Experimental Soft Matter Physics
December 2011

Feature of our PRL on smectic shells in Soft Matter World

Our article on the nematic-smectic phase transition in microfluidics-produced liquid crystal shells, published recently in Physical Review Letters, Nematic-smectic transition under confinement in liquid crystalline colloidal shells [Hsin-Ling Liang, Stefan Schymura, Per Rudquist and Jan Lagerwall Phys. Rev. Lett., 106, 24, 247801 (2011)], was highlighted in the December 2011 newsletter of Soft Matter World.

Patrick Theato visits the SNM lab and gives a seminar

Theato
Patrick Theato, Associate Professor for Polymer Chemistry at the Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Germany, and WCU Professor at the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, SNU, is visiting the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology on Thursday 8th of December. He will give a seminar entitled “One is enough: Influencing Polymer Properties with a Single Chromophoric Unitat 3:30p.m. in room D-122. You can download Prof. Theato’s abstract and bio sketch here.