. M. Kelly; J. Fünfschilling; A. Villiger
713-725	The influence of double bonds in the terminal chain of 2-ring compounds on the physical properties of S*_c mixtures	J. Fünfschilling; S. M. Kelly; A. Villiger
727-732	Synthesis and properties of optically active 1,3-diols and their derivatives as chiral dopants for ferroelectric liquid crystals	Tetsuo Kusumoto; Ken-Ichi Sato; Kumiko Ogino; Tamejiro Hiyama; Sadao Takehara; Masashi Osawa; Kayoko Nakamura
733-739	Chiral spiro-connected 2,3,3-trisubstituted oxiranes New dopants for induced ferroelectric phases	G. Scherowsky; A. Lotz
741-761	Palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reactions in the synthesis of some high polarizability materials	Michael Hird; Kenneth J. Toyne; George W. Gray
763-771	Synthesis and characterization of guest-host azo dyes with broad absorption bands	A. M. Lackner; E. Sherman; S. -Y. Wong; S. -M. Wong
773-784	Phenyl-cyclohexyl enaminoketone ligands and their Cu(II) complexes	Wieslaw Pyżuk; Ewa Górecka; Adam Krówczyński; Jan Przedmojski
785-794	Disc-shaped dinuclear palladium organyls Structure and phase behaviour of charge transfer induced mesophases [1]	D. Singer; A. Liebmann; K. Praefcke; J. H. Wendorff

Volume 14, Issue 3 (1993)

795-805	Mesomorphic phase transitions of tetraphenylporphyrins with four long aliphatic chains	Y. Shimizu; M. Miya; A. Nagata; K. Ohta; I. Yamamoto; S. Kusabayashi
807-819	Infrared absorption study of hexapentyloxytriphenylene A discotic liquid crystal	G. Kruk; A. Kocot; R. Wrzalik; J. K. Vij; O. Karthaus; H. Ringsdorf
821-827	Intermolecular hydrogen bonding as an aid to the preferential exhibition of the smectic C phase in troponoid liquid crystals	A. Mori; H. Takeshita; R. Nimura; M. Isobe
829-835	Mesophases induced by hydrogen bonds between non-mesogens A di-proton acceptor and proton donors	L. J. Yu; J. S. Pan
837-842	Anchoring properties of a lyotropic, nematic discotic CsPFO/water mixture	E. A. Oliveira; P. J. Photinos; A. Figueiredo Neto
843-852	²H NMR study on the lyomesophases of the system hexaethylene glycol dodecyl methyl ether/water Temperature dependence of quadrupole splittings	W. Schnepp; S. Disch; C. Schmidt
853-860	Liquid crystal elastomers Interaction between the network and smectic ordering	A. J. Symons; F. J. Davis; G. R. Mitchell
861-869	Ferroelectric liquid-crystalline side group polymers Spacer length variation and comparison with the monomers	K. Kühnpast; J. Springer; G. Scherowsky; F. Gießelmann; P. Zugenmaier
871-879	Neutron scattering studies of terminally attached side chain liquid crystal polymers	R. M. Richardson; G. W. Gray; A. R. Tajbakhsh
881-888	Phase behaviour and morphology of polymer/liquid crystal blends	Mariano Pracella; Bruno Bresci; Concetta Nicolardi
889-899	Dipolar association of liquid crystalline side chain homo- and copolymers	H. Scheuermann; V. Tsukruk; H. Finkelmann
901-910	Two unusual mesophases in chiral side chain polymers	P. Davidson; K. Kühnpast; J. Springer; G. Scherowsky
911-916	Observation of blue phases in chiral networks	H. -S. Kitzerow; H. Schmid; A. Ranft; G. Heppke; R. A. M. Hikmet; J. Lub
917-928	Unusual phase behaviour of a new liquid-crystalline side group polymer	D. Wolff; H. Cackovic; H. Krüger; J. Rübner; J. Springer

Volume 14, Issue 2 (1993)

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279-286	Optically compensated double-layer electrically controlled birefringence liquid crystal display with wide-viewing-angle cone	H. Seki; Y. Masuda; T. Uchida
287-291	A novel liquid crystal light modulator	Marek Sierakowski; Andrzej W. Domański
293-296	Orientational properties of PVA coated SiO films	S. Frunza; R. Moldovan; T. Beica; D. Stoenescu; M. Tintaru
297-306	Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in chiral smectic C cells	J. A. M. M. Van Haaren
307-317	Liquid crystal devices for optical communication and information processing systems	Katsuhiko Hirabayashi; Takashi Kurokawa
319-326	Mechanism of nematic molecular alignment based on friction charges and surface topology by rubbing	Akihiko Sugimura; Ou-Yang Zhong-can
327-337	Liquid crystal birefringence for millimeter wave radar	K. C. Lim; J. D. Margerum; A. M. Lackner; L. J. Miller; E. Sherman; W. H. Smith Jr.
339-344	High on-state clarity polymer dispersed liquid crystal films	P. Nolan; M. Tillin; D. Coates
345-350	Copolymerizable initiator for improved polymer dispersed liquid crystal films	J. D. Margerum; F. G. Yamagishi; A. M. Lackner; E. Sherman; L. J. Miller; C. I. Van Ast
351-359	Microtubule particle dispersion in liquid crystal hosts	A. M. Lackner; K. C. Lim; J. D. Margerum; E. Sherman
361-369	Gas flow-field induced director alignment in polymer dispersed liquid crystal microdroplets deposited on a glass substrate	D. S. Parmar; J. J. Singh
371-380	Dopant effect on threshold electric field of antiferroelectric liquid crystal switching	K. Murashiro; M. Kikuchi; H. Inoue; M. Fukushima; S. Saito
381-387	Linear optical switching in a FLC/waveguide composite device	M. Ozaki; Y. Sadohara; Y. Uchiyama; M. Utsumi; K. Yoshino
389-404	Computer simulation of the electro-optical switching process in ferroelectric liquid crystal cells with bookshelf geometry	F. Gießelmann; P. Zugenmaier
405-414	Synthesis of polyphilic compounds Evidence for ferroelectricity in a non-chiral mesophase	F. G. Tournilhac; L. Bosio; J. Simon; L. M. Blinov; S. V. Yablonsky
415-426	Molecular dynamics study of the ferroelectric liquid crystal CI IPNOC by proton spin-lattice relaxation	A. Ferraz; J. L. Figueirinhas; P. J. Sebastião; A. C. Ribeiro; H. T. Nguyen; F. Noack
427-434	Non-linear dielectric spectra of ferroelectric liquid crystals	Yasuyuki Kimura; Reinosuke Hayakawa
435-443	Electroclinic response of some ferroelectric liquid crystals	H. P. Padmini; R. Pratibha; N. V. Madhusudana; B. Shivkumar

Volume 14, Issue 2 (1993)

445-451	A phenomenological model of antiferroelectric liquid crystals	Boštjan Žekš; Mojca Čepič
453-461	Electromechanical effect in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal	N. Éber; L. Bata
463-468	Electrooptic properties of chiral smectic liquid crystals with a dipolar order	M. Glogarová; H. Sverenyák; A. Fukuda; H. Takezoe
469-473	The high frequency dielectric response of a ferroelectric liquid crystal	P. G. Costello; Yu. P. Kalmykov; J. K. Vij
475-481	Correlations between surface and bulk liquid crystal alignment observed with optical second-harmonic generation	M. Barmentlo; R. W. J. Hollering; N. A. J. M. Van Aerle
483-496	Experimental determination of the flexoelectric coefficients of some nematic liquid crystals	P. Maheswara Murthy; V. A. Raghunathan; N. V. Madhusudana
497-511	Electromechanical effect in cholesteric mixtures with a compensation temperature	H. P. Padmini; N. V. Madhusudana
513-523	The effect of molecular structure on molecular dynamics and ordering in a chiral smectic liquid crystal	Atsushi Yoshizawa; Akihisa Yokoyama; Hiroshi Kikuzaki; Toshihiro Hirai
525-537	Thermal surface switching and thermo electro-optical properties of nematic liquid crystals	N. Basturk
539-544	Dynamic behaviour of electric properties in a liquid crystal cell with polyimide boundaries	Akihiko Sugimura; Ou-Yang Zhong-can
545-550	Light scattering properties induced by memory effects in a nematic liquid crystal cell without rubbing	Toshiaki Nose; Yusei Ukawa; Susumu Sato
551-557	Anomalous charging and discharging processes in liquid crystals	R. Nozaki; W. Otowski; T. K. Bose
559-563	Simultaneous calorimetric and optical reflectivity measurements of extremely thin liquid crystal films	T. Stoebe; C. C. Huang
565-572	Molecular dynamics in the nematic, S_A and S_C phases of 8S5 and 9S5 as studied by dielectric methods	J. Chruściel; B. Gestblom; M. Makrenek; W. Haase; M. Pfeiffer; S. Wróbel
573-580	Selective reflection and textural studies of free-standing films of a chiral liquid crystal	Ch. Bahr; D. Fliegner
581-589	Orientational fluctuations in a nematic liquid crystal as seen by neutron scattering	T. Riste; K. Otnes
591-601	Determination of the orientational ordering of 4′-cyanophenyl-4-alkylbenzoates by ¹³C NMR	N. S. Balakrishnan; J. P. Bayle; Mei-Sing Ho; Son C. Pham; B. M. Fung

Volume 14, Issue 1 (1993)

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1	Preface	Emo Chiellini; Giancarlo Galli
3-14	Discotic liquid crystals. A brief review	S. Chandrasekhar
15-36	Topics in the evolution of liquid crystal polymers	Augusto Sirigu
37-66	Chirality in liquid crystals. The remarkable phenylpropiolates	J. W. Goodby; I. Nishiyama; A. J. Slaney; C. J. Booth; K. J. Toyne
67-71	Synthesis and liquid-crystalline properties of a homologous series of antiferroelectric liquid crystals and their respective racemates	G. Heppke; P. Kleineberg; D. Lötzsch
73-104	Linear and non-linear liquid crystal materials, electro-optical effects and surface interactions. Their application in present and future devices	Martin Schadt
105-120	New mesogenic compounds with unconventional molecular structures 1,2-Phenylene and 2,3-naphthylene bis[4-(4-alkoxyphenyliminomethyl)benzoates] and related compounds	Hiroyuki Matsuzaki; Yoshio Matsunaga
121-130	Some flow effects in continuum theory for smectic liquid crystals	F. M. Leslie
131-157	Structure and phase transitions in smectic A liquid crystals with polar and sterical asymmetry	B. I. Ostrovskii
159-168	Recent advances in nematic and smectic A anchoring on amorphous solid surfaces [1]	G. Durand
169-184	Rotational dynamics and conformational kinetics in liquid crystals	A. Ferrarini; A. Polimeno; P. L. Nordio
185-196	Wave mixing in electric field biased nematic thin films	Shu-Hsia Chen; Tien-Jung Chen; Yuhren Shen; Chen-Lung Kuo
197-213	Properties of side chain liquid crystal and amorphous polymers. Applications to non-linear optics	Jean-Claude Dubois; Pierre Le Barny; Philippe Robin; Vincent Lemoine; Henri Rajbenbach
215-226	Two-dimensional NMR study of slow phenyl-flips in liquid-crystalline side group polymers	J. Leisen; C. Boeffel; R. Y. Dong; H. W. Spiess
227-263	Microstructure and dynamics in lyotropic liquid crystals. Principles and applications of nuclear spin relaxation	Bertil Halle; Per-Ola Quist; István Furó
265-277	Mesophases in monolayers of fatty acids and phospholipids	H. Möhwald; C. Böhm; A. Dietrich; S. Kirstein

Volume 13, Issue 6 (1993)

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735-755	Influence of boundary conditions on electrooptical and magnetooptical effects in nematics	U. D. Kini
757-764	Interdigitated smectic A and B mesophases in higher homologues of the 5O.m series	V. G. K. M. Pisipati; Shankar B. Rananavare
765-773	Ferroelectric liquid crystals containing a 2(S)-[2(S)-methylbutoxy]propionyloxy unit	Wen-Liang Tsai; Hwei-Long Kuo
775-795	A study on the relaxation phenomena of nematic polymers after cessation of shear flow	P. K. Chan; A. D. Rey
797-810	A molecular model for the smectic B phase. The stabilized molecular rotor	K. Toriyam; D. A. Dunmur
811-827	Molecular dynamics and X-ray scattering simulations of cyclic siloxane-based liquid crystal mesogens	Edward P. Socci; Barry L. Farmer; Timothy J. Bunning; Ruth Pachter; W. Wade Adams
829-842	Evolution of cylindrical structures in the system sodium decylsulphate/decanol/water	Jean Charvolin
843-850	Novel ferroelectric non-symmetric dimeric liquid crystals	M. Marcos; A. Omenat; J. L. Serrano
851-858	Polymeric nematic schlieren textures with singularities of high strength	Qi-Feng Zhou; Xin-Hua Wan; Fei Zhang; Dong Zhang; Zhicai Wu; Xinde Feng

Volume 13, Issue 5 (1993)

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615-621	Grating coupled liquid crystal waveguide	G. P. Bryan-Brown; J. R. Sambles; K. R. Welford
623-628	Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in nematic liquid crystals with large positive dielectric anisotropy	E. I. Rjumtsev; S. G. Polushin
629-636	Order parameters and densities in the smectic C, smectic A and nematic phases of a liquid crystal mixture	R. Paul; B. Jha; D. A. Dunmur
637-644	Optical guided-wave study of a homeotropically aligned ferroelectric liquid crystal	Gong Mengnan; J. R. Sambles; Fuzi Yang
645-665	Theory of NMR line broadening by elastic modes in nematic liquid crystals	J. B. Ferreira; H. Gerard; D. Galland; F. Volino
667-675	Landau second order to tricritical crossover behaviour for smectic A-smectic C* transitions	T. Chan; Ch. Bahr; G. Heppke; C. W. Garland
677-690	The use of a time resolved Raman microprobe to study the electric field induced Fréedericksz transition in the alkyl cyanobiphenyl homologues	K. M. Booth; H. J. Coles
691-699	Branched non-ionic oligo-oxyethylene Y-amphiphiles Effect of molecular geometry on the micellar shape 1	Krystyna Kratzat; Heino Finkelmann
701-710	The properties of phenyl cyclohexyl ferroelectric liquid crystals	Sun Yongmao; Wang Liangyu; Yu Hongping; Zhao Huimin; Xu Shouyi
711-719	High pressure phase studies of some liquid crystalline cyclohexane derivatives by differential thermal analysis	J. Rübesamen; G. M. Schneider
721-728	Measurements of polarization reversal current of a ferroelectric liquid crystalline polymer	H. Endo; S. Hachiya; K. Kawasaki
729-733	Phase transitions of long chain esters of meso-tetrakis(para-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin	René Ramasseul; Pascale Maldivi; Jean-Claude Marchon; Mark Taylor; Daniel Guillon

Volume 13, Issue 4 (1993)

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471-482	Influence of steric interactions and random side chain variations on the mesomorphic properties of bowlic mesogens	Stefanio Bonsignore; Annick Du Vosel; Gianfranco Guglielmetti; Enrico Dalcanale; Franco Ugozzoli
483-498	NMR field-cycling study of proton and deuteron spin relaxation in the nematic liquid crystal 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl	R. Köllner; K. H. Schweikert; F. Noack; H. Zimmermann
499-505	Liquid crystalline aromatic esters containing a 1,3,5-triazine moiety	D. Janietz; F. Sundholm; J. Leppänen; H. Karhinen; M. Bauer
507-514	X-ray and calorimetric study of smectic �-smectic A₂-smectic C₂ transitions in a liquid crystal mixture	L. Wu; C. W. Garland; S. Somasekhar; R. Shashidhar
515-529	New liquid crystalline compounds based on 2-arylthiophenes and 2-(biphenyl-4-yl)thiophenes	R. Brettle; D. A. Dunmur; C. M. Marson; M. Pinol; K. Toriyama
531-539	Deuterium NMR studies of n-octyl-, n-nonyl-, n-decyl-D-glucopyranoside liquid crystalline systems	A. Loewenstein; D. Igner
541-550	A guided wave study of the voltage dependent director configuration in a nematic liquid crystal layer with finite surface tilt	Lizhen Ruan; T. W. Preist; Fuzi Yang; J. R. Sambles
551-559	Bis-1,3-diol type liquid crystals from pentaerythritol [1]	Klaus Praefcke; Panicos Psaras; Andreas Eckert
561-570	Cholesteric gels formed by LC molecules and their use in optical storage	R. A. M. Hikmet; B. H. Zwerver
571-584	Curing kinetics of liquid-crystalline epoxy resins	C. Carfagna; E. Amendola; M. Giamberini; A. G. Filippov; R. S. Bauer
585-596	Persistence of short range order in the fluid phases of a mesogen copper complex studied by EPR	P. J. Alonso; M. Marcos; J. I. Martínez; V. M. Orera; M. L. Sanjuán; J. L. Serrano
597-601	A new set of high speed matrix addressing schemes for ferroelectric liquid crystal displays	J. R. Hughes; E. P. Raynes
603-613	An enhanced odd-even effect of liquid crystal dimers Orientational order in the α,ω-bis(4′-cyanobiphenyl-4-yl)alkanes	P. J. Barnes; A. G. Douglass; S. K. Heeks; G. R. Luckhurst

Volume 13, Issue 3 (1993)

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319-343	Zero electric field gradient mixtures for the elucidation of orientational mechanisms	J. B. S. Barnhoorn; C. A. De Lange; E. E. Burnell
345-351	Mesomorphic properties of some laterally fluorinated 4-alkyl,4″-oxoalkyl 1,1′: 4′,1″terphenyls	M. J. Goulding; S. Greenfield
353-363	Semi-flexible liquid crystalline polyesters based on twin di(p-oxybenzoyl) units X-ray study on smectic mesophase structures	Oriano Francescangeli; Gianni Albertini; Bin Yang; Annino Sante Angeloni; Michele Laus; Emo Chiellini; Giancarlo Galli
365-371	Observation of disclinations in the nematic state of a thermotropic aromatic copolyester by lamellar decoration	Shouxi Chen; Liying Cai; Yongzheng Wu; Yongze Jin; Shufan Zhang; Zhihai Qin; Wenhui Song; Renyuan Qian
373-380	Competition between dipolar and steric interactions in swallow-tailed compounds	Susanne Heinemann; Reinhard Paschke; Horst Kresse
381-402	The effect of the ferrocene unit on mesomorphic properties	Neil J. Thompson; John W. Goodby; Kenneth J. Toyne
403-412	Collective and molecular dynamics in low molar mass and polymeric ferroelectric liquid crystals	A. Schönfeld; F. Kremer; R. Zentel
413-425	Forming process and stability of bubble domains in dielectrically positive cholesteric liquid crystals	S. Pirkl; P. Ribière; P. Oswald
427-443	NMR relaxation of rigid molecules in the nematic phase of a discotic liquid crystal	E. A. Joghems; C. A. Biesheuvel; J. Bulthuis
445-454	New inductions of columnar mesophases in nematic discotic multiyne mesogens [1]	Klaus Praefcke; Dirk Singer; Bernd Kohne
455-465	Thermotropic liquid crystals of polyesters having a mesogenic 4,4-bibenzoate unit Smectic mesophase properties and structures in dimeric model compounds	Junji Watanabe; Hidehiro Komura; Teruki Niiori
467-470	Liquid crystal properties of 4-n-alkylphenyl D-glucopyranosides	Lavinia M. Wingert; George A. Jeffrey; Jahangir; David C. Baker

Volume 13, Issue 2 (1993)

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171-187	Invited Article Phasmids and polycatenar mesogens	Jacques Malthěte; Huu Tinh Nguyen; Christian Destrade
189-199	Reversible alignment change of liquid crystals induced by photochromic molecular films XVIII. α-Hydrazono-β-keto esters as command molecules [1]	Shigeo Yamamura; Takashi Tamaki; Takahiro Seki; Masako Sakuragi; Yuji Kawanishi; Kunihiro Ichimura
201-212	A new smectic mesophase with two dimensional tetragonal symmetry from dialkyldimethylammonium bromides: S^T	E. Alami; H. Levy; R. Zana; P. Weber; A. Skoulios
213-225	Liquid-crystalline and thermochromic behaviour of 4-substituted 1-methylpyridinium iodide surfactants	Jan Jaap H. Nusselder; Jan B. F. N. Engberts; Henk A. Van Doren
227-231	Dielectric stripes in pretilted supertwisted layers	V. I. Tsoy; G. V. Simonenko; V. G. Chigrinov
233-245	Linear viscoelasticity of side chain liquid crystal polymer	R. H. Colby; J. R. Gillmor; G. Galli; M. Laus; C. K. Ober; E. Hall
247-253	New disc-shaped mesogens based on pentakis(phenylethynyl)benzene derivatives	Dietmar Janietz; Klaus Praefcke; Dirk Singer
255-263	X-ray investigations on the cyclopalladated mesogen bis-{5-(1-nonyl)-2{[4′1-nonyloxy)phenyl-2′-ato]}pyrimidine-N′,C²′]-μ-iodo}dipalladium(II)	Mauro Ghedini; Daniela Pucci; Roberto Bartolino; Oriano Francescangeli
265-282	The conformations adopted by alkyl chains in α,ω-bis(aryl)alkanes in liquid-crystalline phases	S. T. W. Cheung; J. W. Emsley
283-294	A novel class of materials for ferroelectric liquid crystals containing siloxy chain end groups	Kazuyuki Sunohara; Kohki Takatoh; Masanori Sakamoto
295-300	Synthesis and characterization of novel liquidcrystalline polyurethanes	M. T. Cidade; J. C. M. Bordado; J. Figueirinhas; A. F. Martins
301-305	Laterally fluorinated tolanes of low melting point	S. Greenfield; D. Coates; E. Brown; R. Hittich
307-311	Chirally arranged monomeric dyes on helical bilayer membranes	Hiroshi Hachisako; Hirotaka Ihara; Chuichi Hirayama; Kimiho Yamada
313-317	Optical observations of layer ordering in helial smectic A* liquid crystals	J. S. Patel; Sin-Doo Lee; Seong-Woo Suh; J. W. Goodby

Volume 13, Issue 1 (1993)

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1-11	The optical tensor configuration in a surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal determined by using half leaky guided modes	Fuzi Yang; J. R. Sambles
13-22	New mesogenic compounds with trans-stilbene oxide as the central chiral core	Bianca F. Bonini; Giovanni Gottarelli; Stefano Masiero; Gian Piero Spada; Paolo Mariani; Bin Yang
23-30	A matrix method for modelling liquid crystal textures	Tsunehisa Kimura; Derek G. Gray
31-43	Electric field effects on the droplet structure in polymer dispersed cholesteric liquid crystals	H. -S. Kitzerow; P. P. Crooker
45-55	Investigations of the structure of a cholesteric phase with a temperature induced helix inversion and of the succeeding S_c* phase in thin liquid crystal cells	I. Dierking; F. Gieβelmann; P. Zugenmaier; W. Kuczynskit; S. T. Lagerwall; B. Stebler
57-69	The supramolecular self-organization of an amphotropic cholesterol derivative Micelles, liposomes and liquid-crystalline phases	Gero Decher; Helmut Ringsdorf
71-81	2-Hydroxy-5,5-dialkyl-δ-valerolactone derivatives as chiral dopants for practical ferroelectric liquid crystals	Keiichi Sakashita; Tetsuya Ikemoto; Yuriko Nakaoka; Fumiko Terada; Yoshihiro Sako; Yoshitaka Kageyama; Kenji Mori
83-94	Transformation of a kinetically controlled nematic phase of a linear polymer into one which is thermodynamically controlled via cyclization [1]	Virgil Percec; Masaya Kawasumi
95-100	High strength disclinations in a rigid rod nematic polytolane	Christopher Viney; Daniel J. Brown; Christine M. Dannels; Robert J. Twieg
101-113	A model for the chevron structure obtained by cooling a smectic A liquid crystal in a cell of finite thickness	L. Limat; J. Prost
115-125	New mesogenic thiophene and furan derivatives	Hugo Gallardo; Ida Favarin
127-138	Stability of some structures in a cholesteric liquid crystal layer for tilted anchoring	T. Beica; S. Frunza; R. Moldovan; M. Giurgea; M. Tintaru
139-152	Smectic A—nematic phase transition in a system of biaxial molecules	E. M. Averyanov; A. N. Primak
153-161	Surface alignment of ferroelectric liquid crystals using polyimide, polyamide-imide and polyamide layers and their effect on pre-tilt angle	Y. S. Negi; Y. Suzuki; T. Hagiwara; I. Kawamura; N. Yamamoto; K. Mori; Y. Yamada; M. Kakimoto; Y. Imai
163-170	Scanning tunnelling microscopic study of the interfacial order in a ferroelectric liquid crystal	S. L. Brandow; J. A. Harrison; D. P. Dilella; R. J. Colton; S. Pfeiffer; R. Shashidhar

Volume 12, Issue 6 (1992)

