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LIQUID CRYSTAL INSTITUTE®

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

ANNUAL REPORT

July 1, 2010-June 30, 2011

Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Director

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Director’s Report .............................................................................................................................. 1 Achievements and Recognition ........................................................................................................ 3 Summary of Accomplishments and Activities ................................................................................. 4 Major Funding Sources and Expenditures ....................................................................................... 5 LCI Highlights ................................................................................................................................ 7 Table 1 Liquid Crystal Institute Staff ...................................................................................... 24 Table 2 Liquid Crystal Institute Research Personnel ............................................................... 25 Table 3 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Faculty ................................................. 26 Table 4 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Students ............................................... 28 Table 5 Scholarships and Fellowships ..................................................................................... 30 Table 6 Graduate Degrees Awarded ........................................................................................ 31 Table 7 Placement of Personnel ............................................................................................... 32 Table 8 Visiting Scientists ....................................................................................................... 33 Table 9 Grants and Contracts ................................................................................................... 35 Table 10 Proposals for Extramural Support ............................................................................... 39 Table 11 Patents ......................................................................................................................... 44 Table 12 Publications ................................................................................................................. 47 Table 13 Presentations ............................................................................................................... 56 Table 14 Other Scholarly Activities........................................................................................... 67 Table 15 Seminar Program ........................................................................................................ 70 Table 16 Industrial Partnership Program ................................................................................... 74 Table 17 Research Facility Report ............................................................................................. 75

APPENDICES

I. Achievements Jákli Receives Luckhurst Samulski Prize ........................................................................ 77 Li Publishes Book and Receives DoD MURI Grant ....................................................... 78 Lu Lu Receives SPIE Scholarship………………………... ……………….….…….....79

II. Outreach and Research Activities Liquid Crystal Today……………………………………………… …………………....80 Science Professional Development Workshop…………………… …………………….83

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Brochure……………………………….…84 Industrial Partnership Program and LCD Research Facility ............................................. 86 Technology Transfer Brochure.......................................................................................... 87

III. Extramural Grant Funding, 1973-2011 .................................................................................. 89 IV. Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals .......................................................................... 113

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2010-2011 Director’s Report Personnel In 2010-2011, the University continued reorganization of the Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI) and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program (CPIP) to reflect the performance metrics of the Responsibility Centered Model (RCM). On June 7, 2011, the University announced new research investments. As a part of the new initiative, the University appointed me as Trustees Research Professor and named Dr. Hiroshi Yokoyama the new Director of the Liquid Crystal Institute starting July 1, 2011. The LCI executive Committee (Drs. D. Allender, P. Bos, E. Kooijman, P. Palffy-Muhoray, S. Sprunt and myself) on its March 15, 2011 meeting reopened the search for the second Ohio Eminent Scholar at the LCI. The position is part of the Third Frontier Ohio Research Scholarship Program $15 M support for the project entitled “Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials (RC-SAM)". The five year project (2008-20013) lead by LCI in partnership with CWRU, Youngstown University, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Alpha Micron, Kent Displays, CoadnaPhotonics, Hana, and LXD is expected to bring new research breakthroughs in the field of surface science and to strengthen academia-industry collaboration. We welcomed internationally recognized specialist in the field of electron microscopy, Dr. Min Gao, to join the LCI and to operate and oversee the $2 M cryo-Transmissive Electron Microscopy (TEM) facility part of RC-SAM project. Thanks to Dr. Qi-huo Wei who championed the search for the TEM and Dr. Gao, the TEM facility has started to serve the community in Ohio and beyond in January 2011. Research The LCI continued to successfully bring extramural funding to Kent State University, applying for 56 grants totaling $67,505,506. LCI scientists were awarded 17 new grants totaling $4,026,278 with $28,785,623 in grant proposals pending at fiscal year end. LCI researchers led a multi-university proposal to NSF to establish the Science and Technology Center on Soft Active Metamatter (STC SAMM), in cooperation with Harvard, Georgia Tech, Argonne National Laboratory and other institutions. The initiative has successfully passed the first round of competition and has been invited to the round of full proposal in 2012. I am thankful to Drs. A. Jákli, E. Gartland, C. Kim, Q. Li, J. Selinger, R. Selinger, S. Shiyanovskii, and Q. Wei for their active participation. Dr. Antal Jákli has been awarded the 2010 Luckhurst-Samulski Prize. This is a Prize awarded annually to the best paper published in Liquid Crystals as selected by the Editorial Board. The article appeared as an invited contribution in a commemorative issue dedicated to Alfred Saupe, one of the founding fathers of the modern liquid crystal physics, who worked at the LCI in 1968-1992. The award-winning article provides an insight into one of the potentially rich non-display areas of liquid crystal applications in energy conversion and energy generating devices. Dr. Palffy-Muhoray continued to lead the Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (DoD MURI) project on new types of negative index materials. The partners represent University of California San Diego, Iowa State University, University of Michigan, University of Central Florida, New York University, and Wake Forest University. Dr. Li was among the recipients of the new DoD MURI grant totaling more than $7 million, to build 3D nanomaterials. Dr. Li cooperates with scholars at CWRU, Purdue University, Georgia Tech, and North Texas University. Among the notable achievements was the publication of a book entitled “Self-organized Organic Semiconductors: From Materials to Device Applications” edited by Dr. Quan Li in April 2011. This is the first book on the exciting topic of self-organized organic semiconductors. A group of LCI researchers that includes two CPIP graduate students, Oleg Pishnyak and Israel Lazo, published in the journal Nature a report on a new phenomenon of nonlinear electrophoresis in liquid

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crystals. The effect opens the door for alternating-current addressing of electrophoretic effects.

Education and Outreach The LCI organized (Drs. Bos and Palffy-Muhoray) and sponsored Symposium on Resonances in Liquid Crystals in honor of the LCI Director Emeritus Dr. J.W. (Bill) Doane on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Dr. Doane was the LCI director from 1979-1996. Under his leadership, the Institute secured an NSF grant to establish the Science and Technology Center on Advanced Liquid Crystal Optical Materials (ALCOM), 1991-2002, in cooperation with the University of Akron and Case Western Reserve University. The conference Liquid Crystal Day 2010 was hosted and sponsored by the LCI on October 8, 2010. The conference was chaired by Dr. Qi-huo Wei, with Drs. Hiroshi Yokoyama and Antal Jákli serving as the Organizing Committee members. In the development of our electronic infrastructure, Dr. Yokoyama greatly advanced the development of the new LCI Web page.

Scholarships Miss Lu Lu, was awarded a SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics. She proposed a new Young Education Outreach Program, which will involve more than 200 high school students. Lu is the President of our SPIE student chapter. Lu explores polymer–liquid crystal composites with her advisor, Dr. Bos.

Service LCI/CPIP continued to serve the research and industrial community through the Industrial Partnership Program (Bos), Synthesis Facilities (Chien, Li) and Characterization Facilities (Lavrentovich, Shiyanovskii). In 2011, the research infrastructure has been substantily expanded by the addition of the cryo-TEM facility (Gao), made possible through the Ohio Research Scholars Program grant. Besides the traditional TEM, the facility plans to offer high resolution TEM (HRTEM), scanning TEM (STEM), cryo-TEM, electron diffraction techniques, energy-filtered TEM (EFTEM), electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS). LCI personnel provide services (electron and atomic force microscopic analysis, cleanroom time, materials characterization, etc.) at no cost to KSU faculty. Invoices issued for services provided by LCI researchers and for use of our facilities by scientists from universities and industries in the liquid crystal field totaled more than $93K for this reporting period. This year’s annual report would not be complete without mentioning that the important role of the Liquid Crystal Institute in research, education, and economic development has been recognized by the Oval Office. On Nov. 5, 2010, President Obama announced 85 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the US government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Among these selected was 2003 CPIP graduate Dr. Ivan Smalyukh, who conducted his research at the LCI till April 2006 before joining the University of Colorado Boulder as an Associate Professor. On February 22, 2011, President Obama, hosting “Winning the Future” forum, presented successful development of new liquid crystal technologies and products at Kent Displays, Inc., one of the spin-offs of the LCI, as an important example of how an academic-industry partnership drives technological innovation and job creation. This is my last director report. I thank the entire University community and many friends outside this University for all the support I have received during the eight years as the LCI director. The facets of talent are unique in each and every person and I was fortunate to see these numerous facets combined into truly cooperative team efforts. I am confident the LCI will continue to prosper by getting the best from its members, under the leadership of the new director Hiroshi Yokoyama. I continue to enjoy cooperation with all of you in my capacity as the Trustees Research Professor.

Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Director

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Achievements and Recognition

Books L.C. Chien, C.O. Catanescu, L. Li, “Spatially-ordered polymers self-assembled in ordered liquid crystal templates,” in “Crosslinked Liquid Crystalline Systems: From Rigid Polymer Networks to Elastomers,” D. Broer, G.P. Crawford, and S. Zumer, Eds., Taylor and Francis. (2011).

E. Kooijman, C. Testerink, Phosphatidic acid-an electrostatic/hydrogen bond switch? Invited chapter in book titled, “Lipid Signalling in Plants” edited by Teun Munnik, Springer Verlag (2010). Q. Li, Editor, Self-organized Organic Semiconductors: From Materials to Device Applications, John Wiley & Sons (2011, ISBN 978-0-470-55973-4). Q. Li, Editor, Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, John Wiley & Sons (2012, ISBN 978-1-118-07861-7). C. Xu and Q. Li, “Semiconducting Discotic Liquid Crystals for Optoelectronic Applications” Chapter 2 in Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, Q. Li, Ed., John Wiley & Sons (2012, ISBN 978-1-118-07861-7). C. Yelamaggad, S. K. Prasad and Q. Li, “Photo-stimulated Phase Transformations in Liquid Crystals and Their Non-display Applications” Chapter 4 in Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, Q. Li, Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2012, ISBN 978-1-118-07861-7). Y. Wang and Q. Li, “Light-driven Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors in Liquid Crystal Media” Chapter 5 in Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, Q. Li, Ed., John Wiley & Sons (2012, ISBN 978-1-118-07861-7). Conference and Workshop Chairs Antal Jakli, Chair, 13th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Qi-Huo Wei, Chair, Liquid Crystal Today Awards Antal Jalki, 2010 Luckhurst-Samulski Prize Students Lu Lu, SPIE Scholarship Lena Lopatina, University Fellowship

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Summary of LCI Accomplishments and Activities

Proposals for Extramural Funding

Submitted 56 Awarded 17 Pending 15

Extramural Grants and Contracts Current Grants 58

Degrees Awarded Ph.D. 6 Masters 1

Students – Graduate Stipend and Tuition Support 43

Students – Undergraduates REU Summer Students 6 Honors Thesis, LCI/CPIP Advisors

Research Staff Faculty and Senior Research Staff 12 Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Associates, 18 Research Scientists, Interns, Display Engineers

Visitors Industrial and Academic Scientists Conducting 14 Collaborative Research at the LCI

Publications Journals and Book Chapters 80 Juried Conference Proceedings, Technical Reports 19

Presentations Invited Presentations 66 Oral Presentations 39 Poster Presentations 39

Patents Awarded 7 Applications 7 Invention Disclosures 8

Industrial Partnership Program IPP Full Members 14 IPP Associate Members 19

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Major Funding Sources and Expenditures 2010-2011

Major Funding Sources (in thousands)

University, Foundation and Grant Funds

*State of Ohio Funding includes $1M for Ohio Research Scholars endowment; for reporting purposes, the $5M endowment is shown as $1M per year for the 5-year RC-SAM grant period, FY09-FY13. Expenditures 2006-2011 (in thousands)

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Major Funding Sources and Expenditures

Historical Representative of Funding Sources (in thousands) KSU, NSF ALCOM and Other Extramural Support

Calculation of grant funding/expenditures For each grant, the total amount awarded is divided by the number of months in the grant project period to obtain an average monthly award amount. That figure is multiplied by the number of months the grant was active within the fiscal year reporting period. For grants shared with investigators from other departments, the fiscal year total is divided equally among the principal investigators and only the portion for LCI research personnel is counted (see Table 2). For reporting purposes, it is assumed that all funding is expended within the fiscal year reporting period. For grants with funding released on a year-to-year basis, only the current fiscal year funding is counted, rather than averaged over the entire grant period.

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LCI Highlights

Kent State Plans Exciting New Liquid Crystal Research Investments

Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute®, the most comprehensive research and educational center in the field of liquid crystals, has been demonstrating value with exciting new liquid crystal science initiatives since its creation in 1965. The applications of breakthrough findings at the institute have had an impact on the world, from liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions to computer monitors to new electronic devices, like the iPad. Kent State’s liquid crystal research also is an economic driver, aiding the region’s economy by incubating new businesses, attracting companies to Ohio because of its research pioneers and educated workforce, and leading to developing high-paying career paths for its graduates. Continuing its excellence in the liquid crystal field, Kent State will be implementing exciting, new research investments involving its people, programs and facilities. Lavrentovich Appointed Trustees Research Professor In recognition of his accomplishments in research and for his service as director of the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State since 2003, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Ph.D., has been appointed as Trustees Research Professor at the university, effective July 1, 2011, for a five-year term. Lavrentovich has an international reputation in liquid crystal research, marked by authorship of numerous publications in the discipline’s premier journals, authorship of definitive books and book chapters on liquid crystals, service on the editorial boards of leading scientific journals in liquid crystal science and condensed matter physics, and a sterling record of extramural support for research in liquid crystals. As director of the Liquid Crystal Institute, Lavrentovich provided leadership in obtaining Kent State’s Ohio Research Scholars Program award (Ohio Third Frontier) for a Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials, and in advancing Kent State’s role in marketplace development, culminating in President Barack Obama’s public recognition of the role of the Liquid Crystal Institute in technological innovation and job creation. As Trustees Research Professor, Lavrentovich will report to the Provost and will teach, advise students, maintain a program of research and lead special assignments. Yokoyama Named New Institute Director With Lavrentovich’s new university appointment, Hiroshi Yokoyama, Ph.D., has been named the new Director of the Liquid Crystal Institute starting July 1, 2011. Yokoyama is an Ohio Research Scholar and Professor of Chemical Physics for the Liquid Crystal Institute and the Chemical Physics program. He received his Doctor of Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Yokoyama is a world expert in the field of liquid crystal physics with a focus on surface properties. Prior to joining Kent State in 2009, he served as Director of the Nanotechnology Research Institute at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, one of the largest government-funded research organizations in Japan. As director of the Liquid Crystal Institute, Yokoyama will act as its chief executive officer. He will oversee the coordination of the Liquid Crystal Institute’s research programs and facilities as well as be responsible for administrative oversight of the institute. He also will represent the Liquid Crystal Institute and Kent State to business partners and the national and international research community.

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Expanding Research in Organic Photovoltaics and Bioengineering Kent State has announced additional news on the value-creation front with respect to expanding the university’s ability to conduct breakthrough research at the institute. Kent State President Lester A. Lefton has committed research funds to reinvest in Kent State’s liquid crystal technology to address new models of operation, namely organic photovoltaics and bioengineering for controlling cell behavior or device manufacturing. “A next generation vision for the Liquid Crystal Institute will leverage the group’s world-leading skills and reputation in basic and applied research, as well as our expertise in physics, chemistry, and biology,” says Robert G. Frank, Kent State’s Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs. Plans call for the hiring of two tenure-track faculty positions in organic photovoltaics, a theoretical materials physicist and a physical organic chemist. A third tenure-track hire in advanced electron transport has been authorized through the Ohio Research Scholars Program. Established by the Ohio General Assembly and coordinated by the Ohio Board of Regents, the Ohio Research Scholars Program provides grants to strengthen and increase the number of clusters of research excellence that are led by Ohio’s academic institutions that support regional economic priorities. “These individuals will give Kent State a formidable research presence in organic photovoltaics,” Frank says. “They will work on a new class of materials that heralds great potential, with clean energy applications expected to be particularly significant.” In addition, the university will hire two tenure-track faculty members in the College of Technology to focus on bioengineering aspects of liquid crystal technology. These scholars will work closely with chemists and physicists in the Liquid Crystal Institute and the chemistry, physics and biology departments to examine biosensors, biomimicry, biocompatibility, drug delivery, biomedical imaging and tissue scaffolds. Reinventing the Institute’s Infrastructure Finally, Kent State will renovate and update the clean room and other shared facilities in the Liquid Crystal and Materials Science Building, which houses the Liquid Crystal Institute and was built in 1996, to ensure that it supports emerging trends in device prototyping and micro- and nanofabrication and is attractive for use by a wider range of external partners beyond the traditional liquid crystal displays. “These investments in people and facilities will buoy all research and development activities in the Kent State liquid crystal community,” Lefton says. “I’m particularly energized by the collaborative nature of the hires, which connect university units traditionally in silos with respect to their research initiatives. These liquid crystal collaborative hires build upon the success of our appointments last year in psychology and biology to pursue the cellular mechanisms, psychological impact and treatment of trauma, in partnership with Summa Health System, and our strategic collaborative hires in public health and education to focus on obesity. “We must continue to build new fields of expertise, looking to areas such as materials science, public health, aviation safety, health communications, biosciences, behavioral sciences and psychology, chronic disease management, health disparities and biopreparedness,” Lefton continues.

Article originally reported in the June20, 2011 issue of eInside, the official employee newsletter of Kent State University.

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LCI Highlights

Liquid Crystal Day 2010

The Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program invite you to attend Liquid Crystal Day 2010, "Liquid Crystals With Biological Relevance" on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. The event will be held in the Liquid Crystal and Materials Sciences Building Samsung Auditorium.

Liquid Crystal Day serves to provide platforms for intellectual and enlightening interactions between students and researchers from different academic and professional areas. This annual event was initiated by Professor L. C. Chien in 2004 to continue the Liquid Crystal Institute's tradition of holding symposia on liquid crystals. The event is free and open to the public.

The goals of the event are three-fold: to provide a platform for several distinguished experts in the field of liquid crystals to shed light on some important topics in the field; to bring back Kent State alumni to speak about their experience at Kent State and how that experience helped advance their career, and to give future Ph.D. students in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Graduate Program a sneak peek of what the field of liquid crystals has to offer.

Distinguished Invited speakers include:

• Prof. Nicholas Abbot, University of Wisconsin • Prof. Robert Meyer, Brandeis University • Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Jianlin Li, Founder and President of Polytronix Inc.

Other highlights include:

• student talks, • student poster presentations, • Liquid Crystal Institute lab tours and demonstrations, and an • industrial exhibition

Article originally reported in the September 27, 2010 issue of eInside, the official employee newsletter of Kent State University.

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LCI Highlights

Researchers Discover New Phenomenon Involving Liquid Crystals

A team of researchers at Kent State University have discovered a new version of a widely used scientific technique. The technique is electrophoresis — in which an applied electric field is used to move particles dispersed in a fluid — and the new idea is to use a liquid crystal as the carrier fluid. The result is increased versatility, which may lead to new uses in display technologies, microfluidic devices and other applications.

Oleg Lavrentovich, Director of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute, collaborated with Kent State graduate student Israel Lazo and Oleg Pishnyak, a former Kent State graduate student who is now a senior scientist at Kent Displays, Inc. Their findings are published in the Oct. 21 edition of Nature, an international weekly journal of science.

Electrophoresis is used in contexts ranging from “electronic ink” for e-book readers, such as the Kindle, to the separation of DNA fragments in genome sequencing. When a charged particle is suspended in an isotropic fluid, such as water, application of an electric field causes the particle to move in the direction of the field, with a velocity directly proportional to the field strength. This linear electrophoresis effect is limited to charged (or asymmetric) particles in a direct-current electric field.

Lavrentovich and his colleagues show that if the isotropic carrier fluid is replaced by a nematic liquid crystal (comprising of aligned, rod-shaped molecules), the electrophoresis effect becomes strongly nonlinear. In the liquid crystal, the velocity is quadratically related to the applied voltage instead of linearly as is usually the case. The result is that uncharged particles — even perfectly symmetric ones — can be moved not only by a direct current (DC) field, but also by an alternating current (AC) field, in practically any direction relative to the applied field. The new effect is caused by distortions of the liquid-crystal orientation around the particle, which break the symmetry that would otherwise prevent directed motion.

The team began their research four years ago. “Liquid-crystal electrophoresis is much more versatile than its classic fluid counterpart,” Lavrentovich said. “In a regular fluid, the electrophoretic particle must be charged or be asymmetric, whereas in the liquid crystal, it can be of any shape and of any electric charge, including zero charge. The liquid crystal allows us to better control the directionality of the particle motion in space. It is a fundamentally new phenomenon.”

Up until this point, electrophoresis was typically associated with DC electric fields. “Our research shows that particles can be moved using alternating current,” Lavrentovich said. “The difference is important, because you can now create a steady flow of particles. Under a DC electric field the particles will eventually stop.”

“The Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State has been the birthplace of important liquid crystal technologies such as the electric field-controlled liquid crystal displays and polymer-liquid crystal composites,” Lavrentovich said. “Spin-off companies utilizing these technologies are having a huge impact on economic development in the Northeast Ohio region. We hope that the liquid crystal electrophoretic effect will bring some new practical applications in the future.”

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The research was supported by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Materials Research.

Article originally reported in the October 25, 2010 issue of eInside, the official employee newsletter of Kent State University.

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LCI Highlights

President Obama Honors Kent State Alum and Former LCI Researcher

Achievement marks second straight year that member of Kent State community receives prestigious presidential award Kent State University alumnus Dr. Ivan Smalyukh was recently honored at the White House, receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Barack Obama. Smalyukh, who earned his doctorate in chemical physics from Kent State in 2003, was also a researcher and adjunct assistant professor at Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI). Today, he is Assistant Professor in the Physics department at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a member of the university’s Liquid Crystals Materials Research Center. The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Smalyukh is one of only 85 researchers named to receive the prestigious award. He was nominated by the National Science Foundation. This is a second year in a row that a member of the Kent State community received the Presidential Early Career Award. In January 2010, Dr. Katherine Rawson, an associate professor in Kent State’s Department of Psychology, traveled to the White House to receive the award and meet the president. “I receive this great honor with deep gratitude,” Smalyukh said. “The PECASE award is a strong encouragement for me and for my students and will help us in our future work.” Dr. Oleg Lavrentovich, director of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute and professor of chemical physics, served as Smalyukh’s advisor at the stage of the Ph.D. thesis and again for Smalyukh’s postdoctoral fellowship at the institute. Lavrentovich said it is very rewarding to see a former student and colleague receive this award. “I am extremely proud that Ivan’s innovative research and hard work have been recognized by such a high honor,” Lavrentovich said. “The PECASE award is well deserved by Ivan who constantly demonstrates research work of the highest caliber and engages himself in disseminating the cutting-edge knowledge to the broader communities of scientists. Ivan organizes numerous international workshops at which the researchers have an opportunity to explore interdisciplinary programs and learn about the most intriguing development of modern science and technology.” Smalyukh credits his experience and education at Kent State with helping him with his career and winning the PECASE award. “My education and research experience at the Liquid Crystal Institute of Kent State University provided a solid background and courage needed for pursuing important and ambitious research goals.” Smalyukh remains connected to and engaged with Kent State. On Oct. 1, 2010, he returned to his alma

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mater to speak to a student organization he founded. “While working on his Ph.D. in 2002, Ivan founded Kent State’s chapter of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and became its first president,” Lavrentovich explained. “It is remarkable that eight years later, this very same SPIE chapter has invited Prof. Smalyukh as a distinguished lecturer to come and present his latest research to the new generation of students and researchers at the Liquid Crystal Institute.” Lavrentovich commented that his group continues to use the experimental techniques developed by Smalyukh during his time at Kent State. He also said that the university benefits from Smalyukh’s accomplishment of receiving the Presidential Early Career Award. “Kent State’s commitment to excellence in the field of liquid crystals has brought many wonderful achievements over the 45 years of the Liquid Crystal Institute, from the invention of new display technologies to the state of Ohio’s funding of a research cluster of excellence at the LCI,” Lavrentovich said. “The PECASE award to our graduate Dr. Ivan Smalyukh testifies that the LCI’s educational and research efforts fit the highest national and international standards.” Article originally reported on February 28, 2011 on the Kent State University News and Events website.

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LCI Highlights

Kent State Researchers Solve Geometry Problem That Assists Drilling Industry

Peter Palffy-Muhoray and Xiaoyu Zheng Two Kent State University researchers recently found out that solving an abstract geometry problem can yield unexpected benefits. In the 1970s, then-graduate student Peter Palffy-Muhoray was obsessed with what he thought would be a simple geometry problem — calculating how close you can bring two ellipses together without one being on top of the other. It turned out to be a much more complicated problem than he originally thought, one that dogged Palffy-Muhoray for more than 25 years. “I went to liquid crystal conferences and even offered a good bottle of whiskey to the theorist who could solve the problem,” says Palffy-Muhoray, now Associate Director of Kent State University’s Liquid Crystal Institute™. “But it turned out nobody succeeded in solving the problem.” Palffy-Muhoray, who is a Professor of Chemical Physics at Kent State, revisited the problem a few years ago with Xiaoyu Zheng, Assistant Professor in the university’s Department of Mathematical Sciences, and the pair finally cracked the code. “We solved the problem in two dimensions in 2006 in just a few months, and then tackled the calculations in 3-D,” Zheng says. The results were published in the respected journal Physical Review E in 2009, and the duo also shared their findings and the code to do the calculations on a wiki site. Zheng and Palffy-Muhoray were recently contacted by David Baker, Senior Geologist with the Chesapeake Energy Corporation of Oklahoma City, Okla. Baker had read about the research online and contacted the pair to express his delight at the findings and to ask for some help. That led to ongoing communication with Zheng that continued into this year. “My question, which at first I thought was simple, turned into a discourse with Xiaoyu that solved the problem at hand and led to a solution for another,” Baker says. “Chesapeake Energy is the number one driller of horizontal wells in the world, and to preserve the environment, conserve resources and protect correlative rights, we often drill our wells very close to each other from a single drill pad.” Baker imported the code into his system to modify it for his purposes, but Zheng followed up with him to work through any problems. “We have posted the code for people to use freely, but in a situation like this,

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we want to make sure that it is interpreted correctly,” Zheng says. According to Baker, solving the “rather abstract problem” helped his company in a significant way. It turns out that the uncertainly in the position of wellbores are represented by ellipsoids, and knowing how close these can come together without overlapping helps to avoid collisions. “With a horizontal well costing upwards of $5 million, it is important that our wells never collide,” Baker says. “What originally began as a study of liquid crystals has now been practically applied to drilling gas wells.” “Drilling technology is very sophisticated now and drilling specialists can control the direction that the drill head moves forward, but not with 100 percent accuracy,” Palffy-Muhoray says. “They need to be certain that the two wells do not come into contact. It is most important that oil companies have all the available resources at hand to make sure that accidents don’t happen.” Zheng and Palffy-Muhoray received a surprising number of additional inquiries about their calculations. While most were from academia, there were some other unexpected applications that were explored. “We were contacted by one person who was interested in using the code to help study pedestrian traffic flow assuming, I guess, that people are basically shaped like ellipsoids,” Palffy-Muhoray says. “It’s surprising and very satisfying to note that liquid crystal-based research can have important applications in completely different areas.”

