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LIQUID CRYSTAL INSTITUTE®

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

ANNUAL REPORT

July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010

Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Director

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Director’s Report .............................................................................................................................. 1

Achievements and Recognition ........................................................................................................ 5

Summary of Accomplishments and Activities ................................................................................. 6

Major Funding Sources and Expenditures ....................................................................................... 7

LCI Highlights ................................................................................................................................ 9

Table 1 Liquid Crystal Institute Staff ...................................................................................... 18

Table 2 Liquid Crystal Institute Research Personnel ............................................................... 19

Table 3 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Faculty ................................................. 21

Table 4 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Students ............................................... 22

Table 5 Scholarships and Fellowships ..................................................................................... 25

Table 6 Graduate Degrees Awarded ........................................................................................ 26

Table 7 Placement of Personnel ............................................................................................... 27

Table 8 Visiting Scientists ....................................................................................................... 28

Table 9 Grants and Contracts ................................................................................................... 29

Table 10 Proposals for Extramural Support ............................................................................... 36

Table 11 Patents ......................................................................................................................... 42

Table 12 Publications ................................................................................................................. 46

Table 13 Presentations ............................................................................................................... 54

Table 14 Other Scholarly Activities........................................................................................... 64

Table 15 Seminar Program ........................................................................................................ 68

Table 16 Industrial Partnership Program ................................................................................... 71

Table 17 Research Facility Report ............................................................................................. 72

Table 18 Research Facility Services Provided ........................................................................... 73

Table 19 Education and Public Service ..................................................................................... 74

APPENDICES

I. Achievements

Bos Receives Slottow-Owaki Prize ................................................................................... 77

Sarah Hicks Receives IGERT Grant ................................................................................. 79

II. Outreach and Research Activities

International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference Flyer ................................................ 81

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Brochure ..................................................... 83

Industrial Partnership Program and LCD Research Facility Brochure ............................. 85

Technology Transfer Brochure.......................................................................................... 87

III. Extramural Grant Funding, 1982-2010 .................................................................................. 89

IV. Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals .......................................................................... 103

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2009-2010 Director’s Report

Personnel

2009-2010 was a year of extended discussions on how to incorporate the Liquid Crystal Institute

(LCI) and associated Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program (CPIP) into the emerging

scheme adopted at KSU and guided by the Responsibility Center Management (RCM). The

discussion started in February 2009, followed by a meeting with Provost Robert Frank, VP John

West, and Dean Timothy Moerland on March 4, 2009, at which I presented the view that the core

strength of the LCI/CPIP in research and generation of extramurally supported grants, creation of

intellectual property that results in patenting and licensing through KSU, education of a large

number of PhD degree holders capable of working at the cutting edge of modern science and

technology, and generated value to the State of Ohio (including jobs and business creation) is not

incorporated into the RCM budget outlines. The latter creates a distorted view of the LCI/CPIP

value. On September 15, 2009, Vice President John West and Dean T. Moerland met with the

CPIP/LCI faculty. VP West proposed that the LCI and CPIP have separate directors. VP West

suggested that I continue as the director of LCI. The CPIP faculty raised their concerns about the

restructuring of the unit and split in the directorship of LCI and CPIP in a memo dated November

12, 2009. On November 20, 2009, VP West requested that I step down as director of CPIP. The

CPIP faculty and LCI senior personnel met on November 23, 2009 to discuss the situation and

asked me to continue as the director of LCI. After the meeting, I sent my acceptance of the

position of the LCI director. Effective January 1, 2010, Prof. L.-C. Chien assumed the duties of

the Interim Director of CPIP, residing in the College of Arts and Sciences. LCI remained within

the Research and Sponsored Programs structure.

After numerous discussions during September-November 2009, an understanding has been

achieved with VP West on the basic features of the newly formulated concept of the LCI as a

unifying center of research, including the future budget allocations, membership of the LCI,

research infrastructure of the LCI and the outline of the updated LCI Handbook. These basic

features are outlined below.

1. The LCI should revise its Handbook, include a provision of the LCI Executive

Committee, Advisory Board with prominent representatives from academia, government

and industry, and reformulate the membership rules taking into account the research

productivity of the participants, grants.

2. The salary line for a Public Relation Officer, previously occupied by Jim Maxwell,

should be returned to the LCI to serve the broad needs of marketing the LCI, outreach

activity with academic, industrial and government institutions.

3. The LCI should have funds for buy-out of faculty time for services to the LCI (such as

maintaining shared facilities, leading LCI projects).

4. The University helps the LCI to expand its endowment funds, building on our research

reputation. The University actively promotes the LCI and uses the help of LCI in

fundraising activities.

5. A substantial portion of the overhead from the research grants secured by LCI faculty

comes back to the LCI to support the LCI mission and offset the absence of other revenue

forms.

6. The LCI’s Economic Growth account 220417, accounts 110098 and 101059 should

continue to be within the LCI structure, to support the broad mission of the LCI.

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In December, an ad hoc LCI Executive Committee was nominated by VP West with faculty

members Mietek Jaroniec (Chemistry), Sam Sprunt (Physics), Deng-Ke Yang (CPIP), Edgar

Kooijman (Biology), and Eugene (Chuck) Gartland (Math Sciences). On May 3, 2010, the LCI

held a general meeting of the Kent faculty involved in the liquid crystal research (see page 17).

The faculty elected an LCI Executive Committee for the two year term: Dave Allender (Physics),

Phil Bos (CPIP and LCI Associate Director), Oleg Lavrentovich (CPIP and LCI director), Peter

Palffy-Muhoray (CPIP and LCI Associate Director), Sam Sprunt (Physics), and Edgar Kooijman

(Biological Sciences), who would serve the 2010-2011 one-year term and then be replaced by

Mietek Jaroniec (Chemistry) for the second year term.

John West retired June 30, 2010 as VP, Research and Sponsored Programs. Over many years,

John contributed greatly to the well-being of the LCI, as a researcher and as an LCI director

(1997-2003). John was the driving force behind many initiatives, such as Flex Matter research

consortium and the construction of the Liquid Crystals and Materials Sciences Building that

currently hosts both LCI and CPIP.

Brenda Decker retired from her position as LCI Business Manager after 22 years of service to

Kent State University; nineteen of these years were spent at the LCI. We were very fortunate to

have Brenda in control of the everyday business activities at the LCI and CPIP for the last eight

years, as she assured that these activities were run successfully. Brenda also helped to run the

International Liquid Crystal Society programs on membership and Glenn Brown awards.

On July 1, 2009, we welcomed the world-renowned liquid crystal scientist, Dr. Hiroshi

Yokoyama as the first of two Ohio Research Scholars at the Liquid Crystal Institute. Dr.

Yokoyama has served as director of the Nanotechnology Research Institute (NRI), National

Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. The position became

available thanks to the Third Frontier Ohio Research Scholarship Program $15 M grant, secured

by KSU in partnership with Case Western Reserve University, Youngstown University,

Cleveland Botanical Garden, Alpha Micron, Kent Displays, CoAdna Photonics, Hana

Microdisplays, and LXD. Dr. Yokoyama will be a major contributor to the project entitled

“Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials (RC-SAM)".

Research

The LCI continued to successfully bring extramural funding to Kent State University, applying

for 53 grants totaling $21,761,359. LCI scientists were awarded 13 new grants totaling

$1,472,033 with $1,827,826 in grant proposals pending at fiscal year end. The Liquid Crystal

Institute received 63% of its total fiscal year support through extramural sources.

Dr. Philip J. Bos, Associate Director of the Liquid Crystal, has been awarded the Slottow-Owaki

Prize for Display Education by the Society for Information Display (SID). Bos was recognized

for his pioneering educational efforts in the field of liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Professor Bos

has advised numerous Ph.D. students that graduated from Kent State and that currently work at

companies such as Apple, Inc., 3M, Hewlett Packard, Kent Displays, Hana Microdisplays and

others. Over the last three decades, he has made seminal inventions such as high-speed switching

of the liquid crystal through a delicate balance of director reorientation and hydrodynamic flows

and enhanced viewing angle and contrast of nematic displays through compensating films. He has

also developed efficient diffractive and beam-steering devices and new approaches for surface

alignment of liquid crystals. It is worth mentioning that in 2007, LCI emeritus director, J. W.

(Bill) Doane was the first ever recipient of the Slottow-Owaki Prize.

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Among the notable research achievements of the year was the Nature publication of research

performed by Professor Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Associate Director of the LCI) and Assistant

Professor Xiaoyu Zheng (Mathematical Sciences), in collaboration with their colleagues at the

University of Michigan and Case Western, on the effective packing of tetrahedra, with a record-

breaking density 0.8503.

We extended collaborations with industries, both domestic and international, with funding from

the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), Johnson & Johnson-Vistakon Division,

and Intel; subawards were received from ATK Space Systems, Kent Displays, Pixel Optics,

Dynamic Eye, and the University of Akron. Federal sources comprised 28% of our total

extramural funding and included the National Science Foundation, Air Force Research

Laboratories, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Energy, Office

of Naval Research, and Air Force Office of Science Research. The State of Ohio provided 30%

(see Pie Graph note on page 7) of our extramural funding through the Ohio Board of Regents and

the Ohio Department of Development. Other funding sources include the Institute for Complex

Adaptive Matter (ICAM) and the Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust.

We continued research collaborations with colleagues in the KSU departments of Biological

Sciences (Kooijman, Woolverton), Chemistry (Gericke, Lee, Twieg), School of Fashion Design

and Merchandising (Schofield-Tomschin), Geology (Ortiz), Mathematical Sciences (Gartland,

Zheng), Computer Sciences (Maletic) and Physics (Finotello, Gleeson, Kumar, Mann, Portman,

Sprunt). Of the 52 active grants, 16 involved KSU investigators from other departments and 2

included investigators from other universities.

Education and Outreach

The 5th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference (ILCEC) was held at Kent State

University on Sept. 24-26, 2009, hosted and sponsored by the LCI. The conference was chaired

by Professor Peter Palffy-Muhoray, with Professors Liang-Chy Chien, Antal Jákli, and Robin

Selinger serving as the Organizing Committee members. This was the first time this world-class

conference was hosted in the United States. The meeting brought together over 100 physicists,

chemists, mathematicians, materials scientists and engineers active in the field of liquid crystal

elastomers.

The plenary lecture was presented by Professor Heino Finkelmann, of the University of Freiburg,

who developed the first liquid crystal elastomer in 1992. Like conventional rubbers, liquid crystal

elastomers are cross-linked polymer networks that can be highly extended. Like liquid crystals,

these materials have orientational order. Ohio Eminent Scholar Jonathan Selinger presented a

public lecture "Liquid Crystals and Rubber: Combining Scientific Fields for New Technologies"

during the conference.

Scholarships

One Chemical Physics student was selected as the fourth scholarship recipient from the Fred A.

Lennon Charitable Trust. The Lennon Trust will provide scholarships for a 3-year period. Jie

Xiang was selected from a competition based on proposals that demonstrate innovation,

entrepreneurship and the potential for product development. Nicholas Diorio, Jake Fontana and

Shin-Ying Lu were selected in 2009 (See Table 5).

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Service

LCI/CPIP continued to serve the research and industrial community through the Industrial

Partnership Program (Bos), Synthesis Facilities (Chien, Li) and Characterization Facilities

(Lavrentovich, Shiyanovskii). LCI personnel provide services (electron and atomic force

microscopic analysis, cleanroom time, materials characterization, etc.) at no cost to KSU faculty.

Invoices issued for services provided by LCI researchers and for use of our facilities by scientists

from universities and industries in the liquid crystal field totaled $80,234 for this reporting period

(Table 18).

Our research and education activities continued to be strong throughout the year and we continue

to look forward to new and innovative directions in liquid crystal research. One of the important

tasks in the year 2010-2011 would be the establishment of the cryo-TEM facility and the search

for the new Ohio Research Scholar. Another task would be to analyze the efficiency of the newly

reformulated structure of the LCI.

Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Director

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Achievements and Recognition

Books and Conference Proceedings

L.C. Chien, C.O. Catanescu, and L. Li, “Spatially-ordered polymers self-assembled in ordered

liquid crystal templates”, in Crosslinked Liquid Crystalline Systems: From Rigid Polymer

Networks to Elastomers, D. Broer, G.P. Crawford, and S. Zumer, Taylor and Francis (2010).

E.E. Kooijman and C. Testerink, “Phosphatidic acid-an electrostatic/hydrogen bond switch?”, in

Lipid Signalling in Plants, T. Munnik, Springer Verlag (2010).

Q. Li, “Self-organizing Organic Semiconductors: From Materials to Device Applications”, John

Wiley & Son, ISBN: 978-0-470-55973-4.

M. Mathews and Q. Li, “Self-organizing Discotic Liquid Crystals as Novel Organic

Semiconductors: Materials and Applications”, Ch. 4 in Self-organized Organic Semiconductors:

From Materials to Applications, Q. Li, John Wiley & Son, ISBN: 978-0-470-55973-4.

J. Ma and Q. Li, “Self-Organized Semiconducting Smectic Liqud Crystals”, Ch. 5 in Self-

organized Organic Semiconductors: From Materials to Applications, Q. Li, John Wiley & Son,

ISBN: 978-0-470-55973-4.

L. Jin and Q. Li, “Self-organized Fullerene Based Organic Semiconductors”, Ch. 7 in Self-

organized Organic Semiconductors: From Materials to Applications, Q. Li, John Wiley & Son,

ISBN: 978-0-470-55973-4.

Conference and Workshop Chairs

Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Conference Chair, International Liquid Crystal Elastomers Conference,

September 24-26, 2009, Kent State University.

Phil Bos, Session Chair, Society for Information Display, 2008-2010.

Quan Li, Chair of two sessions, International Conference on Smart Materials and

Nanotechnology in Engineering, 2009.

Robin Selinger, Session Chair at APS March meeting, Portland, OR, March, 2010.

Qi-Huo Wei, Session Vice Chair, 2010 Colloids Symposium, University of Akron.

Awards

Philip Bos, Slottow-Owaki Prize, Society for Information Display

Edgar Kooijman, I2CAM Junior Scientist Exchange Award, Farris Family Innovation Award

Oleg Lavrentovich, Outstanding Referee, Amercian Physical Society Journals

Qi-Huo Wei, Farris Family Innovation Award

Qi-Huo Wei, 2010 NSF CAREER Award

Qi-Huo Wei, 2010 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow

Students

Jake Fontana, 2009-2010 University Fellowship

Sarah Hicks, 2009 Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeships (IGERT)

Lena Lopatina, 2009-2010, Amelia Earhart Fellowship

Shuojia Shi, 2009-2010 Ameson Elite Scholarship

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Summary of LCI Accomplishments and Activities

Proposals for Extramural Funding

Submitted 53

Awarded 13

Pending 8

Extramural Grants and Contracts

Current Grants (continuing from previous year) 35

Renewals and New Awards 17

Degrees Awarded

Ph.D. 5

Masters 1

Students – Graduate

Stipend and Tuition support 43

Students – Undergraduate

REU summer students – 2009-2010 6

Students employed at LCI 4

Honors Thesis, LCI/CPIP Advisors 3

Students – High School

Internships 4

Research Staff

Faculty and Senior Research Staff 12

Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Associates, Research

Scientists, Research Interns, Display Engineers

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Visitors

Industrial and academic scientists conducting

collaborative research at the LCI

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Publications

Journals and Book Chapters 83

Juried Conference Proceedings, Technical Reports 10

Presentations

Professional Societies (Invited and oral) 71

Conference Poster Presentations 18

Academic and Other (Invited and oral) 49

Patents

Awarded 7

Applications 23

Invention Disclosures 7

Industrial Partnership Program

IPP Members 16

LCD Research Facility Services Provided 40

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Major Funding Sources (in thousands)

University, Foundations and Grant Funds

Major Funding Sources and Expenditures 2009-2010

*State of Ohio Funding includes $1M for Ohio Research Scholars endowment; for reporting purposes,

the $5M endowment is shown as $1M per year for the 5-year RC-SAM grant period, FY 2009 – FY 2013.

Expenditures 2009-2010 (in thousands)

Fiscal Year

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Major Funding Sources and Expenditures

Historical Representation of Funding Sources (in thousands)

KSU, NSF ALCOM, and

Other Extramural Support

Calculation of grant funding/expenditures

For each grant, the total amount awarded is divided by the number of months

in the grant project period to obtain an average monthly award amount. That

figure is multiplied by the number of months the grant was active within the

fiscal year reporting period. For grants shared with investigators from other

departments, the fiscal year total is divided equally among the principal

investigators and only the portion for LCI research personnel is counted (see

Table 2). For reporting purposes, it is assumed that all funding is expended

within the fiscal year reporting period. For grants with funding released on a

year-to-year basis, only the current fiscal year funding is counted, rather than

averaged over the entire grant period.

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Collaborative Research in Europe on Liquid Crystals

International Research Experience for Students (CRELIC-IRES)

Professor Antal (Tony) Jákli obtained a three-year NSF grant to provide international research

experiences for students during the summers of 2008, 2009, and 2010, by involving them in

collaborative work in timely and important specific areas of liquid crystal science. U.S.

undergraduate and graduate students, who are engaged in a physical science discipline, were

eligible to participate in the project entitled, “Collaborative Research in Europe on Liquid

Crystals”.

The goal of the CRELIC-IRES program is for students to learn how to collaborate at the scientific

level and also learn and appreciate the culture of foreign countries. In this way, students are

educated as global scientists who will be able to compete in the international science market. The

results of each research topic may lead to cutting-edge technologies such as artificial muscles,

artificial nerves, better understanding of electrical transport processes in cell membranes, and

making smart textiles.

Local accommodations were organized by the host partners. Public transportation was used for

local travel to further provide interactions with residents. To learn the cultures of other European

countries, students were encouranged to purchase a EuroRail pass for train or bus travel anywhere

in Europe within a one month period. In 2010, four students participated in the project in four

different countries.

Valerie Finnemeyer carried out research in the Biocomplexity Group of the Niels Bohr Institute

in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her host was Professor Thomas Heimburg. During her trip, Valerie

has learned how to prepare lipid bilayers and measure their electric conductivity. Her research

was planned to fit to ongoing LCI studies about measuring piezoelectric properties of lipid

bilayers and cell membranes.

Sarah Hicks visited Professor Helena Godinho in the new Lisbon University in Lisbon Portugal.

She has been working on Inverse PDLC materials based on electrospun cellulose fibers. The

work fits both to her dissertation subject and the ongoing activities in Professor Godinho’s group.

Paul Murphy, an Ohio State University, student studied the mechanical deformations of bent-core

liquid crystal fibers under the weight of balls. This research is the continuation of Stannarius’ and

Jakli’s collaboration on the mechanical

properties of bent-core fibers. A typical

experimental situation is shown on the

right. Here we can see the triangular

shape of the fibers under the weight of

tiny glass balls. The tension forces were

calculated from the equation:

sin( ) sin( )G r lF F F.

Measurements versus fiber radius and

temperatures were carried out and

analyzed.

α β

↓FG

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Andrew Konya has been working in Budapest with Tamás Börzsönyi

studying the hopper flow of anisotropic particles, such as glass rods

with different aspect ratios, and basmati rice.

The experimental setup (on the right) consists of a two dimensional

hopper and a high-speed camera. The hopper is constructed form two

glass plates with wood used as spacers, and as the edge of the hopper.

The camera was situated perpendicular to the plane of the hopper and

at its center point. A computer program was used to analyze the

pictures and produce data that could be compared for multiple media

and hopper configurations. The aim of these experiments was to

supply reference results for further studies in the Liquid Crystal

Institute, where the rice will be replaced by black cumin or other bent-

shape particles to learn about their flow properties.

As in the previous year, a workshop was organized with another IRES group lead by Professor

David Statman at Allegheny College in Meadwille, PA. This year the workshop was held in Pécs

in the guesthouse of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In addition to having a lively

discussion about the participating seven US students’ summer work, the group had a chance to

participate in a cultural event as part of a series of these types of events held in Pécs. Pécs was

one of the three cultural capitals of Europe in 2010.

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LCI Highlights

Kent State Professors Help Break Tetrahedra Packing Record Two Kent State University professors are part of a team of researchers who recently uncovered a

way to pack tetrahedra, considered to be the simplest shaped regular solids with its four triangular

sides, more densely than ever before. Peter Palffy-Muhoray, professor of chemical physics and

associate director of the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State, and Xiaoyu Zheng, assistant

professor in Kent State’s Department of Mathematical Sciences, along with four colleagues at the

University of Michigan and one at Case Western Reserve University, have broken a world record

for packing the most tetrahedra into a given volume.

Their findings will be featured in the Dec. 10 issue of Nature, one of the leading international

scientific journals, in an article co-authored by the seven researchers. The article is titled

“Disordered, quasicrystalline and crystalline phases of densely packed tetrahedra.”

The researchers were able to obtain the highest packing fraction of 85.03, meaning tetrahedra fill

85.03 percent of the volume of the container. This shattered the previous record of 78.2 percent

set by two Princeton University researchers in August 2009.

“The question of how best to pack shapes into a volume is an age-old question,” Palffy-Muhoray

said. “Johannes Kepler asked how to pack spheres in the early 1600s, and it was only recently

proven in 2005 that the best way is to stack them like cannonballs. It is easy to understand how

cubes can entirely fill space with no voids, but the packing problem is still unsolved for the

simple tetrahedron. Though it’s a simple object, it can’t fill space like cubes, so we wondered

how hard tetrahedra would pack when you squeezed them together.”

In the process, the Kent State professors and their colleagues discovered that quasicrystals formed

when the tetrahedral were compressed.

“A crystal is a material structure which repeats periodically,” Palffy-Muhoray explained. “A

quasicrystal is similar, but it doesn’t repeat itself exactly, despite its regularity. It’s something

quite new, having been discovered only 25 years ago. Not only did we show that tetrahedra can

pack much denser than previously thought, but we also found the most remarkable result: that

they form quasicrystals. It’s amazing that the simplest solid – the tetrahedron – forms these

intricately complicated, amazingly complex structures. This is the first example of particles

forming quasicrystals with no interactions other than hard objects bumping into one another.

Entropy, which is often associated with disorder and chaos, can in fact create order.”

Sharon Glotzer, a professor in the University of Michigan’s departments of Chemical

Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering who conceived and designed the study

together with Palffy-Muhoray, said, “This is the most complex structure we’ve ever seen arising

from purely entropic interactions.”

Previous approaches by other researchers began with the geometric constructions and

compressing these. Glotzer, Palffy-Muhoray and collaborators started from a random initial

structure and compressed it to allow natural evolution toward high-density states. Work began in

2006 with physical experiments being conducted at Kent State involving Palffy-Muhoray and

Zheng.

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“We carried out experiments here at Kent State using tetrahedra dice to see how densely we could

pack them,” Zheng said. “We also constructed various motifs. Then, the key computer

simulations were carried out at the University of Michigan. By using a new, ingenious scheme,

we were able to achieve 85.03 percent packing. When we first started this work, we did not

expect the results that we achieved. This whole project has been very exciting.”

The results of this research and the formation of quasicrystals offer some interesting and exciting

possibilities on how it can be used in real-world applications. “This will enable the production of

metamaterials, which are manmade materials that don’t exist in nature, with interesting physical

and optical properties,” Palffy-Muhoray said. “Applications are far-ranging, including high-

resolution imaging useful for microscopy in medicine and materials science. This new packing

method could enable the production of new kinds of materials, useful for computer chips,

building materials and fabrics.”

Palffy-Muhoray, whose distinguished career includes being elected a Fellow of the American

Physical Society in 2008, said this research has been very rewarding. “In trying to understand

simple things, you occasionally stumble upon beautiful, complex phenomena,” he said. “This

does stand out as one of the most beautiful things we’ve discovered. It’s very satisfying that this

simple inquiry would lead to such remarkable results.”

Funding support for this research was provided by an Air Force MURI (Multidisciplinary

University Research Initiative) grant to Kent State

University and by the National Science Foundation.

Caption: Peter Palffy-Muhoray and Xiaoyu Zheng, both professors

at Kent State University, are part of a team of researchers

who recently uncovered a way to pack tetrahedra more

densely than ever before. Experiments and computer

simulations, like the one shown here, helped the team to

obtain the highest packing fraction of 85.03 and discover

the formation of quasicrystals when the tetrahedra were

compressed.

*Article by Emily Vincent. Originally reported in the December 9, 2009 issue of E-Inside, the

official employee newsletter of Kent State University.

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LCI Highlights

Culture of Innovation Celebrated at Kent State during

Inventor Recognition Event

Did you know that Kent State inventions have resulted in 129 active patents and 24

license agreements with industry, which have lead to the production of $3 million in

licensing income for the university in the last eight years? As Kent State celebrates 100

years of scholarship and creativity, it is fitting that part of our Centennial celebrations

include lauding innovative research at Kent State University that has bettered our lives

through licensing of university inventions to industry.

Kent State inventions have resulted in the development and commercialization of new

and better products that serve a variety of purposes. Included in this rapidly expanding

list is: a new generation of liquid crystal displays, rapid biosensors, new 3D visualization

capabilities and specialty eyewear and sports goggles. There are many more university

inventions in development that are likely to bring us improved solar cells, smart

windows, research tools, fuel cells, biomedical devices, and enhanced and safer

biomedical imaging.

On March 24, the university’s Office of Technology Transfer and Economic

Development held an Inventor Recognition Ceremony as a tribute to Kent State

University inventors, applauding the efforts of all who have developed university

inventions. The event was held as part of the university’s annual Celebration of

Scholarship event. The crowd of nearly 100 attendees included 27 first-time honoree

inventors, as well as many seasoned

university technology innovators.

The program included comments by Gregory

B. Wilson, associate vice president for

university relations, Provost and Senior Vice

President Robert G. Frank and Vice

President for Research John West. Dr.

William Doane, inventor, former Liquid

Crystal Institute director and co-founder of

Kent Displays Inc., was honored with the

first Lifetime Achievement Award.

Each first-time inventor received an engraved

glass block award, and each repeat inventor

received an embossed leather Kent State

business card holder. This was the third

Inventor Recognition Ceremony; inventor

recognition events also took place in 2004

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and 2007. The Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development believes it is

important to honor all of our inventors who, through their innovative research, create

inventions that can have a positive impact on the quality of life and the economy of the

region and the world.