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879-889	The synthesis and liquid crystal properties of some 4-n-nonylphenyl esters of 3-(4′-n-alkoxybiphenylyl)- and 3-(4′-n-alkoxybiphenylyl)-3-methyl-propanoic acids and their laterally fluorinated analogues	A. W. Hall; D. Lacey; G. W. Gray; J. Benson
891-904	Local layer structure of the steep field line defect in surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells	Paula C. Willis; Noel A. Clark; Jiu-Zhi Xue; Cyrus R. Safinya
905-912	Mesogenic aromatic esters with sulphur containing alkyl chains	Enrico Dalcanale; Carmela Arena; Marta Catellani; Gian Paolo Chiusoli
913-919	Structural study of the aggregates formed by the dinucleoside phosphate G2 in aqueous solution	Lia Q. Amaral; Rosangela Itri; Paolo Mariani; Ruggero Micheletto
921-930	Dielectric studies of liquid crystals under high pressure II. Low frequency relaxation process in 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl in relation to theories of the nematic state	S. Urban; H. -G. Kreul; A. Würflinger
931-939	Dielectric studies of liquid crystals under high pressure III. Low frequency relaxation process in 4-(trans-4′-n-hexylcyclohexyl)isothiocyanato benzene	S. Urban.; A. Würflinger
941-960	Discotic mesomorphism of 2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octakis (alkyl-thio) 5,10,15,20 tetraaza porphyrin and its complexes with some divalent transition metal ions Synthesis and characterization	Francesco Lelj; Giancarlo Morelli; Giampaolo Ricciardi; Antonio Roviello; Augusto Sirigu
961-971	Light scattering from a nematic monodomain in an electric field Twist elastic constant and viscosity coefficient of nematic polymer–solvent mixtures	Dong-Feng Gu; Alex M. Jamieson; Myong-Soo Lee; Masaya Kawasumi; Virgil Percec
973-987	The local field effects in resonance Raman scattering Structural anisotropy studies in some nematic cyanophenyl derivatives	S. Ye. Yakovenko; R. R. Ignatovich; S. Müller; J. Pelzl
989-995	Determination of molecular diffusion coefficients in liquid-crystalline cholesteryl myristate using gas chromatography	Ignacio Medina
997-1003	Dielectric, viscosity, and pitch measurements of a ferroelectric liquid crystal exhibiting the phase sequence smectic M–smectic C	Ch. Bahr; G. Heppke; K. Wuthe
1005-1012	Study of the molecular tilt angle and the order parameter of a ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture using IR spectroscopy	A. Kocot; G. Kruk; R. Wrzalik; J. K. Vij
1013-1018	Substituted 1,4-dicyclohexyl-butan-1-ols A new class of liquid-crystalline compounds	K. Müller; U. Anker; H. -J. Deutscher; H. Kresse
1019-1024	Microscopic observations of axial and radial nematic droplets for a dual-frequency addressable liquid crystal	H. -S. Kitzerow; F. Xu; P. P. Crooker
1025-1028	Simulation of transient banded textures of sheared nematic polymers	P. K. Chan; A. D. Rey

Volume 12, Issue 5 (1992)

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705-714	Synthesis of side chain liquid-crystalline polysiloxane containing trans-cyclohexane-based mesogenic side groups	Ging-Ho Hsiue; Chang-Jyh Hsieh; Nan-Hsang Yu
715-734	Molecular engineering of liquid crystal polymers by living polymerization. XXII. Synthesis and characterization of binary copolymers of 11-[4-cyano-4′-biphenyl)oxy]undecanyl vinyl ether with (2S, 3S)-( )-2-chloro-3-methylpentyl 4′-(8-vinyloxyoctyloxy)biphenyl-4-carboxylate, and of (2S, 3S)-( )-2-chloro-3-methylpentyl 4′-(8-vinyloxyoctyloxy)biphenyl-4-carboxylate with 3-[4-cyano-4′-biphenyl)oxy]propyl vinyl ether	Virgil Percec; Myongsoo Lee; Qiang Zheng
735-750	Convective director structures upon continuous rotation of nematic side group polymers	Norbert Schwenk; Christine Boeffel; Hans Wolfgang Spiess
751-768	Development of orientation and texture during shearing of liquid-crystalline polymers	R. G. Larson; D. W. Mead
769-777	Stereochemical studies of optically active 2-hydroxy-5-alkyl-δ-valerolactone derivatives as chiral dopant for ferroelectric liquid crystals	Keiichi Sakashita; Tetsuya Ikemoto; Yuriko Nakaoka; Shigeo Kamimura; Yoshitaka Kageyama; Fumiko Terada; Yoshihiro Sako; Kenji Mori
779-798	X-ray diffraction by liquid-crystalline elastomers	C. Degert; P. Davidson; S. Megtert; D. Petermann; M. Mauzac
799-814	A pulsed voltage study of the influence of an electric field on the optical permittivity of both smectic A and nematic phases of a liquid crystal	Lizhen Ruan; G. W. Bradberry; J. R. Sambles
815-820	Hydrostatic pressure effects on polymer cholesteric liquid-crystalline structure. I. Equilibrium structure of hydroxypropyl cellulose aqueous solution	Yoshihiko Onogi; Tsuneo Okubo
821-829	Sulphur containing mesogens. The mesophasic behaviour of di(4-alkyloxybenzoates) of 4,4′-dimercaptobiphenyl	C. Berti; E. Marianucci; F. Pilati; M. Toselli; A. Roviello; A. Sirigu
831-845	Fast switching anisotropic networks obtained by in situ photopolymerization of liquid crystal molecules	R. A. M. Hikmet; J. A. Higgins
847-852	Mesomorphic behaviour of di[(4-substituted phenyl)esters] of aromatic dicarboxylic acids	Hiroyoshi Kamogawa; Yoshitaka Mizutani
853-861	Liquid-crystalline behaviour of 4-(ω-aminoalkyloxy)-4′-cyanobiphenyls and their side chain epoxy polymers	L. -C. Chien; L. G. Cada; L. Xie
863-867	Dielectric and elastic properties of a nematic phase induced by charge transfer interaction in a binary system containing disc-shaped molecules	B. Sabaschus; D. Singer; G. Heppke; K. Praefcke
869-874	Alignment of guest–host liquid crystals with polarized laser light	Shao-Tang Sun; Wayne M. Gibbons; Paul J. Shannon
875-878	Amphiphilic cholesteric liquid crystals prepared from the quaternary ammonium surfactant S-(-)-1-hexadecyl-1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinemethanol bromide	K. Radley; H. Cattey

Volume 12, Issue 4 (1992)

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531-544	Smectic liquid-crystalline phases of F(CF₂)₇(CHOH)(CH₂)₈H and F(CF₂)₉(CHOH)(CH₂)₁₀H Comparison with other partially fluorinated molecules	Patricia M. Vilalta; Richard G. Weiss
545-560	Smectic A–cholesteric transition in a side chain cooligomer–CE1 blend. A particular confined geometry for the TGB phase?	J. M. Gilli; M. Kamayé
561-573	Liquid-crystalline properties of chiral malolactonate monomers and their comb-shaped polymers	Koichi Fujishiro; Robert W. Lenz
575-591	New TGB_A series exhibiting a S_CS_AS_AN* phase sequence	A. Bouchta; H. T. Nguyen; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin; C. Destrade; R. J. Twieg; A. Maaroufi; N. Isaert
593-601	Velocity profiles in simple shear flow of liquid-crystalline polymers	I. Sardi; N. Grizzuti; J. B. Riti; E. Thoelen; L. Vanrusselt; P. Navard
603-611	Thermotropic liquid crystals based on chito-oligosaccharides. II. Discotic columnar liquid crystals in chitobiose octaalkanoates and chitotriose hendecaalkanoates
613-624	Influence of K₂₄ on the structure of nematic liquid crystal droplets	S. Žumer; S. Kralj
625-639	Spin relaxation in cubic liquid crystals. The role of symmetry	Bertil Halle
641-648	Computer simulation study of plane rotators on a three dimensional lattice	S. Romano
649-656	The structure of substituted biphenyls as studied by proton NMR in nematic solvents. Single conformation model versus maximum entropy analysis	H. Gerard; J. Avalos; D. Galland; F. Volino
657-666	Influence of the order parameter and of the director orientation on the surface tension of free nematic films	Y. Marinov; P. Simova
667-688	The structure of intermediate ribbon phases in surfactant systems	H. Hagslätt; O. Söderman; B. Jönsson
689-696	Speckle observation of pulsed laser-induced dynamics in a guest-host smectic A liquid crystal system	M. J. Guardalben; N. George
697-703	Ferroelectrically switchable columnar liquid crystal	Harald Bock; Wolfgang Helfrich

Volume 12, Issue 3 (1992)

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355-362	Novel liquid crystals and dopants (for induced ferroelectricity) possessing a chiral 2-oxetanone unit. A comparison with corresponding dioxolanones	G. Scherowsky; M. Sefkow
363-368	Some novel cholesteric liquid crystals	Yousif Z. Yousif; Adil A. Othman; Wasfi A. Al-masoudi; P. R. Alapati
369-376	Synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of a homologous series of 1,1′-bis[4(4′-alkyloxy)benzaldimine]ferrocene dicarboxylates	Karuna P. Reddy; Theodore L. Brown
377-383	A refined model of dielectric relaxation in uniaxial liquid crystals	Andrzej Kozak; Jozef K. Moscicki
385-401	Theory of main chain nematic polymers with spacers of varying degree of flexibility	X. J. Wang; M. Warner
403-415	Orientational effects of hydrogen bonding in liquid-crystalline solutions containing Schiff bases	V. A. Burmistrov; V. V. Alexandriysky; O. I. Koifman
417-429	Synthesis and ring-opening polymerization of optically pure mesogenic malolactonates	Koichi Fujishiro; Anthony D. Pajerski; Robert W. Lenz
431-440	The molecular and crystal structure of 4-methoxybenzylidene-4′-n-butylaniline (MBBA) at -163°C	R. Boese; M. Yu. Antipin; M. Nussbaumer; D. Bläser
441-448	Dynamics of dissipative structures and the transition to turbulence in a nematic liquid crystal	V. A. Delev; O. A. Scaldin; A. N. Chuvyrov
449-475	Magnetic field induced bistability in nematics and cholesterics: general deformations	U. D. Kini
477-501	Branchings of the fully symmetrical solution of the molecular field equation in liquid crystals	P. P. Shtifanyuk; A. N. Shramkov
503-513	The heat capacity of the doubly reentrant mesogen: 4-cyanobenzoyloxy-4′-octylbenzoyloxy-p-phenylene	Gerald R. Van Hecke; Michio Sorai
515-520	Dynamics of surface anchoring breaking in a nematic liquid crystal	A. Gharbi; F. R. Fekih; G. Durand
521-529	Amphitropic liquid crystals. Two lamellar phases in a surfactant containing thermotropic and lyotropic mesogenic groups	S. Fuller; J. Hopwood; A. Rahman; N. Shinde; G. J. Tiddy; G. S. Attard; O. Howell; S. Sproston

Volume 12, Issue 2 (1992)

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179-202	Carbohydrate liquid crystals	George A. Jeffrey; Lavinia M. Wingert
203-238	Smectogenic dimeric liquid crystals. The preparation and properties of the α,ω-bis(4-n-alkylanilinebenzylidine-4′-oxy)alkanes	R. W. Date; C. T. Imrie; G. R. Luckhurst; J. M. Seddon
239-243	High precision density studies near the smectic A–nematic tricritical point	V. N. Raja; S. Krishna Prasad; D. S. Shankar Rao; S. Chandrasekhar
245-262	Thermotropic liquid crystals derived from benzopyranobenzopyran-dione. Preparation and physical characterization	H. Zimmermann; J. Billard; H. Gutman; E. J. Wachtel; R. Poupko; Z. Luz
263-272	Synthesis and thermal properties of mesomorphic 1,1′-bis[ω-(4′-cyano-4-biphenyloxy)alkyl] ferrocenes	J. Bhatt; B. M. Fung; Kenneth M. Nicholas
273-296	Adsorption of square and rectangular plate-like molecules on a planar surface	Richard E. Boehm; Daniel E. Martire
297-303	Mesogenicity of 4-alkanoyl-4′-alkyloxybiphenyl derivatives	Toshinori Tanase; Shinichi Yano
305-318	Twisted smectic A phases in side chain liquid crystal polymers	E. C. Bolton; D. Lacey; P. J. Smith; J. W. Goodby
319-336	Structure of cholesteric gels and their electrically induced light scattering and colour changes	R. A. M. Hikmet; B. H. Zwerver
337-345	Columnar liquid crystals in oligosaccharide derivatives. II. Two types of discotic columnar liquid-crystalline phase of cellobiose alkanoates	A. Takada; T. Fukuda; T. Miyamoto; Y. Yakoh; J. Watanabe
347-353	Synthesis and properties of new ferroelectric liquid-crystalline compounds having a tolane rigid core and an optically active alkyl sulphinate group	Armand Soldera; Jean-François Nicoud; Yves Galerne; Antoine Skoulios; Daniel Guillon

Volume 12, Issue 1 (1992)

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1-16	Invited Article Liquid-crystalline dispersions of nucleic acids	Yu. M. Yevdokimov; S. G. Skuridin; G. B. Lortkipanidze
17-36	Discotic charge transfer twins Structure and mesophase behaviour of covalently linked triphenylenes and trinitrofluorenones	M. Möller; V. Tsukruk; J. H. Wendorff; H. Bengs; H. Ringsdorf
37-47	Hydroxy-functionalized liquid-crystalline polyazomethines I. Synthesis, characterization and structure-mesogenic behaviour relationship	J. Barberá; L. Oriol; J. L. Serrano
49-58	Chromaticity of polymer-dispersed cholesteric liquid crystals	H. -S. Kitzerow; P. P. Crooker; G. Heppke
59-70	Conoscopic study of the S_cα* phase and the Devil's staircase in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal	Tadaaki Isozaki; Kazuyuki Hiraoka; Yoichi Takanishi; Hideo Takezoe; Atsuo Fukuda; Yoshiichi Suzuki; Ichiro Kawamura
71-81	Intermediate phases in the dodecyltrimethylammonium chloride/water system	C. Kang; O. Söderman; P. O. Eriksson; J. Stael Von Holstein
83-94	The determination of average, anisotropic, solute-solvent interaction strengths for biphenyl, 4-bromobiphenyl, 4-cyanobiphenyl and 4-methoxybiphenyl dissolved in the nematic solvent 4′-cyano-4-methoxybiphenyl	J. W. Emsley; T. J. Horne
95-126	Stability of a nematic mesophase with internal degrees of freedom Analysis in terms of catastrophe theory	Vi. K. Pershin; V. A. Konoplev
127-135	Phase transition studies in 9O.6 and 9O.8	N. V. S. Rao; D. M. Potukuchi; P. V. Sankara Rao; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
137-145	Crystal and molecular structure of the discogen bis [(1-4-n-heptylphenyl,3-4-n-heptyloxyphenyl)propane-1,3-dionato] copper(II)	K. Usha; Kalyani Vijayan
147-155	Rotational viscosity of ferroelectric liquid-crystalline polysiloxanes	H. Endo; S. Hachiya; T. Sekiya; K. Kawasaki
157-176	Structure of trans-4-(trans-4-n-pentylcyclohexyl)cyclohexylcarbonitrile (CCH5) in the isotropic and nematic phases: a computer simulation study	M. R. Wilson; M. P. Allen
177	Erratum	P. Davidson; A. M. Levelut

Volume 11, Issue 6 (1992)

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803-818	Liquid-crystalline side chain polymers by chemical modification of poly(chloroalkylvinylether)s	E. Papon; A. Deffieux; F. Hardouin; M. F. Achard
819-832	Optical probing of thin liquid crystal layers using the prism-coupling technique	C. R. Lavers
833-838	Synthesis and liquid-crystalline properties of thermotropic polyamides containing flexible rodlike units and aliphatic spacers	Moriyuki Sato; Yoshifumi Manabe; Kazue Nakadera; Ken-Ichi Mukaida
839-850	The crystal structure of 4-difluoromethoxybenzylidene-4′-(1″,1″,2″,2″,3″,3″,4″,4″-octafluorobutyl)aniline and modelling of the 4-methoxybenzylidene-4′-n-butylaniline crystal structure	S. V. Sereda; T. V. Timofeeva; M. Yu. Antipin; Yu. T. Struchkov
851-864	Dielectric studies of different phases of a thin-layered ferroelectric liquid crystal with a small pitch and high spontaneous polarization	S. L. Srivastava; V. K. Agrawal; M. V. Loseva; N. I. Chernova; L. A. Beresnev
865-886	The electrooptics of smectic C liquid crystals	M. P. Petrov; A. G. Petrov; G. Pelzl
887-897	Mesogenic behaviour in some pyrazole and isoxazole derivatives	Joaquin Barbera; Carlos Cativiela; Jose Luis Serrano; Maria Mar Zurbano
899-903	Synthesis and thermotropic properties of new mesogenic pyrazole and isoxazole derivatives	C. G. Seguel; B. Borchers; W. Haase; C. Aguilera
905-915	Rotational viscosity γ₁ of nematic liquid crystals as a function of temperature, pressure and density	H. L. Dörrer; H. Kneppe; F. Schneider
917-927	Calculation of UV/VIS absorption spectra of liquid crystals and dye molecules An INDO MO approach	T. Hanemann; M. C. Böhm; W. Haase; S. T. Wu
929-939	Liquid crystal/liquid-crystalline network composite systems Structure formation and electro-optic properties	Dietrich Braun; Gerhard Frick; Martin Grell; Michael Klimes; Joachim H. Wendorff
941-947	Landau model for self-assembly and liquid crystal formation in surfactant solutions	M. A. Anisimov; E. E. Gorodetsky; A. J. Davydov; A. S. Kurliandsky
949-952	Chemoenzymatic synthesis of discotic liquid crystals	V. Vill; B. Sauerbrei; H. Fischer; J. Thiem
953-956	Possible smectic A ordering in a droplet of 4-n-octyloxybenzoic acid liquid crystal	N. B. Ivanov; M. P. Petrov

Volume 11, Issue 5 (1992)

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637	Editorial	G. R. Luckhurst; E. T. Samulski
639-654	SANS and SAXS studies on the structure of a liquid-crystalline palladium complex	V. Formoso; M. C. Pagnotta; P. Mariani; M. Ghedini; F. Neve; R. Bartolino; M. More; G. Pépy
655-665	Pulsed voltage studies of electric field effects on the optical permittivity of a nematic liquid crystal	Lizhen Ruan; G. W. Bradberry; J. R. Sambles
667-676	Ferroelectric properties of liquid-crystalline S_C* phases induced by optically active cyanocyclohexylcyclohexanone derivatives	H. Stegemeyer; R. Meister; K. -H. Ellermann; H. -J. Altenbach; W. Sucrow
677-698	Structural phase transformations induced by the addition of decanol to the hexagonal phase of the binary sodium decyl sulphate/water system	Y. Hendrikx; J. Charvolin
699-710	Supermolecular self organization via molecular aggregation II. Electro-optical studies on structure formation processes in associated liquid-crystalline diols	R. Festag; R. Kleppinger; M. Soliman; J. H. Wendorff; G. Lattermann; G. Staufer
711-718	Megahertz dielectric relaxation process in the nematic and smectic phases of two thiol esters (9S5 and 10S5)	J. Chruściel; H. Kresse; S. Urban
719-730	Dipolar coupling study of the conformations and ordering of 4-chloroethoxybenzene in a nematic solvent	A. F. Terzis; D. J. Photinos
731-744	Structural study of crystalline and columnar copper (II) soaps	M. Ibn-elhaj; D. Guillon; A. Skoulios; A. M. Giroud-godquin; P. Maldivi
745-752	New dopants for induced ferroelectric S_C* phases containing 1,3-dioxolan-2-one as a chiral heterocycle	G. Scherowsky; J. Gay; M. Gunaratne
753-760	A laser diffraction study of amphiphilic cholesteric liquid crystals prepared from potassium dodecanoyl l-serinate	Keith Radley
761-771	Four-unit linking groups V. Optically active dopants	S. M. Kelly; M. Schadt; H. Seiberle
773-778	Mesomorphic phases obtained through molecular recognition of complementary adenine and thymine nucleobases functionalized with long aliphatic chains	C. M. Paleos; J. Michas
779-784	Liquid-crystalline cyclic trimers derived from benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylic acid	George S. Attard; Andrew G. Douglass; Corrie T. Imrie; Lesley Taylor
785-789	Liquid-crystalline and glass-forming dimers derived from 1-aminopyrene	George S. Attard; Corrie T. Imrie
791-796	First observations of a spiral instability at the smectic A—cholesteric transition under an electric field	J. M. Gilli; M. Kamayé
797-802	Paramagnetic liquid-crystalline complexes based on novel enaminoketone ligands	Wiesław Pyżuk; Ewa Górecka; Adam Krówczyński

Volume 11, Issue 4 (1992)

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469-517	Invited Article. X-ray diffraction by mesomorphic comb-like polymers	P. Davidson; A. M. Levelut
519-530	Computer simulation studies of the dependence on density of the orientational order in nematic liquid crystals	J. W. Emsley; G. R. Luckhurst; W. E. Palke; D. J. Tildesley
531-546	The synthesis and transition temperatures of some trans-4-alkylcyclohexylethyl-substituted 2,3-difluorobiphenyls	Michael Hird; George W. Gray; Kenneth J. Toyne
547-560	Interconversion kinetics and ordering of 1,4- and 1,1-dimethylcyclohexane in liquid-crystalline solutions by 1D and 2D deuterium NMR	K. Müller; Z. Luz; R. Poupko; H. Zimmermann
561-568	Behaviour of polymer dispersed cholesteric droplets with negative dielectric anisotropy in electric fields	H. -S. Kitzerow; P. P. Crooker
569-580	Enhanced smectic polymorphism of a cholesteric side chain co-oligosiloxane by blending with small molecule liquid crystals	J. M. Gilli; M. Kamaye
581-592	Molecular director and layer response of chevron surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals to low electric field	Paula C. Willis; Noel A. Clark; Cyrus R. Safinya
593-619	Structures of the cholesteric liquid crystal droplets with parallel surface anchoring	J. Bezić; S. Žumer
621-635	NMR study of molecular dynamics in a mixture of two polar liquid crystals (CBOOA and DOBCA)	P. J. Sebastião; M. H. Godinho; A. C. Ribeiro; D. Guillon; M. Vilfan

Volume 11, Issue 3 (1992)

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311-324	Anomalous effects in experiments on monodomain nematic and lamellar phases of the caesium pentadecafluorooctanoate(CsPFO)/water system	N. Boden; G. R. Hedwig; M. C. Holmes; K. W. Jolley; D. Parker
325-334	ESR studies of radical cations produced on doping discotic liquid crystals with Lewis acids	N. Boden; R. Borner; D. R. Brown; R. J. Bushby; J. Clements
335-340	New liquid crystal compounds ( )-4-[5-(2-Methylbutyl)-1,3-dioxan-2-yl]phenyl 4-alkoxybenzoate	Y. Haramoto; T. Hinata; H. Kamogawa
341-364	Image analysis of shear-induced textures in liquid-crystalline polymers	J. T. Gleeson; R. G. Larson; D. W. Mead; G. Kiss; P. E. Cladis
365-371	The effect of the biaxial permittivity tensor and tilted layer geometries on the switching of ferroelectric liquid crystals	M. J. Towler; J. C. Jones; E. P. Raynes
373-384	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some 3-substituted-4-cyanophenyl esters, 4′-cyano-3-substituted-4-biphenyl esters of 4-(trans-4-alkylcyclohexyl) benzoic, 4-alkyl-3-substituted biphenyl-4′-carboxylic, trans-4-alkylcyclohexanecarboxylic and 4-alkylbenzoic acids and electrooptic parameters of liquid-crystalline mixtures containing these compounds	V. S. Bezborodov; V. I. Lapanik; P. V. Adomenas; R. Sirutkaitis
385-399	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some derivatives of 2-methylcyclohex-2-ene-4-one-1-carboxylic and cis-2,6-dimethyl cyclohex-2-ene-4-one-1 -carboxylic acids	V. S. Bezborodov; V. I. Lapanik
401-409	Translational and orientational order parameters of the 3,5-bis-(p-5-hexenyl-1-oxyphenyl)-isoxazole by X-ray diffraction	Z. X. Fan; C. G. Seguel; C. Aguilera; W. Haase
411-419	Statistical model of polar nematic polymers	X. J. Wang; L. Lam
421-430	Oscillations in thin nematic layers	L. V. Mirantsev
431-438	Stability of the periodic deformations in planar nematic layers	G. Derfel
439-445	Comparative dielectric investigations of two liquid-crystalline side chain polymers	H. Kresse; S. Ernst; B. Krücke; F. Kremer; S. U. Vallerien
447-457	Structure and substitution effects on the thermotropicity of some polyesters and model compounds	G. Costa; M. Lisciotto; B. Valenti
459-467	Liquid-crystalline glucamine derivatives	V. Vill; H. Kelkenberg; J. Thiem

Volume 11, Issue 2 (1992)

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157-173	New discotic liquid crystals having a tricycloquinazoline core	E. Keinan; S. Kumar; S. P. Singh; R. Ghirlando; E. J. Wachtel
175-198	Solubilization and photoreactivity of E-ethyl cinnamate in smectic B mesophases VII. Photoreactions in liquid crystals	J. Stumpe; S. Grande; K. Wolf; G. Hempel
199-217	Measurement of the biaxial permittivities for several smectic C host materials used in ferroelectric liquid crystal devices	J. C. Jones; E. P. Raynes
219-234	Polar smectogens: polymorphism of some cyanoalkoxybiphenylalkoxybenzoates and related compounds	F. Barbarin; M. Dugay; B. Oukarfi
235-249	The effects of a second branched alkyl chain and double chiral centres on the phase transition and spontaneous polarization of a chiral smectic liquid crystal	Atsushi Yoshizawa; Akihisa Yokoyama; Isa Nishiyama
251-267	An infrared spectroscopic study of photo-induced reorientation in dye containing liquid-crystalline polymers	Ulrich Wiesner; Nicholas Reynolds; Christine Boeffel; Hans Wolfgang Spiess
269-282	Effects of three-body intermolecular interactions on the nematic—paranematic phase diagram	John R. De Bruyn
283-292	Proton NMR study of CBOOA, NBOOA, and their chain-deuteriated homologues in smectic A_d and nematic mesophases	Seiichi Miyajima; Takehiko Chiba
293-309	Structure formation in doped discotic polymers and low molar mass model systems	M. Ebert; G. Frick; Ch. Baehr; J. H. Wendorff; R. Wüstefeld; H. Ringsdorf

Volume 11, Issue 1 (1992)