Article originally reported on June 21, 2011 on the Kent State University News and Events website. .

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LCI Highlights

Kent State Liquid Crystal Researcher Speaks at Ohio Innovation Conference

Kent State University Researcher and Chemistry Professor John West, from the university’s Liquid Crystal Institute

Kent State University researcher and chemistry professor John West from the university’s Liquid Crystal Institute® was among the top business leaders, government officials and university representatives who participated in the Building the Ohio Innovation Economy conference in Cleveland in late April. The state innovation conference, organized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in cooperation with The University of Akron and NorTech, included talks by U.S. Senator Rob Portman, U. S. Rep. Tim Ryan, University of Akron President Luis Proenza, AlphaMicron CEO Bahman Taheri and Kent Displays CEO Albert Green. AlphaMicron and Kent Displays are Kent-based high-tech companies that were founded by former faculty members of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute and create innovative liquid crystal-based products. “The goal of the conference was to engage Ohio business and political leaders with high-level U.S. government officials and others positioned to help drive innovation, business formation and growth in Ohio,” says Charles Wessner, director of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship for the National Academies. “We convened local and national leaders to highlight the accomplishments and growth of the innovation ecosystem in Ohio, while also identifying needs, challenges and opportunities.” The National Academy plans to issue a report based on the conference that will reinforce these goals and enhance understanding of the accomplishments and potential of the state. West discussed the latest developments in the field of flexible electronics at the presentation “Growing the Ohio Flexible Electronics Industry” at the conference. West joined Kent State in 1984 as a Senior Research Fellow of the Liquid Crystal Institute. He served as Director of the Liquid Crystal Institute and of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM) from 1996 to 2002 and served as Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies at Kent State from 2003 to 2010. During that time, he worked with NorTech to establish FlexMatters, a collaboration designed to support the growth of the flexible electronics industry in Ohio. West now splits his time between Kent State and Central Washington University, where he is establishing a research foundation and helping to move innovation from the laboratory to the marketplace. Since 1965, the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State has been engaged in the fundamental and applied

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research aimed at developing new technologies. This work translated into the growth of new companies that manufacture products made of “soft” materials, such as liquid crystals and polymers. “Research performed at the Liquid Crystal Institute and similar centers around the world led to the establishment of the $150 billion industry of liquid crystal displays that are found in laptops, flat panel TVs, cellular phones, iPads and practically every device that brings us information,” says Oleg Lavrentovich, former director of the institute. “We are extremely pleased that the Liquid Crystal Institute continues to be an active participant in the development of the innovation-driven economy of Ohio.”

Article originally reported in the July 11, 2011 issue of eInside, the official employee newsletter of Kent State University.

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LCI Highlights

Resonances in Liquid Crystals Symposium

Honoring J. William Doane Emeritus Professor and Director of

Liquid Crystal Institute

On September 17, 2010, a “Resonances in Liquid Crystals” Symposium was held in honor of J. William Doane, Emeritus Professor and Director of the Liquid Crystal Institute, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. The symposium celebrated Dr. Doane’s scientific achievements and his many contributions to the field; acknowledged his influence on researchers worldwide; and brought together his many friends and colleagues who have carried on the spirit of liquid crystal research in their own original ways. The symposium was organized by Phil Bos, Oleg Lavrentovich, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray.

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LCI Highlights

Summer 2010 REU Participants

The Liquid Crystal Institute participates with the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry in the Undergraduate Summer Research Experience (REU). Undergraduate students spend ten weeks in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Liquid Crystal Institute research laboratories working with faculty and other researchers on exciting projects in the areas of liquid crystals, materials (biomaterials & nanomaterials) and biological membranes. Below are the list of participants who worked in the Liquid Crystal Institute and their advisors during the Summer of 2010. Name University Major Advisor Chen, Shi (Sabrina) DeAnza College Biochemistry Kim Lupo, Katherine Elmhurst College Chemistry Jakli Madison, Michael Cuyahoga Community College Biomedical Palffy-Muhoray Nicholas, Adam Beloit College Chemistry Selinger, R. Wong, Jenny-Marie University at Buffalo Chemistry Chien Minkowski, Fred Kent State University Physics Wei

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LCI Highlights

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Table 1 Liquid Crystal Institute Staff

Name (end date) Year

Appointed Title (beginning year of current title) Philip J. Bos 1994 Associate Director (1997)

Professor, Chemical Physics (2001) Douglas R. Bryant 1993 Manager, Display Engineering (1998) Janet Cash 2007 Business Manager (2010) Liang-Chy Chien 1989 Professor, Chemical Physics (2001)

Interim Director, Chemical Physics (2010) Lynn A. Fagan 2002 Senior Secretary (2006) James J. Francl 1990 Research Specialist Merrill M. Groom Leo Holmberg

1986 2010

Research Engineer II (2006) Term Position

Antal I. Jákli 1999 Associate Professor, Chemical Physics (2007) Chanjoong Kim Mary Ann Kopcak

2008 2010

Assistant Professor, Chemical Physics (2008) Grants Coordinator

R. Krishnamurthy (10/10) 2008 Senior Chemist Oleg D. Lavrentovich 1992 Director (2004)

Professor, Chemical Physics (2000) Quan Li 2004 Senior Research Fellow Dawn Miller 2007 Grants Assistant Peter Palffy-Muhoray 1987 Associate Director (1990)

Professor, Chemical Physics (1994) Liou Qiu 1998 Research Specialist (2001) Jonathan V. Selinger 2005 Ohio Eminent Scholar; Professor, Chemical Physics Robin L.B. Selinger 2005 Professor, Chemical Physics Christine Shih 2009 Term Position

Qi-Huo Wei 2006 Assistant Professor, Chemical Physics

John L. West 1984 Vice President of Research (2003-2010) Professor of Chemistry (1997)

Deng-Ke Yang 1992 Professor, Chemical Physics (2004)

Hiroshi Yokoyama

2010 Ohio Research Scholar, Professor, Chemical Physics

Liquid Crystal Institute Emeriti

J. William Doane 1979-1996 Emeritus Director; Emeritus Professor of Physics

Mary E. Neubert 1972-2002 Emeritus Senior Research Fellow Alfred Saupe 1968-1992 Emeritus Professor of Physics (deceased)

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Table 2 Liquid Crystal Institute Research Personnel

Faculty/Senior Staff Support Department; Grants David W. Allender Physics Philip J. Bos LCI/CPIP, eVision Liang-Chy Chien LCI/CPIP Antal Jákli LCI/CPIP, NSF Ultra Thin, Samsung, KDI, Chanjoong Kim LCI/CPIP Satyendra Kumar Physics, Research & Sponsored Programs Oleg D. Lavrentovich LCI Quan Li LCI Peter Palffy-Muhoray LCI/CPIP, LC Materials Facility, AFOSR MURI Jonathan V. Selinger Ohio Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair, LCI/CPIP Robin L.B. Selinger LCI/CPIP Samuel N. Sprunt Physics, NSF Structured Fluids Robert J. Twieg Chemistry Qi-Huo Wei LCI/CPIP, NSF Plasmonic John L. West Provost Office, College of Arts & Sciences Deng-Ke Yang LCI/CPIP, ITRIT Hiroshi Yokoyama LCI

Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Associates, Research Scientists, Research Interns, Display Engineers and (supervisor) Name Title Support Department; Grants Adam Creuizger Research Scientist NIST (R. Selinger) Don Diehl Senior Research Associate KDI (West) Michele Fontana Research Associate NSF, AFOSR MURI (Palffy-Muhoray) Min Gao Research Associate LCI RC-SAM (Lavrentovich) Christopher Grabowski Postdoctoral Fellow NSF, MURI, (Palffy-Muhoray) John Harden Postdoctoral Fellow Orbotech (Chien) Yannian Li Postdoctoral Fellow NSF, AFRL MURI (Li) Ji Ma Postdoctoral Fellow AFOSR (Li) Li Ma Research Scientist NIST (R. Selinger) Xiang Ma Research Associate AFOSR (Li) Liou Qiu Research Specialist LCI RC-SAM (Lavrentovich) Gregory Richards Postdoctoral Fellow NSF Nonlinear Diffusion(Palffy-Muhoray) Sergij Shiyanovski Senior Research Associate LCI, Dept. of Energy (Lavrentovich) Luana Tortora Research Associate NSF Microscopy (Lavrentovich) Bentley Wall Research Associate LCDRF (Bos) Yan Wang Postdoctoral Fellow DOE, AFOSR (Li) Philip W. Westerman Senior Research Associate KDI (West) Stephan Woods Postdoctoral Fellow AFOSR MURI (Li) Chenming Xue Research Associate ADOSR (Li) Lu Zou Postdoctoral Fellow University Start-up

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Table 3 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Faculty

Current Faculty Rank Appointed Tenure

Philip J. Bos Professor (2001) Associate Professor (1995)

1995 1998

Liang-Chy Chien Professor (2001) Associate Professor (1995)

1995 1998

Antal Jákli Associate Professor (2007) Assistant Professor (2004)

2004 2007

Chanjoong Kim Assistant Professor (2008) 2008 Oleg D. Lavrentovich Professor (2000)

Associate Professor (1994) 1994 1997

Peter Palffy-Muhoray Professor (1994) 1994 1997 Jonathan V. Selinger Professor (2005) 2005 2005 Robin L.B. Selinger Professor (2005) 2005 2005 Qi-Huo Wei Assistant Professor (2006) 2006 2010 Deng-Ke Yang Professor (2004)

Associate Professor (1999) Assistant Professor (1995)

1995 1999

Hiroshi Yokoyama Professor (2010) 2010 2010 Joint Professors

Permanent Position

Term

David W. Allender Physics Department 1996 Eugene C. Gartland, Jr. Mathematical Sciences Department 1996 Satyendra Kumar Physics Department 1995

Adjunct Professors Albert M. Green Kent Displays, Inc. 2007- Asad Khan Kent Displays, Inc. 2007- Quan Li Liquid Crystal Institute 2004- Christopher Mullin Dynamic Eye, Inc. 2008- Sergij Shiyanovskii Liquid Crystal Institute 2004- Bahman Taheri AlphaMicron, Inc. 1998- Philip Westerman Emeritus Professor, NEOUCOM 1997-

CPIP Faculty, 2010-2011

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Emeritus Professors

Term

J.W. Doane 1997- Graduate Coordinators Peter Palffy-Muhoray 1994-1997 Jack R. Kelly 1997-2002 Oleg D. Lavrentovich 2002-2003 Liang-Chy Chien 2003-2008 Robin Selinger Deng-Ke Yang

2008-2010 2010-

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Table 4

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Graduate Students

Graduate Student Start/End

Date Univ/Grant Support Advisor

Hari Atkuri 2010 KDI J. West Volodymyr Borshch

2007 NSF Coherent Anti Stokes/CS O. Lavrentovich

Jia Chen 2009 CPIP, NSF - New Liquid Crystal P. Palffy-Muhoray

Cheng Cheng 2010 NSF Plasmonic Nanocavities Wei Hsien-Hui Cheng 2009 CPIP P. Bos Yue Cui 2008 MFLEX Investigation on the Relation D. Yang Christopher Culbreath 2008 LCI Start up H. Yokoyama Andrew DeMiglio 2010 Other Nicholas Diorio 2007 NSF - Structured Fluids A. Jákli Valerie Finnemeyer 2010 IGERT P. Bos Jun Geng 2007 NSF Modeling Actuation J. Selinger Vianney Gimenez 2007 Flex Cholesteric Displays R. Selinger Nikolaus Glazer 2009 CPIP H. Yokoyama Sarah Hicks 2006-2011 IGERT D. Yang Yi Huang 2006 Intel, LCD-RF P. Bos Shawn Hurley 2005-2010 AFRL Dynamic Eye, ONR D. Yang Wilder Iglesias 2007 NSF Ultra Thin Films A. Jákli Emine Kemiklioglu 2009 CPIP, Orbotech-Micro Capsulated Liq Cry Light

Modular Materials L. Chien

MinSu Kim 2010 CPIP Young Ki Kim 2009 CPIP, Industrial Grant O. Lavrentovich Jakub Kolacz 2010 CPIP, OBR-RI Plasmonic, NSF Plasmonic

Nanocavities L.C. Chien

Andrew Konya 2010 Numerical Simulations, NSF Modeling Actuation J. Selinger Israel Lazo Martinez

2006 NSF Coherent Anti Stokes, Samsung-Biazial Nematic Liquid Crystals & Fast Switching Modes

O. Lavrentovich

Da-Wei Lee 2009 CPIP J. West Liwei Li 2007 LCD-RF, eVision Project P. Bos Olena Lopatina 2005-2011 LCI, NSF Modeling Actuation J. Selinger Lu Lu 2007 LCD-RF, Pixel Optics P. Bos Shin-Ying Lu 2005-2010 LCI, NSF New LC Materials Facility, OBR L.C. Chien Jason Morvan 2009 KDI/ODOD Changeable Color Skins, Samsung-2

Bent Core LC A. Jákli

Souptik Mukherjee 2009 CPIP H. Yokoyama

CPIP Graduate Students, 2010-2011

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Graduate Student

Start/End Date

Univ/Grant Support

Advisor

Hossein Nemati 2010 CPIP L.C. Chien Thanh Son Nguyen

2010 CPIP L.C. Chien

Mykhailo Pevnyi 2009 CPIP, NSF - New Liquid Crystal P. Palffy-Muhoray

Bohdan Senyuk 2003-2010 DOE Grant O. Lavrentovich Shoujia Shi 2009 CPIP H. Yokoyama Stephanie Taushanoff

2006-2011 OBR Org of Flexoelectric & Blue Phase Bimesogens

A. Jákli

Feng Wang 2006 LXD/Novel Nanostructured Substrates for SERS Q. Wei Hugh Wonderly 2007-2010 Lavrentovich Faculty Incentive O. Lavrentovich Jie Xiang 2009 DOE Grant O. Lavrentovich Mengfei Wang Zhenwei Wu

2010 2010

Other Other

L.C. Chien Li

Huan Yan 2010 LCI Start up for Chan Kim C. Kim Cuiya Zhang 2009 CPIP A. Jákli Lei Zhao 2008 KDI/Advanced Liquid Crystal Chiral J. West Shuang Zhou 2009 CPIP, NSF New LC Materials Facility H. Yokoyama Rafael Zola 2007 CPIP, Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Matrix,

Simulation Study of Field Induced D. Yang

Students Co-advised by CPIP Faculty Graduate Students Department CPIP Co-Advisor Hari Atkuri Physics, Kent Displays, Inc. J. West Ayan Chakrabarty Physics, NSF Scaling Laws Q. Wei Bhuwan Joshi Physics, Ferris Q. Wei

Dissertation Committees Student Department Committee Member Dave Benson Chemistry R. Selinger Natalia Dragan Computer Science R. Selinger Steven Fiester Biology A. Jakli Zhiping Jiang Chemistry R. Selinger

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Table 5 Scholarships and Fellowships

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program

2010-2011 SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics Lu Lu

2010-2011 University Fellowship

Olena Lopatina

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Table 6 Graduate Degrees Awarded

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program

Student Dissertation/Thesis Title Advisor (Dept); Date Doctor of Philosophy Jake Fontana Self-Assembly and Characterization Palffy-Muhoray (CPIP) Of Anisotropic Metamaterials December 2010 Shawn Hurley Liquid Crystal Displays for Pixelated Yang (CPIP) Glare Shielding Eyewear June 2010 Lena Lopatina Statistical Mechanics of Nanoparticle J. Selinger (CPIP) Suspensions and Granular Materials May 2011 Heung-Shik Park Self-Assembly of Lyotropic Chromonic Lavrentovich (CPIP) Liquid Crystals: Effects of Additives October 2010 And Applications Bohdan Senyuk Dielectric Response of Liquid Crystals Lavrentovich (CPIP) Formed by Cent-Core and Chiral November 2010

Molecules Stephanie Taushanoff Development and Characterization of Jakli (CPIP) Blue Phases Made from Bent-Core January 2011 Liquid Crystals Masters Degree Hugh Wonderly Electro Optical Effects of Liquid Lavrentovich (CPIP) Crystals with Dielectric Dispersion August 2010

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Table 7

Placement of Personnel, CLI/CPIP

Graduates Employment Enkh-Amgalan Dorjgotov Apple Inc, San Francisco, CA Jake Fontana Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC Shawn Hurley Syndian Inc., Dallas, Texas Shin-Ying Lu Micron Technology, Longmont, CO Heung-Shik Park Samsung, Seoul, Korea Bohdan Senyuk University of Colorado, Boulder Stephanie Taushanoff Waseda University, Tokyo Japan Hugh Wonderly Unknown

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Table 8 Visiting Scientists

Name (PI) Visitation Period Home Institution

Long-term Visitors

Nejmettin Avci (Lavrentovich)

February 21, 2011 - July 31, 2012

Muğla University, Turkey

Oscar Baldovino (Palffy-Muhoray)

June 1, 2011 - August 15, 2011

Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, Mexico

Ozgul Birel (Li)

September 4, 2011 - April 30, 2012

Muğla University, Turkey

Ebru Buyuktanir (West) Jae-Hoon Kim (Chien)

January 25, 2011 - January 24, 2012 January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2011

Stark State College, Ohio Hanyang University of Korea

Gi-Dong Lee (Chien)

February 1, 2011 - February 29, 2012

Dong-A-University, Korea

Honma Michinori (Bos)

July 4, 2011 - October 10, 2011

Department of Electronics & Information Systems, Akita Prefectural University, Japan

Ruyi Sun (Li)

September 11, 2011 - March 13, 2013

East China University of Science & Technology, China

Yuka Tabe (Yokoyama)

April 1, 2011 - September 29, 2011

Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan & Centre for Soft Matter Research

Chunxiu Zhang (Li)

September 20, 2011 - December 13, 2011

Beijing Institute of Graphic Communications, China

Visiting Scientists, 2010-2011

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Short-term Visitors Visitation Period

Home Institution

Lech Longa (Lavrentovich)

June 26, 2011 - July 4, 2011

Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Daniela Pucci (Lavrentovich)

August 30, 2011 - September 8, 2011

Department of Chemistry, University of Calabria, Italy

Vassili Nazarenko (Lavrentovich)

May 4, 2011 - May 11, 2011

Institute of Physics, Ukraine

K.B. Khalil Wagdy (Kim)

July 15, 2011 - July 30, 2011

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology Division

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Table 9 Grants and Contracts, 2010-2011

*Note: 2011 Amount was determined by taking the total grant award divided by the number of months for the project multiplied by 12. Index Agency 2011

Amt Start Date End Date Project Title PI Co-Pi's LCI

220494 Farris Family Innovative Award

8,000

9/1/2009 8/31/2012 Development and Fundamental Studies of Biaxial Colloidal Systems

Wei

220572 KSU Research Incentive 3,739

5/1/2011 4/30/2012 Ionic Cholesteric LC Yang

220574 KSU Research Incentive 3,773

5/1/2011 4/30/2012 Elastomer Op/Labview Palffy-Muhoray

440606 US Dept Energy 121,454

8/15/2006 8/14/2013 Electric Field Effects in LCs with Dielectric Disperson

Lavrentovich Shiyanovskii

442107 National Science Foundation

23,000

9/15/2007 8/31/2011 Collaborative Research in Europe on Liquid Crystals (CRELIC-IRES)

Jakli


164,860

6/1/2006 5/31/2011 New LC Materials Facility Palffy-Muhoray-

Lav., West


50,000

8/15/2006 1/31/2012 Modeling Actuation and Shape Selection in Soft Materials

Selinger, R. Selinger, J.


83,321

9/15/2006 8/31/2012 S-STEM Scholarships for Broadening Participation Sciences

Maletic Ortiz, R. Selinger, et al.


875

4/1/2007 9/30/2011 REU Site at KSU: Liquid Crystals & Advanced materials

Gericke Tweig


67,200

9/1/2007 8/31/2012 Materials World Network on Lyotropic Chromonic LCs

Sprunt Lavrentovich


51,703

10/1/2008 9/30/2012 Scaling Laws for NanoFET sensors Wei


75,300

7/15/2009 6/30/2013 Collaborative Res:Self Assembly in Ultrathin Films of Bent Core Molecules:Experiment, Stimulations, and Application

Mann Jakli


1,339

9/1/2009 8/31/2010 5th Intl Liq Crystal Elastomer Conference Palffy-Muhoray


45,000

9/15/2009 8/31/2012 Nonlinear Diffusion on a Sphere Palffy-Muhoray

Zheng

Grants and Contracts, 2010-2011

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Index Agency 2011

Amt Start Date End Date Project Title PI Co-Pi's

LCI 442272 National Science

Foundation 80,000

3/1/2010 2/28/2015 Plasmonic Nanocavities for Single Molecole Detection

Wei


164,639

5/15/2010 4/30/2013 Structured Fluids from Reduced Symmetry Molecules

Jakli Sprunt, Gleeson


18,750

10/1/2010 9/30/2012 US Egypt Cooperative Reseasrch: Surface Modification & Size Dependence of

C Kim


6,000

2/1/2011 1/31/2012 Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals

LC Chien

444202 Ohio Board of Regents 3,472

1/15/2007 9/14/2010 Nanofluidic Lab on Chip for Low Abundance Protein Isolation

Wei Frazier

444207 Defense Contract Mgmt Agency

3,451

9/1/2008 9/1/2010 Dual Mode Eye Shields Yang

444208 AFOSR 99,000

3/1/2009 2/28/2014 Light Driven Chiral Molecular Motors for Passive Agile Filters

Li

444211 AFOSR 150,000

5/1/2009 4/30/2014 Novel Organo Soluble Optically Tunable Chiral Hybrid Gold Nanorods

Li

444212 KIMM 16,874

1/1/2009 12/31/2011 Establishment of the Intl network for flexible electro-optics devices

West

444214 ODOD/KDI 166,121

5/29/2009 5/28/2012 Electronically Changeable Color Skins for Consumer Electronics

West

444215 MFLEX 56,902

12/1/2009 11/30/2011 Investigation on the Relation Between Anchoring Energy of Polymer Surface and …

Yang

444219 North Carolina State Univ / Imagine Optics

4,174

4/29/2010 8/31/2010 Enhanced Polymer Polarization for Reflective LC Microdisplays

Lavrentovich

444221 Industrial Technology Research Institute

94,006

7/1/2010 6/30/2012 Cholesteric Liquid Matrix Reflective Display D Yang

444224 Kent Displays 81,900

5/17/2010 5/16/2012 Advanced Liquid Crystal Chiral & Dye Materials for Flexiable Liquid Films

J West

444225 Ohmichi Industrial Co. Ltd. 41,667

9/1/2010 8/31/2013 Research on Smectic Foams H Yokoyama

444227 AFOSR 23,954

9/15/2010 9/14/2015 Electrically Controlled Optical Metamaterials Based on Dispersions of Nan-Rods

Lavrentovich


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Index Agency 2011

Amt Start Date End Date Project Title PI Co-Pi's

LCI 444229 Samsung

70,000 11/15/2010 5/15/2011 Development of Maskless Photorubbing

Technology for VA LCSS-Stage 1, Feasibility Check

H Yokoyama

444231 LXD LCC/National Science Foundation

49,500

1/1/2011 6/30/2011 Liquid Crystal-based Next Generation e-paper Devices by Micro-engineered Surfaces

H Yokoyama

444232 Azimuth 24,413

3/15/2011 2/29/2012 R&D of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal/Polymers Yang

444286 AFOSR 930,403

5/1/2006 4/30/2012 MURI on Self-Assembled Soft Optical NIMS Palffy-Muhoray

Lav., Li

444292 ODOD/U Akron sub 75,000

2/26/2007 2/25/2011 Commercialiation of Functional Polyimide Films and Nanocomposites

Yang Kelly, Lav.

