Liquid crystals future research issues

It is beyond the scope of this review to be exhaustive in the field of supercooled liquids that has drawn intense research activities over several decades. Reviews that are exclusive for this field and deal with specific topics in considerable detail are recommended for supplemental reading [9-11]. In view of the scope this chapter, the next section provides the readers with a brief introduction to the systems of interest and associated nomenclature. Section III sets up the background by reviewing experimental results on the dynamics of thermotropic liquid crystals across the I-N transition, then introducing the central issues in the dynamics of supercooled liquids, and finally comparing the dynamics of the two systems in the light of recent experiments. Section IV presents a summary of some of the well-known theoretical approaches to liquid crystals. Section V provides a detailed account of computational efforts. Finally, we conclude in Section VI with a list of problems for future work. 

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