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1-8	Mesophase characterization of some long chain vicinal multihydroxy amphiphiles [1,2]	Klaus Praefcke; Bernd Kohne; Siegmar Diele; Gerhard Pelzl; Anders Kjær
9-14	Critical properties in the vicinity of the critical consolute point for the 4-methoxybenzylidene-4′-butylaniline-isooctane solution	Sylwester J. Rzoska; Jerzy Ziolo
15-23	Degree of order of aromatic and N-heterocyclic probes embedded in sodium lauril sulphate lyomesophases	Ourides Santin Fo; Mário José Politi; José Atílio Vanin; Paulo Celso Isolani
25-30	On the parallel-perpendicular transition for a nematic phase at a wall	Mark F. Sharlow; William M. Gelbart
31-40	Reorientation of a liquid-crystalline side chain polymer	H. Roth
41-48	Influence of an electric field on phase transitions in ferroelectric liquid crystals	Ch. Bahr; G. Heppke; B. Sabaschus
49-61	Formation of walls in cylindrical smectic C layers in the presence of a tilted magnetic field	T. Carlsson; I. W. Stewart; F. M. Leslie
63-71	Anchoring strength coefficient of a monomer and its dimer at a polymer-coated interface	Gregory A. Dilisi; Charles Rosenblatt; Robert B. Akins; Anselm C. Griffin; Uma Hari
73-82	Optical diffraction in twisted liquid-crystalline media-phase grating mode	K. A. Suresh; P. B. Sunil Kumar; G. S. Ranganath
83-91	Proton NMR ion binding studies of ethanol and the ethylammonium ion partially oriented in an amphiphilic nematic liquid crystal	Keith Radley
93-100	A new, conformationally mobile macrocyclic core for bowl-shaped columnar liquid crystals	Giuseppe Cometti; Enrico Dalcanale; Annick Du Vosel; Anne-Marie Levelut
101-109	X-ray studies on layer structure and bistability in ferroelectric liquid crystals	M. Oh-e; M. Isogai; T. Kitamura
111-125	A simple molecular model for the interpretation of some properties of smectic C and A phases	A. Wiegeleben; D. Demus
127-133	The synthesis and lyotropic phase behaviour of some aquatetra(cyano)-dodecylaminoferrate(II) complexes	Duncan W. Bruce; David A. Dunmur; Peter M. Maitlis; Jonathan M. Watkins; Gordon J. T. Tiddy
135-143	The effect of structural changes in the molecular core and periphery on the liquid-crystalline properties of some chiral 4-n-alkoxyphenylpropiolates	M. A. Waugh; S. M. Stein; E. Chin; J. W. Goodby
145-150	The influence of heteroaromatic rings on mesomorphic properties I. A new series of pyridazine- and pyridine-carboxylates	Reinhard Paschke; Uli Rosenfeld; Horst Zaschke
151-156	Orientational properties of liquid-crystalline 4-n-alkyloxybenzilidene-4′-fluoroanilines	D. Catalano; C. Gandolfo; G. N. Shilstone; C. A. Veracini

Volume 10, Issue 6 (1991)

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741-750	Refractometric studies of mesogenic molecules in isotropic solutions	S. Ye. Yakovenko
751-757	Study of the reciprocal space image of the biaxial nematic phase in the plane of the amphiphilic bilayer	A. M. Figueiredo Neto; Y. Galerne; L. Liebert
759-770	Effect of functionalization on glass formation by columnar mesophases of substituted triphenylene mesogens	M. Werth; S. U. Vallerien; H. W. Spiess
771-783	Symmetry of the aligning polymer and the cone angles in surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal displays	Bernt O. Myrvold
785-797	Synthesis and ferroelectric properties of laterally substituted fluoro liquid crystals derived from 4-mercaptobenzoic acid	M. F. Nabor; H. T. Nguyen; C. Destrade; J. P. Marcerou; R. J. Twieg
799-802	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of 4-alkyl-3,4′-disubstituted biphenyls and terphenyls	V. S. Bezborodov; V. M. Kondratenkov; V. I. Lapanik; D. A. Trokhimets
803-807	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of cyano derivatives of 2-(4-carbohydroxy-3-halogenphenyl)-5-alkyl-1,3,2-dioxaborinanes	V. S. Bezborodov; V. I. Lapanik
809-819	A coloured ferroelectric side chain polymer	G. Scherowsky; A. Beer; H. J. Coles
821-833	Structural anisotropy study by resonance Raman scattering in nematics with different dyes	S. Ye. Yakovenko; R. R. Ignatovich; S. Müller; J. Pelzl
835-847	Dielectric relaxation of liquid crystal molecules in anisotropic confinements	R. A. M. Hikmet; B. H. Zwerver
849-860	Dielectric behaviour of the relaxational modes in a ferroelectric liquid crystal	J. Zubia; A. Ezcurra; M. R. De La Fuente; M. Pérez Jubindo; T. Sierra; J. L. Serrano
861-868	On the relative propensities of ether and methylene linkages for liquid crystal formation in calamitics	A. P. J. Emerson; G. R. Luckhurst
869-873	Observation of a new metastable liquid-crystalline phase in supercooled blue phase systems	E. Demikhovt; H. Stegemeyer
875-879	Liquid-crystalline 1,4-disubstituted cycloheptanes	L. A. Karamysheva; I. F. Agafonova; R. Kh. Geivandov; V. F. Petrov
881-886	Phenacylesters. A new class of liquid-crystalline compound	S. I. Torgova; L. A. Karamysheva; I. F. Agafonova; Yu. S. Narkevich

Volume 10, Issue 5 (1991)

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597-621	Magnetic and electric field induced bistability in nematics and cholesterics	U. D. Kini
623-634	The effect of a lateral substituent on the mesomorphic properties of 4-cyanophenyl 4-(4-alkyloxybenzoyloxy)benzoates	Yoshihide Masuda; Yoshiaki Sakurai; Hisanori Sugiura; Shiro Míyake; Shunsuke Takenaka; Shigekazu Kusabayashi
635-646	Physical properties of chlorinated liquid crystals	Shin-Tson Wu; D. Coates; E. Bartmann
647-658	Out of shear plane deformations in nematic liquid crystals	Grzegorz Derfel
659-664	Silver nitrate-acetonitrile and iodine-benzene complexes as studied by NMR in thermotropic liquid crystals	G. A. Nagana Gowda; R. G. Weiss; C. L. Khetrapal
665-674	Phases and phase transitions in a nematic lyotropic system with a biaxial phase	F. P. Nicolettat; G. Chidichimo; A. Golemme; N. Picci
675-690	Calorimetric study of the relationship between molecular structure and liquid-crystallinity of rod-like mesogens I. Heat capacities and phase transitions of 4′-propylbiphenyl-4-carbonitrile and trans, trans-4′-propylbicyclohexyl-4-carbonitrile	S. Asahina; M. Sorai; R. Eidenschink
691-702	Effect of persistent flexibility on the isotropic, nematic and columnar ordering in a self-assembling system	Reinhard Hentschke
703-708	Intense quasielastic neutron scattering of 4,4′-diethyoxyazoxybenzene and its connection with the inelastic neutron scattering spectrum	R. Podsiadly; T. Stanek; J. A. Janik; J. M. Janik; J. Krawczyk; J. Mayer
709-714	Spreading of a smectic A liquid crystal on a rotating disc	P. Oswald
715-723	New liquid-crystalline compounds with an intramolecular hydrogen bond	S. Ishibashi; S. Kobayashi
725-731	Liquid-crystalline behaviour of benzobisthiazole derivatives as a rigid rod polymer model	O. -K. Kim; H. S. Lee; T. H. Yoon; R. Shashidhar
733-739	Glass dispersed liquid crystals	J. M. Oton; A. Serrano; C. J. Serna; D. Levy

Volume 10, Issue 4 (1991)

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445-456	Bilayer structures in cholesteric, cyclic-siloxane liquid crystals	T. J. Bunning; H. E. Klei; E. T. Samulski; R. L. Crane; R. J. Linville
457-466	Deuterium NMR studies of n-octyl α and β–glucopyranoside liquid-crystalline systems	A. Loewenstein; D. Igner
467-473	Thermotropic cellulose derivatives with flexible substituents IV. Columnar liquid crystals from ester-type derivatives of cellulose	Tadaaki Yamagishi; Takeshi Fukuda; Takeaki Miyamoto; Yoshimasa Takashina; Yoshiyuki Yakoh; Junji Watanabe
475-493	Ferroelectric liquid crystal siloxane homo and copolymers	M. Dumon; H. T. Nguyen; M. Mauzac; C. Destrade; H. Gasparoux
495-506	Chromonic lyomesophases formed by the self-assembly of the cyclic dinucleotide d(cGpGp)	Stefania Bonazzi; Monica Miranda De Morais; Anna Garbesi; Giovanni Gottarelli; Paolo Mariani; Gian Piero Spada
507-517	Liquid-crystalline copolysiloxane system including side-on and side-end fixed mesogenic groups	M. F. Achard; N. Leroux; F. Hardouin
519-537	Dielectric relaxation in polar nematic liquid crystals	Yurii P. Kalmykov
539-553	The structure of the nematic–isotropic interface in polymer systems	A. Yu. Grosberg; D. V. Pachomov
555-568	Structural ordering and spectral properties of smectic A with biaxial solute molecules	E. M. Averyanov; A. N. Primak
569-574	Dynamic processes in ferroelectric liquid crystal filled cells	S. J. Elston; J. R. Sambles
575-580	Thermotropic liquid-crystalline behaviour from mixtures of non-mesogenic molecules	Bashir M. Sheikh-ali; Richard G. Weiss
581-584	Magnetomesogens: Bis(1,3-di(4′-decoxyphenyl)propane-1,3-dionato)oxovanadium (IV)	Peter Styring; Sukrit Tantrawong; David R. Beattie; John W. Goodby
585-591	Fast switching ferroelectric side-chain liquid-crystalline polymer and copolymer	J. Naciri; S. Pfeiffer; R. Shashidhar
593-595	Enaminoketones as calamitic liquid crystals with a novel hydrogen-bonded rigid core	Wieslaw Pyżuk; Adam Krówczyńnski; Ewa Górecka

Volume 10, Issue 3 (1991)

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295-310	Induced smectic C* phases Concentration dependence of the ferroelectric properties and the effect of a local field	H. Stegemeyer; R. Meister; U. Hoffmann; W. Kuczynski
311-323	Water ordering in a MTAB/decanol/water lyotropic system	G. Arabia; G. Chidichimo; A. Golemme; P. Ukleja
325-340	Behaviour of biaxial nematics in the presence of electric and magnetic fields Evidence of bistability	T. Carlsson; F. M. Leslie
341-346	Dilatometry of the discotic mesogen 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexa-n-octanoyloxytriphenylene (HAT-C8) An anomalous columnar-isotropic phase transition	Kimberly A. Lawler; Gerald R. Van Hecke
347-355	Spinodal decomposition in mixtures containing nematogens	John R. Dorgan
357-368	Discotic liquid crystals of transition metal complexes X. Phthalocyanine derivatives substituted with n-alkyloxyphenyl side chains	Kazuchika Ohta; Takuya Watanabe; Satoshi Tanak; Testsuya Fujimoto; Iwao Yamamoto; Pierre Bassoul; Nathalie Kucharczyk; Jacques Simon
369-377	Observations on the voltage response of a 90° twisted nematic cell using guided modes	Lizhen Ruan; S. J. Elston; J. R. Sambles
379-388	Crystal structure of a new biforked mesogen	J. P. Bideau; G. Bravic; M. Cotrait; H. T. Nguyen; C. Destrade
389-396	Rod-like mesogens with antipathetic fluorocarbon and hydrocarbon tails	H. T. Nguyen; G. Sigaud; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin; R. J. Twieg; K. Betterton
397-407	New mesogenic 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives	Dalia Girdziunaite; Carsten Tschierske; Eva Novotna; Horst Kresse; Annemarie Hetzheim
409-417	Visible polarized light transmission spectroscopy of the electro-optic switching behaviour of surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells	Zhiming Zhuang; Noel A. Clark; Joseph E. Maclennan
419-424	Quasielastic neutron scattering study of molecular reorientation in the nematic and smectic phases of 4-n-pentylphenyl-4′-n-octyloxythiobenzoate	Janusz Chruściel; Wojciech Zajã
425-438	Free surface-induced bilayer smectic A phase in polar liquid crystals	L. V. Mirantsev
439-444	Optical studies of high tilt SiO aligned thin layers of smectic C materials	M. H. Anderson; J. C. Jones; E. P. Raynes; M. J. Towler

Volume 10, Issue 2 (1991)

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147-159	Charge transfer induced nematic columnar phase in low molecular weight disc-like systems [1]	K. Praefcke; D. Singer; B. Kohne; M. Ebert; A. Liebmann; J. H. Wendorff
161-168	Induction of a nematic columnar phase in a discotic hexagonal ordered phase forming system	H. Bengs; O. Karthaus; H. Ringsdorf; C. Baehr; M. Ebert; J. H. Wendorff
169-183	Hexagonal Columnar. cis, cis-(3,5-dihydroxycyclohexyl)-3,4,5-tris(alkoxy)benzoates Thermal behaviour and water absorption	Günter Lattermannr; Günter Staufer; Gerald Brezesinski
185-198	Columnar mesomorphic properties of new macrocyclic mesogens	E. Dalcanale; A. du Vosel; A. M. Levelut; J. Malthéte
199-206	A quasielastic neutron scattering study of the self-diffusion coefficients for the homologous series of 4,4′-di-n-alkyloxyazoxybenzenes	M. Bée; A. J. Dianoux; J. A. Janik; J. M. Janik; R. Podsiadly
207-214	Synthesis and characterization of new chiral mesogenic monomers	Ivan I. Konstantinov; Fulvio Andruzzi; Massimo Paci; Pierluigi Magagnini
215-228	Coexistence of two different side chain packing structures in a smectic phase of liquid-crystalline side chain polymers	Takanari Yamaguchi; Tadahiro Asada
229-242	Phase transfer Pd(0)/Cu(I) catalysed polymerization reactions 7. Synthesis and thermotropic behaviour of 1,4-bis[2-(3′,3′'-difluoro-4′,4′'-di-n-alkyloxyphenyl)-ethynyl]benzene dimers	Coleen Pugh; Sara K. Andersson; Virgil Percec
243-260	Four unit linking groups II. Some novel smectic C materials	S. M. Kelly; J. Fünfschilling; F. Leenhouts
261-272	Four unit linking groups III. Liquid crystals of negative dielectric anisotropy	S. M. Kelly
273-287	Four unit linking groups IV. Liquid crystals of positive dielectric anisotropy	S. M. Kelly
289-293	Flow induced bistable anchoring switching in nematic liquid crystals	R. Barberi; G. Durand

Volume 10, Issue 1 (1991)

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1-14	The average shapes of flexible mesogenic molecules On the choice of reference frame	A. Emerson; G. R. Luckhurst; R. W. Phippen
15-27	Phase behaviour of n-alkyl- and bi-alkylbenzenesulphonates. Nematic lyotropics from double chain surfactants	D. Težak; G. Hertel; H. Hoffmann
29-34	Electric field effects in nematic layers with weak boundary anchoring	G. Derfel
35-45	Behaviour of the pitch of the cholesteric and chiral smectic C helix near and at the cholesteric–smectic A–chiral smectic C multicritical point	P. Pollmann; K. Schulte
47-61	Comparing X-ray studies of smectic A phases formed by laterally branched molecules	S. Diele; A. Mädicke; K. Knauft; J. Neutzler; W. Weißflog; D. Demus
63-71	A supra-molecular approach to the modelling of textures in liquid crystals	S. E. Bedford; T. M. Nicholson; A. H. Windle
73-83	One dimensional classical spin models with long range anisotropic interaction. An extreme nematogenic lattice model	S. Romano
85-93	The liquid-crystalline properties of bis[N-[[4-[4-(alkoxy)benzoyloxy]2-hydroxyphenyl]methylene]alkanamino] complexes of Cu(II), Pd(II) and Ni(II). A general view	Ugo Caruso; Antonio Roviello; Augusto Sirigu
95-100	Experimental measurement of the azimuthal anchoring energy function at a SiO–nematic interface	S. Faetti; M. Nobili; A. Schirone
101-110	Synthesis of mesomorphic aryl esters bearing a pyridine ring	Hiroyoshi Kamogawa; Katsumasa Kawashima; Manabu Shimizu; Yukihiro Sakakibara
111-118	Neutron scattering study and discussion of the backbone conformation in the nematic phase of a side chain polymer	P. Davidson; L. Noirez; J. P. Cotton; P. Keller
119-126	X-ray diffraction study of some mesogenic copper, nickel and vanadyl complexes	Joaquin Barbera; Anne-Marie Levelut; Mercedes Marcos; Pilar Romero; Jose Luis Serrano
127-133	Dielectric relaxation of a nematic eutectic mixture with a high glass temperature	H. Kresse; P. Hartmann; W. Schäfer; I. Szulzewsky
135-140	Fractal-like scaling in liquid crystals. Odd–even effect of scaling exponents in the 4,4′-di-n-alkyloxyazoxybenzene homologous series	Maria Massalska-Arodź; Jerzy A. Janik
141-145	Synthesis and characterization of 3-phenyl-4[H]-4-[one]-benzopyran (isoflavone) derivatives as potential mesogens	N. K. Chudgar; Rajan Bosco; S. N. Shah

Volume 9, Issue 6 (1991)

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769-806	Optic mode determination of the relaxed state configuration in a ferroelectric liquid crystal cell	S. J. Elston
807-819	Columnar phases from semi-discoid molecules. Phase induction via hydrogen bonding and charge transfer interactions	W. Paulus; H. Ringsdorf; S. Diele; G. Pelzl
821-829	Amphiphilic propane-l,2-diol derivatives incorporating calamitic structural units	C. Tschierske; A. Lunow; D. Joachimi; F. Hentrich; D. Girdziunaite; H. Zaschke; A. Mädicke; G. Brezesinski; F. Kuschel
831-838	Nematic-isotropic pretransitional behaviour in dimers with odd and even spacer lengths	Charles Rosenblatt; Anselm C. Griffin; Uma Hari; Geoffrey R. Luckhurst
839-847	Influence of trans–cis photoisomerizations of solubilized compounds on transition temperatures in the system cetyltrimethylammonium bromide-water: Light-induced phase transitions	Thomas Wolff; Doris Seim; Bernhard Klaußner
849-861	The effect of molecular chirality on the incidence of twisted smectic A phases	A. J. Slaney; J. W. Goodby
863-871	AC electric field induced helix unwinding in planar texture of a ferroelectric liquid crystal	Z. H. Wang; Z. M. Sun; D. Feng
873-882	A comparative study of mesogenic structures. The crystal structures of bis[(4-butoxycarbonyl)-phenyl]terephthalate and bis[(4-vaIeroyloxy)-phenyl]terephthalate	R. Centore; M. R. Ciajolo; A. Roviello; A. Sirigu; A. Tuzi
883-892	The electric part of the curvature elasticity of a membrane and its relation to flexoelectricity	I. Bivas; K. Hristova
893-898	Field hysteresis of the cholesteric-nematic phase transition	Z. Yu. Gotra; Z. M. Mikityuk; G. Y. Megyei; P. E. Zaremba
899-902	An X-ray diffraction study of terminally bromo substituted side chain polysiloxanes	H. H. Sutherland; Z. Ali-Adib
903-906	Characterization of the first mixed-valent liquid-crystalline materials. Synthesis and structural properties of new binuclear ruthenium carboxylates	Fabio D. Cukiernik; Pascale Maldivi; Anne-Marie Giroud-godquin; Jean-Claude Marchon; Mohammed Ibn-elhaj; Daniel Guillon; Antoine Skoulios
907-911	Mesomorphic phase transitions of 4,4′-bis(ω-hydroxyalkoxy)-azoxybenzenes. Appearance of isotropic mesophase	Shinichi Yano; Yasuaki Mori; Shoichi Kutsumizu

Volume 9, Issue 5 (1991)

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617-634	New thermotropic liquid crystals derived from thiophenes	Rubing Cai; Edward T. Samulski
635-641	Helical pitch of ferroelectric liquid-crystalline polymers and copolymers	H. Endo; S. Hachiya; S. Uchida; K. Hashimoto; K. Kawasaki
643-648	The inclusion of electrostatic and dispersion interactions into potentials of mean torque for solutes dissolved in uniaxial liquid crystal solvents	J. W. Emsley; W. E. Palke; G. N. Shilstone
649-660	Multiple contributions to potentials of mean torque for solutes dissolved in liquid crystal solvents. A comparison of the orientational ordering of anthracene and anthraquinone as solutes in nematic solvents	J. W. Emsley; S. K. Heeks; T. J. Horne; M. H. Howells; A. Moon; W. E. Palke; S. U. Patel; G. N. Shilstone; A. Smith
661-678	Theoretical studies of smectic C liquid crystals confined in a wedge. Stability considerations and Frederiks transitions	T. Carlsson; I. W. Stewart; F. M. Leslie
679-689	Liquid crystal side chain polysiloxanes containing various proportions of non-mesogenic units	H. Richard; M. Mauzac; G. Sigaud; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin
691-699	Molecular addressing? Studies on light-induced reorientation in liquid-crystalline side chain polymers	Klaus Anderle; Richard Birenheide; Martin J. A. Werner; Joachim H. Wendorff
701-709	Theoretical prediction of the cholesteric pitch in thermotropic and lyotropic systems	L. Varichon; A. Ten Bosch; P. Sixou
711-726	Deuterium NMR studies of inositol liquid crystals [1]	K. Praefcke; P. Marquardt; B. Kohne; Z. Luz; R. Poupko
727-739	Melting and spherulitic crystallization of a phenyl benzoate	K. S. Krishnamurthy
741-750	Elastic constants at the smectic A–crystalline smectic B phase transition of the compound 50.8	A. H. Ali; L. Benguigui
751-756	A comparison of pressure induced and concentration induced smectic A–nematic–isotropic triple points	Jennifer L. Walker; Peter J. Collings
757-762	Low frequency dielectric spectroscopy on mixtures containing ferroelectric liquid crystals	S. U. Vallerien; F. Kremer; H. Kresse; B. Linström; C. Tschierske
763-766	Dielectric relaxation of a short molecule in a liquid-crystalline solvent	H. Kresse; B. Sabaschus; G. Heppke
767-768	Director reorientation dynamics in chevron ferroelectric liquid crystal cells	J. E. Maclennan; N. A. Clark; M. A. Handschy

Volume 9, Issue 4 (1991)

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457-468	Photoreactivity and emission properties of liquid-crystalline twin dimers containing cinnamic acid moieties at both ends of ethylene glycol spacers. I. Synthesis, thermotropic properties and photoreactivity	Tomiki Ikeda; Takoya Ikeda; Takeo Sasaki; Bong Lee; Seiji Kurihara; Shigeo Tazuke
469-477	Photoreactivity and emission properties of liquid-crystalline twin dimers containing cinnamic acid moieties at both ends of ethylene glycol spacers. II. Emission properties	Tomiki Ikeda; Takoya Ikeda; Takeo Sasaki; Bong Lee; Seiji Kurihara; Shigeo Tazuke
479-492	NMR and X-ray studies of the chromonic lyomesophases formed by some xanthone derivatives	D. Perahia; E. J. Wachtel; Z. Luz
493-518	Switching behaviour and electro-optic response due to the soft mode ferroelectric effect in chiral smectic A liquid crystals	I. Abdulhalim; G. Moddel
519-526	Linear electromechanical effect in a S*_c polymer liquid crystal	A. Járkli; A. Saupe
527-537	Lyotropic liquid crystal phase formation in l-(alkanoylmethyl amino) 1-deoxy-D-glucitols	C. Hall; G. J. T. Tiddy; B. Pfannemüller
539-550	Metastable phases in kinetics of phase transformations in the frozen liquid crystal 4-ethoxybenzylidene-4′-n-butylaniline	A. Elouatib; C. Gors; R. Fouret
551-564	An ultrasonic investigation of the critical behaviour of the elastic moduli near the smectic C-smectic A phase transition	V. A. Balandin; E. V. Gurovich; A. S. Kashitsin; S. V. Pasechnik
565-570	Synthesis and characterization of smectic polymesomorphism in higher homologues of nO.m compounds	V. G. K. M. Pisipati; N. V. S. Rao; B. Chidambara Sastry; P. Bhaskara Rao; G. Padmaja Rani; P. R. Alapati
571-582	The liquid-crystalline behaviour of amphiphilic ethane-1,2-diol derivatives incorporating a six membered ring in their principal structure	C. Tschierske; F. Hentrich; D. Joachimi; O. Agert; H. Zaschke
583-598	Ultrasonic absorption studies in the cholesteric and isotropic phases of cholesteryl valerate	K. Muralidhar; M. L. S. Swamy; S. Nana Rao; K. Subba Rao
599-605	Rheological study of blood cells containing haemoglobin S. Physical interpretation of viscosity laws	J. -L. Dejardin
607-616	Head group ordering in the lyomesophases of the dipotassium hexadecanedioate-water system studied by ¹³C and ²H NMR	H. Gutman; A. Loewenstein; Z. Luz; R. Poupko; H. Zimmermann

Volume 9, Issue 3 (1991)

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307-320	Electric field induced AC alignment and realignment, a study of a liquid-crystalline copolymer having longitudinally and laterally attached mesogenic groups as side chains monitored through dielectric spectroscopy and optical thermomicroscopy	Ali Nazemi; Ewen J. C. Kellar; Graham Williams; Frank E. Karasz; Jonathan S. Hill; David Lacey; George W. Gray
321-335	Thermotropic liquid crystals from N-alkylpyridinium halides ω-substituted with a mesogenic group	Dámaso Navarro-Rodriguez; Yves Frere; Philippe Gramain; Daniel Guillon; Antoine Skoulios
337-357	Photochemical behaviour of a discoid, cinnamoyl-substituted azacrown derivative Isomerization and crosslinking in the ordered state	C. Mertesdorf; H. Ringsdorf; J. Stumpe
359-367	Pulsed gradient NMR study of anisotropic surfactant diffusion in the caesium perfluoro octanoate/D₂O system	Paul Ukleja; G. Chidichimo; P. Photinos
369-382	Hexagonal columnar mesophases from phthalocyanine Upright and tilted intracolumnar molecular stacking, herringbone and rotationally disordered columnar packing	P. Weber; D. Guillon; A. Skoulios
383-396	Structures of two crystal forms of chiral smectogenic 4′-hexyloxy-4-biphenylyl p-[(S)-2-methyIbuty 1] benzoate	Kayako Hori; Yuji Ohashi
397-403	New liquid-crystalline materials containing a five-membered heteroalicycle: Trans-2, 4-disubstituted 1, 3-oxathiolanes	Carsten Tschierske; Detlev Joachimi
405-416	Anisotropic gels and plasticized networks formed by liquid crystal molecules	R. A. M. Hikmet
417-432	Multinuclear NMR studies of lead(II) soaps II. ¹³C and ¹H studies of solid and liquid-crystalline phases	G. Feio; H. D. Burrows; C. F. G. C. Geraldes; T. J. T. Pinheiro
433-439	A new structural type of liquid crystal Crystal structures and thermotropic mesophases of dihydroxytetraalkyldisiloxanes: Columnar phases with hydrogen bonded assemblies	A. P. Polishchuk; T. V. Timofeeva; N. N. Makarova; M. Yu. Antipin; Yu. T. Struchkov
441-450	The substituent effect on mesomorphic properties of 4-octyloxyphenyl 4-(4-R-3-nitrobenzoyloxy)benzoates and 4-(4-octyloxybenzoyloxy)phenyl 4-R-3-nitrobenzoates	Hisanori Sugiura; Yoshiaki Saklrai; Yoshihide Masuda; Hitoshi Takeda; Shigekazu Kusabayashi; Shunsuke Takenaka
451-455	Discotic peracylated glycosides	V. Vill; J. Thiem

