Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Organic Chemistry at the 218th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 22-26, 1999. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
pt. 1. Characterization of polar materials -- Characterization of NLO-materials for photonic application / S. Grossmann -- Quantitative measurement of internal molecular electric fields in solids / Peter Geissinger -- pt. 2. Organic thin films -- Self-assembly growth of organic thin films and nanostructures by molecular beam deposition / Chengzhi Cai -- Unimolecular rectification between 370 K and 105 K and spectroscopic properties of hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide / Robert M. Metzger -- pt. 3. Molecular materials in crystals -- closo boranes as pi structural elements for advanced anisotropic materials / Piotr Kaszynski -- Iodine and organoiodide templates in supramolecular synthesis / T.W. Hanks -- Arene-arene double T-contacts: lateral synthons in the engineering of highly anisotropic organic molecular crystals / Michael Lewis -- Relationship between molecular structure, polarization, and crystal packing in 6-arylfulvenes / Stuart W. Staley -- Optical properties of organic wide band-gap semiconductors under high pressure / W. Guha -- Optical probes of crystal growth mechansisms: intrasectoral zoning / Richard W. Gurney -- pt. 4. Liquid and crystals -- Fabrication of organic microcrystals and their optical properties / H. Oikawa -- Some applications of organic microcrystals / H. Oikawa -- pt. 5. Liquid crystals -- Molecular design of highly fluorinated liquid crystals / Frédéric Guittard -- First nematic calamitic liquid crystals with negative birefringence / Volker Reiffenrath -- Liquid crystalline trioxadecalins: the mesogenic chirality as sensor for molecular conformation and orientation / Volkmar Vill -- Spontaneous polarization in ferroelectric liquid crystals: role of the molecular architecture and optical purity / D. Guillon -- Optical switching of a ferroelectric liquid crystal spatial light modulator using chiral thioindigo dopants / Robert P. Lemieux -- Order-disorder and order-order transitions in smectic C* liquid crystalline diblock copolymers / Mitchell Anthamatten -- Ferroelectric liquid crystalline polymers / R. Shashidhar -- Design of smectic liquid crystal phases using layer interface clinicity / David M. Walba -- Control of structure formation of 1,3,5-triazines through intermolecular hydrogen bonding and CT-interactions / D. Janietz.
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