Experimental Soft Matter Physics
September 2011

New article on liquid crystal shells and electrospun fibers

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Our new paper on liquid crystalline shells stabilized by the polymeric surfactant F127 undergoing a nematic-smectic phase transition, and on SEM characterization of electrospun liquid crystal-containing microfibers is finally published as part of the proceedings of last year’s Italian Liquid Crystal conference proceedings. The article follows on Jan’s invited talk at the conference. It is a collaboration with the LC Nano lab at the GSCST.
Liquid Crystals in Novel Geometries prepared by Microfluidics and Electrospinning
Hsin-Ling Liang, Eva Enz, Giusy Scalia and Jan Lagerwall
Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 549, pp. 69-77 (2011)

Bilateral collaboration with Stockholm University on Nanocellulose

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Based on a bilateral collaboration grant from NRF (Korea) and STINT (Sweden), the SNM lab will engage in a joint project together with the group of Prof. Lennart Bergström, Stockholm University, Sweden, entitled “New Functional Materials Formed by Self-Assembly of Nano-Cellulose”. The prime aim of the project, starting in the end of 2011, is to develop new and technologically attractive methods of using cellulose, the most abundant material on earth, as a low-cost renewable resource for novel nanostructured functional composite materials.

Eva Enz visits the GSCST as guest of the LC Nano Lab

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Eva Enz, Ph.D. student of Prof. Lagerwall’s during the time at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, visits the GSCST as a guest of our collaborator group, the LC Nano lab of Prof. Giusy Scalia. She will stay throughout September and October.