444307 NIST 26,073

9/1/2008 8/31/2011 Finite Element Modeling of Multiaxial Deformation of Metals

R. Selinger

444310 NIST 121,820

8/1/2009 7/31/2012 Atomic Scale Modeling for Nanomechanics Experiments

R. Selinger

444311 eVision, LLC 139,094

8/1/2009 5/31/2012 eVision Project Bos

444313 Pixel Optics Inc. 52,000

5/15/2010 6/14/2012 Low Cost, Continuously Tunable Electro-Optic Lens Requiring Simple Drive Electronics

Bos

444314 Intel 50,000

3/22/2010 3/21/2012 Low Power Bos

444315 US DOD/MIT Lincoln Lab 52,182

5/10/2010 3/31/2011 Feasability Investigation of LC based LWIR to Visible Optical Tramsducer

J Selinger Bos

444316 LXD/National Science Foundation

89,500

7/1/2010 7/1/2011 Novel Nanostructured Substrates for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Wei

444317 ATK Space Systems/NASA 23,843

7/7/2010 8/31/2012 Development of Particle-Based Flow Diagnostic Techniques

Bos

444318 Orbotech 56,462

8/3/2010 2/2/2011 Micro-Capsulated Liquid Cyrstal Light Modulator Materials

LC Chien

444319 NIST 107,541

10/1/2010 9/30/2013 Experimental Studies of High Strength & Advanced High Stregth Steel Under Multiazial Deformation

R Selinger


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Index Agency 2011 Amt Start Date End Date Project Title PI Co-Pi's LCI 444320 Crystal Diagnostics

15,008 8/1/2010 9/30/2010 Surface alignment of disodium

cromoglycate Lavrentovich

444321 ICAM, University of California

2,500 4/1/2011 9/30/2011 2011 Gordon Research Conference LC Chien

444322 Ohio Board of Regents 4,375 3/1/2011 4/30/2013 Research incentive: plasmonic Metal-Dielectric-Metal Photodetectors for Infrared Polarimetric Imaging

Wei Mann

444323 LXD 15,000

3/1/2011 9/1/2011 Micro-Engineered Surface alignment and Liquid Crystal Devices

H Yokoyama

444324 International Institute for Complex Adaptive Mater

1,875 4/1/2011 3/31/2012 13th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals

Jakli

444424 Samsung 500,000

7/1/2010 6/30/2011 Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystal (BNLC) and Fast Switching Modes for Displays

Allender Lavrentovich, Kumar


1/15/2008 4/14/2011 Optimization of Flexoelectric and Blue Phase Bimesogens

Twieg Jakli, Bos


6/15/2009 6/14/2012 Numerical Simulations & Lab Observations of Sulfuric Acid-Water-Organics Ternary

Lee R Selinger


5/15/2010 11/14/2011 Synthesis of Mondisperse Mesoporous Silica-Based Microcapsules Using a Mocrofluid Method

Jaroniec Kim

444789 Ohio Board of Regents 8,750 3/1/2011 4/30/2012 Research Incentive: 5-Alkoxythienothiophenes: A New Class of Highly Birefringent Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials

Jakli Sampson, Seed


138,952

9/1/2009 8/31/2011 ARRA:Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering & Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing

Lavrentovich

446800, 446801, 446802

ODOD 3,058,476

8/18/2008 8/17/2013 Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials

Lavrentovich West, Palffy-Muhoray, Yang

440658 DOE 350,000 9/1/2009 2/28/13 Biaxiality in Thermotropic Bent-Core & Tetrapodic Nematic Liquid Crystals

Kumar Li

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Table 10 Proposals for Extramural Support, 2010-2011

Status Account Title

Sponsor Name PI Start End Total

Awarded Biaxial nematic liquid crystals and fast switching modes for displays

Samsung Electronics Corp

Allender, Kumar, Lavrentovich 7/1/2011 6/30/2012

250,000

Awarded eVision Project - Additional + Continuation eVision LLC Bos 3/31/2011 5/31/2012 205,500

Awarded 412005

Manufacturing of Liquid Crystal Cells to Produce Multi-Conjugate Filters for Use in Hyperspectral Imaging Sensors

ChemImage Corporation Bos 9/26/2011 9/26/2013

107,041

Awarded Development of Particle-Based Flow Diagnostic Techniques (Continuation)

ATK Aerospace Bos 9/30/2010 8/31/2011

15,000

Awarded 444313 Low Cost, Continuously Tunable Electro-optic Lens Requiring Simple Drive Electronics

PixelOptics Inc Bos 5/15/2011 5/14/2012

50,000

Awarded 410500 Development of High Speed In-Plan-Switching Liquid Crystal Displays LG Display Chien 10/15/2011 10/14/2012

50,000

Awarded 442293 Electrophoresis in Liquid Crystals

National Science Foundation Lavrentovich 9/1/2011 8/31/2014

515,718

Awarded Liquid Crystal Colloids: Emergent Phenomena and Functional Materials

Institute for Complex and Adaptive Matter Lavrentovich 9/1/2011 8/31/2014

15,000

Awarded 444227 Title Electrically controlled optical metamaterials based on dispersions of nanorods AFOSR Lavrentovich 9/15/2010 9/14/2015

151,286

Awarded 412004 Center of Excellence in Materials Research and Innovation on Structured Interfaces

University of Wisconsin-Madison/NSF Lavrentovich 9/1/2011 8/31/2017

480,000

Proposals for Extramural Support, 2010-2011

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Status Account Title Sponsor Name PI Start End Total

Awarded 412003 Nanofabrication of Tunable 3D Nanotube Architectures ONR/CWRU Li 6/1/2011 5/31/2016

624,996

Awarded 402006 Partnership for Innovation on Liquid-Crystal Polymer Interfaces


Palffy-Muhoray, Yokoyama, Frank 9/15/2011 8/31/2014

600,000

Awarded

Research Incentive: 5-Alkoxythienothiophenes: A New Class of Highly Birefringent Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials

Ohio Board of Regents

Sampson, Jakli, Seed 3/15/2011 4/30/2012

35,000

Awarded 412000 Finite Element Modeling of Indentation Measurements

National Institute of Standards and Technology Selinger, R. 9/1/2011 8/31/2014

491,738

Awarded 402002 Topological Defects, Curved Geometries, and Shape Evolution in Soft Matter


Selinger, R. Selinger, J. 9/1/2011 8/14/2014

360,000

Awarded Research and Development of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal/Polymers

Azimuth Corporation Yang 3/15/2011 2/28/2012

49,999

Awarded 220572 Research Incentive: Ionic Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

Ohio Board of Regents Yang 5/1/2011 4/30/2012

25,000

Held for Funds Availability 2011 Gordon Research Conference

Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter Chien 4/1/2011 9/30/2011

12,000

Held for Funds Availability

Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals

National Science Foundation Chien 1/1/2011 12/31/2011

12,000


13th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals

Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter Jakli 8/1/2011 7/31/2012

7,500


Surface alignment of disodium cromoglycate

Crystal Diagnostics, Ltd. Lavrentovich 8/1/2010 9/30/2010

15,008


Research Incentive: Plasmonic Metal-Dielectric-Metal (MDM) Photodetectors for Infrared (IR) Polarimetric Imaging

Ohio Board of Regents Twieg, Wei, 4/1/2011 3/31/2012

35,000


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Status Account Title Sponsor Name PI Start End Total Held for Funds Availability

Development of Maskless Photorubbing Technology for VA LCDs

Samsung Electronics Co Yokoyama 11/15/2010 5/15/2011 70,000


Micro-Engineered Surface Alignment and Liquid Crystal Devices

LXD Incorporated Yokoyama 3/1/2011 9/1/2011 30,002

Held for Funds Availability Research on Smectic Foams

Ohmichi Co., Ltd. Yokoyama 9/1/2010 8/31/2013

150,000

Not Awarded A nanomachine based on field-actuated artificial cilia


308,191

Not Awarded Electrically-Switchable Liquid Crystal Optical Shutters Dontech, Inc. Chien 9/16/2010 9/15/2013

508,745

Not Awarded

Stimuli-responsive Blue Phase Gels: Modulating the Properties of Photonic Bangap Phases with Nanodopants


373,571

Not Awarded CAREER: Perturbed Dynamics of Arrested Out-of-Equilibrium Systems

National Science Foundation Kim 3/1/2011 2/28/2016

791,783

Not Awarded Fragility of Colloidal Glass Formers

United States Department of Energy Kim 6/1/2011 5/31/2016

817,225

Not Awarded High throughput cancer screening method by microfluidic cell mechanics

National Institutes of Health Kim 4/1/2012 3/31/2014

371,762

Not Awarded The Role of Thermal Activation in Rheology of Dense Suspensions

National Science Foundation Kim 4/1/2011 3/31/2013

298,529

Not Awarded

NSF Center for Excellence for Materials Research and Innovation on Fundamental Aspects of Mesomorphism by Design

National Science Foundation Lavrentovich 9/1/2011 9/14/2017

25,000,000

Not Awarded

Nature Inspired Light-harvesting Liquid Crystal Porphyrins for Self-assembling Organic Photovoltaics

United States Department of Energy Li 4/1/2011 3/31/2014

781,706


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Not Awarded The Kent State University Scholarships for Broadening Participation in Sciences


Maletic, Selinger, R. 8/31/2011 7/31/2016

599,954

Not Awarded Controlling Polymer-Liquid Crystal Interfaces for Device Applications

Ohio Department of Development

Palffy-Muhoray 7/1/2011 6/30/2013

1,000,000

Not Awarded

Collaborative Research: The Mechanics of the Light Adjustable Lens: From Configurational Entropy to Global Shape Change

National Science Foundation Selinger, R. 4/1/2011 3/31/2014

247,521

Not Awarded

MRI: Development of an instrument for photonic and electronic studies of soft matter in high magnetic fields


Sprunt, Lavrentovich, Gleeson 8/1/2011 7/31/2014

349,865

Not Awarded

SNM: Scalable 3D Nanomanufacturing by Synergizing Optical Lattice and Directed Self-Assembly

National Science Foundation Wei 8/1/2011 7/31/2015

2,000,000

Not Awarded

MRI: Acquisition of a Multifunctional Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for Research on Nano- and Soft Materials


Wei, Yokoyama, Lavrentovich, Palffy-Muhoray 8/1/2011 7/31/2014

384,116

Not Awarded Responsive Electro-Spun Fibers

National Science Foundation West 7/1/2011 7/1/2014

529,128

Pending Liquid Crystal Beam Steering Device Design

University of Dayton Research Institute Bos 9/1/2012 8/31/2015

180,221

Pending Development of Flexible Liquid Crystal Shutters for High Performance Eyewear

Wiley X Incorporated Chien 9/1/2011 8/31/2013

392,744

Pending Stratified Polymer Rib Structures for Flexible Displays

Cinaflex Tech. Co. Ltd. Chien 8/1/2010 7/31/2011

139,892

Pending High Throughput Method to Diagnose Cancer by Cell Mechanics

National Institutes of Health Kim 7/1/2011 6/30/2014

421,255


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Pending Novel bio-inspired stress adaptive elastomers

American Chemical Society Kim 9/1/2012 8/31/2014 99,941

Pending Reconfigurable Hierarchical Metamaterials

Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology Kim 6/1/2011 5/31/2013

180,000

Pending Soft Active Metamatter


Lavrentovich, Selinger, R. Jakli, Wei 9/1/2012 8/31/2017

25,000,000

Pending NEB: Toward Heterogenous Integration of Nanoelectronic Devices and Components

The Ohio State University Research Foundation Lu, Wei 10/1/2011 9/30/2015

299,988

Pending

Research Incentive: Liquid Crystal Elastomer Optical Actuators for IVMRI Applications

Ohio Board of Regents

Palffy-Muhoray 3/1/2011 2/29/2012 35,000

Pending Advanced Nitrides-based Terahertz Electronics (ANTE)

The Ohio State University Wei 6/1/2011 5/31/2016

625,000

Pending

Illicit Drug Screening Using Nanostructured SERS (Surfaced Enhanced Raman Scattering).

LXD Incorporated Wei 3/1/2011 2/29/2012 60,300

Pending

Infrared Optoelectronics of Molecular Junctions Integrated in Electrically Addressable Plasmonic Nanocavities

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Wei 6/1/2011 5/31/2013

300,000

Pending

Integration of Nanofluidics with THz spectroscopy for Selection and Characterization of Proteins

University of Virginia Wei 9/1/2011 8/31/2016

801,291

Pending Single-Base Detection for Sequencing by AFM/Rotaxane

NeoTech Development Co LLC Wei 6/1/2011 2/28/2012 49,991

Pending Manufacturing of Polymeric Half-wave Plates

Akron Polymer Systems, Inc. Yang 7/1/2011 6/30/2013

200,000

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Patents, Applications, Invention Disclosures

Number & Date Title and Inventors Patents 4,700,151 KSU 187 3/11/11

Method of Addressing Bistable Liquid Crystal Material Deng-Ke Yang

7,903,228 KSU 226 3/8/11 7,777,850 KSU 245 8/17/10 7,758,773 KSU 279 7/20/10 7,782,438 KSU 293 8/24/10 7,812,919 KSU 294 10/12/10 7,832,093 KSU 316 11/16/10

Material for Liquid Crystal Cell John West Method of Plasma Beam Bombardment of Aligning Films for Liquid Crystals Liang-Chy Chien, A. Dobrovolsky, O. Yaroshchuk, Oleg Lavrentovich Non-synthetic Method to Modify Properties of Liquid Crystals John West Fast Switching Electro-Optical Devices Using Banana-Shaped Liquid Crystals Antal Jakli Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Light Modulators Liang-Chy Chien and Shing-Ying Lu Devices and Methods for Energy Conversion Based on the Giant Flexoelectric Effect in Non-Calamitic Liquid Crystals Antal Jakli, James Gleeson, Samuel Sprunt, John Harden and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

Patents, Applications, Invention Disclosures, 2010-2011

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Patent Applications US Utility Patent 12/802,906 KSU 350 12/6/10 US Utility Patent 12/802,943 (pending) KSU 354 6/16/10 US Utility Patent 61/275,962 (pending) KSU 356 9/2/10

Electro-optical device and method for controlling color Liang-Chy Chien, Shing-Ying Lu Tunable electro-optic liquid crystal lenses and methods for forming the lenses Philip Bos, Doug Bryant, Lei Shi, Doug Bryant Photo-Patterned Pre-Tilt Liquid Crystal Cells, Lenses and Methods Philip Bos, Tatiana Sergan, Vassili Sergan

US Utility Patent Flexible Aqueous Soluble Conductive Polymer Compositions 12/925,308 (pending) Antal Jakli KSU 369 10/19/10 PCT Smart Energy-saving Window 61/343,734 (pending) Quan Li, Yannian Li, Ji Ma KSU 370 2/25/11 PCT Fast-Switching Surface-Stabilized Liquid Crystal Cells KSU 371 Liang-Chy Chien, Shing-Ying Lu, Lu Lu 2/15/11 US Utility Patent Nonlinear Electrophoresis in Liquid Crystals 13/324,271 (pending) Oleg Lavrentovich, Israel Lazo, Oleg Pishnyak KSU 374 12/22/10

Patents, Applications, Invention Disclosures, 2010-2011

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Invention Disclosures KSU 380 8/12/10 KSU 381 8/23/10 KSU 385 11/23/10 KSU 386 11/30/10 KSU 387 12/2/10 KSU 388 1/25/11

Blue Phase Liquid Crystal Nanocomposites and Devices Containing Them Liang-Chy Chien Digital Imaging on a Pressure Sensitive Writing Tablet (joint invention with KDI) Antal Jakli Displays Based on Dichroic Nanoparticle Suspensions Peter Paflly-Muhoray Music Audio Entertainment Synchronized with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Examination Sounds, to Entertain Patients Undergoing MRI Imaging Robin Selinger Fast-Switching, Surface-Stabilized IPS Liquid Crystal Cells (May be used with SR-LG Display) Liang-Chy Chien Polymer Stabilized Lens for 3D/2D Displays Philip Bos

KSU 390 3/25/11 KSU 396 5/10/11

Super-piezoelectric Composite Fiber Mats for Soft Actuators Antal Jakli and John West Bi-Stable Active Matrix Display Apparatus and Method for Driving Display Panel Thereof (joint with ITRI) Deng-Ke Yang

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Publications

Philip J. Bos Peer Reviewed Journals L. Lu, Y. Huang, K. Zhang, N. Liu, R. Twieg, B. Auman, A. Bhownik, P. Bos.“Reduced residual DC voltages in LCDs by using polyimides” Journal of the Society for Information Display. 19, (6): 447-452 DOI: 10.1063/1.3552297 (2011). M. Reznikov, L. Lopatina, M. O'Callaghan, P. Bos. “The effect of surface alignment on analog control of director rotation in polarization stiffened SmC* devices” Journal of Applied Physics. 109, (5) DOI: 10.1063/1.3552297 (2011). Y.. Huang, P. Bos, A. Bhowmik, “The ion capturing effect of 4 degrees SiO(x) alignment films in liquid crystal devises.” Journal of Applied Physics. 108, (6) DOI: 10.1063/1.3481088 (2010).

Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports L. Lu, L. Shi, P. Bos, T. Heugten, D. Duston, “Comparisons between Liquid Crystals Defractive Lens and Diffractive Lens for Optical Correction Application in 3D Displays”, SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 42, (1): 171-174 (2011). Lu Lu; L. Shi; D. Duston; T. Heugten; P. Bos, “The effect on Strehl ratio from thickness variations in liquid crystal diffractive lenses,” Proceedings of SPIE. 7944, 79440Z (2011). L. Shi, L. Li, D. Bryant, D. Duston, and P. Bos, “Modeling and Design of a Tunable Refractive Lens Based on Liquid Crystals,” in Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America), (2010). L. Li, L. Shi, D. Bryant, T. Heugten, D. Duston, P. Bos, “Modeling and design of a tunable refractive lens based on liquid crystals” Optoelectronic Interconnects and Component Integration XI. Edited by A. Glebov, R. Chen, Proceedings of the SPIE. 7944, 79440S-79440S-8 (2011). L. Li, L. Shi, D. Bryant, T. Heugten, D. Duston, P. Bos, “Design and modeling of a refractive liquid crystal lens for tunable optical correction in 3-D stereoscopic displays” SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 42, (1) 9-12 (2011).

Liang-Chy Chien

Books and Chapters in Books L.C. Chien, C.O. Catanescu, L. Li, “Spatially-ordered polymers self-assembled in ordered liquid crystal templates,” in “Crosslinked Liquid Crystalline Systems: From Rigid Polymer Networks to Elastomers,” D. Broer, G.P. Crawford, and S. Zumer, Eds., Taylor and Francis. (2011).

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Peer Reviewed Journals J.-M. Wong, J.-Y. Hwang and L.-C. Chien, “Electrically reconfigurable and thermally sensitive optical properties of gold nanorods dispersed liquid crystal blue phase” Soft Matter, 7, 7956-7959 (2011). J.-Y. Hwang, D.-S. Seoa and L.-C. Chien, “Liquid crystal alignment on inorganic film by ion beam irradiation for flexible display applications”, Liq. Cryst. 38, 877-883 (2011). C. Braganza, L.C. Chien, M.R. Fisch, R.G. Petschek, Spectrographic ellipsometry study of a liquid crystal display substrate consisting of thin films of SiO2, polyimide and indium tin oxide glass, Thin solid Films, 519, 4384-4389 (2011). Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports L. C. Chien and H. Yokoyama, “Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies VI,” The Proceeding of International Society for Optical Engineering, 7955, (2011). K. Blankenbach, L.C. Chien, S-D. Lee and M.H. Wu “Advances in Display Technologies and E-papers and Flexible Displays,” The Proceeding of International Society for Optical Engineering, 7956, (2011). J.-Y. Hwang, J. Xiang, S.-Y. Lu, L.-C. Chien, “Wide temperature range blue phase liquid crystals for displays,” The Proceeding of SPIE Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies VI, 7955, 79550H (2011).

Eugene Gartland Peer Reviewed Journals F. Bisi, E.C. Gartland, Jr., E.G. Virga, “A criterion for symmetric tricritical points in condensed ordered phases,” Euro. J. Applied Math., DOI:10.1017/S0956792510000355 (2011).

Antal Jákli Peer Reviewed Journals Z. Li, P. Salamon, A. Jákli, K.Wang, C. Qin, Q. Yang, C. Liu and J.Wen, Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of resorcyl di[4-(4-alkoxy-2,3-diflorophenyl)ethynyl] benzoate liquid crystals, Liquid Crystals, 37, (4), 427–433,(2010). J. Wang, L. Qiu, A. Jákli, W. Weissflog, E. K. Mann, “Inverse Langmuir/Schaefer films of bent-core molecules”, Liq. Cryst, 10, 1229-1236, (2010) S. H. Hong, R. Verduzco, J. Williams, R. J. Twieg, E. DiMasi, R. Pindak, A. Jákli, J. T. Gleeson, and S. Sprunt, Short range smectic order in bent-core nematic liquid crystals, Soft. Matter., 6, 4819 (2010); DOI:10.1039/c000362j (2010). R. Verduzco, P. Luchette, S. Hong, J. Harden, E. DiMasi, P. Palffy-Muhoray, S. M Kilbey, S. Sprunt, J. T Gleeson, and A. Jákli, “Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Elastomers”, J. Mater. Chem, 20, 8488–8495 (2010); DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01920H (2010).


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S. H. Hong, A. Jákli, J. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, B. Ellman, “Second Harmonic Generation Study of a Bent-core Nematic Liquid Crystal” electronic-Liquid Crystal Communications; http://www.e-lc.org/docs/2010_02_24_22_31_24, Physical Review E 82 , 041710 (2010). J. E. Puskas, G. T. Lim, D. H. Reneker and A. Jákli, Electrospinning Hydrophobic Elastomeric Fiber Mats for Biomedical Applications, Biomacromolecules, 12 (5) 1795-1799 DOI: 10.1021/bm200157b (2011). M. Majumdar, P. Salamon, A. Jákli, J. T. Gleeson, and S. Sprunt, Elastic Constants and Orientational Viscosities of a Bent-core Nematic Liquid Crystal, Phys. Rev. E 83, 031701 ( 2011). K. V. Le, S. Aya, Y. Sasaki, H. Choi, F. Araoka, K. Ema, J. Mieczkowski, A. Jakli, K. Ishikawa and H. Takezoe, “Liquid crystalline amorphous blue phase and its large electrooptical Kerr effect”, J. Mater. Chem., 21, 28552011 DOI: 10.1039/C0JM04009F (2011).

A. Jákli, “Electro-optical properties and possible applications of bent-core liquid crystals”, Proc. Of SPIE, 7775, 7750R-1-8 (2010). S.H. Hong, R. Verduzco, J.T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt and A. Jákli, Nanostructures of liquid crystal phases in mixtures of bent core and rod-shaped molecules. Phys. Rev. E. 83, 061702 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE. 83.061702 (2011). W. Iglesias, T. J. Smith, P. B. Basnet, S. Stefanovic, C. Tschierske, D. J. Lacks , A. Jákli and E. K. Mann, “Alignment by Langmuir/Schaefer monolayers of bent-core liquid crystals”, Soft Matter, DOI:10.1039/c1sm05546a (2011). T. Ostapenko, C. Zhang, S.N. Sprunt, A. Jákli, J. T. Gleeson, Magneto-optical technique for detecting biaxial nematic phase, Physical Review E, 84,021705 (2011). M. McKenzie, R. J. Wojtecki, K. A. Burke, C. Zhang, A. Jákli, P. T. Mather and S. J. Rowan, “Metallo-Responsive Liquid Crystalline Monomers and Polymers”, Chemistry of Materials, 23 (15), 3525-3533, DOI: 10.1021/cm2011617 (2011). Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports Jákli, “Electro-optical properties and possible applications of bent-core liquid crystals”, SPIE Newsroom, 10.1117/2.1201101.003509 (2011).

Chanjoong Kim Peer Reviewed Journals K. Rameshbabua, L. Zou, C. Kim, A. Urbasb and Q. Li, “Self-organized Photochromic Dithienylcyclopentene Organogels,” Journal of Materials Chemistry (2011). W.-W. Jeong and C. Kim, “One-step method for monodisperse microbiogels by glass capillary microfluidics,” Colloids and Surfaces A, 384, 268–273 (2011).

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Edgar Kooijman

Books and Chapters in Books

E. Kooijman, C. Testerink, Phosphatidic acid-an electrostatic/hydrogen bond switch? Invited chapter in book titled, “Lipid Signalling in Plants” edited by Teun Munnik, Springer Verlag (2010).

Peer Reviewed Journals

D. Mengistu, E. Kooijman, S. May, Ionization properties of mixed lipid membranes: A Gouy-Chapman model of the electrostatic-hydrogen bond switch, BBA-Biomembranes, DOI:10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.03.001 (2011).

C. Peetla, R. Bhave, S. Vijayaraghavalu, A. Stine, E. Kooijman, V. Labhasetwar, Drug resistance in breast cancer cells: Biophysical characterization of doxorubicin interactions with membrane lipids, Molecular Pharmaceutics, 7:2334-2348 (2010).

S. Tristram-Nagle, R. Chan, E. Kooijman, P. Uppamoochikkal, W. Qiang, D. Weliky, J. Nagle, HIV fusion peptide penetrates, disorders, and softens T-cell membrane mimics, J. Mol. Biol., DOI:10.1016/j.jmb.2010.07.026 (2010).

Oleg D. Lavrentovich Peer Reviewed Journals O.D. Lavrentovich, I. Lazo, O.P. Pishnyak, Nonlinear electrophoresis of dielectric and metal spheres in a nematic liquid crystal, Nature 467, 947-950 (2010).

B. Senyuk, H. Wonderly, M. Mathews, Q. Li, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties, and topological defects in the nematic phase of thermotropic bent-core liquid crystal A131, Phys. Rev. E 82, 041711, 13 pages, (2010).

V.G. Nazarenko, O.P. Boiko, M.I. Anisimov, A.K. Kadashchuk, Yu. A. Nastishin, A.B. Golovin and O.D. Lavrentovich, Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal semicondustors for water-solution processable organic electronics, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 263305 (2010).

O.P. Pishnyak, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Inelastic collisions and anisotropic aggregation of particles in a nematic collider driven by backflow, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047801 (2011).

YH Kim, DK Yoon, HS Jeong, OD Lavrentovich, HT Jung, Smectic liquid crystal defects for self-assembling of building blocks and their lithographic applications, Advanced Functional Materials 21, 610-627 (2011).

H.S. Park, Kang, L. Tortora, S. Kumar, O.D. Lavrentovich, Condensation of self-assembled lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal sunset yellow in aqueous solutions crowded with polyethylene glycol and doped with salt, Langmuir 27, 4164-4175 (2011).

A.B. Golovin, J. Xiang, H.S. Park, L. Tortora, Y.A. Nastishin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Electro-optic effects in colloidal dispersion of metal nano-rods in dielectric fluid, Materials 4, 390-416 (2011).

O.D. Lavrentovich, Liquid crystals, photonic crystals, metamaterials and transformation optics, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, No.13, 5143-5144 (2011).


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L. Tortora and O.D. Lavrentovich, Chiral symmetry breaking by spatial confinement in tactoidal droplets of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, No.13, 5163-5168 (2011).

B. Senyuk, Y.-K. Kim, L. Tortora, S.-T. Shin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties, and topological defects in the nematic bent-core materials C7 and C12, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 540, 20-41 (2011). Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports A.B. Golovin, J. Xiang, Y.A. Nastishin, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Electrically reconfigurable optical metamaterials based on orientationally ordered dispersions of metal nano-rods in dielectric fluids (Invited paper), Liquid Crystals XIV, Ed. by I.C. Khoo, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7775, pp. 777502-1 – 777502-14 (2010).

Quan Li

Books and Chapters in Books Q. Li, Editor, Self-organized Organic Semiconductors: From Materials to Device Applications, John Wiley & Sons (2011, ISBN 978-0-470-55973-4). Q. Li, Editor, Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, John Wiley & Sons (2012, ISBN 978-1-118-07861-7). C. Xu and Q. Li, “Semiconducting Discotic Liquid Crystals for Optoelectronic Applications” Chapter 2 in Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, Q. Li, Ed., John Wiley & Sons (2012, ISBN 978-1-118-07861-7). C. Yelamaggad, S. K. Prasad and Q. Li, “Photo-stimulated Phase Transformations in Liquid Crystals and Their Non-display Applications” Chapter 4 in Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, Q. Li, Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2012, ISBN 978-1-118-07861-7). Y. Wang and Q. Li, “Light-driven Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors in Liquid Crystal Media” Chapter 5 in Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, Q. Li, Ed., John Wiley & Sons (2012, ISBN 978-1-118-07861-7). Peer Reviewed Journals M. Mathews, R. Zola, Hurley, S., D. Yang, T.J. White, T.J. Bunning and Q. Li, Light-Driven Reversible Handedness Inversion in Self-organized Helical Superstructures, Journal of the American Chemical Society 132, 18361 (2010). Q. Li, Y. Li, J. Ma, D.-K. Yang, T. J. White and T. J. Bunning, Directing Dynamic Control of Red, Green and Blue Reflection Enabled by a Light-driven Self-organized Helical Superstructure, Advanced Materials 23, 5069-5073 (2011) (Highlighted by Nature Phtotnics 2011, 5, 713). K. Rameshbabu, L. Zou, C. Kim, A. Urbas and Q. Li, Self-organized Photochromic Dithienycyclopentent Organogels, Journal of Materials Chemistry 21, 15673 (2011). Y. Li, A. Urbas and Q. Li, Synthesis and Characterization of Light-driven Dithienylcyclopentene Switches with Axial Chirality, Journal of Organic Chemistry 76, 7148 (2011).


