Nanoscience with Liquid Crystals: From Self-Organized Nanostructures to Applications

Preface.- Computer Simulations of Self-Organized Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures.- Self-Organized Bent-Core Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures and Their Applications.- Lyotropic Chromic Liquid Crystals.- Self-Organized Ionic Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures and Their Applications.- Holographic Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals for Photonics.- Liquid Crystal Template Self-Assembly of Nanoporous Particles: Shape Control and the Applications.- Liquid Crystal Mediated Self-assembly at Nanodroplet Interfaces or Topographic Substrates.- Photoresponsive Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers: From Photonics to Nanotechnology.- Carbon Nanotubes in Liquid Crystals.- Liquid Crystalline Fullerene Nanostructures.- The Enabling Duo of Liquid Crystals and Graphene.- Liquid Crystalline Metal Nanoparticle Composites for the Next Generation of LC Devices.- Nanoscale Orientational Ordering in Liquid Crystal Phases.- Self-Assembled Periodic Liquid Crystal Defects for Soft Lithographic Template.