Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties provides insight into the latest developments in the research on liquid crystals formed by bent-shaped mesogens. After a historical introduction, the expert authors discuss different kinds of mesophase structures formed by bent-shaped molecules. This book devotes the majority of its pages to physical properties such as polar switching, optics and non-linear optics, and behavior in restricted geometries. However, as chemistry is often highly relevant to the emergence of new phases, particularly with reflection symmetry breaking, it also involves a broad spectrum of interesting chemistry viewpoints.

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). Liquid crystals are substances that have properties which are intermediate between those of a conventional liquid and those of a solid crystal. This special collection comprises peer-reviewed papers that are concerned with all aspects of liquid crystal science and technology. The volume consists of five parts: plenary lectures, the molecular design and synthesis of liquid crystals, the characterization of liquid crystals, the applications of liquid crystals, and the emerging technologies and materials relevant to information display.

This book provides insight into the latest developments in the research on liquid crystals formed by bent-core mesogens. After a short historical introduction, the authors discuss different kinds of mesophase structures formed by bent-core molecules. A majority of this book is devoted to physical properties such as elasticity, optics and non-linear optics, and behavior in restricted geometries. As chemistry is often relevant to the emergence of new phases, particularly with chiral symmetry breaking, chemistry viewpoints are broadly involved in this book.

The field of liquid crystal is relatively new area of chemistry, and therefore generates a large frontier of research. The ability of being able to produce high resolution display screens for use in televisions or laptop computers with a very low power consumption, has revolutionised the technological market for this product. As a result of the success of the knowledge already known about liquid crystals and their properties, and their as yet unexplored potential, it is not suprising that there is an extremely large amount of research into the area. In relation to this, in this project, a five ring bent-shaped liquid crystal, which is relatively new compound in liquid crystalline phase, was synthesized using several organic synthesis methods, such as, Diazonium coupling reaction, Williamson ether synthesis, hydrolysis and reaction with resorcinol. The compounds synthesized were characterized through FTIR analysis, melting point, and its physical apperances. Other than that, the percent yield for each compound also have been calculated. The compound synthesized in first step, ethyl4-4-(hydroxyphenylazo)benzoate was a red color solid with melting point at 235 C and the percent yield was 52.07%. In second step 3.542 grams of Ethyl-4-(4-hexadecanoxyphenylazo)benzoate which orange in color with melting point of 135 C was obtained. The percent yield from the reaction was 42.11%. The third compound synthesized was yellow color solid with melting point of 280-290 C and the final compound was 1,3-Phenelyne bis[4-(4-hexadecanoxyphenylazo)benzoate], a pale yellow color solid with melting point at range of 130-135 C was obtained.

Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties provides insight into the latest developments in the research on liquid crystals formed by bent-shaped mesogens. After a historical introduction, the expert authors discuss different kinds of mesophase structures formed by bent-shaped molecules. This book devotes the majority of its pages to physical properties such as polar switching, optics and non-linear optics, and behavior in restricted geometries. However, as chemistry is often highly relevant to the emergence of new phases, particularly with reflection symmetry breaking, it also involves a broad spectrum of interesting chemistry viewpoints.

The phases of matter between isotropic liquid and well-ordered crystalline solid phases are known as liquid crystal phases. The molecular architecture, which includes structure, polarity, and topology, influences the liquid crystal phases formed by mesomorphic materials. The most common and widely studied liquid crystal phase is the nematic phase formed by rod-like molecules. The molecules in this phase have only orientational order, which means they prefer to align along a single axis while their positions are random addition they do not have polarity. Flexible bent-shape molecules where an odd number of methylene groups connect two rigid arms exhibit twist-bend nematic (N_TB)" phase. In the N_TB phase, the molecules have a heliconical structure with a 10 nm range pich. Rigid achiral bent-shape materials typically show polar and chiral smectic structures because tilted and polar packing makes each smectic layer chiral. Lastly, rod-shaped molecules with large (about 10 Debye) dipole moments form the ferroelectric nematic phase predicted by Max Born in 1916 but experimentally observed only a few years ago. In my dissertation, I will describe various studies of the nanostructure of different flexibly bent-core liquid crystal materials exhibiting the N_TB Phase, structures of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric smectic phases of rigid bent-shape materials, and multiple ferroelectric nematic phases of a highly polar rod-shape substance.