CHEMICAL PHYSICS INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM KENT … · 4. Thin organic films, one Senior Research Fellow (2005) 5. Nanoparticles and nanostructures, one faculty (2005) 6. Computer

LIQUID CRYSTAL INSTITUTE and

CHEMICAL PHYSICS INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

ANNUAL REPORT

July 1, 2003-June 30, 2004

Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Director

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Director’s Report ......................................................................................................................... 1 Achievements and Recognition ................................................................................................... 4 Funding and Expenditures Charts................................................................................................ 5 Summary of Accomplishments.................................................................................................... 6 LCI Highlights ............................................................................................................................. 7 Table 1 Liquid Crystal Institute Staff .....................................................................................11 Table 2 Liquid Crystal Institute Research Personnel..............................................................12 Table 3 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Faculty................................................14 Table 4 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Students ..............................................15 Table 5 Graduate Degrees Awarded .......................................................................................17 Table 6 Placement of Personnel..............................................................................................18 Table 7 Visiting Scientists ......................................................................................................19 Table 8 Grants and Contracts..................................................................................................20 Table 9 Proposals for Extramural Support..............................................................................25 Table 10 Patents ........................................................................................................................30 Table 11 Publications................................................................................................................31 Table 12 Presentations at Professional Meetings and Academia..............................................38 Table 13 Other Activities..........................................................................................................44 Table 14 Seminar Program .......................................................................................................45 Table 15 Industrial Partnership Program ..................................................................................48 Table 16 Resource Facility Services.........................................................................................49 Table 17 Education and Public Service ....................................................................................50

APPENDICES .............................................................................................................................53 I. Strategic Plan

1. Strategic Plan for Development of LCI & CPIP..............................................................55 2. Memos..............................................................................................................................65

II. Education Outreach 1. 1st Annual Liquid Crystal Day .........................................................................................67 2. REU Program...................................................................................................................71 3. Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program...................................................................73 4. Short Course.....................................................................................................................75 5. Industrial Partnership Program ........................................................................................77 6. Technology Transfer........................................................................................................79

III. Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals............................................................................81

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Director’s Report, 2003-2004

The Liquid Crystal Institute/Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program (LCI/CPIP) continues its

three-fold mission focusing on Research, Education and Service. LCI approaches its 40-year anniversary in 2005 with new achievements during 2003-2004. The annual report details successes and analyzes the challenges that LCI/CPIP faces in carrying out its mission.

Personnel The LCI/CPIP senior staff is small and consists of only six faculty (Bos, Chien, Kelly, Lavrentovich, Palffy-Muhoray, Yang), joint faculty from Physics (Allender, Kumar) and Mathematical Sciences (Gartland) and two senior research fellows, Quan Li and Antal Jákli. Dr. Antal Jákli, a senior research fellow since 1999, will join the CPIP faculty beginning Academic Year 2004-2005. With Dr. John West assuming the position of Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies in 2003, I assumed the position of Interim Director of LCI and CPIP. In July, 2004, I became the permanent director which opened a vacancy in the faculty position that I previously held; the plan is to fill it with a physicist-experimentalist who will lead our efforts in new directions, most notably lyotropic liquid crystals and soft matter of biological significance. During the next fiscal year, we will actively recruit a physicist to fill the position. We are finalizing our efforts to fill the position of Ohio Eminent Scholar in Theoretical Physics. This position for an outstanding, world renowned physicist in theoretical condensed matter physics will play an important role in advancing our research programs and building broad collaborations. We plan to have the position filled prior to the 2005-2006 academic year. In February 2004, we hired a new senior research fellow, Dr. Quan Li, to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Dr. Mary E. Neubert in 2002. Dr. Li’s areas of expertise are in the chemical synthesis of new materials for nanotechnology (molecular tips for atomic force microscope), pharmaceuticals, drug delivery and liquid crystals. The small number of faculty members and senior research fellows remains a problem. On February 9, 2004, at the meeting with the LCI/CPIP senior personnel, Arts & Sciences Dean Joseph Danks requested that we prepare the "Strategic Plan for the Development of the Glenn H. Brown Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program for 2004-2008” (see Appendix I). In this report to answer the Dean's inquiry about our research priorities, we specified our needs for future faculty/senior research fellows as follows:

1. Experimental soft matter and lyotropic liquid crystals of biological significance, one faculty (proposed date of hire: 2004)

2. Structural analysis of soft matter and liquid crystals of biological significance, one Senior Research Fellow (2005)

3. Photonics, including biophotonics, one faculty (2004) 4. Thin organic films, one Senior Research Fellow (2005) 5. Nanoparticles and nanostructures, one faculty (2005) 6. Computer simulations of soft matter, one faculty (2006) 7. Materials characterization specialist, one faculty (2006)

Similar suggestions were reflected in our Self-Study in the 2004 CPIP Graduate Program Review.

Research The LCI/CPIP remained strong and successful in 2003-2004. We applied for 42 new grants totaling $16 Million and were awarded $2,487,550 with more than $10 Million pending at fiscal year-end. LCI/CPIP faculty received $3,262,350 in continuing and new research funding during the 2003-2004 fiscal year which is impressive when considering that this amount is over 20% of the entire research grant funds received by Kent State University. LCI/CPIP faculty also generated $1,284,400 in KSU royalty revenue during the same period. That such a small number of faculty members in LCI/CPIP can generate this level of funding reflects on the strong research record of LCI scientists.

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We actively collaborated with U.S. industry, securing sponsored research funding from companies such as Anteon Corp. Viztec, Intel, Displaytech, Science Applications International, Rockwell, Hana Microdisplay Technologies, AlphaMicron, PolyDisplay, Photon-X, Samsung and Unilever Research. Funding from state and national governments included the National Science Foundation, NASA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of Energy, DARPA, Department of Homeland Security, the State of Ohio and Ohio Board of Regents. The State of Ohio provided $1.6 Million in funds to establish the Flexible Optical and Electronic Device Manufacturing Facility. Cleanroom Engineer Hugh Wonderly, was hired to assist Drs. Lavrentovich and West with equipment purchases, set-up and operation of the facility. We continued our sponsored research collaborations with colleagues in other KSU departments including the departments of Biological Sciences (Woolverton), Chemistry (Gericke, Sampson, Seed, Twieg), Mathematical Sciences (Gartland) and Physics (Allender, Ellmann, Finotello, Gleeson, Kumar, Mann, Sprunt). Of the 44 active grants reported during this period, 15 are shared with KSU investigators from other departments.

The collaborative team of Christopher J. Woolverton, Department of Biological Sciences and O.D. Lavrentovich, LCI/CPIP, received a research grant from the National Science Foundation to prove the new concept of biological sensors based on the lyotropic liquid crystals. This is the first Federal research grant received by KSU in the field of biological applications of liquid crystals. It is complemented by a subcontract to NEOUCOM to assist in the development of biosensing devices for the Department of Homeland Security. The technology, reviewed recently in New Scientist, 182, issue 2451, pg. 22, June 12, 2004, employs a special type of lyotropic liquid crystal to quickly detect harmful pathogens such as anthrax.

In January, 2004, we began a large-scale sponsored research project in collaboration with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea, the global leader in display, semiconductor, telecommunications, and digital convergence technologies. Research is conducted in five different areas in the laboratories of Philip J. Bos, Liang-Chy Chien, Satyendra Kumar, John L. West, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich and will address the newest developments in the liquid crystal based display technologies.

Education and Outreach The most important part of our education efforts is the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program. Since 1994, teaching and advising of CPIP graduate students became an additional responsibility of the LCI senior personnel who attained faculty ranks in CPIP. The CPIP has a solid and successful track record of preparing doctoral students for careers in the liquid crystal industry as seen from the placement of our graduates (see Appendix III). During this reporting period, KSU launched a 10-year review of the Program. Although the official report is not expected until later in 2004, the review has already indicated not only successes in research and education but also significant problems, such as a small number of faculty and insufficient funds for students stipends which prevent CPIP from offering important concentrations. The CPIP budget is clearly insufficient to support the graduate students within their first two years of studies. The problem was outlined in a May 7, 2004, memo to the Dean of Arts and Sciences and remains unresolved to date (see Appendix I). The problem with student stipends is partially and temporarily offset by a congressional appropriation grant that we secured in collaboration with our colleagues in the Department of Physics (Sprunt and Gleeson), the Center for Liquid Crystal Science and Education. This one-time funding ends in September 2005. An Education Outreach Administrator was hired to bring undergraduates to Kent as summer interns to research with liquid crystal scientists. Through this grant we are also actively recruiting undergraduates for CPIP and other graduate programs at KSU and continuing our K-12 outreach activities. We continue to assist our colleagues in the Department of Chemistry (Gericke, Twieg, Gregory) with undergraduate student research advising, hosting and supervising the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) participants at the LCI laboratories. In addition to the research agreement finalized with Samsung in Korea to further the development of flat-panel liquid crystal displays, Samsung is providing funding for two Chemical Physics students each

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year for the next five years to conduct research on liquid crystal displays. These Samsung Scholarship recipients will gain the experience of global interactions with the world leader in liquid crystal display production and the prestige of being selected as a Samsung Scholarship recipient. With our regular weekly seminars throughout the academic year, we have added a series of liquid crystal research seminars to provide a forum for Kent State University scientists to present their current research to colleagues across campus (see Table 14 for titles and speakers of both seminar series). Together with our colleagues at other KSU departments, we recently joined a Multicampus Research Program, the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM). ICAM is a distributed "institute without walls" which networks its experiment-driven program of research collaborations to link individual scientists across disciplines and institutions.

The LCI hosted the first annual Liquid Crystal Day, a symposium which brought together students, scientists and industrial professionals from various backgrounds and provided a platform for intellectual and enlightening interactions on the science of liquid crystals. Liquid Crystal Day showcased the achievements in science and engineering of liquid crystal research at Kent State and Northeast Ohio; 29 students presented posters to 175 attendees. This proved to be a great opportunity for students, faculty and staff to interact with the local liquid crystal industry. During the conference, Emeritus Director and Professor J. William Doane was recognized for his outstanding contributions to the Liquid Crystal Institute and Kent State University. We are planning the 2nd annual Liquid Crystal Day in 2005 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the LCI; Prof. L.C. Chien will continue to chair the organizing committee.

Service LCI/CPIP continued to serve the research and industrial community through the Industrial Partnership Program (Bos), Synthesis Facilities (Chien and Li) and Characterization Facilities (Lavrentovich). We provide free services (electron and atomic force microscopic analysis, cleanroom time, materials characterization, etc.) to faculty from other KSU departments such as Physics and Chemistry. Invoices for services provided to outside researchers (mostly representing industry in the liquid crystal-related field) and their use of our Resource Facilities totaled over $100,000 for this reporting period. The field of liquid crystal science continues to expand. LCI/CPIP remained strong and successful in 2003-2004, thanks in large part to the strong foundation laid down by previous LCI directors. We look forward to enhancing the program by recruiting new faculty and seeking an appropriate level of funding for our graduate students so we can remain competitive in research at the frontiers of science and technology. Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Director

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Achievements and Recognition

Books L.C. Chien, co-editor, Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices and Applications X and Projection Displays X, proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2004.

Conference and Symposium Chairs

P.J. Bos

Conference Chair, Liquid Crystal Technology, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004.

L.C. Chien Organizer/Chair, 1st Annual Liquid Crystal Day, Kent State University, April 23, 2004

Symposium Chair, “Nanostructured Liquid Crystal Materials and Applications,” 2003 Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, ACS Fall Annual Meeting, September, 2003, New York.

Symposium Chair, “Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices, and Applications X,” SPIE/Electronic Imaging Science and Technology 2004, January 2004, San Jose, CA.

Program Committee, “Great Lakes Photonics Symposium,” Cleveland, Ohio, June 7-11, 2003.

International E.C. Gartland, Treasurer, International Liquid Crystal Society

S. Kumar, Member, Editorial Boards of Liquid Crystals, International Journal of Material Disordered Systems, International Journal of Modern Physics B, Modern Physics Letters B.

Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Co-editor, Liquid Crystals Today and editorial board of Physical Review E Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Vice President, International Liquid Crystal Society; Regional Editor, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Students and Postdoctoral Fellows - Awards Ivan Smalyukh, American Physical Society Conference Travel Grant, "Opportunities in Biology for Physicists", September 2003. Lanfang Li, Outstanding Academic Achievement (4.0 cumulative GPA) from KSU and Phi Beta Delta Honor Society, International Awards Ceremony, April 7, 2004. Otilia Catanescu, recipient of the KSU Provost’s International Scholar Award, 17th Annual International Awards Ceremony, April 7, 2004. The award is given to recognize outstanding international scholars who develop and/or share their expertise while at Kent State University and who contribute with their endeavors to the pursuit of excellence.

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Ohio $538 - 12%NSF $254 - 6%

Other Federal $1,253 - 28%

KSU $1,692 - 38% Industry/Other $688 - 16%

Major Funding Sources and Expenditures 2003-2004

Expenditures, in thousands 1994 - 2004

$1,010

$3,077

$1,111

$3,889

$1,393

$4,582

$1,417

$4,527

$1,484

$3,309

$1,553

$3,210

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$2,909

$1,512

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Summary of LCI Accomplishments, 2002-2003

Ph.D. Degrees awarded 5 M.S. Degrees awarded 0

Grants and Contracts Current Grants 24 New Awards 19

Students Supported Graduate 33 Undergraduate (student workers and summer interns) 17

Postdoctoral researchers, technicians, engineers 18

Visitors (Research Program) 23

Publications Journals and Book Chapters 55 Juried Proceedings, Technical Reports 29

Presentations Professional Societies 58 Academic and Other 23

Patents Awarded 5 Patent applications and Invention Disclosures 4

Visitors Companies 17 Academic and Government 10

Industrial Partnership Program Members 33

Outreach Activities Short course participants, February 24-27, 2004 10 Summer Intern Program and REU students 10

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KSU Provost Paul Gaston presents an award to Professor and LCI Emeritus, J. William Doane during Liquid Crystal Day activities.

Students discuss their posters with attendees during the poster session held in the LCI

LCI Highlights

First Annual Liquid Crystal Day

On April 23, 2004, Kent State University hosted the first annual Liquid Crystal Day, a symposium that brought together students, scientists and industrial professionals from different backgrounds and provided a platform for many intellectual and enlightening interactions. Liquid Crystal Day, held at the Liquid Crystal Institute’s Samsung Auditorium, showcased the achievements in science and engineering of liquid crystal research at Kent State University and Northeast Ohio. Invited speakers included Noel A. Clark, University of Colorado, "Mysteries of Bananas"; Peter J. Collings, Swarthmore College, "Azimuthally Disordered Tilted Smectics: It All Started at Kent State"; and John H. Erdmann, Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Inc., "When Good Scientists Go Bad".

Posters were presented by 29 students. Four outstanding papers where chosen from three categories:

(1-2 year Graduate Student) Bohdan Senyuk, KSU Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Layer Undulations in the Planar Cholesteric Cells with Weak Anchoring

(3+ year Graduate Student) Tod Schneider, KSU Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Oriented Monolayers of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal

(3+ year Graduate Student) Xinghua Wang, KSU Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, On the Fringe Field of Wide Angle LC OPA

(Post Graduate) Qingbing Wang, KSU Physics, Electro-Optical LC Devices Fabricated by Anisotropic Phase Separation of Liquid Crystal and Polymer

Six companies provided industrial exhibitsincluding AlphaMicron, Avery Dennison, CoAdna Photonics, Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Kent Displays and LXD. The exhibits provided an opportunity for attendees to interact with representatives from local liquid crystal companies.

Liquid Crystal Day was officially dedicated to Emeritus Director and Professor J. William Doane, who served as the director of Kent State’s Liquid Crystal Institute from 1983-1996. Doane was recognized for his outstanding contributions to the Liquid Crystal Institute.

Dr. John Erdmann, President and CEO of Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Inc. received the Alumni Achievement Award from the Liquid Crystal Institute. Dr. Erdmann received his PhD at KSU in 1990.

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LCI Highlights

Center for Liquid Crystal Science and Education

The Liquid Crystal Institute was awarded a congressional appropriation to establish the Center for Liquid Crystal Science and Education. The Center builds on the LCI’s strong foundation in basic and applied research and utilizes its unique facilities to explore entirely new areas of liquid crystal research and development. Center scientists educate students about the practical importance of research and how to transfer their research and discoveries to industry and into products.

As a part of the Center’s goals, an Education Outreach Administrator was hired to actively recruit students for the Chemical Physics graduate program and to bring undergraduate students to Kent State University as summer interns to conduct liquid crystal research and encourage them to pursue graduate studies in liquid crystals. Eight undergraduate students spent two months at KSU interacting with faculty and research personnel from the departments of Physics and Biological Sciences and the Liquid Crystal Institute/CPIP. They worked with scientists in the laboratory to gain first-hand experience in liquid crystal research.

Student interns participated in a 2-day training session in cleanroom use. In the photo (right), Manager of Display Engineering, Doug Bryant, demonstrates the process of cell assembly.