The following Kent State faculty, staff and student first-time inventors received special

recognition, as they disclosed their first inventions to the university between the last

invention recognition ceremony in 2007 and the close of 2009:

Eric S. Soehnlen, Department of Chemistry

Stefanie Taushanoff, Liquid Crystal Institute

Bentley G. Wall, Liquid Crystal Institute

Feng Wang, Liquid Crystal Institute

Qi-Huo Wei, Liquid Crystal Institute

Asanka Wijekoon, Department of Chemistry

Young Cheol Yang, Liquid Crystal Institute

Shin-Ying Lu, Liquid Crystal Institute

Ji Ma , Liquid Crystal Institute

Riya Mukherjee, Department of Chemistry

Joseph D. Ortiz, Department of Geology

Heung-Shik Park, Liquid Crystal Institute

Augustine Samba, College of Technology

Mohammadreza Shokouhimehr, Department of Chemistry

Aaron J. Sisek , Department of Physics

Hari M. Atkuri, Liquid Crystal Institute

Volodymyr Borshch, Liquid Crystal Institute

Douglas R. Bryant, Liquid Crystal Institute

Ebru A. Buyuktanir, Liquid Crystal Institute

Mahinda Gangoda, Department of Chemistry

Evgeny M. Garanin, Department of Chemistry

Wilder G. Iglesias, Liquid Crystal Institute

Chanjoong Kim, Liquid Crystal Institute

Yannian Li, Liquid Crystal Institute

Yongxiu Li, Liquid Crystal Institute

Lu Lu, Liquid Crystal Institute

*Originally reported in the March 29, 2010 issue of E-Inside, the official employee

newsletter of Kent State University.

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Apple and Kent State University

Name the two common features for these 5 people

Answer: (1) all five work at Apple Display Team; (2) all are Liquid Crystal

Institute/Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program graduates.

Left to Right:

Dr. William Liu (CPIP graduate, Spring 2001, advisor: J. Kelly), Dr. Ming Xu (Spring

2000, advisor: DK Yang), Dr. Vincent Gu (May 2009, advisors: O. Lavrentovich and S.

Shiyanovskii), Dr. Cheng Chen (Dec. 2006, advisor: P. Bos), Dr. Mike Dorjgotov (Spring

2010, advisor: P. Bos).

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LCI Highlights

Transmission Electron Microscope and Ohio’s Center of

Excellence “Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced

Materials”

Liquid Crystal Institute started the installation of the Transmission Electron Microscope

facility, the largest investment into the modern scientific instrument. The project,

supported by $2.1 M capital funds from the recent $15.2 M award from the State of Ohio,

will allow the scientists at various departments of the University to explore properties of

materials at the scale of nanometers.

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LCI Highlights

Faculty and Senior Research Members Attending the General LCI meeting, May 3, 2010

David Allender, Professor, Physics

Carmen Almasan, Professor, Physics

Darren Bade, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

Hamza Balci, Assistant Professor, Physics

James Blank, Chairperson, Biological Sciences

Philip Bos, Associate Director, LCI/ Professor, Chemical Physics

Nicola Brasch, Associate Professor, Chemistry

Liang-Chy Chien, Interim Director/ Professor, Chemical Physics

Matthew Crawford, Assistant Professor, History

Brett Ellman, Associate Professor, Physics

Paul Farrell, Professor, Computer Science

Daniele Finotello, Professor, Physics

Michael Fisch, Assistant Professor, College of Technology

Mahinda Gangoda, Senior Research Engineer, Chemistry

Eugene Gartland, Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Arne Gericke, Associate Professor, Chemistry

James Gleeson, Chairperson, Physics

Songping Huang, Associate Professor, Chemistry

Antal Jákli, Associate Professor, Chemical Physics

Mietek Jaroniec, Professor, Chemistry

Anatoly Khitrin, Professor, Chemistry

Chanjoong Kim, Assistant Professor, Chemical Physics

Edgar Kooijman, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

Satyendra Kumar, Associate VP, Research and Sponsored Programs

Oleg Lavrentovich, Director, LCI/Professor, Chemical Physics

Shan-Hu Lee, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Laura Leff, Professor, Biological Sciences

Quan Li, Senior Research Fellow, LCI

Elizabeth Mann, Professor, Physics

Hanbin Mao, Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Associate Director, LCI/Professor, Chemical Physics

John Portman, Associate Professor, Physics

Khandker Quader, Professor, Physics

Lothar Reichel, Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Arden Ruttan, Professor, Computer Sciences

Paul Sampson, Professor, Chemistry

Almut Schroeder, Associate Professor, Physics

Alexander Seed, Associate Professor, Chemistry

Jonathan Selinger, Ohio Eminent Scholar/Professor, Chemical Physics

Robin Selinger, Professor, Chemical Physics

Samuel Sprunt, Professor, Physics

Chun-Che Tsai, Professor, Chemistry

Michael Tubergen, Chairperson, Chemistry

Robert Twieg, Professor, Chemistry

Qi-Huo Wei, Assistant Professor, Chemical Physics

John West, Professor, Chemistry

Christopher Woolverton, Professor, Public Health

Deng-ke Yang, Professor, Chemical Physics

Hiroshi Yokoyama, Ohio Research Scholar/Professor, Chemical Physics

Xiaoyu Zheng, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences

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Table 1

Liquid Crystal Institute Staff

Name (end date)

Year

Appointed Title (beginning year of current title)

Philip J. Bos 1994 Associate Director (1997)

Professor, Chemical Physics (2001)

Douglas R. Bryant 1993 Manager, Display Engineering (1998)

Janet Cash 2007 Grants Coordinator

Brenda L. Decker (6/10) 1991 Business Manager (2002)

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

Lynn A. Fagan 2002 Senior Secretary (2006)

James J. Francl 1990 Research Specialist

Merrill M. Groom 1986 Research Engineer II (2006)

Antal I. Jákli 1999 Associate Professor, Chemical Physics (2007)

Chanjoong Kim 2008 Assistant Professor, Chemical Physics (2008)

Rameshbabu Krishnamurthy 2008 Senior Chemist

Oleg D. Lavrentovich 1992 Director (2004)


Quan Li 2004 Senior Research Fellow

James Maxwell 2003 Public Relations Coordinator

Dawn Miller 2007 Grants Assistant

Peter Palffy-Muhoray 1987 Associate Director (1990)


Liou Qiu 1998 Research Specialist (2001)

Jonathan V. Selinger 2005 Ohio Eminent Scholar; Professor, Chemical Physics

Robin L.B. Selinger 2005 Professor, Chemical Physics

Christine Shi 2009 Term Position

Qi-Huo Wei 2006 Assistant Professor, Chemical Physics

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

Professor of Chemistry (1997)

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

Hiroshi Yokoyama 2010 Ohio Research Scholar, Professor, Chemical Physics

Liquid Crystal Institute Emeriti

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

Mary E. Neubert 1972-2002 Emeritus Senior Research Fellow

Alfred Saupe 1968-1992 Emeritus Professor of Physics (deceased)

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Table 2

Liquid Crystal Institute Research Personnel

Faculty/Senior Staff

(end date)

Support Department; Grants Grant name indicates a portion of investigator’s salary was

provided by grant(s), as cost share or direct charge (academic year

and/or summer).

David W. Allender Physics

Philip J. Bos LCI/CPIP; Pixel Optics

Liang-Chy Chien LCI/CPIP

Daniele Finotello Physics

Antal Jákli LCI/CPIP; Samsung, NSF, ONR, Comex, Vistakon

Chanjoong Kim LCI/CPIP

Satyendra Kumar Physics, Research & Sponsored Programs

Oleg D. Lavrentovich LCI

Quan Li LCI

Peter Palffy-Muhoray LCI/CPIP; LC Materials Facility, AFOSR MURI

Jonathan V. Selinger Ohio Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair, LCI/CPIP, US DOD

Robin L.B. Selinger LCI/CPIP; NSF Modeling

Samuel N. Sprunt Physics

Robert J. Twieg Chemistry

Qi-Huo Wei LCI/CPIP; NSF Plasmonic

John L. West Research and Sponsored Programs

Philip W. Westerman LCI Conference

Deng-Ke Yang LCI/CPIP; AFRL, ODOD

Hiroshi Yokoyama LCI

Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Associates, Research Scientists, Research Interns, Display

Engineers and (supervisor)

Gyanu Acharya

Postdoctoral Fellow

NSF, AFOSR MURI (Palffy-Muhoray)

Ebru Aylin Buyuktanir

Postdoctoral Fellow

KIMM/KDI (West)

Don Diehl

Senior Research Associate

KDI (West)

Michele Fontana

Research Associate

NSF, AFOSR MURI (Palffy-Muhoray)

LCI Research Personnel, 2009-2010

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Research Personnel

(end date)

Support Department; Grants (PI) Grant name indicates a portion of investigator’s salary was provided

by grant(s), as a cost share or direct charge

Andrii Golovin

Research Associate

ODOD, Department of Energy (Lavrentovich)

Christopher Grabowski

Postdoctoral Fellow

NSF, MURI, (Palffy-Muhoray)

John Harden

Postdoctoral Fellow

I-CAM (Jákli), ONR, KDI, LC Synthesis (Li)

Li Mei Jin

Postdoctoral Fellow

AFSOR (Li)

Yannian Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

NSF, AFRL MURI (Li)

Paul Luchette

Postdoctoral Fellow

NSF NLCMF (Palffy-Muhoray)

Ji Ma

Postdoctoral Fellow

AFOSR (Li)

Li Ma

Research Scientist

NIST (R. Selinger)

Manoj Mathews

Postdoctoral Fellow

NSF STTR KDI, DOE (Li)

Myroslava Omelchenko

Research Assistant

NSF Fluorescence (Lavrentovich)

Sabrina Relaix (4/10)

Postdoctoral Fellow

NSF NLCMF, AFOSR MURI (Palffy-Muhoray)

Gregory Richards

Postdoctoral Fellow

NSF Nonlinear Diffusion(Palffy-Muhoray)

Jonathan Ruth (10/09)

Mgr., Display Engineering

KDI Flexible LC Film Manufacturing Alliance (West)

Sergij Shiyanovski

Senior Research Associate

LCI, Dept. of Energy (Lavrentovich)

Francesca Tavazza

Research Fellow

NIST (R. Selinger)

Luana Tortora

Research Associate

AFOSR MURI, ODOD/Univ. Akron (Lavrentovich)

Bentley Wall (part-time)

Research Associate

Pixel Optics, LCDRF (Bos)

Yan Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

DOE (Li)

Young Cheol Yang

Postdoctoral Fellow

ODOD U. Akron subaward (Yang)

Lu Zou (part-time)

Postdoctoral Fellow

University Start-up, OBR (Kim)

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Table 3

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Faculty

Current Faculty Rank Appointed Tenure

Philip J. Bos Professor (2001)

Associate Professor (1995)

1995 1998

Liang-Chy Chien Professor (2001)


1995 1998

Antal Jákli Associate Professor (2007)

Assistant Professor (2004)

2004 2007

Chanjoong Kim Assistant Professor (2008) 2008

Oleg D. Lavrentovich Professor (2000)


1994 1997

Peter Palffy-Muhoray Professor (1994) 1994 1997

Jonathan V. Selinger Professor (2005) 2005 2005

Robin L.B. Selinger Professor (2005) 2005 2005

Qi-Huo Wei Assistant Professor (2006) 2006

Deng-Ke Yang Professor (2004)


Assistant Professor (1995)

1995 1999

Hiroshi Yokoyama Professor (2010) 2010 2010

Joint Professors Permanent Position Term David W. Allender Physics Department 1996

Eugene C. Gartland, Jr. Mathematical Sciences Department 1996

Satyendra Kumar Physics Department 1995

Adjunct Professors Albert M. Green Kent Displays, Inc. 2007-

Asad Khan Kent Displays, Inc. 2007-

Quan Li Liquid Crystal Institute 2004-

Christopher Mullin Dynamic Eye, Inc. 2008-

Sergij Shiyanovskii Liquid Crystal Institute 2004-

Bahman Taheri AlphaMicron, Inc. 1998-

Philip Westerman Emeritus Professor, NEOUCOM 1997-

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 2003-2008

Robin Selinger 2008-2010

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Table 4

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program Graduate Students

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

Hari Atkuri (2010) KDI/ODOD J. West

Volodymyr Borshch (2007) LCI, NSF Materials World

Network

O. Lavrentovich

Clinton Braganza (2003-2009) none L. Chien

Jia Chen (2009) LCI J. West

Hsien-Hui Cheng (2009) CPIP, NSF New LC Materials

Facility

P. Bos

Yue Cui (2008) CPIP, MFLEX, NSF New LC

Materials Facility

P. Palffy-Muhoray

Christopher Culbreath (2008) CPIP, LCI, NSF Collaborative

Reserach

P. Palffy-Muhoray

Nicholas Diorio (2007) ONR, NSF Bent Core, Ananex,

NSF Structured Fluids

A. Jákli

Enkh-Amgalan Dorjgotov (2004) FPA H. Yokoyama

Jake Fontana (2004) NSF New LC Materials Facility P. Palffy-Muhoray

Jun Geng CPIP, OES , NSF Modeling

Actuation

J. Selinger

Vianney Gimenez (2007) OBR, NSF Modeling Actuation R. Selinger

Nikolaus Glazer (2009) CPIP, LCI P. Palffy-Muhoray

Sarah Hicks (2006) Samsung D. Yang

Yi Huang (2006) Pixel Optics , Intel P. Bos

Shawn Hurley (2005) AFRL Dynamic Eye, ONR D. Yang

Wilder Iglesias (2007) NSF Ultra Thin Films A. Jákli

Emine Kemiklioglu (2009) CPIP C. Kim

Young Ki Kim (2009) LCI O. Lavrentovich

Israel Lazo Martinez (2006) NSF Fluorescence Confocal,

NSF Coherent Anti Stokes, US

Department of Energy

O. Lavrentovich

Da-Wei Lee (2009) CPIP, KIMM D. Yang

Liwei Li (2007) LCDRF, eVision P. Bos

Olena Lopatina (2005) OES, NSF Modeling Actuation J. Selinger

Lu Lu (2007) FPA, LCDRF, eVision, Pixel

Optics

P. Bos

CPIP Graduate Students, 2009-2010

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

Shin-Ying Lu (2005) LCI, NSF New LC Materials

Facility, OBR

L.C. Chien

Badel Mbanga (2004) LCI, NSF Modeling Actuation R. Selinger

Jason Morvan (2009) CPIP, NSF Bent Core, Samsung A. Jákli

Souptik Mukherjee (2009 Spring) CPIP, FPA, NSF Career

Kinetics

P. Bos

Jeremy Neal (2003-2010) NSF New LC Materials Facility P. Palffy-Muhoray

Suxing Pan (2008-2009) NSF New LC Materials Facility P. Palffy-Muhoray

Heung-Shik Park (2004) AFOSR MURI O. Lavrentovich

Mykhailo Pevnyi (2009) CPIP, NSF New LC Materials

Facility

J. Selinger

Oleg Pishnyak (2000-2009) NSF 3D Imaging O. Lavrentovich

William Ryan (2009) none

Viktorya Savaryn (2008-2009) NSF Materials World O. Lavrentovich

Bohdan Senyuk (2003) CPIP, NSF Materials World, US

Department of Energy

O. Lavrentovich

Lei Shi (2004-2009) none P. Bos

Shoujia Shi (2009) CPIP, LCI H. Yokoyama

Stephanie Taushanoff (2006) CPIP, OBR A. Jákli

Nithya Venkataraman (2005-2009)

P-T

none A. Khan, J. West

Feng Wang (2006) LCI, Samsung, NSF Plasmonic

Nanocavities

Q. Wei

Hugh Wonderly (2007) UA/ODOD, DOE O. Lavrentovich

Jie Xiang (2009) CPIP, US Department of Energy L.C. Chien

Cuiya Zhang (2009 CPIP, NSF Structured Fluids,

NSF Ultra thin films

Q. Wei

Lei Zhao (2008) CPIP, KDI, Samsung J. West

Shuang Zhou (2009) CPIP, NSF New LC Materials

Facility, LCI

A. Jákli

Rafael Zola (2007) Samsung, OBR D. Yang

CPIP Graduate Students, 2009-2010

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Students Co-Advised by CPIP Faculty

Graduate Students Department/University CPIP Co-Advisor

Ayan Chakrabarty Physics, NSF Scaling Laws Q. Wei

Subas Dhakal Physics, LCI J. Selinger

Bhuwan Joshi Physics, OBR Q. Wei

Madhabi Majumba Physics A. Jákli

M. Shokouhimehr Chemistry Q. Li

Dissertation Committees

issertation Committees

Student Department/University Committee member

Prem Basnet Physics R. Selinger, Q. Li

Soma Dhakal Chemistry C. Kim

Subas Dhakal Physics H. Yokoyama

Pasquale Fernando Fulvio Chemistry L. Chien

Robert Hoover Chemistry L. Chien

Tao Hu Physics J. Selinger

Chandra Prasad Pokhrel Chemistry D. Yang

Greg Richard Math A. Jákli

Hong Seoung Physics A. Jákli

Naresh Shakya Physics A. Jákli

Aaron J. Sisek Physics R. Selinger

Naresh Subba Physics R. Selinger

Asanka Wijekoon Chemistry H. Yokoyama

Yang Xiang Physics A. Jákli

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Table 5

Scholarships and Fellowships

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program

Lennon Entrepreneur Fellowship

The Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust provides three years of funding for scholarships awarded

through a competition among Chemical Physics graduate students. Students submit proposals

that demonstrate innovation, entrepreneurship and the potential for product development.

Scholarship recipients may use funds for stipends, materials, development costs, equipment

and other costs directly associated with the development and commercialization of the

proposed devices. All spending must be approved by the student’s advisor.

2010 Scholarship Recipients

Jie Xiang, “Blue Phase Liquid Crystal for Photonic Optical Fiber Applications ”

2009 Scholarship Recipients

Nick Diorio, “Improving a nanoliter rheometer”

Jake Fontana, “MetaMachine (formerly Enhanced Dip Coating Machine)”

Shin-Ying Lu, “Electrically Switchable Wavelength-Based Liquid Crystal”

2009-2010 University Fellowship

Jake Fontana

2009 Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeships

Sarah Hicks

2009-2010 Amelia Earhart Fellowship

Lena Lopatina

2009-2010 Ameson Elite Scholarship

Shuojia Shi

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Table 6

Graduate Degrees Awarded


Student Dissertation/Thesis Title Advisor (Dept); Date

Doctor of Philosophy

Clinton Braganza High Dieletectric Constant Materials

Containing Liquid Crystals

Chien(CPIP)

August 2009

Subas Dhakal Statistical Mechanical of Polar, Biaxial and

Chiral Order in Liqud Crystals

Allender and J. Selinger

(Physics)

May 2010

Jeremy Neal Orientationally Ordered Particles:

Characterization and Applications

Palffy-Muhoray (CPIP)

May 2010

Oleg Pishnyak New Electro-Optical Applications of

Liquid Crystals: from Beam Steering and

Tunable Lenses to Negative Refraction and

Field-Induced Dynamics of Colloids

Lavrentovich (CPIP)

August 2009

Lei Shi Tunable Liquid Crystal Polarization

Gratings

Bos (CPIP)

December 2009

Masters Degree

Nithya Venkataraman Photosensitive Cholestric Liquid Crystal

Materials

West

August 2009

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Table 7

Placement of Personnel, LCI/CPIP

Graduates Employment

Clinton Braganza Kent Displays Inc., Kent, Ohio

Subas Dhakal Northwest University, Evanston, Illinois

Jeremy Neal Blaq Design Ltd., Portland, Oregon

Oleg Pishnyak Kent Displays Inc., Kent, Ohio

Lei Shi ChemImage, Pittsburgh, PA

Nithya Venkataraman Kent Displays Inc., Kent, Ohio

Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates

Yuriy Nastyshyn Returned to permanent position at Institute of Physics Optics,

Ukraine

Myroslava Omelchenko Research Assistant, Invano Franko National University, Ukraine

Fangfu Ye Postdoctoral Fellow, University Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Table 8

Visiting Scientists

Name (PI) Visitation Period Home Institution

Long-term Visitors

Byung Oh Choi

(West)

February 1, 2009 – January 31, 2012 Korea Institute of Machinery

& Materials

Chunzhen Fan

(Wei)

October 8, 2008 – October 5, 2009 Fudan University, China

(doctoral student)

Won Wook Jeong

(Kim)

March 13, 2009 – September 9, 2009 LG Household & Healthcare

LTD, Korea

Jeoung Yeon Hwang

(Chien)

June 12, 2006 – June 11, 2011 Yonsei University, Korea

Jae-Hoon Kim

(Chien)

January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2011 Hayong University of Korea,

Korea

Kexuan Li

(Yang)

March 3, 2008 – December 31, 2009 University of Science and

Technology, China

Yuriy Nastyshyn

(Lavrentovich)

February 17, 2010 –February 14, 2011 Institute of Physics, Ukraine

Jianru Shi

(Bos)

May 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010 Independent Consultant,

Kent, Ohio

Philip Westerman

(Jakli)

April 13, 2009 – April 12, 2010 NEOUCOM Emeritus

Short-term Visitors

Hisham Alhadlaq

(Yokoyama)

July 19 – July 24, 2009 King Saud University,

Saudi Arabia

Oleksander Boiko

(Lavrentovich)

September 15 – November 10, 2009 Institute of Physics, Ukraine

Vassili Nazarenko

(Lavrentovich)

May 14 – May 21, 2010 Institute of Physics, Ukraine

Tibor Toth-Katona

(Palffy-Muhoray)

September 24 – October 2, 2009 Hungary Academy of

Sciences, Hungary

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Table 9

Grants and Contracts, 2009-2010

Title

Grant/Contract Number

Agency

Period

Grant Amount

Project Director, Principal Investigators

Research Associates, Postdoctoral Fellows

Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students

KSU Account Number

1. Electric Field Effects in Liquid Crystals with

Dielectric Dispersion

U.S. Department of Energy

8/15/06 – 8/14/11

$670,176 (yrs. 1-4)

Lavrentovich, Shiyanovskii

Golovin, Nastyshyn

Lazo-Martinez, Senyuk,

Wonderly, Xiang

440606

2. Chromonic Liquid Crystals as a New System

for Controlled Drug Delivery

Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge

1/1/07 – 8/31/09 (No-Cost Extension)

$50,000

Finotello, Lavrentovich,

Tortora, Woolverton

440621

3. Energy Conversion Based on Giant Flexoelectric

Effect in Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystals

Office of Naval Research


$265,319

Gleeson, Jákli, Sprunt

Harden, Westerman

Diorio, Iglesias, Ostapenko,

Selvy

440623

4. Biaxiality the Thermotropic Bent-Core & Tetrapodic

Nematic Liquid Crystals

US Department of Energy

9/1/2009 – 2/28/2013

$1,240,000

($525,000 – Sept. 2009-Feb.

2011)

Kumar, Sprunt, Q. Li

Mathews, Wang, Yoon

440658

5. Collaborative Research FRG: Ferroelectric

Phenomena in Soft Matter Systems

National Science Foundation


$313,978

Jákli, Gartland,

Lavrentovich

Culbreath

442191

6. Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy

of Three-Dimensional Director Configurations in

Liquid Crystals



$375,000

Lavrentovich

Omelchenko

Lazo-Martinez

442198


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7. New Liquid Crystal Materials Facility



$899,235

Palffy-Muhoray,

Lavrentovich, West, Chien,

Sprunt

Acharya, Grabowski,

Luchette, Neal, Relaix, Shih

Cui, Fontana, Glazar, S. Lu,

Neal, Pan, Zhou

442216

8. Modeling, Computation, and Analysis of Complex

Liquid Crystal Systems and Transitions


7/1/06 – 6/30/10

$172,716

Gartland

Richards, Yu

442219

9. Fluid Phases of Bent-Core Molecules – Novel

Physics and Applications



$536,137

Sprunt, Gleeson, Jákli

Diorio, Hong, Ostapenko

442218

10. Modeling Actuation and Shape Selection in

Soft Materials



$300,000

R. Selinger, J. Selinger

Geng, Lopatina, Mbanga

442220

11. Materials World Network on Lyotropic

Chromonic Liquid Crystals



$336,000

Sprunt, Lavrentovich

Borshch, Majumdar,

Ostapenko, Savaryn, Senyuk

442249

12. Collaborative Research: Scaling Laws for

NanoFET Biosensors


10/1/08 – 9/30/11

$206,812

Wei

Chakrabarty

442255

13. Collaborative Research: Self-assembly in Ultrathin

Films of Bent-core Molecules: Experiment,

Stimulations and Application


7/15/09 – 6/30/13

$301,200 (yrs. 1-2)

Mann, Jákli

McBain

Harden, Iglesias, Mal

442263

14. 5th

Intl Liq Crystal Elastomer Conference


9/1/2009 – 8/31/10

$8,031

Palffy-Muhoray

442269


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15. Nonlinear Diffusion on a Sphere


9/15/09 – 8/31/11

$135,000

Palffy-Muhoray, Zheng

Richards

442270

16. CAREER: Plasmonic Nanocavities for Single

Molecule Detection


3/1/10 – 2/28/15

$400,000

Wei

17. Structured Fluids from Reduced Symmetry

Molecules


5/15/10 – 4/30/13

$230,000 (year 1)

Jákli, Gleeson, Sprunt

Arnold, Stomer

442275

18. Nanofluidic Lab on a Chip for Low Abundance

Portein isolation

Ohio Board of Regents


$50,000

Wei

Joshi

444202

19. Flexible Liquid Crystal Film Manufacturing Alliance

Ohio Department of Development;

Kent Displays subaward

2/26/07 – 2/25/10

$450,000

West

Atkuri, Buyuktanir, Ruth

444205

20. Dual Mode Eye Shields

Defense Contract Management Agency;

Dynamic Eye subaward


$82,824

Yang

Hurley

444207

21. Light Driven Chiral Molecular Motors for Passive

Agile Filters

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

3/1/09 – 2/28/14

$625,000

($265,000 – Mar. 2009-Nov.

2010)

Li

J. Ma, X. Ma, Matthews

444208

22. 5th

International Liquid Crystal Elastomer

Conference

Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter

6/02/09 – 12/31/09

$10,843

Palffy-Muhoray

444209


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23. Novel Organo-Soluble Optically Tunable Chiral

Hybrid Gold Nanorods

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

5/1/09 – 4/30/14

$750,000

($250,000 – Mar. 09-Nov.

2010 )

Li

Jin,Y., Li, Mathews

Shokouhimehr

444211

24. Establishment of the International Network for

Flexible Electro-Optics Devices

Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM)

1/1/09 – 12/31/11

$101,244.26

(66,263.94 – Jan. 09-Dec.

2010)

West

Buyuktanir

444212

25. Electronically Changeable Color Skins for

Consumer Electronics



5/29/09 – 5/28/12

$598,037

West

Buyuktanir, Diehl

444214

26. Investigation on the Relation Between Anchoring

Energy of Polymer Surface and the Performance of

Polymer Dispersed

Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc.

