1. Preface

   • B. K. Sadashiva

   EditorialNotes Pages: 187 - 187

2. Recent results on some columnar paramagnetic metallomesogens

   • W. Haase
   • S. Wrobel
   • K. Falk

   OriginalPaper Pages: 189 - 198

3. Molecularengineering of discotic nematic liquid crystals

   • Sandeep Kumar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 203

4. Contribution of proton NMR relaxation to the investigation of molecular dynamics in columnar mesophases of discotic and polycatenar molecules

   • A. C. Ribeiro
   • P. J. Sebastiao
   • C. Cruz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 218

5. Columnar phases exhibited by some polycatenar ligands and a few related metal complexes

   • B. K. Sadashiva
   • V. A. Raghunathan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 229

6. The elusive thermotropic biaxial nematic phase in rigid bent-core molecules

   • Bharat R. Acharya
   • Andrew Primak
   • Satyendra Kumar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 237

7. Banana-shaped 1,2,4-oxadiazoles

   • S. I. Torgova
   • T. A. Geivandova
   • A. Strigazzi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 248

8. Ordering in nematic liquid crystals from NMR cross-polarization studies

   • K. V. Ramanathan
   • Neeraj Sinha

   OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 262

9. Electric field generated solitons, disclinations and vortical flows in freely suspended nematic 8CB

   • K. S. Krishnamurthy
   • R. Balakrishnan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 275

10. The cone phase of liquid crystals: Triangular lattice of double-tilt cylinders

    • Yashodhan Hatwalne
    • N. V. Madhusudana

    OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 283

11. Insights on some chiral smectic phases

    • B Pansu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 285 - 295

12. Viscoelastic modes in chiral liquid crystals

    • K. A. Suresh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 312

13. Displaying gray shades in liquid crystal displays

    • T. N. Ruckmongathan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 313 - 329

14. Conducting polymer based biomolecular electronic devices

    • B. D. Malhotra
    • Rahul Singhal

    OriginalPaper Pages: 331 - 343

15. Statistical mechanics of thermal denaturation of DNA oligomers

    • Navin Singh
    • Yashwant Singh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 345 - 352

16. The elastic theory of a single DNA molecule

    • Haijun Zhou
    • Yang Zhang
    • Zhang-Can Ou-Yang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 353 - 360

17. Hydrophobicity-induced drying transition in alkanethiol self-assembled monolayer—water interface

    • V. Lakshminarayanan
    • Ujjal Kumar Sur

    OriginalPaper Pages: 361 - 371

18. Fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy: Three-dimensional imaging of the director

    • O. D. Lavrentovich

    OriginalPaper Pages: 373 - 384

19. Bidimensional distortion in ferroelectric liquid crystals with strong anchoring in bookshelf geometry

    • S. Ponti
    • M. Becchi
    • S. Torgova

    OriginalPaper Pages: 385 - 393

20. Banana-shaped molecules derived from substituted isophthalic acids

    • H. T. Nguyen
    • J. P. Bedel
    • M. F. Achard

    OriginalPaper Pages: 395 - 404

21. On some liquid crystalline phases exhibited by compounds made of bent-core molecules and their mixtures with rod-like molecules

    • R. Pratibha
    • N. V. Madhusudana
    • B. K. Sadashiva

    OriginalPaper Pages: 405 - 415

22. Influence of hydrogen bonding on the generation and stabilization of liquid crystalline polyesters, poly(esteramide)s and polyacrylates

    • C. K. S. Pillai
    • K. Y. Sandhya
    • M. Saminathan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 417 - 423

23. Segmented conjugated polymers

    • G. Padmanaban
    • S. Ramakrishnan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 425 - 434

24. Photo-orientation at liquid crystal—polymer interfaces

    • I. Jánossy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 435 - 445

25. Structures of some surfactant—polyelectrolyte complexes

    • Rema Krishnaswamy
    • V. A. Raghunathan
    • A. K. Sood

    OriginalPaper Pages: 447 - 454

26. From antiferroelectricity to ferroelectricity in smectic mesophases formed by bent-core molecules

    • Carsten Tschierske
    • Gert Dantlgraber

    OriginalPaper Pages: 455 - 481