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NSF Supports Inter-institutional Project to Develop Chemical Sensor Technology
Toxic air pollutants such as chlorine and ozone are hazards for civilian workers and public service employees like firefighters, police and military personnel. Some airborne chemicals can be difficult to detect at low levels with high specificity, though, and relevant technologies like wearable sens…
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NSF Awards ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Researcher Nearly $1 Million for Separate Liquid Crystal Studies
Trustees Research Professor Oleg Lavrentovich, Ph.D., a chemical physicist in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), just received nearly $1 million between two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for separate studies with potential applications in biomedical science, commercial electronics and beyond.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: ¹ú²úÂ×Àí to Introduce the New Director of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute
WHAT: ¹ú²úÂ×Àí President Todd Diacon will introduce the new director of the university’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute on Tuesday, July 16. The birthplace of liquid crystal displays, the institute embraces all materials research on campus with an initial emphasis on m…
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NSF Award Funds Sensor Research at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s New Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute
Thanks to a rare Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), ¹ú²úÂ×Àí researchers in the new Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute will be able to work with partners at Merck Performance Materials to advance life-saving sensory technology.
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Alumnus Dr. George R. Newkome Awards $1 Million Gift for Endowed Professorship in Materials Science at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí
George R. Newkome, Ph.D., and his wife, Mary Jane Saunders, Ph.D., have pledged $1 million to fund a first-ever professorship in materials science in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Newkome is a two-time ¹ú²úÂ×Àí alumnus. “George and Mary Jane both have a passion and d…
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NSF-supported research at the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute: Liquid crystals command swimming bacteria
Transport of fluids and particles at the micro scale is an important theme both in fundamental and applied science. The project explores how this transport can be controlled by anisotropic fluids, namely, by a liquid crustal with pre-designed spatially-variable orientation of molecules. The main foc…
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NSF sponsored research at the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute: Controlled placement of colloids by patterns liquid crystals
Exploration of liquid crystals often brings beautiful images of birefringent textures with topological defects and structures that underscore the intimate connections between condensed matter, optics and mathematics. Oleg Levrentovich's two images of liquid crystals have been selected for outdoor ex…
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NSF sponsored research at the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute: Controlled placement of colloids by patterns liquid crystals
There is a tremendous progress in both the scientific understanding and applications of self-assumblies of small particles. Forming superstructures in which particles of different nature occupy presdeisnged sites represents a major challenge of the current state-of-the art. We proposed a versatile a…
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Alumnus Dr. George R. Newkome Awards $1 Million Gift for Endowed Professorship in Materials Science at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí
George R. Newkome, Ph.D., and his wife, Mary Jane Saunders, Ph.D., have pledged $1 million to fund a first-ever professorship in materials science in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Newkome is a two-time ¹ú²úÂ×Àí alumnus. “George and Mary Jane both have a passion and d…
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Magnetic Field Affects Liquid Crystals in Unexpected Ways
A group of researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí have published a breakthrough article on new properties of liquid crystals in the May 27 issue of Physical Review Letters. The article, which describes some recent surprising results involving nematic liquid crystals…
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