Volume 9, Issue 2 (1991)

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151-163	Mesophase behaviour of 2,5-dibenzoyloxy-p-benzoquinone derivatives and tetrahydrobenzene tetraesters	Sibylle Berg; Volker Krone; Helmut Ringsdorf; Udo Quotschalla; Helmut Paulus
165-193	Laterally linked mesogens in main chain polymers	Volker Krone; Helmut Ringsdorf; Martina Ebert; Harald Hirschmann; Joachim H. Wendorff
195-206	Cross-shaped mesogens in main chain polymers	Volker Krone; Helmut Ringsdorf; Martina Ebert; Harald Hirschmann; Joachim H. Wendorff
207-220	Influence of molecular weight and polydispersity on phase behaviour of polyesters with laterally fixed or cross-shaped mesogens	Volker Krone; Helmut Ringsdorf
221-228	Columnar liquid crystals in oligosaccharide derivatives. I. Discotic columnar liquid crystals in cellobiose octadecanoate and cellotriose hendecadecanoate	T. Itoh; A. Takada; T. Fukuda; T. Miyamoto; Y. Yakoh; J. Watanabe
229-238	Liquid-crystalline phases of circular superhelical plasmid DNA and their modification by the action of nuclease enzymes	V. I. Salyanov; A. T. Dembo; Yu. M. Yevdokimov
239-243	A comparison of experimental order parameters of nematogens with different theories	R. Paul
245-251	Field-induced textures of polymer-dispersed chiral liquid crystal microdroplets	D. K. Yang; P. P. Crooker
253-266	Diarylethane α-chloroester ferroelectric liquid crystals	H. T. Nguyen; A. Babeau; C. Léon; J. -P. Marcerou; C. Destrade; A. Soldera; D. Guillon; A. Skoulios
267-276	Mesomorphic properties of orthopalladated complexes of laterally substituted azobenzene derivatives, 2-alkoxycarbonyl-4-(4-ethoxyphenylazo)phenyl 4-methoxybenzoates	Naomi Hoshino; Hiroyuki Hasegawa; Yoshio Matsunaga
277-284	Deuterium NMR investigation of a new class of macrocyclic columnar liquid crystal	L. Abis; V. Arrighi; G. Cometti; E. Dalcanale; A. Du Vosel
285-297	Viscoelastic coefficients of glass-forming nematics	R. Stannarius; W. Günther; M. Grigutsch; A. Scharkowski; W. Wedler; D. Demus
299-305	A calorimetric study of the different thermal behaviour of DNA in the isotropic and liquid-crystalline states	Domenico Grasso; Salvatore Fasone; Carmelo La Rosa; Victor Salyanov

Volume 9, Issue 1 (1991)

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1-9	Electric field-induced blue phases in liquid-crystalline systems of high chirality and negative dielectric anisotropy	B. Spier; H. Stegemeyer
11-18	Scanning tunnelling microscopic images of the surface ordering of the liquid crystal 4-n-octyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl	T. J. McMaster; H. Carr; M. J. Miles; P. Cairns; V. J. Morris
19-26	Ferrocene-based liquid-crystalline compounds	Poonam Singh; Marvin D. Rausch; Robert W. Lenz
27-30	Scaling theory of the paranematic nematic critical point	Chester A. Vause III
31-40	Influence of chirality on phase transitions in ferroelectric liquid crystals	Ch. Bahr; G. Heppke; B. Sabaschus
41-45	Penetration by water of polyhydroxy amphiphiles in the crystalline versus the liquid crystalline states	Henk A. Van Doren; Lavinia M. Wingert
47-57	Side-chain liquid-crystalline copolymers containing charge transfer groups	C. T. Imire; F. E. Karasz; G. S. Attard
59-70	Optical birefringence and dichroism in physical steroid organogels	P. Terech
71-76	351 nm, 0.7 ns laser damage thresholds of monomeric liquid-crystalline systems	S. Papernov; K. Marshall; M. Guardalben; A. Schmid; S. D. Jacobs
77-86	Metallo-mesogens based on ortho-palladated polar imines: III. Influence of the polar group position	M. B. Ros; N. Ruiz; J. L. Serrano; P. Espinet
87-93	A new type of layer structure defects in chiral smectics	J. Pavel; M. Glogarová
95-116	Director fluctuations in nematic liquid crystals	T. E. Faber
117-126	The effect of solutes on the orientational ordering of liquid-crystalline solvents	Wen Guo; B. M. Fung
127-131	Liquid-crystalline side chain polymethacrylates II. Variation of spacer and central linkage in nitro-terminated polymers	R. Lorenz
133-140	Director reorientation in nematics studied by microwave dielectrometry	S. Faetti; L. Gammaitoni; M. Martinelli; P. A. Rolla
141-143	Excluded volume for polydisperse spheroplatelets	Mark P. Taylor
145-150	The Goldstone mode in ferroelectric liquid crystals A non-linear dielectric loss process	Friedrich Kremer; Sven Uwe Vallerien; Erhard W. Fischer

Volume 8, Issue 6 (1990)

745-763	Discontinuous orientational changes in nematics Effects of electric and magnetic fields	U. D. Kini
765-773	Filled smectic A phases in binary liquid-crystalline systems of terminal-nonpolar compounds. V. Smectic A phases with unusually high ratio of the layer spacing and the average molecular length	G. Pelzl; S. Diele; K. Ziebarth; W. Weissflog; D. Demus
775-785	Non-symmetrical dithiolium salts Mesomorphic properties	M. Veber; C. Jallabert; H. Strzelecka; O. Jullien; P. Davidson
787-796	The synthesis and characterization of a new class of liquid crystals based on bis-triazinic compounds	R. Fornasier; M. Tornatore; L. L. Chapoy
797-811	New biforked mesogen series	H. T. Nguyen; C. Destrade; J. Malthète
813-817	Effect of flexoelectricity on the curvature elasticity of the membrane	I. Bivas; M. M. Kozlov
819-823	Anisotropic attenuation of acoustic waves in nematic liquid crystals	H. Herba; A. Drzymała
825-837	Liquid-crystalline behaviour of a series of poly(di-n-alkylsilanes)	P. Weber; D. Guillon; A. Skoulios; R. D. Miller
839-850	Fourier transform infrared study of two truxene-based discotic liquid crystals	Wah Keat Lee; Paul A. Heiney; Masashi Ohba; John N. Haseltine; Amos B. Smith III
851-860	Measurement of the Kerr effect in cholesteric blue phases	U. Singh; P. H. Keyes
861-870	A new family of chiral smectic liquid crystals Synthesis and properties of liquid crystals bearing a pyridine heterocycle	Koji Seto; Hiroshi Shimojitosyo; Hideyuki Imazaki; Hiroshi Matsubara; Shigetoshi Takahashi
871-878	Memory effect in thin samples of chiral smectic C liquid crystals	L. Lejĉek; S. Pirkl
879-884	Liquid-crystalline behaviour of molecules with tetrahedral symmetry	R. Eidenschink; F. -H. Kreuzer; W. H. De Jeu
885-888	Amphiphilic carbohydrate-based mesogens incorporating structural features of calamitic liquid crystals	Carsten Tschierske; Andre Lunow; Horst Zaschke
889-893	Molecular dynamics and the glass transition in a columnar liquid crystal formed by a chiral discotic mesogen	S. U. Vallerien; M. Werth; F. Kremer; H. W. Spiess

Volume 8, Issue 5 (1990)

593-621	Theory of molecular motions in flexible nematogens	A. Ferrarini; G. J. Moro; P. L. Nordio
623-637	Thermotropic diacetylenic liquid crystals	G. H. W. Milburn; C. Campbell; A. J. Shand; A. R. Werninck
639-649	New columnar liquid crystals Correlation between molecular structure and mesomorphic behaviour	S. Bonsignore; G. Cometti; E. Dalcanale; A. Du Vosel
651-675	On the elastic properties of ferroelectric S_c* liquid crystals	Masahiro Nakagawa
677-686	Photochromism of side-chain liquid crystal polymers containing spironaphthoxazines	Shlomo Yitzchaik; Judith Ratner; Frida Buchholtz; Valeri Krongauz
687-699	Orientational ordering of ferroelectric thiobenzoate liquid crystals	Wolfgang Richter; Dirk Reimer; B. M. Fung; R. J. Twieg; K. Betterton
701-705	Formation of smectic mesophases in binary systems of short chain alkanoic acid salts	T. A. Mirnaya; G. G. Yaremchuk; V. D. Prisyazhnyi
707-718	Effect of terminal polar substituents on the nature of smectic A liquid crystals of a series of 4-(4″-octyloxybenzoyloxy)benzylidene-4′-substituted anilines	Seiichi Miyajima; Keisuke Nakazawa; Keiko Niikura; Yasuhiro Ujiiye; Makiko Yashiro; Takehiko Chiba
719-725	Broadband dielectric spectroscopy on ferroelectric liquid-crystalline side group polymers	S. U. Vallerien; F. Kremer; G. Scherowsky; A. Schliwa; K. Kühnpast; E. W. Fischer
727-738	Two-stage model for molecular orientational relaxation in liquid crystals	I. Dozov; S. Temkin; N. Kirov
739-744	Transition metals complexed to ordered mesophases. VI. Synthesis, mesomorphic behaviour and X-ray molecular structure of the cyclopalladated dimer [(L)PdCl]₂ (HL = N-(4-methoxybenzylidene)-4′-butylaniline)	Mauro Ghedini; Salvatore Armentano; Giovanni De Munno; Alessandra Crispini; Francesco Neve

Volume 8, Issue 4 (1990)

451-464	Computer simulation studies of anisotropic systems. XIX. Mesophases formed by the Gay-Berne model mesogen	G. R. Luckhurst; R. A. Stephens; R. W. Phippen
465-472	On the simulation of the director field of a nematic liquid crystal	A. Kilian; S. Hess
473-480	The effect of a finite anchoring energy on the transient periodic structures in nematic liquid crystals	S. Ciaponi; S. Faetti
481-497	Textural and calorimetric investigations on a homologous series of mesogenic azocompounds complexed with palladium(II)	C. C. Versace; R. Bartolino; M. Ghedini; F. Neve; S. Armentano; M. Petrov; N. Kirov
499-511	Computer simulation of a biaxial liquid crystal	Michael P. Allen
513-526	Synthèse de complexes nématiques du cuivre à partir de ligands substitués par des halogènes	E. Bui; J. P. Bayle; F. Perez; L. Liebert; J. Courtieu
527-532	On the Landau bicritical point for hard biaxial particles	B. M. Mulder
533-544	Polysiloxanes substituted with forked mesogens	M. F. Achard; Nguyen Huu Tinh; H. Richard; M. Mauzac; F. Hardouin
545-551	Ferroelectric liquid-crystalline polymethacrylates	V. P. Shibaev; M. V. Kozlovsky; N. A. Platé; L. A. Beresnev; L. M. Blinov
553-564	Phase diagrams of cholesteric films in electric fields	P. Schiller; K. Schiller
565-575	Nematic-nematic modification in side-on-fixed polysiloxanes	F. Hardouin; S. Mery; M. F. Achard; M. Mauzac; P. Davidson; P. Keller
577-585	Use of mode mixing to determine the optic tensor configuration of a thin ferroelectric liquid crystal layer	C. R. Lavers; J. R. Sambles
587-588	Reply to the comment by G. Barbero and N. V. Madhusudana ‘On a theoretical analysis on the influence of non-uniformity of the order parameter on the surface energy in nematics’ (1990, Liquid Crystals, 7, 299)	S. A. Pikin; E. M. Terentjev
589-592	Degeneracy of rotational viscosities at the chiral smectic C-smectic A transition in DOBAMBC	Z. Kutnjak; A. Levstik; B. �ekš

Volume 8, Issue 3 (1990)

299-309	Thermotropic mesomorphism in a branched chain copper(II) carboxylate and its pyrazine complex	G. S. Attard; P. R. Cullum
311-330	Rod-like liquid crystals of organic transition metal complexes. I. Reversible transformation between blue smectogen and red nematogen	Kazuchika Ohta; Hiroshi Ema; Yasue Morizumi; Takuya Watanabe; Tetsuya Fujimoto; Iwao Yamamoto
331-343	Stationary states of the surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal layers in electric field	G. Derfel
345-359	The packing structure of side chains of liquid-crystalline side-chain polymers before and during heat treatment	Takanari Yamaguchi; Tadahiro Asada
361-373	Director movement and potential function of surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells by electrooptical investigations	Frank Gießelmann; Peter Zugenmaier
375-388	²H NMR studies of phase behaviour and molecular motions of doped discotic liquid-crystalline systems	Wolfgang Kranig; Christine Boeffel; Hans Wolfgang Spiess; Olaf Karthaus; Helmut Ringsdorf; Renate Wüstefeld
389-406	Interpretation of diffusion measurements in cholesterics	Ralf Stannarius
407-418	Blue phase mixtures exhibiting low fractions of a chiral compound experimental observation of some unusual properties	G. Heppke; H. -S. Kitzerow; D. Lötzsch; Ch. Papenfuß
419-427	Reentrant phenomenon in cyanoaryl alkylthioxybenzoates and cyanobenzoyloxyphenyl alkylthiobenzoates	H. T. Nguyen; C. Destrade; R. J. Twieg; K. Betterton
429-436	Nouveaux composés mésogènes possédant des substituants latéraux nitrés et hydroxylés	J. P. Bayle; F. Perez; E. Bui; J. Courtieu
437-443	Splay elasticity in an oligomeric liquid crystal	Gregory A. Dilisi; Charles Rosenblatt; Anselm C. Griffin; Uma Hari
445-450	Dipoles–dipole association of mesogenic molecules in solution	P. Kędziora; J. Jadżyn

Volume 8, Issue 2 (1990)

153-161	A complementary structural study of 4-n-nonyl-4″-cyanoterphenyl	F. A. Morrison; C. Friedrich; C. Noël; P. Davidson; A. M. Levelut
163-170	Liquid crystal polymers from swallow-tailed mesogens	Ivan Cabrera; Helmut Ringsdorf; Martina Ebert; Joachim H. Wendorff
171-182	Rotational viscosity of nematic liquid crystals A critical examination of existing models	Shin-Tson Wu; Chiung-Sheng Wu
183-191	Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of deuteriated 4,4′-di-n-aIkyloxyazoxybenzenes-d₂(2n 1)	M. D. Ossowska-chrusciel; J. Chrusciel; A. Suszko-purzycka; A. Wiegeleben
193-209	Influence of the smectic A-nematic transitional order on the formation of the smectic phases of 4-n-hexyloxybenzylidene-4′-n-butyIaniline and 4-n-butyloxybenzylidene-4′-n-octyIaniline from an electrically deformed nematic phase	H. P. Hinov; V. G. K. M. Pisipati
211-216	X-ray studies of liquid-crystalline phases of polycatenar substances Evidence for a rectangular columnar structure	S. Diele; K. Ziebarth; G. Pelzl; D. Demus; W. Weissflog
217-227	Some new α-fluoro esters incorporating a cyclohexane ring as chiral dopants for ferroelectric mixtures	R. Buchecker; S. M. Kelly; J. Fuenfschilling
229-235	Molecular rotational potentials in the S_C* phase of binary ferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures	A. Buka; H. Stegemeyer
237-245	The chiroptical properties of a new liquid-crystalline polymer: (trityl)(pentyl)cellulose	B. R. Harkness; D. G. Gray
247-262	Synthesis and phase behaviour of liquid-crystalline side group polyesters	B. Reck; H. Ringsdorf
263-277	Calorimetric studies of the thermodynamic properties of lamellar lecithin/local anaesthetic/water mixtures	H. -D. Dörfler; G. Brezesinski; H. Jantschke
279-297	X-ray studies on polymorphism of lamellar lecithin/local anaesthetic/water mixtures	H. -D. Dörfler; G. Förster; H. Jantschke

Volume 8, Issue 1 (1990)

1-12	Unusual structures in some alkyl cyanoterphenyls	A. J. Leadbetter; P. A. Tucker; G. W. Gray; A. R. Tajbakhsh
13-30	Decylammonium chloride/ammonium chloride aqueous solutions A Raman scattering study	M. Picquart; G. Lacrampe; M. Jaffrain
31-46	Deuterium NMR of perdeuteriated di and monoacids dissolved in the lyomesophases of dipotassium hexadecanedioate	H. Gutman; Z. Luz; A. Loewenstein; H. Zimmermann
47-61	A quasichemical lattice model for a binary mixture of hard rectangular parallelepipeds Application to systems composed of nematic and non-mesogenic molecules	E. P. Sokolova; A. Yu. Vlasov
63-73	Orientational ordering in the nematic phase of 4-alkenyl-substituted bicyclohexylnitriles	Wolfgang Richter; B. M. Fung; Martin Schadt
75-80	Biforked mesogens with ester linkages, derived from 3-(3,4-dialkoxyphenyl)-propanoic acid	C. Alstermark; M. Eriksson; M. Nilsson; C. Destrade; H. T. Nguyen
81-94	Molecular dynamics in the liquid crystal 40.6 A nuclear magnetic relaxation study	K. Venu; G. Ravindranath; V. S. S. Sastry
95-108	Synthesis and comparative structural investigation of crystalline and liquid-crystalline phases of low molecular mass compounds and side group polymers I. Low molecular mass compounds	Karin Hans; Peter Zugenmaier
109-121	The scope and limitations of liquid-crystalline behaviour in monosaccharide amphiphiles Comparison of the thermal behaviour of several homologous series of D-glucose derived compounds with an amino-linked alkyl chain	Henk A. Van Doren; Ralph Van Der Geest; Cornelis F. De Ruijter; Richard M. Kellogg; Hans Wynberg
123-130	Point defects and lock-in faults in columnar phases	J. Prost
131-151	Optical microscopy, multinuclear NMR (²H, ¹⁴N and ³⁵Cl) and X-ray studies of dodecyl-and hexadecyl-trimethylammonium chloride/water mesophases	E. S. Blackmore; G. J. T. Tiddy

Volume 7, Issue 6 (1990)

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753-785	Director orientation in chevron surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells. Verification of orientational binding at the chevron interface using visible polarized light transmission spectroscopy	J. E. Maclennan; N. A. Clark; M. A. Handschy; M. R. Meadows
787-796	Director reorientation dynamics in chevron ferroelectric liquid crystal cells	J. E. Maclennan; M. A. Handschy; N. A. Clark
797-813	An investigation of solute–liquid crystal interaction in hydrogen bonded complexes of palmitic acid and p-octyloxybenzoic acid	E. J. Delikatny; E. E. Burnell
815-837	Density studies on various smectic liquid crystals	R. Kiefer; G. Baur
839-861	Microstructure and dynamics of a mesogenic diol	G. Smyth; S. K. Pollack; W. J. Macknight; S. L. Hsu
863-875	The effect of thermal treatment of the alignment layer on the electro-optical response of SSFLCs	Bernt O. Myrvold
877-881	First-order transition between nematic phases in lyotropic liquid crystals	L. Q. Amaral
883-893	Critical heat capacity at nematic-smectic A₁ and smectic A₁-smectic A₂ transitions in DB₅CN TBBA	P. Das; G. Nounesis; C. W. Garland; G. Sigaud; Nguyen Huu Tinh
895-909	The dynamics of the CH₃CN molecule in the isotropic phase and in a nematic solution	D. Imbardelli; G. Chidichimo; P. Bucci

Volume 7, Issue 5 (1990)

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607-628	Reorientation instabilities and viscoelastic measurements in a main chain thermotropic nematic polymer Optical and NMR studies	P. Esnault; J. P. Casquilho; F. Volino; A. F. Martins; A. Blumstein
629-642	Thermotropic liquid-crystalline systems containing methylated rings	G. Costa; A. Minicucci; V. Trefiletti; B. Valenti
643-655	Searching for photochromic liquid crystals Spironaphthoxazine substituted with a mesogenic group	Leah Shragina; Frida Buchholtz; Shlomo Yitzchaik; Valeri Krongauz
657-668	The distinction between chromonic and amphiphilic lyotropic mesophases	T. K. Attwood; J. E. Lydon; C. Hall; G. J. T. Tiddy
669-681	Liquid-crystalline polysiloxanes with fluoro-substituted side chains	G. Nestor; G. W. Gray; D. Lacey; K. J. Toyne
683-699	QNS investigation of restricted molecular reorientation in the nematic phase. I. The incoherent scattering law for MBBA	B. Cvikl; U. Dahlborg; M. Čepič; J. Peternelj; T. Kinell; V. Dimic; J. A. Janik
701-719	Neutron scattering from mixtures of isotopically labelled molecules. A new method for determining the orientational distribution function in liquid crystals	R. M. Richardson; J. M. Allman; G. J. McIntyre
721-729	X-ray investigation of combined main-chain/side-chain liquid-crystalline polymers	S. Diele; M. Naumann; F. Kuschel; B. Reck; H. Ringsdorf
731-737	The angle of twist between the two phenyl rings in the nematic liquid crystal 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl	G. Celebre; M. Longeri; E. Sicilia; J. W. Emsley
739-748	An NMR study on the shielding of the ¹²⁹Xe isotope of xenon dissolved in thermotropic liquid crystals	J. Jokisaari; P. Diehl
749-752	Persistence of ordering in 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl above the nematic-isotropic transition as detected by picosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy	Tomiki Ikeda; Seiji Kurihara; Shigeo Tazuke

Volume 7, Issue 4 (1990)

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457-474	Deuterium NMR studies of n-alkyl-β-D-glucopyranosides liquid-crystalline systems	A. Loewenstein; D. Igner; U. Zehavi; H. Zimmermann; A. Emerson; G. R. Luckhurst
475-485	Imidazo [2, 1-b]-1,3,4-thiadiazoles. A new class of liquid-crystalline compounds	A. V. Ivashchenko; S. I. Torgova; L. A. Karamysheva; A. G. Abolin
487-494	Lead(II)alkadiynoates. A novel class of liquid-crystalline precursors to poly(diacetylenes)	G. S. Attard; Y. D. West
495-508	Asymmetric dimeric liquid crystals with charge transfer groups	G. S. Attard; S. Garnett; C. G. Hickman; C. T. Imrie; L. Taylor
509-515	Phase behaviour of lithium and sodium salts of phenylstearic acid	William J. Harrison; Malcolm P. McDonald; Gordon J. T. Tiddy
517-518	Synthesis and properties of new ferroelectric liquid crystalline compounds having a 1, 2-diphenylethane structure	Koji Seto; Hiroshi Shimojitosyo; Hideyuki Imazaki; Hiroshi Matsubara; Shigetoshi Takahashi
519-536	Synergisms, structure-material relations and display performance of novel fluorinated alkenyl liquid crystals	Martin Schadt; Richard Buchecker; Alois Villiger
537-544	Mesogenicity of testosterone and estrone derivatives	Shinichi Yano; Michitaka Eiraku; Makoto Tomiyama; Toshiharu Sugihara
545-551	p-Alkoxy- and p-alkylbenzoates of α, a'-bi-p-hydroxytoluene. New series of liquid-crystalline compounds	George M. Janini; N. T. Filfil; Gary M. Muschik
553-570	Supermolecular self organization via molecular aggregation. Non-discotic three chain diols displaying a hexagonal columnar phase	M. Ebert; R. Kleppinger; M. Soliman; M. Wolf; J. H. Wendorff; G. Lattermann; G. Staufer
571-581	The ripple phase in a DMPC-water mixture. A dielectric investigation	C. Cametti; F. De Luca; A. D'ilario; M. A. Macri; B. Maraviglia; P. Sorio
583-587	Non-linear dielectric studies of the isotropic-smectic phase transition in 6-DBT and 7-DBT	J. Zioło; J. Chrapeć; J. Jadżyn
589-594	Thermotropic biaxial nematic phases with negative optical character [1]	Klaus Praefcke; Bernd Kohne; Dirk Singer; Dietrich Demus; Gerhard Pelzl; Siegmar Diele
595-599	A study of the induced helical pitch in a reentrant nematic mixture	A. V. Tolmachev; A. N. Popov; B. L. Timan
601-606	Fractal analysis of a discotic texture	C. Baehr; M. Ebert; G. Frick; J. H. Wendorff

Volume 7, Issue 3 (1990)

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305-314	Orientational ordering in discotic columnar phases. A theoretical approach	J. -P. Carton; E. Dubois-violette; J. Prost
315-334	Defect controlled dynamics of nematic liquids	Alejandro D. Rey
335-351	X-ray diffraction and deuterium N. M. R. of the lyomesophases of dipotassium hexadecanedioate–water mixtures	H. Gutman; Z. Luz; E. J. Wachtel; R. Poupko; J. Charvolin
353-360	Behaviour of the anchoring strength coefficient near a structural transition at a nematic–substrate interface	Gregory A. Di Lisi; Charles Rosenblatt; Anselm C. Griffin; Uma Hari
361-365	Short and long range correlations in liquid crystals composed of non-rod-like molecules	M. Massalska-Arodź; H. Kresse
367-383	The structure of the nematic phase of cyano derivatives and their mixtures with weakly polar compounds	M. F. Grebyonkin; V. F. Petrov; B. I. Ostrovsky
385-394	Phase behaviour of liquid-crystalline copoly(dimethyl-methylhydrogeno)siloxanes substituted with long polar side groups	Nguyen Huu Tinh; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin; M. Mauzac; H. Richard; G. Sigaud
395-398	The effect of pressure on the discotic nematic-isotropic transition properties	T. K. Lahiri; S. Singh; K. Singh
399-410	Thermal and optical studies on hexa-2,4-diyne-1,6-diyl-bis(4-n-hexoxybenzoate)	K. Belina; G. Balazs; J. Varga; Gy. Hardy; J. Horvath; K. Nyitrai; A. R. Werninck; A. J. Shand; G. H. W. Milburn
411-419	The effect of electric fields on blue phase III with negative dielectric anisotropy	D. K. Yang; P. P. Crooker
421-430	Nematic and smectic mesophases in a new series of Cu(II) organometallic complexes	Ugo Caruso; Antonio Roviello; Augusto Sirigu
431-438	Nematic and smectic mesophases in a new series of Cu(II) metallorganic complexes. II	Ugo Caruso; Antonio Roviello; Augusto Sirigu
439-449	Flexoelectricity of lipid bilayers	A. Derzhanski; A. G. Petrov; A. T. Todorov; K. Hristova
451-455	The growth of highly ordered textures in planar poly(γ-benzylglutamate) liquid crystals	Sin-Doo Lee; R. B. Meyer

