Front Matter; Mesophase Behaviour at the Borderline between Calamitic and "Banana-shaped" Mesogens; Physical Properties of Banana Liquid Crystals; Atomistic-Resolution Structural Studies of Liquid Crystalline Materials Using Solid-State NMR Techniques; Separated Local Field Nmr Spectroscopy in Columnar Liquid Crystals; Phase Biaxiality in Nematic Liquid Crystals; NMR Study of Self-Diffusion; Structure and Dynamics of Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymers by NMR Spectroscopy; Recent Experimental Developments at the Nematic to Smectic-A Liquid Crystal Phase Transition.
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Covers developments in the field of thermotropic liquid crystals and and assesses their functional importance. This text includes chapters covering the applications of high-resolution methods, such as solid-state NMR, that have been used to understand the high-resolution structure, dynamics, orientation, and orientational order of these molecules.