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K. Rameshbabu, A. Urbas and Q. Li, Synthesis and Characterization of Thermally Irreversible Photochromic Cholesteric Liquid Crystals, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115, 3409 (2011). M. Mathews, R. Zola, D. Yang and Q. Li, Thermally, Photochemically and Electrically Switchable Reflection Colors from Self-organized Chiral Bent-core Liquid Crystals, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21, 2098 (2011). L. Li, D. Yu, L. Dai, A. Urbas and Q. Li, Hydrophobic Chiral Hybrid Gold Nanorods, Langmuir, 27, 98 (2011). N. Kim, Q. Li and T. Kyu. Effect of trans-cis Photoisomerization on Phase Equilibria and Phase Transition of Liquid-Crystalline Azobenzene Chromophore and Its Blends with Reactive Mesogenic Diacrylate. Physical Review E, 83, 031702 (2011). M. Mathews, S. Kang, S. Kumar and Q. Li, Designing Bent-core Nematogens Towards Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals, Liquid Crystals, 38, 31 (2011) (cover page). Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports Q. Li, “Self-organized Liquid Crystals: From Dynamic Photonics to Renewable Solar Energy”, Book of Program and Abstracts, International Symposium on Liquid Crystals: Science and Technology, Changzhou (2011). Q. Li, “Self-Organized Liquid Crystals: From Energy-Saving Device to Solar Energy”, Abstracts of Pacifichem. Congress, Hawaii (2010). Q. Li, “Self-Organized Liquid Crystals for Organic Photovoltaics”, Abstracts of LCOPV Workshop on Direct Nanoscale Self-organization in Organic Photovoltaics: Liquid Crystals for Energy, Boulder, Colorado (2010). Q. Li, “Advanced Liquid Crystalline Materials: From Photonics to Solar Energy”, Abstracts of International Conference on Optical, Electronic and Electrical Materials, Kuming (2010).

Peter Palffy-Muhoray Peer Reviewed Journals M. Moreira, P. Luchette, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Nonlinear Reflection from LC Elastomers”, Photonics Letters of Poland, 2, 101-103 (2010). N. Dawson, M. Kuzyk, J. Neal, P. Luchette, P Palffy-Muhoray, “Cascading of liquid crystal elastomer photomechanical optical devices”, Optics Communications, 284, 991-993 (2011). Wei Zhu, Michael Shelley, P Palffy-Muhoray, “Modeling and simulation of liquid-crystal elastomers”, Phys Rev E, 83, 051703 (2011).

X-Y. Zeng and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Maier-Saupe theory in four dimensions”, Phys. Rev. E 83, 041702 (2011).


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Jonathan Selinger Peer Reviewed Journals

B. L. Mbanga, F. Ye, J. V. Selinger, and R. L. B. Selinger, “Modeling Elastic Instabilities in Nematic Elastomers,” Phys. Rev. E 82, 051701 (2010).

S. Dhakal and J. V. Selinger, “Chirality and Biaxiality in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals,” Phys. Rev. E (Rapid Communications) 83, 020702(R) (2011).

Y. Sawa, F. Ye, K. Urayama, T. Takigawa, V. Gimenez-Pinto, R. L. B. Selinger, and J. V. Selinger, “Shape selection of twist-nematic-elastomer ribbons,” Proc. Nat. Acad Sci. USA 108, 6364-6368 (2011). Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports

J. V. Selinger, “Curved Structures in Soft Materials Stabilized by the Flexoelectric Effect,” in Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics, http://www.condmatjournalclub.org/?p=1247 (2011).

Robin Selinger Peer Reviewed Journals

R. L. B. Selinger, A. Konya, A. Travesset, and J. V. Selinger, "Monte Carlo studies of the XY model on two dimensional curved surfaces," submitted in June, 2011 to J. Phys. Chem B.;( in press). Y. Sawa, F. Ye, K. Urayama, T. Takigawa, V. Gimenez-Pinto, R. L. B. Selinger, and J. V. Selinger, "Shape selection of twist-nematic-elastomer ribbons," 6364-6368. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (16) DOI:10.1073/pnas.1017658108 (2011). N. S. Weingarten and R. L. B. Selinger, "Atomistic simulation studies of size effects in plasticity: compression of single- and polydomain crystals in two dimensions,"Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 19, 015006. DOI:10.1088/0965-0393/19/1/015006 (2011). B. L. Mbanga, F. Ye, J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger, "Modeling elastic instabilities in nematic elastomers," 051701. In Physical Review E 82 (5) DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.82.051701 (2010). Sergij Shiyanovskii Peer Reviewed Journals B. Senyuk, , H.-S. Park, L. Tortora, S.-T. Shin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, “Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties, and topological defects in the nematic bent-core materials C7 and C12”, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 540, 20-41 (2011). O.P. Pishnyak, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Inelastic collisions and anisotropic aggregation of particles in a nematic collider driven by backflow, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 047801 (2011). A.B. Golovin, Jie Xiang, H.-S. Park, L. Tortora, Y.A. Nastishin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, “Electro-optic effects in colloidal dispersion of metal nano-rods in dielectric fluid”, Materials, 4, 390-416 (2011).

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B. Senyuk, H. Wonderly, M. Mathews, Q. Li, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, “Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties, and topological defects in the nematic phase of thermotropic bent-core liquid crystal A131”, Phys. Rev. E, 82, 041711 (2010). S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Dielectric relaxation and memory effects in nematic liquid crystals” Liq. Cryst. 37, 737-745 (2010). Qi-huo Wei Peer Reviewed Journals B. Joshi, A. Chakrabarty, Q. Wei “Plasmonic Cavity Resonances of Metal-Dielectric-Metal Nanoantennas,” IEE Transactions in Nanotechnology 9, 707-707 (cover article) (2010). B. Joshi, X. Wen, K. Sun, W. Lu, Q. Wei “Fabrication and characterization of coupled metal-dielectric-metal nanoantennas”, J. Vac. Sci. Tech B Volume: 28, C6O21-C6O25 (2010). John West Peer Reviewed Journals A Buyuktanir, M Frey, J. L. West, “Self Assembled, optically responsive nematic liquid crystal/polymer core-shell fibers: Formation and characterization. Polymer, 51, 4823-4830 (2010). O. Kurochkin, H. Atkui, O. Buchnev, A. Glushchenko, O. Grabar, R. Karapinar, V. Reshetnyak, J. West, Y Reznikov, “Nan-colloids of Sn2P2S6 in Nematic Liuqid Crysatl Pentyl-cyanobiphenile.” Condensed Matters Physics, 13, 33701:1-9 (2010). H. M. Atkuri, D. W. Lee, B. O Choi, C. H. Kim and J. L. West, “ Printed black internal conducting electrodes for flexible bistable cholesteric displays,” Journal of Information Display, 12, 97-99 (2011).

Deng-Ke Yang Peer Reviewed Journals

Y.-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, “Electro-optic Kerr effect in polymer-stabilized isotropic liquid crystals,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 023502 (2011).

M. Mathews, R. S. Zola, D.-K. Yang and Q. Li, “Thermally, photochemically and electrically switchable reflection colors from self-organized chiral bent-core liquid crystals,” Journal of Material Chemistry, 21, 2098-2103 (2010).

M. Mathews, R. S. Zola, S. Hurley, D.-K. Yang, T. J. White, T. J. Bunning, and Q. Li, “Light-Driven Reversible Handedness Inversion in Self-Organized Helical Superstructures,” Journal of American Chemical Society, 132, 18361-18366 (2010).

T. White , S. Cazzell, A. Freer, D.-K Yang, L. Sukhomlinova, L. Su , T. Kosa , B. Taheri, T. Bunning, “Widely Tunable, Photoinvertible Cholesteric Liquid Crystals”, Advanced Materials, 23, 1389–1392 (2011).


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D.-K Yang, Book review of “Liquid crystal display” by E. Leuder, Liquid Crystal Today, 20, 62 (2011).

R. Zola, Y.-C. Yang, D.-K Yang, “Limonene as a chiral dopant for liquid crystals: Characterization and potential applications,” Journal of the Society of Information Display, 19, 410-416 (2011).

Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports

Y.-C. Yang, R. Zola, Y. Cui, and D.-K Yang, H.-Y. Chen, C.-C. Hsu, C.-J. Chen, and C.-C. Liang, “Master Parameter Governing the Response Time of Reflective Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays,” SID Intl Symp. Digest Tech. Papers, XXXXII, 1762-1765 (2011). 400-403 (2011).

R. Zola, Y.-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, H.-Y. Chen, C.-C. Hsu, C.J. Chen, C.-C. Liang, K.-L. Cheng, “A New Drive Scheme for Cholesteric Reflective Displays Under Active Matrix Addressing,” SID Intl Symp. Digest Tech. Papers, XXXXII, 1762-1765 (2011). 392-395 (2011).

R. Zola, Y.-C. Yang, D.-K. Yang, H.-Y. Chen, C.-C. Hsu, C.-J. Chen, C.-C. Liang and K.-L. Cheng, “Natural Chiral Dopant D-Limonene for Active Matrix Bistable Cholesteric Displays,” SID Intl Symp. Digest Tech. Papers, XXXXII, 1762-1765 (2011). 1684-1687 (2011).

Y. Cui, R. Zola, Y.-C. Yang, D.-K. Yang, Improvement of PDLC Performance by Changing Surface Anchoring Strength,” SID Intl Symp. Digest Tech. Papers, XXXXII, 1762-1765 (2011). 1641-1644 (2011). Hiroshi Yokoyama Peer Reviewed Journals J. Seog. Gwag, J. Yi, J. H. Kwon, M. Yoneya and H. Yokoyama, "Alignment of a Nematic Liquid Crystal on Nano-Grooved Material," J. Appl. Poly. Sci., 119, 325 (2011). I. Nishiyama, Y. Tabe, J. Yamamoto and H. Yokoyama, "Pre-Organization Effects on Chirality, Polarity and Biaxiality in Liquid Crystals: Novel Laterally Connected Mesogens showing Anomalous Properties," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 549, 174 (2011). H. Kuramochi, T. Tokizaki, T. Onuki and H. Yokoyama, "Precise Control of Nanofabrication by Atomic Force Microscopy," J. Nanoscience Nanotechnology, 10, 4434 (2010).

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Philip J. Bos Invited Presentations “Liquid Crystal Based Optical Wavefront Control”, Liquid Crystals for Photonics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, December 9, 2010. “Alignment of SmC* Liquid Crystals for Device Applications” Ben Sturgeon Lecture, The 25th British Liquid Crystal Society Annual Conference, Nottingham University, April 18-20, 2011. Oral Presentations Lu Lu, Lei Shi, Phil Bos, Tony Van Heugten, Dwight Duston., “Comparisons between Liquid Crystals Diffractive Lens and Diffractive Lens for Optical Correction Application in 3D Displays”, SID International Symposium, Los Angeles CA, May 20, 2011. Poster Presentations Lu Lu; Lei Shi; Dwight Duston; Tony Van Heugten; Philip J. Bos, "The effect on Strehl ratio from thickness variations in liquid crystal diffractive lenses," SPIE Photonics West 2011, San Francisco, CA January 31, 2011. L. Shi, L. Li, D. Bryant, D. Duston, and P. J. Bos, “Modeling and design of a tunable refractive lens based on liquid crystals,” Frontier in optics 2010, OSA annual conference, Rochester, NY October 24–28 2010. Liwei Li, Lei Shi, Doug Bryant, Tony Van Heugten, Dwight Duston, Philip J. Bos “Modeling and design of a tunable refractive lens based on liquid crystals,” SPIE photonics west 2011, San Francisco, CA January 23–28 2011.

Liwei Li, Lei Shi, Doug Bryant, Tony Van Heugten, Dwight Duston, Philip J. Bos “Design and modeling of a refractive liquid crystal lens for tunable optical correction in 3-D stereoscopic displays,” SID Display week 2011, paper 3.3, Los Angeles, CA May 16-20 2011. Liang-Chy Chien Invited Presentations “Fast Switching Surface-Polymer-Assisted Vertically Aligned Nematic Displays,” 10th International Meeting on Information Display, Kintex, Seoul, Korea, October 11-15, 2010. “Recent Advances in Color e-Paper Displays,” Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, October 15, 2010. “High Transmission Polymer-Stabilized Vertically-Aligned Nematic Displays,” Samsung Electronic Company, AMLCD R&D division, Suwong, Korea, October 16, 2010. “Optically isotropic liquid crystals for photonics and display applications, Lecture I,,” 2011 Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics Summer/Winter School, Montevideo, Uruguay, Buenos Aires-Corrientes-Iguazú Falls, Argentina, May 28 - June 17, 2011.

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“Optically isotropic liquid crystals for photonics and display applications, Lecture II,” 2011 Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics Summer/Winter School, Montevideo, Uruguay, Buenos Aires-Corrientes-Iguazú Falls, Argentina, May 28 - June 17, 2011. “Liquid crystal and polymer nanocomposites for fast-switching displays, Lecture III,” 2011 Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics Summer/Winter School, Montevideo, Uruguay, Buenos Aires-Corrientes-Iguazú Falls, Argentina, May 28 - June 17, 2011. “Liquid crystal and polymer nanocomposites for fast-switching display, Lecture IV,” 2011 Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics Summer/Winter School, Montevideo, Uruguay, Buenos Aires-Corrientes-Iguazú Falls, Argentina, May 28 - June 17, 2011. “Future Trends in E-paper and Flexible Displays,” 2011 Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, June 19-24, 2011. Oral Presentations S.-Y. Lu and L.-C. Chien, “Electrically-switched color with polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals,” 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. V. Borsch, J.-Y. Huang and L.-C. Chien, “Surface-Polymer-Assisted Vertically Aligned Liquid Crystal Cells,” 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. J. Xiang, S.-Y. Lu, J.-Y. Huang, L.-C. Chien, “Wide temperature range blue phase liquid crystals for displays,” 2011 SPIE Photonic West Conference on Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies VI, 7618, San Francisco, Jan. 22-27, 2010. J.-Y. Hwang and L.-C. Chien, “Wide-Temperature-Range Blue-Phase Liquid Crystals for Display Applications,” Society of Information Display 2011 Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, May 17-20, 2010. Poster Presentations J.-Y. Huang, L. Lu, O. C. Catanescu, L.-C. Chien, “Effects of IPS cell structure on the Kerr effect devices,” 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2011. J. Xiang, S.-Y. Lu, L.-C. Chien, “Wide temperature range blue phase liquid crystals for Kerr effect devices,” 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2011. M. Wang, J.-Y. Hwang and L.-C. Chien, “Colloidal Particles Doping Effect on a Blue-Phase Liquid-Crystal Medium,” Society of Information Display 2011, Los Angeles, CA, May 17-20, 2011.

M. Wang, J.-Y. Hwang and L.-C. Chien, “Colloidal Particles Doping Effect on a Blue-Phase Liquid-Crystal Medium,” 2011 Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, South Hadley, MA, June 19-24, 2011.

Eugene Gartland Invited Presentations “Numerical modeling of electric-field-induced transitions in cholesteric liquid-crystal films,” International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Research (ICAMIR), Nankai University and Beijing Computational Sciences Research Center (CSRC), Tianjin/Beijing, China, June 2011.


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Oral Presentations “Phase and bifurcation analysis of a mean-field model for biaxial nematic liquid crystals,” Workshop on Macroscopic Modeling of Materials with Fine Structure, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2011.

Antal Jákli Invited Presentations SPIE-Optics and Photonics, San Diego, August 1-5, 2010. 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, July 11-16, 2010.

Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology Seoul National University in Suwon-si, Korea; April 28, 2011. Samsung Electronics, Suwon-si, Korea April 27, 2011. Polymer Institute, University of Akron, April 5, 2011. Oral Presentations E. Mann, W. Iglesias, C. Tschierske, “Bent-core alignment monolayers”, I-11, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, July 11-16. 2010. U. Kornek, S. Stern, R. Stannarius, A. Eremin, F. Araoka, L. Guo, H. Takezoe, A. Jákli, H. Nádasi, W. Weissflog, O-25, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, July 11-16, 2010. H. Takezoe, S. Aya, K. Van Le, F. Araoka, K. Ishikawa, S. Tushanoff, A. Jákli, I-30, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, July 11-16, 2010. A. Jákli, C. Bailey, M. Murphy, A. Eremin, W. Weissflog, A. Jákli, I-27, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, July 11-16, 2010. S. H. Hong, R. Verduzco, J.T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jakli, “Nanostructures of liquid crystal Phases in Mixtures of Bent-coreand Rod Shape Molecules,” 11th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Maribor, Slovenia, February 6-11, 2011. M. Majumda, S. Chakrabort, J. T. Gleeson, A. Jákli, S. Sprunt, J9.00006 : “Fluctuation Modes of a Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal,” APS Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2011. W. Iglesias, J. Choi, E. K. Mann, A. Jákli; J9.00005 : “Freely Suspended Nematic Films,” APS Meeting Dallas, TX, March 2011. T. Ostapenko, J.T. Gleeson, S.N. Sprunt, A. Jákli; J9.00009 : “Magneto-optical technique for detecting biaxial nematic phase” APS Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2011. C. Zhang, N. Diorio, B.K. Sadashiva, A. Jákli; P9.00002: “Two ferroelectric phases in a bent-core liquid crystal,” APS Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2011.


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Poster Presentations A. Jákli, S. Hong, R. Verduzco, J. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, “Smectic clusters in isotropic, nematic and smectic liquid crystal phasesof mixtures of bent-core and rod-shape molecules,” P-2.19, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, July 11-16, 2010. K. Fodor-Csorba, M. Kohout, M. Chambers, A. Vajda, G. Galli, A. Domján, J. Svoboda, “Biaxial properties of non-symmetric bent-core liquid crystals with variable flexible chain length,” P-1.39, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, July 11-16, 2010. K. Van Le, S. Taushanoff, J. Williams, R. Twieg, B.K. Sadashiva, H. Takezoe, A. Jákli, “Stable amorphous blue phase of bent-core nematic liquid crystals doped with a chiral material,” P-2.99, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, July 11-16, 2010. J. Harden, M. Chambers, R. Verduzco, P. Luchette, J. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Giant flexoelectricity in bent-core nematic liquid crystal elastomers,” P-2.129, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, July 11-16, 2010. T. Ostapenko, J. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Magneto-optical technique for detecting biaxial nematic phase”, P-3.3, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, July 11-16, 2010. M. Majumbar, P. Salamon, J. Gleeson, A. Jákli, S. Sprunt, “Elastic constants and viscosities of a bent-core nematic liquid crystals studied by dynamic light scattering and magnetic Freedericksz transition”, P-3.2, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, July 11-16, 2010. P. Salamon, N. Éber, Á. Buka, J. T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Dielectric properties of mixtures of a bent-core and calamitic liquid crystal”, P-2.22, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, July 11-16, 2010. K. Fodor-Csorba, A. Vajda, Cuiyu Zhang, Antal Jakli, “New Bromine Substituted Bent-Core Liquid Crystalline Monomers,” 11th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Maribor, Slovenia, February 6-11, 2011.

Chanjoong Kim Oral Presentations L. Zou, and C. Kim, “Morphology and Rheology of the Liquid Crystal- Colloid Composites,” Annual national meeting of the American Physical Society, Dallas, TX, March 2011. Kim, “Soft Materials,” Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Kent State University, June 29, 2011 Poster Presentations Kim, H. Yan, S. Mukherjee, P. Luchette, and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Formation of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Microparticles,” Annual national meeting of the American Physical Society, Dallas, TX, March 2011. Edgar Kooijman Invited Presentations “Lipids, Lipids Everywhere” at 2011 ASBMB annual meeting, Washington DC, April 2011. NYU-Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, NY, October 2010.


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Stern College (Yeshiva University), Chemistry department, New York City, NY, October 2010. Poster Presentations 55th annual meeting of the Biophysical Society, Baltimore, March 2011. 2011 Gordon Conference: “Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism & Function” June 2011. 10th Liposome meeting, Vancouver, Aug. 2010. Oleg D. Lavrentovich Invited Presentations “Dynamics of Colloidal particles in Liquid crystals,” Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Nonlinear waves and coherent structures, Abstracts, p. 23, 2010. Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, August 16-19, 2010. “Dynamics of colloidal particles in nematic liquid crystals,” Invited presentation I 24, Abstract 833, 23rd International liquid crystal conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. “Confinement of chromonic liquid crystals in phase separated crowded solutions,” Invited presentation, at the International Conference “Confined Liquid Crystals: Landmarks and Perspectives”, Abstracts, p. 24. Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 19-20, 2010. “Electrically reconfigurable optical metamaterials based on orientationally ordered dispersions of metal nano-rods in dielectric fluids,” Invited presentation, Liquid Crystals XIV, Chair I.C. Khoo, San Diego, San Diego, CA, August 1-4, 2010. “Statics and dynamics of colloidal particles in liquid crystals,” Keynote lecture at the European Molecular Liquids Group and Japanese Molecular Liquids Group Annual Meeting on Complex fluids: Modern trends, Lviv, Ukraine, September 5-9, 2010. “Reconfigurable and switchable colloidal dispersions of metal nanorods with liquid crystalline order,” Invited presentation, Materials research Society Fall 2010 Meeting, Boston, MA. November 29-December 3, 2010. “New liquid crystalline materials, Invited lecture,” NSF Workshop on Materials, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, March 17-19, 2011. “Electrophoresis in liquid crystals,” Gordon research conference on liquid crystals, Invited presentation, June 18-22, 2011. “Looking at the world through liquid crystal glasses,” Oxford 2011 Workshop on multi-scale and high-contrast PDE: From modeling to mathematical analysis, to inversion, Plenary presentation, June 28-July 1, 2011. “Statics and dynamics of colloidal particles in liquid crystals,” Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, February 14, 2011. “Statics and dynamics of colloidal particles in liquid crystals,” University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin, April 21, 2011.


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Oral Presentations A. Golovin and O.D. Lavrentovich, Optical Metamaterial with Electrically Controlled Orientational Order and Refractive Indices, Oral presentation, Abstract 294, 23rd International liquid crystal conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. O.D. Lavrentovich, Electrically reconfigurable optical metamaterials based on orientationally ordered dispersions of metal nanorods in dielectric fluids, AFOSR review for organic materials, chemistry and molecular design and synthesis, National Harbor, MD, September 20-24, 2010. Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Andrii B. Golovin, Jie Xiang , Heung-Shik Park , Luana Tortora , Yuriy A. Nastishin, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, Electro-optical effects in colloidal dispersion of metal nano-rods with nematic ordering, W30.00009, APS March Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 20-25, 2011. Oleg D. Lavrentovich, L. Tortora, Parity breaking in nematic tactoids of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals, J9.00014, APS March Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 20-25, 2011. O.D. Lavrentovich, Optics of metal nanorods dispersed in toluene and controlled by a gradient electric field, Villa conferences on energy, materials and nanotechnology 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 21-25, 2011. Poster Presentations Myroslava Omelchenko, Vassili Nazarenko, Olexandr Brodyn, Luana Tortora, Olexandr Boiko, Heung-Shik Park, Yuriy Nastishin, Oleg Lavrentovich, Alignment and anchoring transition in nematic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal, Poster presentation, Abstract 413, 23rd International liquid crystal conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. B. Senyuk, H. Wonderly, M. Mathews, Q. Li, L. Tortora, S.V. Shiyanovskii, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties and topological defects ihn the nematic bent-core materials, Poster presentation, Abstract 831, 23rd International liquid crystal conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. Luana Tortora, Heung-Shik Park, Shin-Woong Kang, Victoria Savaryn, Seung-Ho Hong, Konstantine Kaznacheev, Daniele Finotello, Samuel Sprunt, Prof. Satyendra Kumar, Oleg Lavrentovich, Self-assembly in Crowded Solutions of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals, Poster presentation, Abstract 831, 23rd International liquid crystal conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. Quan Li Invited Presentations “Light-driven Chiral Molecular Motors for Dynamic Control of Reflection Wavelength”, 2011 International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, Shenzhen, 2011. “Self-organized Liquid Crystals: From Dynamic Photonics to Renewable Solar Energy”, 2011 International Symposium on Liquid Crystals: Science and Technology, Changzhou, July 19, 2011. “Self-organized Liquid Crystals for Tunable Photonics”, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, Staten Island, April 14, 2011. “Self-Organized Liquid Crystals: From Energy-Saving Device to Solar Energy” at Pacifichem 2010 Congress, Hawaii, December 17, 2010.


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“Self-organized Liquid Crystals for Renewable Solar Energy”, Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, September 7, 2010. “Self-Organized Liquid Crystals for Organic Photovoltaics” at 2010 LCOPV Workshop on Direct Nanoscale Self-organization in Organic Photovoltaics: Liquid Crystals for Energy, Boulder, Colorado, August 9, 2010. “Advanced Liquid Crystalline Materials: From Photonics to Solar Energy”, 2010 International Conference on Optical, Electronic and Electrical Materials, Kuming, August 2, 2010. “Liquid Crystals for Renewable Solar Energy: Opportunity and Challenge”, College of Chemistry and Moecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, July 20, 2011. “Bio-inspired Liquid Crystals”, College of Pharmacy, Second Miliatry Medical University, Shanghai, July 19, 2010. Poster Presentations J. Ma, Y. Li, T. White, A. Urbas, T. Bunning, and Q. Li, “Light-driven Chiral Molecular Switches for Liquid Crystal Displays” LC Day, Oct. 8, 2010. Peter Palffy-Muhoray Invited Presentations “Self-Assembled Optical Metamaterials based on Metallic Nanoparticles”, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, July 1, 2010. “Optical Materials and Liquid Crysallinity”, Fall MRS Symposium on Liquid Crystals, Boston, MA, November 29-December 3, 2010. “Mesomorpic Metamaterials”, 23rd ILCC, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. “Dynamics of Liquid Crystal Systems” Annual General Meeting of the ICAM, Hongzhou, China. March 8, 2011. “Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Materials for Soft Motors, Sensors and Energy Transducers“,Engineering Neo-Biomimetics – Soft Nanomaterials and Soft Robotics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Higashi, Tsukuba, Japan, Feb 25-26, 2011. “Optics of Metamaterials Based on Soft Matter”, Metamaterials Workshop, Hongzhou, China, March 11, 2011. “Soft Motors: from Molecular to Macroscopic Perspectives” (3 lectures) PhD Program in Supramolecular Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, April 26-27, 2011. “Modeling the Dynamics of Liquid Crystal Systems”, School and Conference on Mathematics and Physics of Soft and Biological Matter, ICTC, Trieste, Italy, May 8-14, 2011. “Self-Assembled Soft Optical Negative Index Materials”, AFOSR Joint Electronics Program Review, Arlington, VA, May 23-26, 2011.