Volume 7, Issue 2 (1990)

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155-161	Thermotropic cellulose derivatives with flexible substituents. III. Temperature dependence of cholesteric pitches exhibiting a cholesteric sense inversion	Tadaaki Yamagishi; Takeshi Fukuda; Takeaki Miyamoto; Toshihiro Ichizuka; Junji Watanabe
163-180	Heat capacity of the discotic mesogen, 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexa-n-hexyloxytriphenylene, between 17 and 397 K and phase transitions in the solid and liquid states	Michio Sorai; Shuichi Asahina; Christian Destrade; Nguyen Huu Tinh
181-183	An X-ray diffraction study of a chromophoric liquid crystal polysiloxane	H. H. Sutherland; B. Gasgous
185-201	Static periodic distortion above bend Freedericksz transition in nematics	U. D. Kini
203-216	Electrooptic properties of the ferroelectric smectic C phase induced by chiral dopants in HOBA and OOBA	M. Petrov; P. Simova
217-239	Combined main chain/side chain polymers. A new class of liquid crystalline polymers with unusual structural, thermodynamic and dynamic properties	B. W. Endres; M. Ebert; J. H. Wendorff; B. Reck; H. Ringsdorf
241-249	Crystal and molecular structure of mesogenic 4-ethoxy-3′-(4-ethoxy-phenyliminomethyl)-4′-(4-methoxy-benzoyloxy)azobenzene	U. Baumeister; Z. Kosturkiewicz; H. Hartung; D. Demus; W. Weissflog
251-259	Novel liquid-crystalline derivatives of transition metals. The effect of the molecular geometry of the ligands on the mesogenic properties of tetracoordinated copper(II) complexes	Mercedes Marcos; Pilar Romero; José Luis Serrano; Joaquín Barberá; Anne Marie Levelut
261-263	Aliphatic polyimides as alignment layers for surface stabilized ferroelectric smectic C liquid crystal cells	Bernt O. Myrvold
265-278	Structural studies of a new series of biforked mesogens derived from 3,4 dialkoxy cinnamic acid and 3-(3,4 dialkoxy-phenyl) propanoic acid	Y. Fang; A. M. Levelut; C. Destrade
279-282	S-shaped deformation profiles in sheared liquid-crystalline polymers	S. Guido; N. Grizzuti; G. Marrucci
283-286	Experimental determination of the helicoidal electric field inside a twisted mesophase, in the selective reflection band	Gilles Joly; Hassane Azzioui; Noël Isaert; Abdelkader Barroug
287-291	Self-organization of polymer dispersed nematic droplets	N. M. Golovataya; M. V. Kurik; O. D. Lavrentovich
293-298	Visualization of enantiomers in cholesteric solvents through deuterium NMR	E. Lafontaine; J. M. Pechine; J. Courtieu; Charles L. Mayne
299-301	On a theoretical analysis on the influence of non-uniformity of the order parameter on the surface energy in nematics	G. Barbero; N. V. Madhusudana
303	Addendum	S. L. Arora; P. Palffy-muhoray; R. A. Vora; D. J. David; A. M. Dasgupta

Volume 7, Issue 1 (1990)

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1-13	The structure and orientational ordering of 4-methoxy-4′-cyanobiphenyl in the nematic mesophase	J. W. Emsley; T. J. Horne; H. Zimmermann; G. Celebre; M. Longeri
15-29	Light scattering measurements of anisotropic viscoelastic coefficients of a main-chain polymer nematic liquid crystal	Sin-Doo Lee; R. B. Meyer
31-40	A simple molecular theory of double reentrance exhibited by highly polar compounds	N. V. Madhusudana; Jyotsna Rajan
41-50	Mesomorphic and ferroelectric properties of novel optically active compounds derived from (R)-3-hydroxynonanoic acid	Jun Nakauchi; Mioko Uematsu; Keiichi Sakashita; Yoshitake Kageyama; Seiji Hayashi; Kenji Mori
51-61	Simultaneous determination of fundamental parameters for ferroelectric liquid crystals	M. R. de la Fuente; A. Ezcurra; M. A. Perez Jubindo; J. Zubia
63-79	Sanidics: A new class of mesophases, displayed by highly substituted rigid-rod polyesters and polyamides	M. Ebert; O. Herrmann-Schönherr; J. H. Wendorff; H. Ringsdorf; P. Tschirner
81-94	Torques and textures from capillary flow of cholesteric liquid crystals	L. Thesing; F. Fischer
95-104	Flow of a liquid-crystalline polymer solution around an obstacle	Edith Peuvrel; Patrick Navard
105-114	Non-linear electromechanical response of S*_C liquid crystals	A. Jákli; L. Bata
115-122	Filled smectic A phases in binary liquid-crystalline systems of terminal-nonpolar compounds	G. Pelzl; A. Humke; S. Diele; D. Demus; W. Weissflog
123-129	Substituted tetrabenzocyclophanes as mesogenic units of new polycondensates exhibiting columnar mesophases	W. Kranig; H. W. Spiess; H. Zimmermann
131-141	Liquid crystal optical response dynamics of the flexoelectric effect in a spatially inhomogeneous electric field	A. V. Parfenov; V. G. Chigrinov
143-151	Bistable electro-optical switching in the smectic I* phase of a ferroelectric liquid crystal	A. M. Biradar; W. Haase
153	Erratum	Alejandro D. Rey; Morton M. Denn

Volume 6, Issue 6 (1989)

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627-639	Acetylenic and diacetylenic liquid-crystalline monomers: towards ordered conjugated polymers	Jacques Le Moigne; Armand Soldera; Daniel Guillon; Antoine Skoulios
641-655	Perturbation theory for nematic liquid crystals of axially symmetric molecules: Numerical results at high pressures including second- and fourth rank orientational order parameters	Kalyan Singh; U. P. Singh
657-666	Odd-even effect in the smectic A-cholesteric tricritical pressure of the cholesteryl n-alkanoates. High pressure studies on nine homologues	P. Pollmann; B. Wiege
667-674	Liquid-crystalline side-chain polyacrylates and polymethacrylates I. Variation of the terminal group	R. Lorenz
675-687	The reversal of the diamagnetic anisotropy in amphiphilic nematic liquid crystals using the aromatic counterions phenyl sulphonate and benzoate	K. Radley; A. S. Tracey; M. M. Tracey
689-700	An investigation by N.M.R. spectroscopy of the dependence on internal motion of the orientational ordering of ethoxybenzene and 4-fluoroethoxybenzene when dissolved in a nematic solvent	G. Celebre; M. Longeri; J. W. Emsley
701-708	Effect of molecular rotational hindrance on the spontaneous polarization in the S*_C phase of a ferroelectric liquid crystal	A. Buka; K. Siemensmeyer; H. Stegemeyer
709-716	Analysis of shear flow alignment of nematic liquid crystals at low shear stress based on catastrophe theory	G. Derfel
717-726	Optical rotatory dispersion from liquid crystalline solutions and films of hydroxypropylcellulose	Anna M. Ritcey; Derek G. Gray
727-730	Acoustic study of reorientation in a smectic C phase in a rotating magnetic field	S. V. Pasechnik; V. A. Balandin; A. S. Kashitsin

Volume 6, Issue 5 (1989)

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503-513	²⁹Si N.M.R. investigations of polysiloxanes	G. W. Gray; W. D. Hawthorne; D. Lacey; M. S. White; J. A. Semlyen
515-523	Dipole moments and dielectric properties of fluorine substituted nematic liquid crystals	D. G. McDonnell; E. P. Raynes; R. A. Smith
525-531	Mechanism for the formation of bubble domains	I. N. Gurova; O. A. Kapustina
533-543	Manifestation of chiral asymmetry of ferroelectric liquid crystals induced by optically active dipole dopants in a linear electrooptic effect	A. Z. Rabinovich; M. V. Loseva; N. I. Chernova; E. P. Pozhidaev; O. S. Petrashevich; J. S. Narkevich
545-551	The effect of phase transitions on the response times of ferroelectric liquid crystal devices	V. Brimmell; J. Constant; H. A. Pedlingham; E. P. Raynes; A. K. Samra
553-563	Theory for the band structures in liquid crystal polymers under shear	B. J. A. Zielinska; A. Ten Bosch
565-576	Layer and director structure in surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells with non-planar boundary conditions	T. P. Rieker; N. A. Clark; G. S. Smith; C. R. Safinya
577-592	Homologous series of liquid-crystalline metal free and copper octa-n-alkoxyphthalocyanines	J. F. Van Der Pol; E. Neeleman; J. W. Zwikker; R. J. M. Nolte; W. Drenth; J. Aerts; R. Visser; S. J. Picken
593-596	Reduction of threshold of acousto-optic effect in a nematic crystal subject to combined actions	D. I. Anikeev; Yu. V. Bocharov; A. D. Vuzhva
597-608	Solution behaviour in alcohols and phase transitions of cadmium(II), mercury(II) and lead(II) carboxylates	M. S. Akanni; N. A. Abass
609-618	Monte Carlo simulation of disordered one dimensional systems with long range antiferromagnetic interactions	S. Romano
619-625	A liquid-crystalline cyclam derivative	Günter Lattermann

Volume 6, Issue 4 (1989)

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387-390	Trimeric liquid crystals containing lateral alkyl chains	G. S. Attard; C. T. Imrie
391-396	Laterally substituted dimeric liquid crystals	C. T. Imrie
397-407	Synthesis and liquid-crystalline properties of compounds incorporating the 2,6,7-trioxa-bicyclo(2.2.2)octane	R. Paschke; H. Zaschke; A. Hauser; D. Demus
409-416	Flexible polymers in solution in the isotropic phase of a nematogenic liquid crystal. Viscosity and Kerr effect	Y. Dormoy; V. Reys; P. Martinoty
417-433	Bifurcation and domain walls in thin films of liquid crystals	P. Schiller; G. Pelzl; D. Demus
435-447	A thermodynamic and N.M.R. study of the ribbon lyotropic mesophases. An investigation of the potassium palmitate/potassium laurate/water system	A. Raudino; D. Grasso; C. La Rosa; G. Dipasquale; G. Chidichimo; A. Checchetti
449-455	Field quenching of director fluctuations in thin films of nematic liquid crystals	D. A. Dunmur; K. Szumilin
457-466	Monte Carlo simulation of a two dimensional anisotropic plane rotator model	S. Romano
467-480	The preparation and liquid crystal properties of materials incorporating a mono-substituted ring system	N. Carrt; G. W. Gray
481-488	Location of the discotic lamellar-nematic tricritical point and isotope effects in the caesium pentadecafluorooctanoate (CsPFO)/water system as established by ¹³³ Cs N.M.R. spectroscopy	N. Boden; K. W. Jolley; M. H. Smith
489-496	Solid state N.M.R. relaxation study of liquid crystal polymers employing a two dimensional technique	A. Schleicher; K. Müller; G. Kothe
497-500	Complete phase diagrams of mixtures of a nematic liquid crystal with n-alkanes	H. Orendi; M. Ballauff
501-502	Darstellung von 4-Alkyloxybenzaldehyddimethylacetalen durch anodische Methoxylierung von 4-Alkyloxytoluenen	Von H. Matschiner; U. Fechtel; R. Trutschel; H. Altmann

Volume 6, Issue 3 (1989)

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263-270	First carbohydrate liquid crystals of columnar structure	Klaus Praefcke; Anne-Marie Levelut; Bernd Kohne; Andreas Eckert
271-280	Shear-stress measurement in aerodynamic testing using cholesteric liquid crystals	P. Bonnett; T. V. Jones; D. G. McDonnell
281-292	Monolayer behaviour of a nematogenic phenyl benzoate at the air-water interface	K. S. Krishnamurthy; S. S. Katti
293-302	Analysis of threshold field effects in smectic C phases	G. Derfel
303-317	Solute alignment in liquid crystal solvents The Saupe ordering matrix for perylene and pyrene	G. N. Shilstone; C. Zannoni; C. A. Veracini
319-323	Nuclear electric hexadecapole coupling in the caesium cation	A. S. Tracey; K. Radley
325-332	The effect of biasing electric field on the soft mode in the vicinity of the ferroelectric phase transition in liquid crystals	M. Glogarová; J. Pavel
333-339	Dielectric relaxation in a mixture of a side chain liquid-crystalline polymer and a low molecular liquid crystal	H. Kresse; S. G. Kostromin; V. P. Shibaev
341-347	Electro-optic pulse response of ferroelectric liquid crystals	F. C. Saunders; J. R. Hughes; H. A. Pedlingham; M. J. Towler
349-356	Studies on liquid-crystalline glycosides	Volkmar Vill; Thomas Böcker; Joachim Thiem; Fred Fischer
357-371	A molecular dynamics study of the nematic phase of 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl	S. J. Picken; W. F. Van Gunsteren; P. Th. Van Duijnen; W. H. De Jeu
373-381	Optical transmission of chevron-type ferroelectric liquid crystal displays	Alexis De Vos
383-386	Analytical theory for field induced periodic equilibrium structures in nematic and cholesteric films	P. Schiller

Volume 6, Issue 2 (1989)

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137-150	Side chain liquid crystal polysiloxanes and their low T_g copolymer analogues	G. Nestor; G. W. Gray; D. Lacey; K. J. Toyne
151-166	Optical microscopy and deuterium N.M.R. of non-ionic amphiphiles which exhibit thermotropic and aqueous lyotropic mesophases	H. Zimmermann; R. Poupko; Z. Luz; J. Billard
167-174	New fluorine-containing ferroelectric liquid crystal compounds showing tristable switching	Y. Suzuki; T. Hagiwara; I. Kawamura; N. Okamura; T. Kitazume; M. Kakimoto; Y. Imai; Y. Ouchi; H. Takezoe; A. Fukuda
175-183	Phase behaviour of some α,ω-dicarboxylic acids containing a mesogenic core	R. Centore; A. Roviello; A. Sirigu
185-197	Induced smectic A₁, A₂ and Ã phases at low temperatures. Molecule parameters related to phase diagrams and structure	J. M. Auguste; G. Sigaud
199-210	Searching for asymmetric inductions in chiral smectic mesophases	L. Finzi; G. Maccagnani; S. Masiero; B. Samorí; P. Zani
211-218	Solution of a molecular statistical model for chiral nematic liquid crystals	B. C. H. Krutzen; G. Vertogen
219-230	Experimental and theoretical study of the influence of a bias electric field on the dielectric properties of the chiral smectic A* phase	F. Gouda; G. Andersson; S. T. Lagerwall; K. Skarp; B. Stebler; T. Carlsson; B. Žekš; C. Filipič; A. Levstik
231-237	Scalar coupling and frequency shift in liquid crystal solvents spinning at the magic angle	J. P. Bayle; E. Lafontaine; J. Courtieu
239-246	An X-ray diffraction study of a mixture of azo dyes with 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyano-p-terphenyl	Danuta Bauman; Zhong-Xiao Fan; Wolfgang Haase
247-261	FTIR of liquid crystals. Organization and phase transitions in binary mixtures of nonylcyanobiphenyl and phenyl-cyclohexanecarboxylate	C. David; D. Baeyens-volant

Volume 6, Issue 1 (1989)

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1-10	The preparation and properties of low molar mass liquid crystals possessing lateral alkyl chains	C. T. Imrie; L. Taylor
11-16	Optical symmetry in liquid crystal displays	Frank Cuypers; Alexis De Vos
17-29	E.S.R. investigation of helix inversion in induced cholesteric phases	Burkhard Kirste; Günther Scherowsky
31-38	X-ray diffraction studies on cis- and trans-4′-cyanobiphenyl-4-yl 3-n-propylcyclobutane-1-carboxylate	J. M. Allman; R. M. Richardson; L. K. M. Chan; G. W. Gray; D. Lacey
39-45	Computer simulation of a real liquid crystal	A. V. Komolkin; Yu. V. Molchanov; P. P. Yakutseni
47-62	Sulphur ligated siamese twin mesogens	H. Dehne; A. Roger; D. Demus; S. Diele; H. Kresse; G. Pelzl; W. Wedler; W. Weissflog
63-74	Can <P₄> be obtained from fluorescence depolarization in nematics? Disc-like probes	A. Arcioni; R. Tarroni; C. Zannoni
75-81	Ion binding of the organic counterion methyl phosphonate in amphiphilic micellar nematic liquid crystals	K. Radley; A. S. Tracey
83-92	Photophysical properties of discogenic triaryl pyrylium salts Excimer migration in columnar liquid crystals	D. Markovitsi; I. Lécuyer; B. Clergeot; C. Jallabert; H. Strzelecka; M. Veber
93-110	Phase behaviour of poly-(λ-benzyl-L-glutamate) in benzyl alcohol	Alyson Hill; Athene M. Donald
111-131	Polydispersity in liquid crystal systems	T. J. Sluckin
133-136	Piezoelectric effect in smectic C* and smectic F*	B. Bonev; V. G. K. M. Pisipati; A. G. Petrov

Volume 5, Issue 6 (1989)

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1647-1658	Invited Lecture. Hats and saddles in lipid membranes	W. Helfrich
1659-1668	Lyotropic stress in lipid-water model systems. Structural changes induced by freezing of the solvent	G. Förster; G. Brezesinski
1669-1675	A new soap/detergent/water lyotropic liquid crystal with a biaxial nematic phase	E. A. Oliveira; L. Liebert; A. M. Figueiredo Neto
1677-1690	A mono- and bilayer study of homologous branched-chain lecithins	G. Brezesinski; W. Rettig; S. Grunewald; F. Kuschel; L. I. Horváth
1691-1695	Two-state and continuous phase transitions in lipid bilayers A time-resolved X-ray diffraction study	Boris G. Tenchov; Peter J. Quinn
1697-1709	Phase behaviour of amphiphilic side-chain polymers	N. Pietschmann; G. Brezesinski; C. Tschierske; H. Zaschke; F. Kuschel
1711-1718	Mesophase formation and intrinsic viscosity for some low-molecular-weight cellulose acetate samples	M. H. Godinho; M. J. Seurin; P. Maïssa; P. Sixou
1719-1727	Liquid-crystalline comb copolymers with lipoamino acid side chains Synthesis and structure study	Bernard Gallot; Brigitte Marchin
1729-1735	Synthesis and liquid-crystalline behaviour of liposaccharide based comb polymers	Bernard Gallot; Brigitte Marchin
1737-1745	Polymerization of head and tail methacrylate micelle-forming surfactants and thermotropic liquid-crystalline character of these monomers and their polymers	John Michas; C. M. Paleos; Photis Dais
1747-1755	Mesomorphic-like character of long-chain amine salts formed by template neutralization on polyacids	C. M. Paleos; D. Tsiourvas; Photos Dais
1757-1772	Self-organization of substituted azacrowns based on their discoid and amphiphilic nature	C. Mertesdorf; H. Ringsdorf
1775-1782	New dimeric liquid crystals with chiral flexible spacers	J. Barberá; A. Omenat; J. L. Serrano; T. Sierra
1783-1788	The structural basis of transitions between highly ordered smectic phases in semifluorinated alkanes	C. Viney; R. J. Twieg; T. P. Russell; L. E. Depero
1789-1812	Influence of flexoelectricity on electrohydrodynamic instabilities in nematics	N. V. Madhusudana; V. A. Raghunathan
1813-1826	Dynamics of viscous fingers in Hele-Shaw cells of liquid crystals Theory and experiment	L. Lam; H. C. Morris; R. F. Shao; S. L. Yang; Z. C. Liang; S. Zheng; H. Liu

Volume 5, Issue 6 (1989)

1827-1840	An experimental investigation of electromechanical coupling in cholesteric liquid crystals	N. V. Madhusudana; R. Pratibha
1841-1847	Structural variations of liquid crystalline polymers with phasmidic-type mesogens	C. Lin; H. Ringsdorf; M. Ebert; R. Kleppinger; J. H. Wendorff
1849-1860	Molecular dynamics in liquid-crystalline side chain polymers studied by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy: A comparative study	F. J. Bormuth; W. Haase
1861-1873	Mixtures of liquid-crystalline polymers	P. Maïssa; P. Sixou
1875-1881	An isotopic effect in the dielectric spectra of Ark. 9/water systems	S. Wróbel; B. Gestblom; E. Noreland; J. W. Doane
1883-1898	New lyotropic nematics of double chain surfactants	G. Hertel; H. Hoffmann

Volume 5, Issue 5 (1989)

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1325-1343	Plenary Lecture. New challenges for dot-matrix liquid-crystal displays	J. Duchene; J. F. Clerc
1345-1364	Invited Lecture. Matrix liquid-crystal display device technologies	S. Matsumoto; H. Hatoh; A. Murayama
1365-1372	Large liquid-crystalline displays addressed by vitreous varistor switches	A. G. Fischer; Dj. Tizabi; D. Staib-Tizabi; Z. Tian; D. Zhang
1373-1379	Computer modelling of the director configuration in a supertwist nematic liquid crystal cell	Harish K. Singh; S. C. Jain; S. Chandra
1381-1388	Liquid crystals for active matrix displays	G. Weber; U. Finkenzeller; T. Geelhaar; H. J. Plach; B. Rieger; L. Pohl
1389-1396	Photoaddressed liquid crystal devices	D. Armitage; J. I. Thackara; W. D. Eades
1397-1404	A push/pull surface-mode liquid-crystal shutter: Technology and applications	J. L. Fergason; A. L. Berman
1405-1413	Effect of molecular structure of a dichroic dye and the ordering of a liquid crystal on the dichroism of the dye-liquid crystal binary mixtures	W. S. Park; T. Uchida
1415-1424	Potential infrared liquid crystals	Shin-Tson Wu; Robert J. Cox
1425-1433	A liquid crystal microlens obtained with a non-uniform electric field	Toshiaki Nose; Susumu Sato
1435-1442	Relationship between lens properties and director orientation in a liquid crystal lens	S. Sato; T. Nose; R. Yamaguchi; S. Yanase
1443-1452	Electrooptic properties of polymer dispersed liquid crystals	G. Chidichimo; G. Arabia; A. Golemme; J. W. Doane
1453-1465	Response times and voltages for PDLC light shutters	Bao-Gang Wu; John H. Erdmann; J. William Doane
1467-1475	Droplet shape and reorientation fields in nematic droplet/polymer films	Paul S. Drzaic; Arthur Muller
1477-1487	Effects of off-state alignment in polymer dispersed liquid crystals	J. D. Margerum; A. M. Lackner; E. Ramos; K-C. Lim; W. H. Smith Jr.
1489-1495	Proton N.M.R. lineshape in nematic microdroplets	S. Kralj; M. Vilfan; S. ŽKumer
1497-1516	Fast switching films of nematic side chain copolymers	R. Kiefer; G. Baur
1517-1521	Eine neue Anwendung flüssiger Kristalle in der Tribologie	Von R. Eidenschink

Volume 5, Issue 5 (1989)

1525-1547	Invited Lecture. Molecular order and motion in nematogens from pulsed dynamic N.M.R. A comparative study of model compounds and parent liquid-crystal polymers	K. Kohlhammer; K. Müller; G. Kothe
1549-1557	Influence of spacer length on dielectric properties of polymeric liquid crystals	F. J. Bormuth; A. M. Biradar; U. Quotschalla; W. Haase
1559-1565	Static and dynamic properties of smectic liquid crystal side chain polymers	Jens Rieger
1567-1581	Synthesis and characterization of liquid-crystalline side group polymers with benzylideneaniline as mesogenic moiety	F. Giesselmann; P. Zugenmaier
1583-1591	Investigations on the texture and structure of crystalline and liquid-crystalline phases of a side group polyacrylate with a biphenyl mesogenic moiety	K. Hans; P. Zugenmaier
1593-1602	Liquid-crystalline polyesters containing alternating alkylene and oxyalkylene spacers	E. Chiellini; G. Galli; A. S. Angeloni; D. Caretti; M. Laus
1603-1618	Parent homopolymers of liquid crystalline polyesters	Patrick D. Coulter; Simon Hanna; Alan H. Windle
1619-1627	Synthesis and characterization of graft copolymers containing polystyrene and liquid-crystalline segments	A. Gottschalk; H-W. Schmidt
1629-1634	Liquid-crystalline main chain polyesters derived from p-phenylenediacrylic acid	J. Barbera; E. Melendez; F. Navarro; M. Piñol; J. L. Rodriguez; J. L. Serrano
1635-1643	Phase transitions and rheology of aramid solutions	S. J. Picken

Volume 5, Issue 4 (1989)