2004 Summer Student Interns (l-r), John Junkin, Dan Carney, Erin Gustley, Andrew Geisler, Stephen Nixon, Aaron Rape, Stephen Daigle and Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Quan Li (Jessica Gregson not shown).

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LCI Highlights

Samsung Electronics Collaboration In January, 2003, Samsung and Kent State University signed an agreement to collaborate on a long-

term project to further the development of flat-panel liquid crystal displays. In January, 2004, researchers at the Liquid Crystal Institute/Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program began five sponsored research projects in collaboration with Samsung Electronics Company in Korea, the global leader in display, semiconductor, telecommunication, and digital convergence technologies. Research conducted in the laboratories of Professors Philip J. Bos, Liang-Chy Chien, Satyendra Kumar, John L. West, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich will address the newest developments in liquid crystal based display technologies.

Samsung research projects being conducted by LCI scientists are, “Polymer Stabilized Optically Controlled Birefringence Displays” (Chien), “Electron Beam Alignment of LC” (Kumar), “Removing Disclinations” and “Acoustic Issues” (Lavrentovich) and “Stressed Liquid Crystals for Display Applications” (West).

The research collaboration grant is in addition to a five-year, $200,000 Samsung grant to support Chemical Physics graduate students conducting research in the field of liquid crystal displays. Students will be selected by Chemical Physics faculty based on research projects which the students propose. For five years, two students each year will be selected to receive a one-year Samsung Student Scholarship. At the end of their scholarship year, the students will report their research results to Samsung.

LCI scientist, Philip Bos poses with Jun H. Souk, Samsung Executive Director of AMLCD R&D Semiconductor Business, during a visit to the Liquid Crystal Institute in 2003.

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LCI Highlights K-12 and Undergraduate Outreach

The Liquid Crystal Institute education outreach program promotes science education and creates interest in liquid crystal science for K-12 students. Information is available to students and teachers through printed materials and the LCI website for education outreach, http://outreach.lci.kent.edu/. Included on the website are scientific and historical facts relating to the discovery and use of liquid crystals and links to other science-related sites suitable for K-12 students. Visitors to the site can use “Ask a Scientist” to submit their questions and receive a responses from liquid crystal scientists.

Visiting students and teachers tour the LCI facilities and participate in hands-on demonstrations. For example, in April, students from West Geauga Middle School and Stanton Middle School visited the LCI and participated in an interactive demonstration (see photo below). In May, 15 high school exchange students from Rottenberg, Germany, and their 15 Kent Roosevelt High School student hosts visited the LCI for a presentation and tour of the facilities.

The KSU Society of Physics Students came to the LCI in March to have lunch, a tour and presentations by three liquid crystal scientists and professors, Phil Bos, Oleg Lavrentovich and Peter Palffy-Muhoray.

Stanton Middle School students watch a liquid crystal demonstration.

German exchange students demonstrate the twist of a nematic liquid crystal.

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Table 1

Liquid Crystal Institute Staff

Name 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)

Brenda Buck 1991 Business Manager (2002)

Liang-Chy Chien 1989 Professor, Chemical Physics (2001)

Lynn Fagan 2001 Secretary

Merrill Groom 1986 Instrumentation Engineer (1993)

Valerie A. Henry 1991 Grants Coordinator (2001)

Betty Hilgert 2003 Receptionist

Antal Jákli 1999 Senior Research Fellow

Jack R. Kelly 1988 Professor, Chemical Physics (2000)

Julie M. Kim 1995 Senior Chemist (1998)

Oleg D. Lavrentovich 1992 Director (2004); Interim Director (2003) Professor, Chemical Physics (2000)

Quan Li 2004 Senior Research Fellow

Marybeth Lipinski 2000 Grants Assistant (2001)

James Maxwell 2003 Public Relations Coordinator

Michele Orms (11/03) 2002 Temporary Secretary

Peter Palffy-Muhoray 1987 Associate Director (1990) Professor, Chemical Physics (1994)

Donna Warner (2/04) 1999 Clerical Specialist, Part-time (transferred to Research & Graduate Studies)

John West 1984 Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies (2003); Professor of Chemistry (1997)

Deng-Ke Yang 1992 Associate Professor, Chemical Physics (1999)

EMERITI J. William Doane

1979

Emeritus Director; Emeritus Professor of Physics (Retired, June 30, 1996)

Mary E. Neubert 1972 Emeritus Senior Research Fellow (Retired September 30, 2002)

Alfred Saupe 1968 Emeritus Professor of Physics (Retired August 31, 1992)

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Table 2

Liquid Crystal Institute Research Personnel

Research Personnel

Support Department; Grants*

Full Members

David W. Allender Physics

Philip J. Bos LCI/CPIP; DARPA, Rockwell, NASA

Liang-Chy Chien LCI/CPIP; CRG-USAF, DARPA, Samsung

Daniele Finotello Research and Graduate Studies

Antal Jákli LCI/CPIP

Jack R. Kelly LCI/CPIP (half-time Leave of Absence)

Satyendra Kumar Physics; Samsung

Oleg D. Lavrentovich LCI, DARPA, Rockwell, NASA, NSF

Quan Li LCI

Peter Palffy-Muhoray LCI/CPIP; NSF-EC, CLCSE

Samuel N. Sprunt Physics

Robert J. Twieg Chemistry

John L. West Research and Graduate Studies

Philip W. Westerman NEOUCOM

Deng-Ke Yang LCI/CPIP

*Grant name indicates that a portion of the investigator’s salary was provided by grant(s), either as a cost share or direct charge (academic year or summer).

LCI Research Personnel, 2003-2004

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Research Personnel (termination date)

Supporting Department

Grant(s) and Principal Investigator(s)

Visiting Professor Sergij Shiyanovskii LCI, CPIP

Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates Otilia Catanescu (5/04) LCI GRC-USAF; Samsung, DARPA - Chien Michael R. Fisch (12/03) LCI Chem.-Phys., Rockwell - Lavrentovich Nadina Gheorghiu LCI PolyDisplay - West Anatoliy Glushchenko LCI Chem.-Phys., DARPA - West Andrii Golovin LCI DARPA, Photon-X - Lavrentovich Liubov Kreminska LCI Samsung, NASA - Lavrentovich Marina Lavrentovich (6/04) LCI LCI Resource Facility - Kelly Michele Moreira LCI NSF-EC – Palffy-Muhoray Yuriy Nastyshyn (4/04) LCI OBR Res. Challenge - Lavrentovich Ivan Smalyukh LCI AlphaMicron/ODOD - Lavrentovich Tibor Toth-Katona LCI NSF-EC - Palffy-Muhoray Bin Wang LCI DARPA, LCDRF, THOR - Bos

Technicians and Engineers James Francl Bentley Wall Karen Hullihen (11/03) Hugh Wonderly Liou Qiu Education Outreach Program Administrator (CLCSE) Sean Hyatt

Student Employees Nadine Abraham Matthew Akamatsu Kathleen Lipinski Christopher Pyle

Ryan Reichert (11/03) Kristen Tenzer (5/04) Jarrod Williams

Student Summer Interns Dan Carney Stephen Daigle Andrew Geisler Jessica Gregson

Erin Gustley John Junkin Stephen Nixon Aaron Rape

REU Summer Students conducting research at the LCI Jessica Hagarty (Jákli) Kelly Zewe (Jákli)

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Table 3

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Faculty

Current Faculty Rank Appointed Tenure

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

1995 1998

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

1995 1998

Jack R. Kelly Professor (2000) Associate (1994)

1994 1997

Oleg D. Lavrentovich Professor (2000) Associate (1994)

1994 1997

Peter Palffy-Muhoray Professor (1994) 1994 1997 Deng-Ke Yang Associate Professor (1999) 1995 1999

Joint Professors Permanent Department Term David W. Allender Physics Department 1996 Eugene C. Gartland, Jr. Math Department 1996 Satyendra Kumar Physics Department 1995 Adjunct Professors Julia Fulghum University of New Mexico 2003- Anatoliy Glushchenko Liquid Crystal Institute 2003- Antal Jákli Liquid Crystal Institute 2000- Shunsuke Kobayashi Science University of Tokyo 1998 Tamas Kosa AlphaMicron, Inc. 1998- Sergij Shiyanovskii Liquid Crystal Institute 1998- Bahman Taheri AlphaMicron, Inc. 1998- John L. West Research & Graduate Studies 1996- Philip Westerman NEOUCOM 1997-

Emeritus Professors 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-

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Table 4

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Graduate Students

Graduate Students (start-end) Dept. Univ./Grant Support Advisor

Christopher Bailey (2003) Chem.-Phys. CPIP Palffy-Muhoray Volodymyr Bodnar (1994) Chem.-Phys. None West Clinton Braganza (2003) Chem.-Phys. CPIP Yang, Jákli Erica Bramley-Montbach (1999-2003)

Chem.-Phys. DuPont Bos

Ebru Aylin Buyuktanir (2001) Chem.-Phys. EPIC; KSU ALCOM West Wenyi Cao (1998) Chem.-Phys. CLCSE Palffy-Muhoray Cheng Chen (2001) Chem.-Phys. Hana Bos Roland Ennis (1995-2004) Chem.-Phys. Anteon; NSF-EC Palffy-Muhoray Mingxia Gu (2001) Chem.-Phys. NASA; Rockwell Lavrentovich John Harden (2003) Chem-Phys. CPIP Yang Yuanming Huang (1999-2004) Chem.-Phys. CLCSE Jákli Yong-Kyu Jang (2003) Chem.-Phys. Samsung Bos Sang Hwa Kim (1999 ) Chem.-Phys. DAGSI Chien Fenhua Li (2002) Chem.-Phys. CPIP West Lanfang Li (2003) Chem.-Phys. CPIP Chien,

Lavrentovich Guangxun Liao (2000) Chem.-Phys. CPIP Kelly/Jákli Hui Liu (2001) Chem.-Phys. Rockwell; NSF Lavrentovich Jeremy Neal (2003) Chem.-Phys. CPIP Kelly,

Palffy-Muhoray Oleg Pishnyak (2000) Chem.-Phys. NASA; workstudy Lavrentovich Dmytro Reznikov (2003) Chem.-Phys. CPIP Jákli, Bos Tod Schneider (1996) Chem.-Phys. OBR; workstudy Lavrentovich Bohdan Senyuk (2003) Chem.-Phys. CPIP Lavrentovich Alexander Semyonov (1998) Chem.-Phys. Dreyfus Fndn.;

Chemistry Dept. Twieg

Jianru Shi (1999) Chem.-Phys. DARPA; Rockwell Bos Ivan Smalyukh (1999-2003)

Chem.-Phys. AlphaMicron Lavrentovich

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Graduate Students, 2003-2004

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Graduate Students (start-end) Dept. Univ./Grant

Support Advisor

Shouping Tang (2003) Chem.-Phys. CPIP Jákli; Kelly Chenhui Wang (1998-2003) Chem.-Phys. None Bos Dong Wang (2000) Chem.-Phys. CPIP Yang Xinghua Wang (2000) Chem.-Phys. NASA Bos Yin Ye (2001) Chem.-Phys. Rockwell Lavrentovich Guoqiang Zhang (2000) Chem.-Phys. DARPA West Hailiang Zhang (1996) Chem.-Phys. None Kelly, Gartland Yanli Zhang (2000) Chem.-Phys. Intel Bos Ke Zhang (2000) Chemistry KSU ALCOM West Fushan Zhou (1999) Chem.-Phys. Varilite; CPIP Yang Xiaoli Zhou (2003) Chem.-Phys. CPIP Gleeson, Chien

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Table 5

Graduate Degrees Awarded Student Dissertation/Thesis Title Advisor/Dept./Date

Doctor of Philosophy Roland Ennis Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals: The

Dynamics of Phase Separation and the Saffan-Taylor Instability

Palffy-Muhoray/CPIP May 2004

Yuanming Huang Electro-optical and Dielectric Properties of

Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Formed by Banana-shaped Molecules

Jákli/CPIP May 2004

Erica Bramley Montbach

Studies of Optical Systems Containing Liquid Crystals and Holographic Optical Elements

Bos/CPIP August 2003

Ivan Smalyukh Three-Dimensional Director Field Studies by

Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy Lavrentovich/CPIP August 2003

Chenhui Wang Control of Layer Defects in Smectic C*

Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Devices Bos/CPIP December 2003

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Table 6

Placement of Personnel

Graduates Employment Roland Ennis Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU

Yuanming Huang Belgium

Erica Bramley Montbach Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY

Ivan Smalyukh Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU

Chenhui Wang Company in Pennsylvania

Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates Otilia Catanescu (5/04) Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Michael R. Fisch (12/03) NEOBEAM Facility, KSU Geauga Campus

Marina Lavrentovich (6/04) CoAdna Photonics, Inc., Stow, OH

Yuriy Nastyshyn (4/04) Institute for Physical Optics, Ukraine

Staff/Technicians Karen Hullihen Kent State University NEO Beam Facility

Michelle Orms Kent Parks and Recreation

Ryan Stayshich Graduate School, University of Pittsburgh PA

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Table 7

Visiting Scientists

Long-term Visitors Name Visitation Period Home Institution Sugat Abeygunarantne Dec. 2003-Feb. 2004 Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Denys Andryenko March-June 2004 National Academy of Sciences,

Ukraine Toshihiro Aoki April 2003-March 2004 Nihon University, Japan Luigi Filippelli March-September 2004 University of Calabria, Italy Myong-Hoon Lee Feb. 2004 – Jan. 2005 Chonbuk National University, Korea Luis Malcarne July 2003-June 2004 University Estadual de Maringa,

Brazil Antigone Marino September- December 2003 University of Naples, Italy Minoru Miyatake May-September 2003 Nitto Denko, Japan Thomas Ogier April-September 2004 Montpellier University, France Viktor Pergamenshchyk April-July 2004 Institute of Physics, Ukraine Jose Rodriguez Cheda May-August 2003 Universidad Complutense, Spain Luana Tortora March-June 2004 University of Calabria, Italy Short-term Visitors

Name Visitation Period Home Institution Dirk Broer June 2004 Philips Research, The Netherlands Nandor Eber April-May 2004 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Antonio Figueiredo Neto February 2004 University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Rauzah Hashim June 2004 University of Malaysia Uma Hiremath April-May 2004 Center for Liquid Crystal Research,

India Istvan Janossy April 2004 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Maurice Kleman November 2003 Cristallographi University, France Vassili Nazarenko May 2004 National Academy of Sciences,

Ukraine Yuriy Reznikov March-April 2004 National Academy of Sciences,

Ukraine Juergen Schmidtke April 2004 Albert Ludwig Unviersity, Germany C. Yelamaggad April-May 2004 Center for Liquid Crystal Research,

India

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Table 8

Grants and Contracts, 2003-2004

Title Grant/Contract Number Agency Period

Amount Project Director; Principal Investigators Faculty Associates or Visiting Scientists Research Associates; Postdoctoral Fellows Graduate Students KSU Account Number

1. Numerical and Experimental Studies on Isotropic-

Liquid Crystalline Binary Mixtures Anteon Corporation (AFRL Subcontract) 05/02 – 06/30/04

$52,592 Palffy-Muhoray Ennis 440636

2. Tunable Mirrorless Lasing in Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Elastomers NSF 6/1/02 – 5/31/05

$480,000 Palffy-Muhoray Cao, Ennis, Moreira, Toth-Katona 442232

3. Acquisition and Development of Fast Confocal Polarizing Microscope for Liquid Crystal Materials Research and Education NSF 0315523 8/15/03 – 7/31/05

$190,000 Lavrentovich Shiyanovskii, Smalyukh 442235

4. ACT/SGER: Liquid Crystal Materials for Biosensor Development NSF (DMR-0346348) 9/15/03 – 8/31/04

$100,000 Lavrentovich, Woolverton Liu, Helfsinstine 442236

5. Liquid Crystal Based Beam Steering Device and Optical Telescopes NRA 99-OSS-05 NASA 03/2001 – 10/15/04

$654,066 Bos, Lavrentovich Groom, Kreminska, Panasyuk, B. Wang, X. Wang, Gu, Pishynak 444102

6. Liquid Crystal Based Optical Phased Arrays for Steering Lasers DARPA 9/00 – 8/03; 9/03 – 12/04; extended to 5/30/05

$2,423,208 (Yrs. 1-3); $341,000 (yr. 4) Bos, Lavrentovich, West Fisch, Catanescu Glushchenko, Golovin, Groom, Shi, B. Wang, K. Zhang, M. Zhang 444226 (yrs. 1-3); 444263 (yr. 4)

7. C1 SSFLC Bistable Device Optimization Project DisplayTech 9/00 – 8/03

$82,500 Bos C. Wang 444228


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8. Digital Beam Deflector BOU 431588 Rockwell (DARPA subcontract) 09/2000 – 10/2004

$637,057 Bos, Lavrentovich Fisch, Kreminska, Shiyanovskii Gu, Liu, Pishnyak, Shi, Yin 444230

9. Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Liquid Crystal Structural Composites by Electron Beam Curing ML-UD-01-13, DAGSI (AFRL subcontract) 07/2001 – 12/2003