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“Self-Assembled Soft Optical Negative Index Materials”, XXXIV National Meeting of the Brazilian Physical Society, Iguacu Falls, Brazil, June 5-10, 2011. Poster Presentations C. Grabowski, P. Luchette, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Domain Structure Formation in Swollen Side-Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomers”, March Meeting of the APS, Dallas, Texas, March 21-25, 2011. C. Kim, H. Yan, S. Mukherjee, P. Luchette, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Formation of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Microparticles”, March Meeting of the APS, Dallas, Texas, March 21-25, 2011. Jonathan Selinger Invited Presentations “Electro-optic applications of liquid crystals in disordered polymer networks,” Workshop on Physics of Polydomain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers,” Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, June 9-11, 2011. “Helical Structures in Lipid Membranes and Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers,” Seminar at Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, June 15, 2011. Oral Presentations K. Urayama, Y. Sawa, T. Takigawa, A. DeSimone, L. Teresi, F. Ye, R. L. B. Selinger, and J. V. Selinger, “Shape Variations of Nematic Elastomer Ribbons with Non-Uniform Director Configurations,” 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. J. V. Selinger and L. M. Lopatina, “Dynamics of Liquid-Crystal Films: Fundamentals and Applications,” 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. J. V. Selinger and L. M. Lopatina, “Dynamics of chiral liquid-crystal films driven by water transport,” American Physical Society March Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 21–25, 2011. L. M. Lopatina and J. V. Selinger, “Modeling the Kerr effect in polymer-disordered liquid crystals,” American Physical Society March Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 21–25, 2011. R. Selinger, J. Geng, and J. Selinger, “Modeling co-evolution of defects and curvature in lipid vesicles: coarse-grained simulation studies,” American Physical Society March Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 21– 25, 2011. J. Geng, J. Selinger, and R. Selinger, “Coarse-grained model for lipid bilayer membranes and vesicles,” American Physical Society March Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 21–25, 2011. Poster Presentations M. Pevnyi and J. V. Selinger, “Modelling Smectic Layers in Confined Domains,” 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. L. M. Lopatina and J. V. Selinger, “Theory of Ferroelectric Nanoparticles in Nematic Liquid Crystals,” 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. J. V. Selinger and S. Dhakal, “Chirality and Biaxiality in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals,” 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010.


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Robin Selinger Invited Presentations Soft Matter Seminar, “Modeling defects, microstructure, and shape evolution in orientationally ordered soft materials: nematic elastomers and lipid vesicles,” Physics Dept, Case Western Reserve University, Nov. 8, 2010. “Modeling temperature and strain-induced shape change and microstructural evolution in LC elastomers,” Workshop on Polydomain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, June 10, 2011. “Modeling co-evolution of defects and curvature in lipid vesicles: coarse-grained simulation studies.” Chinese Academy of Sciences, June 15, 2011. Oral Presentations Robin L. Selinger, Badel Mbanga, Jonathan Selinger and Fangfu Ye, “Modeling Dynamic Mechanical Response and Microstructural Evolution in Nematic Elastomers.” Contributed talk, Fall MRS 2010 meeting, Boston, MA, November 29, 2010. Adam Nicholas and Robin Selinger, “Simulation studies of creeping flexible nematogens: flocking and rectifying barriers,” Contributed talk, 2011 APS March meeting, Dallas, TX, March 23, 2011. Jun Geng, Jonathan Selinger, Robin Selinger, “Coarse-grained model for lipid bilayer membranes and vesicles,” Contributed talk, 2011 APS March meeting, Dallas, TX, March 22, 2011. Robin Selinger, Jun Geng, Jonathan Selinger, “Modeling co-evolution of defects and curvature in lipid vesicles: coarse-grained simulation studies,” Contributed talk, 2011 APS March meeting, Dallas, TX, March 22, 2011. Poster Presentations Adam Nicholas and Robin Selinger, “Simulation studies of creeping flexible nematogens: flocking and rectifying barriers,” LC Gordon Conference, June 19-24, 2011. Vianney Gimenez-Pinto, Robin Selinger, Fangu Ye, Jonathan Selinger, Badel Mbanga, “Shape selection in twisted nematic elastomer ribbons: simulation studies,” LC Gordon Conference, June 19-24, 2011. Sergij Shiyanovskii Poster Presentations Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, “Nematic phases of non-axially-symmetric molecules: Wigner D functions representation of Landau expansion”, 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Kraków, Poland, July 11-16, 2010. Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, “Landau expansion for orientationally ordered phases: energy and entropy” Liquid Crystal Gordon Research Conference , Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, June 19-24, 2011.


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Qi-Huo Wei Invited Presentations “Plasmonic Nanoantennas with Cavity Resonances for Bio/Chemical Detection” 2011 CBD S&T Conference, Orlando, FL, Nov. 15-19, 2010. “Focusing Light at Nanometer Scales”, NYU-Poly Applied Physics Seminar, Nov 8, 2010. “Focusing Light at Nanometer Scales”, AFRL/WPAFB, June, 2010. Oral Presentations Feng Wang, Xuejin Wen, Kai Sun, Wu Lu, Qihuo Wei “Optical Transmission through Archimedeam Spiral Nanotrenches in Ti Film” APS March Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2011. Ayan Chakrabarty, Feng Wang, Bhuwan Joshi, Qi-Huo Wei, “Experimental Studies of the Brownian Diffusion of Boomerang Colloidal Particle in a Confined Geometry”, APS March Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2011. Bhuwan Joshi, Xuejin Wen, Kai Sun, Wu Lu, Qi-Huo Wei, “Optical Properties of Metal-Dielectric-Metal (MDM) Nanoantennas”, APS March Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2011. Ayan Chakrabarty, Feng Wang, Bhuwan Joshi and Qi-Huo Wei, “Experimental Studies of the Brownian Dynamics of Boomerang Colloidal Particles”, Colloidal and Surface Science Symposium, Akron, OH, June 23, 2010. Poster Presentations Feng Wang, Xuejin Wen, Kai Sun, Wu Lu, Qi-Huo Wei (Bhuwan Joshi presenter), “Optical Activities of Nanoscale Planar Spiral Nanotrenches in Titanium Films”, The 54th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology, & Nanofabrication (EIPBN), Anchorage, Alaska, June 1-4, 2010. Bhuwan Joshi, Xuejin Wen, Kai Sun, Wu Lu, Qi-Huo Wei, “Fabrication and Characterization of Metal-Dielectric-Metal (MDM) Nanoantennas”, 54th EIPBN, Anchorage, Alaska, June 1-4, 2010. Feng Wang, Xuejin Wen, Kai Sun, Wu Lu, Qi-Huo Wei, “Optical Activities of Nanoscale Planar Spiral Nanotrenches in Titanium Films”, Gordon Research Conference on Plasmonics, Colby College, June 13-18, 2010 Bhuwan Joshi, Xuejin Wen, Kai Sun, Wu Lu, Qi-Huo Wei (Feng Wang presenter), “Fabrication and Characterization of Metal-Dielectric-Metal (MDM) Nanoantennas”, Gordon Research Conference on Plasmonics, Colby College, June 13-18, 2010. John West Invited Presentations “Kent State University/ Korean Institute of Machinery and Materials research collaboration for the development of flexible displays,” US-Korea Industrial Technology R&D Collaboration Forum at the US-Korea Conference on Science Technology and Entrepreneurship, Seattle,WA, August 11-15, 2010.


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Deng-Ke Yang Invited Presentations “Liquid crystals: fundamentals and applications.” Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Research Lab., Lectures July 21, 2010. “Smart bistable polymer stabilized cholesteric texture windows” Industrial Research Institute, Taiwan, October 27, 2010. “Flexible cholesteric reflective display: materials and drive schemes.” International conference on flexible and printed electronics, Taiwan, October 29, 2010. Oral Presentations “Master Parameter Governing the Response Time of Reflective Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays,” SID Intl Symp. Los Angeles, CA, May, 2011. “A New Drive Scheme for Cholesteric Reflective Displays Under Active Matrix Addressing,” SID Intl Symp. Los Angeles, CA, May, 2011. Poster Presentations “Natural Chiral Dopant D-Limonene for Active Matrix Bistable Cholesteric Displays,” SID Intl Symp, Los Angeles, CA, May, 2011. “Improvement of PDLC Performance by Changing Surface Anchoring Strength,” SID Intl Symp. Los Angeles, CA, May, 2011. Hiroshi Yokoyama Invited Presentations “Collective molecular motor using chiral liquid crystalline thin films” Brandeis University Martin Weiner Lecture Series, Department of Physics Colloquium, March 15, 2011. “Disclinations Controlled by Nanostructured Surfaces” Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, June 19-24, 2011. “Maskless Micro-Multidomain Photoalignment” 10th International Meeting on Information Display (IMID 2010) , KINTEX, Seoul, Korea, October 11-15, 2010. “Pancharatnam-Berry Phase in the Optical Near Field” SPIE Photonics West, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies VI, January 25-27, 2011. “Programmed generation and manipulation of disclinations by two dimensional constraints” Confined Liquid Crystals: Landmarks and Perspectives Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 19-20, 2010. Oral Presentations “Programmed Generation and Manipulation of Disclinations by Two Dimensional Constraints” 23 International Liquid Crystal Conference, Krakow, Poland, July 11-16, 2010.

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Table 14 Other Scholarly Activities

Philip J. Bos Regional/National/International Program Committee, Society for Information Display Associate Editor of the Journal of the Society for Information Display (2008-2011) Liang-Chy Chien Department/University CPIP Interim Director, January 1, 2010-present Regional/National/International Reviewer for Nature Photonics, Soft Matters, J. Mater. Chem, Appl. Phys. Lett., Opt. Exp., J. Jpn. Appl.

Phys., Appl. Opt., Macromolecules, Phys. Rev. E, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Mater., Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., Liq. Cryst., J. Phys., J. Phys. Chem, Langmuir, J. Disp. Tech.

Eugene Gartland Department/University Computer Systems 2010-2011 Graduate Studies 2010-2011 Antal Jákli Department/University CPIP Admission Committee CPIP Faculty Advisory Committee College Advisory Committee 2010-2011 Liquid Crystal Institute Space Committee Search Committee Member (Physics Photovoltaic Search) University Faculty Life Quality Committee University Patent Board Member Regional/National/International Associate Editor, Physical Review E Chair, 13th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Chanjoong Kim Department/University CPIP Candidacy Exam Committee CPIP Curriculum Committee Department Handbook Revision Committee Judge: 2011 Hudson Science Fair Library Representative Science Demonstration at the 2011 Akron Science and Technology Expo. Edgar Kooijman Department/University Board Biotechnology Program LCI Executive Committee Faculty Searches in BSCI

Other Scholarly Activities, 2010-2011

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Assisted in BS/MD Program Applicant Interviews Regional/National/International Organized Bio-Symposium at the 84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, University of Akron Oleg D. Lavrentovich Department/University Director of LCI, till June 30, 2011 Coordinating Committee to Organize the University’s “Kent State at the Statehouse” event in Columbus, March 16, 2011 President’s Administrative Council Quan Li Regional/National/International Editor, Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications Editor, Self-organized Organic Semiconductors: From Materials to Device Applications International Scientific Committee Member at 2011 International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, Shenzhen International Advisory Committee Member at 2011 International Symposium on Liquid Crystals: Science and Technology, Changzhou International Advisory Committee Member at 2010 International Conference on Optical, Electronic and Electrical Materials, Kuming. Peter Palffy-Muhoray Department/University Member, Faculty Advisory Committee CPIP Curriculum Committee Member, CPIP Scholarship Committee Regional/National/International Editor, Electronic Liquid Crystal Communications (e-lc.org) Regional Editor, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Editorial Board, Liquid Crystals Today Journal referee for: American Journal of Physics, Canadian Journal of Physics, Journal de

Physique, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Journal of Chemical Physics, Liquid Crystals, Nature, Nature Materials, Macromolecules, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Optics Letters, Physical Review Letters, Physikalische Chemie, Physics Letters

Jonathan Selinger Department/University Faculty Advisory Committee Faculty Senate, Senator Graduate Studies Committee Research Incentive Proposal Review Regional/National/International NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Panel International Liquid Crystal Society Board of Directors

Other Scholarly Activities, 2010-2011

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Reviewed Papers for: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Journal of Chemical Physics, European Physical Journal E. Reviewed Proposal for Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences Reviewed Student Applications for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Reviewed Internal Proposals for Kent State Research Incentive Program

Robin Selinger Department/University Provost Faculty Fellow Organized a Science Internship Program for Post-Secondary Students Assisted in Organizing Career Development Workshop Series for Graduate Studies & Postdocs Regional/National/International Editorial Board, Computing in Science & Engineering President & Member of the Board, Hudson STEM Alliance Consultant, Educational Testing Service, GRE-Physics and Praxis-General Science Qi-Huo Wei Department/University Chair, Liquid Crystal Today Student Recruitment Committee Faculty Ad-Hoc Committee Regional/National/International Panelist, NSF Graduate Scholarships Deng-Ke Yang Department/University CPIP Graduate Coordinator LCI Space Committee Patent Committee Hiroshi Yokoyama Department/University Committee Liquid Crystal Today Regional/National/International Associate Editor, European Physics Journal E

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Physics.

Editorial Board Member, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals.

International Scientific Council, King Abdullah Institute of Nanotechnology, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia The National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China, April 19-21, 2011.

Reviewed Papers for: European Physics Journal E, Journal of Physics, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Nature, Nature Photonics, Langmuir, and Proceeding of National Academy of Sciences.

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Table 15

LCI Seminar Program 2010-2011

Summer Semester 2010 (held on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted)

July 28

Dr. Alfred Blume Institute of Chemistry-Physical Chemistry, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Self-assembly of bolaamphiphiles in water: Formation of nanoparticles, nanofibers, and hydrogels. Joint seminar with Chemistry

August 20 Friday

Dr. Min Gao Department of Electronics, Peking University Atomic structure and bonding-TEM studies of nanostructures, interfaces and thin films

August 23 Monday

Dr. Joseph Mulqueen Analytical Applications Specialist, Gatan Inc. Analytical Methods and Digital Imaging in Electron Microscopy

Fall Semester 2010 (held on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted) September 8 Dr. Shi-Qing Wang

Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH From polymer interface to polymer rheology and the reverse

September 22

Dr. Paul Lane Optical Sciences Division, US Naval Research Laboratory Organic Solar Cells Based on Self-Organized Bulk Heterojunctions

September 29

Dr. John Dagata National Institute of Standards & Technology Physical characterization methods for nanomedicine. Examples from targeted nanparticle delivery systems and single particle tracking of protein membrane diffusion

October 20

Dr. Tom Witten Department of Physics and The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Electrostatically induced clustering of Coulomb-blockaded nanoparticles

October 25 Monday

Dr. James Blank Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH Overview of the Research Activities of the Department of Biological Sciences

October 27 Dr. Pochi Yeh College of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University Birefringent Thin Films for LCDs

LCI Seminar Program, 2010-2011

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November 3

Dr. Mohammad Islam Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Normal Modes and Density of States of Disordered Colloidal Solids

November 8 Monday

Dr. Frederick Schroath Associate Dean, College of Business, Kent State University, Kent, OH Entrepreneurship, Commercialization and the Research Scientist

November 10

Dr. Hui Cao Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT Active Photonic Nanomaterials: fabrication, characterization & applications

November 17

Dr. Stephen Cheng Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH From Hierarchical Structures to Hybrid Functional Materials: Where Chemistry and Physics Meet

November 22 Monday

Dr. Li Ma National Institute of Standards and Technology, Kent State University, Kent, OH Finite Element Modeling of Multiaxial Deformation of Metals at NIST

November 29 Monday

Dr. Sandrine Martin Nanofabrication Facilities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Micro and Nano Technology at the Lurie Nanofabrication Facility

December 1

Dr. Scott Franklin Department of Physics, College of Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Packing, Clogging, and Avalanches in Granular Materials

December 8

Dr. Zhigang Suo School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Soft Active Materials

Spring Semester 2011 (held on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted) January 12 Dr. Buddhapriya Chakrabarti

Department of Math, Durham University, UK Chromosome oscillations during mitosis

January 19

Dr. Michael Galperin Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University California at San Diego, San Diego, CA Raman spectroscopy of molecular junctions

February 7 Monday

Dr. Kazuhito Tsukagoshi International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, Pi-electronics Research Group, National Institute for Materials Science Charge injection from metallic contact to organic semiconductor in organic field effect transistors (OFETs)


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February 9

Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pent State University, University Park, PA Multiplasmonics

February 16

Professor Te-Sheng Lin Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology Instabilities in Newtonian films and nematic liquid crystal droplets

February 23 Northeast Ohio International Business Network on Liquid Crystal Technologies

March 2

Dr. Eric Dufresne School of Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University, Haven, CT Self-Assembly of Photonic Nanostructures: Beyond Crystalline Sphere Packings

March 7 Monday

IGERT Workshop How to Give a Good Talk

March 16

Dr. Patrick Mather Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Shape Memory Polymers

April 11 Monday

Dr. Philip Bos Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH Alignment of smectic C* liquid crystals for device applications

April 13

Dr. Torsten Hegmann Department of Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Modulating the properties of liquid crystals using nanoparticles as dopants

April 18 Monday

Dr. Min Gao Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH The New TEM Facility at the Liquid Crystal Institute

April 20

Dr. J. Campbell The Fashion School, Kent State University, Kent, OH Liquid Crystal Meets Fashion Designers

April 21 Thursday

Dr. James McGuffin-Cawley Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Increasing Scarcity of Mineral-Based Materials - Education & Research In conjunction with the Center for Materials Informatics

April 27

Dr. Linda Cummings Department of Applied Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology Towards an optimal model for a bistable nematic LCD

May 9 Monday

Dr. Yuka Tabe Applied Physics, Waseda University, Japan Anomalous Deformation of Smectic Bubbles in External Fields: Electrical and Chemical Forces


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May 23 Monday

Dr. Brindaban Kundu Tokyo University of Science, Japan Enhancement of Electro-Optical Performance of TN-LCDs by Doping Newly Synthesized Nanoparticles

Summer Semester 2011 (held on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted) June 15

Dr. Jagdish Vij Trinity College, University of Dublin Orthogonal Smectic Phases in Bent-Core Liquid Crystalline Systems-Polarity and Biaxiality

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Table 16

LCI Industrial Partnership Program and Liquid Crystal Display Research Facility Philip J. Bos, Director

Full Members

ChemImage JDSU Pittsburgh, PA Ontario, Canada CoAdna Photonics Kent Displays Stow, OH Kent, OH Corning Liquid Crystal Technologies Corning, NY Cleveland, OH Crystal Diagnostics LXD Inc. Akron, OH Cleveland, OH Dynamic Eye, Inc. NASA Langley Research Center Amherst, NY Hampton, VA Flight Specialties Okaya Electric America, Inc. Highland Heights, OH Valparaiso, IN Hana Microdisplay Technologies Inc. SBG Labs Twinsburg, OH Sunnyvale, CA

Associate Members

ADS/Transicoil Honeywell Advantech Light Resource Technologies AlphaMicron Liquidia Cambrios Optimax Display Plastique Polydisplay Dow Corning Sarnoff Eastman Chemical Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Eastman Kodak Thor Labs Guardian Vescent Photonics Hewlett Packard

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Table 17

Research Facility Report

The Industrial Partnership Program (IPP) exists for companies or universities that have “in house” projects related to applications of liquid crystals. For them, we provide services that bridge the gap between class room education and sponsored research projects. That includes:

• Prototype process training • Access to our facility for prototype development (including research carrels ) • Prototype device construction and testing • Educational assistance in form of discussions and seminars • Bi Monthly newsletters.

An intended outcome of this program is to allow companies to “get started” with their LC related product development and commercialization. An ideal outcome of this effort would be the creation of companies and jobs in Ohio. Related to that, it was a direct result of this program that KSU was able to team with ChemImage of Pennsylvania and the Ohio Third Frontier to propose and promote the creation of an Ohio business to produce liquid crystal elements for imaging spectrometers. This proposal was subsequently accepted and will be the basis of a continuing effort into the next years. This year we added a new class of membership, “associate member”, to include companies not directly interesting in prototyping at this time. Table 16 shows the current list of full members (14) and associate members (19). There was a significant amount of invoiced work done in the prototyping facility related to this program totaling $93,782. $5,500 (10%) of collected membership fees was transferred to a Liquid Crystal Institute account for support of conferences and research. I would like to thank Doug Bryant and Lynn Fagan for providing most of the effort to make this program successful. Philip Bos IPP Director

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APPENDICES

I. Achievements

• Tony Jákli Receives Luckhurst Samulski Prize

• Quan Li Publishes Book and Receives DoD MURI Grant

• Lu Lu Receives SPIE Scholarship

II. Outreach Activities

• Liquid Crystal Today

• Science Professional Development Workshop

• Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program

• Industrial Partnership Program and Liquid Crystal Display Research Facility

• Technology Transfer

III. Historical List of Grant Funding

1982-2010

IV. Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals 1967 – 2010

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Jakli receives 2010 Luckhurst-Samulski Prize

The article Electro-mechanical effects in liquid crystals written by the LCI member Prof. Antal (Tony) Jakli has been selected as the winner of the 2010 Luckhurst-Samulski Prize. This is a Prize awarded annually to the best paper published that year in Liquid Crystals as selected by the Editorial Board. The article appeared as an invited contribution in a commemorative issue dedicated to Alfred Saupe, one of the founding fathers of the modern liquid crystal physics, who worked at the LCI in 1968-1992. Tony joined the LCI as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Alfred Saupe in 1989 and together they produced a number of outstanding research results. The award-winning article reviews linear and quadratic electromechanical effects in liquid crystals, the subject that was not classified in details before. It is focused on an interesting set of physical effects but at the very same time it is broad in scope, not only technical but also historical. The article provides an insight into one of the potentially rich non-display areas of liquid crystal applications in energy conversion and energy generating devices, and should inspire many researchers in the field of condensed matter.

The formal announcement of the winner of the Prize was made in Maribor, Slovenia, during the European Conference on Liquid Crystals that Prof. Jakli attended. In addition to the cutting-edge research and educating the graduate students at the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Prof. Jakli contributes greatly to the field of liquid crystals as an Editor of the Liquid Crystals section of Physical Review E. Together with Profs. R. Lemieux, C. Rosenblatt and T. Hegmann, Tony organized the 2011 International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, which was held on August 29-September 2, 2011 in Niagara Falls, Canada.

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Li Publishes Book & Receives DoD MURI Grant

A book entitled “Self-organized Organic Semiconductors: From Materials to Device Applications” edited by Quan Li was published by John Wiley & Son on April 26, 2011. This is the first book on the market devoted to the exciting topic of self-organized organic semiconductors. The unique self-organized feature offers a brand new scientific frontier that holds immense opportunities as well as challenges in fundamental science that is opening the door for numerous applications. The book includes chapters that cover chemistry, physics, processing, and characterization of organic semiconductors (including liquid crystalline ones). The book describes applications in photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and transistors.

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047055973X.html.

Also, Quan, co-PI with the distinguished scholars at Case Western Reserve University, Purdue University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and North Texas University has been awarded a Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (DoD MURI) grant totaling more than $7 million over five years, to build 3D nanomaterials. Due to this award, Kent Start has been listed among the 70 academic institutions participated the DoD MURI projects according to the DoD news released on April 22, 2011. “MURIs are an important vehicle for engaging the brightest researchers on ideas with major impact for the department,” said the Assistant Secretary of Defense Zachary J. Lemnios. “DoD relies on such program, in line with our S&T priorities, to pave the way for revolutionary breakthroughs supporting tomorrow’s warfighter.”

Details can be found at: http://www.defense.gov/news/d20110422MURI.pdf

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047055973X.html

http://www.defense.gov/news/d20110422MURI.pdf

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Lu Lu Awarded SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics

Graduate student, Miss Lu Lu, has been awarded a SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics. She proposed a new Young Education Outreach Program, which will involve more than 200 high school students. Lu is the current President of our SPIE student chapter, and has also served as a Vice President of the Optical Society of America and as a Vice President of Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) at KSU for three years (2007-2009). Lu is a very active researcher, exploring polymer–liquid crystal composites with her advisor, Phil Bos.

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Program (www.lcd.kent.edu) 8:30-9:00AM Registration 9:00-9:05 Welcome remarks by Sonia Alemagno, Interim Vice President for

Research 9:15-10:00 Hiroshi Yokoyama, Professor and Ohio Research Scholar, CPIP and

LCI, Kent State University Invited talk "Toward Liquid Crystal-based Molecular Motors”

Jonathan Selinger, Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar, CPIP and LCI, Kent State University Invited talk "Dynamics of Liquid-Crystal Films: Fundamentals and Applications”

10:05-10:50 Nicholas L. Abbott, John T. and Magdalen L. Sobota Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison Invited talk "Biomolecular Interactions at the Interfaces of Confined Liquid Crystals"

10:50-11:10 Coffee Break

11:10-12:00PM Student presentations, Chaired by Antal Jakli

Steven E. Fiester, "Optical Properties of a Viral Protein"

Sonal Dey, "Dynamics of Structural Change in Main Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomer under Strain"

Israel Lazo, "Dynamics of Colloidal Particles in nematic Liqid Crystals"

Vianney Gimenez-Pinto, "Numerical Studies of the Electrical Response on Defect Textures and Dynamics in Cholesteric Droplets"

http://www.lcd.kent.edu/

http://www.lci.kent.edu/PI/yokoyama.htm

http://www.lci.kent.edu/PI/SelingerJ.htm

http://www.engr.wisc.edu/che/faculty/abbott_nicholas.html

http://www.ilcsoc.org/lcd/Abstracts/1285792046.pdf






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12:00-12:10 Group photo outside the LCI building

12:10-1:45 Lunch break

1:50-3:50 Poster Session (second and third floor), industrial exhibition (second floor)

4:00-4:05 Distinguished Alumni Award, presented by Liang-Chy Chien

4:05-4:35 Jianlin Li, President of Polytronix Inc. Invited talk "The story of an ex-LCIer"

4:35-4:45 Student poster awards, presented by Qi-huo Wei

4:45-5:00 Concluding remarks, Oleg Lavrentovich

About Liquid Crystal Day Liquid Crystal Day serves to provide platforms for intellectual and enlightening interactions between students and researchers from different academic and professional areas. This annual event was initiated by Professor L.-C. Chien in 2004 to continue the LCI's tradition of holding symposia on liquid crystals. The event is free and open to the public. All activities will take place at the Liquid Crystal Institute, in the Liquid Crystal and Materials Sciences Building (LCM) on the Kent Campus. The mission is three-fold: (1) to provide a platform for several distinguished experts in the field of liquid crystals to shed light on some important topics in the field, (2) to bring back Kent State alumni to speak about his/her experience at Kent State and how that helped his/her career, and (3) to give future Ph.D students of our Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Graduate Program at LCI a sneak peek of what the field of liquid crystals has to offer. The main theme of this year’s LCD is set to Liquid Crystals with biological relevance. Our distinguished invited speakers include Professor Nicholas L. Abbott; distinguished alumni Dr. Jianlin Li (President of Polytronix, Inc.), Ohio eminent scholar Jonathan Selinger, and Ohio Research scholar Hiroshi Yokoyama. Other highlights include: student talks, student poster presentations, and an industrial exhibition. More information about poster abstracts can be found at www.lcd.kent.edu.

Industrial Exhibition Exhibitors include: AlphaMicron, Inc. Kent Displays, Inc. LXD, Inc. LCI Industrial Partnership Program Technology Transfer, Kent State University Scientific Committee Prof. Qi-Huo Wei Prof. Hiroshi Yokoyama Prof. Antal Jakli Prof. L.-C. Chien

http://www.polytronix.com/

http://www.lcd.kent.edu/

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Organizing Committee Chair: Prof. Qi-Huo Wei Vice-Chairs: Prof. Hiroshi Yokoyama and Prof. Antal Jakli Staff Support: Lynn Fagan, Cathy Lowe, James Maxwell Student Volunteers: Cheng Cheng, Christopher Culbreath, Ayan Chakrabarty, Bhuwan Joshi, Shuojia Shi

Sponsors We greatly appreciate the generous financial support by LXD Inc., the Liquid Crystal Institute and the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs of Kent State University.