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1055-1073	Invited Lecture. Complexities in the structure of ferroelectric liquid crystal cells The chevron structure and twisted states	Atsuo Fukuda; Yukio Ouchi; Hidehiko Arai; Hideo Takano; Ken Ishikawa; Hideo Takezoe
1075-1082	Microscopic model of the spontaneous polarization in ferroelectric liquid crystals	Brigita Urbanc; Boštjan Žekš
1083-1097	Order electricity reconsidered	W. J. A. Goossens
1099-1105	Bistable and monostable polarized states of a liquid-crystalline ferroelectric in an electric field	A. I. Allagulov; S. A. Pikin; V. G. Chigrinov
1107-1113	The effect of the polarization electric field on helix-unwinding in a planar chiral smectic C liquid-crystal cell	Tadashi Akahane; Nobuyuki Itoh; Masahiro Nakagawa
1115-1119	Selective reflection in ferroelectric liquid crystals distorted by an electric field	Masahiro Kawaida; Masahiro Nakagawa; Tadashi Akahane
1121-1126	Electromechanical effect in surface stabilized and unwound S_C* liquid crystals	A. Jákli; N. Éber; L. Bata
1127-1137	Director orientation of a ferroelectric liquid crystal on substrates with rubbing treatment: The effect of surface anchoring strength	T. Uchida; M. Hirano; H. Sakai
1139-1147	Odd-even effects in the alignment of ferroelectric liquid crystals	Bernt O. Myrvold
1149-1157	Surface effects on the polarization reversal of the ferroelectric liquid crystal 8SI*	Minoru Tohnoe; Shoichi Kai; Masahide Imasaki
1159-1169	Orientational ordering of a ferroelectric liquid crystal with high spontaneous polarization	C-D. Poon; B. M. Fung
1171-1177	Deformed helix ferroelectric liquid crystal display: A new electrooptic mode in ferroelectric chiral smectic C liquid crystals	L. A. Beresnev; V. G. Chigrinov; D. I. Dergachev; E. P. Poshidaev; J. Fünfschilling; M. Schadt
1179-1186	Ferroelectric smectic C liquid crystal mixtures: Relationship between molecular structure, ferroelectricity and electro-optic response	F. Leenhouts; J. Fuenfschilling; R. Buchecker; S. M. Kelly
1187-1193	Tilt angles and spontaneous polarization in induced S*_c phases	K. Siemensmeyer; H. Stegemeyer
1195-1202	The effect of pretransitional phenomena on the characteristics of induced ferroelectric liquid-crystalline systems	G. S. Chilaya; Z. M. Elashvili; M. A. Gogadze; S. P. Tavzarashvili; K. D. Vinokur; S. A. Pikin
1203-1211	Magnitude and direction of the spontaneous polarization of ferroelectric liquid crystals with several bond moments
1213-1218	Anomalous temperature dependence of the dielectric and optical properties in ferroelectric liquid crystals	K. Yoshino; K. Nakao; M. Ozaki; R. Higuchi; N. Mikami; T. Sakurai
1219-1226	The characteristic dielectric behaviour in ferroelectric liquid crystals at a phase transition and the contribution of the soft mode	M. Ozaki; K. Nakao; T. Hatai; K. Yoshino

Volume 5, Issue 4 (1989)

1227-1232	Dielectric studies of a ferroelectric liquid crystal	A. M. Biradarf; S. Wróbel; W. Haase
1233-1242	A proton spin relaxation study of ferroelectric liquid crystals	H. Bender; F. Noack; M. Vilfan; R. Blinc
1243-1252	Dye guest-host effects in ferroelectric liquid crystals	H. J. Coles; H. F. Gleeson; J. S. Kang
1253-1258	Ferroelectric liquid crystals and dopants containing the chiral thiirane unit. A comparison with analogous oxiranes	G. Scherowsky; J. Gay
1259-1267	Properties of new ferroelectric materials	A. M. Lackner; S. M. Wong; K-C. Lim; J. D. Margerum; M. E. Neubert
1269-1279	New chiral dopants for ferroelectric liquid crystals	T. Geelhaar; H-A. Kurmeier; A. E. F. Wächtler
1281-1295	Fast switching ferroelectric liquid-crystalline polymers	G. Scherowsky; A. Schliwa; J. Springer; K. Kühnpast; W. Trapp
1297-1306	Liquid-crystalline side chain polymers containing a chiral spacer unit exhibiting chiral smectic phases	G. Scherowsky; U. Müller; J. Springer; W. Trapp; A. M. Levelut; P. Davidson
1309-1318	Optical phase grating diffraction in a quasistatic electric field biased nematic liquid crystal film	C-L. Kuo; Shu-Hsia Chen; Ming-Chih Lee
1319-1322	Non-linear optics in liquid-crystalline phases A 4 × 4 matrix formalism	Claudio Puebla

Volume 5, Issue 3 (1989)

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751-775	Plenary Lecture. The blue phases. A review of experiments	P. P. Crooker
777-789	Invited Lecture. Hexagonal cholesteric blue phases	R. M. Hornreich; S. Shtrikman
791-798	The influence of chirality and dielectric anisotropy on the voltage-temperature phase diagram of blue-phase systems	F. Porsch; H. Stegemeyer
799-812	Kossel diagrams of blue phases	B. Jéròme; P. Pieranski
813-828	Observation of a hexagonal blue phase in systems with negative dielectric anisotropy	G. Heppke; B. Jéròme; H-S. Kitzerow; P. Pieranski
829-838	Shapes of blue phase crystals grown in electric fields	P. Pieranski; P. E. Cladis; R. Barbet-Massin
839-846	Many-wave optics of blue phases	V. A. Belyakov; V. E. Dmitrienko
847-851	Electro-optic effects in blue phases	V. E. Dmitrienko
853-859	Optical activity in the isotropic and blue phases of two cholesterics	F. Vanweert; W. Demol; W. Van Dael
861-869	Optical activity measurements at long wavelengths in the blue phases of highly chiral liquid crystals	Jonathan Ennis; Joe E. Wyse; Peter J. Collings
871-875	Calorimetric investigation of phase transitions in cholesteryl oleate	G. Voets; H. Martin; W. Van Dael
877-888	Invited Lecture. Helical twisting in cholesteric mesophases: Molecular structure and microscopic description	L. N. Lisetski; A. V. Tolmachev
889-898	Phase diagrams of cholesteric liquid crystals obtained with a generalized Landau-de Gennes theory	L. Longa; D. Monselesan; H-R. Trebin
899-906	Scattering of circularly polarized light from the isotropic to the cholesteric phase of cholesteryl oleyl carbonate	H. Zink; W. Van Dael
907-916	Inverse angle dependence of the reflection colours of cholesteric polymeric liquid crystals mixed with pigments	H-J. Eberle; A. Miller; F-H. Kreuzer
917-926	Dynamic properties of blue-phase mixtures	H. F. Gleeson; H. J. Coles
929-940	Invited Lecture. Columnar ordering as an excluded-volume effect	D. Frenkel
941-952	Orientational ordering in nematic liquid crystals 1CB-d₁₁ dissolved in 5CB-d₆	A. L. Bailey; G. S. Bates; E. E. Burnell; G. L. Hoatson

Volume 5, Issue 3 (1989)

953-967	Dependence of solute orientational order on the structure and orientational order of the liquid crystal solvent. A deuterium N.M.R. study of p-xylene-d₁₀ dissolved in a series of 4-n-alkyloxy-4′-cyanobiphenyls	J. W. Emsley; G. R. Luckhurst; H. S. Sachdev
969-986	Order parameters from U.V. spectra with incompletely polarized absorption bands	H-G. Kuball; R. Memmer; A. Strauss; M. Junge; G. Scherowsky; A. Schönhofer
987-999	Molecular mechanics modelling of structure/property relationships in liquid crystals	M. R. Wilson; D. A. Dunmur
1001-1009	Transverse dipole association and negative dielectric anisotropy of nematic liquid crystals	K. Toriyama; D. A. Dunmur; S. E. Hunt
1011-1018	Molecular orientational motion in discotic liquid crystals	G. M. Richards; Ronald Y. Dong
1019-1031	Orientational order and dynamics of molecules in the nematic phase 4-trans-(4-trans-n-propylcyclohexyl)cyclohexanenitrile	R. Y. Dong; J. W. Emsley; K. Hamilton
1033-1044	A carbon-13 study of relaxation in the mesophases of 5O·7 and the 5CB homologous series	John S. Lewis; E. Tomchuk; E. Bock
1045-1051	Neutron scattering by liquid crystals. A new analysis	J. A. Janik; J. M. Janik; K. Otnes; T. Stanek

Volume 5, Issue 2 (1989)

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421-442	Plenary Lecture. Phase transitions and critical phenomena in polar smectic A liquid crystals	R. Shashidhar; B. R. Ratna
443-461	Invited Lecture. Order-parameter theories of phase diagrams for antiferroelectric smectic-A phases	Lech Longa
463-478	Invited Lecture. Smectic A polymorphism from low to high molar mass systems	F. Hardouin; G. Sigaud; P. Keller; H. Richard; Nguyen Huu Tinh; M. Mauzac; M. F. Achard
479-488	A study of the nematic-smectic A-smectic C point in a binary liquid-crystalline mixture by adiabatic scanning calorimetry	J. Thoen; R. Parret
489-493	A smectic C*-smectic A tricritical point in a mixture of two compounds exhibiting high spontaneous polarization	G. Heppke; D. Lötzsch; R. Shashidhar
495-504	Small-angle X-ray scattering from binary liquid-crystalline mixtures of polar and non-polar compounds	H. W. Neuling; H. Stegemeyer
505-511	A nematic phase created in mixtures of polar smectics The effect of smectic layer properties	K. Czupryński; R. Dabrowski; B. Sosnowska; J. Baran
513-524	X-ray study of the nematic and smectic A phases of the cyano-substituted pyridines	B. I. Ostrovskii; A. I. Pavluchenko; V. F. Petrov; M. A. Saidachmetov
525-537	X-ray investigation of the nematic and reentrant nematic phases of N-[(4-n-octyloxybenzoyloxy)-salicilidene]-4′-cyanoaniline	B. I. Ostrovskii; B. M. Bolotin; M. A. Saidachmetov
539-544	A phase transition study for two homologues of the terephthalylidene bis-4-n-alkylanilines	N. V. S. Rao; V. G. K. M. Pisipati; J. S. R. Murthy; P. Bhaskara Rao; P. R. Alapati
545-551	Phase-transition studies of 5O.5 and 9O.4	P. R. Alapati; D. M. Potukutchi; P. Bhaskara Rao; N. V. S. Rao; V. G. K. M. Pisipati; A. S. Paranjpe
553-562	The helical structure of highly ordered smectic phases	Wojciech Kuczynski; Horst Stegemeyer
563-569	X-ray investigation of bowl-like compounds	Xin-Jin Wang; Kun Tao; Jing-An Zhao; Liang-Yu Wang
571-577	X-ray scattering by the phases of 4-methoxybenzylidene-4′-n-butylaniline quenched under a magnetic field	G. Pepy; R. Fouret; M. More; L. Rosta
579-584	Analysis of phase transitions by photothermal probe beam deflection	A. Hadj-sahraoui; G. Louis; B. Mangeot; P. Peretti; J. Billard
585-593	The nematic-isotropic two phase region in mixtures of quasi-spherical solutes in alkylcyanobiphenyls: An E.S.R. study using tempone as probe	G. A. Oweimreen; J. S. Hwang
595-600	Spectroscopic and thermodynamic studies of binary mixtures composed of nematogenic and non-nematogenic components	K. Kato; S. Kobinata; S. Maeda
601-615	Equal G analysis of ternary liquid-crystalline systems	Grant E. Nebel; Gerald R. s. Van Hecke

Volume 5, Issue 2 (1989)

617-622	Integrity basis approach to the elastic free energy functional of liquid crystals	L. Longa; H. -R. Trebin
623-631	Effects of a transverse electric field in nematics: Induced biaxiality and the bend Fréedericksz transition	B. J. Frisken; P. Palffy-muhoray
635-643	Invited Lecture. Studies of liquid crystal monolayers and films by optical second harmonic generation	Y. R. Shen
645-661	Invited Lecture. Experimental studies of the anchoring energy of nematic liquid crystals	L. M. Blinov; A. Yu. Kabayenkov; A. A. Sonin
663-671	Determination of the surface anchoring potential of a nematic in contact with a substrate	J. T. Gleeson; P. Palffy-muhoray
673-681	Polar anchoring energy and order parameter at a nematic liquid crystal-wall interface	G. Haas; M. Fritsch; H. Wöhler; D. A. Mlynski
683-691	Statics and dynamics of wetting: Its contribution to the anchoring of nematics	B. Jérôme; P. Pieranski
693-696	Second order elasticity in nematics: A new anchoring source	G. Barbero; A. Strigazzi
699-715	Invited Lecture. New results on the electrohydrodynamic instability in nematics	L. Kramer; E. Bodenschatz; W. Pesch; W. Thom; W. Zimmermann
717-724	Propagative patterns in the convection of a nematic liquid crystal	A. Joets; R. Ribotta
725-734	Shear-flow instabilities in non-flow-aligning nematic liquid crystals	I. Zúñiga; F. M. Leslie
735-738	Theory of an electric field induced periodic phase in a nematic film	David W. Allender; B. J. Frisken; P. Palffy-muhoray
739-747	Magnetic field-induced instabilities in cholesteric liquid crystals: Periodic deformations of the Grandjean texture	E. Niggemann; H. Stegemeyer

Volume 5, Issue 1 (1989)

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1	Preface	H. Stegemeyer; F. Schneider
5-6	Centenary of the discovery of liquid crystals	H. Stegemeyer
7-18	Contributions to the knowledge of cholesterol	Friedrich Reinitzer
19-42	Plenary Lecture. Some pictures of the history of liquid crystals	Hans Kelker; Peter M. Knoll
43-55	Plenary Lecture. Smectic liquid crystals. A historical review	H. Sackmann
57-71	Plenary Lecture. The history of the liquid crystal display and liquid crystal material technology	Martin Schadt
75-110	Plenary Lecture. One hundred years of liquid-crystal chemistry: Thermotropic liquid crystals with conventional and unconventional molecular structure	D. Demus
111-122	From laterally branched mesogens to novel twin molecules	W. Weissflog; D. Demus; S. Diele; P. Nitschke; W. Wedler
123-131	Mesogens containing the DOBOB group	Jacques Malthete; Andre Collet; Anne-Marie Levelut
133-140	Reentrant phenomena in cyano substituted biphenyl esters containing flexible spacers	S. L. Arora; P. Palffy-Muhoray; R. A. Vora; D. J. David; A. M. Dasgupta
141-151	New bifluorinated liquid-crystal compounds with broad mesomorphic ranges	C. Vauchier; F. Vinet; N. Maiser
153-158	Laterally fluorinated phenyl biphenylcarboxylates; versatile components for ferroelectric smectic C mixtures	M. Chambers; R. Clemitson; D. Coates; S. Greenfield; J. A. Jenner; I. C. Sage
159-170	New liquid-crystalline compounds with negative dielectric anisotropy	V. Reiffenrath; J. Krause; H. J. Plach; G. Weber
171-175	Smectic liquid crystals. VIII. Some new laterally substituted smectic C compounds	S. M. Kelly
177-190	New liquid-crystalline heteroalicyclic compounds	C. Tschierske; D. Joachimi; H-M. Vorbrodt; H. Zaschke; A. Wiegeleben; A. Hauser; D. Demus
191-195	The mesomorphic properties of 2,7-disubstituted 1,3-dioxaperhydrophenanthrenes	Carsten Tschierske; Horst Zaschke
197-207	Influence of molecular structure on the liquid-crystalline properties of 1,5-dihetero-spiro[5.5]undecane- and -dispiro[5.2.5.2]hexadecane derivatives	R. Frach; C. Tschierske; H. Zaschke; H-J. Deutscher
209-216	New liquid-crystalline isothiocyanates with high clearing points, low viscosities and strong nematic character	R. D�browski; J. Dziaduszek; T. Szczuciński; Z. Stolarzowa; K. Czupryński

Volume 5, Issue 1 (1989)

217-223	Synthesis and thermal properties of diurethanes containing various mesogenic units	L. Willner; F. Braun; M. Hess; R. Kosfeld
225-232	Liquid crystals of some new tolane derivatives containing a 1,2-ethylene linkage	Y. Goto; K. Kitano; T. Ogawa
233-249	Synthesen und ungewöhnliche Mesophasensequenzen von Kohlenwasserstoffen eines neuartigen Typs nicht-calamitischer Flüssigkristalle	Von Klaus Praefcke; Bernd Kohne; Karin Gutbier; Norbert Johnen; Dirk Singer
251-263	Properties of liquid-crystalline copper(II) complexes and their binary mixtures	B. Mühlberger; W. Haase
265-283	Synthesis and mesogenic properties of several homologous series of aldose dialkyl dithioacetals. A model for their behaviour	A. Henk; Van Doren; Ralph Van Der Geest; Cor A. Keuning; Richard M. Kellogg; Hans Wynberg
285-290	X-ray diffraction studies of mesomorphic ferrocene diesters	Massod A. Khan; J. C. Bhatt; B. M. Fung; Kenneth M. Nicholas; Ellen Wachtel
293-312	Invited Lecture. Material properties, structural relations with molecular ensembles and electro-optical performance of new bicyclohexane liquid crystals in field-effect liquid crystal displays	Martin Schadt; Richard Buchecker; Klaus Müller
313-321	Liquid-crystalline reference compounds	U. Finkenzeller; T. Geelhaar; G. Weber; L. Pohl
323-326	The elastic constants of nematics	E. Govers; G. Vertogen
327-339	Phase transition and elastic constants of 4-n-octyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl (8CB) obtained using the light-scattering anisotropy of turbidity	H. Hakemi
341-347	Determination of Ki (i = 1–3) and μj (j = 2–6) in 5CB by observing the angular dependence of Rayleigh line spectral widths	Guo-Ping Chen; Hideo Takezoe; Atsuo Fukuda
349-357	Viscosity of nematic mixtures: A free-volume approach	A. M. Velho; A. C. Diogo
359-365	The concept of rotational viscosities of smectic C and chiral smectic C* liquid crystals	Tomas Carlsson; Boštjan Žekš
367-376	Invited Lecture. Fluctuation absorption of sound in smectics	E. B. Gurovich; E. I. Kats; V. V. Lebedev
377-387	N.M.R. study of collective molecular motions in smectogen liquid crystals	D. Pusiol; F. Noack
389-397	Diffusion measurements in chiral liquid crystals	R. Stannarius; H. Schmiedel
399-417	Invited Lecture. Defects in small-molecule and polymeric nematics	M. Kléman

Volume 4, Issue 6 (1989)

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591-618	Specifically deuteriated intermediates for the synthesis of liquid crystals and liquid-crystalline polymers	Herbert Zimmermann
619-624	Simultaneous photoacoustic measurements of specific heat and thermal conductivity critical behaviour at a smectic A–nematic phase transition	U. Zammit; M. Marinelli; R. Pizzoferrato; F. Scudieri; S. Martellucci
625-635	N.M.R. investigations and the molecular field theory of nematic mixtures	S. Grande; A. Kühnel; F. Seifert
637-641	Polyimide aligned ferroelectric smectic C liquid crystals	Bernt O. Myrvold
643-652	High pressure study on induced S_A phases in binary liquid crystal mixtures	G. Illian; H. Kneppe; F. Schneider
653-659	Phase transitions of 6-(4-n-alkoxybenzoyloxy)-flavones and 3-cyano-7-(4-n-alkoxybenzoyloxy)-coumarins	Tadashiro Hirose; Kazuhide Tsuya; Tatsuya Nishigaki; Eiichi Idaka; Shinichi Yano
661-668	New fluorescent mesogens with a chalcone central linkage	N. K. Chudgar; S. N. Shah
669-675	The effect of rubbed polymer films on the liquid crystal alignment	Shoichi Ishihara; Hirofumi Wakemoto; Keizo Nakazima; Yoshihiro Matsuo
677-684	Effect of molecular structure on mesomorphism XXI. Monodisperse tetrameric model compounds for liquid crystalline polymers	A. C. Griffin; S. L. Sullivan; W. E. Hughes
685-692	Light on dark laser addressed smectic liquid crystal projection displays	R. Daley; A. J. Hughes; D. G. McDonnell
693-696	Inelastic light scattering from the liquid crystal and solid phases of MBBA	V. K. Dolganov; L. Csillag; N. Kroó; L. Rosta
697-706	Formation of micellar nematic phases from surfactants and aqueous orthophosphoric acid	Mahmut Acimiş
707-710	Description of a nematic liquid crystal based on the phthalocyanine subunit	D. Lelievre; M. A. Petit; J. Simon

Volume 4, Issue 5 (1989)

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467-476	Cholesteric polymers in electric fields	V. P. Shibaev; R. V. Tal'roze; I. A. Korobeinikova; N. A. Plate
477-481	Critical point in a random side-chain nematic copolymer: Mean-field theory	Deng-Ke Yang; Chester A. Vause
483-495	Monte Carlo simulation of a one dimensional classical Heisenberg model with long range interactions	S. Romano
497-504	One dimensional stationary states with constant electrical induction in ferroelectric liquid crystals	H. Pauwels; G. de Mey; C. Reynaerts; F. Cuypers
505-512	Study of internal ring rotation and molecular reorientation in the liquid crystal 5O.7 by deuterium N.M.R. spectroscopy	Ronald Y. Dong
513-527	Photochromic liquid-crystalline polymers. Main chain and side chain polymers containing azobenzene mesogens	A. S. Angeloni; D. Caretti; C. Carlini; E. Chiellini; G. Galli; A. Altomare; R. Solaro; M. Laus
529-542	Submillimetre wave spectroscopy of 4-n-alkyl-4′-cyano biphenyl liquid crystals	U. M. S. Murthy; J. K. Vij
543-548	Electroclinic effect near a smectic A–chiral smectic I transition	J. Etxebarria; A. Remón; M. J. Tello; J. L. Serrano
549-554	An extension of the McMillan theory to a bilayer smectic A phase with long range antiferroelectric order	L. V. Mirantsev
555-560	Lyotropic liquid-crystalline phase composed of aliphatic amino stearates and water	Z. R. Szczepanik; A. Zbierzchowska
561-571	X-ray diffraction study of the smectic A phases of some side-chain polysiloxanes	P. Davidson; A. M. Levelut; M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin
573-579	Optical rotation at the free surface of a nematic liquid crystal	E. F. Carr
581-589	Calorimetric study of the incommensurate smectic-A phase in DB₇OCN 8OCB	P. Das; K. Ema; C. W. Garland; R. Shashidhar

Volume 4, Issue 4 (1989)

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347-355	Hydroxy group containing liquid crystals. I. Synthesis and characterization of cis, cis-(3,5-dihydroxycyclohexyl)-3,4,5-tris(decyloxy)benzoate and derivatives	Günter Lattermann; Günter Staufer
357-366	X-ray diffraction study of a polybutadiene, side chain, mesomorphic polymer	J. M. Gilli; F. Faubert; P. Sixou; M. Laügt
367-384	Evidence for random parallel and anti-parallel packing between neighbouring cholesteryl 4-(2-anthryloxy)butyrate (CAB) molecules in the cholesteric liquid-crystalline phase. Identification of the four photodimers from CAB	Yih-Chyuan Lin; Richard G. Weiss
385-391	Band formation in HPC solutions by consecutive shears along orthogonal directions	P. L. Maffettone; N. Grizzuti; G. Marrucci
393-398	Electrohydrodynamic instability in some nematic cyanobiphenyls in an a.c. electric field	D. K. Rout; R. N. P. Choudhary
399-408	Dimerization of polar smectics A₁ with a terminal cyano group in the matrix of smectics A₁ of lower polarity	B. Waży�ska
409-422	Analysis of transient periodic textures in nematic polymers	Alejandro D. Rey; Morton M. Denn
423-427	Thickness dependence of chiral smectic C liquid crystal phase transitions	D. F. Aliev; A. R. Imamaliev
429-433	Effect of properties of the smectic A_d phase on the induction of a nematic phase in binary mixtures of smectics A₁ and A_d	K. Czupryński; R. Dabrowski; J. Przedmojski
435-440	A new mean field S_A–S_A' critical point in a symmetry breaking field	Youngah Park; T. C. Lubensky; J. Prost
441-448	X-ray diffraction studies of binary mixtures of rod-like and biforked mesogenic molecules	A. M. Levelut; Y. Fang; C. Destrade
449-455	X-ray study of the sharpness of the smectic A layer structure	E. F. Gramsbergenf; W. H. De Jeu
457-465	Determination of the anchoring constant for a compensated binary cholesteric mixture	Iuliana Cuculescu; Rodica Bena; Gabriela Smeianu

Volume 4, Issue 3 (1989)

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223-240	Bénard convection in liquid crystals	P. J. Barratt
241-252	Temperature dependence of the molecular reorientational dynamics in nematic and isotropic EBBA and 5CB by fluorescent probe depolarization spectroscopy	I. Dozov; N. Kirov; M. P. Fontana; M. Manfredi; B. Rosi; R. Cywinski
253-272	Converging flow of tumbling nematic liquid crystals	Alejandro D. Rey; Morton M. Denn
273-281	Variable-temperature high-resolution solid-state ¹³C N.M.R. spectra of chiral smectogenic 4-heptyloxyphenyl 4′-[(s)-2-methylbutyl]biphenyl-4-carboxylate	Kikuko Hayamizu; Masaru Yanagisawa; Osamu Yamamoto
283-292	Characterization of lyotropic nematics in cylindrical capillaries	D. R. Santos Bittencourt; L. Q. Amaral
293-299	Domain instabilities in the planar texture of smectic A liquid crystals	D. F. Aliev; H. F. Abbasov
301-307	Smectic A phases with strings of interdigitated molecules in swallow tailed compounds	S. Diele; S. Manke; W. Weißflog; D. Demus
309-316	The influence of the flexoelectric effect on the electrohydrodynamic instability in nematics	Wolfram Thom; Walter Zimmermann; Lorenz Kramer
317-323	Properties of a liquid crystalline polyester with a mesogen containing the bicyclooctylene ring	Robert W. Lenz; A. Kameswara Rao; Subrata Bhattacharya; Malcolm B. Polk; N. Venkatasubramanian
325-340	Torsional defects, dielectric response and dynamics of comb polymer liquid crystals	M. Warner; H. Liu
341-345	Ultra-slow director rotation in nematic side-group polymers detected by N.M.R.	D. van der Putten; N. Schwenk; H. W. Spiess

Volume 4, Issue 2 (1989)

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103-116	Response of a twisted nematic liquid crystal to any applied potential	T. W. Preist; K. R. Welford; J. R. Sambles
117-123	Liquid crystal proton N.M.R. spectral analysis by numerical calculation	A. V. Komolkin; Yu. V. Molchanov
125-132	Dielectric and optical studies near the chiral smectic C-smectic A transition of (S)-2-hydroxy-4-decyloxybenzylidene-4′-amino-2p″-methylbutylcinnamate	A. Ezcurra; M. A. Pérez Jubindo; M. R. De La Fuente; J. Etxebarria; A. Remón; M. J. Tello
133-155	The influence of director fluctuations on molecular reorientation of a small probe molecule in a liquid-crystalline environment	G. Van Der Zwan; L. Plomp
157-163	Dielectric studies of nematic-smectic A-reentrant nematic transition in the 8OCB/6OCB mixtures	J. Jadżyn; G. Czechowski
165-173	Discotic liquid-crystalline side chain polymers with inositol derivatives as mesogens	Bernd Kohne; Klaus Praefcke; Helmut Ringsdorf; Peter Tschirner
175-180	Thermodynamic properties of solution by gas chromatography using a liquid crystal as solvent: cholesteryl myristate	José Coca; Ignacio Medina; Stanley H. Langer
181-196	Kinetics of the reduction of nitroxyl radicals by hydrazo compounds in a nematic liquid crystal	V. A. Batyuk; T. N. Boronina; G. E. Chudinov; G. B. Sergeev
197-203	Thermotropic liquid-crystalline polymers. XXVII. Reentrant nematic phase of side chain liquid-crystalline polymers and their optical properties	T. I. Gubina; S. Kise; S. G. Kostromin; R. V. Talroze; V. P. Shibaev; N. A. Plate
205-208	Calorific study of the smectic A—smectic C transition in TBBA	P. Das; K. Ema; C. W. Garland
209-215	Synthesis, mesomorphic properties and potential applications of aryl esters of 4-n-alkylcyclohexene-1-carboxylic acids in electrooptic displays	V. S. Bezborodov; V. A. Konovalov; V. I. Lapanik; A. A. Min'ko
217-221	Non-cylindrical symmetry of the ordering matrix of some spectroscopic probes in a lyotropic mesophase studied by ²H N.M.R. spectroscopy	D. Catalano; A. Corrado; C. A. Veracini; G. N. Shilstone; C. Zannoni