12/1/09 – 11/30/11

$113,804

Yang

444215

27. Simulation Study of Electrically Tunable

Polarization Rotator from Liquid Crystal

Avanex Corporation

4/27/09 – 4/26/10

$18,776.50

Yang

444218

28. Enhanced Polymer Polarization Gratings for

Reflective Liquid Crystal Microdisplays

Imagine Optix Corporation;

North Carolina State University subaward

4/29/10 – 8/31/10

$8,347

Lavrentovich

444219

29. Advanced Liquid Crystaline Chiral and Dye

Materials for Flexible Liquid Crystal Films


Kent Displays, Inc. subaward

5/17/10 – 5/16/12

$163,800

West

444224

30. Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI)

on Self-Assembled Soft Optical NIMS

Air Force Office of Science Research

5/1/06 – 4/30/11

$4,937,231 (5/1/06 – 9/30/10)

(KSU share $1,743,530)

Palffy-Muhoray,

Lavrentovich, Li, Taheri

Acharya, M. Fontana,

Grabowski, Shih, Tortora

J. Fontana, Park

444286


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31. Commercialization of Functional Polyimide Films

and Nanocomposites


University of Akron subaward

2/26/07 – 2/26/11 (No-cost extension)

$300,000

Yang, Kelly, Lavrentovich

Golovin, Tortora, Y. Yang

Wonderly

444292

32. Photochemically Switched Chiral Materials for

Nematic Displays, NSF STTR Phase II

National Science Foundation;


1/1/08 – 12/31/10 (No-cost extension)

$250,000

Li

Krishnamurthy

Y. Li, Jin, Mathews

444303

33. Finite Element Modeling of Multiaxial

Deformation of Metals

National Institute of Standards and Technology

9/1/08 – 8/31/11

$469,310

($307,113 – Sept. 2008-Aug.

2010)

R. Selinger

L. Ma

444307

34. Development of Particle-Based Flow Diagnostic

Techniques

NASA;

ATK Space Systems subaward

1/26/09 – 9/30/09

$20,000

P. Bos

444308

35. Flexible Cholesteric Displays: Device

Simulation and Fashion Application

Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge

6/15/09 – 6/14/11

$40,000

R. Selinger, Schofield-Tomschin

Gimenez

444309

36. Atomic Scale modeling for Nanomechanics

Experiments

National institute of Standards and Technology

8/1/09 – 7/31/12

$365,460

($115,637 – Aug. 2009-July

2010)

R. Selinger

Tavazza

444310

37. eVision Project

eVision, LLC.

8/1/09 – 8/31/11

$188,600

Bos

L. Li, Lu

444311

38. Electromechanical Driving of Cholesteric Liquid

Crystals

Kent Displays, Inc.

4/15/09 – 7/15/10

$26,218

Jákli

Harden

444312

39. Low Cost, Continuously Tunable Electro-optic Lens

Requiring Simple Drive Electronics

Pixel Optics, Inc.

5/15/10 – 5/14/11

$54,000

Bos

444313


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40. Low-Power and High- Performance Mobile Displays

with Ultra-Wide Refresh-Rate Range

Intel Corporation

3/22/10 – 3/21/11

$49,241

Bos

444314

41. Feasibilty investigation of a Liquid Crystal Based

LWIR to Visible Optical Transducer

US Department of Defense;

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Lab

subward

5/10/10 – 3/21/11

$57,980

J. Selinger, Bos

Konya

444315

42. Optimization of Flexoelectric and Blue Phase

Optimization Bimesogens

Ohio Board of Regents Research Incentive

1/15/08 – 1/14/10

$48,618

Twieg, Jákli, Bos

Taushanoff

444776

43. Numerical Simulations and Laboratory

Observations of Sulfuric Acid-Water-Organics

Ternary Homogeneous Nucleation

Ohio Board of Regents Research Initiative

6/15/09 – 6/14/10

$50,000

S.H. Lee, R. Selinger

L.H. Young

Benson, J. Chien, S.H. Lu,

Wickramaratne

444783

44. Synthesis of Mondisperse Mesoporous Silica-Based

Microcapsules Using a Microfluidic Method

Ohio Board of Regents

5/15/10 – 5/14/11

$35,000

Kim

444785

45. Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials

(RC-SAM)

Ohio Department of Development, Ohio Research

Scholars Program

Universities: Kent State, Case Western Reserve and

Youngstown State

8/18/08 – 8/17/13

$15,292,382 (3 universities)

KSU $8,553,921

CWRU$5,838,461

YSU $900,000

Lavrentovich, West, Palffy-

Muhoray, Yang

446800 (Endowment)

446801 (Operating)

446802 (Capital equipment)

46. ARRA: Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering and

Fluoresecence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy of

Three-Dimentional Structures in Liquid Crystals


9/1/09 – 8/31/11

$277,903

Lavrentovich

Nastyshyn

Lazo-Martinez

448011


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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

47. S-STEM Scholarships for Broadening Participation

in Sciences


9/15/06 – 8/31/11

$499,926

Maletic, Ortiz, R. Selinger,

Portman, S.H. Lee

Pechenuk

442222

48. Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

Site at Kent State University: Liquid Crystals

and Advanced Materials



$229,743

Gericke, Twieg

442225

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

49. Collaborative Research in Europe on Liquid

Crystals (CRELIC-IRES)


9/15/07 – 8/31/10

$92,000

Jákli

Culbreath, Diorio, Fontana,

Ostapenko, Taushanoff

R. Gibson (Calif. State Univ.)

442107

50. Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals

National Science Foundation – Swarthmore College

6/14/09 – 9/13/09

$10,000

Collins, Chien

51. Development and Fundamental Studies of Biaxial

Colloidal Systems

Farris Family Innovative Award

9/1/09 – 8/31/12

$24,000

Wei

220494

FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS

52. Challenge Grant (Research and Scholarships)

Fred A Lennon Charitable Trust

10/13/06 – 10/12/09

$90,000

Lavrentovich

Diorio, Fontana, S. Lu (2009)

Xiang (2010)

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Table 10

Proposals for Extramural Support, 2009-2010

Title

Agency

Period

Amount Requested

Project director, principal

investigators

Status

1. Enhanced Polymer Polarization Gratings for

Reflective Liquid Crystal Microdisplays

Imagine Optix Corp. (subaward North Carolina State

University)

4/29/10 – 8/31/10

$8,347

Lavrentovich

Awarded

Proposal B-9937 (444219)

2. Nano-Tape Reader for Measuring Nucleic Acid

Structure and Sequence

National Institute of Standards (subaward NeoTech

Development Co. LLC)

9/1/09 – 8/31/12

$318,095

Wei

Not Awarded

Proposal S-9938

3. Metrology for Next Generation Energy Efficient

Building Materials and Coatings

National Institute of Standards (subaward The

University of Akron)

10/1/09 – 9/30/12

$225,000

Bos

Not Awarded

Proposal B-9945

4. CAREER: Plasmonic Nanocavities for Single

Molecule Detection


3/1/10 – 2/28/15

$400,000

Wei

Awarded

Proposal B-9960 (442272)

5. CAREER: Investigation of Fragile and Strong

Glass Formers Using Perturbed Synamics of

Arrested Colloidal Suspensions


3/1/10 – 2/28/15

$600,128

Kim

Not Awarded

Proposal B-9961

6. Material Transfer Agreement for Proprietary

Kent State University Liquid Crystal Materials

CHISSO Corporation

9/1/09 – 3/1/10

$13,000

Li, Q.

Awarded

Proposal B-9993

Proposals, 2009-2010

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7. Structured Fluids from Reduced Symmetry

Molecules


5/15/10 – 4/30/13

$690,000

Jakli, Gleeson, Sprunt

Awarded

Proposal B-10001 (442275)

8. Polymer Network Liquid Crystal Composite Light Modulators NineSigma Inc. 10/1/09 – 3/31/10

$50,000 Chien Not Awarded Proposal B- 10009

9. Adaptive Liquid Crystal Film for Greenhouse

Application

Ohio Board of Regents (subaward AlphaMicron Inc.)

7/1/10 – 6/30/12

$100,000

West

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10015

10. Electrically Tunable Reflective Blue Phase

Spectral Filters

Defense Advanced Research

1/1/11-6/30/15

$1,155,490

Chien

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10045

11. U. S. Egypt Cooperative Research: Surface

Modification and Size Dependence of Magnetic

Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications


10/1/10 – 9/30/12

$50,000

Kim

Pending

Proposal B-10059

12. Novel Bio-Inspired Stress Adaptive Elastomers

American Chemical Society

9/1/10 – 8/31/12

$100,000

Kim

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10081

13. Liquid Crystal Elastomers


7/1/10 – 6/30/13

$488,026

Palffy-Muhoray

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10082

14. Monodisperse Microbiogel Encapsulation

Delivery System


7/1/10 – 6/30/13

$438,782

Chien, Kim

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10084

15. Interplay of Biaxiality and Chirality in ChLCs


6/1/10 – 5/31/13

$732,164

Yang

Not Awarded

B-10087

16. Composites of Iridescent and Optically Isotropic

Liquid Crystals as New Electro-Optical and

Photonic Systems


5/1/10 – 4/30/13

$347,166

Chien

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10090


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17. Investigation on the relation between anchoring

energy of polymer surface and the performance of

polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) light

shutter

Multi-Fineline Electronix , Inc.

12/1/09 – 11/30/11

$113,804

Yang

Awarded

Proposal B-10099 (444215)

18. Novel Nanostructured Substrates for Surface

Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)

National Science Foundation/LXD

7/1/10 – 7/1/11

$89,500

Wei

Pending

Proposal B-10104

19. Chiral Liquid Crystalline Polymer Vesicles


6/1/10 – 5/31/13

$284,163

Chien

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10131

20. Advanced Liquid Crystal Alignment Materials for

e-Books

Ohio Department of Development

6/1/10 – 5/31/13

$1,039,429

Bos

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10138

21. Engineering Elastomeric Photopolymer for Light-

Adjustable Intraocular Lenses

California Institute of Technology

6/1/10 - 5/31/10

$215,409

Selinger, R.

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10139

22. Switchable Energy-Saving Windows Based on

Advanced Liquid Crystal and Polymer Materials

LXD Incorporated

3/1/10 – 3/1/13

$200,000

Yang

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10140

23. Development of Simulators for Cholesteric Liquid

Crystals and Electrophoretic Displays

Samsung Electronics

2/1/10 – 1/31/12

$160,000

Yang

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10220

24. Electric Field Effects in Liquid Crystals with

Dielectric Dispersion

US Department of Energy

8/15/10-8/14/14

$896,171

Lavrentovich, Shiyanovskii

Pending

Proposal B-10300

(440606-continuation)

25. International: Biological Aspects of Liquid

Crystals (BALC-IRES)


10/1/10 – 9/30/13

$105,813

Jákli

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10243


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26. Homeotropically Aligned Porphyrin-C60 Blend

Thin Film Towards High Efficient Self-

Organizing Organic Photovoltaics

Ohio Board of Regents, Research Incentive

5/15/10 – 5/14/11

$35,000

Li, Q.

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10250

27. High Throughput Method to Measure Cell

Mechanics Using Tapered Glass Capillary


5/15/10 – 5/14/11

$50,000

Kim

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10250

28. Liquid Crystal Pharmaceuticals: An Innovative

Technology for Better Medicine


5/15/10 – 5/14/11

$50,000

Tsai, Jamison, Model, Li, Q.

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10263

29. Synthesis of monodisperse mesoporous silica-

based microcapsules using a microfluidic method


5/15/10 – 5/14/11

$35,000

Jaroniec, Kim

Awarded

Proposal B-10285 (444785)

30. Biaxial Nematic LC's (BNLC): KSU -Samsung

Project

Samsung Electronics

3/1/10 – 2/29/12

$500,000

Allender, Lavrentovich, Kumar

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10297

31. Low-Power and High-Performance Mobile

Display with Ultra-Wide Refresh-Rate Range

Intel Corporation

3/1/10 – 2/29/10

$49,241

Bos

Awarded

Proposal B-10303 (444314)

32. Programmable Metamatter


8/1/10 – 7/31/15

$6,250,000

Palffy-Muhoray, Lavrentovich

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10316

33. Stability and Interfacial Dynamics of Lipid

Membranes


9/1/10 – 8/31/13

$249,005

Kim

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10319

34. Plasmonic Nanoantennas for Single-Molecule,

Surface-Enhanced- Raman-Scattering Based

Sensing

L.C. Pegasus Corporation

9/1/10 – 2/28/11

$15,000

Wei

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10323

35. Novel Bio-Inspired Stress Adaptive Elastomers

American Chemical Society

9/1/11 -8/31/13

$100,000

Kim

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10331


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36. eVision Project

eVision, LLC

7/31/11 – 8/31/11

$10,600

Bos

Awarded

Proposal B-9881S1 (444311-

supplement)

37. Electrochemical Driving of Cholesteric Liquid

Crystals

Kent Displays

4/15/10 – 7/15/10

$26,218

Jákli

Awarded (444312)

Proposal B-10344

38. Low Cost, Continuously Tunable Electro-optic

Lens Requiring Simple Drive Electronics

PixelOptics, Inc.

5/15/10 – 5/14/11

$50,000

Bos

Awarded

Proposal B-10352 (444313)

39. Development, Commercialization and Education

on Nanostructured Sensor for Healthcare and

Energy Applications

Ohio Department of Development

10/1/10 – 9/30/13

$2,519,556

Wei, Lavrentovich, Jakli, Li,

Yang

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10367

40. Wide Temperature Blue Phase Liquid Crystal

Materials

AU Optronics Corporation

7/1/10 – 6/30/11

$100,000

Chien

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10377

41. Low Cost, Continuously Tunable Electro-Optic

Lens Requiring Simple Drive Electronics

PixelOptics, Inc.

5/15/10 – 6/15/10

$4,000

Bos

Awarded

Proposal B-10352S1 (444313-

supplement)

42. Predictive Multimethodology Multiscale

Simulations of Cancer Spread

National Institutes of Health (subaward University of

Washington)

1/1/11 – 12/31/14

$458,800

R. Selinger

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10382

43. +-1 Diopter Continuously Tunable Lenses'

United States Department of Defense (subaward SRI

International)

6/1/10 – 5/31/11

$130,000

Bos

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10391

44. Small Angle X-ray Diffraction System for

Ordered Organic Materials

United States Department of Energy

7/1/10 – 2/28/13

$421,243

Kumar, Sprunt, Li, Q.

Not Awarded

Proposal B-9439S1


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45. Development of Particle-Based Flow Diagnostic

Techniques

NASA Langley Research (subaward ATK

Aerospace)

7/7/10 – 9/30/10

$13,843

Bos

Awarded

Proposal B-104040 (444317-

supplement to 444308)

46. Experimental Studies of High Strength and

Advanced High Strength Steel under Multiaxial

Deformation

National Institute of Standards and Technology

10/1/10 – 9/30/13

$430,165

R. Selinger

Pending

Proposal B-10421

47. Liquid Crystal-Based Next Generation e-Paper

Devices by Micro- Engineered Surfaces

National Science Foundation (subaward LXD

Corporated)

1/1/11-6/30/11

$49,500

Yokoyama

Pending

Proposal B10429

48. Feasibilty investigation of a Liquid Crystal Based

LWIR to Visible Optical Transducer

US Department of Defense;

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Lab

subward

5/10/10 – 3/31/11

$57,980

J. Selinger, Bos

Awarded (444315)

Proposal B-10347

49. Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Active Matrix

Reflective Display

Industrial Technology Research Institute

7/1/10 – 6/30/12

$188,011

Yang

Pending

50. Micro-Capsulated Liquid Crystal Light

Modulator Materials

Orbotech, Inc.

7/1/10 – 6/30/11

$109,471

Chien

Pending

Proposal B-10419

51. Surface Alignment of Disodium Cromoglycate

Solutions

Crystal Diagnostics, Inc.

8/1/10 – 9/30/10

$15,008

Lavrentovich

Pending

Proposal 11010011

52. New Materials for Energy Conversion: Bent-

Core Liquid Crystal Elastomers


6/1/10 – 5/31/13

$847,051

Gleeson, Sprunt, Jákli

Not Awarded

Proposal B10115

53. Test and Development of Femto Liter Droplet

Dispenser for Generation of Smectic Liquid

Crystal Domains on Suspended LC Film

NASA

9/1/09 – 8/31/10

$71,890

Yokoyama

Not Awarded

Proposal B-10006

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Table 11

Patents, Applications, Invention Disclosures

Number & Date Title and Inventors

Patents

7,732,219

KSU 186

6/8/10

Detection and Amplification of Ligands (jointly owned with

NEOUCOM. Licensed to Pathogen).

C.J. Woolverton, G.D. Niehaus, K.J. Doane, O.D. Lavrentovich, S.P.

Schmidt, S.A. Signs

7,714,965

KSU 245

5/11/2010

Method of Plasma Beam Bombardment of Aligning Films for Liquid

Crystals

L.-C. Chien, A. Dobrovolskyy; O. Yaroschuk, O. Lavrentovich

7,692,731

KSU 260

4/6/2010

Electric Power Generation Using Liquid Crystals

A. Jákli, P. Palffy-Muhoray

7,595,850

KSU 262

9/29/09

Stressed Liquid Crystal Materials for Light Modulation

A. Glushchenko, G. Zhang, J. West

7,733,452

KSU 272

6/8/10

Materials for Promoting Alignment of Liquid Crystals on SiOx and

Other Substrates (joint with Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Inc.)

C.Chen, P.Bos, J. Anderson.

7,652,731

KSU 283

1/26/10

Polymer Enhanced Cholesteric Electro-Optical Devices

L.-C. Chien, L. Shi, S. H. Kim

7,628,935

12/8/09

Controlled Actuated Membranes and Methods of Making Same (Based

on J. Selinger’s work at the Naval Research Laboratory before coming

to KSU)

J. Naciri, C. M. Spillmann, J. Selinger, and B. R. Ratna.

Patent Applications

US 12/727,394 (pending)

KSU 316

3/19/10

Electro-Mechanical Energy Conversion Devices and Systems

James Gleeson, John Harden, Antal Jákli, Peter Palffy-Muhoray,

Samuel Sprunt

US 12/727,592 (pending)

KSU 316B

3/19/10

Methods and Systems for Detemining Flexoelectric Effect in a Liquid

Crystal

James Gleeson, John Harden, Antal Jákli, Peter Palffy-Muhoray,

Samuel Sprunt

US Utility Patent

12/718,437 (pending)

KSU 321

3/5/10

Transparent Conducting Electrodes and Method for Producing

John West

US Utility Patent

12,802,916 (pending)

KSU 326

6/16/10

Liquid Crystal Devices and Methods Providing Fast Switching Mode

Liang-Chy Chien, Lu Lu, Shing-Ying Lu

Patents, Applications, Invention Disclosures, 2009-2010

43

US Utility Patent

12/546,986 (pending)

KSU 336

8/25/09

A Method for Preparing Anistropic Particles and Devices Thereof

Atilla Bota, Antal Jákli, Erika Kalman, Matyas Molnar, Stefanie

Taushanoff, Zoltan Varga

US 12/547,062 (pending)

KSU 337

8/25/09

A Nanoparticle Composition, a Device and a Method Thereof

Oleg Lavrentovich, Heung-Shik Park

US Utility Patent

12/597,970 (pending)

KSU 339

10/28/09

Liquid Crystalline Blends, Device Thereof and Method Thereof

Quan Li

PC PCT/US09/52184

KSU 339

7/30/09

Liquid Crystalline Blends, Device Thereof and Method Thereof

Quan Li

US Utility Patent

12,802.896 (pending)

KSU 340

6/16/10

Methods and Apparatus to Produce Aligned Film of Lyotropic

Chromonic Liquid Crystals

Oleg Lavrentovich, Andrii Golovin

US Utility Patent

12/779,293 (pending)

KSU 342

5/13/10

Liquid Crystal Composition, Device and Method Thereof

Rui Bao, Deng-Ke Yang, Young Cheol Yang

US Utility Patent

12/587,731 (pending)

KSU 344

10/13/09

Methods and Apparatus for Electrically Controlling Dispersions of

Nanoparticles for Reconfigurable Optical Applications

Andrii Golovin, Oleg Lavrentovich

US Utility Patent

12/579,518 (pending)

KSU 345

10/15/09

Methods and Systems for Monitoring and Controlling Surfactant

Concentraion in Liquid Crystal Colloidal Dispersions

Hari Atkuir, John West, Ke Zhang

US Utility Patent

1,799,655 (pending)

KSU 346

4/29/10

A Film Comprising Substrate-Free Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal;

Fiber, Fabric, and Device Thereof; and Methods Thereof

Ebru Buyuktanir, John West

US Utility Patent

12,557,733 (pending)

KSU 347

9/11/09

A Liquid Crystal Composite, Cell. Device, and Method Thereof

Hari Atkuri, Anatoliy Glushchenko, John West, Ke Zhang

US Utility Patent

12/802,906 (pending)

KSU 350

6/16/10

Electro-Optical Device and Method for Controlling Color

Liang-Chy Chien, Shin-Ying Lu


44

US Utility Patent

12/802,903 (pending)

KSU 351

6/16/10

A Liquid Crystal Composition and Device Thereof

Liang-Chy Chien, Jeoung Yeon Hwang, Lu Lu

US Utility Patent

12,586,460 (pending)

KSU 353

9/22/09

Stimuli Responsive Liquid Crystal-Polymer Composite Fibers

Ebru Buyuktanir Margaret Fry, John West

US Utility Patent

12/802,943

KSU 354

6/17/10

Tunable Electro-Optic Liquid Crystal Lenses and Methods for Forming

the Lenses

Phil Bos, Douglas Bryant, Lei Shi, Bentley Wall

US Patent Appl.

20100002177

1/7/2010

Liquid Crystal Alignment Using Inkjet Printed Polymers

Liang-Chy Chien, Jeoung Yeon Hwang

US 61/335,391

KSU 365

1/6/10

One-step method for monodisperse microbiogels by glass capillary

microfluidics

Won Wook Jeong, Chanjoong Kim

US 61/397,874

KSU 369

6/17/10

Flexible Aqueous Soluble Conductive Polymer Compositions

John Harden, Wiler Iglesias Gonzalez, Antal Jákli

US 61/343,734

KSU 370

5/3/10

Smart Photochronic Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Window

Quan Li, Yannian Li, Ji Ma

US 61/338,380

KSU 371

2/18/10

Surface-Polymer-Assisted Vertically Aligned Liquid Crystal Cells

Volodymyr Borshch, Liang-Chy Chien, Jeoung Yeon Hwang


45

Invention Disclosures

KSU 362

7/15/09

Wide Tuning Range, Mixed Order, Liquid Crystal Based Photonic

Crystal and Application as a “Single Sub-Pixel” Reflective Color

Display (joint invention with Intel)

Philip Bos

KSU 364

9/10/09

Infrared Shielding Films and Method of Making Same

Liang-Chy Chien

KSU 365

9/14/09

One-Step Method for Monodisperse Microbiogels by Glass Capillary

Microfluidics

Chan Kim and W.-W. Jeong

KSU 367

11/4/09

Optically Tunable and Electrically Switchable Cholesteric Material, Its

Composition Therof, and Application Thereof

Quan Li

KSU 369

11/12/09

Omega-Flex: A New Flexible Conductive Polymer

Antal Jákli

KSU 370

11/13/09

Smart Energy-Saving Photochromic Liquid Crystal Window

Quan Li

KSU 371

11/30/09

Surface-Polymer-Assisted Vertically Aligned Liquid Crystal Cells

Liang-Chy Chien

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Table 12

Publications

Philip J. Bos

Peer Reviewed Journals

E. Dorjgotov, A. Bhowmik, P. Bos, “High tunability mixed order photonic crystal,” Applied

Physics Letters, 96 (16): Art. No. 163507 (2010).

L. Shi, P. McManamon, D. Bryant, K. Zhang, P. Bos, “Dynamics of a liquid-crystal variable

optical prism based on Pancharatnam phase” Applied Optics, 49 (6): 976-985 (2010).

Y. Huang, A. Bhowmik, P. Bos, “Comparison of organic and inorganic alignment layers for low-

power liquid-crystal devices using low-frequency applied-voltage waveforms,” Journal of the

Society for Information Display, 18 (3): 206-210 (2010).

V. Sergan, T. Sergan, P. Bos, “Control of the molecular pretilt angle in liquid crystal devices by

using a low-density localized polymer network,” Chemical Physics Letters, 486 (4-6): 123-125

(2010).

L. Shi, J. Shi, P. McManamon, P. Bos, “Design considerations for high efficiency liquid crystal

decentered microlens arrays for steering light,”Applied Optics, 49 (3): 409-421 (2010).

M. Reznikov, P. Bos, M. O'Callaghan, “The effect of SiOx alignment layer thickness on the

switching of SmC* bistable liquid crystal devices,”Journal of Applied Physics, 107 (1): Art. No.

014103 (2010).

K. Zhang, N. Liu, R. Twieg, P. Bos, “Tuning the sensitivity of a liquid crystal-based

chemical/biological sensor using a novel double layer alignment film,” Liquid Crystals, 36 (10-

11): 1031-1035 (2009).

E. Dorjgotov, A. Bhowmik, D. Bryant, L.C. Chien, P. Bos, “Polarization-independent liquid-

crystal-etalon modulator,“ Journal of the Society for Information Display, 17 (12): 1015-1020

(2009).

Liang-Chy Chien

Books and Chapters in Books

L.C. Chien, C.O. Catanescu, L. Li, “Spatially-ordered polymers self-assembled in ordered liquid

crystal templates,” in “Crosslinked Liquid Crystalline Systems: From Rigid Polymer Networks to

Elastomers,” D. Broer, G.P. Crawford, and S. Zumer, Eds., Taylor and Francis. (2010).


S.-Y. Lu and L.-C. Chien, “Electrically switched color with polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid

crystals,” Optics Lett. 35, 562-564 (2010).

H.-J. Choi, K.-U. Jeong, L.-C. Chien, M.-H. Lee, “Photochromic 3-dimensional actuator based on

an uncrosslinked liquid crystal elastomer,” J. Mater. Chem., 19, 7124–7129 (2009).

Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports

L. C. Chien, “Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies V,” The Proceeding of International Society

for Optical Engineering, 7618, (2010).

Publications, 2009-2010

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Eugene Gartland


E.C. Gartland, Jr. and E.G. Virga, “Minimum principle for indefinite mean-field free energies,”

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 196, 143-189 (2010).

E.C. Gartland, Jr., H. Huang, O.D. Lavrentovich, P. Palffy-Muhoray, I.I. Smalyukh, T. Kosa, and

B. Taheri, “Electric-field-induced transitions in a cholesteric liquid crystal film with negative

dielectric anisotropy,” Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 7, 709-725 (2010).

Antal Jákli


A. Jákli, I. C. Pinte, J. L. Serrano, M. B. Ros and M. R. de la Fuente “Electro-optic, Dielectric

and Piezoelectric properties of a ferroelectric bent-core liquid crystal”, Adv. Mater, 21, 3784–

3788; DOE: 10.1002/adma.200900131 (2009).

K. Van Le, M. Mathews, M. Chambers, J. Harden, Q. Li, H. Takezoe, Antal Jákli, ”Electro-optic

technique to study biaxiality of liquid crystals with positive dielectric anisotropy: The case of a

bent-core material”, Phys. Rev. E., Rapid Comm.,79.030701(R) (2009).