$46,951 (reduced from $99,999) Chien S. Kim 444238

10. Research Project for Intel Corporation Intel Corporation 6/1/01 – 5/30/04

$142,151 Bos Zhang, Y. 444242

11. Development of High Birefringence Liquid Crystals for Optical Beam Steering Univ. Central Florida/Raytheon Systems (US Air Force subcontract) 01/2002 – 12/2003

$90,000 ($70,000 Chien) Chien, Seed 444247

12. Prism Rotator Beam-steering Component and Two-Dimensional Optical Phased Array Wavefront Corrector (THOR) US Air Force 7/17/02 – 9/17/03

$379,998 Bos Fisch, B. Wang, X. Wang 444253

13. Commercialization of Plastic Liquid Crystal Displays Viztec, Inc. 1/1/03 – 12/31/03

$29,159 Bos 444254

14. Liquid Crystal Eyewear AlphaMicron, Inc./ODOD TAF (subcontract) 1/1/03 – 9/30/04

$196,253 Lavrentovich, Gartland Shiyanovskii, Smalyukh, H. Huang 444255

15. Ultra-thin Flexible Full Color Liquid Crystal Displays PolyDisplay, Inc. 01/01/04 – 12/31/04

$153,355 West Buyuktanir, Gheorghiu, F. Li 444256

16. Inorganic Alignment Layer Project Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Inc. 6/1/03 – 5/31/06

$100,000 Bos C. Cheng 444257

17. Encapsulated Cholesteric Displays Science Applications. Intnl. Corp. (SAIC) 7/24/03 – 6/30/04

$50,000 Bos, Yang, Doane Qiu, Harden 444258


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18. Conductive Liquid Crystalline Elastomers for Aircraft Wing Structures AFOSR/STTR, Cornerstone Research Group 9/1/03 – 5/30/06

$240,000 Chien Catanescu 444259

19. Samsung Research Collaborative Agreement “Polymer Stabilized Optically Controlled Birefringence Displays” (Chien); “Electron Beam Alignment of LC” (Kumar); “Removing Disclinations” (Lavrentovich); “Acoustic Issues” (Lavrentovich); “Stressed LCs for Display Applications” (West) Samsung 8/1/03 – 7/31/04

$340,000 West, Chien, Kumar, Lavrentovich Kreminska, Nastyshyn, Q. Wang, M. Gu, R. Guo 444260

20. Liquid Crystal Tag Development Photon-X 12/1/03 – 11/30/04

$82,000 Lavrentovich Golovin, Schneider 444262

21. Hana Characterization Project Hana Microdisplay Technologies 3/04 – 3/05

$2,000 Bos 444264

22. Foveated, Wide Field-of-View Imaging Sensor for Missle Warning/Tracking Using Adaptive Optics DARPA, Univ. of Central Florida subcontract 5/04 – 5/05

$50,000 Chien 444265

23. Flexible Optical and Electronic Device Manufacturing Facility State of Ohio Wright Center Grant 7/1/03 – 6/30/06

$1,640,000 (equipment) West, Lavrentovich, et al. 771203

24. Small Angle Neutron and X-ray Scattering and Heat Capacity Study of Soap Solutions Unilever Research USA 11/02 – 11/03

$40,000 Kumar 440640 (Physics Dept. Acct.)

25. Theoretical Study of Domains in Membranes OBR Research Challenge 1/1/04 – 12/31/05

$64,167 Allender, Mann, Woolverton, Lavrentovich 440644 (Physics Dept. Acct.)

26. High Performance Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites for Space Applications OBR Research Challenge 1/2004 – 12/2005

$60,000 Kumar, Fisch Kang 440646 (Physics Dept.)


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27. X-ray Characterization of High Performance Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites for Space Applications NASA Langley 5/19/04 – 5/18/06

$194,186 Kumar Qi, Joshi 444131 (Physics Dept.)

28. Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Commensurate and Incommensurate Structure in Ferrielectric and Twist Grain Boundary LCs NSF 8/99 – 7/03

$284,685 Sprunt 442132 Chemistry

29. Acquisition of Organic Semiconductor Processing and Characterization Facility for Research and Student Training NSF 8/01 – 7/04

$200,000 Twieg, Ellman, Huang 442172 Chemistry

30. E-BEAM Sensitive Polyimides NASA 6/99 – 9/03

$348,263 Twieg, Uribe, Vargas-Aburto 444125 Chemistry

31. Pathogen Detection by Lyotropic Liquid Crystals Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge 02/2002 – 12/2003

$80,000 ($53,160 LCI) Woolverton, Lavrentovich Nastyshyn, Schneider 444521 (Biological Sciences Dept.)

32. Rapid Detection of Fluid-borne Pathogens Using Liquid Crystals U.S. Dept. Homeland Security (NEOUCOM subcontract) 2/16/04 – 2/15/05

$30,000 Woolverton, Lavrentovich 444539 (Biological Sciences Dept.)

33. Fluorothiophenes – A New Class of Chevron-Free Ferroelectric Materials Ohio Board of Regents 1/1/04 – 6/15/05

$58,941 ($5,000 Jákli) Seed, Sampson, Ellmann, Jákli 444755 (Chemistry Dept.)

34. Acquisition of Imaging Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectrometer NSF 8/15/02 – 7/31/05

$258,199 Gericke, West, Fulghum, Cabaniss

35. Effect of nanoscale Interfacial Structural Transitions on Liquid Crystal Anchoring NSF 11/15/03 – 11/14/06

$650,000 Kumar, Srinivasarao Joshi 442314 (Physics Dept.)

36. Construction of an Undulator Based, Combined SAXS/GISAXS/GID Beamline at the National Synchrontron Light Source Department of Energy 1/2004 – 1/2006

$1,842,911 Kumar, Pindak, Cheng, Hsiao, Ocko, Huang, Russell (Brookhaven Lab grant)


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37. Ohio Eminent Scholars Program (endowment) OBR 2002 (endowment)

$750,000 LCI Endowment Foundation Acct.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

38. Center for Liquid Crystal Science & Education Congressional Appropriation 9/30/03 – 9/29/05

$471,913 West, Lavrentovich, Jákli, Palffy-Muhoray, Sprunt, Gleeson, Woolverton Hyatt, Huang, Liao, Waint, Cao, Yin, Adorjan, Brezina 441149

39. Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Chemistry at KSU NSF 4/01 – 3/04

$180,000 Twieg, Gericke 442155 (Chemistry Dept.)

40. Liquid Crystals – Synthetic and Natural Systems NSF CHE-Special Projects: REU Undergraduate Programs 04/04/04 – 03/31/07

$63,433 (Yr. 1) Gericke, Lavrentovich 442244 (Chemistry Dept.)

41. Real World Research Experience in Undergraduate Materials Chemistry Education Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation 2/02 –1/04

$46,000 Twieg Semyonov 444735 (Chemistry Dept.)

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

42. Nano and Micro-scale Templating of Liquid Crystalline Materials NSF-INT USA-Slovenia 8/1/03 – 7/31/06

$45,528 (KSU share) Finotello, Crawford, Zumer 442100

43. US-Hungary Materials Research: Investigation of Liquid Crystalline Mesophases of Bent Core Molecules NSF 9/1/02 – 8/31/05

$29,840 Palffy-Muhoray, Gleeson, Jákli 442234

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Table 9

Proposals for Extramural Support

Title a. Agency b. Period

c. Initial/Renewal (Duration) d. Amount Requested e. Project Director; Principal Investigators f. Status

1. Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals

a. Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust b. 9/03 – 8/06

c. Initial d. $510,000 e. Lavrentovich, Finotello, Woolverton f. Pending

2. Characterization Facilities at Liquid Crystal Institute a. Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust b. 9/03 – 8/08

c. Initial d. $800,000 e. Lavrentovich f. Pending

3. Faculty Position at Liquid Crystal Institute/Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program a. Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust b. 9/03 – 8/08

c. Initial d. $900,000 e. Lavrentovich, Yang f. Pending

4. Fred A. Lennon Characterization Facilities at Liquid Crystal Institute a. Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust b. 9/03 – 8/08

c. Initial d. $1,500,000 e. Lavrentovich, Chien f. Pending

5. Liquid Crystals – Synthetic and Natural Systems a. NSF 03-577 – CHE- Special Projects: REU Undergraduate Programs b. 4/4/04 – 4/3/07

c. Initial d. $208,556 e. Gericke, Lavrentovich f. Awarded

6. Theoretical Study of Domains in Membranes a. OBR Research Challenge b. 1/1/04 – 12/31/05

c. Initial d. 64,167 e. Allender, Mann, Woolverton, Lavrentovich f. Awarded

7. Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: A New Material for Advanced Biosensing and Optical Applications a. CRDF b. 10/29/04 – 10/28/06

c. Initial d. $100,000 ($68,000 funded) e. Lavrentovich, Pergamenshchyk f. Awarded

Proposals for Extramural Support, 2003-2004

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8. Liquid Crystal Beam Steering Device - subcontract to Phase II Air Force SBIR project "Agile, Detecting and Discriminating, Infrared Electro-Optical System (ADDIOS)" a. Air Force / Applied Science Innovations Inc. b. 1/04 – 5/05

c. Initial d. $150,000 e. Lavrentovich f. Awarded

9. Liquid Crystal Tag Development a. Photon-X, Inc. b. 12/1/03 – 5/31/04

c. Initial d. $50,000 e. Lavrentovich f. Awarded

10. Liquid Crystal Agile Beam Steering: OPA Demonstration a. Rockwell Science Center b. 5/1/04 – 10/30/04

c. Additional d. $50,000 e. Lavrentovich f. Awarded

11. Pilot Student Exchange Program a. OBR Research Challenge b. 1/1/04 – 12/31/05

c. Initial d. 60,000 e. Bartolo, Jákli, Khan, Warren, Lavrentovich f. Not Awarded

12. Research at the Biology-Liquid Crystals Frontier a. W.M. Keck Foundation b. 5/04 – 4/07

c. Initial d. $1,330,419 e. Lavrentovich, Woolverton f. Pending

13. Rapid Detection of Fluid-borne Pathogens Using Liquid Crystals a. U.S. Dept. Homeland Security (NEOUCOM sub) b. 2/16/04 – 2/15/05

c. Initial d. $30,000 e. Woolverton, Lavrentovich f. Awarded

14. ACT/SGER: Liquid Crystal Materials for Biosensor Development a. NSF/ITIC, Approaches to Combat Terrorism Prog. DMR-0346348 b 9/1/03 – 8/31/04

c. Initial d. $100,000 e. Lavrentovich, Woolverton f. Awarded

15. Development of Polymer Stabilized Liquid Crystal Light Shutters a. AlphaMicron subcontract on ODOD b. 1/1/04 – 12/31/06

c. Initial d. $198,051 e. Yang, Jákli f. Not Awarded

16. Pressure Sensitive Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Film for Orthopedic Application a. Acor Orthopedic b. 11/1/03 – 10/31/04

c. Initial d. $37,487 e. Yang, West f. Not Awarded


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17. Liquid Crystal on Silicon Optical Phased Arrays a. Hana Microdisplay Tech., sub Ohio 3rd Frontier b. 4/1/04 – 12/31/05

c. Initial d. $139,000 e. Bos f. Not Awarded

18. Stimuli Responsive Liquid Crystal-Polymer Nanocomposites a. NSF b. 6/1/04 – 5/31/07

c. Initial d. $279,820 e. Chien f. Not Awarded

19. Fast Switching Liquid Crystal Displays Based on Pi-Cell Having an Asymmetric Mirror Plane a. Samsung b. 6/1/04 – 5/31/05

c. Initial d. $104,088 e. Chien f. Pending

20. Electromechanical Properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals from Bent-shape Molecules a. NSF b. 6/1/04 – 5/31/07

c. Initial d. $285,450 e. Jákli f. Not Awarded

21. FRG Collaborative Research: The Interaction of Fluids with Driven Soft Materials a. NSF b. 4/1/04 – 3/31/07

c. Initial d. $839,240 ($208,427-KSU PPM) e. Shelley, Childress, Zhang, Zorin, (NY Univ.), Palffy-Muhoray f. Not Awarded

22. Bent-Core Nematics – Physics of a New Class of Liquid Crystals a. NSF b. 1/1/05 – 12/31/07

c. Initial d. $520,062 e. Jákli, Gleeson, Sprunt f. Pending

23. CPIP Student Scholarships a. Samsung b. 2005 – 2010 (2 scholarships per year)

c. Initial d. $200,000 ($40,000 /yr.) e. Lavrentovich, et al. f. Awarded

24. Samsung Collaborative Research Samsung 8/1/03 – 7/31/04

c. Initial d. $340,000 e. West, Chien, Kumar, Lavrentovich f. Awarded

25. Foveat, Wide Field-of-View Imaging Sensor for Missle Warning and Tracking System a. DARPA, Univ. of Central Fla. subcontract b. 7/04 – 6/07

c. Initital d. $150,000 e. Chien f. Awarded

26. Laboratory for Magnetic Levitation of Soft Materials a. NASA b. 11/1/04 – 10/31/07

c. Initial d. $643,197 e. Fisch, Chien, Kumar f. Not Awarded


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27. Liquid Crystal Lens a. Department of Commerce, Advanced Technology Program b. 9/1/04 – 8/31/06

c. Initital d. $300,000 e. Chien f. Not Awarded

28. Nanostructured Organic Field Transistors a. Ohio Board of Regents b. 1/1/04 – 12/31/05

c. Initial d. $60,000 e. Chien f. Not Awarded

29. Center for Liquid Crystal Science and Education a. Congressional appropriation b. 9/30/03 – 9/30/04

c. Initital d. $471,913 e. West, Palffy-Muhoray, Jákli, Gleeson, Lavrentovich f. Awarded

30. Fluorothiophenes – A New Class of Chevron-free Ferroelectric Materials a. Ohio Board of Regents b. 1/1/04 – 6/15/05

c. Initital d. $58,941 e. Seed, Sampson, Ellmann, Jákli f. Awarded

31. Low Power Liquid Crystal Shutter Devices for Deep-fade Projection a. DARPA b. 6/1/04 – 12/31/05

c. Initial d. $616,869 e. Jákli, Bos f. Not Awarded

32. A New Class of Nematic Liquid Crystals Based on Bent-core Molecules a. NSF b. 6/1/04 – 5/31/07

c. Initial d. $434,232 e. Jákli, Gleeson, Sprunt f. Not Awarded

33. Ultra-thin Flexible Full Color Liquid Crystal Displays a. PolyDisplay, Inc. b. 01/01/04 – 12/31/04

c. Initial d. $153,355 e. West f. Awarded

34. Soft Nanocrystal Optical NIMs a. DARPA b. 2/1/05 – 7/31/06; Phase II 8/1/06 – 7/31/08

c. Initial d. $2,133,727; $2,784,682 e. Palffy-Muhoray, Li, Taheri, Busch, Glotzer, Greengard, Van Stryland f. Pending

35. Functional Self-Reinforced Composites Using Stereocomplex Fiber a. NSF-DMI: Materials Processing and Manufacturing b. 7/1/04 – 6/30/07

c. Initial d. $164,000 e. Kumar f. Awarded

36. Structure of Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composite a. OBR Research Challenge b. 1/04 – 12/05

c. Initital d. $60,000 e. Kumar f. Awarded


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37. Encapsulated Cholesteric Displays a. Science Applications. Intnl. Corp. (SAIC) b. 7/24/03 – 6/30/04

c. Initial d. $50,000 e. Bos, Yang, Doane f. Awarded

38. Liquid Crystal Tunable Filter a. STTR with Creolight b. 7/1/04 – 6/30/05

c. Initial d. $33,697 e. Yang f. Not Awarded

39. Instruction in Data Acquisition, Data Presentation and Instrument Control a. Ohio Board of Regents House Bill 675 b. 2003-2004

c. Initial d. $18,618 e. Palffy-Muhoray f. Awarded

40. SGER: Modeling the Dynamics of Shape Change in Liquid Crystal Elastomer Systems a. NSF b. 9/15/04 – 9/14/06

c. Initial d. $100,000 e. Shelley (NY Univ), Palffy-Muhoray f. Awarded

41. Dynamics of Liquid Crystalline Films Studied by Ultrafast Photon Correlation Spectroscopy a. NSF b. 8/04 – 8/07

c. Initial d. $371,892 e. Sprunt f. Pending

42. Novel Self-assembled Organic Nanostructures NSF/NIRT 5/1/04 to 4/30/08

c. Initial d. $1,769,090 e. Sprunt, Kumar f. Not Awarded

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Table 10

Patents

Patent # Title Date Inventors

Patents 6,690,495 Device Exhibiting Photo-Induced Dichroism for

Adaptive Anti-glare Vision Protection

2/10/2004 Kosa Palffy-Muhoray Taheri

6,673,398 Alignment of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals at Surfaces as Monolayers and Multilayered Stacks

1/6/2004 Schneider Lavrentovich

6,614,572 Apparatus and Method for Controlling Optical Gain Profiles in a Temperature Independent Manner

9/2/03 Kelly Yuan Washburn

6,747,774 Apparatus and Method for Controlling Optical Gain Profiles

6/8/2004 Kelly Yuan Washburn

6,656,384 Production of Filaments via Phase Separation and Polymerization

12/2/2003 Palffy-Muhoray Chien Hu

Patent Applications 10/472,677 Fast Switching Dual-frequency Liquid Crystal Cells

and Methods Driving the Same 9/18/2003 Golovin,

Shiyanovskii Lavrentovich

60/592,316 KSU 256

Polymer Stabilized Electrically Controlled Birefringence Transreflective LCD

11/03/03

Zhou Yang

10/766,273 KSU 254

Electro-Optical Devices from Polymer-Stabilized Liquid Crystal Molecules

1/28/04 Komitov Chien Kim

Invention Disclosures Electric Power Generation Using Liquid Crystals 4/04 Palffy-Muhoray

Jákli Taheri

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Table 11

Publications

David Allender Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports

G.Y. Panasyuk, J.R. Kelly, P.J. Bos, E.C. Gartland, Jr., D.W. Allender, “The geometrical optics approach in liquid crystal cells with two- and three-dimensional director variations,” Proc. SPIE 5289(1) 119-31 (2004).

