Читать книгу Liquid Crystals - Iam-Choon Khoo - Страница 19

Through various chemical synthesis techniques as well as nanotechnologies, an entire class of novel or so‐called functionalized liquid crystals have emerged [11–13]. Figure 1.14 shows, for example, the shuttlecock‐shaped liquid crystal formed by incorporating fullerene C60 to various crystals and liquid crystals reported by Sawamura et al. [11]. Others have investigated a special class of liquid crystals comprising disc‐like molecules, discotic liquid crystals, that possess interesting and useful semiconducting properties suitable for optoelectronic applications [12, 13].