J. Fontana, C. Bailey, W. Weissflog, I. Jánossy and A. Jákli, “Optical waveguiding in bent - core

liquid crystal filaments”, Phys. Rev. E, 80, 032701 (2009)

J. Petzold, A. Nemeş, A. Eremin, C. Bailey, N. Diorio, A. Jákli, and R. Stannarius "Acoustically

driven oscillations of freely suspended liquid crystal filaments", Soft Matter, 5 (16), 3120 – 3126

(2009).

C. Bailey, K. Fodor-Csorba, J.T. Gleeson, S.N. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Rheological Properties of bent-

core liquid crystals”, Soft Matter, 5, 3618 - 3622 (2009).

C. Bailey, K. Fodor-Csorba, R. Verduzco, J. T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli “Large flow-

birefringence of nematogenic bent-core liquid crystals”, Physical Review Letters, 103, 237803

(2009); selected in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 20, (24) December 14,

2009.

M. Chambers, R. Verduzco, J. T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt and A. Jákli, “Flexoelectricity of a calamitic

liquid crystal elastomer swollen with a bent-core liquid crystal”, J. Mater. Chem. 19 (42) 7909-

7913 (2009).

M. Kohout, M. Chambers, A. Vajda, G. Galli, A. Domján, J. Svoboda, A. Jákli and K. Fodor-

Csorba, “Properties of non-symmetric bent-core liquid crystals with variable flexible chain

length”, Liq. Cryst., in print. (2010); electronic-Liquid Crystal Communications; http://www.e-

lc.org/docs/2009_11_24_17_15_25.

P. Salamon, N. Éber, Á. Buka, J. T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Dielectric properties of bent-

core and calamitic liquid crystal mixtures”, electronic-Liquid Crystal Communications;;

http://www.e-lc.org/docs /2009_10_13_15_34_03; Phys. Rev. E 81, 031711 (2010).

A. Jákli, “Electro-mechanical effects in liquid crystals”, Liquid Crystals, 37, (6), 825-837 (2010).

D. Ž. Obadović, A. Vajda, A Jákli, A. Menyhárd, M. Kohout, J. Svoboda,M. Stojanović, N. Éber,

G. Galli and K. Fodor-Csorba, “Mesophase behaviour of binary mixtures of bell-shaped and

calamitic compounds”, Liquid Crystals, 37 (5) 527-536 (2010).

S. Taushanoff, K. V. Le, J. Williams, R. J. Twieg, B. K. Sadashiva, H. Takezoe and A. Jákli,

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.200900131

http://www.e-lc.org/docs%20/2009_10_13_15_34_03


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“Stable amorphous blue phase of bent-core nematic liquid crystals doped with a chiral material”,

J. Mater. Chem., 20, 5893–58982 (2010) DOI: 10.1039/C0JM00690D.

J. Harden, M. Chambers, R. Verduzco, P. Luchette, J.T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, Giant

flexoelectricity in Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomers, Appl. Phys. Lett., 96, 102907

(2010).

C. Bailey, M. Murphy, A. Eremin, W. Weissflog, A. Jákli, “Bundles of fluid fibers formed by

bent-core molecules”, Phys. Rev. E, 81, 031708 (2010)

Z. Li, P. Salamon, A. Jákli, K.Wang, C. Qin, Q. Yang, C. Liu and J.Wen, “Synthesis and

mesomorphic properties of resorcyl di[4-(4-alkoxy-2,3-diflorophenyl)ethynyl] benzoate liquid

crystals”, Liquid Crystals, 37 (4), 427–433 (2010).

S. H. Hong, R. Verduzco, J. Williams, R. J. Twieg, E. DiMasi, R. Pindak, A. Jákli, J. T. Gleeson,

and S. Sprunt, “Short range smectic order in bent-core nematic liquid crystals”, Soft. Matter., 6,

4819 (2010); DOI:10.1039/c000362j (2010).

R. Verduzco, P. Luchette, S. Hong, J. Harden, E. DiMasi, P. Palffy-Muhoray, S. M Kilbey, S.

Sprunt, J. T Gleeson, and A. Jákli, “Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Elastomers”, J. Mater. Chem, 20,

8488–8495 (2010); DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01920H (2010).


A. Jákli, “Simple thoughts about the role of liquid crystals inspired by the liquid crystal sessions

at the APS March Meeting 2009, Liquid Crystal Today, 18,(2) 57-58 (2009).

Chanjoong Kim


W.-W. Jeong and C. Kim, “One-step method for monodisperse microbiogels by glass capillary

microfluidics,” submitted.

C. Eisenmann, C. Kim, J. Masson and D. A. Weitz, “Shear melting of a colloidal glass,” Physical

Review Letters, 104, 035502 (2010).

J. J. Lietor-Santos, C. Kim, M. L. Lynch, A. Fernandez-Nieves, and D. A. Weitz, “The role of

polymer polydispersity in phase separation and gelation in colloid-polymer mixtures,” Langmuir,

26, 3174-3178 (2010).

Edgar Kooijman


S. Tristram-Nagle, R. Chan, E. Kooijman, P. Uppamoochikkal, W. Qiang, D. Weliky, and J.

Nagle, “HIV fusion peptide penetrates, disorders, and softens T-cell membrane mimics”, J. Mol.

Biol., doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2010.07.026 (2010).

E. Kooijman, K. King, M. Gangoda, A. Gericke, “Ionization properties of

phosphatidylinositolpolyphosphates in mixed model membranes”, Biochemistry 48, 9360-9371

(2009).

E. Kooijman, and K.N.J. Burger, “Biophysics and Functions of Phosphatidic Acid; a Molecular

Perspective”, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1791, 881-888 (2009).


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E. Kooijman, D.Vaknin, W. Bu, L. Joshi, S.-W. Kang, A. Gericke, E.K. Mann, and S. Kumar,

“Structure of ceramide-1-phosphate at the air-water solution interface in the absence and presence

of Ca2+”, Biophysical Journal 96, 2204-2215 (2009).

Oleg D. Lavrentovich


A.B. Golovin, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Electrically reconfigurable optical metamaterial based on

colloidal dispersion of metal nanorods in dielectric fluid”, Applied Physics Letters 95, No. 25,

254104 (2009); DOE No. DEFG02-06ER46331 and AFOSR MURI No. FA9550-06-1-0337.

E.C. Gartland, Jr., H. Huang, O.D. Lavrentovich, P. Palffy-Muhoray, I.I. Smaluykh, T. Kosa, B.

Taheri, “Electric-field induced transitions in a cholesteric liquid-crystal film with negative

dielectric anisotropy”, J. Comput. Theor. Nanoscience 7, 709-725 (2010).

S.V. Shiyanovskii and O.D. Lavrentovich, “Dielectric relaxation and memory effects in nematic

liquid crystals” (Invited Article), Liquid Crystals 37, No.6-7, 737-745 (2010).

V. G. Nazarenko, O. P. Boiko, H.-S. Park O. M. Brodyn, M. M. Omelchenko, L. Tortora Yu. A.

Nastishin, O. D. Lavrentovich, “Surface alignment and anchoring transitions in nematic lyotropic

chromonic liquid crystal”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 017801 (2010).

L. Tortora, HS Park, S.-Woong Kang, V. Savaryn, S. H. Hong, K. Kaznatcheev, D. Finotello, S.

Sprunt, S. Kumar, O. D. Lavrentovich, “Self-assembly, condensation, and order in aqueous

lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals crowded with additives”, Soft Matter 6, No. 17, 4157-4167

(2010).


H.S. Park, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Orientational order in systems of nanorods: Side-by-side and end-

to-end controlled assembly using lyotropic chromonic materials”, Metamaterials: Fundamentals

and Applications II, Ed. M.A. Noginov, N.I. Zheludev, A.D. Boardman, N. Engheta, Proc. of

SPIE, 739210, 12 pages (2009). San Diego, August 2009

Quan Li

Books and Chapters in Books

Q. Li, Editor, “Self-organizing Organic Semiconductors: From Materials to Device

Applications”, John Wiley & Son, ISBN: 978-0-470-55973-4.

M. Mathews and Q. Li, “Self-organizing Discotic Liquid Crystals as Novel Organic

Semiconductors: Materials and Applications”, Chapter 4 in Self-organized Organic

Semiconductors: From Materials to Device Applications, Q. Li, Ed., John Wiley & Son, ISBN:

978-0-470-55973-4.

J. Ma and Q. Li, “Sel-Organized Semiconducting Smectic Liqud Crystals”, Chapter 5 in Self-

organized Organic Semiconductors: From Materials to Applications, Q. Li, Ed., John Wiley &

Son, ISBN: 978-0-470-55973-4.

L. Jin and Q. Li, “Self-organized Fullerene Based Organic Semiconductors”, Chapter 7 in Self-

organized Organic Semiconductors: From Materials to Device Application, Q. Li, Ed., John

Wiley & Son, ISBN: 978-0-470-55973-4.


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M. Mathews, R. Zola, Hurley, S., D. Yang, T. J. White, T. J. Bunning and Q. Li, “Light-driving

Reversible Handness Inversion in Self-organized Helical Superstructures”, Journal of the

American Chemical Society 132, 18361-18366 (2010).

L. Jin, Y. Li, J. Ma and Q. Li, “Synthesis of Novel Thermally Reversible Photochromic Axially

Chiral Spirooxazines”, Organic Letters 12, 3552-3555 (2010).

M. Ji, Y. Li, T. White, A. Urbas and Q. Li, “Light-driven Nanoscale Chiral Molecular Switch:

Reversible Dynamic Full Range Color Phototuning”, Chemmical Communications 46, 3463-

3465 (2010) (Highlights in Chemical Technology and a top ten most download Chem. Commun.

Article in May of 2010).

B. Senyuk, H. Wonderly, M. Mathews, Q. Li, S. V. Shiyanovskii and O. D. Lavrentovich,

“Surface Alignment, Anchoring Transitions, Optical Properties and Topological defects in the

Nematic Phase of Thermotropic Bent-core Liquid Crystal A131”, Physical Review E 82, 041711-

1-13 (2010).

P. Sathyanarayana, T. A. Kumar, V. S. S. Sastry, M. Mathews, Q. Li, H. Takezoe and S. Dhara,

“Rotational Viscosity of a Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal”, Applied Physics Express 3,

091702 (2010).

T. White, R. L. Bricker, L. V. Natarajan, V. P. Tondiglia, C. Bailey, L. Green, Q. Li and T. J.

Bunning, “Electromechanical and Light Tunable Cholesteric Liquid Crystals”, Optics

Communications 283, 3434-3436 (2010).

T. White, R. L. Bricker, L. V. Natarajan, V. P. Tondiglia, L. Green, Q. Li and T. J. Bunning,

“Electrically Switchable, Photoaddressable Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Reflectors”, Optics

Express 18, 173-178 (2010).

P. Sathyanarayana, M. Mathews, Q. Li, K. V. Le, H. Takezoe and S. Dhara, “Splay Bend

Elasticity of A Bent-core Nematic Liquid Crystal”, Physical Review E (Rapid Communications)

81, 010702/1-4 (2010).

N. Venkataraman, G. Magyar, E. Montbach, A. Khan, T. Schneider, J. W. Doane, L. Green and

Q. Li, “Thin Flexible Photosensitive Cholesteric Displays”, Journal of the Society for Information

Display 17, 869-873 (2009).


Q. Li, “Self-organized Liquid Crystalline Materials for Organic Photovoltaics: Opportunity and

Challenge”, Extended abstract booklet for the CIMOPV Workshop on Complex Interactions and

Mechanisms in Organic Photovoltaics, Brisbane (2010).

Q. Li, Y. Li, D. Yu, L. Dai and A. Urbas, “Organo-soluble Functionalized Gold Nanorods:

Opportunity and Challenge”, Abstracts, 42nd Central Regional Meeting of the American

Chemical Society, Dayton, OH, CERMACS-12 (2010).


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Q. Li, X. Zhou, “Well-defined Liquid Crystal Thin Films for Self-organizing Organic

Photovoltaics”, Abstracts of Papers, 238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, ORGN-031

(2009).

Q. Li, J. M. El Khoury, X. Zhou, L. Qu, L. Dai and A. Urbas, “Organo-soluble Photoresponsive

Thiol Monolayer-protected Gold Nanorods”, Abstracts of Papers, 238th ACS National Meeting,

Washington, DC, COLL-046 (2009)

Peter Palffy-Muhoray


A. Haji-Akbari, M. Engel, A. Keyes, X. Zheng, R. Petschek, P. Palffy-Muhoray,

“Disordered, Quasicrystalline and Crystalline Phases of Densely Packed Tetrahedral”

Nature, 462, 773-777, December (2009).

R. Verduzco, P. Luchette, S. Hong, J. Harden, E. DiMasi, P. Palffy-Muhoray, S. M Kilbey, S.

Sprunt, J. T Gleeson, and A. Jákli, “Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Elastomers”, J. Mater. Chem, 20,

8488–8495 (2010); DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01920H (2010).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Printed Actuators in a Flap”, Nat. Mat. 8, 614-15, August (2009).

Jonathan Selinger


J. Geng and J. V. Selinger, “Theory and simulation of two-dimensional nematic and tetratic

phases,” Phys. Rev. E 80, 011707 (2009).

S. Dhakal and J. V. Selinger, “Statistical mechanics of splay flexoelectricity in nematic liquid

crystals,” Phys. Rev. E 81, 031704 (2010).

Robin Selinger


B. L. Mbanga, F. Ye, J. V. Selinger, and R. L. B. Selinger, “Modeling elastic instabilities in

nematic elastomers,” Phys. Rev. E 82, 051701 (2010).

N. S. Weingarten and R. L. B. Selinger, “Atomistic simulation studies of size effects in plasticity:

compression of single-and polydomain crystals in two dimensions,” submitted in June ’10, to be

published in Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering (in press).

Sergij Shiyanovskii


S.V. Shiyanovskii and O.D. Lavrentovich, “Dielectric relaxation and memory effects in nematic

liquid crystals” (Invited Article), Liquid Crystals 37, No.6-7, 737-745 (2010).


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Qi-Huo Wei


B. Joshi, X. Wen, K. Sun, W. Lu, Q.-H. Wei, “Fabrication and Characterization of Coupled

Metal-Dielectric-Metal (MDM) Nanoantennas”, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology

B28, C6O21 (2010).

B. Joshi, A. Chakrabarty, Q.-H. Wei, “Plasmonic Cavity Resonances of Metal-Dielectric-Metal

Nanoantennas”, IEEE Transactions in Nanotechnology 9, 701-707 (2010, cover article).

B. Joshi, A. Chakrabarty, C. Bruot, H. Ainsworth, G. Fraizer and Q.-H. Wei, “DNA-WT1 Protein

Interaction Studied by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”, Analytical and Bioanalytical

Chemistry 396, 1415-1421(2010).

F. Wang, M. Xiao, K. Sun, Q.-H. Wei, “Generation of Radially and Azimuthally Polarized Light

through Concentric Circular Nanoslits in Ag Films”, Optics Express 18, 63-71 (2010).

Q. Wei, X. Zhou, B. Joshi, Y. Chen, K.-D. Li, Q.-H. Wei, K. Sun, L. Wang, “Self-Assembly of

Ordered Semiconductor Nanoholes by Ion Beam Sputtering”, Advanced Materials 21, P2865

(2009).

Deng-Ke Yang


Y.-C. Yang and D.-K, Yang, “Analytic expressions of optical retardation of biaxial compensation

films for liquid crystal display”, Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics 11, 105502-

105511 (2009).

R. Bao, C.-M. Liu and D.-K. Yang, “Smart Bistable Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Texture Light

Shutter”, Appl. Phys. Express 2, 112401-112403 (2009).

J. Ma, L. Shi and D.-K. Yang, “Bistable Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Texture Light Shutter”,

Appl. Phys. Express 3, 021702-021704 (2010).


Y.-C. Yang and D.-K. Yang, “Drawing-Induced Biaxiality Change from a Positive C to a

Negative A Plate and Its Application in Wide Viewing Angle IPS LCDs”, SID Intl Symp. Digest

Tech. Papers, XXXXI, 495-498 (2010).

S. Hurley, D.-K. Yang and C. Mullin, “The Scattering Profile of Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric

Texture Displays”, SID Intl Symp. Digest Tech. Papers, XXXXI, 293-296 (2010).

R. Zola, S. Hurley and D.-K. Yang and C. Mullin, “Liquid Crystal Display Response Time

Improvement by Using the Natural Chiral Molecule D-Limonene”, SID Intl Symp. Digest Tech.

Papers, XXXXI, 1762-1765 (2010).

Hiroshi Yokoyama


M.Yoneya, Y. Tabe, H. Yokoyama, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Condensed-Phase Chiral

Molecular Propellers", J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 8320 (2010).

J. Niitsuma, M.Yoneya, H. Yokoyama, "Surface nematic liquid crystal bistability on low-

symmetry photoalignmnent micropatterns", Liq. Cryst. 37, 31 (2010).


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J. Fukuda, M. Yoneya, H. Yokoyama, "Critical Reexamination of Berreman's Theory on Surface

Anchoring", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 516, 12 (2010).

K. Aoki, M.Yoneya, H. Yokoyama, "Entropy and heat capacity calculations of simulated crystal-

hexatic smectic-B-smectic-A liquid-crystal phase transitions", Phys. Rev. E 81, 021701 (2010).

J. Gwag, J. Kim, M. Oh-e, J. Niitsuma, M. Yoneya, H. Yokoyama, "Higher-order surface free

energy in azimuthal nematic anchoring on nanopatterned grooves", Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 103101

(2009).

T. Ohzono, H. Monobe, R. Yamaguchi, Y. Shimizu, H. Yokoyama, "Dynamics of surface

memory effect in liquid crystal alignment on reconfigurable microwrinkles", Appl. Phys. Lett.95,

014101 (2009).

T. Yamamoto, I. Nishiyama, M. Yoneya, "Novel Chiral Effect That Produces the Anisotropy in

3D Structured Soft Material: Chirality-Driven Cubic-Tetragonal Liquid Crystal Phase

Transition", J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 11564 (2009).

J.Niitsuma, M. Yoneya, H. Yokoyama, "Improved Micro-Photopatterning on Azo Film for a

Practical Nematic Liquid Crystal Bistability", Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 48, 040201 (2009).

J. Gwag, J. Park, M.Yoneya, H. Yokoyama, "Electro-Optic Characteristics in a Cholesteric Phase

of Bimesogenic Liquid Crystals", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 511, 1667 (2009).

I. Nishiyama, J. Yamamoto, H. Yokoyama, "Molecular Organization Realized by Soft Character

of Smectic Layer", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 498, 19 (2009).

T. Yamamoto, Y. Tabe, H. Yokoyama, "Manipulation of Defect Structures and Colloidal Chains

in Liquid Crystals by Means of Photochemical Reactions of Azobenzene Compounds", Mol.

Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 498, 1 (2009).

H. Yokoyama, "Tunable Whispers (An Introductory Review)", Nature Photonics 3, 560 (2009).

J. Fukuda, M. Yoneya, H. Yokoyama, "Simulation of cholesteric blue phases using a Landau--de

Gennes theory: Effect of an applied electric field", Phys. Rev. E 80, 031706 (2009).

J. Fukuda, M. Yoneya, H. Yokoyama, "Consistent numerical evaluation of the anchoring energy

of a grooved surface", Phys. Rev. E 79, 011705 (2009).

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Presentations at Professional Meetings and Academia

Philip J. Bos

Oral Presentations

Y. Huang, P. Bos, A. Bhowmik, “5° SiOx Deposition Alignment: A Possible Solution for Low-

Power LCDs Using Low-Frequency Applied Voltage Waveforms,” Society for Information

Display 2010 International Symposium, Digest of Technical Papers, XXXXI, p 587.

L. Lu, K. Zhang, R. Twieg, P. Bos, B. Auman, A. Bhowmik, “The Use of Fluorinated

Alignment Layer to Reduce Image Retention in Liquid Crystal Displays” Society for Information

Display 2010 International Symposium, Digest of Technical Papers. Digest of Technical Papers,

XXXXI, p 583.

Liang-Chy Chien

Invited Presentations

“Recent Advances in Electrically Switched Color for Reflective Displays,” April 29-30, 2010,

National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, April 29-30, 2010.

“Color e-Papers Based on Chiral Liquid Crystals and Polymer Composites,” Research Frontiers

of Green Photonics Workshop, Nangyan Technology University, Singapore, March 30-April 1,

2010.

“High Transmission Polymer-Stabilized Vertically-Aligned Nematic Displays,” AU Optronics,

Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, March 29, 2010.

“Recently Advances in Polymer-Stabilized Vertically-Aligned Liquid Crystal,” Daxin Materials

Corp., Hukou Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan, March 26, 2010.

“Current Trend in Reflective Bistable Flexible Displays,” Chimei-Innolux Corporation, Tainan,

Taiwan, March 25, 2010.

“Electrically Tunable Liquid Crystal Color for e-Paper Displays,” Display Institute and

Department of Photonics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, March 24, 2010.

“Recent Advances in Liquid Crystals and Polymer Composites for Flexible Displays,” State Key

Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou,

PRC, March 23, 2010.

“Recent Advances in Fast Switching Liquid Crystal Displays,” Samsung Electronics Co., Suwon,

Korea, Dec. 16, 2009.

“Polymer-Stabilized Vertically-Aligned Nematic Displays,” College of Advanced Materials

Engineering, Department of Polymer & Nano Science & Technology, National Chonbuk

University, Dec. 15, 2009.

“Recent Advances in Polymer-Stabilized Liquid Crystal Displays,” School of Electrical

Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, December 14, 2009.

“Liquid Crystal Directed, Light Control Polymers and Liquid Crystal Composites,” Department

of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Dec. 14, 2009.

Presentations, 2009-2010

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“Electrically-switchable liquid crystal color for e-Paper displays,” 2009 International Display

Workshop, Miyazaki, Japan.Dec. 9-11, 2010.

“Electrically-switched liquid crystal color for photonics and displays,” Plenary Lecture, 2009

International Liquid Crystal Science and Technology Conference, Qunming, China, August 2-5,

2009. “Cholesteric liquid crystal for photonics and displays,” Department of Physics, Bejing

Institute of Technology, July 13, 2009.

“Polymer stabilized liquid crystals for display and photonic applications,” Department of

Materials Physics and Chemistry, Bejing University of Science and Technology, Bejing, China,

July 10, 2009.

“Cholesteric liquid crystal for photonics and displays,” 2009 I-CAMP Summer School on Optics

and Photonics, Qingdao, China, July 5, 2009.

Oral Presentations

J. Xiang, L.-C. Chien, “Wide-Temperature-Range Blue-Phase Liquid Crystals for Display

Applications,” Society of Information Display 2010 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, May

23-28, 2010.

V. Borshch, J.-Y. Hwang and L.-C. Chien, “Liquid Crystal-Directed Polymer Nanostructure for

vertically aligned nematic devices,” 2010 SPIE Photonic West Conference on Emerging Liquid

Crystal Technologies V, 7618, San Francisco, Jan. 23-28, 2010.

Eugene Gartland


“Numerical modeling of electric-field-induced transitions in cholesteric liquid crystal films,”

Multiscale Modeling and Materials Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, April

2010.

“A least-free-energy principle for indefinite liquid-crystal mean-field models,” Joint

SIAM/RSME-SCM-SEMA Meeting on Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial

Differential Equations (DSPDEs`10), Barcelona, Spain, minisymposium on “Liquid Crystals:

Biaxial Phases, Singularities and Elastomers,” June 2010.

“Numerical investigations of electric-field-induced transitions in cholesteric liquid-crystal films,”

OxPDE Seminar, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, June 2010.

“Numerical investigations of electric-field-induced transitions in cholesteric liquid-crystal films,”

Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, June 2010.

“A least-free-energy principle for indefinite liquid-crystal mean-field models,” Continuum

Mechanics Group Seminar, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2010.

“A least-free-energy principle for indefinite liquid-crystal mean-field models,” Soft Matter

Mathematical Modelling Reading Group, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, July 2010.

Antal Jákli


“SIAM: Dynamic Systems and Partial Differential Equations,”Barcelona, June 3, 2010.

Tutorial at the International Liquid Crystal Conference, Zaragoza, Spain, August 31-September 4.

2009


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“Liquid Crystals in Biology,” Niels Bohr Institute, June 9th. 2010.

University of Colorado, Boulder April 28th 2010

Oral Presentations

A. Jákli, “Collaborative Research in Europe on Liquid Crystals (CRELIC-IRES): Goals, subjects,

players…”, 1st NSF-OTKA Symposium for Complex Fluids, Eger, Hungary, 2009, July 8-10.

A. Jákli, J. Harden, J.T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, “Piezoelectric origin of the giant flexoelectric effect

of bent-core nematic liquid crystals”, FLC 09, August 31-September 4. 2009.

R. Verduzco, B.S. Lokitz, P. Luchette, J. Harden, P. Sálamon, P. Palffy-Muhoray, E. DiMasi, J.T.

Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Bent-Core LC Elastomers and Side-Group LC Polymers Using

Reactive Bent-Core Mesogens”, 5th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference, Kent,

OH, USA September 24-26, 2009.

J. Harden, M. Chambers, R. Verduzco, P. Luchette, P. Palffy-Muhoray, J.T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt,

A. Jákli, “First Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomer: Characterization and Giant

Flexoelectric Response”, 5th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference, Kent, OH, USA,

September 24-26, 2009.

J. Harden, R. Verduzco, P. Luchette, J. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, A. Jákli, “Electromechanical Energy

conversion using a bent-core nematic liquid crystalline elastomer and the giant flexoelectric

effect”, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Portland, OR, USA, APS March Meeting

2010.

R. Verduzco, S.H. Hong, A. Jákli, S. Sprunt, J. Gleeson, “Bent Core Liquid Crystal Polymers and

Elastomers”, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Portland, OR, USA, APS March

Meeting 2010.

W. Iglesias, A. Jákli, E.K. Mann, “Bent-core alignment monolayers”, Bulletin of the American

Physical Society, Portland, OR, USA, APS March Meeting 2010.

S. Taushanoff, K.V. Le, R. Twieg, H. Takezoe, A. Jákli, “Blue phase mixtures of bent-core liquid

crystals and chiral dopants”, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Portland, OR, USA, APS

March Meeting 2010.

M. Majumbar, P. Salamon, A. Jákli, S. Sprunt, “Elastic constants and viscosities of a bent-core

nematic liquid crystal studied by dynamic light scattering and magnetic Freedericksz transition”,

Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Portland, OR, USA, APS March Meeting 2010.

Poster Presentations

A. Jákli, I. C. Pintre, J.L. Serrano, M. B. Ros and R. de la Fuente, “Piezoelectric properties of a

ferroelectric bent-core liquid crystal”, FLC 09, Zaragoza, Spain, August 31-September 4, 2009.

