2021
New cover page
02/12/21 19:31
New Publication
02/12/21 19:12
More new publications! Congrats to Shameek, Jan, collaborators Margaret Frey and Francesco Basoli, and alumnus Larry for their recent publication in Macromolecules and Molecular Engineering.
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New Publication
02/12/21 19:08
Congrats to Katrin and Jan, ESMP alumna Catherine, and collaborators Lukas Pschyklenk and Peter Kaul for a recent paper in Cell Reports Physical Science on some quantitative gas sensing with liquid crystal-filled fibres.
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New Publication
08/11/21 14:22
Congratulations to Shameek, Manos, and Jan and to ESMP collaborator Francesco and alumnus Larry for their recent Langmuir publication. This work investigated the dynamics of core-sheath electrospinning in differing miscibility relationships between the core and sheath.
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Congratulations to Shameek
09/10/21 12:04
Congratulations to Dr. Shameek Vats who successfully defended his Ph.D thesis on Friday.
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Welcome Tabea
01/10/21 11:54
Welcome to Tabea.
Tabea is a master student at the University of Stuttgart. She is in our group for an internship for 2.5 months. She will work on the fractionation of Chitin-based nanocrystal, which tend to form a chiral nematic phase.
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Welcome Deniz and Lenka
13/09/21 15:29
Welcome to Deniz (left) and Lenka (right).
Deniz join our group as a new PhD candidate. She will work on "TRANSCEND Project": Transforming autonomous navigation, swarm robotics and construction by using Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors (CSRs) encoding data into surfaces.
Lenka is currently a PhD student at Tomas Bata University. She join our group as an intern. She will investigate the liquid crystalline behavior of collagen solution and try to utilize these properties in electro spun fibres.
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New article in Crystals!
05/08/21 23:06
Many congratulations to JungHyun and Jan for recent article "Topological Defect-Guided Regular Stacking of Focal Conic Domains in Hybrid-Aligned Smectic Liquid Crystal Shells" published in Crystals. Article is open access.
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Welcome Katrin and Nikolay!
27/07/21 14:45
Welcome to Katrin (left) and Nikolay (right) come back for their further study. Katrin will working on the potential of electrospun, liquid crystal-filled polymer fibres for the quantitative detection of volatile organic compounds. Nikolay will working on liquid crystal shells as reporters of bimolecular adsorption events.
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New article in Crystals!
16/06/21 20:04
Many congratulations to Larry and the team for the latest article "Measuring the Anisotropy in Interfacial Tension of Nematic Liquid Crystals" published in Crystals.
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New publication!
14/06/21 12:11
Many congratulations to the team for the recently published article "Linking physical objects to their digital twins via fiducial markers designed for invisibility to humans" in Multifunctional Materials.
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Congratulations to Anjali!
14/06/21 11:08
Congratulations to Anjali who recently defended her Ph.D thesis on "Liquid Crystal Shells: from Physics Mysteries, via Chemistry Challenges, to Biosensing Opportunities”.
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New article on LCE shells!
04/05/21 13:34
Many congratulations to Anjali, Andy, and Jan for the recent article "Liquid crystal elastomer shells with topological defect-defined actuation: Complex shape morphing, opening/closing, and unidirectional rotation" published in the Journal of Applied Physics. We are also happy to share that this article is Editor's pick. Article is open access.
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Popular Science Summary
22/03/21 21:28
Check here popular Science Summary of our recently published article "Encoding Hidden Information onto Surfaces Using Polymerized Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors".
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