Functional organic liquids / edited by Takashi Nakanishi.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 18, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The first book to comprehensively cover the burgeoning new class of soft materials known as functional organic liquids. Functional organic liquids, a new concept in soft matter materials science, exhibit favorable properties compared to amorphous polymers and ionic liquids. They are composed of a functional core unit and a side chain, which induces fluidity even at room temperature. Due to their fluidity, functional organic liquids can adopt any shape and geometry and fulfill their function in stretchable and bendable devices for applications in photovoltaics, organic electronics, biomedicine, and biochemistry. Presented in five parts, this book starts with an overview of the design methods and properties of functional organic liquids. The next three parts focus on the applications of this exciting new class of soft materials in the fields of energy conversion, nanotechnology, and biomaterials. They study the liquids for energy conversion, those containing inorganic nanoclusters, and solvent-free soft biomaterials. Functional Organic Liquids concludes with a comparison in terms of properties and application potential between functional organic liquids and more conventional soft matter such as ionic liquids and liquid metals.-Examines the current state of science and technology for functional organic liquids -Focuses on potential and already realized applications such as functional organic liquids for energy conversion -Stimulates researchers to move forward on future development and applications Functional Organic Liquids is an excellent book for materials scientists, polymer chemists, organic chemists, physical chemists, surface chemists, and surface physicists.

Room-Temperature Liquid Dyes / Bhawani Narayan, Takashi Nakanishi -- Low-Melting Porphyrins and Their Photophysical Properties / Agnieszka Nowak-Król, Daniel T Gryko -- Porous Liquids / Stuart L James, Ben Hutchings -- Cyclic Host Liquids for the Formation of Rotaxanes and Their Applications / Tomoki Ogoshi, Takahiro Kakuta, Tada-aki Yamagishi -- Photochemically Reversible Liquefaction/Solidification of Sugar-Alcohol Derivatives / Haruhisa Akiyama -- Functional Organic Supercooled Liquids / Kyeongwoon Chung, Da Seul Yang, Jinsang Kim -- Organic Liquids in Energy Systems / Pengfei Duan, Nobuhiro Yanai, Nobuo Kimizuka -- Organic Light Emitting Diodes with Liquid Emitters / Jean-Charles Ribierre, Jun Mizuno, Reiji Hattori, Chihaya Adachi -- Liquids Based on Nanocarbons and Inorganic Nanoparticles / Avijit Ghosh, Takashi Nakanishi -- Solvent-Free Nanofluids and Reactive Nanofluids / John Texter -- Solvent-Free Liquids and Liquid Crystals from Biomacromolecules / Kai Liu, Chao Ma, Andreas Herrmann -- Ionic Liquids / Hiroyuki Ohno -- Room-Temperature Liquid Metals as Functional Liquids / Minyung Song, Michael D Dickey.