M. Chambers, R. Verduzco, J. T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt and A. Jákli, “Calamitic liquid crystal

elastomer swollen with a bent-core liquid crystal and their flexoelectric response”, 5th

International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference, Kent, OH, USA, September 24-26, 2009.

Chan Kim


“Perturbed dynamics of colloidal suspensions under stress,” C. Kim, MMC seminar, Civil &

Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Apr. 30, 2010.


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“Polymer monolayer dynamics at the air/water interface,” C. Kim, Biophysics/Condensed Matter

Colloquium, Boston University, Oct. 16, 2009.

Oral Presentations

C. Kim, “Physics, Chemistry and Engineering of Soft and Bio Materials,” LCI Research

Seminars, Kent State University, Apr. 27, 2010.

C. Kim, “Soft Materials,” Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Kent State University, June

30, 2010.

Edgar Kooijman


University of Notre Dame, Chemistry department colloquium, South Bend, Indiana, April 2010.

Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Institute of Biomembranes colloquium, January

2010.

University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Amsterdam, the

Netherlands, December 2009.

University of Akron, Biology department, November 2009.


10th Liposome meeting, Vancouver, August 2010.

84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium of the ACS, Akron, May 2010.

54th annual meeting of the Biophysical Society, San Francisco, February 2010.



“Orientational order in systems of nanorods,” Invited paper 7392-34, MURI, NSF MWN 07)

SPIE Optics+Photonics 2009, San Diego, CA, August 1-6, 2009.

Oral Presentations

M. Majumdar, P. Salamon, J. Gleeson, A. Jakli, S. Sprunt, B. Senyuk, O.D. Lavrentovich, J.

Seltmann, M. Lehmann, APS March Meeting, March 15-19, 2010.

A. Golovin and O.D. Lavrentovich, “Electrically Controlled colloidal dispersion of metal

nanorods in dielectric fluid,” Abstract 223, 84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, The

University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, June 20-23, 2010.

O.D. Lavrentovich, L. Tortora, H.S. Park, S.W. Kang, S. Ho Hong, K. Kaznacheev, D. Finotello,

S. Sprunt, S. Kumar, “Self-assembly of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals disodium

chromoglycate in crowded solutions,” Abstract 171, 84th Colloid and Surface Science

Symposium, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, June 20-23, 2010.

Y. Nastishin, H.-S. Park, O. Boiko, O. Brodyn, M. Omelchenko, L. Tortora, V. Nazarenko and

O.D. Lavrentovich, “Surface alignment and anchoring transition in nematic lyotropic chromonic

liquid crystal,” Abstract 172, 84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, The University of

Akron, Akron, Ohio, June 20-23, 2010,.


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H.S. Park, L. Tortora, S.W. Kang, S. Kumar, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Poly(ethylene glycol) induced

condensation of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal anionic monoazo dye sunset yellow,”Abstract

173, 84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, June

20-23, 2010.

I. E. Lazo, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Dynamics of colloidal particles in nematic liquid crystal,”

Abstract 175, 84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, The University of Akron, Akron,

Ohio, June 20-23, 2010.

B. Senyuk, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Spinning of solid spherical particles in a cholesteric liquid

crystal,” Abstract 178, 84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, The University of Akron,

Akron, Ohio, June 20-23, 2010.


L. Tortora, S. Diez Berart, L. Green, D. Finotello, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Lyotropic chromonic

liquid crystals: An example of calamitic aggregation of disc-like molecules by electrostatic

forces,” 12th International conference on ferroelectric liquid crystals, Saragoza, Spain, August

31-September 4, 2009.

S. Diez Berart, B. Zupancic, D. Finotello, B. Zalar, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Cylindrical confinement

of a photosensitive liquid crystal under uv-light,” 12th International conference on ferroelectric

liquid crystals, Saragoza, Spain, August 31-September 4, 2009.

H.S. Park and O.D. Lavrentovich, “Gold nanorod composite thermoresponsive hydrogels,” 5th

International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference, Kent State University, September 24-26,

2009.

O.D. Lavrentovich, A. Golovin, “Electrically controlled colloidal dispersion of metal nanorods in

dielectric fluid,” Conference “Materials and energy: The building blocks for Ohio’s economic

future,” Hyatt Regency Columbus, Columbus, Ohio, April 20-21, 2010.

V. Borshch and O.D. Lavrentovich, “Optical properties of periodic structures in submicron films

of hybrid aligned nematic liquid crystals,” Abstract 102, 84th Colloid and Surface Science

Symposium, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, June 20-23, 2010.

Quan Li


“Self-organized Liquid Crystalline Materials for Organic Photovoltaics: Opportunity and

Challenge”, 2010 Workshop on Complex Interactions and Mechanisms in Organic Photovoltaics,

Brisbane, June 30-July 3, 2010.

“Organo-soluble Functionalized Gold Nanorods: Opportunity and Challenge”, 42nd

Central

Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Dayton, Ohio, June 16-19, 2010.

“Self-organizing Liquid Crystalline Materials: From Tunable Photonics to Renewable Solar

Energy”, Department of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, April 1, 2010.

“Novel Liquid Crystals: From Display to Renewable Solar Energy”, Department of Chemistry,

Youngstown University, Oct. 9, 2009.

“Light-driven Chiral Molecular Motors: From Materials to Applications”, 2009 International

Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, Weihai, July 8-11, 2009.


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Oral Presentations

Q. Li, Y. Li, D. Yu, L. Dai and A. Urbas, “Hydrophobic Functionalized Gold Nanorods:

Opportunity and Challenge”, 84th Colliod & Interface Science Symposium, Akron, June 23,

2010.

Q. Li and X. Zhou, “Well-defined Liquid Crystal Thin Films for Self-organizing Organic

Photovoltaics”, Abstracts of Papers, 238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, United

States, August 16-20 (2009).

Q. Li, J. M. El Khoury, X. Zhou, L. Qu, L. Dai and A. Urbas, “Organo-soluble Photoresponsive

Thiol Monolayer-protected Gold Nanorods”, Abstracts of Papers, 238th ACS National Meeting,

Washington, DC, United States, August 16-20 (2009).


Y. Li and Q. LI, “Organo-soluble Chiral Hybrid Gold Nanorods”, AFOSR Tri-service 6.1

Matamaterial Meeting, Virgina Beach, VA, May 24-27, 2010.

X. Zhou, Y. Li and Q. Li, “Well-defined Liquid Crystal Thin Films for Self-organizing Organic

Photovoltaics”, Materials and Energy: The Building Blocks for Ohio’s Economic Future

Conference, Columbus, Ohio, April 20-21, 2010.



“Self-Assembled Optical Metamaterials”, AFRL Metamaterials Workshop, Wright Patterson Air

Force Base, Oct. 6, 2009.

Self-Assembled Optical Metamaterials”, AFRL Metamaterials Workshop, Conference on Meta

and Nano/Bio Materials, Tel Aviv University, Nov. 3, 2009.

“Self-Assembled Optical Metamaterials”, Seminar on Nanotechnology and Metamaterials,

Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Mafat, Tel Aviv, Israel, November 5, 2009.

“Motors Based on Shape Change: See How They Run”, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Dec.

4, 2009.

“Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystal Elastomers”, Bridgestone Research, Akron, Ohio April 29,

2010.

“Liquid Crystal Optics and Photonics” Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, March 8, 2010.

“Motors Based on Shape Change: See How They Run”, Meeting of the German Liquid Crystal

Society, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, March 12, 2010.

“One Order Parameter Tensor Mean Field Theory for Biaxial Liquid Crystals”, Recent

Developments in the Analysis and Modelling of Liquid Crystals, Oxford Centre for Nonlienar

PDEs, March 15, 2010.

“Nonlinear Diffusion on a Sphere”, SIAM Conference on Emerging Topics in Dynamical

Systems and Partial Differential Equations, Barcelona, Spain, May 4, 2010.

“Self-Assembled Soft Optical Negative Index Materials”, Tri-service Metamaterial Review,

Virginia Beach, USA, May 24, 2010.


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Jonathan Selinger


"Liquid Crystals and Rubber: Combining Scientific Fields for New Technologies," Public Lecture

for 5th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference, Kent, Ohio, September 24-26, 2009.

"Helical Structures in Lipid Membranes and Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers," Polymer Science

and Engineering Colloquium at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 9, 2009.

"Soft Materials Based on Liquid Crystals with Colloids and Polymers," Colloquium at American

Physical Society Editorial Office, Ridge, NY, January 14, 2010.

"Soft Materials Based on Liquid Crystals with Colloids and Polymers," Chemistry Colloquium at

Kent State University, January 28, 2010.

Oral Presentations

F. Ye, V. Gimenez-Pinto, B. Mbanga, R. L. B. Selinger, and J. Selinger, "Chiral Ribbons Formed

by Nematic Elastomer Films," 5th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference, public

lecture, Kent, Ohio, September 24-26, 2009.

R. Selinger, J. Geng, and J. Selinger, "Coarse-grain simulation studies of lipid vesicles,"

American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 15-19, 2010.

J. Selinger and L. Lopatina, "Maier-Saupe-type theory of ferroelectric nanoparticles in nematic

liquid crystals," American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 15–19,

2010.

S. Dhakal and J. Selinger, "Chirality and biaxiality in cholesteric liquid crystals," American

Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 15–19, 2010.

J. Geng and J. Selinger, "Deformation of an asymmetric film," American Physical Society March

Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 15–19, 2010.

V. Gimenez-Pinto, S.-Y. Lu, J. Selinger, and R. Selinger, "Simulation studies of defect textures

and dynamics in 3-d cholesteric droplets," American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland,

Oregon, March 15–19, 2010.

B. Mbanga, F. Ye, J. Selinger, and R. Selinger, "Modeling dynamic mechanical response in

polydomain nematic elastomers," American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, Oregon,

March 15–19, 2010.

V. Gimenez-Pinto, S.-Y. Lu, J. Selinger, and R. Selinger, "Simulation Studies of Defect Textures

and Dynamics in Cholesteric Droplets," American Chemical Society 84th Colloid and Surface

Science Symposium, Akron, Ohio, June 20–23, 2010.

J. Geng, J. Selinger, and R. Selinger, "Shape Evolution in Lipid Vesicles: Theory and Coarse-

Grained Simulation Studies," American Chemical Society 84th Colloid and Surface Science

Symposium, Akron, Ohio, June 20–23, 2010.

L. M. Lopatina and J. V. Selinger, "Theory of Ferroelectric Nanoparticles in Nematic Liquid

Crystals," American Chemical Society 84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Akron,

Ohio, June 20–23, 2010.


M. Pevnyi and J. V. Selinger, "Modeling Smectic Layers in Confined Domains," American

Chemical Society 84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Akron, Ohio, June 20–23, 2010.


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Robin Selinger


“Modeling Liquid Crystal Elastomers: Actuators, Pumps, Robots,” Physics Colloquium,

University of Southern Mississippi, October 16, 2009.

“Modeling Rubber that Moves: Liquid Crystal Elastomers” Physics Seminar, Youngstown

University, January 21, 2010.

“Modeling Rubber that Moves: Liquid Crystal Elastomers,” Physics Colloquium, Univ. of Akron,

January 25, 2010.

“Easy-to-learn finite element methods for modeling dynamics of soft elastic media,” Soft Matter

seminar, Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst, February 18, 2010.

“Modeling Rubber that Moves: Liquid Crystal Elastomers,” Mechanical Engineering Seminar,

Univ. of Connecticut, February 19, 2010.

“Modeling Rubber that Moves: Liquid Crystal Elastomers,” Seminar, Univ. of Indiana, April 19,

2010.

SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, May 25, 2010.

“Modeling Rubber that Moves: Liquid Crystal Elastomers”, Seminar, Univ. of Wisconsin, June 2,

2010.

Oral Presentations

R. Selinger, “Simulation Studies of Defect Textures and Dynamics in Cholesteric Droplets,” ACS

Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, June 21, 2010.

R. Selinger, “Shape Evolution in Lipid Vesicles: Theory and Coarse-Grained Simulation

Studies,” ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium June 21, 2010.

R. Selinger, “Modeling dynamic mechanical response in polydomain nematic elastomers,” APS

March meeting, March 18, 2010.

V. Gimenez-Pinto “Simulation studies of defect textures and dynamics in 3-d cholesteric

droplets,” contributed talk, APS March meeting, March 16, 2010.

J. Geng, “Coarse-grain simulation studies of lipid vesicles,” APS March meeting, March 17,

2010.

K. Urayama, “Shape Variations of Nematic Elastomer Ribbons with Non-Uniform Director

Configurations,” ILCC 2010, July 13, 2010.

Sergij Shiyanovskii

Oral Presentations

S.V. Shiyanovskii, B. Senyuk, H. Wonderly, M. Gu, O.D. Lavrentovich, "Effects of Dielectric

Relaxation in Nematic Liquid Crystals", XVIII Conference on Liquid Crystals, Augustow,

Poland, September 13-19, 2009.

S.V. Shiyanovskii, B. Senyuk, H. Wonderly, M. Gu, O.D. Lavrentovich, “Electrooptics of

Nematic Liquid Crystals: Effects of Dielectric Relaxation and Biaxiality”, 13th Topical Meeting

on the Optics of Liquid Crystals (OLC 2009) Erice, Italy, September 28 – October 2, 2009.


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Qi-Huo Wei

Oral Presentations

Q.-H. Wei, “"Plasmonic Nanoantennas with Cavity Resonances for Bio/Chemical Detection”,

The Chemical and Biological Defense Science and Technology (CBD S&T) Conference,

Orlando, Florida, November 15-19, 2010.

Q.-H. Wei, “Focusing Light at Nanometer Scale”, NYU-Poly, November 8, 2010.

A. Chakrabarty, F. Wang, B. Joshi and Q.-H. Wei, “Experimental studies of the Brownian

Dynamics of Boomerang Colloidal Particles”, 84th Colloidal and Surface Science Symposium,

June 20-23, 2010.

A. Chakrabarty, B. Joshi and Q.-H. Wei, “Metal-Dielectric-Metal Nanoantennas with Plasmon

Nanocavity Resonances”, NanoDDS, Florida 2009.

Q.-H. Wei and W. Lu, “Scaling Laws for NanoFET Biosensors”, NanoDDS, Florida, 2009.


B. Joshi, X. Wen, A.Chakrabarty, W.Lu and Q.-H Wei, “Fabrication and Characterization of

Metal-Dielectric-Metal Nanoantennas”, 54th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and

Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, Alaska, June 1-4, 2010.

F. Wang, X. Wen, K. Sun, W. Lu, Q.-H. Wei, “Optical Activities of Nanoscale Planar Spiral

Nanotrenches in Titanium Films”, 54th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon

Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, presentation by Bhuwan Joshi, Alaska, June 1-4, 2010.

B. Joshi, X. Wen, K. Sun, W. Lu and Q.-H. Wei, “Fabrication and Characterization of Coupled

Metal-Dielectric-Metal Nanoantennas”, Gordon Research Conference: Plasmonics, presentation

by Feng Wang, June 13-18 2010.

F. Wang, X. Wen, K. Sun, W. Lu, Q.-H. Wei, “Optical Activities of Nanoscale Planar Spiral

Nanotrenches in Titanium Films”, Gordon Research Conference: Plasmonics, June 13-18, 2010.

Deng-Ke Yang


“Flexible cholesteric display”, School of Optics, University of Central Florida, July 9, 2009.

“Polymer stabilized liquid crystals: physics and application”, International Symposium on Liquid

Crystal Science and Technology, Kuming, China, August 5, 2009.

“Polymer stabilized liquid crystals and their applications”, Najing University, Zhongshan, August

19, 2009.

“Novel polymer stabilized liquid crystal displays”, China Annual Conference of Flat Panel

Display, Shanghai, China, March 15, 2010.

“Recent progress in polymer stabilized cholesteric texture light shutter”, Industrial Technology

Research Institute, Hsingchu, Taiwan, March 19, 2010.

Oral Presentations

D.-K. Yang, “Drawing-Induced Biaxiality Change from a Positive C to a Negative A Plate and Its

Application in Wide Viewing Angle IPS LCDs”, SID Intl Symp. Seattle, Washington, May 25,

2010.


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D.-K. Yang, “The Scattering Profile of Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Texture Displays”, SID

Intl Symp. Seattle, Washington, May 25, 2010.


D.-K. Yang, “Liquid Crystal Display Response Time Improvement by Using the Natural Chiral

Molecule D-Limonene”, SID Intl Symp., Seattle, Washington, May 25, 2010.

Hiroshi Yokoyama


"Nanostructured Orientational Surface Patterns for Functional Liquid Crystal Alignment", Special

Seminar, University of Massashusetts, Polymer Science and Engineering Department, May 26,

2010.

"High performance spectroscopic ellipsometer using linearized liquid crystal phase modulators",

SPIE Photonic West: Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies V, San Francisco, CA, USA, Jan 25,

2010.

"Nanostructured orientational surface patterns for functional liquid crystal alignment",

International Display Workshops (IDW) 2009, Miyazaki, Japan, Dec 9-11, 2009.

"Dissipative structures in liquid crystalline Langmuir monolayers", International workshop on

dynamic cross-effect in softly condensed matter, Tokyo, Japan, Nov 4-5, 2009.

"Liquid Crystal Display Innovation by Emerging Nanomaterials and Nanoprocesses",

International Symposium on BIN Fusion Technology, Chonbuk National University, Korea, Oct

5-6, 2009.

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Table 14

Other Scholarly Activities

Philip J. Bos

Department/University

Member, CPIP Scholarship Committee

Director, Liquid Crystal Display Research Facility

Regional/National/International

Chair, Academic Committee, Society for Information Display, 2008-2010

Associate Editor of the Journal of the Society for Information Display (2008-2010)

L.C. Chien


CPIP Interim Director, January 1, 2010-present

Member, College Advisory Committee

Library Representative for Chemical Physics

Committee Member, Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation of College of Business

Administration, 2004-present

Inventor, 2010 KSU Inventor Recognition Ceremony


Vice Program Chair, 2010 SPIE Photonics West Conference San Francisco, CA,

January 23-28, 2010

Conference Chair, 2011 SPIE Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies V, San Francisco, CA,

January 23-28, 2010

Associate Editor, IEEE/LEOS Journal of Display Technology

Consultant, ITRI/Electro-Optical Laboratory

Reviewer for Nature Photonics, Soft Matters, J. Mater. Chem, Appl. Phys. Lett., Opt. Exp., J. Jpn.

Appl. Phys., Appl. Opt., Macromolecules, Phys. Rev. E, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Chem. Mater.,

Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., Liq. Cryst., J. Phys., J. Phys. Chem, Langmuir, J. Disp. Tech.

Eugene Gartland


Computer Systems 2009-2010

Ad-Hoc LCI Executive Committee Spring 2010


NSF, DMS, Review Panel on “Materials and Mechanics” March 17-19, 2010

Reviewer for Liquid Crystals, Phys. Rev. E, SIAM J. Applied Math

Antal Jákli


Chair, CPIP Curriculum Committee

Member, Space Committee

Member, CPIP Director Search Committee

Other Scholarly Activities, 2009-2010

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Member, Faculty Advisory Committee

CAC (Spring 2010)


Associate Editor, Physical Review E

Reviewer for Physical Review E and Physical Review Letters

Chanjoong Kim


Member, CPIP Graduate Admissions Committee

Member, CPIP Curriculum Revision Committee

Member, Candidacy Exam Committee


Member, Department Handbook Revision Committee


Reviewer for Langmuir

Reviewer for Undergraduate New Investigator ACS Petroleum Research Fund Session Chair, American Physical Society, Portland OR, March, 2010, Focus Session: Polymer

Brushes

Edgar Kooijman


Judge, Siemens Science competition, since 2009

Board member, School of Biotechnology, since 2009

Member, LCI Executive Committee

Organizer, Bio-symposium, 84th Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, University of Akron

2010.

Assisted in BS/MD program applicant interviews.



Director of CPIP till January 1, 2010

Director of LCI

Member, Deans Chairs and Directors Committee (till Jan 1, 2010)

Member, Provost’s Chairs and Directors Committee; President’s Council


Member, Editorial Board of Condensed Matter Physics

Member, Editorial Board Liquid Crystals

Member, Scientific Committee, 23rd

International Conference on Liquid Crystals, Krakow,

Poland. 11-16 July, 2010

http://www.uakron.edu/colloids2010/topics.dot

http://www.uakron.edu/colloids2010/topics.dot

http://faculty.kent.edu/ekooijma/Misc_Letters/BS_MDprogram_letter.pdf


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Quan Li


Chair, Electroactive Polymer Session and Chair of Functional Materials Session at 2009

International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering

Reviewer, Journal of American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials, Journal of Physical

Chemistry, Langmuir, Chemical Communications, Organic & Bimolecular Chemistry,

Journal of Colliod and Interface Science, and Chemistry of Materials




CPIP Curriculum Committee



Chair, 5th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference, Kent, OH, September 24-26, 2009

Editor, Electronic Liquid Crystal Communications (e-lc.org)

Regional Editor, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Editorial Board, Liquid Crystals Today

Journal referee for: American Journal of Physics, Canadian Journal of Physics, Journal de

Physique, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Journal of

Chemical Physics, Liquid Crystals, Nature, Nature Materials, Macromolecules, Molecular

Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Optics Letters, Physical Review Letters, Physikalische Chemie,

Physics Letters

Jonathan Selinger


Chair, CPIP Faculty Handbook Revision Committee

Chair, Candidacy Exam Committee

Member, College Curriculum Committee

Member, Mathematics Department Review Committee Member, International Liquid Crystal Society Board of Directors


Reviewed proposals for National Science Foundation, Department of Energy

Reviewed papers for Physical Review Letters, Journal of Chemical Physics

Reviewed assistant professor tenure case for another university

Reviewed fellowship candidates for Indian National Science Academy, Cambridge University

Robin Selinger


CPIP Graduate Coordinator

Assisted Biological Sciences in organizing a mentoring workshop series for grad students and

postdocs

Graduate Council


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Session Chair, APS March meeting, Portland, OR (March, 2010)

Reviewer, multiple proposals for National Science Foundation

Reviewer, Physical Review, The European Physical Journal E-Soft Matter & Biological Physics

Consulting for Educational Testing Service, writing and/or reviewing test items for GRE-Physics

and Physics Praxis tests

Qi-Huo Wei


Member, Student Recruitment Committee


Session Vice Chair, 2010 Colloids Symposium, University of Akron

Deng-Ke Yang


Member, LCI Space Committee

Member, CPIP Curriculum Committee

Member, Faculty Advising Committee

Member Patent committee

Hiroshi Yokoyama


LCI Seminar Chair

Committee Liquid Crystal Day


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Table 15

LCI Seminar Program 2009-2010

Fall Semester 2009 (held on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted)

September 2 Prof. Ji-Ping Huang Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai,

Physics Meets Economics: Econophysics

September 16 Prof. Martin Bier Department of Physics, East Carolina University, NC

The Biological Significance of the Lipid Bilayer’s Melting Transition

September 23

Prof. Slobodan Zumer Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana and Jozef

Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Colloidal Superstructures in Achiral and Chiral Nematic Phases

September 30 Prof. Scott Milner

Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, PA

Crystal-Melt Interfaces, Rotator Phases, and Nucleation in Polyethylene

October 8

Thursday, 4:00 pm Prof. Stephen Morris Department of Physics, University of Toronto

Icicles, Washboard Road and Meandering Syrup

October 21 Prof. Thein Kyu Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH

Photopolymerization Induced Phase Transistions in Holographic Polymer

Dispersed Liquid Crystals and Photonic Crystals

Oct. 28

Dr. Gareth Alexander University of Pennsylvania

Periodic Structures in Chiral Liquid Crystals

November 17

Tuesday, 3:30 pm Dr. Kyoungweon Park Aire Force Research Lab, Nanostructured and Biological Materials Branch,

Wright-Patterson Aire Force Base, Dayton, OH

Colloidal strategies to synthesize architecturally and functionally complex

nanoparticles

December 2

Dr. Dan Savin School of Polymers and High Performance Materials, University of

Southern Mississippi

Interfacial curvature effects in polypeptide-based block copolymer

assemblies

December 9 Dr. Hartmut Lowen Institute for Theorectical Physics II-Soft Matter, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat

Dusseldorf

Colloidal liquid crystals under external and internal drives

LCI Seminar Program, 2009-2010

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Spring Semester 2010

January 20 Dr. Craig Maloney Carnegie Mellon University

Plasticity and jamming

January 29 Dr. Surajit Dhara

School of Physics, University of Hyderabad

Perfluoropolymer as an Alignment Layer Liquid Crystals

February 1

Monday, 4:00pm Dr. Bryon Anderson

Department of Phyiscs, Kent State University, Kent, OH

Part I: Overview of research in the Department of Physics

Part II: The Electric Form Factor of the Neutron

February 3 Dr. Paul Russo Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University

Learning from Polypeptides

February 10 Dr. Yuka Tabe Department of Applied Physics, Waseda University

Dynamical cross coupling in chiral liquid crystals

February 17 Dr. Georg Fantner Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology

Imaging Bacterial Cell Death Induced by Antimicrobial Peptides in

Real Time using high speed AFM

March 3 Dr. Mark Taylor Hiram College

Protein-like folding and thermodynamics of a homopolymer chain March 10 Dr. James Watkins

Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of

Massachusetts

Self-assembled Polymer Templates for the Fabrication of Well

Ordered Hybrid Materials and Devices using Roll-to-Roll Platforms

March 24 Rudolf Oldenbourg Marine Biological Laboratory

Exploring life with liquid crystals: the LC-PolScope, liquid crystals

and living cells

April 7 Dr. Linda Hirst School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced

Quantum dot dispersion and assembly in liquid crystal media

April 14

Dr. Wei Lu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of

Michigan at Ann Arbor

Nanowire Devices and Circuits

LCI Seminar Program, 2009-2010

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April 28

Juan de Pablo Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of

Wisconsin

Directed Assembly at the Nanoscale, and Applications to

Nanofabrication

May 5 Dr. Stuart Rowan Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case

Western Reserve University

Utilizing Supramolecular Chemistry to Access Stimuli-Responsive

Materials

Joint seminar with Chemistry

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Table 16

LCI Industrial Partnership Program and Liquid Crystal Display Research Facility

Philip J. Bos, Director

Anonymous Company Guardian Industries Corporation

Carleton MI

CoAdna Photonics

Stow, OH

Kent Displays

Kent, OH

Corning

Corning, NY

Light Resonance Technologies, LLC

Akron OH

Crystal Diagnostics

Akron, OH

Liquid Crystal Technologies

Cleveland, OH

Display Plastique

Aurora OH

LXD

Cleveland, OH

Dow Corning

Midland, MI

NASA Langley Research Center

Hampton, VA

Dynamic Eye

Amherst, NY

Okaya

Valparaiso, IN

Flight Specialities

Highland Heights, OH

SBG Labs

Sunnyvale, CA

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Table 17

Research Facility Report

The Liquid Crystal Institute Industrial Partnership Program (IPP) had a successful year.