Volume 4, Issue 1 (1989)

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1-19	Invited Article. The local field in uniaxial liquid crystals	A. A. Minko; V. S. Rachkevich; S. Ye. Yakovenko
21-37	Heat capacity peaks observed at the blue phase transitions in compounds of different purities	P. Taborek; J. W. Goodby; P. E. Cladis
39-51	Miscibility studies of the smectic phases of trans,trans-4′-alkylbicyclohexyl-4-carbonitrile (CCH) liquid crystals	D. Scott Mitchell; William J. Leigh
53-67	Structural and dynamic properties of a new type of discotic nematic compounds	M. Ebert; D. A. Jungbauer; R. Kleppinger; J. H. Wendorff; B. Kohne; K. Praefcke
69-78	Perturbation theory for planar nematic twisted layers	P. Schiller
79-86	Broadband dielectric spectroscopy on side group liquid crystal polymers	S. U. Vallerien; F. Kremer; C. Boeffel
87-102	Reentrant isotropic phase in a discotic liquid crystal mixture	Wah Keat Lee; Barry A. Wintner; Ernest Fontes; Paul A. Heiney; Masashi Ohba; John N. Haseltine; Amos B. Smith

Volume 3, Issue 12 (1988)

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1609	Editorial	G. R. Luckhurst; E. T. Samulski
1611-1636	The Morphology of Liquid-Crystalline Polymers and the Possible Consequences for their Rheological Behaviour	L. Lawrence Chapoy; Bjørn Marcher; Knud H. Rasmussen
1637-1641	Odd-Even Effects in the Dielectric Properties of Nematics 4-(Trans-4′-N-Alkylcyclohexyl)Isothiocyanatobenzenes	J. Jadyn; G. Czechowski; N. T. Shonova
1643-1653	The Synthesis and Liquid Crystal Properties of Some 2,5-Disubstituted Pyridines	Michael P. Burrow; George W. Gray; David Lacey; Kenneth J. Toyne
1655-1670	Thermotropic Polymorphism in Liquid-Crystalline Lead(II) Alkanoates	C. G. Bazuin; D. Guillon; A. Skoulios; A. M. Amorim; Da. Costa; H. D. Burrows; C. F. G. C. Geraldes; J. J. C. Teixeira-dias; E. Blackmore; G. J. T. Tiddy
1671-1687	Discotic Liquid Crystals of Transition Metal Complexes VI. Monotropic Lamella Mesomorphism of Tetrakis(N-Alkyldithiolato)Dinickel(II) and Bis(N-Alkylxanthato)Nickel(II) Complexes	Kazuchika Ohta; Hiroshi Ema; Iwao Yamamoto; Kei Matsuzaki
1689-1697	A Method for Indirectly Measuring the Second Sound Velocity in Smectic a Liquid Crystals	D. G. Gleed; J. R. Sambles; G. W. Bradberry
1699-1705	Study of Segregation Effects and Fusion Between Lipid Vesicles by Combined Scanning Dilatometric and Calorimetric Measurements	Domenico Grasso; Carmelo La Rosa; Antonio Raudino; Felice Zuccarello

Volume 3, Issue 11 (1988)

1443-1459	Invite Article: The Liquid-Crystalline Phases of Double-Stranded Nucleic Acids in Vitro and in Vivo	Yu M. Yevdokimov; S. G. Skuridin; V. I. Salyanov
1461-1479	Phase Transition and Structural Investigations in 50.5, 50.6 and 50.7	P. R. Alapati; D. M. Potukuchi; N. V. S. Rao; V. G. K. M. Pisipati; A. S. Paranjpe; U. R. K. Rao
1481-1503	A Driven Voltage-Controlled Reversible Electrooptic Effect in a Smectic A Phase I. SiO Anchoring	H. P. Hinov
1505-1514	A Driven Voltage-Controlled Reversible Electrooptic Effect in a Smectic A Phase II. PVA Anchoring	H. P. Hinov; K. Avramova
1515-1523	Thermotropic Mesomorphism in Some Cu(II) and Pd(II) Metallorganic Complexes	Ugo Caruso; Antonio Roviello; Augusto Sirigu
1525-1534	Liquid-Crystalline Polymorphism in a Class of Low Molar Mass Analogues of Mesogenic Polyesters	R. Centore; A. Roviello; A. Sirigu
1535-1541	X-Ray Diffraction Study of the Smectic I, F, J and G Phases of—4—2-Methy1Butyl Phenyl 4-n-Octybiphenyl-4-Carboxylate	Stanislaw Gierlotka; Jan Przedmojski; Bronislaw Pura
1543-1559	Reorientation Dynamics of Polymer Dispersed Nematic Liquid Crystal Films	Paul S. Drzaic
1561-1567	Formation of a Banded Texture in Solutions of Liquid-Crystalline Polymers 11. Poly(n-Hexylisocyanate) in Toluene	E. Marsano; L. Carpaneto; A. Ciferri; Y. Wut
1569-1581	The Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Properties of Some Straight Chain Carbohydrate Amphiphiles	J. W. Goodby; M. A. Marcus; E. Chin; P. L. Finn; B. Pfannemuller
1583-1595	Synthesis, Characterization and X-Ray Diffraction Studies of a New Homologous Series of Cyano-Substituted Mesomorphic Side Chain Polyacrylates	P. Davidson; L. Strzelecki

Volume 3, Issue 10 (1988)

1293-1300	A Structural Investigation of Some Terminally Cyano-Substituted Side Chain Liquid-Crystalline Polysiloxanes	H. H. Sutherland; Z. Ali Adib; G. W. Gray; D. Lacey; G. Nestor; K. J. Toyne
1301-1317	A Comparison of the Molecular Dynamics of Fluorescent Probes in Curved Lipid Vesicles and Planar Multibilayers	Herman Van Langen; Gijs Van Ginkel; Yehudi K. Levine
1319-1325	Ultrasound Absorption Anisotropy in the Vicinity of Smectic A-Nematic Transition	V. A. Balandin; S. V. Pasechnik; V. I. Prokopjev; O. Ya. Shmelyoff
1327-1338	Formation of Two-Dimensional Incommensurate Structures in the System of Williams Domains	E. D. Belotskii; N. G. Migranov; P. M. Tomchuk
1339-1354	Dielectric Relaxation and Quasielastic Neutron Scattering Study of Molecular Reorientation in the Nematic and Solid Phases of 4,4'-Di-N-Butyloxyazoxybenzene	K. Chłedowska; D. Chruściel; J. A. Janik; J. M. Janik; H. Kresse; H. Stettin; K. Otnes; T. Stanek; S. Urban; S. Wróbel
1355-1367	Surfactant-Water Systems with Small Layer Rigidity Phase Stability, Defects Models and Defects Mobility in Polyoxyethylene Surfactant with Water	Maurice Kleman
1369-1386	Shapes of Micelles and Molecular Geometry Synthesis and Studies on the Phase Behaviour, Surface Tension and Rheology of Rigid Rod-Like Surfactants in Aqueous Solutions	Markus A. Schafheutle; Heino Finkelmann
1387-1391	thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline Polyesters Containing Cyclooctyl Units III. Effect of Mesogen Length and the Dual Role of the Cyclooctyl Ring	J. M. G. Cowie; H. H. Wu
1393-1400	The Synthesis, Polymerization and Second Order Non-Linear Optical Properties of Novel, Conjugated, Unsymmetrical Diacetylenes Showing Liquid Crystal Behaviour	J. Tsibouklis; A. R. Werninck; A. J. Shand; G. H. W. Milburn
1401-1410	Inversion of Contrast in Ferroelectric Smectic C Liquid Crystal Displays	J. R. Hughes; F. C. Saunders
1411-1424	Field Effects in Nematic Liquid Crystals in Terms of Catastrophe Theory	G. Derfel
1425-1432	On the Influence of Elastic Modes on the N.M.R. Lineshapes of Polymer Liquid Crystals	P. Esnault; J. P. Casquilho; F. Volino

Volume 3, Issue 9 (1988)

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1173-1182	Ferroelectric liquid crystals VI. Chiral 5-alkyl-2-phenylpyrimidines	S. M. Kelly; A. Villiger
1183-1190	A liquid crystal model for early cell division	J. Verhàs
1191-1201	Interprétation physique par modélisation de la cinétique de polymérisation de la déoxyhémoglobine S Une nouvelle approche théorique	J. L. Dejardin
1203-1213	Effect of composition on the pressure-induced re-entrant cholesteric phase behaviour of mixtures of non-polar cholesteryl n-alkanoates	P. Pollmann; B. Wiege
1215-1229	Computer simulation study of a one dimensional plane rotator system with long-range interactions	S. Romano
1231-1244	Light scattering study of the isotropic-to-blue phase transition in cholesteryl oleyl carbonate (COC) and its mixtures with a nematogen	R. Parthasarathy; D. B. Dupré
1245-1254	A chiral induced ferroelectric liquid crystal phase transition with a vanishingly small enthalpy	J. W. Goodby; E. Chin
1255-1266	Epitaxial growth alignment of ferroelectric smectic C phases on rubbed polymers	Bernt O. Myrvold
1267-1274	Synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of some aromatic polyesters	Wang Xueqiu; Wu Hojung; Li Shijin
1275-1278	Effect of molecular structure on mesomorphism XX. Unsymmetrical dimeric mesogens	Anselm C. Griffin; Shailaja R. Vaidya
1279-1282	Optical and electrooptical properties of homeoplanar layers of cholesteric liquid crystals	S. V. Belyaev; M. I. Barnik; G. A. Beresnev; N. V. Malimonenko
1283-1291	Cumulative Index of Authors

Volume 3, Issue 8 (1988)

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1013-1030	Spectroscopic investigation of local molecular dynamics in liquid crystals II. Polymers	L. Monnerie; F. Lauprětre; C. Noël
1031-1037	A study of the enolization of some alkyl ketones in lyomesophases formed by alkylammonium surfactants	Gian Piero Spada; Giovanni Lesa; Giovanni Gottarelli; Paolo De Maria; Paolo Mariani
1039-1046	Viscosity measurements of nematic–polymer liquid crystal mixtures by light scattering	R. G. Humphreys; H. A. Tarry; M. J. Bradshaw
1047-1053	A filled smectic A phase A novel kind of induced smectic A phase observed for binary mixtures	S. Diele; G. Pelzl; W. Weissflog; D. Demus
1055-1072	A theoretical study of micro-domain formation in mixed lipid membranes	Antonio Raudino
1073-1086	Chain flexibility and elastic constants of solutions of a polymer liquid crystal	R. Parthasarathy; Deborah J. Houpt; Donald B. Dupre
1087-1104	Discotic liquid crystals Physical parameters of some 2,3,7,8,12,13-hexa(alkanoyloxy)truxenes. Observation of a re-entrant isotropic phase in a pure disc-like mesogen	T. W. Warmerdam; R. J. M. Nolte; W. Drenth; J. C. Van Miltenburg; D. Frenkel; R. J. J. Zijlstra
1105-1114	Dynamics of the Frederiks transition in nematics consisting of disc-like molecules Thermal dependence of a bend viscosity coefficient	T. W. Warmerdam; R. J. J. Zijlstra; D. Frenkel
1115-1123	Ferroelectric liquid crystals IV. Chiral alkenyloxyphenyl benzoates	S. M. Kelly; R. Buchecker; M. Schadt
1125-1128	Ferroelectric liquid crystals V. Chiral alkenyloxyphenyl 4-biphenyl-1-carboxylates	S. M. Kelly; R. Buchecker; M. Schadt
1129-1136	Mesogenic behaviour of two series of orthopalladated polar inline derivatives and their organic ligands (II)	M. Marcos; M. B. Ros; J. L. Serrano
1137-1146	Optical determination of the pitch-dependent diffusion constant in a cholesteric liquid crystal	R. Stannarius; A. Frieser; K. Hänsel
1147-1155	An X-ray scattering study of the lamellar/nematic/isotropic sequence of phases in decylammonium chloride/H₂O/NH₄Cl	M. C. Holmes; M. C. Holmes; J. Charvolin; J. Charvolin; D. J. Reynolds
1157-1160	Eigenvalues of propagation through liquid crystals	F. Cuypers; H. Pauwels
1161-1164	Polarized luminescence in a cubic liquid crystal	E. I. Demikhov; V. K. Dolganov; V. V. Korshunov; D. Demus
1165-1172	Cumulative Index of Authors with the titles of papers

Volume 3, Issue 6-7 (1988)

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661	Foreword	A. F. Martins
663-675	¹³C N.M.R. and ¹⁴N N.Q.R. in ferroelectric liquid crystals Polar versus quadrupolar ordering	R. Blinc; J. Dolinšek; M. Luzar; J. Seliger
677-682	Deuterium N.M.R. of liquid crystal solutions with proton–proton dipolar decoupling	B. M. Fung; Chi-Duen Poon
683-694	²H-N.M.R. studies of flexibility and orientational order in nematic liquid crystals	G. L. Hoatson; A. L. Bailey; A. J. van der Est; G. S. Bates; E. E. Burnell
695-704	N.M.R. study of segmental molecular interactions in liquid crystals	D. J. Photinos; K. J. Nikolakopoulos; M. A. Theodoropoulou
705-711	Measurements of the order parameter by proton N.M.R. on N-(4-alkoxybenzylidene)4′-toluidines	M. Riccò; G. Guidi; R. De Renzi; C. Vignali
713-722	Orientational ordering of 4-substituted phenylcyclohexanes studied by carbon-13 two-dimensional N.M.R.	Cheryl Baldwin Frech; B. M. Fung; Martin Schadt
723-730	The anisotropic forces acting on the bonds of benzene in liquid crystals	Juhani Lounila
731-736	A special method of deformational correction in N.M.R. of molecules dissolved in liquid crystals	Juhani Lounila; Jukka Jokisaari; YrjÖ Hiltunen
737-744	Dimethylmercury in mixtures of thermotropic nematogens	A. Pulkkinen; Y. Hiltunen; J. Jokisaari
745-751	Two-dimensional N.M.R. in liquid crystal solvents spinning at various angles from the magnetic field Nguyen Thoi Lai	J. P. Bayle; J. M. Ouvrard; J. Courtieu
753-758	Inertial effects in rotating lyotropic liquid crystals	J. P. Bayle; F. Perez; J. Courtieu
759-770	Tetrabenzocyclododecatetraene A new core for mesogens exhibiting columnar mesophases	H. Zimmermann; R. Poupko; Z. Luz; J. Billard
771-781	Some N.M.R. experiments using lyotropic nematic liquid crystals	L. W. Reeves; Maria Del Pilar Orozco Fernandes; Lino Becerra
783-790	Effect of n-alkanes and peptides on the phase equilibria in phosphatidylcholine—water systems	GÖRan Lindblom; Mats Sjölund; Leif Rilfors
791-795	Alkyl chain order in a lamellar lyotropic liquid crystal with varying surface charge density	TorbjÖRn Wärnheim; Ulf Henriksson; Ann-Charlotte Malmvik; Björn Bergenståhl
797-806	Deuteron N.M.R. relaxation studies of phospholipid membranes	C. Mayer; K. Müller; K. Weisz; G. Kothe
807-814	Paramagnetic nuclear relaxation study of the structure and dynamics of lyotropic lamellar phases	C. Chachaty; J. -P. Korb

Volume 3, Issue 6-7 (1988)

815-824	Thermotropic ionic liquid crystals of pyridinium octylphosphate A N.M.R. and X-ray study	C. Chachaty; T. Bredel; A. M. Tistchenko; J. -P. Caniparoli; B. Gallot
825-832	Dielectric relaxation of water molecules in different lyotropic structures of nonylphenoxypoly(ethylenoxy)ethanol (Ark. 9)	S. Wróbel; B. Gestblom; E. Noreland; J. W. Doane
833-838	Molecular mobility and N.M.R. relaxation in the binary system Triton X 114-water	A. Zheliaskova; A. Derzhanski
839-845	Audio to microwave frequency dielectric study of the pretransition region in DPL-water systems	C. Cametti; F. De Luca; M. A. Macrì; B. Maraviglia; P. Sorio
847-852	Proton spin lattice relaxation times in biological tissues Water and lipid role	E. Tettamanti; A. Matarese; G. Patrizio
853-860	²⁰⁷Pb N.M.R. of lead(II) soaps in solid, liquid-crystalline and liquid phases	Hugh D. Burrows; Carlos F. G. C. Geraldes; Teresa J. T. Pinheiro; Robin K. Harris; Angelika Sebald
861-879	Molecular dynamics and macroscopic alignment properties of thermotropic liquid-crystalline side chain polymers as studied by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy	G. S. Attard; K. Araki; J. J. Moura-ramos; G. Williams
881-891	Molecular dynamics of a liquid-crystalline polymer with laterally fixed mesogenic side groups	Franz Josef Bormuth; Wolfgang Haase
893-900	Molecular dynamics in liquid crystals by dielectric relaxation and neutron scattering	L. Bata; G. Pépy; L. Rosta
901-906	Characteristics of relaxational dynamics and the structure of nematogens	V. S. Bezborodov; A. A. Min'ko; V. I. Naumenko; M. I. Panichev
907-925	Relaxation dispersion and zero-field spectroscopy of thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals by fast field-cycling N.M.R.	F. Noack; M. Notter; W. Weiss
927-936	Probing director fluctuations in nematic solutions by N.M.R. The breakdown of the simple RD + DF model for tolan in nematic Phase V	L. Plomp; J. Bulthuis
937-945	Proton spin–lattice relaxation study of a partial bilayer smectic A phase	A. C. Ribeiro; P. J. Sebastião; M. Vilfan
947-956	Confinement of a liquid crystal to small droplets and its effect on nuclear magnetic relaxation	S. Žumer; M. Vilfan; I. Vilfan
957-976	E.S.R. and D.S.C. investigations of phase transitions in polymorphic 4-n-alkoxybenzylidene-4′-n-alkylanilines	Shankar B. Rananavare; V. G. K. M. Pisipati; Jack H. Freed
977-988	The role of non-linear electron spin resonance spectroscopies Perspectives in microscopic studies of liquid-crystalline polymers	M. Martinelli
989-997	A new non-linear high sensitivity spectroscopy in the slow molecular motion regime	M. Giordano; D. Leporini; M. Martinelli; L. Pardi; S. Santucci
999-1004	Communications Accepted
1005-1011	Cumulative Index of Authors

Volume 3, Issue 5 (1988)

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543-571	The relationship between formation kinetics and microdroplet size of epoxy-based polymer-dispersed liquid crystals	George W. Smith; Nuno A. Vaz
573-582	On the anomalous temperature dependence of ferroelectric S_c*. liquid crystals	Masahiro Nakagawa
583-592	Measurement of the orientational elastic constants and the twist viscosity of nematic side chain polymers	W. Rupp; H. P. Grossmann; B. Stoll
593-604	Structural relaxation behaviour of a thermotropic liquid crystal aromatic copolyester in the super-cooled liquid state	Y. G. Lin; H. H. Winter
605-615	Synthesis and liquid crystal properties of 4-alkoxybenzylidene-4'-aminocinnamic acid 1-trifluoromethylalkyl esters The ABACT series	M. Dunleavy; C. Somerton; R. M. Richardson
617-629	Statistical mechanical theory for discotic liquid crystals Discotic nematic-isotropic transition properties	K. Singh; U. P. Singh; S. Singh
631-644	Kinetics of phase separation by spinodal decomposition in a liquid-crystalline polymer solution	Thein Kyu; Partha Mukherjee
645-650	Asymmetric dimeric liquid crystals The preparation and properties of the α-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-oxy)-ω-(4-n-alkylanilinebenzylidene-4'-oxy)hexanes	J. L. Hogan; C. T. Imrie; G. R. Luckhurst
651-654	Lyomesophases formed by the dinucleoside phosphate d(GpG)	G. P. Spada; A. Carcuro; F. P. Colonna; A. Garbesi; G. Gottarelli

Volume 3, Issue 4 (1988)

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423-441	Two-dimensional Monte Carlo studies of lipid molecules in a bilayer membrane	D. P. Fraser; R. W. Chantrell; D. Melville; D. J. Tildesley
443-452	A neutron scattering study of dimerization and pairing of molecules in liquid crystal mixtures	R. Dbrowski; J. A. Janik; J. M. Janik; K. Otnes
453-468	Mass transport in a chiral nematic/nematic liquid crystal system	H. Hakemi
469-484	Measurement of the rotational viscosity of ferroelectric liquid crystals based on a simple dynamical model	C. Escher; T. Geelhaar; E. Bohm
485-505	Orientational order of biaxial solutes in nematic phases Size and shape effects	M. Y. Kok; A. J. van der Est; E. E. Burnell
507-518	Measurement of spontaneous polarization in ferroelectric smectic liquid crystals	G. Spruce; R. D. Pringle
519-529	Equibiaxial extension of a thermotropic liquid-crystalline polymer Flow induced orientation, relaxation of orientation, and strain recovery	Y. G. Lin; H. H. Winter; G. Lieser
531-536	Untwisting of the helical superstructure in the cholesteric and chiral smectic C*phases of cross-linked liquid-crystalline polymers by strain	Rudolf Zentel

Volume 3, Issue 3 (1988)

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307-322	Dielectric studies of binary liquid-crystalline mixtures	Zbigniew Raszewski
323-336	Dipolar and dispersion interactions in nematogens A computer simulation study	S. Romano
337-345	Dynamic light scattering near the isotropic-blue phase transition of cholesteryl-oleylcarbonate	A. Böttger; L. Niessen; J. Coelingh; D. Frenkel; R. J. J. Zijlstra
347-352	Uniaxial nematic phase in fluids of biaxial particles	B. Bergersen; P. Palffy-muhoray; D. A. Dunmur
353-361	Macroscopic properties of mixed chiral smectic liquid crystals	M. Glogarová; J. Pavel; S. S. Bawa; D. Demus; S. Diele; G. Pelzl
363-368	Can Monte Carlo detect the absence of ordering in a model liquid crystal?	C. Chiccoli; P. Pasini; C. Zannoni
369-380	Measurements of the ratio of the Frank constants for splay and bend in nematics consisting of disc-like molecules 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11-hexakis(p-alkoxybenzoyloxy)triphenylenes	T. W. Warmerdam; R. J. J. Zijlstra; D. Frenkel
381-384	Water incorporation into a micellar-lamellar phase (dodecyl maltoside-water)	Matthew A. Marcus; Patrick L. Finn
385-395	4-Alkyloxy-4'-stilbazoles New heterocyclic mesogens	Duncan W. Bruce; David A. Dunmur; Elena Lalinde; Peter M. Maitlis; Peter Styring
397	‘Thermodynamic, structural and morphological studies on liquid-crystalline blue phases’ by H. Stegemeyer, Th. Blümel, K. Hiltrop, H. Onusseit and F. Porsch	P. Pieranski; P. E. Cladis
399-401	Relation between habit and structure of liquid single crystals of blue phases (Reply to the preceding Comment by P. Pieranski and P. E. Cladis)	H. Stegemeyer; Th. Blümel; H. Onusseit
403-407	Alternative universality for a NAC multicritical point topology	M. A. Anisimov; V. P. Voronov
409-411	On the experimental technique of X-ray diffraction in liquid crystals	J. Przedmojski; S. Gierlotka
413-415	¹³C-N.M.R. studies of discotics	C. L. Khetrapal; S. Raghothama; N. Suryaprakash; A. C. Kunwar

Volume 3, Issue 2 (1988)

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155-168	Structure of the D phase. II	G. Etherington; A. J. Langley; A. J. Leadbetter; X. J. Wang
169-174	Bilayer lipid membranes formed from thermotropic liquid crystals	Z. Salamon; H. Ti Tien
175-183	Dielectric studies of the hexatic B-smectic A and crystal B-smectic A transitions	C. Nagabhushan; Geetha G. Nair; B. R. Ratna; R. Shashidhar; J. W. Goodby
185-194	A visual representation for the shapes of flexible mesogenic molecules	A. Kloczkowski; G. R. Luckhurst; R. W. Phippen
195-201	On the origin of Grandjean-Cano lines in liquid-crystalline blue phases	Th. Blümel; H. Stegemeyer
203-216	Order parameters of dye molecules in lyotropic nematic mesophases	R. Weber; H. Hoffmann
217-224	Determination of the rotational viscosity of nematic liquid crystals over an extended range	F. -J. Bock; H. Kneppe; F. Schneider
225-233	Pressure-induced re-entrant cholesteric phase behaviour of non-polar liquid crystals	P. Pollmann; B. Wiege; A. Rothert
235-247	The synthesis and characterization of side-chain liquid crystal polymers based on polystyrene and poly-α-methystyrene	James V. Crivello; Margret Deptolla; Helmut Ringsdorf
249-258	Energetics of screw dislocations in smectic A liquid crystals	Harald Pleiner
259-264	Low frequency polarization of ferroelectric liquid crystals	S. A. Pikin; E. M. Terentjev
265-273	Deformation of cylinders in the hexagonal phase of sodium decyl sulphate/decanol/water on the introduction of decanol	Y. Hendrikx; J. Charvolin
275-284	Liquid-crystalline compounds with lateral aromatic branches	W. Weissflog; D. Demus
285-297	Relaxation from transient and stationary states in the deformed aligned phase (DAP) effect in quasi-homeotropic liquid crystal layers	S. Frunză; T. Beica; R. Moldovan; M. Giurgea; F. Cotorobai