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Science Professional Development Workshops

Career Pathways in Industry, Government and Entrepreneurship

Date: November 15, 2010

Time: 4:00 – 6:00 P.M.

Location: Liquid Crystal Institute Samsung Auditorium

If you would like to learn from industry leaders about:

• What jobs are like in industry and government • What you need to do now to plan for your perfect job choice • What you can do with your ideas for entrepreneurship

Speakers:

1. Kelvin F. Rogers - Environmental Specialist, Ohio EPA

2. Donald Davis - Manager of Process Innovation at Kent Displays, Inc.

3. Jamie Krejsa - Executive Vice President / Director of Ecological Services of EnviroScience, Inc.

4. Donald Diehl - Visiting Scientist, LCI, KSU

5. Christopher J. Woolverton - Professor, Environmental Sciences, College of Public Health, KSU

6. Jonathan Selinger - Professor, LCI, KSU

7. John Krusinski - President and CEO, The Orin Group

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Industrial Partnership Program and Liquid Crystal Display Research Facility http://www.lcinet.kent.edu/industry/ipp/index.php

Industrial Partnership Program

Liquid Crystal Institute

Kent State University

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Historical Data -Outside Funding Awarded to LCI Scientists 1973-2011

Inception Year Index # Category Agency Total Award Start End Project Title

1973 NSF National Science Foundation NA

Structures and Properties of Liquid Crystals

1974 NSF National Science Foundation

480,900

Structures and Properties of Liquid Crystals


78,562

Nuclear magnetic Resonance Studies of Liquid Crystals


53,400 Adiabatic Calorimetry of Liquid Crystals


60,873

Physical Properties of Amphiphilic Nematic Systems


16,000

Orientation of Solute Molecules by liquid Crystalline Media and the Influence of Chemical Reactions


88,200

Thermal and Optical Study of Liquid Crystal Phases and Phase Transitions


99,196

X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Structure of Liquid Crystals


100,800

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of liquid Crystals


52,000

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Superconducting Magnet Facility (Equipment)


182,100

Thermal and Optical Study of Liquid Crystal Phases and Phase Transistions


134,200

X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Structure of Liquid Crystals


147,900

Physical Properties of Amphiphilic Nematic Systems


158,300

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Liquid Crystals

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33,300

High Pressure Liquid Chromatography Facility (Equipment)

1982 NSF

National Science Foundation Div. International Prgrm. NA 1/1/1982 12/31/1984

Chiral Liquid Crystals (distribution in foreign currency)


75,400

thermal and Optical Study of Liquid Crystal Phases and Phase Transitions


66,400

Nuclear magnetic Resonance Studies of Liquid Crystals


68,000 Liquid Crystal Synthesis Program0


81,800

Physical properties of Amphiphilic Nematic Systems

1983 Ind/Other Exxon Educational Foundation

10,000 6/1/1983 5/31/1984 Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

1983 NSF DMR82-

44461 NSF 142,500 6/1/1983 5/31/1985 NMR Studies of Liquid Crystals

1983 NSF DMR83-

09739 NSF 233,700 6/1/1983 5/31/1986 Liquid Crystal Synthesis


387,900

thermal and Optical Study of Liquid Crystal Phases and Phase Transitions

1984 NIH 1R01

GM27127-05 Other Fed NIH 40,516 1/1/1984 12/31/1985

DMR Studies of Protein-Phosopholipid Bilayer Membranes

1984 Other Fed US Army/Battelle Research

27,000 5/1/1984 11/31/1984 Study of Nonlinear Optical Data

1984 Ind/Other Exxon Educational Foundation

20,000 6/1/1984 5/31/1986 Liquid Crystal Research

1984 DAAKp20-84-

0224 Other Fed US Army, Electronic R&D 200,000 9/1/1984 8/31/1986

Nonlinear Optical Processing in LC Materials: Combined Theoretical and Synthesis Program

1984 Ind/Other Hughes Research Labs 33,500 11/1/1984 5/31/1986 Research Support

1985 NSF DMR85-

03219 NSF 313,000 6/1/1985 11/1/1988 NMR Studies of Liquid Crystals

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1985 Other Fed US Army, Metallurgy and Materials

17,000 6/1/1985 7/31/1985

Liquid Crystal Dispersion Mechanical Stress Monitor

1986 Ind/Other Soho Research Center 10,000 6/1/1986 12/31/1986

Deuterium NMR of LC/Polymer Composites

1986 Private-Corp General Motors

488,000 6/1/1986 5/31/1989

Electrically Controlled Light Scattering from microdroplets of Nematic LC Dispersed in Solid Matrix

1986 Ind/Other Ford Glass Division 13,500 10/1/1986 10/31/1988 Liquid Crystal Research

1986 Ind/Other 81,000 10/1/1986 4/30/1988 Industrial Research Support Agreement

1987 Ind/Other

Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada

30,200 1987 Physical Properties of Liquid Crystals

1987 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents 80,000 1987 Display Prototyping Unit (equipment grant)

1987 Ind/Other Tektronix Corporation 15,000 10/1/1987 10/31/1988 Microdroplet Technology Research

1987 Other Fed DARPA/URI/Navy/ U. Penn

350,000 10/1/1987 6/1/1992

Science and Application of Polymer LCs and Related Materials

1988 Ohio ODOD/ Edison Program 50,000 7/1/1988 10/31/1989

Development of PDLCs for Aircraft Window Shades

1988 Other Fed US Army Communications 1,050,000 8/1/1988 7/31/1992 Optical Power Limiting LC Composites

1989 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents Res. Chall.

100,000 1989 Polymer Liquid Crystal Synthesis Program

1989 NSF DMR88-

17647 NSF 285,740 1/1/1989 12/31/1990 Basic Studies of Polymer Dispersed LCs

1989 NSF DMR88-

18561 NSF 273,200 1/1/1989 12/11/1992 Liquid Crystal Synthesis


92


1989 Ind/Other Tektronix Corporation 47,740 3/1/1989 2/28/1990

Active Substrate Projection Microdroplet Materials

1989 Ind/Other Honeywell 20,000 6/1/1989 5/31/1990 Modeling of Optical Fibers with LC Cores

1990 444239/444207 Ohio ODOD 9,500,000 1990 2002 ALCOM Support

1990 Other Fed DARPA 1,197,240 3/1/1990 6/1/1993

National Center for Integrated Photonic Technology (NCIPT); (consortium USC, UCLA, KSU, MIT, Columbia U.)

1991 Ind/Other Ajinomoto Corporation 50,000 1991

Feasibility Study for Ferroelectric Smectic C LCs and Polymer Dispersions

1991 Ind/Other Edison Polymer Innovation Corp (EPIC)

180,000 1991

ALCOM Administrative Support (total award $180,000; 54% KSU)

1991 Ind/Other Hughes Aircraft 147,000 1991

Hughes Aircraft Company Research Project

1991 Ind/Other Magnascreen 69,675 1991 Magnascreen Research

1991 Ind/Other Vari-Lite 75,000 1991 Liquid Crystal Research

1991 N00014-90-J-

1559 Other Fed DARPA, U Penn subaward 227,000 1/1/1991 5/31/1992 High Definition Displays

1991 442129 NSF National Science Foundation

22,000,000 2/1/1991 1/31/2002

ALCOM Center for Advanced LC Optical Materials (KSU 54%; CWRU 34%; U Akron 12%)

1991 MDA972-91-J-

1020 Other Fed DARPA HDDT Program 1,147,000 9/1/1991 8/31/1994

PDLCs for High Definition Display Technologies

1992 Ind/Other Keck Foundation 370,000 1992 XPS Analysis of LC Alignment Layers

1992 Ind/Other Tektronix Corporation 16,992 1992 Tektronix Fellowship

1992 NSF ECS90-

20420 NSF 199,507 2/1/1992 2/1/1994 Electric Field Response of PDLCs

1992 Ind/Other Univ. So. California 17,671 3/1/1992 2/28/1993 Optically Controlled Phased Array Radar

93


1992 NSF DMR92-


1993 Ind/Other GAR Foundation 500,000 1993 Display Prototyping Unit (equipment grant)

1993 NSF National Science Foundation-NATO NA 3/1/1993 9/1/1993

NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Nonequilibrium Complex Systems

1993 Ind/Other Hewlett-Packard 30,374 4/1/1993 3/31/1994

Materials Synthesis and Fabrication of Thin Film Polarizers

1993 Ind/Other Korea Institute of Sci. & Tech.

15,000 5/1/1993 4/31/1994 Visiting Scientist (Young Chul Kim)

1993 Other Fed NASA 77,918 6/1/1993 5/31/1994

Experimental Testing of Twisted Nematic and Super Twisted Nematic LC Displays

1993 Other Fed National Research Council 11,100 6/1/1993 2/28/1994

Structures in Large Surface-to-Volume Ratio Nematic Systems

1994 440232 Ind/Other 3M Company 18,000 1994 1997 3M Fellowship

1994 NSF 20,117 1/1/1994 3/31/1995

Surface Anchoring and Alignment in PDLCs

1994 Other Fed ARPA/ Fla Atlantic Univ 20,000 5/1/1994 11/31/1994 Optically Active Device

1994 440131 Other Fed DARPA 1,150,264 6/1/1994 5/31/1998 Reflective Polymer Stabilized LCD

1994 Other Fed ARPA 952,212 6/1/1994 5/31/1997 Reflective polymer Stabilized LC Displays

1994 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents 1,000,000 7/1/1994 5/31/1997 ALCOM Equipment

1994 440213 Ind/Other Imax Corporation 81,342 8/1/1994 4/31/1996 Liquid Crystal Light Valve

1994 Ind/Other Image Quest Technologies 25,273 8/1/1994 12/1/1994 Optical modeling of Active Matrix Displays


112,640 9/1/1994 8/3/1995 Science and Math on the Net (SAM-Net)

1994 440264 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents Eisenhower Prgm.


94


1994 Ind/Other Portage County Schools 7,700 10/1/1994

Portage County SAM-Net (computer equipment)

1995 Ind/Other U.S.-Slovene Sci & Tech 33,000 1995 1997

LC Polymer Dispersions and Related Microconfined Systems

1995 444404 Ind/Other Image Quest Technologies 69,797 1/1/1995 12/31/1995 Development of Wide Viewing Angle LCD

1995 442161 NSF

National Science Foundation; Gordon and Breach

6,000 1/1/1995 3/31/1996

Conference on Dynamics and Defects in LCs

1995 442600 NSF

National Science Foundation; Gordon and Breach

5,000 1/1/1995 3/31/1996

Conference on Dynamics and Defects in LCs

1995 Other Fed NASA 12,000 2/1/1995 1/31/1996 Evaluation of NASA Polymers

1995 440222 Ind/Other Hughes Research Labs 40,000 3/1/1995 2/28/1997 LC Materials and Devices

1995 Ind/Other Vari-Lite 68,721 3/1/1995 3/31/1996 Passive Projection Display

1995 444435 Ind/Other Planar 28,218 7/1/1995 6/31/1996 Active Compensation Cell Research

1995 444423 Ind/Other Samsung 67,086 8/1/1995 11/31/1996

Comparison of Four Domain Alignment Techniques

1995 444424 Ind/Other Meadowlark Optics 12,800 8/1/1995 7/31/1996 Switchable Cholesteric Polarizer

1995 444306 Other Fed Office of Naval Research 125,000 8/1/1995 7/31/1997

LCD Devices from Conducting Polymer Substrates



1995 444434 Ind/Other nChip 58,214 10/1/1995 9/31/1996 Liquid Crystals on Silicon

1996 Foundation Ind/Other W.M. Keck Fndn. 500,000 1996 Cleanroom construction

95


1996 NSF

National Science Foundation & Shlodowska Fndn.

23,000 1996 1999

Investigation of the Influence of Structure Factors on Stability of Smectic C* and CA Phases in Compounds and Mixtures

1996 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents 2,578,000 1996 LC Display Research Center

1996 440217 Other Fed DARPA/Fla. Atlantic Univ. 15,867 1996 Diffractive Device Investigation

1996 Foundation Ind/Other M. Holden Jennings Fndn. 3,450 2/1/1996 1/31/1997 Project LCs for Elementary Teachers


5,000 5/1/1996 10/31/1996


16th International Liquid Crystal Conference Support

1996 444451 Other Fed Wright Patterson AFB 47,592 5/1/1996 9/31/1996 Systran Visiting Scientist (Wiff)

1996 444456 Ind/Other Rockwell Science Center 118,399 6/1/1996 5/31/1997 Synthesis of Chiral LC Diacrylates

1996 444321 Other Fed DARPA 137,700 6/1/1996 5/31/2000

Reflective Cholesteric Displays: Dynamic Drive and Surface Topography Issues

1996 444327 Other Fed DARPA/KDI sub 615,074 7/1/1996 6/31/1999

Power Efficient Reflective Cholesteric Displays

1996 444608 Ind/Other Gov't. of Korea 10,000 8/1/1996 7/31/1997 Polyimide Alignment Films

1996 444621 Ind/Other Ministry of Education, Taiwan

13,751 8/1/1996 7/31/1998

PDLC for Holographic Recording Applications

1996 444615 Ind/Other IMAX Corp. 134,000 9/1/1996 12/31/1999 LC Glasses Improvements

1996 444641 Ind/Other S-VISION 60,000 10/1/1996 9/31/1997 Liquid Crystals on Silicon

1996 444109 Other Fed NASA 10,000 10/1/1996 3/31/1997 Alignment Properties

1996 444328 Other Fed AFOSR MURI/CalTech 423,756 11/1/1996 10/31/2001

Alignment and Packiing Behavior of LC and LCP

96



Optical Study of Structure and Dynamics in Advanced Polymer Stabilized LC

1996 Foundation Ind/Other Dai Nippon 250,000 Teaching Lab Equipment

1996 Foundation Ind/Other Nitto Denko 100,000 LCI Support

1996 Foundation Ind/Other Wintek 250,000 LCI/Materials Science Building

1997 444635 Ind/Other George Mason Univ. 10,000 1/1/1997 12/31/1998 Surface Alignment of Nematic LC

1997 444114 Other Fed NASA 1,500 1/1/1997 12/31/1997

Studies on Dynamics and Optics of 0-360 Twist Bistable LCD


18,867 2/1/1997 1/31/1998 Real Physics On-line

1997 444112/444120 Other Fed NASA Goddard Ctr. 99,100 3/1/1997 5/31/1999 Development of LC Devices for Astronomy

1997 220232 Ind/Other Japan Synthetic Rubber 20,000 4/1/1997 10/31/1998 Visiting Scientist, Japan Synthetic Rubber

1997 444636 Ind/Other Dai Nippon 110,176 4/1/1997 8/31/1998 Optimizatio of Smectic A PDLC Films

1997 444115 Other Fed NASA 20,000 5/1/1997 4/31/1998 Evaluation of NASA Polymers

1997 444664 Other Fed NIST/Colorlink sub 200,000 5/1/1997 6/31/2000 Color Sequential Imaging

1997 Other Fed NASA 20,000 5/1/1997 4/301998 Evaluation of NASA Polymers

1997 444331 Other Fed Office of Naval Research 20,900 6/1/1997 12/31/1997 Conductive Polymer Displays

1997 444644 Ind/Other Optical Imaging Systems 27,975 7/1/1997 12/31/1997 Photo-curable LC Monomers

1997 444647 Ind/Other Civilian R&D Foundation 11,000 7/1/1997 12/31/1999 Surface Properties and Effects in LCs

1997 444648 Ind/Other Civilian R&D Foundation 15,212 7/1/1997 12/31/1999

Photo-alignment of Nematic LCs on Polyimide Polymer Layers

1997 444650 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents 64,000 7/1/1997 6/31/2000

Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering Facility at APS

97



Viewing Angle Improving Films for LC Displays


64,000 7/1/1997 6/31/1999 Biological Lyotropic LCs

1997 Other Fed NIST 100,000 7/1/1997 6/31/1999

Information Dynamics in ALCOM/NIST Phase Separation Project

1997 444618 Ind/Other Vari-Lite 150,093 9/1/1997 8/31/1998 PSCT Materials for Projection Displays

1997 442102 NSF National Science Foundation/Moxtek sub

34,804 10/1/1997 9/31/1998 Wire Grid Polarizers for LCD

1998 444673 Ind/Other 3M Co. 89,000 2/1/1998 1/30/1999

Alignment and Defects of 3M Lyotropic LCs


750,000 2/1/1998 1/31/2000 ALCOM Support (equipment)

1998 444672 Ind/Other Hitachi 20,000 3/1/1998 2/28/1999

Dynamics of Twisted Nematic Devices (Hitachi Visiting Scientist)

1998 444676 Ind/Other Philippines DOST 8,200 3/1/1998 2/28/1999

Synthesis/Characterization of Anti-FE LCs and Polymers

1998 Ind/Other Hughes Research Labs 20,000 3/1/1998 2/28/1999

High Performance LCs for Laser Communications

1998 444324 Other Fed AFOSR 362,000 3/1/1998 9/31/1999

LC Blazed Gratings for Laser Beam Steering

1998 442106 NSF

National Science Foundation/CNRS (France)

19,500 5/1/1998 4/30/2002

Structure and Defects in Lamellar Thermotropic and Lyotropic Soft Matter Systems

1998 444325 Other Fed Wright Patterson AFB 125,000 5/1/1998 9/31/1999 WPAFB IPA Visiting Scientist (Wiff)

1998 444332 Other Fed U.S. DOD/ BNL sub 150,000 6/1/1998 5/31/2000 Broadband Beam Steering

1998 444694 Other Fed DARPA/Sarnoff Sub 226,712 8/1/1998 9/31/2001 Fabrication of PDLC Test Displays

1998 444122 Ind/Other Cal Tech-Jet Propulsion 20,000 9/1/1998 8/30/1999

High Performance LCs for Laser Communications

98


1998 444699 Ind/Other Motorola 51,225 9/1/1998 5/31/2001

Optimization and Modeling of Full-Color Displays for Portable Applications

1998 444629 Other Fed NATO Intnl. Sci. Exch. 9,607 9/1/1998 9/31/2000

Computational, Experimental and Theoretical Studies of 1D Confined LCs

1998 445269 Ind/Other Kent Displays 137,338 10/1/1998 4/31/2000 Conductive Polymer Displays

1998 442117 NSF National Science Foundation EHR

160,000 10/1/1998 9/31/2000

School Based Remote Experiments on Web

1998 444210 Other Fed NATO - Slovenia Collab. 29,300 12/1/1998 11/31/2001

LCD Optical Shutter for Eye Protection Devices

1999 NSF National Science Foundation/KDI subaward

36,140 1/1/1999 6/31/1999 Chiral Materials Chemistry

1999 444710 Ind/Other Garland Floor Co. 13,032 2/1/1999 6/31/2000

Feasibility Study of Transparent Conductive Coatings

1999 442124 NSF 28,440 2/1/1999 1/31/2002 Photoalignment of LCs

1999 442125 NSF 28,600 2/1/1999 1/31/2002 Nonlinear Optics of Lyotropic LCs

1999 442126 NSF National Science Foundation International

28,440 2/1/1999 1/31/2000 Photoalignment of LCs

1999 444206 Ind/Other Vari-Lite 30,000 3/1/1999 8/31/1999 Prototype of PSCT Project Display

1999 444412 Ind/Other Vari-Lite 30,000 3/1/1999 8/31/1999

PSCT Materials for Projection Displays (continuation of #444618)

1999 444213 Ind/Other Tutco 28,500 5/1/1999 5/31/2000 PDLC for Oventop Applications

1999 444214 Other Fed AFOSR NA 5/1/1999 11/31/2001 Visiting Scientist (Don Wiff) (previously # 444212; 444325)

1999 444224 Other Fed AFOSR 23,000 6/1/1999 6/31/2000 Polymeric E-O Modulators

1999 444208 Ind/Other Kent Displays 59,140 7/1/1999 3/31/2000 High Twisting Power Chiral Materials

1999 444211 Ind/Other Dimensional Media 80,315 7/1/1999 6/31/2000 PSCT for Multiplanar Displays

99


1999 440602 Other Fed ONR 265,000 7/1/1999 6/31/2001

Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric LC Diffraction Gratings

1999 444216 NSF National Science Foundation/Moxtex sub

34,804 8/1/1999 7/31/2001 Wire Grid Polarizers for LCD

1999 444209 Other Fed AFOSR/DAGSI 126,340 8/1/1999 12/31/2001 Active/Passive Optical Sensor Research


61,293 9/1/1999 12/31/2000

Integrating School Based Experiments into Science Curriculum

1999 444212 Other Fed Wright Patterson AFB 21,850 9/1/1999 11/30/1999

WPAFB IPA Visiting Scientist (Wiff) (previously #444325)


14,600 10/1/1999 1/31/2002

Photoalignment of Low-Weight Photo-Crosslinking Materials

1999 442150 NSF National Science Foundation EHR

51,228 10/1/1999 1/31/2002

Remote Experiments in Science Curriculum

1999 444217 Ind/Other Horn Labs 10,000 11/1/1999 11/31/2000 Adaptive Eye Protection

1999 444222 Ind/Other Nitto Denko 74,000 12/1/1999 6/31/2001

Viewing Angle Enhancements with Compensating Films

1999 444223 Ind/Other Santec Systems 60,000 12/1/1999 11/31/2001 LC Ultrasonic Transducer

2000 444218 Ind/Other ACS Petroleum Res. Fund 60,000 1/1/2000 8/31/2002 Coalescence of LC Lens

2000 444220 Ind/Other Dupont 120,000 1/1/2000 4/30/2008

Optical Properties of Holographic Elements in Display Applications

2000 444221 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents Res. Chall.

100,000 1/1/2000 8/31/2001 Chromonic LCs


143,810 1/1/2000 6/1/2001 Equipment - Microcalorimetry System

2000 444225 Ind/Other Boulder Nonlinear 33,000 3/1/2000 12/31/2000

Development of LC Materials for Direct Energy Contact

2000 444226 Other Fed DARPA 2,423,208 6/1/2000

05/31/2003

LC Based Optical Phase Array for Steering Lasers

100


2000 444263 Other Fed DARPA 341,000 6/30/2000 5/30/2005

LC Based Optical Phased Arrays for Steering Lasers

2000 440810 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents 197,600 7/1/2000 9/30/2002 Basic Clean Room Techniques

2000 444231 Ind/Other Boulder Nonlinear 112,500 8/1/2000 1/2/2002 Steered Agile Beams

2000 444227 Other Fed DARPA 3,501 8/1/2000 Rockwell Grant Travel

2000 444228 Ind/Other Displaytech 99,000 9/1/2000 8/31/2003

C1 SSFLC Bistable Device Optimization Project


28,200 9/1/2000 1/31/2002

Cholesteric LC Laser Sensors in Optical Fibers

2000 444230 Other Fed DARPA (Rockwell sub) 637,057 9/6/2000 8/31/2004 LC Agile Beam Steering

2001 444232 NSF National Science Foundation/KDI sub

60,000 1/1/2001 6/31/2002 High Twisting Power Chiral Materials

2001 444102 Other Fed NASA 654,066 1/16/2001 7/15/2005

LC Based Beam Steering Device and Optical Telescopes

2001 444236 Other Fed DARPA/Hughes Sub 35,000 2/1/2001 5/31/2001

High Birefringence LCs for Optical Beam Steering

2001 444237 Other Fed DARPA/Hughes Sub 15,000 2/1/2001 5/31/2001 Custom Synthesis LC Compounds

2001 444235 Ind/Other Boulder Nonlinear 156,370 3/1/2001 2/28/2003

Development of Polymer and Chiral Materials for FE-LCD


Modeling and Improvements to Pi-Cell type Devices for AMLCD applications


Electro-optical Devices from Banana-Shaped LCs

2001 444234 Ind/Other Matsushita Electric 50,000 4/1/2001 3/31/2003 Trans-reflective LCD


Novel LC Materials with High Birefringence and Low Rotational Viscosity for Field Sequential Color Reflective LCDs

101


2001 444242 Ind/Other Intel 142,151 6/1/2001 5/30/2004 Research Project for Intel Corporation

2001 444243 Ind/Other Chromalux 6,248 7/1/2001 9/1/2001

Resolution of Electron Beam Addressed LC Displays

2001 444238 Other Fed AFRL/DAGSI 46,951 7/1/2001 12/31/03

Carbon nanotube-Reinforced LC Structural Composites by Electron Beam Curing

2001 444244 Ind/Other Nitto Denko 62,054 9/1/2001 8/2/2001

Polymer Walls for Ruggedized LCDs using Plastic Substrates

2001 444245 Ind/Other CoAdna 96,189 10/1/2001 9/31/2002

Tunable Filters for Telecommunications Applications

2002 Foundation Ind/Other Ohio Eminent Scholar 750,000 2002

Ohio Eminent Scholars Program (endowment)

2002 444247 Other Fed USAF/UCF/Ratheon 90,000 1/1/2002 12/31/2003

Development of High Birefringence LCs for Opticla Beam Steering

2002 444248 Other Fed USAF/U C Florida sub 20,000 1/28/2002 6/30/2002

Development of High Birefringence LCs for Optical Beam Steering


80,000 2/1/2002

12/31/2003 Pathogen Detection by Lyotropic LCs

2002 444249 Ohio ODOD 282,000 5/1/2002 7/31/2003 ALCOM Support

2002 440636 Other Fed AFRL/Anteon 52,592 5/1/2002 6/30/2004

Numerical and Experimental Studies on Isotropic LC Binary Mixtures


480,000 6/1/2002 5/31/2006

Tunable Mirrorless Lasing in Cholesteric LC Elastomers

2002 444251 Other Fed ONR/KDI 28,500 6/2/2002 5/3/2003 Black & White Cholesteric Displays

2002 444253 Other Fed USAF 379,998 7/1/2002 9/17/2003

Prism Rotator Beam-steering Component and 2D Optical Phased Array Wavefront Corrector (THOR)

2002 Other Fed AFOSR/BNL 78,185 7/2/2002 2/3/2003

Polymer-Stabilized Ferroelectric LC for Analog Switching

2002 444252 Ind/Other Cubic Defense Systems 13,467 7/23/2002 11/30/2002

Polymer Dispersed LC Shutters Research Project

102



29,840 9/1/2002 8/31/2006 International Hungary

2003 444254 Ind/Other Viztec 29,159 1/1/2003 12/31/2003 Commercialization of Plastic LC Displays

2003 444255 Ohio ODOD/AlphaMicron sub 196,253 1/1/2003 9/30/2004 LC Eyewear

2003 444257 Ind/Other Hana 100,000 6/1/2003 5/31/2006 Inorganic Alignment Layer Project