Activities during the year included the following:

We added new members:

1. Okaya, Valaraiso, IN

2. SBG Labs, Sunnyvale, CA

Active IPP members totaled 16 (see Table 16).

$80,235 was invoiced for work done in the Prototyping Facility (see Table 18).

$2,200 (10%) of collected membership fees was transferred to a Liquid Crystal

Institute account for support of conferences and research.

Monthly newsletters were sent to IPP members and LCI faculty to inform them of new

research, visitors to the LCI and general liquid crystal information.

Seminars and some graduate student talks were video-taped and made available to

Industrial Partners for viewing via the internet.

I would like to thank Doug Bryant, Brenda Decker, Lynn Fagan, and Jim Maxwell for their help

with these projects.

Philip J. Bos, Director

Industrial Partnership Program

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Table 18

Research Facility Services

Invoice Date Service Client

7/13/09 Cleanroom use, technician time CoAdna Phototonics

7/13/09 Cleanroom use, technician time, office rent Dynamic Eye

7/13/09 SiOx deposition Plextronics, Inc.

7/13/09 VHR testing Guardian Industries

7/13/09 6.5um micropearl spacers NuPix

7/13/09 Office rent ChemImage

8/13/08 Cleanroom use, technician time, materials Fir Hill, LLC

8/14/09 Pretilt angle measurement Vescent Photonics

9/11/09 Cleanroom use, technician time CoAdna Photonics

9/11/09 Cleanroom use; technician time, office rent Dynamic Eye

9/11/09 Cleanroom use, technician time, office rent Corning

9/11/09 Cleanroom use, technician time Fir Hill, LLC


10/19/09 Cleanroom use, technician time Fir Hill, LLC








12/11/09 Cleanroom use, ITO coated glass, polyimide materials LC Technologies



2/1/10 Rental of ORC Optibeam Advantech

2/1/10 Cleanroom use, technician time GlobeChem Marketing

2/2/10 Fabrication of 90 test devices Crystal Diagnostics

3/15/10 Rent for 2 laminar flow benches ChemImage

3/16/10 Cleanroom use, technician time, office rent, lab usage Dynamic Eye


5/13/10 Process diagnostic and development, cell analysis Crystal Diagnostics


6/14/10 Cleanroom use, technician time, training Crystal Diagnostics

6/15/10 Characterization lab Kent Displays




6/15/10 Cleanroom use, training MACtac Stow

6/15/10 Scriber usage Kent Displays

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Table 19

Education and Public Service

Date Group Participants

9/21/10 Provided LCI tour for State Representative Mike Moran

R. Selinger,

O. Lavrentovich

H. Wonderly,

M. Palffy-

Muhoray, A.

Jákli, J. Harden,

P. Bos

3/7/10 Held event to present information about the LCI to Young

Presidents Organization, World Presidents Organization, and

Entrepreneurs Organization.

Hiroshi Yokoyama

6/3/10 The Liquid Crytal hosted a tour for the representatives of the

University Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio.

Doug Bryant, John

Harden, Souptik

Mukherjee, Feng

Wang

Undergraduates conducting research Department Advisor

Andrew Konya (honors research) Physics R. Selinger

Deirdra Majon-Fisher’s (honors thesis) Chemistry Jákli

Aaron Sisek, (honors thesis) Physics Chien

Sarrik Gupta Biomedical Science Wei

Summer Research Interns at LCI Advisor

Paul Murphy, Ohio State University, June – August 2010 Jákli

Amanda Groendyke, July-August 2009

“Novel organometallic composites with gold nanorod core”

Lavrentovich

REU Summer 2009-2010 students at LCI Advisor

2009

Aaron J. Sisek, Kent State University

“Study of IR Shielding Films and Method of Making Same”

Chien

Adam Nicholas, Beloit College R. Selinger

2010

Jenny Wong, Chemistry Department, SUNY Buffalo, “Study the

nanoparticles doping effects on a blue-phase liquid crystal medium”

Chien

Katharine Lupo, Elmhurst College, Chicago, IL Jákli

Michael Madison, Cuyahoga Community College Palffy-Muhoray

Fred Minkowski, Physics Department Wei

Education and Public Service, 2009-2010

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LCI Student Internships (High School students)

Jordan Adamek, Kent City Schools

“Characterization of LC Textures on Residues of Dried Fluids”

Jákli

Taylor Ellsworth, Junior, Christian Classical Academy

“Drawing Chemical Structures with ChemDraw”

Jákli

Kenneth Fechter, Painesville City Schools

Postsecondary Enrollment Option Program

Wei

Selina Kim, Hudson High School

“Study of Soft Materials”

Kim

KSU Undergraduate Student Workers

Kevin Ballard Patrick Toothaker

William Eckert Matthew Wayman

Recruiting

Date Activity Participants

1/21/10 Provided presentation and recruiting meeting to the

students in the Youngstown State University

Physics Department.

Robin Selinger

3/11/10 Visit by Youngstown State University SPS

undergraduates students.

Robin Selinger

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APPENDICES

I. Achievements

Bos receives Slottow-Owaki Prize

Sarah Hicks receives IGERT grant

II. Outreach Activities

5th

International Liquid Crystal Elastomer

Conference


Industrial Partnership Program and

Liquid Crystal Display Research Facility

Technology Transfer

III. Historical List of Grant Funding

1982-2010

IV. Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals

1967 – 2010

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Bos awarded Slottow-Owaki Prize by

the Sociey for Information Display

Dr. Philip J. Bos, associate director of Kent State’s

Liquid Crystal Institute ® (LCI), has been awarded the

Slottow-Owaki Prize for Display Education by the

Society for Information Display (SID).

The 2010 SID honors and awards were presented during

Display Week 2010: The SID International Symposium,

Seminar and Exhibition that was held May 23-28 in

Seattle, Washington.

Bos was recognized for his pioneering educational

efforts in the field of liquid crystal displays (LCDs).

“The field of liquid crystal displays is impossible to

imagine without the decisive contributions of Professor

Philip J. Bos,” says Dr. Oleg D. Lavrentovich, director

of the LCI.

Over the last three decades, Prof. Bos made seminal inventions such as high-speed switching of

the liquid crystal through a delicate balance of director reorientation and hydrodynamic flows and

enhanced viewing angle and contrast of nematic displays through compensating films. He has

also developed efficient diffractive and beam-steering devices.

“His contribution to the field is multifaceted,” Lavrentovich said. “In addition to being an

ingenious inventor and a deeply knowledgeable scientist, Prof. Bos is also a wonderful teacher,

who advised numerous Ph.D. students that graduated from Kent State and currently work at

companies such as Apple, Inc., 3M, Hewlett Packard, Kent Displays, Hana Microdisplays and

others. His efforts greatly contribute to making the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Graduate

Program world-renowned in science and liquid crystal applications.”

Bos oversees the LCI Industrial Partnership Program which provides a vital link to the industrial

world both nationally and internationally. The program also provides industry access to the LCI’s

rich intellectual and instrumental resources.

In 2007, LCI emeritus director, J. W. (Bill) Doane was the first ever recipient of the Slottow-

Owaki Prize.

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Hicks receives IGERT grant to study liquid crystal

elastomer biological sensors

Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program (CPIP) Student Sarah Hicks recently received a one-

year, IGERT (Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeships) grant from the National

Science Foundation. Three IGERT grants were awarded to Kent State University under Principal

Investigator Professor Laura Leff of the KSU Biological Sciences Department. Hicks, who will

receive a one-year $30,000 stipend, will do interdisciplinary research on a project involving

environmental sensing in fresh water systems.

Under the direction of CPIP Professors Deng-ke Yang and Qi-Huo

Wei, Hicks will make liquid crystal elastomers to be used as sensors

of bacteria and toxin levels. She will attend the first trainee

workshop from September 17-20, 2009 at Lake Lacawac in the

Poconos Mountains of Pennsylvania. In addition, there will also be

education outreach and business entrepreneurship components of the

project.

Hicks hopes this work will eventually become part of her polymer

stabilized liquid crystal systems doctoral dissertation work. “I really

like doing display research, but it is very interesting to see what

other things liquid crystals can do besides displaying information on

televisions and cell phones. Also, I’m really excited to enjoy

spending some time on Lake Lacawac at the workshop,” Hicks said.

The IGERT program supports graduate education and training in a collaborative research

environment transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries. Of interest, too, is diversity in

student participation and preparation and a world-class, broadly inclusive, engaged science and

engineering workforce. All stipend recipients supported by IGERT funds must be citizens or

permanent residents of the United States, its territories or possessions. To learn more about the

IGERT program visit: http://www.igert.org/

http://www.igert.org/

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September 21, 2009

Kent State hosts 5th International Liquid Crystal Conference

KENT, OH - Artificial muscles, plastic motors, motors powered by light and several other

exciting topics will be discussed at the upcoming International Liquid Crystal Elastomer

Conference (ILCEC) being held at the KIVA at Kent State University on Sept. 24-26, 2009.

For the first time ever, this world-class conference will be held in the United States. Following

the tradition of previous ILCEC in Ljubljana (2007), Cambridge (2005), Bleibach (2003) and

Ebernburg (2001), this conference will bring together over 100 physicists, chemists,

mathematicians, materials scientists and engineers active in the field of liquid crystal elastomers.

Over 40 presentations will be given, highlighted by the plenary lecture by Professor Heino

Finkelmann, of the University of Freiburg, who developed the first liquid crystal elastomer in

1992. Finkelmann will present “Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Elastomers” at 9:15 on Thursday,

September 24, just following the opening of the conference.

Like conventional rubbers, liquid crystal elastomers are cross-linked polymer networks that can

be highly extended. Like liquid crystals, these materials have orientational order, with molecules

that spontaneously align in some direction.

A poster presentation will be held from 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. in the Kent Student Center, Room 204.

The conference banquet will be held from 7:00 – 9:00 on Friday night.

On-site registration of $250 will be available at the welcome desk. Parking is available in the

Student Center parking lot adjacent to the KIVA.

The conference is being hosted and sponsored by the Liquid Crystal Institute. Other sponsors

include National Science Foundation, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, AlphaMicron, Inc.,

and Kent Displays, Inc.

To learn more about the 5th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference visit:

http://ilcec2009.lci.kent.edu/

For more information, please call 330-672-2654.

Free Public Lecture and LCI Tour to be given on Saturday Morning A public lecture will be given by Ohio Eminent Scholar and Chemical Physics Professor Jonathan

Selinger on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. in the Samsung Auditorium at the Liquid

Crystal and Materials Sciences Building, Room 101. The one-hour presentation is free and open

to the public.

Selinger’s presentation, "Liquid Crystals and Rubber: Combining Scientific Fields for New

Technologies," will explore liquid crystal elastomers, which combine the features of liquid

crystals with those of rubbers.

His lecture will provide a general survey of the science of liquid crystal elastomers, as well as

technological applications of these materials. The lecture will be given on the level of college

freshmen. Following the presentation, public tours of the Liquid Crystal Institute facilities will be

given from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

http://ilcec2009.lci.kent.edu/

http://www.lci.kent.edu/news__jonathan_selinger_lecture_ilcec_2009.htm

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Historical Data - Grants Awarded to LCI Scientists

1982-2010

Inception Year

Grant # Category Agency Total award

Grant Period Project Title

1982 NSF NSF Div. International Prgrm.

1/82-12/84 Chiral Liquid Crystals (distribution in foreign currency)

1983 NSF DMR83-09739 NSF 233,700 6/83-10/85 Liquid Crystal Synthesis

1983 NSF DMR82-44461 NSF 142,500 6/83-5/85 NMR Studies of Liquid Crystals

1983 Ind/Other Exxon Educational Foundation

10,000 6/83-5/84 Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

1984 DAAKp20-84-0224 Other Fed US Army, Electronic R&D 200,000 9/84-8/86 Nonlinear Optical Processing in LC Materials: Combined Theoretical and Synthesis Program

1984 NIH 1R01 GM27127-05 Other Fed NIH 40,516 1/84-12/85 DMR Studies of Protein-Phosopholipid Bilayer Membranes

1984 Ind/Other Hughes Research Labs 33,500 11/84-6/86 Research Support

1984 Other Fed US Army/Battelle Research 27,000 5/84-11/84 Study of Nonlinear Optical Data

1984 Ind/Other Exxon Educational Foundation

20,000 6/84-6/86 Liquid Crystal Research

1985 NSF DMR85-03219 NSF 313,000 6/85-11/88 NMR Studies of Liquid Crystals

1985 Other Fed US Army, Metallurgy and Materials

17,000 6/85-7/85 Liquid Crystal Dispersion Mechanical Stress Monitor

1986 488,000 6/86-5/89 Electrically Controlled Light Scattering from microdroplets of Nematic LC Dispersed in Solid Matrix

1986 Ind/Other 81,000 10/86-04/88 Industrial Research Support Agreement

1986 Ind/Other Ford Glass Division 13,500 10/86-10/88 Liquid Crystal Research

1986 Ind/Other Soho Research Center 10,000 6/86-12/86 Deuterium NMR of LC/Polymer Composites

1987 Other Fed DARPA/URI/Navy/ U. Penn 350,000 10/87-6/92 Science and Application of Polymer LCs and Related Materials

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

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Grant # Category Agency Total award

Grant Period Project Title

1987 Ind/Other Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada

30,200 1987 Physical Properties of Liquid Crystals

1987 Ind/Other Tektronix Corporation 15,000 10/87-10/88 Microdroplet Technology Research

1988 Other Fed US Army Communications 1,050,000 8/88-8/92 Optical Power Limiting LC Composites

1988 Ohio ODOD/ Edison Program 50,000 7/88-10/89 Development of PDLCs for Aircraft Window Shades

1989 NSF DMR88-17647 NSF 285,740 1/89-1/91 Basic Studies of Polymer Dispersed LCs

1989 NSF DMR88-18561 NSF 273,200 1/89-12/92 Liquid Crystal Synthesis

1989 NSF 174,240 1/89-12/91 Basic Studies of Polymer Dispersed LCs

1989 Ohio OBR Res. Chall. 100,000 1989 Polymer Liquid Crystal Synthesis Program

1989 Ind/Other Tektronix Corporation 47,740 3/89-3/90 Active Substrate Projection Microdroplet Materials

1989 Ind/Other Honeywell 20,000 6/89-5/90 Modeling of Optical Fibers with LC Cores

1990 Other Fed DARPA 1,197,240 3/90-6/93 National Center for Integrated Photonic Technology (NCIPT); (consortium USC, UCLA, KSU, MIT, Columbia U.)

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

1991 442129 NSF 22,000,000 02/91-01/02 ALCOM Center for Advanced LC Optical Materials (KSU 54%; CWRU 34%; U Akron 12%)

1991 MDA972-91-J-1020 Other Fed DARPA HDDT Program 1,147,000 9/91-8/94 PDLCs for High Definition Display Technologies

1991 N00014-90-J-1559 Other Fed DARPA, U Penn subaward 227,000 1/91-6/92 High Definition Displays

1991 Ind/Other Hughes Aircraft 147,000 1991 Hughes Aircraft Company Research Project

1991 Ind/Other Edison Polymer Innovation Corp (EPIC)

180,000 1991 ALCOM Administrative Support (total award $180,000; 54% KSU)

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

1991 Ind/Other Magnascreen 69,675 1991 Magnascreen Research

1991 Ind/Other Ajinomoto Corporation 50,000 1991 Feasibility Study for Ferroelectric Smectic C LCs and Polymer Dispersions

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

1992 NSF DMR92-20130 NSF 256,500 4/92-6/95 Basic Studies of Polymer Dispersed LCs

1992 NSF ECS90-20420 NSF 199,507 2/92-2/94 Electric Field Response of PDLCs

1992 Ind/Other Univ. So. California 17,671 3/92-3/93 Optically Controlled Phased Array Radar

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

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

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Grant # Category Agency Total award Grant Period Project Title

1993 Other Fed NASA 77,918 6/93-5/94 Experimental Testing of Twisted Nematic and Super Twisted Nematic LC Displays

1993 Ind/Other Hewlett-Packard 30,374 4/93-3/94 Materials Synthesis and Fabrication of Thin Film Polarizers

1993 Ind/Other Korea Institute Sci. & Tech. 15,000 5/93-5/94 Visiting Scientist (Young Chul Kim)

1993 Other Fed National Research Council 11,100 6/93-3/94 Structures in Large Surface-to-Volume Ratio Nematic Systems

1993 NSF NSF-NATO 3/93-9/93 NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Nonequilibrium Complex Systems

1994 440131 Other Fed DARPA 1,150,264 6/94-6/98 Reflective Polymer Stabilized LCD

1994 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents 1,000,000 7/94-6/97 ALCOM Equipment

1994 Other Fed ARPA 952,212 6/94-6/97 Reflective polymer Stabilized LC Displays

1994 440648 NSF 112,640 9/94-9/95 Science and Math on the Net (SAM-Net)

1994 440213 Ind/Other Imax Corporation 81,342 8/94-5/96 Liquid Crystal Light Valve

1994 440264 Ohio OBR Eisenhower Program 47,985 9/94-12/95 Science and Math on the Net (SAM-Net)

1994 Ind/Other Image Quest Technologies 25,273 8/94-12/94 Optical modeling of Active Matrix Displays

1994 NSF 20,117 1/94-3/95 Surface Anchoring and Alignment in PDLCs

1994 Other Fed ARPA/ Fla Atlantic Univ 20,000 5/94-11/94 Optically Active Device

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

1994 Ind/Other Portage County Schools 7,700 Oct-94 Portage County SAM-Net (computer equipment)

1995 444306 Other Fed Office of Naval Research 125,000 8/95-7/97 LCD Devices from Conducting Polymer Substrates

1995 444404 Ind/Other Image Quest Technologies 69,797 1/95-12/95 Development of Wide Viewing Angle LCD

1995 Ind/Other Vari-Lite 68,721 3/95-4/96 Passive Projection Display

1995 444423 Ind/Other Samsung 67,086 8/95-11/96 Comparison of Four Domain Alignment Techniques

1995 444434 Ind/Other nChip 58,214 10/95-9/96 Liquid Crystals on Silicon

1995 444430 Ohio OBR Eisenhower Prgm. 47,254 9/95-12/96 Science and Math on the Net (SAM-Net)

1995 440222 Ind/Other Hughes Research Labs 40,000 3/95-3/97 LC Materials and Devices

1995 Ind/Other U.S.-Slovene Sci & Tech 33,000 1995-1997 LC Polymer Dispersions and Related Microconfined Systems

1995 444435 Ind/Other Planar 28,218 7/95-7/96 Active Compensation Cell Research

1995 444424 Ind/Other Meadowlark Optics 12,800 8/95-8/96 Switchable Cholesteric Polarizer

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1995 Other Fed NASA 12,000 2/95-2/96 Evaluation of NASA Polymers

1995 442161 NSF NSF; Gordon and Breach 6,000 1/95-4/96 Conference on Dynamics and Defects in LCs

1995 442600 NSF NSF; Gordon and Breach 5,000 1/95-4/96 Conference on Dynamics and Defects in LCs

1996 Ohio OBR 2,578,000 1996- LC Display Research Center

1996 444327 Other Fed DARPA/KDI sub 615,074 7/96-6/99 Power Efficient Reflective Cholesteric Displays

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

1996 444328 Other Fed AFOSR MURI/CalTech 423,756 11/96-10/01 Alignment and Packing Behavior of LC and LCP….

1996 444321 Other Fed DARPA 137,700 6/96-5/00 Reflective Cholesteric Displays: Dynamic Drive and Surface Topography Issues

1996 444615 Ind/Other IMAX Corp. 134,000 9/96-12/99 LC Glasses Improvements

1996 444456 Ind/Other Rockwell Science Center 118,399 6/96-6/97 Synthesis of Chiral LC Diacrylates

1996 444641 Ind/Other S-VISION 60,000 10/96-9/97 Liquid Crystals on Silicon

1996 444329 Other Fed Office of Naval Research 50,000 12/96-5/98 Optical Study of Structure and Dynamics in Advanced Polymer Stabilized LC

1996 444451 Other Fed Wright Patterson AFB 47,592 5/96-9/96 Systran Visiting Scientist (Wiff)

1996 NSF NSF & Shlodowska Fndn. 23,000 1996-1999 Investigation of the Influence of Structure Factors on Stability of Smectic C* and CA Phases in Compounds and Mixtures

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

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

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

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

1996 444621 Ind/Other Ministry of Education, Taiwan

13,751 8/96-7/98 PDLC for Holographic Recording Applications

1996 444109 Other Fed NASA 10,000 10/96-3/97 Alignment Properties

1996 444608 Ind/Other Gov't. of Korea 10,000 8/96-7/97 Polyimide Alignment Films

1996 442221 NSF 5,000 5/96-9/96 16th International Liquid Crystal Conference Support

1996 444310 Other Fed Office of Naval Research 5,000 5/96-9/96 16th International Liquid Crystal Conference Support

1996 Fndn Ind/Other M. Holden Jennings Fndn. 3,450 2/96-2/97 Project LCs for Elementary Teachers

1997 444664 Other Fed NIST/Colorlink sub 200,000 5/97-6/00 Color Sequential Imaging

1997 444636 Ind/Other Dai Nippon 110,176 4/97-8/98 Optimization of Smectic A PDLC Films

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1997 Other Fed NIST 100,000 7/97-7/99 Information Dynamics in ALCOM/NIST Phase Separation Project

1997 444112/444120 Other Fed NASA Goddard Ctr. 99,100 3/97-5/99 Development of LC Devices for Astronomy

1997 444618 Ind/Other Vari-Lite 71,416 9/97-9/98 PSCT Materials for Projection Displays

1997 444650 Ohio OBR 64,000 7/97-6/00 Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering Facility at APS

1997 444652 Ohio OBR 64,000 7/97-6/99 Viewing Angle Improving Films for LC Displays

1997 Ohio OBR Res. Chall. 64,000 7/97-6/99 Biological Lyotropic LCs

1997 442102 NSF NSF/Moxtek sub 34,804 10/97-10/98 Wire Grid Polarizers for LCD

1997 444644 Ind/Other Optical Imaging Systems 27,975 7/97-12/97 Photo-curable LC Monomers

1997 444331 Other Fed Office of Naval Research 20,900 6/97-11/97 Conductive Polymer Displays

1997 220232 Ind/Other Japan Synthetic Rubber 20,000 4/97-10/98 Visiting Scientist, Japan Synthetic Rubber

1997 444115 Other Fed NASA 20,000 5/97-5/98 Evaluation of NASA Polymers

1997 Other Fed NASA 20,000 5/97-5/98 Evaluation of NASA Polymers

1997 442231 NSF 18,867 2/97-1/98 Real Physics On-line

1997 444648 Ind/Other Civilian R&D Foundation 15,212 7/97-12/99 Photo-alignment of Nematic LCs on Polyimide Polymer Layers

1997 444647 Ind/Other Civilian R&D Foundation 11,000 7/97-12/99 Surface Properties and Effects in LCs

1997 444635 Ind/Other George Mason Univ. 10,000 1/97-1/98 Surface Alignment of Nematic LC

1997 444114 Other Fed NASA 1,500 1/97-12/97 Studies on Dynamics and Optics of 0-360 Twist Bistable LCD

1998 Ohio OBR Res. Chall. 750,000 02/98-01/00 ALCOM Support (equipment)

1998 444324 Other Fed AFOSR 362,000 3/98-9/99 LC Blazed Gratings for Laser Beam Steering

1998 444694 Other Fed DARPA/Sarnoff Sub 226,712 8/98-9/01 Fabrication of PDLC Test Displays

1998 442117 NSF NSF EHR 160,000 10/98-9/00 School Based Remote Experiments on Web

1998 444332 Other Fed U.S. DOD/ BNL sub 150,000 6/98-5/00 Broadband Beam Steering

1998 445269 Ind/Other Kent Displays 137,338 10/98-4/00 Conductive Polymer Displays

1998 444325 Other Fed Wright Patterson AFB 125,000 5/98-9/99 WPAFB IPA Visiting Scientist (Wiff)

1998 444673 Ind/Other 3M Co. 89,000 2/98-2/99 Alignment and Defects of 3M Lyotropic LCs

1998 444699 Ind/Other Motorola 51,225 9/98-5/01 Optimization and Modeling of Full-Color Displays for Portable Applications

1998 444210 Other Fed NATO - Slovenia Collab. 29,300 12/98-12/01 LCD Optical Shutter for Eye Protection Devices

1998 444122 Ind/Other Cal Tech-Jet Propulsion 20,000 9/98-8/99 High Performance LCs for Laser Communications

1998 444672 Ind/Other Hitachi 20,000 3/98-3/99 Dynamics of Twisted Nematic Devices (Hitachi Visiting Scientist)

1998 Ind/Other Hughes Research Labs 20,000 3/98-3/99 High Performance LCs for Laser Communications

94

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1998 442106 NSF NSF/CNRS (France) 19,500 5/98-4/01 Structure and Defects in Lamellar Thermotropic and Lyotropic Soft Matter Systems

1998 444629 Other Fed NATO Intnl. Sci. Exch. 9,607 9/98-9/00 Computational, Experimental and Theoretical Studies of 1D Confined LCs

1998 444676 Ind/Other Philippines DOST 8,200 3/98-3/99 Synthesis/Characterization of Anti-FE LCs and Polymers

1999 440602 Other Fed ONR 265,000 7/99-6/01 Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric LC Diffraction Gratings

1999 444209 Other Fed AFOSR/DAGSI 126,340 8/99-12/01 Active/Passive Optical Sensor Research

1999 444211 Ind/Other Dimensional Media 80,315 7/99-6/00 PSCT for Multiplanar Displays

1999 444222 Ind/Other Nitto Denko 74,000 12/99-6/01 Viewing Angle Enhancements with Compensating Films

1999 444215 Ohio OBR Eisenhower Prgm. 61,293 9/99-12/00 Integrating School Based Experiments into Science Curriculum

1999 444223 Ind/Other Santec Systems 60,000 12/99-11/01 LC Ultrasonic Transducer

1999 444208 Ind/Other Kent Displays 59,140 7/99-3/00 High Twisting Power Chiral Materials

1999 442150 NSF NSF EHR 51,228 10/99-1/02 Remote Experiments in Science Curriculum

1999 NSF NSF/KDI subaward 36,140 1/99-6/99 Chiral Materials Chemistry

1999 444216 NSF NSF/Moxtex sub 34,804 8/99-7/01 Wire Grid Polarizers for LCD

1999 444412 Ind/Other Vari-Lite 30,000 3/99-8/99 PSCT Materials for Projection Displays (continuation of #444618)

1999 442125 NSF 28,600 02/99-01/02 Nonlinear Optics of Lyotropic LCs

1999 444213 Ind/Other Tutco 28,500 5/99-5/00 PDLC for Oventop Applications

1999 442124 NSF 28,440 02/99-01/02 Photoalignment of LCs

1999 442126 NSF NSF International 28,440 2/99-1/00 Photoalignment of LCs

1999 444224 Other Fed AFOSR 23,000 6/99-6/00 Polymeric E-O Modulators

1999 444212 Other Fed Wright Patterson AFB 21,850 9/99-11/99 WPAFB IPA Visiting Scientist (Wiff) (previously #444325)