Philip J. Bos Peer Reviewed Journals

V. Sergan, X. Wang, P.J. Bos, G.D. Sharp, “Fast switching polymer stabilized splay cell (PSSC),” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 410, 1015-1021 (2004).

C.H. Wang, M. Wand, M. Handschy, P.J. Bos, “Defect-free bistable C1 surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal display,” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 43, 3479-3483 June (2004).

J.N. Hilfiker, B. Johs, C.M. Herzinger, J.F. Elman, E. Montbach, D. Bryant, P.J. Bos, “Generalized spectroscopic ellipsometry and Mueller-matrix study of twisted nematic and super twisted nematic liquid crystals,” Thin Solid Films 455, 596-600 May 1, (2004).

B. Wang, X.H. Wang, P.J. Bos, “Finite-difference time-domain calculations of a liquid-crystal-based switchable Bragg grating,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 21, 1066-1072 June (2004).

E.N. Montbach, P.J. Bos, W.J. Gambogi, “Compensating a twisted nematic liquid crystal display with matched wavelength dispersion retarders,” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 43, 1376-1383 April (2004).

G.F. Barrick, P.J. Bos, C.E. Titus, “Computing the liquid crystal director field in optical phased arrays,” Opt. Eng. 43 924-932 April (2004).

B. Wang, D.B. Chung, P.J. Bos, “Finite-difference time-domain optical calculations of polymer-liquid crystal composite electrodiffractive device,” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 43, 176-181, January (2004).

B. Wang, P.J. Bos, C.D. Hoke, “Light propagation in variable-refractive-index materials with liquid-crystal-infiltrated microcavities,” J. Opt. Soc, Am. A 20, 2123-2130, November (2003).

Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports

B. Wang, X. Wang, P.J. Bos, “Study of switchable liquid crystal polymer grating by finite-different time-domain calculation,” Proc. SPIE 5213,104-110 (2004).

G.Y. Panasyuk, J.R. Kelly, P.J. Bos, E.C. Gartland, Jr., D.W. Allender, “The geometrical optics approach in liquid crystal cells with two- and three-dimensional director variations,” Proc. SPIE 5289(1) 119-31 (2004).

B. Wang, X. Wang, P.J. Bos, “Study of switchable liquid crystal polymer grating by finite-difference time-domain calculation,” Proc. SPIE 5213, 104-110 (2004).

X. Wang, B. Wang, P.J. Bos, J. Anderson, M.P. Kujawinska, F. Miranda, “Limitation of liquid crystal on silicon spatial light modulator for holographic three-dimensional displays,” SID Intnl. Digest Tech. Papers, XXXV, Book II, 1522-1525, May (2004).

E. Montbach, P.J. Bos, “Control of wavelength dispersion in form birefringent retarders for liquid crystal displays,” SID Intnl. Digest Tech. Papers, XXXV, Book II, 1312-1315, May (2004).

Publications, 2003-2004

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Y. Zhang, P.J. Bos, D.B. Chung, A. Grunnet-Jepsen, “Poincare sphere analysis of LCOS E-O effects,” SID Intnl. Digest Tech. Papers XXXV, Book II, 994-997, May (2004).

G.D. Lee, P.J. Bos, S-H Ahn, K.J. Lee, “‘Warm up’ of a pi-cell liquid crystal device,” Proc. IMID, 3rd Intnl. Mtg. Info. Display, 1096 (200 ). Invited

X. Wang, B. Wang, J. Pouch, F. Miranda, M. Fisch, J.E. Anderson, V. Sergan, P.J. Bos, “Liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) wavefront corrector and beam sSteerer,” Proc. SPIE 5162, 139-146 (2003).

Liang-Chy Chien Books and Chapters in Books Conference Proceedings: L. C. Chien and M.H. Wu, editors, Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices and Applications X and Projection Displays X, SPIE 5289 (2004).

Peer Reviewed Journals J.B. Baek, L.-C. Chien, “Synthesis and photoluminescence of linear and hyperbranched polyethers containing phenylquinoxaline units and flexible aliphatic spacers,” J. Polym. Sci. A, Polym. Chem. 42, 3587 (2004).

E.J. Choi, J.C. Ahn, L.C. Chien, C.-K. Lee, W.-C. Zin, D.-C. Kim, S.-T. Kim, “Main chain polymers containing banana-shaped mesogens: Synthesis and mesomorphic properties,” Macromol. 37, 71-78 (2004).

T. Sergan, J. Kelly, O. Yaroschuk, L. C. Chien, “Negative birefringence films from non-traditional materials,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 409, 153-162 (2004).

C. O. Catanescu, L. C. Chien, “High birefringence nematic liquid crystals for display and telecom applications,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 411, 93-102 (2004).

S. N. Lee, L.-C. Chien, “The effect of polymer networks on ferroelectric liquid crystals,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 411, 183-190 (2004).

S. H. Kim, L. C. Chien, “Liquid crystal blazed gratings formed in a single-step through photo-induced localization of polymer into a prismatic structure,” Opt. Express 12, 1238-1242 (2004).

C. O Catanescu, S. T. Wu, L. C. Chien, “Tailoring the physical properties of some high birefringence isothiocyanato-based liquid crystals,” Liq. Cryst. 31, 541-555 (2004).

O. Yaroshchuk, Yu. Zakrevskyy, S. Kumar, J. Kelly, L.-C. Chien, J. Lindau, “Three-dimensional orientational order in the bulk and on the surface of polymer films and its effect on liquid-crystal alignment,” Phys. Rev. E 69(1-1), 011702/1-011702/7 (2004).

S.W. Kang, S.H. Jin, L.C. Chien and S. Sprunt, “Spatial and Orientational Templating of Semiconducting Polymers in a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal,” Adv. Funct. Matter. 14, 329-334 (2004).

C.-K. Lee, S.-S. Kwon, T.-S. Kim, E.-J. Choi, S.-T. Shin, W.-C. Zin, D.-C. Kim, J.-H. Kim, L.-C. Chien, “Synthesis and properties of new materials with banana-shaped achiral cores and chiral end groups,” Liq. Cryst., 30(12), 1401-1406 (2003).

S. Suresh, L. C. Chien, “Electro-optical properties of polymer-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal,” Ferroelectrics 287, 1-6 (2003).

Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports S. Kim, L.C. Chien, “Polymer stabilized liquid crystal light modulators,” SPIE 5289, 86-93 (2004).

C. O. Catanescu, S. N. Lee, L. C. Chien, “Conjugation effects on high birefringence liquid crystals,” IMID ‘03 Digest 3, 260-262 (2003).


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C. K. Lee, L. C. Chien, “Synthesis and characterization of banana-shaped achiral molecules,” IMID ‘03 Digest 3, 505-508 (2003).

S. W. Kang, D. W. Rafferty, J. L. Koenig, L. C. Chien, “Liquid crystal-controlled polymer architectures,” Polym. Mater. Sci. Eng. 89, 92-93 (2003).

P. Chu, L. C. Chien, “Light induced contraction in freely-suspended smectic films,” Polym. Mat. Sci. Eng. 89, 44-45(2003).

S. H. Kim, L. C. Chien, “Polymer-Enhanced LCDs,” Proc. IEEE (2003).

Q. Wang, S. Kumar, H. Wonderly, L. Qiu and L.C. Chien, “Twist nematic LCDs with internal polymer columns formed by phase separation,” IDRC (2003).

Daniele Finotello Peer Reviewed Journals

D. Finotello, T. Jin, “Changing the surface-liquid crystal interaction through the adsorption of silica nanoparticles,” IMID 2004 Digest 26.5, 846-847 (2004).

T. Jin, D. Finotello, “Controlling disorder in liquid crystal aerosil dispersions,” Phys. Rev. E 69, 041704 (2004).

F. Mercuri, M. Marinelli, U. Zammit, C.C. Huang, D. Finotello, “Critical behavior of thermal parameters at the smectic-A – hexatic-B and smectic-A – Smectic-C phase transitions in liquid crystals,” Phys. Rev. E 68, 051705 (2003).

D. Finotello, T. Jin, “Chain length dependence of confined liquid crystals configurations,” J. Info. Display, KIDS 4, 14 (2003).

Antal Jákli Peer Reviewed Journals

S. Rauch, C. Selbmann, P. Bault, H. Sawade, G. Heppke, O. Morales-Saavedra, M.Y.M. Huang, A. Jákli, “Glass forming banana-shaped compounds: vitrified liquid crystal states,” Phys. Rev. E 69, 021707 (2004).

S. Abeygunaratne, A. Jákli, G. Milkereit, H. Sawade, V. Vill, “Antiferroelectric ordering of amphiphilic glycolipids in bent-core liquid crystals,” Phys. Rev. E 69, 021703 (2004); also Virtual J. Nanoscale Sci. Tech. 9 (9), (2004); also Virtual J. Biol. Phys. Res. (3/1/2004).

V. Prasad, A. Jákli, “Achiral bent – core azo compounds: observation of photo-induced effects in an antiferroelectric tilted smectic mesophase” Liq. Cryst. 31 (4), 473-479 (2004).

L. Zou, J. Wang, V.J. Beleva, E.E. Kooijman, S.V. Primak, J. Risse, W. Weissflog, A. Jákli, E.K. Mann “Langmuir monolayers of bent-core molecules,” Langmuir 20 (7), 2772-2780 (2004).

K. Fodor-Csorba, A.Vajda, A. Jákli, Ch. Slugovc, G. Trimmel, D. Demus, E. Gács-Baitz, S. Holly, G. Galli, “Ester type banana-shaped liquid crystalline monomers: Synthesis and physical properties,” J. Mater. Chem. 14, 2499-2506 (2004).

G. Liao, S. Stojadinovic, G. Pelzl, W. Weissflog, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “An optically isotropic ferroelectric liquid crystal phase,” Elect. Liq. Cryst. Comm., www.e-lc.org/docs/2004_05_11_15_51_54.

C. Huang, Q. Zhang, A. Jákli , “Nematic anisotropic liquid crystal gels-self-assembled nanocomposites with high electromechanical response,” Adv. Functional Mat. 13(7), 525-529 (2003).


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A. Jákli, Y.M. Huang, K. Fodor-Csorba, A. Vajda, G. Galli, S. Diele, G. Pelzl, “Reversible switching between optically isotropic and birefringent states in a bent-core liquid crystal,” Adv. Mat. 15(19), 1606-1610 (2003).

J.A. Olivares, S. Stojadinovic, T. Dingemans, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Optical studies of the nematic phase of an oxazole-derived bent-core liquid crystal,” Phys. Rev. E. 68, 041704 (2003).


A. Jákli, K. Fodor-Csorba, “Electro-optics of liquid crystals of bent-shape molecules,” IMID’03 Digest, 1108-1111 (2003).

S. Choi, Y.M. Huang, A. Jákli, T.K. Lim, C.K. Lee, S.T. Shin, “The study of molecular structures for new banana-shaped liquid crystals,” IMID’03 Digest, 595-599 (2003).

C. Binet, S. Rauch, Ch. Selbmann, Ph. Bault, G. Heppke, H. Sawade, A. Jákli, “Evidence for molecular chirality induced polarisation in banana liquid crystal phases,” Proc. German Liq. Cryst. Workshop, (2003).

Jack R. Kelly Peer Reviewed Journals

O. Yaroshchuk, Yu. Zakrevskyy, S. Kumar, J. Kelly, L.-C. Chien, J. Lindau, “Three-dimensional orientational order in the bulk and on the surface of polymer films and its effect on liquid-crystal alignment,” Phys. Rev. E, 69(1), 011702 (2004).

M.D. Lavrentovich, T.A. Sergan, J.R. Kelly, “Switchable broadband achromatic half-wave plate with nematic liquid crystals,” Opt. Lett. 29(12), 1411(2004).

T. Sergan, J. Kelly, O. Yaroschuk, L. C. Chien, “Negative birefringence films from non-traditional materials,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 409, 153-162 (2004).

O.V. Yaroshchuk, A.D. Kiselev, Yu.A. Zakrevskyy, T.V. Bidna, J. Kelly, L.-C. Chien, J. Lindau, “Photoinduced three-dimentional orientational order in side chain liquid crystal azopolymers,” Phys.Rev. E 68(1), 011803(2003).


G. Panasyuk, J. Kelly, P. Bos, E.C. Gartland, D.W. Allender, “The geometrical optics approach in liquid crystal cells with two- and three-dimensional director variations,” SPIE-IS&T 5289, 119(2004).

Satyendra Kumar Peer Reviewed Journals

J.-H. Kim, S. Kumar, “Single glass substrate LCDs with phase separated composite organic film method,” J. Displays (Korea) (2004).

V. Prasad, S.-W. Kang, S. Kumar, “Photo-responsive and electrically switchable mesophases in a novel class of achiral bent-core azo compounds,” J. Mat. Chem. 14, 1495 (2004).

B. R. Acharya, A. Primak, S. Kumar, “The bent-core biaxial nematic phase,” Liq. Cryst. Today, 13, 1 (2004). Invited

B.R. Acharya, A. Primak, S. Kumar, “A biaxial nematic phase exhibited by bent-core molecules,” Phys. Rev. Lett 92, 145506 (2004).


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P. K. Bhowmik, H. Han, J. J. Cebe, I. K. Nedeltchev, S.-W. Kang, S. Kumar, “Synthesis and characterization of poly(pyridinium) salts with organic counterions exhibiting both thermotropic liquid-crystalline and light-emitting properties,” Macromol. 37, 2688 (2004).

O. Yaroshchuk, Yu. Zakrevskyy, J. Kelly, S. Kumar, L.-C. Chien, J. Lindau, “Three dimensional orientational ordering in the bulk and on the surface of the polymer substrate and their effect on LC alignment,” Phys. Rev. E 69, 011702 (2004).

P. K. Bhowmik, H. Han, J. J. Cebe, R. A. Burchett, B. Acharya, S. Kumar, “Ambient-temperature thermotropic liquid-crystalline viologens bis(triflimide),” Liq. Cryst. 30, 1433 (2003).

B. R. Acharya, A. Primak, T. J. Dingemans, E. T. Samulski, S. Kumar, “The elusive thermotropic biaxial nematic phase in rigid bent-core molecules,” Pramana 61, 231 (2003).


C. Wang, P. J. Bos, S. Kumar, M. Wand, M. Handschy, “Eliminating layer undulation textures in SSFLC devices,” SID Intnl. Digest Tech. Papers 34, 608 (2003).

Oleg D. Lavrentovich Books and Chapters in Books

O.D. Lavrentovich, “Fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy: Three-dimensional imaging of the director,” in Liquid Crystals and Other Soft Materials, B.K. Sadashiva, ed., Indian Acad. Sci., Tholasi Prints India, Bangalore, India (reprinted from, Pramana – J. Phys. 61, No.2, 373-384 August, 2003).

O.D. Lavrentovich, “Defects in liquid crystals: Surface and interfacial anchoring effects,” in Patterns of Symmetry Breaking, H. Arodz, J. Dziarmaga, and W.H. Zurek, eds., NATO Science Series, II. Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry, 127, 161-195, Kluwer Academic Publishers: The Netherlands (2003).

Peer Reviewed Journals

O. Yaroshchuk, R. Kravchuk, A. Dobrovolskyy, L. Qiu, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Planar and tilted uniform alignment of liquid crystals by plasma treated substrates,” Elect. Liq. Cryst. Comm., www.e-lc.org/docs/2004_01_30_09_07_21/ (2004).

O. Yaroshchuk, R. Kravchuk, A. Dobrovolskyy, L. Qiu, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Planar and tilted uniform alignment of liquid crystals by plasma treated substrates, Liquid Crystals,” Liq. Cryst. 31, 859-869 (2004).

A.B. Golovin, Y. Yin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Fast switching dual frequency liquid crystal optical retarder for beam steering applications,” in Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices and Applications X and Projections Displays X, L.-C. Chien and M.H. Wu, eds., SPIE 5289, 53-62 (2004).

