1st Edition
Liquid Crystal Sensors
Introduction. Structural variety of liquid crystals and similarities of their optical properties. Principles for building liquid crystalline sensors. Low molar mass thermotropic liquid crystals as mechanical and environmental sensors. Lyotropic liquid crystals as biological sensors. Polymer based chemical sensors. Sensor prototypes and future developments. References.
Biography
Albert Schenning is a professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His research focuses on functional organic materials.
Gregory P. Crawford is the 22nd president of Miami University. His work includes more than 400 research and education publications, review articles, and book chapters, and 21 U.S. patents and patent applications.
Dirk J. Broer is a professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interests include polymer chemistry, polymer technology, liquid crystal technology, functional organic materials and devices, and computer science.
The book is well written and illustrated, even if colour figures are restricted to a section in the centre of the volume. The chapters are to a very large extend extensively referenced, so that the reader will find it easy to accumulate more detailed information if desired, although one may get the impression on occasion that very recent publications on some of the topics possibly have been omitted. In any case, this is a worthwhile volume of the Liquid Crystals Book Series by CRC Press, which provides an interesting overview about different aspects and possibilities of sensing with liquid crystal based devices.
- Ingo Dierking Liquid Crystals Today