1999 442135 NSF 14,600 10/99-01/02 Photoalignment of Low-Weight Photo-Crosslinking Materials

1999 444710 Ind/Other Garland Floor Co. 13,032 2/99-6/00 Feasibility Study of Transparent Conductive Coatings

1999 444217 Ind/Other Horn Labs 10,000 11/99-11/00 Adaptive Eye Protection

1999 444214 Other Fed AFOSR 5/99-11/01 Visiting Scientist (Don Wiff) (previously # 444212; 444325)

2000 444226 Other Fed DARPA 2,423,208 06/01/00 - 06/01/03 LC Based Optical Phase Array for Steering Lasers

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2000 444230 Other Fed DARPA (Rockwell sub) 637,057 9/6/00-8/31/04 LC Agile Beam Steering

2000 444263 Other Fed DARPA 341,000 6/30/00-8/31/04 LC Based Optical Phased Arrays for Steering Lasers

2000 440810 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents 197,600 7/00-9/02 Basic Clean Room Techniques

2000 444715 Ohio OBR Res. Chall. 143,810 1/00-6/01 Equipment - Microcalorimetry System

2000 444220 Ind/Other Dupont 120,000 1/00-1/03 Optical Properties of Holographic Elements in Display Applications

2000 444231 Ind/Other Boulder Nonlinear 112,500 8/00-1/02 Steered Agile Beams

2000 444221 Ohio OBR Res. Chall. 100,000 1/00-6/01 Chromonic LCs

2000 444228 Ind/Other Displaytech 99,000 9/00 - 8/03 C1 SSFLC Bistable Device Optimization Project

2000 444218 Ind/Other ACS Petroleum Res. Fund 60,000 1/1/00-8/31/02 Coalescence of LC Lens

2000 444225 Ind/Other Boulder Nonlinear 33,000 3/00-12/00 Development of LC Materials for Direct Energy Contact

2000 442147 NSF 28,200 09/00-01/02 Cholesteric LC Laser Sensors in Optical Fibers

2000 444227 Other Fed DARPA 3,501 Aug-00 Rockwell Grant Travel

2001 444102 Other Fed NASA 654,066 1/16/01-7/15/05 LC Based Beam Steering Device and Optical Telescopes

2001 444235 Ind/Other Boulder Nonlinear 156,370 3/01-2/03 Development of Polymer and Chiral Materials for FE-LCD

2001 444241 Ind/Other Samsung 143,641 3/01-5/03 Modeling and Improvements to Pi-Cell type Devices for AMLCD applications

2001 444242 Ind/Other Intel 142,151 6/1/01-5/30/04 Research Project for Intel Corporation

2001 444245 Ind/Other CoAdna 96,189 10/01-10/02 Tunable Filters for Telecommunications Applications

2001 444240 Ind/Other Samsung 89,940 04/01-01/02 Novel LC Materials with High Birefringence and Low Rotational Viscosity for Field Sequential Color Reflective LCDs

2001 444233 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents 70,000 3/01-12/02 Electro-optical Devices from Banana-Shaped LCs

2001 444244 Ind/Other Nitto Denko 62,054 9/01-8/02 Polymer Walls for Ruggedized LCDs using Plastic Substrates

2001 444232 NSF NSF/KDI sub 60,000 01/01-06/02 High Twisting Power Chiral Materials

2001 444234 Ind/Other Matsushita Electric 50,000 4/01-3/03 Trans-reflective LCD

2001 444238 Other Fed AFRL/DAGSI 46,951 7/1/01 - 12/31/03 Carbon nanotube-Reinforced LC Structural Composites by Electron Beam Curing

2001 444236 Other Fed DARPA/Hughes Sub 35,000 2/01-6/01 High Birefringence LCs for Optical Beam Steering

2001 444237 Other Fed DARPA/Hughes Sub 15,000 2/01-6/01 Custom Synthesis LC Compounds

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2001 444243 Ind/Other Chromalux 6,248 07/01-09/01 Resolution of Electron Beam Addressed LC Displays

2002 Fndn Ind/Other Ohio Eminent Scholar 750,000 2002 Ohio Eminent Scholars Program (endowment)

2002 442232 NSF 480,000 6/1/02-5/31/06 Tunable Mirrorless Lasing in Cholesteric LC Elastomers

2002 444253 Other Fed USAF 379,998 7/1/02-9/17/03 Prism Rotator Beam-steering Component and 2D Optical Phased Array Wavefront Corrector (THOR)

2002 444249 Ohio ODOD 282,000 5/1/02-7/31/03 ALCOM Support

2002 444247 Other Fed USAF/UCF/Ratheon 90,000 1/1/02-12/31/03 Development of High Birefringence LCs for Optical Beam Steering

2002 444521 Ohio OBR Res. Chall. 80,000 2/02 - 12/03 Pathogen Detection by Lyotropic LCs

2002 Other Fed AFOSR/BNL 78,185 7/02-2/03 Polymer-Stabilized Ferroelectric LC for Analog Switching

2002 440636 Other Fed AFRL/Anteon 52,592 5/1/02-6/30/04 Numerical and Experimental Studies on Isotropic LC Binary Mixtures

2002 442234 NSF 29,840 9/1/02-8/31/05

2002 444251 Other Fed ONR/KDI 28,500 6/02-5/03 Black & White Cholesteric Displays

2002 444248 Other Fed USAF/U C Florida sub 20,000 1/28/02-6/30/02 Development of High Birefringence LCs for Optical Beam Steering

2002 444252 Ind/Other Cubic Defense Systems 13,467 7/23/02-11/30/02 Polymer Dispersed LC Shutters Research Project

2003 771203 Ohio 1,640,000 7/10/03-7/09/06 Flexible Optical and Electronic Device Manufacturing Facility

2003 441149 Other Fed Congress Approp. 471,913 9/30/03-9/29/05 Center for LC Science and Education

2003 440218 Ohio ODOD/Wright Ctr. 400,000 11/1/03-6/30/08 Wright Center of Innovation for Advanced Data Management and Analysis

2003 444260 Ind/Other Samsung 340,000 8/1/03-7/31/10 Sponsored Research Agreement

2003 444259 Other Fed AFOSR/Cornerstone 240,000 9/1/03-5/30/06 Conductive LC Elastomers for Aircraft Wing Structures

2003 444255 Ohio ODOD/AlphaMicron sub 196,253 1/1/03-9/30/04 LC Eyewear

2003 442235 NSF 190,000 8/15/03 - 7/31/05 Acquisition and Development of Fast Confocal Polarizing Microscopy for Liquid Crystal Materials Research and Education

2003 442236 NSF 100,000 9/15/03 - 8/31/04 ACT/SGER: LC Materials for Biosensor Development

2003 444257 Ind/Other Hana 100,000 6/1/03-5/31/06 Inorganic Alignment Layer Project

97

Inception Year


2003 444262 Ind/Other Photon-X 82,000 12/5/03-11/30/04 Sponsored Research Agreement

2003 444258 Ind/Other SAIC-Army/KDI sub 50,000 7/24/03-6/30/04 Encapsulated Cholesteric Displays

2003 444254 Ind/Other Viztec 29,159 1/1/03-12/31/03 Commercialization of Plastic LC Displays

2004 444256 Ind/Other Polydisplay 153,355 1/1/04-12/31/04 Ultra-thin Flexible Full Color LC Displays

2004 444265 Other Fed US Army/UCF sub 150,000 5/24/04-5/23/07 Foveated, Wide Field-of-View Imaging Sensor for Missile Warning/Tracking Using Adaptive Optics


2004 444270 NSF NYU/Courant sub 100,000 9/1/04-8/31/06 SGER: Modeling the Dynamics of Shape Change in LC Elastomer Systems

2004 440644 Ohio Ohio Bd Regents 64,167 1/1/04-12/31/05 Theoretical Study of Domains in Membranes

2004 442244 NSF 63,433 4/1/04-3/31/07

2004 444755 Ohio OBR Res. Chall. 58,941 1/1/04-12/31/05 Fluorothiophenes - A New Class of Chevron-free Ferroelectric Materials with Promising Electrooptic Device and Semiconductor Applications

2004 444269 Ind/Other Steridian Corp. 47,000 10/15/04-6/15/05 Sponsored Research Agreement

2004 444267 Other Fed SAIC-Army/KDI sub 44,000 5/16/04-12/31/04 Sponsored Research Agreement

2004 444539 Other Fed Homeland Sec/NEOUCOM 30,000 2/16/04-2/15/05 Rapid Detection of Fluid-borne Pathogens using LCs

2004 444272 Ind/Other US CRDF 16,000 6/25/04-6/24/06 Insight in the Physical Phenomena Behind Light Absorption Induced Surface Anchoring

2004 444266 Ind/Other US CRDF 12,400 11/1/04-10/31/06 Lyotropic Chromonic LCs: A New Material for Advanced Biosensing and Optical Applications

2004 444264 Ind/Other Hanna 2,000 3/18/04-3/17/05 Hana Characterization Project

2005 444547 Foundation W.M. Keck Fndn. 385,934 6/30/05-6/30/06 Laboratory Equipment Proposal

2005 444280 Ohio ODOD/Wright Ctr. 365,235 6/6/05-6/5/08 Wright Center for Multifunctional Polymer Nanomaterials and Devices (CMPND)

2005 442198 NSF 360,000 11/1/05-12/31/06 Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy of 3D Director Configurations in LCs

2005 442191 NSF 313,978 8/15/05-7/31/08 Collaborative Research FRG: Ferroelectric Phenomena in Soft Matter Systems

2005 444277 Other Fed NIST 270,305 9/1/05-8/31/07 Finite Element Modeling of Projectiles and Indentation

2005 442242 NSF 258,199 4/15/05 - 7/31/05 Acquisition of an Imaging Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectrometer

98

Inception Year


2005 444276 Other Fed AFRL/Cornerstone 225,000 5/15/05-5/14/07 STTR Phase II: Conductive LC Elastomer for Aircraft Gap Treatment

2005 Fndn Ind/Other Intel 189,000 10/1/05-9/30/08 Polarization Independent Etalon Based LC Devices

2005 444279 Other Fed ONR 110,556 10/1/05-9/30/08 Tracking Nanoparticle Motion to Elucidate Mechanisms for Anomalous thermal Transport in Nanofluids

2005 440650 Ohio OBR Res. Chall. 60,000 1/10/05-12/31/06 Biaxial Nematic and Smectic Phases and Critical Phenomena in Bent-Core and Tetrapodic Mesogens

2005 440442 Ohio Ohio Bd Regents 59,948 1/15/05 - 12/31/06 Nanotechnology, LCs and Drug Delivery

2005 444284 Ind/Other ACS Petroleum Fund 56,603 9/1/05-8/31/07 Simulation Studies of Shape Selection in Chiral Molecular Self-Assembly

2005 444274 Other Fed AFRL/Displaytech 55,000 4/1/05-7/31/06 Sponsored Research Agreement


2005 440447 Ind/Other Samsung 40,000 4/30/05-4/30/06 Stressed LC Materials: Electro-optics and Use in Displays

2005 444278 Other Fed AFOSR/Cornerstone 40,000 8/1/05-4/30/06 Development of High Birefringence LCs for Infrared Applications

2005 444271 Ind/Other IICAM 20,000 7/1/05-6/30/06 3D Structures and Defects in LC Biopolymers

2005 444275 Other Fed USAF/Anteon sub 7,497 1/3/05-3/31/05 Support Expertise for Sensor Directorate

2006 442216 NSF 899,235 6/1/06-5/31/09 New LC Materials Facility

2006 442222 NSF 499,926 9/15/06-8/31/11 S-STEM Scholarships for Broadening Participation Sciences

2006 444285 Other Fed AFRL 451,450 3/10/06-6/30/08 Extension Proposal (LC Based Optical Phases Array for Steering Lasers)

2006 440606 Other Fed US Dept Energy 322,526 8/15/06-8/14/10 Electric Field Effects in LCs with Dielectric Dispersion

2006 444286 Other Fed AFOSR 253,532 5/1/06-9/30/07 MURI on Self-Assembled Soft Optical NIMS

2006 442220 NSF 200,000 8/15/06-7/31/09 Modeling Actuation and Shape Selection in Soft Materials

2006 442218 NSF 172,998 7/1/06-6/30/09 Fluid Phases of Bent-Core Molecules-Novel Physics and Applications

2006 Fndn Ind/Other Dupont 160,000 6/1/06-1/31/09 Fluorinated Polyimide Alignment Layer Research

2006 444201 NSF NSF/KDI sub 150,000 7/1/06-12/31/07 STTR Phase II: Photochemically Switched Chiral Materials for Chiral Nematic Displays

99

Inception Year


2006 Other Fed ONR/KDI subaward 140,000 8/06-7/98 Conducting Polymer Substrates

2006 440623 Other Fed ONR 122,262 12/18/06-12/31/07 Energy Conversion Based on Giant Flexoelectric Effect in Bent-Core Nematic LCs

2006 440462 Ind/Other Samsung 100,000 11/1/06-10/31/07 Studies of Lyotropic Chromonic LCs for Internal Compensators and Polarizers


2006 440465 Ind/Other Samsung 100,000 11/1/06-10/31/07 Bent Core LCs for Fast Switching Electric Field Induced Biaxial (EFIB) Displays

2006 440466 Ind/Other Samsung 100,000 11/1/06-10/31/07 LC Displays doped with Ferroelectric Nanoparticles

2006 444287 Ohio ODOD 100,000 7/1/06-6/30/07 New LC Materials Facility

2006 444288 Other Fed USAF/Dynamic Eye sub 98,057 9/1/06-8/31/08 Segmented Flash Blindness Lenses

2006 440467 Ind/Other Samsung 67,000 11/1/06-10/31/07 Advanced OCB2

2006 444282 Ohio OBR Res. Chall. 60,000 1/15/06-1/14/08 Tracking Nanoparticle Motion to Elucidate Mechanisms for Anomalous thermal Transport in Nanofluids

2006 444283 Ohio OBR Res. Chall. 60,000 1/15/06-1/14/07 Light-harvesting Semiconducting Discotic LCs for Organic Nanostructured Photovoltaics: New Opportunity and New Challenge

2006 444289 Ind/Other Displaytech 59,998 11/1/06-12/31/07 Sponsored Research Agreement

2006 440468 Ind/Other Samsung 50,000 11/1/06-10/31/07 OCB Transreflective Mobile LCD

2006 444281 Ind/Other Comex-Pic 46,000 1/12/06-11/11/06 LC Elastomers as Smart Pigments in Paints

2006 444204 Other Fed AFOSR 10,430 4/1/06-11/30/06 Workshop on Negative Index Materials

2007 444205 Ohio ODOD/KDI sub 930,000 2/26/07-2/25/10 Flexible LC Film Manufacturing Alliance

2007 444295 Ind/Other PixelOptics 400,000 12/1/07-11/30/08 PixelOptics Super Vision Project

2007 444292 Ohio ODOD/U Akron sub 300,000 2/26/07-2/25/10 Commercialization of Functional Polyimide Films and Nanocomposites

2007 440624 Other Fed ONR 138,000 3/6/07-3/31/08 Integrated Instrumentation Suite for Exploring Enhanced Thermal Conductivity in Nanofluids (equipment)

2007 442249 NSF 122,000 9/1/07-8/31/08 Materials World Network on Lyotropic Chromonic LCs

2007 442107 NSF 92,000 9/15/07-8/31/10 Collaborative Research in Europe on LCs (CRELIC-IRES)

100

Inception

Year Grant # Category Agency Total award Grant Period Project Title

2007 444293 Ind/Other Gen Dynamics 70,000 6/21/07-6/30/08 Electrically and Optically Turnable Chiral Molecules for Optical Applications

2007 440621 Ohio OBR Res. Chall. 50,000 1/1/07-12/31/08 Chromonic LCs as New System for Controlled Drug Delivery

2007 444202 Ohio OBR 50,000 1/15/07-1/14/08 Nanofluidic Lab on Chip for Low Abundance Protein Isolation

2007 444203 Ohio OBR Res. Chall. 50,000 6/1/07-12/31/08 Energy-Saving Switchable LC Architectural Window

2007 444771 Ohio OBR 50,000 1/15/07-1/14/08 Creating Nanophotonic Meta-atoms by Programmable Bottom-up DNA Self-Assembly and Metallization

2007 444294 NSF NSF/KDI subaward 25,000 7/1/07-12/31/07 Photochemically Switched Chiral Materials for Chiral Nematic Displays

2007 444290 NSF IICAM 20,000 7/1/07-6/30/08 Theory of "Scar" Defects in Soft Materials with Orientational Order: Building Blocks for Self-Assembly

2007 442107 NSF NSF 92,000 9/165/07-8/31/10 Collaborative Research in Europe on Liquid Crystals (CRELIC-IRES)

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

400,000 12/1/07-11/30/08 Pixel Optics Super Vision Project

2007 444296 Ind/Other Samsung 80,000 12/1/07-11/30/08 Simulation Study of Field Induced Reorientation of BNLC

2007 444297 Ind/Other Samsung 80,000 12/1/07-11/30/08 Plasmonic Subwavelength Structures for Active Color Generation and Tuning with Liquid Crystals for Display Applications

2007 444298 Ind/Other Samsung 80,000 12/1/07-11/30/08 Liquid Crystal Display Doped with Ferroelectric Nanoparticles (Phase II)

2007 444299 Ind/Other Samsung 80,000 12/1/07-11/30/08 Synthesis of Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals


2008 444302 Ind/Other Evans Capacitor Co. 1,460 4/1/08-5/31/08 Prototype Capacitor Development

2008 444303 NSF NSF/KDI subaward 250,000 1/1/08-12/31/09 Photochemically Switched Chiral Materials for Chiral Nematic Displays, Phase II

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

108,870 5/15/08-12/31/08 Sponsored Research Agreement

2008 444306 Ind/Other NorTech 50,000 6/12/08-6/30/09 Development of Electronic Greenhouses

101

Inception

Year Grant # Category Agency Total award Grant Period Project Title

2008 444776 Ohio Ohio Board of Regents 48,618 1/15/08-1/14/10 Organization of Flexoelectric and Blue Phase Bimesogens

2008 444304 Ind/Other Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter

2,000 5/1/08-4/30/09 Science Education / Outreach Activities

2008 446800, 446801, 446000

Ohio ODOD 15,292,382 8/18/08-8/17/13 Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials (KSU-CWRU-YSU; KSU share $8,553,921)

2009 446308 Ind/Other ATK Space Systems/NASA 15,013 1/26/09-6/30/09 Development of Particle Based Flow Diagnostic Techniques

2009 444211 Other Fed AFOSR 100,000 5/1/09-11/30/09 Novel Organo Soluble Optically Tunable Chiral Hybrid Gold Nanorods

2009 444208 Other Fed AFOSR 150,000 3/1/09-11/30/09 Light Driven Chiral Molecular Motors for Passive Agile Filters

2009 444783 Ohio OBR 50,000 6/15/09-6/14/10 Numerical Simulations & Lab Observations of Sulfuric Acid-Water-Organics Ternary

2009 444309 Ohio OBR 26,192 6/15/09-6/14/10 Flex Chlorestic Displays: Device Simulation & Fashion Application

2009 444212 Other-Private KIMM 31,211 1/1/09-12/31/10 Establishment of the Intl network for flexible electro-optics devices

2009 444214 Ohio ODOD/KDI 598,037 5/29/09-5/28/12 Electronically Changeable Color Skins for Consumer Electronics

2009 442263 NSF NSF 302,200 7/15/09-6/30/13 Collaborative Research: Self Assembly in Ultrathin Films of bent-core molecules

2009 444311 Other-Private eVision 188,600 8/1/09-8/31/11 eVision Project

2009 444310 Other Fed NIST 115,637 8/1/09-7/31/10 Atomic Scale Modeling for Development and Fundamental Studies of Biaxial Colloidal Systems

2009 448011 NSF NSF 277,903 9/1/09-8/31/11 ARRA:CoherentAnt-Stokes Raman Scattering & Fluorescence Confocal Polarizaing

2009 442269 NSF NSF 8,031 9/1/09-8/31/10 5th Intl Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference

2009 440658 Other Fed US DOE 525,000 9/1/09-2/28/10 Biaxiality in the Thermotropic Bent-Core

102

Inception Year


2009 442270 NSF NSF 135,000 9/15/09-8/31/09 Nonlinear Diffusion on a Sphere

2009 444215 Other-Private MFLEX 113,804 12/1/09-11/30/11 Investigation on the Relation Between Anchoring Energy of Polymer Surface and the Performance of Polymer Dispersed

2010 442272 NSF NSF 400,000 3/1/10-2/28/15 Plasmonic Nanocavities for Single Molecule Detection

2010 444314 Other-Private Intel 49,241 3/22/10-3/21/11 Low Power and High Performance Mobile Displays

2010 444312 Other-Private Kent Displays 26,218 4/15/10-7/15/10 Electromechanical Driving of Cholesteric LC

2010 444219 Other-Private N Carolina/Imagine Optics 8,347 4/29/10-8/31/10 Enhanced Polymer Polarization for Reflective LC Microdisplays

2010 444315 Other-Fed US DOD/MIT Lincoln Lab 57,980 5/10/10-3/31/11 Feasability Investigation of LC based LWIR to Visible Optical Transducer

2010 442275 NSF NSF 230,000 5/15/10-4/30/13 Structure Fluids from Reduced Symmetry Molecules

2010 444785 Ohio OBR 35,000 5/15/10-5/14/11 Synthesis of Mondisperse Mesoporous Silica-Based Microcapsules

2010 444313 Other-Private Kent Displays 163,800 5/17/10-5/16/12 Low Cost, Continuously Tunable Electro-Optic Lens Requiring Simple Drive Electronics

Total Awards $ 96,801,439

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Doctoral Dissertations on Liquid Crystals

Date Name, Title of Dissertation Advisor/Department

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

p'-cyanoaniline

* DuPont

1970 WILLEY, DAVID Brown Chemistry The Thermodynamics of Dilute Solutions using Selected Liquid Crystalline Solvents * Industry, Akron

1972 LEE, Y.S. Brown Chemistry An Ultrasonic Shear Wave Study of the Mechanical Properties of a Nematic Liquid Crystal

* Industry, Taiwan

1972 LESSER, DAVID Brown Chemistry Crystal Structure Analysis of X-Ray of 2,2'-Dibromo-4,4'-bis-(p- methoxybenzylideneamino) Biphenyl

*

August 1972 HSU, Y.Y. Fishel Chemistry Studies of Liquid Crystals: Part I - Synthesis and Characterization of Selectively Deuterated Compounds with Mesomorphic Properties; Part II - Synthesis of Novel Schiffs Bore Compounds and the Investigation of Binary Systems with Nemorphic Properties

* Consultant, California

December 1972 WILSON, JACK Uhrich Physics Mossbauer Effect in a Smectic Liquid Crystal * Retired

March 1973 VISINTAINER, JAMES Doane Physics Spin-Lattice Relaxation in the Nematic Liquid Crystalline Phase * Research Scientist, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio

March 1973 WISE, RAYMOND Doane Physics A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Smectic C Liquid Crystals * Retired

June 1973 FELLNER, HANS G. Franklin/Christensen Physics Light Scattering from Liquid Crystals * Professor, Slippery Rock University, PA

August 1973 DETJEN, ROBERT E. Uhrich Physics A Mossbauer Investigation of the Lattice Dynamics of the Smectic Liquid Crystalline State

* August 1973 KESS, SHARON Franklin Physics The Photostatistics of Brillouin Scattering by a Liquid Crystal * IBM Corp., R&D, Vermont

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August 1973 MURPHY, JOHN A. Doane Physics NMR Pulsed Gradient Studies of Diffusion in Liquid Crystals * Keithley Instruments, Solon, Ohio

December 1973 NANDY, PAPIYA Saupe Physics Theoretical Studies of the Electrohydrodynamic Instabilities in Nematic Liquid Crystals

* Instructor of Physics, Jadavpur University

March 1974 SCHENZ, ANNE FILLER Neff Chemistry Optical and Faraday Studies of Liquid Crystals * General Foods, White Plains, NY

June 1974 CHU, KWO-SUN Moroi Physics Theories of Intermolecular Potential and Molecular Diffusion in the Mesophases of Liquid Crystalline Systems

* Retired (NY)

June 1974 CHUNG, DAVID BUU-VINH Brown Chemistry An X-Ray Study of the Crystal Structure and the Smectic E Structure of a Smectogenic Liquid Crystal -- Di-n-Propyl-p-terphenyl-4,4"-carboxylate

* Research Scientist, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA

December 1974 CHIN, JOHN S.H. Neff Chemistry The Effect of Compressibility on the Thermodynamic Properties of Liquid Crystals

*

June 1975 PHOTINOS, PANAGIOTIS J. Saupe Physics Mean Field Study of the Formation of Uniaxial Smectic Liquid Crystals with Polarized Layers

* Professor and Chair, Dept. of Physics, Southern Oregon State University, Ashland, OR

December 1975 BERMAN, ARTHUR L. Gelerinter Physics Optical Studies of Electric Field Effects in Nematic Liquid Crystals That Have Some Smectic Ordering

* Optical Shields Corp., Menlo Park CA

June 1976 AIMIUWU, VICTOR Q. Uhrich Physics Fe-57 Mossbauer Study of Four Ferrocene Derivatives in a Smectic B Liquid Crystalline Glass

* August 1976 MORITZ, ELAN Franklin Physics A Class of Nonlinear Electrohydrodynamic Effects in a Nematic Liquid Crystal * Research Scientist, US Naval Coastal Systems, Panama City FL

December 1976 FLICK, CATHERINE M. Gelerinter Physics An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of the Action of Selected Polyene Antibiotics on Lipid Planar Multibilayers (Model Membranes)

* John Wollman Enterprises, Indiana

December 1976 UKLEJA, PAUL Doane Physics Spin-Lattice Relaxation and Director Fluctuations in Nematic Liquid Crystals * Professor, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth


105

June 1978 BOS, PHILIP J. Doane Physics NMR Studies of Orientational Order in the Smectic C Liquid Crystalline Phase * Professor, Chemical Physics Program, Kent State University

June 1978 DSIDOCKY, RICHARD Fishel Chemistry Investigations of Liquid Crystals: Part I. The Effect of Terminal Substitutent Branching on Mesogenic Behavior of Phenyl Benzoates. Part II. Synthesis of Novel Organotin Compounds Exhibiting Liquid Crystalline Behavior

* Research Scientist, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio

August 1978 LAPRICE, WALTER J. Uhrich Physics Iron-57 Mossbauer Temperature Study of Nematic, Smectic B and Smectic H Liquid Crystalline Glasses