I.I. Smalyukh, R. Pratibha, O.D. Lavrentovich, N.V. Madhusudana, “Free-standing films of twist grain boundary TGB(A) and UTGB(C*) liquid crystals studied by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy,” Liq. Cryst. 30(8), 877-888 (2003).

O.D. Lavrentovich, “Fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy: Three-dimensional imaging of the director,” Pramana – J. Phys. 61(2), 373-384 August (2003).

A.B. Golovin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Fast-switching dual-frequency liquid crystal optical retarder driven by an amplitude and frequency modulated voltage,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 3864-3866 (2003).


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S. Garg, K.Purdy, E. Bramley, I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Electric-field induced nucleation and growth of focal conic and stripe domains in a smectic A liquid crystals,” Liq. Cryst. 30(12) 1377-1390 (2003).

Mary E. Neubert (Emeritus) Peer Reviewed Journals

M.K. Ramazanoglu, P.S. Clegg, R.J. Biregneau, C.W. Garland, M.E. Neubert, J.M. Kim, “First-order isotropic-Smectic-A transition in liquid-crystal-aerosil gels,” Phys. Rev. E 69, 061706-1 – 061706-8 (2004).

M.H. Zhu, C. Rosenblatt, J.M. Kim, M.E. Neubert, “Bent-core dopant in a liquid crystal having a reentrant synclinic phase,” Phys. Rev E 70, 031702-1 – 031702-5 (2004).

G. Mertens, T. Roder, H. Matthias, H. Marsmann, H.-S.R. Kitzerow, S.L. Schweizer, C. Jamois, R.B. Wehrspohn, M.E. Neubert, “Two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals made of macroporous silicon and liquid crystals,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 3036-3038 (2003).

Quan Li Peer Reviewed Journals

Q. Li, C. Jin, P.A. Petukhov, A.V. Rukavishnikov, T. Zaikova, A. Phadke, D.H. LaMunyon, M.D. Lee, J.F.W. Keana, “Synthesis of well-defined tower-shaped 1,3,5-trisubstituted adamantanes incorporating a macrocyclic trilactam ring system,” J. Org. Chem. 69 1010-1019 (2004).

Peter Palffy-Muhoray Peer Reviewed Journals

N. Abraham, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “A dunking bird of the second kind,” Am. J. Phys. 72, 782-785 (2004).

M. Camacho-Lopez, H. Finkelmann, P. Palffy-Muhoray, M. Shelley, “Fast liquid-crystal elastomer swims into the dark”, Nature Mat. 3, 307-310, May (2004).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, R. Meyer, “Bridging the experiment-theory gap,” Nature Mat. 3, 139-140 (2004).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, M. Camacho-Lopez., H. Finkelmann, M. Shelley, “Fast liquid crystal elastomer swims into the dark,” Elect. Liq. Cryst. Commun., www.e-lc.org/docs/ 2003_11_25_00_32_43/, (2003).

W. Cao, A. Munoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Taheri, “Mirrorless lasing in liquid crystalline photonic band gap materials,” Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 776, Q9.7.1, 159-167 (2003).

Samuel Sprunt Peer Reviewed Journals

S. W. Kang, L. C. Chien, S. H. Jin, S. Sprunt, “Spatial and orientational templating of semiconducting polymer networks in a cholesteric liquid crystal,” Adv. Func. Mat. 14, 329 (2004).

J. Olivares, S. Stojadinovic, E. Samulski, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Optical studies of the nematic phase of an oxazole-derived bent-core liquid crystal,” Phys. Rev. E 68, 041704 (2003).


S. Sharma, A. Adorjan, K. Neupane, A. Baldwin, S. Sprunt, “One nanosecond photon correlation spectroscopy on smectic liquid crystal films,” BAPS 51, 2246 (2004).


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John L. West Peer Reviewed Journals

J.West, K. Zhang, G. Liao, Y. Reznikov, D. Andrienko, M.P. Allen, A. Glushchenko, “Mechanisms of formation of three dimensional structure of particles in a liquid crystal,” Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 410, 83-93 (2004).


K. Zhang, A. Glushchenko, J.L. West, “Ordered micro-particle structures in a liquid crystal: formation and physical properties,” Proc. Mat. Res. Soc. (New Materials for Microphotonics) 817 (2004).

O. Buchnev, A. Glushchenko, Y. Reznikov, V. Reshetnyak, O. Tereshchenko, J.L. West, “Diluted ferroelectric suspension of Sn2P2S6 nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystal,” Proc. SPIE (Nonlinear Optics of Liquid and Photorefractive Crystals) 5257, 7-12 (2003).

Deng-Ke Yang Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports

F. Zhou, D.-K. Yang, “Polymer stabilized electrically controlled birefringence transreflective liquid crystal display,” SID Intl. Digest Tech. Papers XXXV, 38-41 (2004).

D.-K. Yang, “Effects of cell structure on a liquid crystal optical switch based on internal reflection,” Proc. SPIE 5289, 161-169 (2004).

D.-K. Yang, A. Khan, J. W. Doane, “Cholesteric liquid crystals for reflective displays,” Proc. Intnl. Mini-Conf.e Info. Electronics System, 161-163 (2003).

Adjunct/Temporary Faculty

Michael R. Fisch X. Wan, B.Wang, J. Pouch, F. Miranda, M. Fisch, J.E. Anderson, V. Sergan, P.J. Bos, “Liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) wavefront corrector and beam steerer,” Proc. SPIE 5162 139-146 (2003).

A. Primak, M. Fisch, S. Kumar, “New features of critical behavior at the nematic to smectic-A transition revealed by measurements in strong magnetic field,” Liq. Cryst. Today 12, 10 (2003). Invited.

Sergij Shiyanovskii A.B. Golovin, Y. Yin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Fast switching dual frequency liquid crystal optical retarder for beam steering applications,” in Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices and Applications X and Projections Displays X, L.-C. Chien and M.H. Wu, eds., Proc. SPIE 5289, 53-62 (2004).

A.B. Golovin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Fast-Switching Dual-Frequency Liquid Crystal Optical Retarder, Driven by an Amplitude and Frequency Modulated Voltage,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 3864-3866 (2003).

Bahman Taheri W. Cao, A. Munoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray B. Taheri, “Mirrorless lasing in liquid crystalline photonic band gap materials,” Proc. Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. 776, Q9.7.1, 159-167 (2003).

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Presentations at Professional Meetings and Academia

Philip J. Bos Invited Talks and Seminars “Temperature dependence of the smectic-A layer spacing and its effect on layer defects in the SmC* phase,” C.Wang, P.J.Bos, S. Kumar, M.Wand, M. Handschy, Tohoku University 21st Century COE Program, Jan 28-30, 2004 Sendai, Japan.

“‘Warm-up’ transition in a pi-cell,” G-D Lee, P.J. Bos, S-H Ahn, K-J Lee; Pusan National University, July 8, 2003.

Liang-Chy Chien

Invited Talks and Seminars “Optical diffraction from polymer-stabilized liquid crystal phase gratings,” Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004.

“High birefringence liquid crystals,” IMID 2003, Dague, South Korea, July 9-11, 2003.

“Liquid crystal templated ordered polymers and applications,” Kongku University, July 12, 2003, Seoul, South Korea.

“Liquid crystal controlled polymer morphlogy,” Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering Symposium on “Nanostructured Liquid Crystal/Polymer Materials and Applications,” ACS Fall 2003, New York City, New York.

“Polymer-enhanced LCDs,” 2004 LEOS/IEEE Annual Meeting, Tuscon, AZ, October 26-30, 2003.

Oral Presentations “Polymer-stabilized liquid crystal light modulators,” S.H. Kim and L.C. Chien, Electronic Imaging 2004, San Jose, CA, Jan. 19-21, 2004.

“Twist nematic LCDs with internal polymer columns formed by phase separation,” Q. Wang, S. Kumar, H. Wonderly, L. Qiu, L.C. Chien, IDRC 2003, Phoenix, Az, Oct. 18, 2003.

Poster Presentations “Synthesis and characterization of banana-shaped achiral molecules,” C. K. Lee, L. C. Chien, IMID 2003, Dague, Korea, July 9-11,2003.

Daniele Finotello Invited Talks and Seminars “Structural transitions in confined liquid crystals,” Information Display Symposium, Korea University, Jochewon, Korea, August 2004.

“Changing the surface liquid crystal interaction through the adsorption of silica nanoparticles,” IMID 2004, selected for contributed oral, Daegu, Korea, August 2004.

“Order and disorder effects on the orientational order of liquid crystal dispersions,” 11th Workshop: Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals, www-th.bo.infn.it/islc/erice2004/index.html, Erice, Italy, July 2004.

“Liquid crystal chain length induced anchoring transitions under confinement,” 11th Workshop: Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals, http://www-th.bo.infn.it/islc/erice2004/index.html, Erice, Italy, July 2004.

Presentations at Professional Meetings and Academia, 2003-2004

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“DNMR study of confined liquid crystal hydrophobic aerosil dispersions,” 20th ILCC, selected for contributed oral, Ljubljana, Slovenia, BOA, SURF-O9, July 2004.

Oral Presentations

“Dispersing nanoparticles in liquid crystals: Everything you always wanted to know about aerosil dispersions,” Department of Chemistry, Universita Delle Calabrie, Cosenza, Italy, November 2004.

“Confining liquid crystal aerosil dispersions,” Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 2003.

“Orientational order in liquid crystal aerosil dispersions,” Liquid Crystal Display Joint Workshop, Pusan National University, South Korea, July 2003.

Antal Jákli

Invited Talks and Seminars “Antiferroelectric and ferroelectric liquid crystal fibers of bent-core molecules,” 4th SIAM conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Los Angeles, CA, 2004.

“Photoresponses of an antiferroelectric bent-core liquid crystal containing an azo-group,” 9th International conference on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Modane, France, 2003.

“Electro-optics of liquid crystals of bent-shape molecules,” 3rd International Meeting on Information Display (IMID’03), Daegu, Korea, 2003.

Oral Presentations

“Pure pre-wavy instability in bent core nematic liquid crystals,” J.T. Gleeson, A. Jákli, K. Fodor-Csorba, APS March meeting, 2004, Montreal, Canada.

“Photoresponses of an antiferroelectric bent-core liquid crystal containing an azo group,” A. Jákli, V. Prasad, G.Liao, I,. Janossy, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, June 7-11, 2004 Cleveland, OH.

“Surprising new observations in bent-core liquid crystals, photosensitive, dark, sweet, gooey but not yet rotten bananas,” A. Jákli, 9th Intnl. Conf. Ferroelectric Liq. Cryst., Dublin, August 24-29 (2003).

Poster Presentations “The study of molecular structures for new banana-shaped liquid crystals,” S. Choi, Y.M. Huang, A. Jákli, T.K. Lim, C.K. Lee, S.T. Shin, IMID’03, Taegu, Korea (2003).

“Achiral bent-core azo compounds: Observation of photo – induced effect in the chiral antiferroelectric SmCP mesophase,” V. Prasad, A. Jákli, 9th Intnl. Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, Dublin, August 24-29 (2003).

“Quasi-isotropic antiferroelectric materials from bent-shape molecules,” A. Jákli, Y.M. Y. Huang, A. Vajda, K. Fodor-Csorba, G. Galli, S. Diele, G. Pelzl, 9th Intnl. Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, Dublin, August 24-29 (2003).

“New ester type banana liquid crystals: synthesis and properties,” K. Fodor-Csorba, A. Vajda, A. Jákli, G. Galli, D. Demus, E. Gacs-Baitz, S. Holly, 9th Intnl. Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, Dublin, August 24-29 (2003).

“Optical studies of the nematic phase of an oxazole-derived bent-core liquid crystal,” A. Olivares, S. Stojadinovic, T. Dingemans, E.T. Samulski, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, 9th Intnl. Conference on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Modane, France, September 13-19 (2003).


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Satyendra Kumar

Invited Talks and Seminars “Phase-separated composite films for flexible liquid crystal displays,” S. Kumar, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, June, 7-11 (2004).

“Self-assembled structures in pharmaceutically-relevant systems,” S. Kumar, Workshop on Pharmaceutical Applications of Synchrotron Radiation, Brookhaven National Laboratory, May 17-19 (2004).

“Temperature dependence of the smectic-A layer spacing and its effect on layer defects in the SmC* phase,” C.Wang, P.J.Bos, S. Kumar, M.Wand, M. Handschy, Tohoku University 21st Century COE Program, Jan 28-30, Sendai, Japan, (2004).

Oral Presentations “Electro-optical LC devices fabricated by anisotropic phase separation of liquid crystal and polymer,” Q. Wang, R. Guo, S. Kumar, Liquid Crystal Day, Kent State University, April 22-23 (2004).

Poster Presentations “Polymer columns enhanced supertwist nematic liquid crystal devices,” Q. Wang, R. Guo, S. Kumar, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 8-11 (2004).

“Novel bent-core azo compounds exhibiting photosensitive and electrically switchable mesophases,” S.-W. Kang, V. Prasad, X. Qi, and S. Kumar, Liquid Crystal Day, Kent State University, April 22-23 (2004).

Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Invited Talks and Seminars “Fast switching of electrically driven dual frequency liquid crystals,” O. Lavrentovich, A. Golovin, S. Shiyanovskii, SIAM Conf. Math. Aspects of Mat. Sci., Los Angeles, CA, May 23-26, 2004. “Fast switching dual frequency nematic cells,” O.Lavrentovich, Y. Yin, A. Golovin, S. Shiyanovskii, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, June 7-11 (2004), Cleveland, OH. “Fast-switching dual-frequency nematic cells,” O. Lavrentovich, Liquid Crystal Display Joint Workshop, Pusan National University, July 8th, 2003, Pusan, Korea “Three-dimensional non-destructive imaging of the director field,” O.D. Lavrentovich, Plenary lecture, 3rd Intnl. Mtg. Info. Display, Daegu, Korea, (2003). “Emerging topics in optics of liquid crystals,” 4th International Young Scientists Conference,” Problems of Optics and High Technology Materials Science SPO 2003, Oct. 23-26, Kiev, Ukraine.

Oral Presentations “Elastic capillary coupling and ordered droplet structures at the liquid crystal interface,” O.D. Lavrentovich, I. Smalyukh, S. Chernushuk, B. Lev, A. Nych, U. Ognysta, V. Nazarenko, APS meeting (2004). “Cross-coupling cut through complexity: two-dimensional structures and eleasto-capillary coupling in nematic liquid crystals,” O.D. Lavrentovich, I. Smalyukh, S. Chernushuk, B. Lev, A. Nych, U. Ognysta, V. Nazarenko, SIAM Conf. Math. Aspects of Mat. Sci., Los Angeles, CA, May 23-26, 2004. “Liquid crystal biosensor detects anthrax simulant in real time,” C. J. Woolverton, S. Miller-Helfinstine, H. Liu, Y. Nastishin, O.D. Lavrentovich, Am. Soc. Microbiology General Meeting, May 25, 2004.


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“Digital beam steering device based on decoupled birefringent deflector and polarization rotator: solutions, designs and features,” O. Pishnyak, L. Kreminska, P. Bos, O.D. Lavrentovich, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11 (2004). “Gradient beam steering device based on a nematic cell with a continuous ramp of phase retardation,” A. Golovin, S. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004. “Conoscopic magnetic null technique to measure the pretilt angle,” O.P. Pishnyak, Yu.A. Nastishin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004. “Simulations of nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals in confined geometries,” S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004. “Layer undulations in the cholesteric liquid crystals confined in planar cells with finite anchoring and their applications for two-dimensional diffraction gratings,” B. Senyuk, I.Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004. “Fast three-dimensional imaging of orientation order using fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy,” I. Smalyukh, B. Senyuk, O.D. Lavrentovich, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004. “Overview of modern trends in liquid crystal research,” Insitute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine, Oct.22, 2003. “Emerging topics in optics of liquid crystals,” Department of Physics, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH November 13, 2003. “Emerging topics in liquid crystal research,” Department of Computer Science, Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 21, 2003. “Dual frequency nematic optical retarders,” O.D. Lavrentovich, A.B. Golovin, S.V. Shiyanovskii, 10th Intnl. Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, OLC’03, Aussois, France, September 13-19, 2003. Poster Presentations

“Liquid crystalline materials for biological sensors,” O.D. Lavrentovich, C. Woolverton, Yu. A. Nastishin, L. Hiu, S.V. Shiyanovskii, S. Miller-Helfinstine, Project review, NSF, June 8, 2004.

Peter Palffy-Muhoray

Invited Talks and Seminars “Swimming into the dark: unusual optomechanical phenomena in liquid crystal elastomers,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 12, 2004.

“Unusual optomechanical phenomena in liquid crystal elastomers,” Brooklyn Polytechnic University, February 27, 2004.

“Unusual optomechanical pheonomena in liquid crystal elastomers,” Dept. of Physics, University of Maine, April 9, 2004.

“The optomechanical response of nematic elastomers,” SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Los Angeles, CA, May 23-26, 2004.

“Mirrorless lasing in liquid crystalline bandgap materials,” SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Los Angeles, May 23-26, 2004.