2003 771203 Ohio Ohio Department of Development

1,640,000 7/10/2003 7/9/2006

Flexible Optical and Electronic Device Manufacturing Facility

2003 444258 Ind/Other SAIC-Army/KDI sub 50,000 7/24/2003 6/30/2004 Encapsulated Cholesteric Displays

2003 444260 Ind/Other Samsung 340,000 8/1/2003 7/31/2010 Sponsored Research Agreement


190,000 8/15/2003 7/31/2005

Acquisition and Development of Fast Confocal Polarizing Microscopy for Liquid Crystal Materials Research and Education

2003 444259 Other Fed AFOSR/Cornerstone 240,000 9/1/2003 5/30/2006

Conductive LC Elastomers for Aircraft Wing Structures


100,000 9/15/2003 8/31/2004

ACT/SGER: LC Materials for Biosensor Development

2003 441149 Other Fed Congress Approp. 471,913 9/30/2003 9/29/2005 Center for LC Science and Education

2003 440218 Ohio ODOD/Wright Ctr. 400,000 11/1/2003 6/30/2008

Wright Center of Innovation for Advanced Data Management and Analysis

2003 444262 Ind/Other Photon-X 82,000 12/5/2003 11/30/2004 Sponsored Research Agreement

2004 444256 Ind/Other Polydisplay (sub?) 153,355 1/1/2004 12/31/2004 Ultra-thin Flexible Full Color LC Displays



Theoretical Study of Domains in Membranes

103



58,941 1/1/2004 12/31/2005

Fluorothiophenes - A New Class of Chevron-free Ferroelectric Materials with Promising Electrooptic Device and Semiconductor Applications

2004 444539 Other Fed Homeland Sec/NEOUCOM

30,000 2/16/2004 2/15/2005

Rapid Detection of Fluid-borne Pathogens using LCs

2004 444264 Ind/Other Hanna 2,000 3/18/2004 3/17/2005 Hana Characterization Project


63,433 4/1/2004 3/31/2007

2004 444267 Other Fed SAIC-Army/KDI sub 44,000 5/16/2004 12/31/2004 Sponsored Research Agreement

2004 444265 Other Fed US Army/UCF sub 150,000 5/24/2004 5/23/2007

Foveated, Wide Field-of-View Imaging Sensor for Misslle Warning/Tracking Using Adaptive Optics

2004 444272 Ind/Other US CRDF 16,000 6/25/2004 6/24/2006

Insight in the Physical Phenomena Behind Light Absorption Induced Surface Anchoring

2004 444270 NSF NYU/Courant sub 100,000 9/1/2004 2/28/2007

SGER: Modeling the Dynamics of Shape Change in LC Elastomer Systems

2004 444269 Ind/Other Steridian Corp. 47,000 10/15/2004 6/15/2005 Sponsored Research Agreement

2004 444266 Ind/Other US CRDF 12,400 11/1/2004 10/31/2006

Lyotropic Chromonic LCs: A New Material for AdvancedBiosensing and Optical Applications

2005 444275 Other Fed USAF/Anteon sub 7,497 1/3/2005 3/31/2005 Support Expertise for Sensor Directorate


60,000 1/10/2005 12/31/2006

Biaxial Nematic and Smectic Phases andCritical Phenomena in Bent-Core and Tetrapodic Mesogens

2005 440442 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents 59,948 1/15/2005 12/31/06 Nanotechnology, LCs and Drug Delivery


104


2005 444274 Other Fed AFRL/Displaytech 55,000 4/1/2005 7/31/2006 Sponsored Research Agreement


258,199 4/15/2005 7/31/2005

Acquisition of an Imaging Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectrometer


Stressed LC Materials: Electro-optics and Use in Displays

2005 444276 Other Fed AFRL/Cornerstone 225,000 5/15/2005 5/14/2007

STTR Phase II: Conductive LC Elastomer for Aircraft Gap Treatment

2005 444280 Ohio ODOD/Wright Ctr. 365,235 6/6/2005 6/5/2008

Wright Center for Multifunctional Polymer Nanomaterials and Devices (CMPND)

2005 444547 Foundation W.M. Keck Fndn. 385,934 6/30/2005 6/30/2006 Laboratory Equipment Proposal

2005 444271 Ind/Other IICAM 20,000 7/1/2005 6/30/2006

3D Structures and Defects in LC Biopolymers

2005 444278 Other Fed AFOSR/Cornerstone 40,000 8/1/2005 4/30/2006

Development of High Birefringence LCs for Infrared Applications


313,978 8/15/2005 7/31/2009

Collaborative Research FRG: Ferroelectric Phenomena in Soft Matter Systems

2005 444284 Ind/Other ACS Petroleum Fund 56,603 9/1/2005 8/31/2007

Simulation Studies of Shape Selection in Chiral Molecular Self-Assembly

2005 444277 Other Fed NIST 415,676 9/1/2005 8/31/2008

Finite Element Modeling of Projectiles and Indentation

2005 Foundation Ind/Other Intel 189,000 10/1/2005 9/30/2008

Polarization Independent Etalon Based LC Devices

2005 444279 Other Fed ONR 344,003 10/1/2005 9/30/2008

Tracking Nanoparticle Motion to Elucidate Mechanisms for Anomalous thermal Transport in Nanofluids


375,000 11/1/2005 10/31/2009

Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy of 3D Director Configurations in LCs

105


2006 444281 Ind/Other Comex-Pic 46,000 1/12/2006 11/11/2006

LC Elastomers as Smart Pigments in Paints


60,000 1/15/2006 2/8/2009

Tracking Nanoparticle Motion to Elucidate Mechanisms for Anomalous thermal Transport in Nanofluids


60,000 1/15/2006 1/14/2007

Light-harvesting Semiconducting Discotic LCs for Organic Nanostructured Photovoltaics: New Opportunity and New Challenge

2006 444285 Other Fed AFRL 451,450 3/10/2006 6/30/2009

Extension Proposal (LC Based Optical Phases Array for Steering Lasers)

2006 444204 Other Fed AFOSR 10,430 4/1/2006 11/30/2006 Workshop on Negative Index Materials

2006 444286 Other Fed AFOSR 5,582,415 5/1/2006 4/30/2012

MURI on Self-Assembled Soft Optical NIMS

2006 Foundation Ind/Other Dupont 160,000 6/1/2006 1/31/2009

Fluorinated Polyimide Alignment Layer Research


899,235 6/1/2006 5/31/2011 New LC Materials Facility


536,137 7/1/2006 6/30/2009

Fluid Phases of Bent-Core Molecules-Novel Physics and Applications

2006 444201 NSF National Science Foundation/KDI sub

150,000 7/1/2006 12/31/2007

STTR Phase II: Photochemically Switched Chiral Materials for Chiral Nematic Displays

2006 444287 Ohio ODOD 200,000 7/1/2006 6/30/2008 New LC Materials Facility

2006 Other Fed ONR/KDI subaward 140,000 8/1/2006 7/31/2008 Conducting Polymer Substrates


300,000 8/15/2006 1/31/2012

Modeling Actuation and Shape Selection in Soft Materials

2006 440606 Other Fed US Dept Energy 850,176 8/15/2006 8/14/2013

Electric Field Effects in LCs with Dielectric Disperson

2006 444288 Other Fed USAF/Dynamic Eye sub 98,057 9/1/2006 8/31/2008 Segmented Flash Blindness Lenses

106



499,926 9/15/2006 8/31/2012

S-STEM Scholarships for Broadening Participation Sciences


Studies of Lyotropic Chromonic LCs for Internal Compensators and Polarizers




Bent Core LCs for Fast Switching Electric Field Induced Biaxial (EFIB) Displays


LC Displays doped with Ferroelectric Nanoparticles

2006 440467 Ind/Other Samsung 67,000 11/1/2006 10/31/2007 Advanced OCB2

2006 440468 Ind/Other Samsung 50,000 11/1/2006 10/31/2007 OCB Transreflective Mobile LCD

2006 444289 Ind/Other Displaytech 59,998 11/1/2006 12/31/2007 Sponsored Research Agreement

2006 440623 Other Fed ONR 265,319 12/18/2006 8/31/2009

Energy Conversion Based on Giant Flexoelectric Effect in Bent-Core Nematic LCs

2007 440417 NSF Brown University 45,528 7/15/2003 6/30/2008

US Solvenia Research on Nano- and Micro-Scale Templating of Liquid Crystalline Materials


50,000 1/1/2007 8/15/2009

Chromonic LCs as New System for Controlled Drug Delivery

2007 Foundation Fred A. Lennon Charitable Turst

90,000 1/2/2007 12/31/2010 Challenge Grant


Nanofluidic Lab on Chip for Low Abundance Protein Isolation


Creating Nanophotonic Meta-atoms by Programmable Bottom-up DNA Self-Assembly and Metallization

2007 444205 Ohio ODOD/KDI sub 450,000 2/26/2007 2/25/2010 Flexible LC Film Manufacturing Alliance

107


2007 444292 Ohio ODOD/U Akron sub 300,000 2/26/2007 2/25/2011

Commercialiation of Functional Polyimide Films and Nanocomposites

2007 440624 Other Fed ONR 138,000 3/6/2007 3/31/2008

Integrated Instrumentation Suite for Exploring Enhanced Thermal Conductivity in Nanofluids (equipment)


3,500 4/1/2007 9/30/2011

REU Site at KSU: Liquid Crystals & Advanced materials

2007 444291 Ind/Other NorTech 200,000 5/9/2007 8/8/2008 FLEX Matters


50,000 6/1/2007 12/31/2008

Energy-Saving Switchable LC Architectural Window

2007 444293 Ind/Other Gen Dynamics 70,000 6/21/2007 6/30/2008

Electrically and Optically Turnable Chiral Molecules for Optical Applications

2007 444290 NSF IICAM 45,000 7/1/2007 6/30/2009

Theory of "Scar" Defects in Soft Materials with Orientational Order: Building Blocks for Self-Assembly

2007 444294 NSF National Science Foundation/KDI subaward

25,000 7/1/2007 12/31/2007

Photochemically Switched Chiral Materials for Chiral Nematic Displays


336,000 9/1/2007 8/31/2012

Materials World Network on Lyotropic Chromonic LCs


92,000 9/15/2007 8/31/2011

Collaborative Research in Europe on Liquid Crystals (CRELIC-IRES)


Simulation Study of Field Induced Reorientation of BNLC


Plasmonic Subwavelength Structures for Active Color Generation and Tuning with Liquid Crystals for Display Applications


Liquid Crystal Display Doped with Ferroelectric Nanoparticles (Phase II)


Synthesis of Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals



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2007 444295 Other Fed Dept. of Defense; Pixel Optics subaward

400,000 12/1/2007 11/30/2008 Pixel Optics Super Vision Project

2008 444303 NSF National Science Foundation/KDI subaward

250,000 1/1/2008 12/31/2009

Photochemically Switched Chiral Materials for Chiral Nematic Displays, Phase II


Optimization of Flexoelectric and Blue Phase Bimesogens

2008 444302 Ind/Other Evans Capacitor Co. 1,460 4/1/2008 5/31/2008 Prototype Capacitor Development

2008 444304 Ind/Other Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter

2,000 5/1/2008 4/30/2009 Science Education / Outreach Activities

2008 444305 Ind/Other Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Vistakon Division

108,870 5/15/2008 12/31/2008 Sponsored Research Agreement

2008 444306 Ind/Other NorTech 50,000 6/12/2008 6/30/09 Development of Electronic Greenhouses

2008 440609 Ind/Other ICAM 50,000 7/1/2008 6/30/2009

Giant flexoelectricity of bent-core nematic LC

2008 446800, 446801,

446802 Ohio ODOD 15,292,382 8/18/2008 8/17/2013

Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials

2008 444207 Other Fed Defense Contract Mgmt Agency

82,824 9/1/2008 9/1/2010 Dual Mode Eye Shields

2008 444307 Other Fed NIST 469,310 9/1/2008 8/31/2011

Finite Element Modeling of Multiaxial Deformation of Metals


206,812 10/1/2008 9/30/2012 Scaling Laws for NanoFET sensors

2009 444212 Other-Private KIMM

101,244 1/1/2009 12/31/2011

Establishment of the Intl network for flexible electro-optics devices

2009 444308 Ind/Other ATK Space Systems/NASA

20,000 1/26/2009 6/30/2009

Dev of Particle Based Flow Diagnostic Techniques

2009 444208 Other Fed AFOSR 495,000 3/1/2009 2/28/2014

Light Driven Chiral Molecular Motors for Passive Agile Filters

2009 444211 Other Fed AFOSR 750,000 5/1/2009 4/30/2014

Novel Organo Soluble Optically Tunable Chiral Hybrid Gold Nanorods

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2009 444214 Ohio ODOD/KDI 598,037 5/29/2009 5/28/2012

Electronically Changeable Color Skins for Consumer Electronics

2009 444209 NSF ICAM 10,843 6/2/2009 12/31/2009

5th Intl Liq Crystal Elastomer Conference Sept 24-26, 2009

2009 NSF

National Science Foundation - Swarthmore College

10,000 6/14/2009 9/13/2009



Flex Chlorestic Displays: Device Simulation & Fashion Application


Numerical Simulations & Lab Observations of Sulfuric Acid-Water-Organics Ternary


301,200 7/15/2009 6/30/2013

Collaborative Res:Self Assembly in Ultrathin Films of Bent Core Molecules:Experiment, Stimulations, and Application

2009 444310 Other Fed NIST 365,460 8/1/2009 7/31/2012

Atomic Scale Modeling for Nanomechanics Experiments

2009 444311 Private-Corp eVision, LLC

394,100 8/1/2009 5/31/2012 eVision Project

2009 220494 Ind/Other Farris Family Innovative Award

24,000 9/1/2009 8/31/2012

Development and Fundamental Studies of Biaxial Colloidal Systems


8,031 9/1/2009 8/31/2010 5th Intl Liq Crystal Elastomer Conference


277,903 9/1/2009 8/31/2011

ARRA:Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering & Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing

2009 440658 Other Fed US Dept Energy 875,000 9/1/2009 2/28/2013

Biaxiality the Thermotropic Bent-Core & Tetrapodic Nematic LC


135,000 9/15/2009 8/31/2012 Nonlinear Diffusion on a Sphere

2010 444218 Private-Corp Avanex Corp

42,041 4/27/2009 4/26/2010

Simulation Study of Electrically Tunable Polarization Rotator from liquid crystal

110


2010 444215 Private-Corp MFLEX

113,804 12/1/2009 11/30/2011

Investigation on the Relation Between Anchoring Energy of Polymer Surface and …


400,000 3/1/2010 2/28/2015

Plasmonic Nanocavities for Single Molecole Detection

2010 444314 Private-Corp Intel

100,000 3/22/2010 3/21/2012 Low Power

2010 444312 Private-Corp Kent Displays

26,218 4/15/2010 7/15/2010

Electromechanical Driving of Cholesteric LC

2010 444219 Private-Corp

North Carolina State Univ / Imagine Optics

8,347 4/29/2010 8/31/2010

Enhanced Polymer Polarization for Reflective LC Microdisplays

2010 444315 Other Fed US DOD/MIT Lincoln Lab 57,980 5/10/2010 3/31/2011

Feasibility Investigation of LC based LWIR to Visible Optical Tramsducer


723,916 5/15/2010 4/30/2013

Structured Fluids from Reduced Symmetry Molecules


Synthesis of Mondisperse Mesoporous Silica-Based Microcapsules Using a Mocrofluid Method

2010 444313 Private-Corp Pixel Optics Inc.

104,000 5/15/2010 6/14/2012

Low Cost, Continuously Tunable Electro-Optic Lens Requiring Simple Drive Electronics

2010 444224 Private-Corp Kent Displays

163,800 5/17/2010 5/16/2012

Advanced Liquid Crystal Chiral & Dye Materials for Flexible Liquid Films

2010 444221 Ind/Other Industrial Technology Research Institute

188,012 7/1/2010 6/30/2012

Cholesteric Liquid Matrix Reflective Display


Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystal (BNLC) and Fast Switching Modes for Displays

2010 444316 LXD LXD/National Science Foundation

89,500 7/1/2010 7/1/2011

Novel Nanostructured Substrates for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

2010 444317 Ind/Other ATK Space Systems/NASA

23,843 7/7/2010 3/31/2011

Development of Particle-Based Flow Diagnostic Techniques

2010 444320 Ind/Other Crystal Diagnostics 15,008 8/1/2010 9/30/2010

Surface alignment of disodium cromoglycate

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2010 444318 Ind/other Orbotech 56,462 8/3/2010 2/2/2011

Micro-Capsulated Liquid Crystal Light Modulator Materials

2010 444225 Private-Corp Ohmichi Industrial Co. Ltd.

150,000 9/1/2010 8/31/2013 Research on Smectic Foams

2010 444227 Other Fed AFOSR 151,286 9/15/2010 9/14/2015

Electrically Controlled Optical Metamaterials Based on Dispersions of Nan-Rods

2010 444319 NIST NIST 430,165 10/1/2010 9/30/2013

Experimental Studies of High Strength & Advanced High Strength Steel Under Multiazial Deformation


50,000 10/1/2010 9/30/2012

US Egypt Cooperative Research: Surface Modification & Size Dependence of

2010 444229 Ind/other Samsung 70,000 11/15/2010 5/15/2011

Development of Maskless Photorubbing Technology for VA LCSS-Stage 1, Feasibility Check

2011 444231 Ind/other LXD LCC/National Science Foundation

49,500 1/1/2011 6/30/2011

Liquid Crystal-based Next Generation e-paper Devices by Micro-engineered Surfaces


12,000 2/1/2011 1/31/2012


2011 444323 Ind/Other LXD 30,000 3/1/2011 9/1/2011

Micro-Engineered Surface alignment and Liquid Crystal Devices


Research incentive: plasmonic Metal-Dielectric-Metal Photodetectors for Infrared Polarimetric Imaging


Research Incentive: 5-Alkoxythienothiophenes: A New Class of Highly Birefringent Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials

2011 444232 Ind/Other Azimuth 97,650 3/15/2011 2/29/2012

R&D of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal/Polymers

2011 444321 Ind/Other ICAM, University of California

5,000 4/1/2011 9/30/2011 2011 Gordon Research Conference

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2011 444324 Ind/Other International Institute for Complex Adaptive Mater

7,500 4/1/2011 3/31/2012

13th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals

2011 220572 Ind/Other KSU Research Incentive 22,431 5/1/2011 4/30/2011 Ionic Cholesteric LC

2011 220574 Ind/Other KSU Research Incentive 22,638 5/1/2011 4/30/2011 Elastomer Op/Labview

Total Awards 110,956,547

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Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals Date Name, Title of Dissertation Advisor/Department

1967 GULRICH, LESLIE Brown Chemistry X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Nematic Structure of p-methoxybenzylidene p'-cyanoaniline

* DuPont 1970 WILLEY, DAVID Brown Chemistry The Thermodynamics of Dilute Solutions using Selected Liquid Crystalline Solvents * Industry, Akron 1972 LEE, Y.S. Brown Chemistry An Ultrasonic Shear Wave Study of the Mechanical Properties of a Nematic Liquid Crystal * Industry, Taiwan 1972 LESSER, DAVID Brown Chemistry Crystal Structure Analysis of X-Ray of 2,2'-Dibromo-4,4'-bis-(p- methoxybenzylideneamino) Biphenyl * August 1972 HSU, Y.Y. Fishel Chemistry Studies of Liquid Crystals: Part I - Synthesis and Characterization of Selectively Deuterated Compounds with Mesomorphic Properties; Part II - Synthesis of Novel Schiffs Bore Compounds and the Investigation of Binary Systems with Nemorphic Properties * Consultant, California December 1972 WILSON, JACK Uhrich Physics Mossbauer Effect in a Smectic Liquid Crystal * Retired March 1973 VISINTAINER, JAMES Doane Physics Spin-Lattice Relaxation in the Nematic Liquid Crystalline Phase * Research Scientist, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio March 1973 WISE, RAYMOND Doane Physics A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Smectic C Liquid Crystals * Retired June 1973 FELLNER, HANS G. Franklin/Christensen Physics Light Scattering from Liquid Crystals * Professor, Slippery Rock University, PA August 1973 DETJEN, ROBERT E. Uhrich Physics A Mossbauer Investigation of the Lattice Dynamics of the Smectic Liquid Crystalline State * August 1973 KESS, SHARON Franklin Physics The Photostatistics of Brillouin Scattering by a Liquid Crystal * IBM Corp., R&D, Vermont

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Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals Date Name, Title of Dissertation Advisor/Department August 1973 MURPHY, JOHN A. Doane Physics NMR Pulsed Gradient Studies of Diffusion in Liquid Crystals * Keithley Instruments, Solon, Ohio December 1973 NANDY, PAPIYA Saupe Physics Theoretical Studies of the Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Nematic Liquid Crystals * Instructor of Physics, Jadavpur University March 1974 SCHENZ, ANNE FILLER Neff Chemistry Optical and Faraday Studies of Liquid Crystals * General Foods, White Plains, NY June 1974 CHU, KWO-SUN Moroi Physics Theories of Intermolecular Potential and Molecular Diffusion in the Mesophases of Liquid Crystalline Systems * Retired (NY) June 1974 CHUNG, DAVID BUU-VINH Brown Chemistry An X-Ray Study of the Crystal Structure and the Smectic E Structure of a Smectogenic Liquid Crystal -- Di-n-Propyl-p-terphenyl-4,4"-carboxylate * Research Scientist, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA December 1974 CHIN, JOHN S.H. Neff Chemistry The Effect of Compressibility on the Thermodynamic Properties of Liquid Crystals * June 1975 PHOTINOS, PANAGIOTIS J. Saupe Physics Mean Field Study of the Formation of Uniaxial Smectic Liquid Crystals with Polarized Layers * Professor and Chair, Dept. of Physics, Southern Oregon State University, Ashland, OR

December 1975 BERMAN, ARTHUR L. Gelerinter Physics Optical Studies of Electric Field Effects in Nematic Liquid Crystals That Have Some Smectic Ordering * Optical Shields Corp., Menlo Park CA June 1976 AIMIUWU, VICTOR Q. Uhrich Physics Fe-57 Mossbauer Study of Four Ferrocene Derivatives in a Smectic B Liquid Crystalline Glass * August 1976 MORITZ, ELAN Franklin Physics A Class of Nonlinear Electrohydrodynamic Effects in a Nematic Liquid Crystal * Research Scientist, US Naval Coastal Systems, Panama City FL December 1976 FLICK, CATHERINE M. Gelerinter Physics An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of the Action of Selected Polyene Antibiotics on Lipid Planar Multibilayers (Model Membranes) * John Wollman Enterprises, Indiana

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December 1976 UKLEJA, PAUL Doane Physics Spin-Lattice Relaxation and Director Fluctuations in Nematic Liquid Crystals * Professor, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth June 1978 BOS, PHILIP J. Doane Physics NMR Studies of Orientational Order in the Smectic C Liquid Crystalline Phase * Professor, Chemical Physics Program, Kent State University June 1978 DSIDOCKY, RICHARD Fishel Chemistry Investigations of Liquid Crystals: Part I. The Effect of Terminal Substitutent Branching on Mesogenic Behavior of Phenyl Benzoates. Part II. Synthesis of Novel Organotin Compounds Exhibiting Liquid Crystalline Behavior * Research Scientist, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio August 1978 LAPRICE, WALTER J. Uhrich Physics Iron-57 Mossbauer Temperature Study of Nematic, Smectic B and Smectic H Liquid Crystalline Glasses * Materials Engineer, Westinghouse, Pittsburgh, PA December 1978 BRISBIN, DOUGLAS J. Johnson Physics Divergence of the Bend Curvature Coefficient above the Nematic-Smectic A Phase Transition: Freedericksz Transition * Research Scientist, General Dynamics Corp., Los Angeles, CA December 1978 MAJOROS, STEPHEN J. Johnson Physics A Test of Curvature Elasticity Above the Nematic-Smectic A Phase Transition * Lorrain Co. Community College, Elyria OH June 1979 GRADDICK, WILLIAM Spielberg Physics The Effect of Calcium on the Thermotropic Phase Behavior of Dipalmitol Phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) Multilayers * June 1980 NAIKSATAM, PRAKASH Fishel Chemistry Structure-Property Relationships of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals

* Brookhaven National Lab

August 1980 BAGINSKI, GERARD H. Saupe Physics Proton Magnetic Resonance Study on Iron bis(cyclopentadienyl) in Nematic Solutions * August 1980 EKACHAI, ARUN Spielbertg/deVries Physics X-Ray and Optical Studies of Several Smectic Phases * Lecturer, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand August 1980 SETHNA, VIJAY N. Spielberg/deVries Physics X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Skewed Cybotactic Nematic Phases * Industrial Scientist, Kaiser Electronics, San Jose, CA August 1980 VAZ, NUNO A. Doane Physics Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Orientational Order in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals * Research Scientist, General Motors, Warren, Michigan

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December 1980 DEHOFF, RICHARD J. Johnson Physics Specific Heat in the Vicinity of a Nematic-Smectic A-Smectic C Multicritical * Research Scientist, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton OR December 1980 HAVEN, THOMAS J. Saupe Physics Elastic and Viscous Properties of Nematic Systems in Aqueous Decylammonium Chloride Solutions * Research Scientist, Sarif, Vancouver, Washington December 1980 RICHARDS, BERNARD L. Moroi Physics Rotational Diffusion in Nematic Liquid Crystals * Assistant Professor, Stark Campus, Kent State University May 1981 LOCKHART, THOMAS E. Gelerinter Physics Indices of Refraction at Smectic A-Smectic C Phase Transitions * Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire August 1981 KTORIDES, PETROS Uhrich Physics

Mossbauer Study of the Smectic Liquid Crystalline Glass Phase Using Sn-bearing Molecules * Teaching, Cyprus December 1981 KUZMA, MICHAEL R. Allender/Johnson Physics Mean Field Study of Molecular Tilt in Uniaxial Liquid Crystalline Phases * Real Estate, Philadelphia December 1981 VAZ, MARIA J. Doane Physics Orientational Order in Phospholipid, Cholesterol-Phospholipid, and Protein- Phospholipid Bilayer Membranes: A DMR Study * Professor, Lawrence Technical University, Detroit MI June 1982 SHARMA, BRIJ B. Saupe Physics Proton Magnetic Resonance in Nematic Solvents: Orientation and Structure of Anthaquinone Derivatives and a Linewidth Analysis of Benzene Spectrum * Research Scientist, Bell Communications, Piscataway, NJ June 1982 SHETTY, ANIL N. Doane Physics Molecular and Segmental Orientational Order in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals: An NMR Study * Scientist, Imaging Center, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI June 1982 SHIH, LIH-BIN Brown Chemistry Laser Light Scattering of Surface Fluctuations of Liquid Crystals * Research Scientist, S.C. Johnson, Racine, WI December 1982 YANIV, ZVI Doane Physics A Deuterium Magnetic Resonance Study of Biaxial Ordering and Self-Diffusion in Chiral Nematic and Smectic Phases * President, SI Diamond Technology, Austin TX

