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While some video display screens such as liquid crystal, gas plasma or vacuum fluorescent displays do not present the same charged screen hazards as CRTs, this does not imply that they are safe for use in hazardous locations. This requires special design and certification for use with a given flammable atmosphere. Non-certified equipment used in locations classified as hazardous under Article 500 of NFPA 70 National Electrical Code require a purged or pressurized enclosure to control ignition hazards as described in NFPA 496 Standard for Purged and Pressurized Enclosures for Electrical Equipment. The screen in this case is located behind a window in the enclosure. 

Crystalline polymers primarily of interest as fibres, including some grades which may be considered as liquid crystal polymers. 

Supramolecules and supramolecular assemblies including silsesquioxanes and azacrown ethers fragments as liquid crystals with restricted molecular topology 98CC2057. 

Ionic liquids as liquid crystals Seddon, Holbrey, Gordon et al. 10, 11... 

The properties of materials are consequences of their structures at the molecular level. Solids are the mainstays of technology, and it is hardly surprising that so much effort has gone into the development and understanding of their properties. We dealt with their electrical properties in Sections 3.13 and 3.14. Here we explore some of their other physical properties as well as the properties of the much softer materials known as liquid crystals. 

In order to make polymers behave as liquid crystals it is necessary to introduce some structural rigidity. A typical polymer which has the required rigidity is poly(phenylenetetraphthalamide) (10.7). This material belongs to a class of polymer known as the aramids. Other liquid crystalline polymers are the thermotropic polyesters derived from /7-hydroxybenzoic acid, p, p -biphenol and terephthalic acid (10.8). 

Applying MD to systems of biochemical interest, such as proteins or DNA in solution, one has to deal with several thousands of atoms. Models for systems with long spatial correlations, such as liquid crystals, micelles, or any system near a phase transition or critical point, also must involve a large number of atoms. Some of these systems, including synthetic polymers, obey certain scaling laws that allow the estimation of the behaviour of a large system by extrapolation. Unfortunately, proteins are very precise structures that evade such simplifications. So let us take 10,000 atoms as a reasonable size for a realistic complex system. 

Depending on the R group, this reaction could lead to the formation of gold(I) isocyanide complexes that behave as liquid crystals. Thus, complexes [Au(C6F5) (C = N(QH4)OCioH2i-p)] and [Au(QF5)(C = N(QH4)OCnH2n + rP)] [64] where n = 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 show this behavior. All of these complexes are mesomorphic and behave as liquid crystals showing a nematic (N) phase when the isocyanide has a... 

The iterative synthesis of bi- and tercyclohexyl derivatives as liquid crystals shows that this method is widely applicable in various fields of chemistry... 

Monolayers are thus very useful in understanding various aspects of molecular packing (such as liquid crystals, etc.). With the information from area/molecule, the packing and other interaction parameters can be estimated. These monolayer studies have been found to be important in understanding the thin-liquid film (TLF) structures (bubbles, foams). 

The aggregates created by amphiphiles are usually spherical (as in the case of micelles), but may also be disc-like (bicelles), rodlike, or biaxial (all three micelle axes are distinct) (Zana, 2008). These anisotropic self-assembled nanostructures can then order themselves in much the same way as liquid crystals do, forming large-scale versions of all the thermotropic phases (such as a nematic phase of rod-shaped micelles). 

Reglospeclflc functionalization of biphenyl is drawing attention as one of key steps in developing advanced materials such as liquid crystals and liquid crystal polymers [1-5]. Catalysis using zeolites is the most promising way to prepare sterlcally small molecules by differentiating between reactants, products, and/or intermediates according to their size and shape. Sterlc restrictions by zeolites Increase the formation of preferred products and prevent the formation of undesirable products [6]. We describe herein shape selective catalysis of 12-membered zeolites, H-mordenite (HM), HY and HL In the alkylation of biphenyl. 

Thiazines have found applications in materials, such as liquid crystal displays. New synthetic methods for the synthesis of highly chlorinated 1,2-thiazines allow access to promising new substrates 46 <1996JOC9178> and 70 <2005JOC9314>. 

Liquid crystals are classified into lyotropic and thermotropic crystals depending on the way in which the mesomorphic phase is generated. Lyotropic liquid-crystalline solvents are formed by addition of controlled amounts of polar solvents to certain amphiphilic compounds. Thermotropic liquid-crystalline solvents, simply obtained by temperature variations, can be further classified into nematic, smectic, and cholesteric solvents depending on the type of molecular order present. Liquid crystals are usually excellent solvents for other organic compounds. Nonmesomorphic solute molecules may be incorporated into liquid-crystalline solvents without destruction of the order prevailing in the liquid-crystalline matrix (Michl and Thulstrup, 1986). Ordered solvent phases such as liquid crystals have also been used as reaction media, particularly for photochemical reactions (Nakano and Hirata, 1982). 

Zeolitic structures with pore sizes of 2000 to 10000 pm are known as mesoporous solids, and can be formed by a method known as liquid crystal templating (LCT). The combination of a suitable cationic surfactant together with silicate anions form arrays of rod-like surfactant micelles (Figure 3.7) surrounded by a polymeric siliceous framework. On calcination the mesoporous structure is formed. 

Low-pressure mercury lamps consist most frequently of a quartz cylinder with electrodes on both ends, although other shapes are also produced. Inside the lamp is a mixture of mercury and argon at a pressure of 10 to 10 Torn The emission from this lamp is 254 nm, and with high-quality quartz, some light with 189 nm wavelength is produced. Low-pressure lamps are of low power, and therefore are not used for the cure of coatings, but are well suitable for applications where slow cure rate is tolerated, such as liquid crystal displays or in resist technology for the production of microchips. 

Oligomeric phenylalkynes, which are potentially interesting as liquid crystals [276] or for the construction of molecular electronic devices [277,278], have been prepared on insoluble supports by strategies such as that outlined in Figure 16.31. Substituted TMS-protected (ethynyl)iodobenzenes were used as monomers in this instance. Oli-gothiophenes have been prepared by a similar synthetic strategy [278]. 

Acrylic ester polymers Acrylonitrile polymers Cellulose esters). Engineering plastics (qv) such as acetal resins (qv), polyamides (qv), polycarbonate (qv), polyesters (qv), and poly(phenylene sulfide), and advanced materials such as liquid crystal polymers, polysulfone, and polyetheretherketone are used in high performance applications they are processed at higher temperatures than their commodity counterparts (see Polymers containing sulfur). 

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