“Liquid crystalline photonic bandgap materials,” Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, Ohio, June 7-11, 2004.


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“Optomechanical phenomena in liquid crystal elastomers,” ACS National Meeting, NY, Sept. 7, 2003.

“The optomechanical response of liquid crystal elastomers,” 6th Ibero-American Workshop Complex Fluids and their Applications, Lisbon, Portugal, September 16, 2003.

“Fluorescence and lasing in the helical and blue phases of cholesteric liquid crystals,” 10th Intnl. Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Aussois, France, Sept. 19, 2003.

“Swimming towards the dark: Unusual optomechanical phenomena in liquid crystal elastomers,” 10th Intnl. Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals, Aussois, France, Sept. 19, 2003.

“Liquid crystalline photonic band gap materials,” Radtech Asia ‘03, Yokohama, Dec. 2003.

Oral Presentations “Temperature dependence of cholesteric liquid crystal laser emission,” M. Moreira, I. Carvalho, C. Bailey, W. Cao, P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Taheri, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.

“Phase separation of binary mixtures of liquid crystals,” R. Ennis, P. Palffy-Muhoray, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.

“Opto-mechanical response of nematic elastomers: shape changes and dynamics,” T. Toth-Katona, P. Palffy-Muhoray, H. Finkelmann, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.

“A dunking bird of the second kind,” N. Abraham, P. Palffy-Muhoray, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.

“Modeling the opto-mechanical response of liquid crystal elastomers,” L. Malacarne, P. Palffy-Muhoray, M. Shelley, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.

“Dynamics of wavelength hopping in cholesteric liquid crystal lasers,” C. Bailey, W. Cao, P. Palffy-Muhoray, M. Moreira, I. Carvalho, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.

“Fluorescence and lasing in cholesteric liquid crystals: Density of states,” W. Cao, P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Taheri, A. Marino, G. Abbate, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.

“Mirrorless lasing threshold in dye doped cholesteric liquid crystals,” A. Marino, G. Abbate, W. Cao, P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Taheri, Annual APS March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 22-26, 2004.

Deng-Ke Yang

Invited Talks and Seminars A simulation study of a liquid crystal optical switch based on total internal reflection,” Electronic Imaging ‘04, January 20, 2004.

“Wavelength divided trans-reflective displays,” Intnl. Mtg. Info. Displays, Dague, Korea, July 10, 2003.

“Capillary filling of nematic liquid crystals,” Liquid Cystal Display Technology for Next Generation, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, July 12, 2003. “Cholesteric liquid crystals for reflective displays,” Intnl. Mini-Conference on Info. Electronics System, Tohoku University, Sendi, Japan, November 5, 2003. “Cholesteric liquid crystal: symmetry and transitions,” Institute of Theoretical Physics of Science Academy of China, Beijing, China, November 10, 2003.


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Oral Presentations “Polymer stabilized electrically controlled birefringence transreflective liquid crystal display,” D.K. Yang, F. Zhou, SID May 24, 2004, SID, Seattle, WA.

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Other Activities

David Allender Short course lecturer, “Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices,” Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, February 24-27, 2004.

Philip J. Bos Short course lecturer, “Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices,” Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, February 24-27, 2004. Conference Chair, Liquid Crystal Technology, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, June 7-11, 2004, Cleveland OH.

L.C. Chien Short course lecturer, “Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices,” Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, February 24-27, 2004. Chair, 1st Annual Liquid Crystal Day, held at the Liquid Crystal Institute, April 23, 2004

Antal Jákli Reviewer for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E., JACS, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, and Biomacromolecules Editor (with P. Palffy-Muhoray), Electronic Liquid Crystal Communications (http://e-lc.org) online document server.

Oleg D. Lavrentovich OIDA, Washington DC, December 2003, participant. Reviewer for Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Nature, Liquid Crystals, Europhysics Letters, European Physical Journal; NSF panel; CRDF reviewer

Peter Palffy-Muhoray Editor (with Antal Jákli), Electronic Liquid Crystal Communications (http://e-lc.org) online document server; Editorial Board, Liquid Crystals Today, (1997-present) Journal referee for American Journal of Physics, Canadian Journal of Physics, Europhysics Journals, Journal de Physique, Journal of Applied Physics, Jounral of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy, Jounral of Physics: Condensed Matter, Jounral of Chemical Physics, Liquid Crystals, Nature, Nature Materials, Macromolecules, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Optics Letters, Physica D, Physical Review A, Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, Physikalische Chemie, Physics Letters.

Samuel R. Sprunt Journal referee for Physical Review, Liquid Crystals and Applied Physics Letters

John L. West Short course lecturer, “Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices,” Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, February 24-27, 2004.

Deng-Ke Yang Short course lecturer, “Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices,” Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, February 24-27, 2004.

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LCI Seminar Program 2003-2004

Sept. 11 Dr. Hirotsugu Kikuchi, Kyushu University, Japan Phase Behavior and Optical Properties of Polymer-stabilized Cholesteric Blue Phase

October 8 Dr. Paul F. McManamon, Wright- Patterson AFB, OH Optical Phased Arrays Moving Toward Phased Arrays of Phased Arrays

October 22 Dr. Mohammad Islam, University of Pennsylvania Nematic Nanotube Gels

October 29 Dr. Malgorzata Kujawinska, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Novel 3D objects. Measurements and Imaging Methods: Why We Need SLM

November 5 Dr. Sarah Keller, University of Washington, Seattle Spheres that Break Out in Spots: Immiscible Phases in Membranes of Lipids and Cholesterol

November 19 Dr. Yashodhan Hatwalne, Raman Research Institute, India The Cone Phase of Liquid Crystals: Triangular Lattice of Double-tilt Cylinders

December 3 Prof. Carme Calderer, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota Mathematical Modeling of Ferroelectric Phase Transitions (joint seminar with KSU Department of Mathematical Sciences

December 10 Prof. Peter Halevi, Instituto Nacional De Astrofisica, Mexico Theory on Liquid Crystals and Photonic Band-Gap

December 17 S.T. Wu, University of Central Florida Tunable Liquid Crystal Photonic Devices

2004 January 21 Prof. Jun Liu, Sandia National Laboratories, NM

Multiscale Self-assembly Approaches for Functional Nanomaterials

January 28 Prof. Maria H. Figueiredo Godinho, University of New Lisbon, Portugal Shear-Induced Order Effects in Urethane/Urea Elastomers

February 4 Dr. Zohar Nussinov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico Glassy Behavior in Geometrically Frustrated Liquids and the Inverse Glass Problem

February 6 Prof. Andy Y.-G. Fuh, National Cheng Kung University, China Laser-Induced Reorientation Effect and Ripple Structure in Dye-Doped Liquid Crystal Films

February 18 Dr. Jonathan V. Selinger, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. Chirality and Molecular Order in Polymers, Liquid Crystals and Lipid Microstructures

February 20 Prof. Michael Shelley, Courant Institute, New York University Bending and Moving: Bodies interacting with fluids

February 25 Prof. Antonio Martins Figueiredo Neto, Universidade de Săo Paulo, Brazil Determination of the Soret Coefficient in Magnetic Fluids: Thermophobic and Tthermophilic Materials

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March 3 Prof. Efim I. Kats, Institute of Laeu-Langevin, France Excitations in DNA-like Molecules

March 10 Dr. Ingrid A. Rousseau, University of Connecticut Shape Memory of New Siloxane-based Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

March 31 Prof. Myong-Hoon Lee, Chonbuk National University, Korea A New Photoalignable Polyimide with High Photosensitivity

April 7 Prof. Istvan Janossy, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungary Reorientation of Liquid Crystals on Soft Polymer Layers

April 14 Prof. Roland Netz, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany Current Topics in Soft Matter Theory

April 21 Dr. Jürgen Schmidtke, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Freiburg, Germany Photonic Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

May 5 Dr. Nándor Éber, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungary Electro-convection in Homeotropic Nematics

May12 Dr. Channabasaveshwar Yelamaggad, Ctr. Liquid Crystal Research, India A “Peelable Banana-shaped” Mesogen: A First Low Molar Mass Mono-dispersive Bent-Rod Dimer Exhibiting Biaxial Nematic and Smectic A Phase

June 1 Lachezar Komitov, Chalmers & Gothenburg University, Sweden Petransitional Behavior and Electro-optic Response of Siloxane AFLC Dimers with large Molecular Tilt

June 3 Prof. Dirk J. Broer, Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands Polymer Morphologies Controlled by Light – Light Controlled by Polymer Morphologies

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Liquid Crystal Research Seminars

Liquid Crystal Research Seminars began in AY 2003-2004 as a way to inform Kent State University scientists about research being conducted in the departments of Biological Sciences, Physics, Chemistry and the Liquid Crystal Institute. Scientists and graduate students are encouraged to share their current research through this series which is held on Monday afternoons at the LCI.

2003 October 6 Philip J. Bos

Light Propagation in Liquid Crystal Infiltrated Microcavity Variable Refractive Index Materials

October 6 Oleg D. Lavrentovich Interaction of Edge Dislocations with Weakly and Strongly Anchored Surfaces in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

Fast Switching Dual-Frequency Liquid Crystal Optical Retarder,Driven by an Amplitude and Frequency Modulated Voltage

October 13 Deng-Ke Yang A Simulation Study of a Liquid Crystal Optical Switch Based on Total Internal Reflection

October 27 Ivan Smalyukh Selective Imaging of 3D Director Fields and Probing of Biaxiality in Lamellar Liquid Crystals

November 3 Antal Jákli Antiferroelectric Ordering of Amphiphilic Glycolipids in Bent-core Liquid Crystals (‘Sweet Banana’ project)

November 3 Carmen Otilia Catanescu Tailoring the Physical Properties of Some High Birefringence Isothiocyanato-based Liquid Crystals

December 8 Laura Bartolo (College of Arts & Sciences) Organization, Exchange and Usability of Multidisciplinary Data in the Field of Soft Matter

2004 February 23 Yuriy Nastyshyn

Focal Conics in Hybrid SmA Cells

Oleg D. Lavrentovich Ordered Droplet Structures at Liquid Crystal Surfaces

March 1 Sang Hwa Kim and L.-C. Chien Photo-embossed Prismatic Polymers for LC Blazed Gratings

April 19 Yuriy Nastyshyn Pretransitional Fluctuations in the Isotropic Phase of a Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal

April 19 Yuriy Nastyshyn Optical Characterization of Chromonematics

April 19 Yuriy Nastyshyn Compact Settings for Optical Conoscopy of LC with Scattering Plates

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ALCOM Industrial Partnership Program

Aerospace Display Systems Hatfield PA Agilent Technologies Wilmington DE AlphaMicron, Inc. Kent OH Avanex Fremont CA Avery Dennison Microreplication Painesville OH CoAdna Photonics, Inc. Stow OH Company I (anonymous) Company H (anonymous) Corning, Inc. Corning NY CRI, Inc. Woburn MA DCI, Inc. Lenexa KS Display Plasique Aurora OH Dow Chemical Co. Midland MI Dow Corning Midland MI Dupont Company Wilmington DE Eastman Kodak Company Rochester NY Grafix, Inc. Cleveland OH Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Inc. Twinsburg OH Intel Corporation Santa Clara CA Kent Displays, Inc. Kent OH LC-Tec, Inc. Brunswick OH Live Technologies Pty., Ltd. Australia Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Murray Hill NJ LXD, Inc. Cleveland OH Motorola, Inc. Schaumburg IL Optiva, Inc. San Francisco CA Planar Systems, Inc. Beaverton OR Rockwell Science Center Thousand Oaks CA Rohm and Haas Company Bristol PA Scientific Solutions, Inc. North Chelmsford MA SpectraSwitch Santa Rosa CA Sunnybrook & Women's College North York, Ontario CAN VDC Display Systems Cape Canaveral FL

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Resource Facility Services

Invoice Date

Type Client

7/24/03 Optical optimization LXD 7/28/03 Lab & research carrel use, consultation, software Eastman Kodak 7/29/03 Cleanroom use for photolithography LC Technologies 7/29/03 Cleanroom use CoAdna Photonics 8/13/04 Travel expenses for off-site LCI consultant DCI 8/21/03 Liquid crystal module Individual 8/22/04 Equipment use Semiconductor Insights 9/9/03 LC Mixture DCI 9/9/03 Atomic Force Microscopy of substrates Scientific Solutions

9/17/03 Cleanroom use and LCI staff time Avanex 9/18/03 Shipment to Avanex Avanex 9/19/03 Synthesis of chiral dopant Rockwell Intnl. Corp. 9/25/03 ITO glass Zoll Medical 10/8/03 Liquid crystal mixture Lumera Corp.

10/24/03 Twist cell optics software Eastman Kodak 10/28/03 Pretilt angle measurements Intel Corp.

11/5/03 Soxhlet extraction on PVA Kent Displays 11/7/03 Cleanroom use CoAdna Photonics

11/17/03 Research office rent Company I (Anonymous) 11/17/03 EOM transmittance and spectrum measurements Avery Dennison Microreplication 11/17/03 Computer simulations for LC directors & optics CRI 11/19/03 PI coating, rub, assembly, prototyping Live Technologies Pty 11/19/03 Assembly of liquid crystal test cells Compro Services 11/19/04 Cleanroom use and training Ebulent Technologies 11/20/04 Cleanroom use and training Company I (Anonymous)

12/4/03 Pretilt Angle Measurements Intel Corporation 12/5/03 Research office rent Company I (Anonymous)

12/19/03 Cleanroom use Viztec 12/30/03 Liquid crystal display samples Industrial Tech. Res. Inst., Taiwan 12/31/03 Cleanroom use and LCI staff time Avanex 12/31/03 Cleanroom use and equipment rental AlphaMicron 12/31/03 Cleanroom use Avery Dennison Microreplication 12/31/03 Cleanroom use CoAdna Photonics, Inc.

1/5/04 Research office rent, January - April 2004 Company I (Anonymous), Inc. 2/9/04 Test cell fabrication, mask design, custom work Dow Corning LTD 3/8/04 EOM spectrum measurement Avery Dennison Microrep.

3/12/04 Cleanroom use and training Company I (Anonymous), Inc. 3/12/04 Cleanroom use CoAdna Photonics, Inc. 3/25/04 Test cell fabrication, custom mask design Dow Corning LTD 4/9/04 Test cell fabrication with ITO patterning Dow Corning LTD 4/9/04 Test cell fabrication, process development Dow Corning LTD

4/20/04 Liquid crystal display, 90˚ TN rotator University of Maryland 5/11/04 Research office rent (April/May); cleanroom use Company I (Anonymous) 6/4/04 Prototyping and electrooptic testing Dow Corning Inc.

6/25/04 Synthesis of alpha deuterated 5CB Universitat Paderborn

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Education and Public Service

Education Outreach – Undergraduate As part of the effort to recruit students to the Chemical Physics Graduate Program, Sean Hyatt, Education Outreach Program Administrator for the Center for Liquid Crystal Science and Education, visited the following undergraduate schools to present information on Kent State University.

Date College/University

4/20/94 University of Akron 4/30/04 Tri-C (Cuyahoga Community College), 3 Campuses 4/30/04 Lakeland Community College 5/6/04 Tri-C (Cuyahoga Community College), 3 Campuses

Allegheny County Community College Dr. Sulaskshana Plumley, Physics Professor, visited the LCI with two students, Jamie Liscotti and April Yosinski, in March, 2004, to collaborate on a research project with Professor Oleg D. Lavrentovich, supported by the Center for Liquid Crystal Science and Education grant.

KSU Society of Physics Students Nineteen undergraduate members of the KSU Society of Physics Students visited the Liquid Crystal Institute on March 9, 2004, to tour the facilities and see a presentation on liquid crystals and the Chemical Physics graduate program.

Student Intern Program Eight undergraduate students worked at the Liquid Crystal Institute during May - August, 2004, conducting research with KSU scientists.

Student Project Advisor

Dan Carney Direct biaxiality in nematic phase liquid crystals S. Sprunt Stephen Daigle Configurational bistability of Smectic-A LC 80CB P. Palffy-Muhoray

Andrew Geisler Molecular design, synthesis and its properties of a highly fluorescent lyotropic chromonic LC

Q. Li, C. Woolverton, O. Lavrentovich

Jessica Gregson Behavior of granular matter Physics

Erin Gustley Use of LCs in possible drug delivery systems and as detectors of potentially harmful microorganisms

A. Jákli, O. Lavrentovich C. Woolverton

John Junkin Molecular design, synthesis and properties of novel photosensitive banana-shaped liquid crystals

A. Jákli, Q. Li

Stephen Nixon New methods of building photonic liquid crystals J. West

Aaron Rape LC displays using high speed camera; and, high speed camera to study candle’s properties in free fall (zero gravity

J. Gleeson, A. Jákli

Education and Public Service, 2003-2004

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NSF REU Program - 2004 Jessica Hagerty (KSU) and Kelly Zewe (Geneva College, PA) worked in Dr. Antal Jákli’s laboratory at the Liquid Crystal Institute on the project studying the characterization of liquid crystalline properties of glycol lipids. Kelly was selected to give an oral presentation at the final REU meetings. Publications resulting from this research are in progress.