Volume 3, Issue 1 (1988)

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1-29	Spectroscopic investigation of local molecular dynamics in liquid crystals I. Small molecules	L. Monnerie; F. Laupretre; C. Noel
31-41	Electric field N.M.R. of pretransitional effects in liquid crystals A solute study	B. H. Ruessink; J. B. S. Barnhoorn; J. Bulthuis; C. Maclean
43-50	Kritische akustische Relaxationsprozesse in der nematischen Mesophase von 4-n-Hexyloxyphenol-4'-Methoxybenzoat	A. Drzymala
51-62	Two types of temperature induced transitions of poly(I) · poly(C) liquid crystals	S. Skuridin; N. Badaev; A. Dembo; G. Lortkipanidze; Yu. Yevdokimov
63-84	A molecular theoretical derivation of the Landau free energy of chiral smectic C liquid crystals	Masahiro Nakagawa
85-93	Binary mixtures of smectic A₁S with abnormal behaviour	B. Wazy�ska
95-99	On the relationship of the nematic-isotropic transition temperature of an oligomer to that of its constituent units	A. Kloczkowski; G. R. Luckhurst
101-113	A study of some lyotropic cholesteric mesophases by circular and linear dichroism and by circular intensity differential scattering	Gian Piero Spada; Giovanni Gottarelli; Bruno Samori; Carlos J. Bustamante; K. Sam Wells
115-122	Crystal structure of a mesogenic copper(II) square-planar complex bis[N-p-(n-Hexyloxy)phenyl, p-(n-heptyloxy)salicylaldiminato] copper(II)	A. Roviello; A. Sirigu; P. Iannelli; A. Immirzi
123-126	Anomalous density and refractive index variation of a nematic liquid crystal	M. Mitra; S. Paul; R. Paul
127-132	Thermotropic liquid-crystalline polymers XXIII. Peculiarities of uniaxial orientation of comb-like liquid-crystalline polymers under mechanical stress	Ya. S. Freidzon; R. V. Talroze; N. I. Boiko; S. G. Kostromin; V. P. Shibaev; N. A. Platé
133-137	Synthesis and X-ray study of new columnar heteroaromatic salts	P. Davidson; C. Jallabert; A. M. Levelut; H. Strzelecka; M. Veber
139-142	Odd-even effects in the threshold and saturation behaviour of long pitch cholesteric systems	G. Hauck; H. D. Koswig
143-148	Deuterium N.M.R. of the n-octyl-β-D-glucopyranoside-solvent liquid-crystalline systems	A. Loewenstein; D. Igner
149-152	Observation of a re-entrant isotropic phase in a pure disc-like liquid crystal	T. Warmerdam; D. Frenkel; R. J. J. Zijlstra

Volume 2, Issue 6 (1987)

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739-755	Deuterium and potassium-39 N.M.R. and optical microscopy of the dipotassium hexadecanedioate-water mesophases	H. Gutman; Z. Luz; J. Charvolin; A. Loewenstein
757-768	Properties of some broad band chiral smectic C materials	B. Otterholm; M. Nilsson; S. T. Lagerwall; K. Skarp
769-796	An extension of the Landau-Ginzburg-de Gennes theory for liquid crystals	L. Longa; D. Monselesan; H. -R. Trebin
797-814	X-ray reflectivity from insoluble monolayers spread on aqueous subphases	R. M. Richardson; S. J. Roser
815-823	Structural study of the smectic phases of several 4-cyanoalkoxybenzylidene-4'-alkylanilines	F. Barbarin; M. Dugay; A. Piovesan; H. Fadel; D. Guillon; A. Skoulios
825-831	Optical and dielectric investigations on the electroclinic effect exhibited by a ferroelectric liquid crystal with high spontaneous polarization	Ch. Bahr; G. Heppke
833-842	New organometallic liquid crystals I. Orthopalladated imine derivatives	J. Barberá; P. Espinet; E. Lalinde; M. Marcos; J. L. Serrano
843-851	Poynting vector in a uniaxially birefringent multilayered system	R. A. Innes; K. R. Welford; J. R. Sambles
853-863	Adiabatic scanning calorimetry of the nematic-smectic A₁ and the smectic A₁–smectic A transitions in frustrated smectic mixtures at low temperatures	J. Thoen; H. Beringhs; J. M. Auguste; G. Sigaud
865-876	On the conformational effects of intermolecular interactions in nematics	D. J. Photinos
877-888	Structural features of the hexagonal phase of phasmidic liquid crystals	A. M. Levelut; J. Malthěte; C. Destrade; Nguyen Huu Tinh
889-893	Surfactant bound polypeptides II. Liquid-crystalline behaviour of triton X-100 bound poly-γ-benzyl-l-glutamate	M. V. R. Rao; M. Atreyi; Arun V. Pantar

Volume 2, Issue 5 (1987)

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571	Editorial	G. R. Luckhurst; E. T. Samulski
573-584	Laser addressed thermo-optic effect in a novel dyed liquid-crystalline polysiloxane	C. B. McArdle; M. G. Clark; C. M. Haws; M. C. K. Wiltshire; A. Parker; G. Nestor; G. W. Gray; D. Lacey; K. J. Toyne
585-600	Structure analysis of side chain liquid crystal polymer films by means of electron microscopy	I. G. Voigt-martin; H. Durst
601-610	Direct observation of smectic layers in side chain liquid crystal polymer films	I. G. Voigt-martin; H. Durst
611-616	Discotic mesomorphism of rufigallol hexa-n-alkoxylates	Cosimo Carfagna; Pio Iannelli; Antonio Roviello; Augusto Sirigu
617-624	Conformations of comb-like macromolecules in a nematic phase The interpretation of small angle neutron scattering data	A. B. Kunchenko; D. A. Svetogorsky
625-631	Liquid-crystalline quinoline derivatives	Rino Leardini; Daniele Nanni; Antonio Tundo; Giuseppe Zanardi; Gian Franco Pedulli
633-642	Orientation mechanisms for small solutes in the nematic liquid crystal 5CB-α,β-d₄	A. Weaver; A. J. Van Der Est; J. C. T. Rendell; G. S. Bates; G. L. Hoatson; E. E. Burnell
643-649	Large anisotropy of orientational fluctuations in a lyotropic nematic liquid crystal	Martin Čopič; Tadeja Ovsenik; Marko Zgonik
651-664	X-ray investigations of linear and cross-linked liquid-crystalline main chain and combined polymers	Rudolf Zentel; GÜNther F. Schmidt; Johannes Meyer; Moktar Benalia
665-676	Etude comparée de la force inertielle et de la force magnétique dans une phase lyotrope de Δ_χ < 0 en rotation rapide dans un champ magnétique	J. P. Bayle; A. Biossi; A. Guillois; J. Courtieu
677-687	Structural fluctuations in the lamellar phase of sodium decyl sulphate/decanol/water	Y. Hendrikx; J. Charvolin; P. Kekicheff; M. Roth
689-699	Vibrational studies of some dicopper tetracarboxylates which exhibit a thermotropic columnar mesophase	Dennis P. Strommen; Anne-Marie Giroud-godquin; Pascale Maldivi; Jean-Claude Marchon; Bruno Marchon
701-706	High pressure study of the cholesteric/smectic C* phase transition of 4-n-hexyloxyphenyl-4′-(2'-methylbutyl)biphenyl-4-carboxylate (CE3)	P. Pollmann; K. Schulte
707-716	Electrooptical switching properties of uniform layer tilted surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal devices	Xue Jiu-zhi; M. A. Handschy; N. A. Clark
717-722	Two-dimensional axisymmetric solitons in nematic liquid crystals	C. Q. Shu; R. F. Shao; S. Zheng; Z. C. Liang; G. He; G. Xu; L. Lam
723-728	First examples of a new class of discogen	Günter Lattermann

Volume 2, Issue 4 (1987)

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411-422	Liquid-crystalline monomers, dimers and side group polymers containing phenylpyrimidine mesogens	Volker Krone; Helmut Ringsdorf
423-428	The effect of lateral substitution on smectic C formation	D. Coates
429-439	Phase transitions of cholestanyl fluoroalkanoates	Shinichi Yano; Toshihide Adachi; Hiroharu Oyaidzu; Masaru Kato; Keiichi Moriya
441-459	Pretransitional behaviour in nematogenic mixtures A molecular field theory	G. S. Attard; G. R. Luckhurst
461-466	Optical anisotropy and local order parameter in a homologous series of cholesteryl esters of fatty acids	R. Somashekar; M. S. Madhava
467-472	Intermediate nematic phases in binary systems with complex formation	G. Pelzl; U. Böttger; S. Diele; W. Weissflog; H. J. Deutscher; D. Demus
473-489	N.M.R. and X-ray diffraction of the 7,7'-disodiumcromoglycate-water lyomesophases	D. Perahia; Z. Luz; E. J. Wachtel; H. Zimmermann
491-504	Steric effects of substituents in mesogens and phase transition temperatures in uniaxial liquid crystals	E. M. Averyanov
505-518	Some novel smectic C liquid-crystalline side-chain polymers Polymethacrylates and poly a-chloroacrylates	S. Esselin; L. Bosio; C. Noël; G. Decobert; J. C. Dubois
519-528	The influence of lateral substituents on the phase behaviour of nematogenic liquid crystals	M. Ballauff
529-537	Chiral liquid crystal polymers. VIII Thermotropic poly(ester-β-sulphide)s based on variously spaced twin p-oxybenzoate diads	E. Chiellini; G. Galli; A. S. Angeloni; M. Laus; R. Pellegrini
539-547	Diffusion of brownian particles in the isotropic phase of a nematic liquid crystal	A. Bottger; D. Frenkel; E. Van De Riet; R. Zijlstra
549-552	Preliminary Communications. Micellar phases formed by a solution of l-serine hydrochloride decylester and orthophosphoric acid	Mahmut Acimisl
553-556	Electric birefringence of discotic benzene-hexa-n-heptanoate in isotropic solution phase	Hirokazu Toriumi; Hiroshi Watanabe
557-560	A new fast dilatometric method for locating phase transitions in liquid crystals	Domenico Grasso
561-564	Liquid crystal materials' refractive index matched to silica	C. S. Winter; J. D. Rush; D. G. Smith

Volume 2, Issue 3 (1987)

251-260	Anchoring Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals Studied Using the Attenuated Total Reflection Method	Li Chang; Jing-An Zhao; Xin-Jiu Wang
261-268	The Twist Elastic Constant and Anchoring Energy of the Nematic Liquid Crystal 4-N-Octyl-4-Cyanobiphenyl	S. Faetti; V. Palleschi
269-279	Investigation of the Structures of the Crystalline and Columnar Phases of Linear Chain Copper(II) Alkanoates	H. Abied; D. Guillon; A. Skoulios; P. Weber; A. M. Giroud-godquin; J. C. Marchon
281-311	Theory of the Nematic-Isotropic Transition in a Restricted Geometry	A. Poniewierski; T. J. Sluckint
313-334	Computer Simulation Studies of Anisotropic Systems XVI. The Smectic E-Smectic B Transition	G. R. Luckhurst; P. Simpson; C. Zannoni
335-343	Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals VI. Structural Parameters of Solid and Liquid Crystal Phases of Anhydrous Short-Chain Sodium Alkanoates	M. L. Phillips; J. Jonas
345-355	Orientational Order in Nematic and Smectic A Phases of Three Closely Related Compounds 4 4-di-n-Heptylazobenzene 4 4-di-n-Heptyl- and 4 4-di-n-Octylazoxybenzene	Donata Catalano; Claudia Forte; Carlo Alberto Veracini; J. W. Emsley; G. N. Shilstone
357-371	Solute-Solvent Interactions in the Nematic and Smectic A Phases of 4 4-di-n-Heptylazoxybenzene Studied by Deuteron NMR	Donata Catalano; Claudia Forte; Carlo Alberto Veracini; J. W. Emsley; G. N. Shilstone
373-379	Elasticity of a Nematic Polymer in the Infinite Molecular Chain Limit	Victor G. Taratuta; Robert B. Meyer
381-393	Mesogenic Transition Metal Complexes Liquid Crystal Phase Behaviour and Crystal and Molecular Structure of Some Nitrile Complexes of the Platinum Metals	Harry Adams; Neil A. Bailey; Duncan W. Bruce; David A. Dunmur; Elena Lalinde; Mercedes Marcos; Christopher Ridgway; Arnold J. Smiths; Peter Styring; Peter M. Maitlis
395-399	Electric Field Induced Phase Transitions in Liquid-Crystalline Blue Phases	F. Porsch; H. Stegemeyer
401-403	On a Possible Mechanism for the Spontaneous Freedericksz Effect	G. Barbero; G. Durand

Volume 2, Issue 2 (1987)

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121-130	Invited Article Experimental techniques for the investigation of ferroelectric liquid crystals	L. M. Blinov; V. A. Baikalov; M. I. Barnik; L. A. Beresnev; E. P. Pozhidayev; S. V. Yablonsky
131-148	Freedericksz transition of planar oriented smectic C phases	G. Pelzl; P. Schiller; D. Demus
149-165	Incoherent cold neutron scattering investigation of stochastic molecular orientational fluctuations in liquid crystals	B. Cvikl
167-181	Dielectric relaxation and molecular motion in comb-shaped liquid crystal polymers	J. P. Parneix; R. Njeumo; C. Legrand; P. Le Barny; J. C. Dubois
183-193	X-ray diffraction and optical studies of an oriented Setoff's base liquid crystal	P. Mandal; M. Mitra; S. Paul; R. Paul
195-200	Thermotropic liquid-crystalline polymers XXVI. Synthesis of comb-like polymers with oxygen containing spacers and a study of their phase transitions	S. G. Kostromin; V. P. Shibaev; N. A. Plate
201-214	Infrared and far-infrared spectroscopic studies on the structure of water in lyotropic liquid crystals	W. F. Pacynko; J. Yarwood; G. J. T. Tiddy
215-221	Specific bindings of methyl orange to chiral bilayer membranes with β-alanyl-L-glutamoyl head groups [1]	Hirotaka Ihara; Hiroshi Hachisako; Chuichi Hirayama; Kimiho Yamada
223-228	E.S.R. of a one-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet which undergoes a crystalline to discotic phase transition	M. P. Eastman; Miin-Liang Horng; B. Freiha; K. W. Sheu
229-233	Preliminary Communications. Benzotrisfuran derivatives A new series of disc-like liquid crystals	C. Destrade; Nguyen Huu Tinh; H. Gasparoux; L. Mamlok
235-239	Liquid-crystalline compounds containing tricyclo(4.4.0.0^3,8)-decane (twistane) and spiro (3.3) heptane ring systems	R. Ch. Geivandov; S. O. Lastochkina; I. V. Goncharova; B. M. Bolotin; L. A. Karamysheva; T. A. Geivandova; A. V. Ivashchenko; V. V. Titov
241-244	Zero-field N.M.R. study of the biaxial smectic E phase	A. M. Thayer; M. Luzar; A. Pines

Volume 2, Issue 1 (1987)

1	Editorial
3-19	The effect of compression on the Frank constants of two nematic liquid crystals	P. L. Sherrell; J. D. Bunning; T. E. Faber
21-30	Bistability and domain wall motion in smectic C phases induced by strong electric fields	P. Schiller; G. Pelzl; D. Demus
31-37	The calculation of the elastic constants of nematics	E. Govers; G. Vertogen
39-54	A Monte Carlo simulation of the inhomogeneous Lebwohl-Lasher lattice model	C. Chiccoli; P. Pasini; C. Zannoni
55-61	Synthesis and study of the mesomorphism of highly polarizable mesogens towards applications in non-linear optics	F. Tournilhac; J. F. Nicoud; J. Simon; P. Weber; D. Guillon; A. Skoulios
63-71	The influence of alkyl chain branching on smectic C formation	D. Coates
73-81	A diffraction and spectroscopic study of the solid states of EBBA	V. K. Dolganov; M. Gál; N. Kroó; L. Rosta; J. Szabon
83-89	New liquid-crystalline polymers with chiral phases	Rudolf Zentel; Gertrude Reckert; Bernd Reck
91-105	Guided modes and surface plasmon-polaritons observed with a nematic liquid crystal using attenuated total reflection	K. R. Welford; J. R. Sambles; M. G. Clark
107-110	PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATIONS A novel alignment technique for ferroelectric smectics	M. J. Bradshaw; V. Brimmell; E. P. Raynes
111-116	Evidence of continuous evolution of smectic A₂ from smectic A_d	S. Krishna Prasad; R. Shashidhar; B. R. Ratna; B. K. Sadashiva; G. Heppke; S. Pfeiffer

Volume 1, Issue 6 (1986)

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499-507	The chromonic phases of dyes	T. K. Attwood; J. E. Lydon; F. Jones
509-520	Lyotropic liquid-crystalline mesophases and a novel, solid physical form of some water-soluble, reactive dyes	David E. Sadler; Mervyn D. Shannon; Patrick Tollin; Douglas W. Young; Michael Edmondson; Paul Rainsford
521-528	Tilt and temperature dependence of the pitch in the chiral smectic C phase	W. J. A. Goossens
529-537	Far infrared study of molecular reorientation in some alkoxyazoxybenzenes	M. Godlewska; J. A. Janik; A. Kocot; X. P. Nguyen; J. Sciesinski; W. Witko
539-551	Solution of the excluded volume problem for biaxial particles	B. M. Mulder
553-559	Elastic constants of nematic solutions of rod-like and semi-flexible polymers	Theo Odijk
561-572	Molecular reorientation in the nematic and rotatory phases of 4,4'-di-n-pentyloxyazoxybenzene	X. P. Nguyen; J. Krawczyk; D. Chruciel; J. Chruciel; J. A. Janik; J. M. Janik; K. Otnes; H. Kresse; I. Natkaniec; S. Urban; S. Wróbel
573-582	Measurement of the rotational viscosity, γ₁ of nematic liquid crystals under high pressure	H. Dörrer; H. Kneppe; E. Kuss; F. Schneider
583-588	Preliminary Communications. A new series of polar fluorodibenzoates with various smectic modifications	C. Destrade; Nguyen Huu Tinh
589-592	Shape variation of cross-linked liquid-crystalline polymers by electric fields	Rudolf Zentel

Volume 1, Issue 5 (1986)

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407-413	The effect of lateral fluoro-substitution on the liquid crystal behaviour of some 4'-alkylphenylethyl- and trans-4'-alkylcyclohexylethyl-4,4'-disubstituted biphenyls	G. W. Gray; D. Lacey; J. E. Stanton; K. J. Toyne
415-428	Creation of a nematic phase in mixtures of smectic A₁ phases	R. Dbrowski; B. Wayska; B. Sosnowska
429-436	High pressure phase diagrams of two homologous series of Inotropics	A. J. Nicastro; P. J. Bashus; E. B. Tuska
437-454	Solute alignment in liquid crystal solvents The Saupe ordering matrix for anthracene dissolved in uniaxial liquid crystals	J. W. Emsley; R. Hashim; G. R. Luckhurst; G. N. Shilstone
455-471	Observation of the tumbling instability in torsional shear flow of a nematic liquid crystal with α₃ > 0	T. Carlsson; K. Skarp
473-482	Point-like impurity-dislocation interactions in smectic A liquid crystals	L. Lejek
483-490	Evidence for the flexo-electric effect in a nematic liquid crystal cell	G. Barbero; P. Taverna Valabrega; R. Bartolino; B. Valenti
491-497	Preliminary Communication. Refractive index of a sheared cholesteric polymer	J. M. Gilli; G. Laivins; P. Sixou

Volume 1, Issue 4 (1986)

307-317	Some Novel Smectic* Liquid-Crystalline Side-Chain Polymers	G. Decobert; J. C. Dubois; S. Esselin; C. Noel
319-325	Orientational Ordering of Dyes in the Glassy State of Liquid-Crystalline Side Group Polymers	H. Ringsdorf; H. W. Schmidt; G. Baur; R. Kiefer; F. Windscheid
327-336	Polymerization of Bisacrylic Monomers within a Liquid-Crystalline Smectic B Solvent	Paolo Mariani; Bruno Samorig; A. Sante Angeloni; Paolo Ferruti
337-355	Free Energies in the Landau and Molecular Field Approaches	J. Katriel; G. F. Kventsel; G. R. Luckhurst; T. J. Sluckin
357-370	Liquid-Crystalline Behaviour in the n-Alkyl Gluconamides and Other Related Carbohydrates	B. Pfannemuller; W. Welte; E. Chin; J. W. Goodby
371-377	Orientational Behaviour of the Nematic Director upon Macroscopic Rotation at the Magic Angle	J. P. Bayle; A. Khandar-shahabad; J. Courtieu; S. K. Kan
379-396	Ternary Phase Equilibria for a Nitrocellulose/Solvent/Non-Solvent System	C. Viney; A. H. Windle
397-400	X-Ray Investigation of Discotic Mesophases of Alkylthio Substituted Triphenylenes	E. F. Gramsbergen; H. J. Hoving; W. H. De Jeu; K. Praefcke; B. Kohne
401-405	Variation of Hypersound Velocity in the Isotropic Phase of Liquid Crystal Mixtures	G. W. Bradberry; P. S. Cann

Volume 1, Issue 3 (1986)

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209-214	Structure of the smectic D phase	G. Etherington; A. J. Leadbetter; X. J. Wang; G. W. Gray; A. Tajbakhsh
215-226	Mesophase formation in lead(II) decanoate	A. M. Amorim; Da. Costa; H. D. Burrows; C. F. G. C. Geraldes; J. J. C. Teixeira-dias; C. G. Bazuin; D. Guillon; A. Skoulios; E. Blackmore; G. J. T. Tiddy; D. L. Turner
227-237	Lien experimental entre la viscosité et la longueur de correlation ζ∥ dans les smectiques hexatiques B et F	Par P. Oswald
239-251	Rotational viscosity of nematic liquid crystals and their shear viscosity under flow alignment	F. -J. Bock; H. Kneppe; F. Schneider
253-269	Molecular dynamics of a smectic liquid-crystalline side-chain polymer in its unaligned and aligned states as studied by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy	George S. Attard; Graham Williams
271-280	The determination of the viscosity coefficients of nematic liquid crystals	G. J. O'neill
281-286	Electrically-induced optical storage effects in smectic polysiloxanes A variable transmission device	R. Simon; H. J. Coles
287-300	The parabolic focal conic texture in a lyotropic liquid-crystalline polymer	A. M. Donald; C. Viney; A. P. Ritter
301-304	Dielectric relaxation in the planarly-aligned nematic phase of a siloxane side-chain polymer Comparison of theory with experiment	K. Araki; G. S. Attard
305	Thermodynamic, structural and morphological studies on liquid-crystalline blue phases	H. Stegemeyer; Th. Blümel; K. Hiltrop; H. Onusseit; F. Porsch

Volume 1, Issue 2 (1986)

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109-125	Designing new lyotropic amphiphilic mesogens to optimize the stability of nematic phases	N. Boden; R. J. Bushby; L. Ferris; C. Hardy; F. Sixl
127-132	A quasielastic neutron scattering study of molecular reorientation in the nematic phases of PAP and POAB	K. Chledowska; D. Chruściel; J. Chruściel; B. Janik; J. A. Janik; J. M. Janik; J. Krawczyk; K. Otnes
133-146	Computer simulation studies of anisotropic systems XIV. Binary mixtures of liquid crystals	R. Hashim; G. R. Luckhurst; S. Romano
147-153	Magnetohydrodynamics Of Nematic Mesophases by E.S.R.	M. P. Eastman; B. A. Freiha; B. Kessel; C. Allen Chang
155-167	Dispersion and attenuation of the eigenwaves for light propagation in heiicoidal liquid crystals	Ibrahim Abdulhalim; Raoul Weil; Lucien Benguigui
169-180	Light scattering and dielectric studies of molecular association in mesogenic solutions	D. A. Dunmur; K. Toriyama
181-188	The thermotropic mesophase structure of two long-chain alkyl pyridinium halides	C. G. Bazuin; D. Guillon; A. Skoulios; J. -F. Nicoud
189-195	Etude R.M.N. des effets inertiels dans un mélange de cristaux liquides nématiques d'anisotropie de susceptibilite magnétique opposée	J. P. Bayle; A. Khandar-shahabad; J. Courtieu
197-201	Structure of the core of a screw dislocation in smectic A liquid crystals	Harald Pleiner
203-207	Density measurements on liquid-crystalline side-chain polysiloxanes	M. F. Achard; F. Hardouin; G. Sigaud; M. Mauzac

Volume 1, Issue 1 (1986)

a	Editorial board page for “Liquid Crystals”, Volume 1, Number 1
1	Editorial	G. R. Luckhurst; E. T. Samulski
3-28	Thermodynamic, structural and morphological studies on liquid-crystalline blue phases	H. Stegemeyer; TH. Blümel; K. Hiltrop; H. Onusseit; F. Porsch
29-35	All-trans 2,7-dialkylperhydrophenanthrene as a solvent for measurements of helical twisting power and linear dichroism	Giovanni Gottarelli; Gian Piero Spada; Daniel Varech; Jean Jacques
37-51	The effect of molecular biaxiality on the bulk properties of some nematic liquid crystals	J. D. Bunning; D. A. Crellin; T. E. Faber
53-62	Application of time-resolved fluorescence in the study of lipid aggregates II. Motions and order of pyrene probes in an aligned lyotropic nematic phase	Lennart B.-Å. Johansson; Göran Lindblom
63-71	The determination of cholesteric pitch from the diffusion profile A new experimental approach	H. Hakemi; P. P. Varanasi
73-80	A surface-alignable micellar nematic	Matthew A. Marcus
81-86	Critical heat capacity variation at the smectic A₁–smectic A₂ transition	C. W. Garland; C. Chiang; F. Hardouin
87-96	Deuterium N.M.R. studies of polypeptides I. Sidechain orientation in poly(γ-benzyl L-glutamate) and the mechanism of the cholesteric sense inversion	Hirokazu Toriumi; Toshimasa Yamazaki; Akihiro Abe; Edward T. Samulski
97-100	Osmotic pressure of a nematic solution of polydisperse rod-like macromolecules	Theo Odijk
101-105	Intercalated smectic-A structures in a new class of laterally branched substances	S. Diele; W. Weißflog; G. Pelzl; H. Manke; D. Demus
107	The British Liquid Crystal Society	H. J. Coles