NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY OF LIQUID CRYSTALS

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY OF LIQUID CRYSTALS

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER Ronald Y. Dong	i
Novel Strategies for Solving Highly Complex NMR Spectra of Solutes in Liquid Crystals E. Elliott Burnell, Cornelis A. de Lange and W. Leo Meerts	1
Analytical Potentials of Natural Abundance Deuterium NMR Spectroscopy in Achiral Thermotropics and Polypeptide Chiral Oriented Solvents Philippe Lesot and Christie Aroulanda	37
Noble Gas Probes in NMR Studies of Liquid Crystals Jukka Jokisaari	79
Bicelles – A Much Needed Magic Wand to Study Membrane Proteins by NMR Spectroscopy Ronald Soong, Jiadi Xu and Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy	117
Advances in Proton NMR Relaxometry in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals Pedro J. Sebastião, Carlos Cruz and António C. Ribeiro	129
Deuterium NMR Study of Magnetic Field Distortions in Ferroelectric Mesogens Ronald Y. Dong	169
Deuteron NMR Study of the Effects of Random Quenched Disorder in 12CB Silica Dispersions Daniele Finotello and Vishal Pandya	201
Dynamics of Liquid Crystals by means of Deuterium NMR Relaxation Carlo Alberto Veracini and Valentina Domenici	229
Translational Self-diffusion Measurements in Thermotropics by means of Static Field Gradients NMR Diffusometry Mario Cifelli	263
Deuterium NMR Studies of Static and Dynamic Director Alignment for Low Molar Mass Nematics Akihiko Sugimura and Geoffrey R. Luckhurst	301
Viscoelastic Properties of Liquid Crystals: Statistical-mechanical Approaches and Molecular Dynamics Simulations Alex V. Zakharov	341
Carbon-13 NMR Studies of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals Ronald Y. Dong	375
A Combined DFT and Carbon-13 NMR Study of a Biaxial Bent-core Mesogen Alberto Marini, Veena Prasad and Ronald Y. Dong	413
BACK MATTER Ronald Y. Dong	451
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