Education Outreach – K-12 Twenty students from Stanton Middle School, Kent, and 40 students from West Geauga Middle School visited the Liquid Crystal Institute on April 22, 2004 to have a tour of the LCI facilities and learn about liquid crystals from LCI scientists. On May 20, 2004, 15 high school exchange students from Rottenberg, Germany and 15 Kent Roosevelt High School students who hosted them, visited the LCI for a tour and liquid crystal demonstratation.

Short Courses and Workshops Short Course: Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices, February 24-27, 2004, 10 participants

from industries.

Visitors – Industry and Academia Individuals visit the Liquid Crystal Institute each year to draw on the expertise of LCI scientists, tour the facilities, collaborate on liquid crystal research, use the cleanroom facilities and inquire about our education and outreach programs. Some visitors to the LCI included the following:

2003 2004 July NASA Glenn Research Center February Chonbuk Nat. University, Korea Case Western Reserve University DNP Corporation USA University of Akron Taiwan Delegation/Univ. Akron Ohio Board of Regents Glide Incubator Eastman Kodak New York University LC Technologies March Dow Corning Corp. CoAdna Photonics CoAdna Photonics August Avanex Corporation April LMV, Munich NASA Glenn Research Center University of Freiburg Semiconductor Insights May Akron Leadership Group September Avanex June Philips Research, The Netherlands November Santec Systems, Inc. Q-Panel Samsung, Korea Photon-X Coadna Photonics Ebulent Technologies December Cornell BioTech Center Avery Dennison Microreplication Viztec Avanex AlphaMicron CoAdna Photonics

Education and Public Service, 2003-2004

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Community

The Liquid Crystal Institute participates in the University’s annual program, Experience Kent State, a one-day event where various departments on campus open their doors to the general public for activities and tours such as children’s activities, ice cream social, planetarium show, musical performances, weather station and museum tours, a tour of the Liquid Crystal Institute and other events. Experience Kent State was held September 13, 2003. The LCI was open between 12:00-3:00 p.m. for free-flow tours of three areas:

1) Liquid Crystal Displays - Dr. Bin Wang showed several types of liquid crystal displays and explained how they operate.

2) Physics of Liquid Crystals - CPIP graduate student, Tod Schneider, gave demonstrations and information about liquid crystals and their properties.

3) LCI Cleanroom - Cleanroom Manager Doug Bryant gave visitors a view of the cleanroom through polymer dispersed liquid crystal windows and spoke about how the cleanroom operates.

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APPENDICES

I. Strategic Plan

1. Strategic Plan for the Development of the Glenn H. Brown Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program

2. Memos

II. Outreach Activities

1. 1st Annual Liquid Crystal Day

2. REU Summer Intern Program

3. Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program

4. Liquid Crystal Short Course

5. Industrial Partnership Program

6. Technology Transfer

III. Doctoral Dissertations

1. Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals, 1967 – 2004

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STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE

DEVELOPMENT OF THE

GLENN H. BROWN LIQUID CRYSTAL INSTITUTE AND

CHEMICAL PHYSICS INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM

2004-2008

Prepared by

Philip J. Bos

Liang-Chy Chien

Antal Jakli

Jack R. Kelly

Oleg D. Lavrentovich Quan Li

Peter Palffy-Muhoray

Deng-Ke Yang

February 29, 2004

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Introduction The resounding success of the Glenn H. Brown Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI) at Kent State University to date is based on excellence in the synergistic areas of basic and applied research. It is the deep insights originating in basic research into the fundamental nature of liquid crystals by A. Saupe and others that lead to the invention and development of twisted nematic displays, the first commercially successful technology in the field of modern LC displays (LCDs). Conversely, applied work by J. W. Doane and others had greatly stimulated basic research in the field of confined liquid crystals, both by providing resources, and by presenting challenging scientific problems that directed the research plans of the NSF Science and Technology Center led by the LCI for more than a decade from 1991-2002.

For the continued success of the LCI and its educational unit, the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program (CPIP), it is imperative to ensure vibrant and productive research in both fundamental and applied areas. Basic liquid crystal research in new directions is needed to sow the seeds of future technologies. New applied research is needed to fully exploit the advances that have been achieved to date. These goals can be met only with continuous enlistment and committed participation of young researchers with new visions and broad scientific background, vigorous research programs and enthusiastic leadership skills.

The key to success is to move aggressively into new exciting research areas where we can build on our past experience and expertise to make rapid progress and establish scientific leadership for years to come.

New positions are requested in the following areas:

1. Experimental soft matter and lyotropic liquid crystals of biological significance, one faculty (proposed date of hire: 2004)

2. Structural analysis of soft matter and liquid crystals of biological significance, one SRF (2005)

3. Photonics, including biophotonics, one faculty (2004)

4. Thin organic films, one SRF (2005)

5. Nanoparticles and nanostructures, one faculty (2005)

6. Computer simulations of soft matter, one faculty (2006)

7. Materials characterization specialist, one faculty (2006)

Short descriptions of the proposed positions are given below.

1. Faculty position in experimental soft matter and liquid crystals of biological significance Currently there is a tremendous amount of research in the area of soft matter materials such as colloids, polymers, elastomers and liquid crystals [1,2]. Many of them, for example, elastomers and lyotropic LCs are closely related to biological systems; for example, orientational order inherent to liquid crystals is clearly seen in the cell membranes, in the structure of spermatozoa, etc. Kent State’s LCI has an excellent history of achievements in the field. The book by Glenn Brown, founder of the LCI, was the first serious scientific monograph to discuss the link between lyotropic liquid crystals and biological systems [3]. Yu and Saupe [4] discovered that lyotropic liquid crystals are capable of a fascinating biaxial type of order.

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A faculty position is requested to advance the experimental studies in the field of liquid crystalline elastomeres and lyotropic liquid crystals (LCs). LC elastomers demonstrate a strong coupling between orientational order (which is the defining characteristic of a liquid crystalline state) and mechanical deformations. By controlling orientational order, one can control the mechanical response of the LC elastomers, as illustrated in Figure 1. The LC elastomers can be developed into artificial muscles, micron-scale actuators, microfluidic components, etc.

Lyotropic LCs claim a special place in biomedical applications, such as biological sensing and controlled drug delivery. Researchers at LCI/CPIP, Dept. of Biology and NEOUCOM demonstrated and patented a lyotropic LC sensor capable of real-time sensing of harmful bacteria [5], Fig.2.

Fig.2. The lyotropic liquid crystal biosensor for the detection and amplification of immune complexes. The inset shows bacterial immune complex formation whereby a single antibody cross links two microbial antigens. The transmitted optical signal can be measured by an array of photo sensors on the plastic film placed at the opposite side of the cassette. O.D. Lavrentovich and C. Woolverton collaborative project, supported by NSF.

Currently, to explore the feasibility of LC materials in biosensors, we conduct research supported by NSF grant ACT/SGER: Liquid Crystal Materials for Biosensor Development, (PI: Oleg D. Lavrentovich, LCI/CPIP, co-PI: Christopher J. Woolverton, Biological Sciences), DMR-0346348, September 15, 2003-August 31, 2004. Our preliminary studies indicate also that the lyotropic LCs can be used as a vehicle for controlled drug delivery [6-8].

The new faculty will be an experimentalist in the field of soft materials of biological significance, will bridge our outstanding basic and applied research programs in the field of traditional (solvent-independent, or thermotropic) LCs to the field of lyotropic LCs and LC elastomeres and their interface with biological problems, such as drug delivery, microbial sensing, artificial muscles, etc. The new faculty will work in close collaboration with the Ohio Eminent Scholar in the field of Soft Matter Physics Theory.

Virus or BacteriumVirus or Bacterium

Fig.1. Mechanical deformations of the photosensitive LCE caused by light irradiation. Prof. P. Palffy-Muhoray’s project supported by NSF.

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2. Senior Research Fellow, structural analysis of soft matter and liquid crystals of biological significance Understanding modern materials such as liquid crystals requires sophisticated structural analysis such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and spectroscopy. One interesting topic of exploration is the role of orientational order in biological systems. There have been a number of interesting discoveries of liquid crystalline structures formed by biological materials, such as observation of cholesteric and columnar hexagonal liquid crystalline phases formed by DNA [9], e.g., in human and stallion spermatozoa [10] with an intriguing difference in topological defects in vivo and in vitro [11], double-twisted geometry of DNA in dinoflagellate chromosomes, similar to double twist in the blue phases of LCs [12], etc.

Lamellar and hexagonal phases can also be formed when DNA is mixed with multivalent cations. This system is of special interest, as cationic liposomes are known to be carriers of genes in non-viral gene delivery applications. Nonviral gene delivery techniques are currently under extensive study, since traditional viral vehicles often invoke undesirable immune responses. Currently, the goal is to establish the correlation between different structures and their transport efficiency; the impact of these studies on gene therapy and decrease control is impossible to overestimate.

Q

Fig.3. The structural element and texture of the blue LC phase.

P. Palffy-Muhoray’s group.

Recently, an informal interdisciplinary group of researchers, including David Allender (Physics), Arne Gericke (Chemistry), Elizabeth Mann (Physics), Chris Woolverton (BSCI), and Oleg Lavrentovich (LCI/CPIP) has been funded through the OBR research challenge program to discuss the most promising directions in the field of biological membrane structures. All these researchers will benefit greatly from the possibility to obtain the structural data that can be used to submit a group proposal to the NSF’s Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program and related programs at NIH.

The new SRF at LCI will specialize in the structural exploration of materials such as DNA-cation complexes and cell membranes using the modern experimental techniques such as NMR, fluorescence microscopy, X-ray and spectroscopy. Most of the experimental equipment (NMR, fluorescence microscopy, X-ray) is already available at the LCI.

3. Faculty position in photonics, including biophotonics Photonics is the science of generating and harnessing light as well as other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. Building blocks of photonics are sources and detectors of photons, photon control devices and their integration into systems. Biophotonics involves the

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Fig.5. Prof. P. Bos demonstrates beam-steering device developed by his group at the LCI/CPIP.

interaction of light with living matter and organic materials, and encompasses biomimetic aspects of photonics.

Many liquid crystal phases are self-assembled photonic band-gap materials. We have access to these materials, and we have unique expertise to use and control them, as well as to produce new PGG materials. We can then study and exploit the use these materials for a variety of new applications where we have already demonstrated expertise [13,14] such as mirrorless laser sources (Fig. 4) switchable filters, and elements for remote sensing. LC electroluminescence is an exciting and promising area, where great progress can be expected.

Fig.4. Tunable “rubber” laser based on the LC elastomer of cholesteric type. The wavelength of the laser emission can be tuned by mechanical stretching. P. Palffy-Muhoray’s group.

Harnessing light is also an area where the LCI has demonstrated expertise. Photoalignment [15], light-induced segregation at the nanometer scale [16, 17] and the realization of optically driven Brownian motors [18], all of crucial importance in biophotonics, are examples.

Electrical control of photons is a key strength of the LCI, through display and beam steering technologies. Liquid crystals are ideal for optical control; the LCI has made fundamental advances in the relevant third and higher order nonlinear optics. The beam-steering efforts alone, led by Prof. P. Bos at LCI/CPIP, has developed into a multimillion-dollar research project over the last five years [19, 20] (Fig. 5). The projects, supported by DARPA and NASA, are conducted in collaboration with companies such as Lockheed-Martin and Rockwell Science Center. Beam steering research leads to new applications such as communication between satellites, countermeasures against micelles, barcode readers in the stores, vehicle movable headlights, etc.

The areas of activity of the new faculty member are expected to encompass the study and teaching of light/organic matter interactions, explore single molecule detection, develop optical sensors, exploit the emerging field of optical manipulation with emphasis on optical tweezers and microfluidic devices, model and study photon transport, and work towards creating clinically useful technologies.

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4. Senior Research Fellow, Thin organic films Modern information technologies rely increasingly on soft organic materials such as liquid crystals. The next step is to expand the area of applicability of informational displays by replacing the glass-based devices with all-plastic displays. The Liquid Crystal Institute pioneered the development of flexible displays 19 years ago by creating the first working prototype shown in Fig. 6.

The State of Ohio approved a $1.6M equipment grant to build the Flexible Optical and Electronic Device Manufacturing Facility at the LCI. This project is performed in collaboration with faculty from other departments (R. Twieg, Chemistry) and with local industry (Hana, AlphaMicron, Kent Displays and others). The necessary condition of the successful development of this and other projects related to flexible displays is the expertise in thin film properties and thin film processing. The work will impact not only the plastic displays, but also other modern applications, such as plastic switchable eyeware developed by AlphaMicron, an LCI spin-off company located in Kent (Fig. 7).

Fig.7. AlphaMicron's liquid crystal eyewear before and after switching the liquid crystal.

Dr. B. Taheri.

The SRF will explore the properties of thin organic films such as polymer films for plastic displays, orientationally ordered films for optical compensators and polarizers.

5. Faculty position in Nanoparticles and Nanostructures One of the most exciting areas of materials science today is the creation of nanoparticles and their incorporation into ordered materials for optical, electronic, magnetic and mechanical applications. Metal and semiconductor nanoparticles with a wide variety of shapes, ranging from rods (nanowires) to pyramids and toroids, and functionalized to enable incorporation into organic materials, are becoming produced by nanoparticle researchers today. Applications range from nano-electronics to photonics to biomedical device mechanics. A key feature of these materials is their shape anisotropy and sought after orientational order. Nanoparticles may be regarded as nanoscale liquid crystals, whose diversity of particle shape promises new phases and

Fig.6. The first prototype of LC cholesteric bistable display confined between two flexible plastic plates. John West’s lab, 1995.

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N+

H3C CH3

H3C CH3

H3C CH3

H3C CH3

N+

N+

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N+

H3C CH3

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H3C CH3

H3C CH3

Fig.8. Nanometer-thick film deposited from the solution of the lyotropic chromonic LC (left) and the chemical structure of the molecule capable forming the lyotropic LC (right). O.D. Lavrentovich’s group.

responses well beyond those found in conventional low molecular weight or polymeric liquid crystals. Expertise with orientational order makes the LCI ideal for work with nanoparticle work; the field of nanoparticles represents a natural and exceptionally promising area of liquid crystal research. The potential of the field can be illustrated by our recent research on lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs).

The LCLC family embraces a wide range of dyes, drugs, nucleic acids, antibiotics, carcinogens, and anti-cancer agents; the anti-asthmatic drug, disodium cromoglycate known under the trade name INTAL, is one example. A new and intriguing feature of these materials that recently captured our efforts is that the plank-like rigid geometry of the central core and face-to-face stacking of the LCLC molecules result in a long-range orientational order in LCLC films of nanometer and micrometer thickness (Fig. 8). The deposition techniques to produce these films are considerably less complicated than the classical Langmuir-Blodgett method. Relatively thick (micrometer) LCLC films are deposited by a simple wire-wound wet-film applicator rod while thin (nanometers) films are deposited by a layer-by-layer technique, with alternating monolayers of LCLC and oppositely charged polyions [21]. The well-aligned films of LCLC can be used for optical elements such as polarizers and compensating films [22].

The areas of activity of the new faculty member are expected to encompass the production of metallic, semiconductor and organic nanoparticles, the study of orientational order of assemblies of various functionalized nanoparticles, the realization of switchable photonic band gap materials, optically negative materials, the study of the interaction of living cells with nanostructured surfaces, the behavior of nanoparticles in conventional liquid crystals, the study of orientationally ordered natural clay composites and LCLCs to advance the basic knowledge of orientational order in the systems composed of anisometric supramolecular nanoparticles and to develop applications ranging from biomedical prosthetic to automotive applications.

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6. Faculty position in computer simulations The Liquid Crystal Institute pioneered the modern science of composite materials based on LCs and polymers, such as polymer-dispersed LCs and polymer stabilized LCs. These composites are extremely complex as the orientational order of the LC component is superimposed onto the concentration gradients of other components such as polymer. As an example of the interplay between the LC order and polymer architectures, Figure 9 illustrates supramolecular structures obtained by polymerizing photosensitive monomers in the distorted cholesteric matrix. Advances in further development of modern materials are impossible without high-level mathematical and computational modeling.

The requested faculty in the field of computer simulations of soft matter, will use (a) the first-principle atomic modeling to construct realistic models of molecular interactions in soft matter and liquid crystals of biological importance, and (b) develop phenomenological models of composite materials such as lyotropic LCs and polymer-LC composites. The computational models will address problems of great fundamental and applied importance, such as light deflection by LC systems, hydrodynamics of ordered fluids, phase separation in orientationally ordered systems, band gap structures in heterogeneous anisotropic media, mechanical response of LC elastomers, light propagation in heterogeneous materials, etc. An underlying feature of all these problems is the presence of orientational order, the fundamental property of LCs, which explains why the specialist in mathematical modeling and computer simulations must be placed within the LCI/CPIP unit.

Fig.9. Polymer architectures created by photo-induced polymerization in the LC matrix with a spatially-nonuniform director field. L.-C. Chien’s group.