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May 1983 TODOROFF, DOUGLAS G. Uhrich Physics Sn-119 Mossbauer Investigation of Different Sn-Bearing Molecules in Nematic and Smectic Glasses * Research Scientist, US Naval Coastal Systems, Panama City FL August 1983 BENIGNI, SAMUEL P. Spielberg Physics An X-Ray Study on the Thermal Behavior of Potassium-Palmitate-Water Mixtures * Staff Scientist, RCA, Inc., Lancaster PA December 1983 BIGGERS, RAND R. Johnson Physics Thermal Properties Near the Nematic-Smectic A Tricritical Point * Research Scientist, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio December 1983 BOONBRAHM, POONPONG Saupe Physics Optical Studies on Micellar Nematics and on Phase Transitions Between Nematic States * Lecturer, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand December 1983 GOODEN, CLARENCE E. Johnson Physics Light Scattering and Magnetic Deformation Study of the Nematic-Smectic A Transition * Research Scientist, Eglin Air Force Base, Fort Walton Beach, FL

December 1983 MAHMOOD, RIZWAN Johnson Physics Director Elasticity Above the Nematic-Smectic A Transition * Associate Professor, Slippery Rock University, PA December 1983 ROTH, ROBERT A. Saupe Physics Theoretical Studies on the Dielectric Permittivity of Liquid Crystals with Application to Alkylazoxybenzene Derivatives * Research Scientist, US Air Force, Dayton, OH December 1983 STEFANOV, MICHAEL E. Saupe Physics Physical Properties of Nematic Decylammonium Chloride/Ammonium Chloride/Water Systems * May 1984 STRENK, LAWRENCE M. Doane Physics A Deuterium NMR Study of Orientational Order and Spatial Modulation in Phosphatidyl Choline Bilayers Including Those Containing Cholesterol and Protein

* President and CEO, Strenk Scientific Consultants, Inc., Middleburg Heights OH

August 1984 MARANDE, ROBERT P. Uhrich Physics Iron-57 Mossbauer Temperature Study of Smectic A., Smectic B and Smectic C Liquid Crystalline Glasses * Assistant Professor, Behrend College, Erie, PA December 1984 HAFIZ, NAJMA Allender/Doane Physics Nematic Phases in Liquid Crystals: Theory of Uniaxiality and Biaxiality and an NMR Study of Reetrants *

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May 1985 RAHMAN, JOLLY A. deVries/Spielberg Physics The Development of Some Molecular Models for Smectic A Phases * Research Scientist, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR May 1985 SPIELBERG, JOHANAN Gelerinter Physics An EPR Study of Glass-Forming Liquids and Liquid Crystals * August 1985 HENDERSON, GIRARDEAU Allender Physics Phenomena at the Isotropic - Nematic Transition Induced by Surface Order * Research Scientist, US Naval Coastal Systems, Panama City, FL August 1985 LIU, HSING-CHUNG deVries/Spielberg Physics Analysis of the X-Ray Diffraction Pattern of the Skewed Cybotactic Nematic Phase of p-n-Octyloxybenzoic Acid *

August 1985 VLACHOPOULOS, PETROS Lee Physics Theoretical Studies of Local Orientational Order in Cholesterics and Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Mixtures * December 1985 MOTTAKABBIR, KAZI A. Lee Physics Quantum Simulations of the Ground State of the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model * Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Austin May 1986 WU, BAO-GANG Doane Physics Deuterium NMR of Asymmetric Motion and Molecular Ordering in Liquid Crystals and Microdroplet Controlled Scattering in Display Applications * R&D Scientist, Advanced Display Systems, Amarillo, TX August 1986 LEE, YOUNG-HEE Lee Physics Classical and Quantum Computer Simulation Studies: Molecular Dynamics of the Kerr Effect in Carbon di-sulfide in Green's Function Monte Carlo Calculations of the Electronic Correlation Energy in Atoms * Assistant Professor, Physics, Jeonbug National University, Korea December 1986 CUNNINGHAM, BETH A. Lis/Doane Physics The Influence of Monovalent Ions on Dipalmitoylphosphatidyl-choline Bilayer Structure and Packing * Assistant Professor of Physics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA May 1987 KHAN, IQBAL Johnson Physics Director Dynamics Above Nematic-Smectic (A,C) Transitions * Scientist, Textile Institute of Pakistan August 1987 FIGUEIRINHAS, JOAO Doane Physics A Deuterium Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the SF Phase * Scientist, Centro de Fisica da Materia Condensada, Lisbon, Portugal August 1987 LEWIS, MICHAEL E. Johnson Physics A Mode 1 Light Scattering Study of the Smectic-A Phase Near the NA Transition: Critical Behavior of the Layer Dilation Elastic Coefficient * Lewis Consulting, Akron, Ohio

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August 1987 ZHOU, E Saupe Physics Curvature Elasticity of the Micellar Nematics * Lecturer, Beijing University, China December 1987 GOLEMME, ATTILIO Doane Chemical Physics Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals * Research Scientist, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Calabria, Rende, December 1987 KLEMM, STEFAN Lee Physics Quantum Simulation of Polyene Ground States * Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN December 1987 MELNIK, GEORGE Saupe Physics Critical Properties of Phase Transitions in Micellar Nematics in Microscopic Textures of Micellar Cholesterics * North American Phillips Corp., Briarcliff Manor, NY August 1988 PHONPHOK, NASON Westerman/Doane Physics Effects of Anesthetic Membrane Solutes on Orientational Order in Lecithin Bilayer Membranes: An NMR Study * Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand May 1989 FRISKEN, BARBARA J. Palffy-Muhoray Physics/UBC Nematic Liquid Crystals in Electric and Nematic Fields * Professor & Chair of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

May 1989 RISSER, STEVEN Lee Physics Model Hamiltonian Calculations of the Nonlinear Polarizabilities of Conjugated Molecules * Texas A&M, Commerce, TX August 1989 WHITEHEAD JR., JOE B. Doane Physics Light Scattering from Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals * Associate Professor of Physics, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

December 1989 VITHANA, HEMASIRI Johnson Physics Light Scattering and Magnetic Field Deformation Study Near the Nematic- Smectic A Phase Transition: Critical Behavior of Twist and Bend Elastic * Research Scientist, Reveo, Hawthorne, NY May 1990 ERDMANN, JOHN H. Doane Physics Electro-Optic Response of Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals * Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Inc., Twinsburg, OH May 1990 LEE, JONG-CHEON Allender/Neff Physics Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Homeotropic Surface Effect on the Cholesteric-Nematic Phase Transition of a Compensated Mixture * Research Scientist, Samsung Corporation, Seoul, Korea

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May 1990 PLUMLEY, SULAKSHANA Saupe Physics Elasticity and Dynamic Properties of Ionic Micellar Mixtures * December 1990 SUBRAMANIAM, RAVI Lee Physics Quantum Simulations of the Ground State Electronic Structure of Diatomic Molecules * Research Fellow, University of Pittsburgh December 1990 SUBRAMANYAM, SUNDAR Fishel Chemistry Liquid Crystals Containing the Dibenzopyran Nucleus: Synthesis and Mesomorphic Properties of 3-(4-n-Alkoxybenzylidene-amino) Dibenzo[b,d]Pyran * Research Fellow, University of Lowell May 1991 BOYD, DARWIN Uhrich Physics Mossbauer Studies of Some 1. Iron(III) Spin Crossover Systems and 2. A Cold Cholesteric Liquid Crystal * Assistant Professor of Technology, Kent State University, Kent, OH May 1991 GLEESON, JAMES L. Palffy-Muhoray Physics Instabilities During Directional Solidification of a Transparent Material * Professor & Asst. Chair, Dept. of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio August 1991 SARKAR, MOINUDDIN Spielberg Physics X-Ray Study of Some Columnar Thermotropic Mesophases * Assistant Professor of Physics, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN August 1991 SU, WEN-CHEN Fishel Chemistry Part 1. Novel Syntheses of Substituted 6H-D(b,d) Pyrans by Pschorr Cyclization; Part 2. Synthesis and Studies of Mesomorphic Compounds Derived from 3- Amino and 3-Hydroxy-6H-D(b,d) Pyrans * Avery Dennison, Pasadena, CA December 1991 CHEN, LI Kumar Physics High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Nematic to Smectic-A Phase Transition and the Frustrated Smectic A Phase December 1991 CRAWFORD, GREGORY P. Doane Chemical Physics Nematic Liquid Crystals Confined to Cylindrical Cavities: A 2H-NMR Study * Dean, College of Science, University of Notre Dame December 1991 LIU, JIMING Saupe Physics Line Defects in Biaxial Nematics and Critical Properties of Nematic-Isotropic Transitions Near the Landau Point * Computer Scientist, Pittsburgh, PA December 1991 YUAN, HAIJI (JIM) Palffy-Muhoray Physics Nonlinear Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals * CoAdna Photonics, Inc., San Jose, CA May 1992 KIM, JAE YON Palffy-Muhoray Physics Phase Separation Kinetics of Binary Liquid Crystal Polymer Mixtures * Research Scientist, Samsung Corp., Seoul, Korea

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August 1992 SEEKOLA, DESMOND Kelly Physics Dielectric Response of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystalline Films * SpectraSwitch, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA December 1992 LIN, HEFEN Palffy-Muhoray Physics Optical Fibers with Liquid Crystalline Cores * Philips Flat Displays, San Jose, CA

December 1992 NAGVEKHAR, DEVDATT Fishel Chemistry Novel Mesomorphic Systems Based on Heteromethylene Bridged Biphenyls * Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA May 1993 KIM, DU RIM Saupe Physics Effects of Polymers in the Rotational Viscosity of Nematic Liquid Crystals and Dynamics of Field Alignment * Instructor, Kangwon National University, Korea May 1993 PATEL, PREM L. Kumar Physics High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Study of Frustrated Smectics * Private Enterprise, Philadelphia, PA August 1993 AMARASINGHE, NANDANA Moroi Physics Iterative Solutions to Nonlinear Wave Equation in a X(2) Medium and Permittivity Gradient Induced Polarization and Second Harmonic Generation in Inhomogeneous Media * Staff Scientist, SpectraSwitch, Santa Rosa CA

August 1993 ONDRIS-CRAWFORD, RENATE Doane Physics The Effect of Molecular Anchoring and Curvature on Confined Nematic Liquid Crystals * December 1993 FREDLEY, DAVID S. West Chemical-Physics Phase Behavior and Electro-Optics of Dispersions of Polymers and Low Molecular Weight Liquid Crystals * Research Scientist, Motorola, Ft. Lauderdale, FL December 1993 IANNACCHIONE, Finotello Physics AC Calorimetric Study of Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions and Restrictive Geometries * Assoc. Prof. & Interim Dept. Head., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA May 1994 SHIN, SUNG-TAE Kumar Physics Calorimetric and X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Phase Transitions in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals * Faculty, Korea University December 1994 ABEGUNARATHNA, SUGATH Saupe Physics Dielectric Properties of Liquid Crystals: Polymer Dispersions and Chiral Smectic Phases *

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December 1994 CULL, BRIAN C. Kumar Physics High Resolution X-Ray Reflectivity Studies of Ordering in Liquid Crystal and Polymer Thin Films * Research Scientist, 3M Corporation, Minneapolis, MN

December 1994 FUNG, YEUK K. Doane Physics Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Textures for Scattering Mode Projection Light Valves * Applications Engineer, Varitronics Corp., Hong Kong December 1994 LEE, SEUNGHEE Gelerinter Physics Paramagnetic Resonance (epr) Studies of Glass-Forming Polymers and Liquid Crystal Polymers * Chonbuk National University, Korea December 1994 LEE, SUNG HEE Gelerinter Physics Molecular Dynamics of Glass-Forming Polymer, Plasticized Polymers and Liquid Crystal Polymers: An Electron Paramagnetic Study * Applications Engineer, Hyundai Corp., Korea December 1994 LI, JIANLIN Palffy-Muhoray Physics Determination of Surface Anchoring of Nematic Liquid Crystals from Optical Response Measurements * Polytronix, Inc., Richardson, TX December 1994 PAK, SUNGSIK Saupe Physics The Effects of Polyethylene Oxide on Curvature, Elasticity and Viscosity of Micellar Nematic Cesium Perfluoro-Octanotate Water Mixtures * May 1995 KOTHEKAR, NATASHA Allender Physics Modeling and Numerical Analysis of Surface Effects and Critical Phenomena in Nematic Liquid Crystals * May 1995 MANG, JOSEPH T. Kumar Physics High Resolution X-Ray and Small Angle Neutron Scattering Studies of Liquid Crystal Structure * Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Lab, NM August 1995 DAI, SONG Spielberg Physics X-ray Studies of Phase Transitions and Structures of Some Columnar Liquid * Research Specialist, Alltristar Corp., Mogadore OH August 1995 FRITZ, WILLIAM Doane Physics Reflection from Imperfect Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Basic Properties and Applications * Gelcore, Cleveland OH August 1995 HUANG, JING Johnson Physics Critical Behavior of Heat Capacity Near a Nematic-Smectic A Tricritical Point * Computer Specialist, Cray Computer, NJ

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August 1995 JI, YIMIN Kelly Physics Surface Anchoring at a Polymer/Liquid Crystal Interface in the Neighborhood of the Glass Transition * Research Scientist, Corning, Inc., NY December 1995 CHEN, JIANMIN Johnson Physics Nonrubbing Techniques for Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals: Fundamentals and Applications * Colorlink, Inc., Boulder, CO December 1995 FOLKS, RAYMOND Lavrentovich Physics Light Induced Instabilities in Smectics * Research Scientist, CREOL, Univ. Central Florida December 1995 LU, ZHIJIAN Doane Physics Reflective Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays * Honeywell, Phoenix, AZ May 1996 HUANG, XIAO-YANG Doane Physics Field-Induced Transitions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Dynamics and Applications in Displays * Senior Scientist, Kent Displays, Inc. May 1996 JAMAL, SYED H. Kelly Physics Characterization and Optimization of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystals: Dynamics and Applications in Displays * Senior Project Engineer, Honeywell, Phoenix, AZ August 1996 DING, HONG Kelly Physics The Study of Dielectric and Electro-Optic Response of Liquid Crystals in Confined Systems * Staff Scientist, Meadowlark Optics, Longmont, CO December 1996 QIAN, SIHAI Finotello Physics Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions in Porous Media * Digilens, Sunnyvale, CA May 1997 BRETT, MARTIN West Chemical Physics * Five Star Technologies May 1997 HU, GONGJIAN Palffy-Muhoray Physics Laser Induced Configurational Transition in Liquid Crystals * Staff Scientist, dpiX, A Xerox Co., Palo Alto, CA May 1998 GALABOVA, HRISTINA Allender Physics A Theoretical Study of Surface Induced Phenomena in nematic Liquid Crystals * Staff Scientist, Reveo Corp., Hawthorne, NY May 1998 WANG, XIAO-DING West/Allender Physics Polarized Ultraviolet Light Induced Alignment for Liquid Crystal Displays on well- Defined Polyimide Films * Staff Scientist, Micro Display Corp., San Pablo, CA

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August 1998 LIU, HONG Allender Physics Theory of Liquid Crystal Static Distortions in Uniaxial and Biaxial Nematics * Lecturer, Nanjing University, China May 1999 HOKE, CHARLES D. Bos Chemical Physics Multi-Dimensional Alignment of Liquid Crystals and its Application to the Bistable Twist Cell * Staff Scientist, Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA August 1999 LI, KUO-YUIN Kelly Chemical Physics * Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation August 1999 LI, SHUXIN Bos Chemical Physics * Densitron, Santa Fe Springs, CA August 1999 MORI, HIROYUKI Bos Chemical Physics Fabrication and Optical Effects of a Discotic Negative Birefringence Film for Liquid Crystal Displays * Staff Scientist, Fuji Photo Film Company, Japan August 1999 WU, WEI Kelly Physics Single and Multiple Light Scattering Studies of PDLC Films in the presence of Electric Field * Research Scientist, Monsanto Corp., St. Louis, MO December 1999 ZENG, HUAIREN Finotello Physics Liquid Crystal Orientational Order in Confined Geometries: An NMR * Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University May 2000 ISHIKAWA, TOMOHIRO Lavrentovich Chemical Physics Elasticity of Defects and Structures in Uniaxial Liquid Crystals * Postdoctoral Fellow, Kent State University, Liquid Crystal Institute May 2000 MA, RUI-QING Yang Chemical Physics Polymer Networks Formed in Liquid Crystals and Their Applications * Research Scientist, Corning, Inc., NY May 2000 PARK, EUI-YEUL West Chemical Physics * AlphaMicron, Inc.

May 2000 WATSON, PHILIP E. Bos Chemical Physics The Homeotropic to Planar Transition in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals * Research Scientist, 3M Company, Minneapolis MN May 2000 XU, MING Yang Chemical Physics Electro-Optical Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Devices and Applications of Dual Frequency Cholesterics * Research Scientist, Chorum Technologies, Richardson TX August 2000 COLEGROVE, JENNIFER Kelly Chemical Physics Optimization of Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Device * Kaiser Electronics, San Jose CA

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August 2000 CUI, MINGJI Kelly Physics Temperature Dependency of Viscoelastic Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals * CoAdna Photonics August 2000 DUNN, PATRICK Yang Chemical Physics * Sr. Technical Program Manager, Samsung America December 2000 ANDERSON, JAMES E. Bos Chemical Physics Transitions from the Homeotropic in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals * Hana Microdisplay Technologies December 2000 KONOVALOV, DMITRI A. Sprunt Physics A Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Ferrielectric Phases of Chiral Smectic Liquid Crystals * Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandeis University December 2000 MI, XIANG-DONG Yang Chemical Physics Dynamics of the Transitions Among Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Textures * Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak December 2000 TANG, ANLUN Sprunt Physics Dynamics of Chiral Smectic-A and Twist Grain Boundary Phases of Liquid * KLA-Tencor, California December 2000 TITUS, CHARLES M. Bos Chemical Physics Diffractive and Refractive Liquid Crystal Beam Steering Devices * Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute December 2000 YUAN, HAIJUN Palffy-Muhoray Chemical Physics Light Propagation in Complex Liquid Crystal Structure * Mgr., LC Technologies, LambdaFlex, Inc. May 2001 LIU, WEIMIN Yang Chemical Physics Characterization of Some Wide Viewing Angle Liquid Crystal Displays * Kaiser August 2001 ACHARYA, BHARAT RAJ Kumar Physics Correlation Between the Surface Properties and Liquid Crystal Anchoring on Polymer Films * Bell Lab/Lucent Technologies, Inc. August 2001 ASFAW, LETEMESKEL Sprunt Physics Coherent Backscattering from Complex Liquids * Alcorn State University, Mississippi

December 2001 HEINEMAN, DAVID West Chemical Physics Kinetics of Patterned Electric Field Induced Polymer Segregation in Liquid Crystal Solutions * CoAdna Photonics, Inc. December 2001 VOLOSHCHENKO, DMITRY Lavrentovich Chemical Physics Photoinduced Aggregation in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals * Motorola, Inc.

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December 2001 ZHANG, FANG Yang Chemical Physics Physical Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays * Dimensional Media, Inc.

May 2002 WANG, BIN Bos Chemical Physics Two Dimensional Liquid Crystal Devices and their Computer Simulations * Agilent Technologies, Inc. August 2002 SAEED, SALMAN Bos Chemical Physics Electro-optical Polarization Interference Filters * Three Five Systems, Inc. December 2002 SU, LINLI West Chemistry Studies on Non-Contact Alignment of Liquid Crystals May 2003 KANG, SHIN-WOONG Chien Chemical Physics Spatio-Orientationally Organized Polymer Microstructures Obtained on Self- Assembled Pattern-Forming States of Liquid Crystals: Morphology, Phase Separation and Potential Applications * Sr. Research Scientist, Physics, Kent State University May 2003 KHAN, ASAD Doane Chemical Physics Chiral Materials and Cell Designs for the Cholesteric Display Technology * Kent Displays, Inc. August 2003 MONTBACH, ERICA Bos Chemical Physics Studies of Optical Systems Containing Liquid Crystals and Holographic Optical Elements August 2003 SMALYUKH, IVAN Lavrentovich Chemical Physics Three-Dimensional Director Fields Studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy * Postdoctoral Fellow, Kent State University December 2003 WANG, CHENHUI Bos Chemical Physics Control of Layer Defects in Smectic C* Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Devices * LXD, Inc. May 2004 ENNIS, ROLAND Palffy-Muhoray Chemical Physics Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals: The Dynamics of Phase Separation and the Saffman-Taylor Instability * Pressco Technology, Inc., Solon OH May 2004 HUANG, YUANMING Jákli Chemical Physics Electro-optical and Dielectric properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Formed by Banana-shaped Molecules * Unknown

December 2004 KIM, SANG-HWA Chien Chemical Physics Fast Switching Polymer Stabilized Liquid Crystal Devices Morphology and Electro-Optical Properties * Samsung Electromechanics Ltd

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December 2004 STOJADINOVIC, Sprunt, Jákli Physics Light Scattering Studies of Dynamics of Bent-core Liquid Crystals * May 2005 CAO, WENYI Palffy-Muhoray Chemical Physics Fluorescence and Lasing in Liquid Crystalline Band Gap Materials * Central Academy of Research of SVA, Taiwan August 2005 SCHNEIDER, TOD Lavrentovich Chemical Physics Nanostructuring Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals * Kent Displays, Inc. August 2005 SHI, JIANRU Bos Chemical Physics Liquid Crystal Based Beam Steering * Dynamic Eye, Inc. August 2005 WANG, XINGHUA Bos Chemical Physics Liquid Crystal Diffractive Optical Elements: Applications and Limitations * Optical and Materials Research Scientist, ChemImage, Inc. December 2005 BODNAR, VOLODYMYR West Chemical Physics Optical Properties and Polymer Wall Formation in Cholesteric Displays * AlphaMicron, Inc. December 2005 LIAO, GUANGXUN Jákli Chemical Physics Mechanic and Electro-Optical Properties of Non-conventional Liquid Crystal Systems * CoAdna Photonics, Inc. December 2005 ZHANG, YANLI Bos Chemical Physics Control of Disclinations and Walls in New Types of Display Devices * Intel, Inc. December 2005 ZHOU, FUSHAN Yang Chemical Physics Reflective and Transreflective Displays * Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University May 2006 ZHANG, KE West Chemistry Microparticles as a New Analytical Method to Study Liquid Crystal Colloids * Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University May 2006 SEMYONOV, ALEXANDER Twieg Chemical Physics Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorescent Dyes and Liquid Crystal Semiconductors * Sales Engineer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham MA August 2006 TANG, SHOUPING Kelly Chemical Physics Multidimensional Optics and Dynamics of Liquid Crystals *

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Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals Date Name, Title of Dissertation Advisor/Department August 2006 ZHANG, GUOQIANG West Chemical Physics Stressed Liquid Crystals: Properties and Applications * December 2006 CHEN, CHENG Bos Chemical Physics Anchoring Transitions on Large-Angle-Deposited SiOx Thin Films *Apple, Cupertino CA May 2007 JANG, YONG-KYU Bos Chemical Physics Optical Properties of Compensated Liquid Crystal Displays *Samsung Electronics company, Korea August 2007 YE, YIN Lavrentovich Chemical Physics

Dielectric Relaxation and Electrooptical Effects in Nematic Liquid Crystals *CoAdna Photonics, Stow OH

May 2008 BUYUKTANIR, EBRU West Chemical Physics Electro-optical Characterization of Bistable Smectic A Liquid Crystal Displays

*Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute May 2008 LI, FENGHUA West Chemical Physics

The Physics and Application of Liquid Crystal/Ferroelectric Particle Colloids *CoAdna Photonics, Inc., Stow OH

May 2008 ZHANG, HAILIANG Kelly Chemical Physics Wavelength Tunable Devices Based on Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals *Scientific Solutions, Inc. August 2008 BAILEY, CHRISTOPHER Jákli Chemical Physics Structure and Rheology of Some Bent Core Liquid Crystals *NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Air Force Research Labs, Dayton OH December 2008 REZNIKOV, DMITRY Bos Chemical Physics Effect of Surface Alignment Layer on Electro-optical Properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Displays * Israel Institute of Technology - Technion December 2008 ZHOU, XIAOLI Li Chemical Physics Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Discotic Liquid Crystal Porphyrins for Organic Photovoltaics * May 2009 GU, MINGXIA Lavrentovich Chemical Physics Effects of Dielectric Relaxation on Director Dynamics in Uniaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals *Sr. Display Optics Engineer, Apple, Inc., San Jose CA May 2009 HARDEN, JR., JOHN Jákli Chemical Physics Electromechanical Couplings in Liquid Crystals *Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute

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Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals Date Name, Title of Dissertation Advisor/Department August 2009 BRAGANZA, CLINTON Chien Chemical Physics High Dielectric Constant Materials Containing Liquid Crystals *Kent Displays, Inc., Kent, OH August 2009 PISHNYAK, OLEG Lavrentovich Chemical Physics

New Electro-Optical Applications of Liquid Crystals: from Beam Steering and Tunabl Lenses to Negative Refraction and Field-Induced Dynamics of Colloids *Kent Displays, Inc., Kent, OH

December 2009 SHI, LEI Bos Chemical Physics Tunable Liquid Crystal Polarization Gratings *ChemImage, Pittsburgh, PA February 2010 DORJGOTV, ENKH-AMGALAN Bos Chemical Physics Tunable Liquid Crystal Etalon and Photonic Crystal Devises * Apple Inc, San Francisco, CA May 2010 DHAKAL, SUBAS J. Selinger Physics Statistical Mechanics of polar, Biaxial and Chiral Order in Liquid Crystals *Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois May 2010 LU, SHIN-YING Chien Chemical Physics

Electrically Tunable Colors of Chiral Liquid Crystals for Photonic And Display Applications *Micron Technology, Longmount, CO

May 2010 NEAL, JEREMY Palffy-Muhoray Chemical Physics Orientaionally Ordered Particles: Characterization and Applications *Blaq Design, Portland, OR June 2010 HURLEY, SHAWN Yang Chemical Physics Liquid Crystal Displays for Pixelated Glare Shielding Eyewear *Syndian Inc., Dallas, Texas October 2010 PARK, HEUNG-SHIK Lavrentovich Chemical Physics

Self-Assembly of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: Effects of Additives And Applications *Samsung, Seoul, South Korea

November 2010 SENYUK, BOHDAN Lavrentovich Chemical Physics Dielectric Response of Liquid Crystals Formed by Cent-Core and Chiral Molecules

*University of Colorado, Butler December 2010 FONTANA, JAKE Palffy-Muhoray Chemical Physics Self-Assembly and Characterization of Anisotropic Metamaterials *Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC. January 2011 TAUSHANOFF, STEPHANIE Jakli Chemical Physics

Development and Characterization of Blue Phase Made from Bent-Core Liquid Crystals *Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

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Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals Date Name, Title of Dissertation Advisor/Department May 2011 LOPATINA, LENA J. Selinger Chemical Physics Statistical Mechanics of Nanoparticle Suspensions and Granular Materials *Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

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