Recent advancements in understanding thermotropic liquid crystal structure and dynamics by means of NMR spectroscopy

• Advances in NMR spectroscopy methods applied to liquid crystals
• Short review on NMR experiments on biaxial nematics
• Order and magnetic field effect on ferroelectric SmC* and de Vries phases
• Order and dynamics in V-shaped liquid crystals by NMR
• 2H NMR studies on liquid crystal elastomers

Recent progresses of NMR spectroscopy to the study of liquid crystals and related ordered systems are surveyed. Particular attention will be devoted to review suitably tailored NMR experiments and their applications on those systems (e.g. biaxial nematics, chiral smectics, V shaped mesogens, liquid crystalline elastomers) which are presently subject of active and innovative research.

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