7. Faculty position in materials characterization The LCI mission is three-fold: education, research and services such as characterization of materials and devices. The later is performed at the Characterization Facilities of the Institute. An important part of this research equipment infrastructure is the Characterization Facilities.

The Characterization Facilities include state-of-the-art equipment such as confocal fluorescence microscope, x-ray with two-dimensional detector, differential scanning calorimetry, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) set up, atomic force microscope, Abbe refractometry,

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scanning electron microscope, custom-made set ups to characterize elastic, optical and surface properties of liquid crystals and other organic materials.

The Characterization Facilities have already proven to be a powerful vehicle driving the economic development in the Northest Ohio and beyond, by engaging in collaborative research, training the workforce and maintaining strong connections with industry in Northeast Ohio and beyond. Among the Northeast Ohio companies that use the Characterization Facilities are such well-known high-tech leaders as AlphaMicron, Kent Displays, LXD, Hana, CoAdna, and others. This year, the LCI teamed up with the largest producer of the active-matrix liquid crystal TVs, Samsung, to explore the new horizons of the liquid crystal based technologies, which already surpassed the level of $10 billion in annual sales. Collaboration with the LCI and the use of Characterization Facilities at the LCI is one of the reasons why Northeast Ohio LC-related companies enjoy their success.

To continue the successful development of materials research, to explore new opportunities in the field, and to educate the CPIP students in the field of material properties, we request a faculty position in the field of materials characterization. This specialist will employ the currently available experimental techniques (such as atomic force microscope, scanning electron microscope, fluorescent confocal polarizing microscope, NMR, X-ray) and will expand them to advance the basic understanding of modern materials.

References 1. M. Warner and E.M. Terentjev, Liquid Crystal Elastomers (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2003)

2. M. Kleman and O.D. Lavrentovich, Soft Matter Physics: An Introduction, Springer NY, 638 pp (2003)

3. Glenn H. Brown and J.J. Wolken “Liquid Crystal and Biological Structures,” Academic Press, NY (1979)

4. L.J. Yu and A. Saupe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 2109 (1983).

5. C. Woolverton, K. Doane, G. Niehaus, O.D. Lavrentovich, S. Schmidt, and S. Signs, Detection and Amplification of Ligands, U.S. # 6,171,802 (February 2001).

6. M. Jayne Lawrence and G.D. Rees, Microemulsion-based media as novel drug delivery systems, Advanced drug delivery reviews 45, 89-121 (2000).

7. S. Nazzal, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, and M.A. Khan, Preparation and in vitro characterization of a eutectic based semisolid self-nanoemulsified drug delivery system (SNEDDS) of ubiquinone: mechanism and progress of emulsion formation, International Journal of Pharmaceutics 235, 247-265 (2002).

8. C. Woolverton et al., Lyotropic liquid crystals for drug delivery, in preparation (2004)

9. F. Livolant, A.M. Levelut, J. Doucet, and J.P. Benoit, The highly concentrated liquid-crystalline phase of DNA is columnar hexagonal, Nature 339, 724-726 (1989).

10. N.S. Blanc, A. Senn, A. Leforestier, F. Livolant and J. Dubochet, DNA in human and stallion spermatozoa forms local hexagonal packing with twist and many defects, J. Structural Biology 134, 76-81 (2001)

11. F. Livolant, Condensed phases of DNA: Structures and Phase Transitions, Progress in Polymer Science 21, 1115-1164 (1996).

12. F. Livolant and Y. Bouligand, Double helical arrangement of spread dinoflagellate chromosomes, Chromosoma 80, 97 (1980)

13. W. Cao, A. Muñoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray and B. Taheri, “Lasing in a three-dimensional photonic crystal of the liquid crystal blue phase II”, Nature Materials 1, 111 (2002).

14. M.F. Moreira, I.C.S. Carvalho, L.C.G. Valente, P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Taheri, A Munoz “Fiber coupled cholesteric liquid crystal laser”, Brazilian Journal of Physic, 32, 455 (2002)

15. W. Gibbons, T. Kosa, P. Palffy-Muhoray, P.J. Shannon, S.T. Sun, “Continuous Gray-Scale Obtained via Polarized Light Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals,” Nature 377, 43 (1995).

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16. W.R. Folks, S. Keast, T.A. Krentzel, B. Zalar, H. Zeng, Yu.A. Reznikov, M. Neubert, S. Kumar, D. Finotello, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Photocontrol of Smectic Spacing, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 320, 77 (1998).

17. Y. Lansac, Mattew A. Glaser, N. A. Clark and O. D. Lavrentovich, Photocontrolled nanophase segregation in a liquid-crystal solvent, Nature 398, No.6722, 54 (1999).

18. P. Palffy-Muhoray, T. Kosa and Weinan E, “Brownian Motors in the Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals”, (invited) Appl. Phys. A 75, 294 (2002)

19. X. Wang, B. Wang, M. Fisch, J. Anderson, V. Sergan, P. Bos, F. Miranda, Invited Paper “Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) Wavefront Corrector and Beam Steerer, SPIE Conference on High-resolution wavefront control: Methods, Devices, and Applications, part of the 2003 SPIE Annual Meeting.

20. C.M. Titus, J.R. Kelly, E.C. Gartland, S.V. Shiyanovskii, J.A. Anderson, and P.J. Bos, Opt.Lett. 26, 1188 (2001).

21. T. Schneider and O.D. Lavrentovich, Self assembled monolayers and multilayered stacks of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystalline dyes with in-plane orientational order, Langmuir 16, 5227 (2000).

22. T. Sergan, T. Schneider, J. Kelly, O.D. Lavrentovich, Polarizing-alignment layers for twisted nematic cells, Liquid Crystals 27, 567 (2000).

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INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM

TO: FROM: Joe Danks, Dean Oleg Lavrentovich, Interim Director/LCI/CPIP

DEPARTMENT: DATE: Arts & Sciences May 7, 2004

SUBJECT: CPIP GA/TF Budgets for FY 2005/ 3 pages

At the May 4, 2005 LCI/CPIP faculty meeting the CPIP faculty members discussed the draft of the GA/TF Budgets for FY 2005 and expressed their deep concern about the fact that the budget would support only 7.5 CPIP stipends (or $120,000) in 2004-2005.

Since its re-introduction in 1994, the CPIP admits six students each year, which is close to the minimum of five required to maintain a normal teaching process. This translates into a minimum of 12 stipend needed to cover the stipends of the first and second year students. The documents available to me indicate that in the recent past, the CPIP received more than 7.5 stipends (although these stipends were smaller). For example, Vice Provost and Dean Adams informed on February 21, 2001 (please see attached) that the CPIP had 10 doctoral stipends and one additional stipend, total 11 (or $132,000), in FY-2002. The current plan to support only 7.5 stipends makes it extremely difficult to operate the graduate program, even when helped by the one-time transfers from GA Funds (for which we are very thankful).

The CPIP faculty members do their best in securing extramural funding, matching each stipend received from the College with about two stipends from our research grants. For example, currently our grants cover 24 stipends, six of which go to the graduate students from other programs (one Chemistry, two Biological sciences, one Math, and two Physics). We just made a call for proposals for Samsung Scholarship grants in the field of liquid crystals funded through our collaborative agreement with Samsung, in which we stressed that students from departments other than the LCI/CPIP will be eligible to receive the scholarships (please see attached). Our research grants and scholarships, however, cannot be easily used to support 12 CPIP students (on average) during their first two years as they spend much of their time in the classroom. We also keep our stipends at a relatively low level, despite the obvious fact that it backfires in our recruiting efforts, especially among the US students. To offset the deficit this year and the year before, we used the salary savings of CPIP faculty. However, this is not a permanent solution. We thus respectfully ask you to consider the possibility of funding the necessary minimum of 12 student stipends for the CPIP which would bring the level of support to $192,000 in the CPIP GA/TF budget in FY 2004-2005.

Please contact me at 24844 if you have questions. Thank you for your consideration of this request.

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INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM

TO: FROM: Joe Danks, Dean Oleg Lavrentovich, Interim Director

DEPARTMENT: DATE: Arts & Sciences May 6, 2004

SUBJECT: Graduate Secretary position

The Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program (CPIP) has been in existence for ten years. During all

these years we have not had a budget for a graduate secretary. In 1994, when the first six students have been

admitted to CPIP, the duties of the graduate secretary have been added to duties of Secretary to the two Associate

Directors of the Liquid Crystal Institute (LCI). In the years prior to CPIP, the Secretary to the Associate Directors

of LCI was a full-time employment position on its own. The duties of the Secretary to the two Associate Directors

included (and continue to include) secretarial support of educational outreach activities and industrial partnership

programs, in short, the two vital directions that make the LCI visible on campus and beyond. This position is

currently occupied by Lynn Fagan. The volume and variety of work she performs is well above the standard

expectations for a Secretary and we request an upgrade for Lynn’s position from Secretary to Senior Secretary.

The CPIP currently is significantly larger than it was in 1994, with 30 students already enrolled and six new

students coming for AY 2004-05. All duties relating to the CPIP graduate program are handled by Lynn. She

coordinates work with the Graduate Coordinator, Prof. L.-C. Chien and myself as LCI/CPIP Interim Director. She

prepares all paperwork required for the students, handles selection of candidates and orientation for incoming

students, registers students on-line, prepares catalog and schedule book course entries. She was responsible for the

large portion of our CPIP self-study report this year, collecting and summarizing numerous data. As already stated,

in additional to these CPIP duties, Lynn is a secretary to the two LCI Associate Directors, Phil Bos and Peter Palffy-

Muhoray. She essentially handles two full-time jobs.

This seems to be an appropriate time to request funding for a CPIP graduate secretary so that we can

upgrade Lynn’s salary and her status. Because the position is multi-functional and covers the need of both CPIP and

LCI, and because we understand the current financial difficulties, we request a 50/50 split in funding. We anticipate

a salary level of approximately $27,000 and therefore request that Arts & Sciences fund one half of the salary which

is equal to $13,500 per year.

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Liquid Crystal Day

April 23, 2004

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NSF REU Program

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Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program

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Short Course

Liquid Crystals: Materials and Display Devices February 24-27, 2004

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Industrial Partnership Program

Providing scientific expertise and services to the liquid crystal industry

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Technology Transfer

Transferring liquid crystal technology from the research laboratories to the marketplace

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APPENDIX III

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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August 1973 MURPHY, JOHN A. Doane Physics NMR Pulsed Gradient Studies of Diffusion in Liquid Crystals * Keithley Instruments, Solon, Ohio December 1973 NANDY, PAPIYA SENGUPTA Saupe Physics Theoretical Studies of the Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Nematic Liquid * 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 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


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June 1978 D'SIDOCKY, 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 * Resarch 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 December 1980 DEHOFF, RICHARD J. Johnson Physics Specific Heat in the Vicinity of a Nematic-Smectic A-Smectic C Multicritical Point * 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


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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 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 * Lecturer, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand December 1983 GOODEN, CLARENCE E. Johnson Physics Light Scattering and Magnetic Deformation Study of the Nematic-Smectic A * Research Scientist, Eglin Air Force Base, Fort Walton Beach,FL


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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, Ohio 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 * Pres. and CEO, Strenk Scientific Consultants, Inc., Middleburg Heights, Ohio 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 * 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 L. 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


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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 August 1987 ZHOU, E Saupe Physics Curvature Elasticity of the Micellar Nematics * Lecturer, Beijing University, China December 1987 GOLEMME, ATTILIO Doane Physics Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals * Research Scientist, Dept. of Chemistry, Unviersity of Calabria, Rende, Italy 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 * Assistant Professor of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, May 1989 RISSER, STEVEN Lee Physics Model Hamiltonian Calculations of the Nonlinear Polarizabilities of Conjugated Molecules * Texas A&M, Commerce, TX


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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 Coefficients * 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 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, Unviersity 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 * Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio August 1991 SARKAR, MOINUDDIN Spielberg Physics X-Ray Study of Some Columnar Thermotropic Mesophases * Assistant Profesor 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 Physics Nematic Liquid Crystals Confined to Cylindrical Cavities: A 2H-NMR Study * Assistant Professor of Engineering, Brown University


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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 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 Polaration 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 * University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth December 1993 FREDLEY, DAVID S. West 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, GERMANO S. Finotello Physics AC Calorimetric Study of Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions and Restrictive * Asst. Professor, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA May 1994 SHIN, SUNG-TAE Kumar Physics Calorimetric and X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Phase Transitions in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals * Faculty, Korea University


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December 1994 ABEGUNARATHNA, SUGATH Saupe Physics Dielectric Properties of Liquid Crystals: Polymer Dispersions and Chiral Smectic Phases * Unknown 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 * Thales Navigation, Inc. 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 * Rockwell Scientific May 1996 HUANG, XIAO-YANG Doane Physics Field-Induced Transitions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Dynamics and Applications in Displays * Unknown 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 * Returned to China December 1996 QIAN, SIHAI Finotello Physics Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions in Porous Media * Optiva, Inc., South San Francisco CA May 1997 HU, GONGJIAN Palffy-Muhoray Physics Laser Induced Configurational Transition in Liquid Crystals * Arroyo Optics, Santa Monica, 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 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 Chem-Phys Multi-Dimensional Alignment of Liquid Crystals and its Application to the Bistable Twist Cell * Agilent, Inc.


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August 1999 MORI, HIROYUKI Bos Chem-Phys 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 * Monsanto December 1999 ZENG, HUAIREN Finotello Physics Liquid Crystal Orientational Order in Confined Geometries: An NMR Perspective * Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University May 2000 ISHIKAWA, TOMOHIRO Lavrentovich Chem-Phys Elasticity of Defects and Structures in Uniaxial Liquid Crystals * Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY May 2000 MA, RUI-QING Yang Chem-Phys Polymer Networks Formed in Liquid Crystals and Their Applications * Research Scientist, Corning, Inc., NY May 2000 WATSON, PHILIP E. Bos Chem-Phys The Homeotropic to Planar Transition in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals * Research Scientist, 3M Company, Minneapolis MN May 2000 XU, MING Yang Chem-Phys 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 Chem-Phys Optimization of Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Device Performance * Unknown August 2000 CUI, MINGJI Kelly Physics Temperature Dependency of Viscoelastic Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals * CoAdna Photonics December 2000 ANDERSON, JAMES E. Bos Chem-Phys 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 Chem-Phys 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 Crystals * KLA-Tencor, California December 2000 TITUS, CHARLES M. Bos Chem-Phys Diffractive and Refractive Liquid Crystal Beam Steering Devices * Consultant for EIS, Inc., Kent, OH


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December 2000 YUAN, HAIJUN Palffy-Muhoray Chem-Phys Light Propagation in Complex Liquid Crystal Structure * Avanex, Inc., Fremont, CA May 2001 LIU, WEIMIN Kelly Chem-Phys Characterization of Some Wide Viewing Angle Liquid Crystal Displays * EL-COS, Inc., San Jose, CA August 2001 ACHARYA, BHARAT RAJ Kumar Physics Correlation Between the Surface Properties and Liquid Crystal Anchoring on Polymer Films * Platypus Technologies, Madison WI August 2001 ASFAW, LETEMESKEL Sprunt Physics Coherent Backscattering from Complex Liquids * Alcorn State University, Mississippi December 2001 VOLOSHCHENKO, DMITRY Laventovich Chem-Phys Photoinduced Aggregation in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals * Motorola December 2001 ZHANG, FANG Yang Chem-Phys Physical Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays * Dimensional Media, Inc. May 2002 WANG, BIN Bos Chem-Phys Two Dimensional Liquid Crystal Devices and their Computer Simulations * Lab Manager, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University August 2002 SAEED, SALMAN Bos Chem-Phys Electro-optical Polarization Interference Filters * Three Five Systems, Inc. December 2002 SU, LINLI West Chemistry Studies on Non-Contact Alignment of Liquid Crystals * AlphaMicron, Inc., Kent, OH May 2003 KANG, SHIN-WOONG Chien Chem-Phys Spatio-Orientationally Organized Polymer Microstructures Obtained on Self-Assembled Pattern-Forming States of LiquidCrystals: Morphology, Phase Separation and Potential Applications * Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics, Kent State University May 2003 KHAN, ASAD Doane/Yang Chem-Phys Chiral Materials and Cell Designs for the Cholesteric Display Technology * Kent Displays, Inc. August 2003 MONTBACH, ERICA BRAMLEY Bos Chem-Phys Studies of Optical Systems Containing Liquid Crystals and Holographic Optical Elements * Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY August 2003 SMALYUKH, IVAN Lavrentovich Chem-Phys Three-Dimensional Director Fields Studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy * Postdoctoral Fellow, Kent State University December 2003 WANG, CHENHUI Bos Chem-Phys Control of Layer Defects in Smectic C* Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Devices * (Company name confidential)


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May 2004 ENNIS, ROLAND Palffy-Muhoray Chem-Phys Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals: the Dynamics of Phase Separation and the Saffman-Taylor Instability * Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute

May 2004 HUANG, YUANMING Jákli Chem-Phys Electro-optical and Dielectric Properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Formed by Banana-shaped Molecules * Unknown

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