CCMM'98 Chemistry and Characterization of Mesophase Materials 

Although the International Liquid Crystal Conference in Strasbourg in July 1998 was a most notable exception, it is unfortunately true that the chemistry content of many liquid crystal meetings is painfully low. This fact, along with a strong desire to show the growing commonality of work in thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals, and in block copolymers, was enough to persuade a group of scientists in Bayreuth that it might be timely to organize a meeting primarily to present results on the chemistry and characterization of these mesophase materials. So, from 7-9 October 1998, around 100 delegates from the USA to Japan, via Europe, congregated in the old Fraconian city of Bayreuth for two-and-a-half days of synthesis and structure under the title CCMM'98.