edited by Ronald Y Dong (University of British Columbia, Canada)

This edited volume provides an extensive overview of how nuclear magnetic resonance can be an indispensable tool to investigate molecular ordering, phase structure, and dynamics in complex anisotropic phases formed by liquid crystalline materials. The chapters, written by prominent scientists in their field of expertise, provide a state-of-the-art scene of developments in liquid crystal research. The fantastic assortment of shape anisotropy in organic molecules leads to the discoveries of interesting new soft materials made at a rapid rate which not only inject impetus to address the fundamental physical and chemical phenomena, but also the potential applications in memory, sensor and display devices. The review volume also covers topics ranging from solute studies of molecules in nematics and biologically ordered fluids to theoretical approaches in treating elastic and viscous properties of liquid crystals. This volume is aimed at graduate students, novices and experts alike, and provides an excellent reference material for readers interested in the liquid crystal research. It is, indeed, a reference book for every science library to have.

• Novel Strategies for Solving Highly Complex NMR Spectra of Solutes in Liquid Crystals (E E Burnell et al.)
• Analytical Potentials of Natural Abundance Deuterium NMR Spectroscopy in Achiral Thermotropics and Polypeptide Chiral Oriented Solvents (P Lesot & C Aroulande)
• Noble Gas Probes in NMR Studies of Liquid Crystals (J Jokisaari)
• Bicelles — A Much Needed Magic Wand to Study Membrane Proteins by NMR Spectroscopy (R Soong et al.)
• Advances in Proton NMR Relaxometry in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals (P J Sebastião et al.)
• Deuterium NMR Study of Magnetic Field Distortions in Ferroelectric Mesogens (R Y Dong)
• Deuteron NMR Study of the Effects of Random Quenched Disorder in 12CB Silica Dispersions (D Finotello & V Pandya)
• Dynamics of Liquid Crystals by Means of Deuterium NMR Relaxation (C A Veracini & V Domenici)
• Translational Self-Diffusion Measurements in Thermotropics by Means of Statistic Field Gradients NMR Diffusometry (M Cifelli)
• Deuterium NMR Studies of Static and Dynamic Director Alignment for Low Molar Mass Nematics (A Sugimura & G R Luckhurst)
• Viscoelastic Properties of Liquid Crystals: Statistical-Mechanical Approaches and Molecular Dynamics Simulations (A V Zakharov)
• Carbon-13 NMR Studies of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals (R Y Dong)
• A Combined DFT and Carbon-13 NMR Study of a Biaxial Bent-Core Mesogen (A Marini et al.)