Congrats to our alumni Anjali, Rijeesh and Jan for a recent paper: Impact of mesogenic aromaticity and cyano termination on the alignment and stability of liquid crystal shells.


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PublicationPhD, publications, Shells

Congrats to Nikolay and Jan for a recent paper : Birefringence-modulated total internal reflection in liquid crystal shells on Frontiers in Soft Matter.


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PublicationPhD, Shells,

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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electrospinning, PublicationPhD, fibers

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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PublicationPhD, publications, alumni, Liquid Crystal

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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elastomer, PublicationPhD, Shells, PhD, publications

Many congratulations to Camila and Jan for recent article " Interrogating helical nanorod self-assembly with fractionated cellulose nanocrystal suspensions" published in Communications Materials. Article is open access.
 



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students, publications, Liquid Crystal, PublicationPhD, alumni