Liquid Crystals and Carbon Nanotubes

The nano-materials doped liquid crystals (LCs) started new directions in various areas of science and technology and paved a way to fabricate better electro-optic devices. The doping of SWCNTs in LCs has been creating immense interest around the world in order to have improved electro-optic devices by controlling the alignment. Chapter 1 begins with introduction of liquid crystal phases and structure–property relationships of the LC monomers and synthesis types of carbon nanotubes. We reviewed their physical properties electro-optic properties; effect of alignments molecular architecture and future scope of the work is discussed in this chapter. Then finally literature is surveyed in Chapter 2 which reflects its practical applications and define the aim of present research work. Chapter 3 includes the experimental techniques used for preparation and characterization of dopant material in liquid crystals to determine their morphological dielectric responses for the interpretation of results is also provided. Chapter 4 reflects the experimental studies on Ferroelectric LCs doped with nanotubes presenting some interesting results.