* Materials Engineer, Westinghouse, Pittsburgh, PA

December 1978 BRISBIN, DOUGLAS J. Johnson Physics Divergence of the Bend Curvature Coefficient above the Nematic-Smectic A Phase Transition: Freedericksz Transition

* Research Scientist, General Dynamics Corp., Los Angeles, CA

December 1978 MAJOROS, STEPHEN J. Johnson Physics A Test of Curvature Elasticity Above the Nematic-Smectic A Phase Transition * Lorrain Co. Community College, Elyria OH

June 1979 GRADDICK, WILLIAM Spielberg Physics The Effect of Calcium on the Thermotropic Phase Behavior of Dipalmitol Phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) Multilayers

*

June 1980 NAIKSATAM, PRAKASH Fishel Chemistry Structure-Property Relationships of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals

* Brookhaven National Lab

August 1980 BAGINSKI, GERARD H. Saupe Physics Proton Magnetic Resonance Study on Iron bis(cyclopentadienyl) in Nematic Solutions

*

August 1980 EKACHAI, ARUN Spielbertg/deVries Physics X-Ray and Optical Studies of Several Smectic Phases * Lecturer, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand

August 1980 SETHNA, VIJAY N. Spielberg/deVries Physics X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Skewed Cybotactic Nematic Phases * Industrial Scientist, Kaiser Electronics, San Jose, CA

August 1980 VAZ, NUNO A. Doane Physics Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Orientational Order in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

* Research Scientist, General Motors, Warren, Michigan

December 1980 DEHOFF, RICHARD J. Johnson Physics Specific Heat in the Vicinity of a Nematic-Smectic A-Smectic C Multicritical * Research Scientist, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton OR


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December 1980 HAVEN, THOMAS J. Saupe Physics Elastic and Viscous Properties of Nematic Systems in Aqueous Decylammonium Chloride Solutions

* Research Scientist, Sarif, Vancouver, Washington

December 1980 RICHARDS, BERNARD L. Moroi Physics Rotational Diffusion in Nematic Liquid Crystals * Assistant Professor, Stark Campus, Kent State University

May 1981 LOCKHART, THOMAS E. Gelerinter Physics Indices of Refraction at Smectic A-Smectic C Phase Transitions * Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

August 1981 KTORIDES, PETROS Uhrich Physics Mossbauer Study of the Smectic Liquid Crystalline Glass Phase Using Sn-bearing

Molecules

* Teaching, Cyprus

December 1981 KUZMA, MICHAEL R. Allender/Johnson Physics Mean Field Study of Molecular Tilt in Uniaxial Liquid Crystalline Phases * Real Estate, Philadelphia December 1981 VAZ, MARIA J. Doane Physics Orientational Order in Phospholipid, Cholesterol-Phospholipid, and Protein- Phospholipid Bilayer Membranes: A DMR Study

* Professor, Lawrence Technical University, Detroit MI

June 1982 SHARMA, BRIJ B. Saupe Physics Proton Magnetic Resonance in Nematic Solvents: Orientation and Structure of Anthaquinone Derivatives and a Linewidth Analysis of Benzene Spectrum

* Research Scientist, Bell Communications, Piscataway, NJ

June 1982 SHETTY, ANIL N. Doane Physics Molecular and Segmental Orientational Order in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals: An NMR Study

* Scientist, Imaging Center, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI

June 1982 SHIH, LIH-BIN Brown Chemistry Laser Light Scattering of Surface Fluctuations of Liquid Crystals * Research Scientist, S.C. Johnson, Racine, WI

December 1982 YANIV, ZVI Doane Physics A Deuterium Magnetic Resonance Study of Biaxial Ordering and Self-Diffusion in Chiral Nematic and Smectic Phases

* President, SI Diamond Technology, Austin TX

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


107

December 1983 BOONBRAHM, POONPONG Saupe Physics Optical Studies on Micellar Nematics and on Phase Transitions Between Nematic States

* Lecturer, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand

December 1983 GOODEN, CLARENCE E. Johnson Physics Light Scattering and Magnetic Deformation Study of the Nematic-Smectic A Transition

* Research Scientist, Eglin Air Force Base, Fort Walton Beach, FL

December 1983 MAHMOOD, RIZWAN Johnson Physics Director Elasticity Above the Nematic-Smectic A Transition * Associate Professor, Slippery Rock University, PA

December 1983 ROTH, ROBERT A. Saupe Physics Theoretical Studies on the Dielectric Permittivity of Liquid Crystals with Application to Alkylazoxybenzene Derivatives

* Research Scientist, US Air Force, Dayton, OH

December 1983 STEFANOV, MICHAEL E. Saupe Physics Physical Properties of Nematic Decylammonium Chloride/Ammonium Chloride/Water Systems

*

May 1984 STRENK, LAWRENCE M. Doane Physics A Deuterium NMR Study of Orientational Order and Spatial Modulation in Phosphatidyl Choline Bilayers Including Those Containing Cholesterol and Protein

* President and CEO, Strenk Scientific Consultants, Inc.,

Middleburg Heights OH

August 1984 MARANDE, ROBERT P. Uhrich Physics Iron-57 Mossbauer Temperature Study of Smectic A., Smectic B and Smectic C Liquid Crystalline Glasses

* Assistant Professor, Behrend College, Erie, PA

December 1984 HAFIZ, NAJMA Allender/Doane Physics Nematic Phases in Liquid Crystals: Theory of Uniaxiality and Biaxiality and an NMR Study of Reetrants

*

May 1985 RAHMAN, JOLLY A. deVries/Spielberg Physics The Development of Some Molecular Models for Smectic A Phases * Research Scientist, Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR

May 1985 SPIELBERG, JOHANAN Gelerinter Physics An EPR Study of Glass-Forming Liquids and Liquid Crystals

*

August 1985 HENDERSON, GIRARDEAU Allender Physics Phenomena at the Isotropic - Nematic Transition Induced by Surface Order * Research Scientist, US Naval Coastal Systems, Panama City, FL

August 1985 LIU, HSING-CHUNG deVries/Spielberg Physics Analysis of the X-Ray Diffraction Pattern of the Skewed Cybotactic Nematic Phase of p-n-Octyloxybenzoic Acid

*


108

August 1985 VLACHOPOULOS, PETROS Lee Physics Theoretical Studies of Local Orientational Order in Cholesterics and Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Mixtures

*

December 1985 MOTTAKABBIR, KAZI A. Lee Physics Quantum Simulations of the Ground State of the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model * Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Austin

May 1986 WU, BAO-GANG Doane Physics Deuterium NMR of Asymmetric Motion and Molecular Ordering in Liquid Crystals and Microdroplet Controlled Scattering in Display Applications

* R&D Scientist, Advanced Display Systems, Amarillo, TX

August 1986 LEE, YOUNG-HEE Lee Physics Classical and Quantum Computer Simulation Studies: Molecular Dynamics of the Kerr Effect in Carbon di-sulfide in Green's Function Monte Carlo Calculations of the Electronic Correlation Energy in Atoms

* Assistant Professor, Physics, Jeonbug National University, Korea

December 1986 CUNNINGHAM, BETH A. Lis/Doane Physics The Influence of Monovalent Ions on Dipalmitoylphosphatidyl-choline Bilayer Structure and Packing

* Assistant Professor of Physics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

May 1987 KHAN, IQBAL Johnson Physics Director Dynamics Above Nematic-Smectic (A,C) Transitions * Scientist, Textile Institute of Pakistan

August 1987 FIGUEIRINHAS, JOAO Doane Physics A Deuterium Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the SF Phase * Scientist, Centro de Fisica da Materia Condensada, Lisbon, Portugal

August 1987 LEWIS, MICHAEL E. Johnson Physics A Mode 1 Light Scattering Study of the Smectic-A Phase Near the NA Transition: Critical Behavior of the Layer Dilation Elastic Coefficient

* Lewis Consulting, Akron, Ohio

August 1987 ZHOU, E Saupe Physics Curvature Elasticity of the Micellar Nematics * Lecturer, Beijing University, China

December 1987 GOLEMME, ATTILIO Doane Chemical Physics Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals * Research Scientist, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Calabria, Rende,

December 1987 KLEMM, STEFAN Lee Physics Quantum Simulation of Polyene Ground States * Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

December 1987 MELNIK, GEORGE Saupe Physics Critical Properties of Phase Transitions in Micellar Nematics in Microscopic Textures of Micellar Cholesterics

* North American Phillips Corp., Briarcliff Manor, NY


109

August 1988 PHONPHOK, NASON Westerman/Doane Physics Effects of Anesthetic Membrane Solutes on Orientational Order in Lecithin Bilayer Membranes: An NMR Study

* Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

May 1989 FRISKEN, BARBARA J. Palffy-Muhoray Physics/UBC Nematic Liquid Crystals in Electric and Nematic Fields * Professor & Chair of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

May 1989 RISSER, STEVEN Lee Physics Model Hamiltonian Calculations of the Nonlinear Polarizabilities of Conjugated Molecules

* Texas A&M, Commerce, TX

August 1989 WHITEHEAD JR., JOE B. Doane Physics Light Scattering from Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals * Associate Professor of Physics, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

December 1989 VITHANA, HEMASIRI Johnson Physics Light Scattering and Magnetic Field Deformation Study Near the Nematic- Smectic A Phase Transition: Critical Behavior of Twist and Bend Elastic

* Research Scientist, Reveo, Hawthorne, NY

May 1990 ERDMANN, JOHN H. Doane Physics Electro-Optic Response of Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals * Hana Microdisplay Technologies, Inc., Twinsburg, OH

May 1990 LEE, JONG-CHEON Allender/Neff Physics Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Homeotropic Surface Effect on the Cholesteric-Nematic Phase Transition of a Compensated Mixture

* Research Scientist, Samsung Corporation, Seoul, Korea

May 1990 PLUMLEY, SULAKSHANA Saupe Physics Elasticity and Dynamic Properties of Ionic Micellar Mixtures

* December 1990 SUBRAMANIAM, RAVI Lee Physics Quantum Simulations of the Ground State Electronic Structure of Diatomic Molecules

* Research Fellow, University of Pittsburgh

December 1990 SUBRAMANYAM, SUNDAR Fishel Chemistry Liquid Crystals Containing the Dibenzopyran Nucleus: Synthesis and Mesomorphic Properties of 3-(4-n-Alkoxybenzylidene-amino) Dibenzo[b,d]Pyran

* Research Fellow, University of Lowell

May 1991 BOYD, DARWIN Uhrich Physics Mossbauer Studies of Some 1. Iron(III) Spin Crossover Systems and 2. A Cold Cholesteric Liquid Crystal

* Assistant Professor of Technology, Kent State University, Kent, OH

May 1991 GLEESON, JAMES L. Palffy-Muhoray Physics Instabilities During Directional Solidification of a Transparent Material * Professor & Asst. Chair, Dept. of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio


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August 1991 SARKAR, MOINUDDIN Spielberg Physics X-Ray Study of Some Columnar Thermotropic Mesophases * Assistant Professor of Physics, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN

August 1991 SU, WEN-CHEN Fishel Chemistry Part 1. Novel Syntheses of Substituted 6H-D(b,d) Pyrans by Pschorr Cyclization; Part 2. Synthesis and Studies of Mesomorphic Compounds Derived from 3- Amino and 3-Hydroxy-6H-D(b,d) Pyrans

* Avery Dennison, Pasadena, CA

December 1991 CHEN, LI Kumar Physics High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Nematic to Smectic-A Phase Transition and the Frustrated Smectic A Phase

December 1991 CRAWFORD, GREGORY P. Doane Chemical Physics Nematic Liquid Crystals Confined to Cylindrical Cavities: A 2H-NMR Study * Dean, College of Science, University of Notre Dame

December 1991 LIU, JIMING Saupe Physics Line Defects in Biaxial Nematics and Critical Properties of Nematic-Isotropic Transitions Near the Landau Point

* Computer Scientist, Pittsburgh, PA

December 1991 YUAN, HAIJI (JIM) Palffy-Muhoray Physics Nonlinear Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals * CoAdna Photonics, Inc., San Jose, CA May 1992 KIM, JAE YON Palffy-Muhoray Physics Phase Separation Kinetics of Binary Liquid Crystal Polymer Mixtures * Research Scientist, Samsung Corp., Seoul, Korea

August 1992 SEEKOLA, DESMOND Kelly Physics Dielectric Response of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystalline Films * SpectraSwitch, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA

December 1992 LIN, HEFEN Palffy-Muhoray Physics Optical Fibers with Liquid Crystalline Cores * Philips Flat Displays, San Jose, CA

December 1992 NAGVEKHAR, DEVDATT Fishel Chemistry Novel Mesomorphic Systems Based on Heteromethylene Bridged Biphenyls * Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Tech., Blacksburg, VA

May 1993 KIM, DU RIM Saupe Physics Effects of Polymers in the Rotational Viscosity of Nematic Liquid Crystals and Dynamics of Field Alignment

* Instructor, Kangwon National University, Korea

May 1993 PATEL, PREM L. Kumar Physics High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction Study of Frustrated Smectics * Private Enterprise, Philadelphia, PA

August 1993 AMARASINGHE, NANDANA Moroi Physics Iterative Solutions to Nonlinear Wave Equation in a X(2) Medium and Permittivity Gradient Induced Polarization and Second Harmonic Generation in Inhomogeneous Media

* Staff Scientist, SpectraSwitch, Santa Rosa CA


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August 1993 ONDRIS-CRAWFORD, RENATE Doane Physics The Effect of Molecular Anchoring and Curvature on Confined Nematic Liquid Crystals

*

December 1993 FREDLEY, DAVID S. West Chemical-Physics Phase Behavior and Electro-Optics of Dispersions of Polymers and Low Molecular Weight Liquid Crystals

* Research Scientist, Motorola, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

December 1993 IANNACCHIONE, Finotello Physics AC Calorimetric Study of Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions and Restrictive Geometries

* Assoc. Prof. & Interim Dept. Head., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA

May 1994 SHIN, SUNG-TAE Kumar Physics Calorimetric and X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Phase Transitions in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

* Faculty, Korea University

December 1994 ABEGUNARATHNA, SUGATH Saupe Physics Dielectric Properties of Liquid Crystals: Polymer Dispersions and Chiral Smectic Phases

*

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

*


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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

August 1995 JI, YIMIN Kelly Physics Surface Anchoring at a Polymer/Liquid Crystal Interface in the Neighborhood of the Glass Transition

* Research Scientist, Corning, Inc., NY

December 1995 CHEN, JIANMIN Johnson Physics Nonrubbing Techniques for Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals: Fundamentals and Applications

* Colorlink, Inc., Boulder, CO

December 1995 FOLKS, RAYMOND Lavrentovich Physics Light Induced Instabilities in Smectics * Research Scientist, CREOL, Univ. Central Florida

December 1995 LU, ZHIJIAN Doane Physics Reflective Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays * Honeywell, Phoenix, AZ

May 1996 HUANG, XIAO-YANG Doane Physics Field-Induced Transitions in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Dynamics and Applications in Displays

* Senior Scientist, Kent Displays, Inc.

May 1996 JAMAL, SYED H. Kelly Physics Characterization and Optimization of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystals: Dynamics and Applications in Displays

* Senior Project Engineer, Honeywell, Phoenix, AZ

August 1996 DING, HONG Kelly Physics The Study of Dielectric and Electro-Optic Response of Liquid Crystals in Confined Systems

* Staff Scientist, Meadowlark Optics, Longmont, CO


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December 1996 QIAN, SIHAI Finotello Physics Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions in Porous Media * Digilens, Sunnyvale, CA

May 1997 BRETT, MARTIN West Chemical Physics * Five Star Technologies

May 1997 HU, GONGJIAN Palffy-Muhoray Physics

Laser Induced Configurational Transition in Liquid Crystals * Staff Scientist, dpiX, A Xerox Co., Palo Alto, CA

May 1998 GALABOVA, HRISTINA Allender Physics A Theoretical Study of Surface Induced Phenomena in nematic Liquid Crystals * Staff Scientist, Reveo Corp., Hawthorne, NY

May 1998 WANG, XIAO-DING West/Allender Physics Polarized Ultraviolet Light Induced Alignment for Liquid Crystal Displays on well- Defined Polyimide Films

* Staff Scientist, Micro Display Corp., San Pablo, CA

August 1998 LIU, HONG Allender Physics Theory of Liquid Crystal Static Distortions in Uniaxial and Biaxial Nematics * Lecturer, Nanjing University, China

May 1999 HOKE, CHARLES D. Bos Chemical Physics Multi-Dimensional Alignment of Liquid Crystals and its Application to the Bistable Twist Cell

* Staff Scientist, Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA

August 1999 LI, KUO-YUIN Kelly Chemical Physics * Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation August 1999 LI, SHUXIN Bos Chemical Physics * Densitron, Santa Fe Springs, CA

August 1999 MORI, HIROYUKI Bos Chemical Physics Fabrication and Optical Effects of a Discotic Negative Birefringence Film for Liquid Crystal Displays

* Staff Scientist, Fuji Photo Film Company, Japan

August 1999 WU, WEI Kelly Physics Single and Multiple Light Scattering Studies of PDLC Films in the presence of Electric Field

* Research Scientist, Monsanto Corp., St. Louis, MO

December 1999 ZENG, HUAIREN Finotello Physics Liquid Crystal Orientational Order in Confined Geometries: An NMR * Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University

May 2000 ISHIKAWA, TOMOHIRO Lavrentovich Chemical Physics Elasticity of Defects and Structures in Uniaxial Liquid Crystals * Postdoctoral Fellow, Kent State University, Liquid Crystal Institute

May 2000 MA, RUI-QING Yang Chemical Physics Polymer Networks Formed in Liquid Crystals and Their Applications * Research Scientist, Corning, Inc., NY


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May 2000 PARK, EUI-YEUL West Chemical Physics * AlphaMicron, Inc.

May 2000 WATSON, PHILIP E. Bos Chemical Physics The Homeotropic to Planar Transition in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals * Research Scientist, 3M Company, Minneapolis MN

May 2000 XU, MING Yang Chemical Physics Electro-Optical Properties of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Devices and Applications of Dual Frequency Cholesterics

* Research Scientist, Chorum Technologies, Richardson TX

August 2000 COLEGROVE, JENNIFER Kelly Chemical Physics Optimization of Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Device * Kaiser Electronics, San Jose CA

August 2000 CUI, MINGJI Kelly Physics Temperature Dependency of Viscoelastic Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals * CoAdna Photonics

August 2000 DUNN, PATRICK Yang Chemical Physics * Sr. Technical Program Manager, Samsung America

December 2000 ANDERSON, JAMES E. Bos Chemical Physics Transitions from the Homeotropic in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals * Hana Microdisplay Technologies

December 2000 KONOVALOV, DMITRI A. Sprunt Physics A Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Ferrielectric Phases of Chiral Smectic Liquid Crystals

* Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandeis University

December 2000 MI, XIANG-DONG Yang Chemical Physics Dynamics of the Transitions Among Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Textures * Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak

December 2000 TANG, ANLUN Sprunt Physics Dynamics of Chiral Smectic-A and Twist Grain Boundary Phases of Liquid * KLA-Tencor, California

December 2000 TITUS, CHARLES M. Bos Chemical Physics Diffractive and Refractive Liquid Crystal Beam Steering Devices * Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute

December 2000 YUAN, HAIJUN Palffy-Muhoray Chemical Physics Light Propagation in Complex Liquid Crystal Structure * Mgr., LC Technologies, LambdaFlex, Inc.

May 2001 LIU, WEIMIN Yang Chemical Physics Characterization of Some Wide Viewing Angle Liquid Crystal Displays * Kaiser

August 2001 ACHARYA, BHARAT RAJ Kumar Physics Correlation Between the Surface Properties and Liquid Crystal Anchoring on Polymer Films

* Bell Lab/Lucent Technologies, Inc.


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August 2001 ASFAW, LETEMESKEL Sprunt Physics Coherent Backscattering from Complex Liquids * Alcorn State University, Mississippi

December 2001 HEINEMAN, DAVID West Chemical Physics Kinetics of Patterned Electric Field Induced Polymer Segregation in Liquid Crystal Solutions

* CoAdna Photonics, Inc.

December 2001 VOLOSHCHENKO, DMITRY Lavrentovich Chemical Physics Photoinduced Aggregation in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals * Motorola, Inc.

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

May 2002 WANG, BIN Bos Chemical Physics Two Dimensional Liquid Crystal Devices and their Computer Simulations * Agilent Technologies, Inc.

August 2002 SAEED, SALMAN Bos Chemical Physics Electro-optical Polarization Interference Filters * Three Five Systems, Inc.

December 2002 SU, LINLI West Chemistry Studies on Non-Contact Alignment of Liquid Crystals

May 2003 KANG, SHIN-WOONG Chien Chemical Physics Spatio-Orientationally Organized Polymer Microstructures Obtained on Self- Assembled Pattern-Forming States of Liquid Crystals: Morphology, Phase Separation and Potential Applications

* Sr. Research Scientist, Physics, Kent State University

May 2003 KHAN, ASAD Doane Chemical Physics Chiral Materials and Cell Designs for the Cholesteric Display Technology

* Kent Displays, Inc.

August 2003 MONTBACH, ERICA Bos Chemical Physics Studies of Optical Systems Containing Liquid Crystals and Holographic Optical Elements

August 2003 SMALYUKH, IVAN Lavrentovich Chemical Physics Three-Dimensional Director Fields Studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy

* Postdoctoral Fellow, Kent State University

December 2003 WANG, CHENHUI Bos Chemical Physics Control of Layer Defects in Smectic C* Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Devices * LXD, Inc.

May 2004 ENNIS, ROLAND Palffy-Muhoray Chemical Physics Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals: The Dynamics of Phase Separation and the Saffman-Taylor Instability

* Pressco Technology, Inc., Solon OH


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May 2004 HUANG, YUANMING Jákli Chemical Physics Electro-optical and Dielectric properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Formed by Banana-shaped Molecules

* Unknown

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

* Samsung Electromechanics Ltd

December 2004 STOJADINOVIC, Sprunt, Jákli Physics Light Scattering Studies of Dynamics of Bent-core Liquid Crystals

*

May 2005 CAO, WENYI Palffy-Muhoray Chemical Physics Fluorescence and Lasing in Liquid Crystalline Band Gap Materials * Central Academy of Research of SVA, Taiwan

August 2005 SCHNEIDER, TOD Lavrentovich Chemical Physics Nanostructuring Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals * Kent Displays, Inc.

August 2005 SHI, JIANRU Bos Chemical Physics Liquid Crystal Based Beam Steering * Dynamic Eye, Inc.

August 2005 WANG, XINGHUA Bos Chemical Physics Liquid Crystal Diffractive Optical Elements: Applications and Limitations * Optical and Materials Research Scientist, ChemImage, Inc.

December 2005 BODNAR, VOLODYMYR West Chemical Physics Optical Properties and Polymer Wall Formation in Cholesteric Displays * AlphaMicron, Inc. December 2005 LIAO, GUANGXUN Jákli Chemical Physics Mechanic and Electro-Optical Properties of Non-conventional Liquid Crystal Systems

* CoAdna Photonics, Inc.

December 2005 ZHANG, YANLI Bos Chemical Physics Control of Disclinations and Walls in New Types of Display Devices * Intel, Inc.

December 2005 ZHOU, FUSHAN Yang Chemical Physics Reflective and Transreflective Displays * Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

May 2006 ZHANG, KE West Chemistry Microparticles as a New Analytical Method to Study Liquid Crystal Colloids * Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University May 2006 SEMYONOV, ALEXANDER Twieg Chemical Physics

Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorescent Dyes

and Liquid Crystal Semiconductors

* Sales Engineer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham MA

August 2006 TANG, SHOUPING Kelly Chemical Physics

Multidimensional Optics and Dynamics of Liquid Crystals

*


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August 2006 ZHANG, GUOQIANG West Chemical Physics

Stressed Liquid Crystals: Properties and Applications

*

December 2006 CHEN, CHENG Bos Chemical Physics

Anchoring Transitions on Large-Angle-Deposited SiOx Thin Films

*Apple, Cupertino CA

May 2007 JANG, YONG-KYU Bos Chemical Physics

Optical Properties of Compensated Liquid Crystal Displays

*Samsung Electronics company, Korea

August 2007 YE, YIN Lavrentovich Chemical Physics

Dielectric Relaxation and Electrooptical Effects in Nematic

Liquid Crystals

*CoAdna Photonics, Stow OH

May 2008 BUYUKTANIR, EBRU West Chemical Physics

Electro-optical Characterization of Bistable Smectic A

Liquid Crystal Displays

*Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute

May 2008 LI, FENGHUA West Chemical Physics

The Physics and Application of Liquid Crystal/Ferroelectric

Particle Colloids

*CoAdna Photonics, Inc., Stow OH

May 2008 ZHANG, HAILIANG Kelly Chemical Physics

Wavelength Tunable Devices Based on Holographic Polymer

Dispersed Liquid Crystals

*Scientific Solutions, Inc.

August 2008 BAILEY, CHRISTOPHER Jákli Chemical Physics

Structure and Rheology of Some Bent Core Liquid Crystals

*NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Air Force Research Labs, Dayton OH

December 2008 REZNIKOV, DMITRY Bos Chemical Physics

Effect of Surface Alignment Layer on Electro-optical

Properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Displays

* Israel Institute of Technology - Technion

December 2008 ZHOU, XIAOLI Li Chemical Physics

Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Discotic Liquid

Crystal Porphyrins for Organic Photovoltaics

*

May 2009 GU, MINGXIA Lavrentovich Chemical Physics

Effects of Dielectric Relaxation on Director Dynamics

in Uniaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals

*Sr. Display Optics Engineer, Apple, Inc., San Jose CA

May 2009 HARDEN, JR., JOHN Jákli Chemical Physics

Electromechanical Couplings in Liquid Crystals

*Postdoctoral Fellow, Liquid Crystal Institute


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August 2009 BRAGANZA, CLINTON Chien Chemical Physics

High Dielectric Constant Materials Containing Liquid Crystals

*Kent Displays, Inc., Kent, OH

August 2009 PISHNYAK, OLEG Lavrentovich Chemical Physics

New Electro-Optical Applications of Liquid Crystals: from Beam Steering and Tunabl

Lenses to Negative Refraction and Field-Induced Dynamics of Colloids

*Kent Displays, Inc., Kent, OH

December 2009 SHI, LEI Bos Chemical Physics

Tunable Liquid Crystal Polarization Gratings

*ChemImage, Pittsburgh, PA

May 2010 DHAKAL, SUBAS J. Selinger Physics

Statistical Mechanics of polar, Biaxial and Chiral Order in Liquid Crystals

*Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

May 2010 NEAL, JEREMY Palffy-Muhoray Chemical Physics

Orientaionally Ordered Particles: Characterization and Applications

*Blaq Design, Portland, OR

Documents

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY - Liquid Crystal Institute Annual Report.pdfInternational Liquid Crystal Society programs on membership and Glenn Brown awards. On July 1, 2009, we welcomed the