Projects

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Publications and Theses

Research Themes

Collaborations

Our Current Projects

Our group's research is organized into a number of projects:

BriCE
Novel Concrete Bridge Spatially-Distributed Monitoring Through Liquid Crystal Elastomers
IAS project with Numa Bertola, UNILU

LETZCOLOR
Liquid Enabled Transformation of Solar Panels for Public Acceptance by Coloring without Efficiency Loss
Project with Phil Dale, UNILU

ALCEMIST
Atypical Liquid Crystal Elastomers:
from Materials Innovation to Scalable processing and Transformative applications
Project with Maria Helena Godinho, NOVA University of Lisbon, and Eugene Terentjev, University of Cambridge

SHADOW
Shaping Domain Wall and defect configurations of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals
Project with Irena Drevenšek-Olenik and Miha Ravnik, University of Ljubljana

INVISIMARK
Unclonable Invisible Optical Markers for Defence Applications

COSAMOS
Control of a Soft Aerial Manipulator with CLCE-based Optical Strain sensing

TECHSTILE
Tailoring and Enhancing CHemically assisted Spinning to Textiles Incorporating Liquid crystal-Enhanced functionality
MSCA-PF project of Lawrence Honaker

LiCER
Liquid Crystal Elastomer Robots
IAS project of Alejandro Ibarra Orellana

TRANSCEND
Transforming autonomous navigation, swarm robotics and construction by encoding data into surfaces

BIOSHELLS
Biological sensing with liquid crystal Shells

BIOFLICS
Biosensing the Frugal Way with Liquid Crystal Spheres

Previous Projects

ECLIPSE Eye-undetectable Cholesteric LIquid crystal spheres realized by Phase Separation and Electrospray

ECLECTIC Extended organoid Core Life by Elastomeric liquid Crystal Tubes In Culture
Physics Meets Biology project with Jens Schwamborn, LCSB

REVEAL Revealing complex strain patterns and dangerous loads using cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers
Dates: 2021–2024

UNIQUE Unclonable Networks for Identification using Cholesteric Emulsions
Dates: 2019–2021

VALIDATE Verifying Authenticity with Liquid Crystal-Derived Anti Theft Encoding
Dates: 2019–2021

SSh Security in the Shell Dates: 2018–2021

COReLIGHT Colloidal Organzation Reconfigured by LIGHT-driven thermal Marangoni flows
Dates: 2019–2022
FNR CORE Junior project of Manos Anyfantakis

LAB'RINTH Liquid crystal-bead reflectors illuminating the needle in the haystack
Dates: 2019–2022

TRENDSETTER Template-free Reconfigurable Nematic Defect Arrays for Designing Self-Organisable Topological Three-dimensional Elastomer Responsive Rafts
Dates: 2017–2020
FNR CORE Junior project of V.S.R. Jampani

MASSENA Doctoral Training Unit chaired by Emmanuel Defay and Susanne Siebentritt, University of Luxembourg
Dates: 2017–2021

MISONANCE Materials Innovation with Self-Ordered Nanocellulose: from fundamental physics of self-assembly to realization of commercially appealing functional films
Dates: 2015–2018

LIMEFLOW Liquid Metals Subject to Flow
Dates: 2015–2019
AFR PhD project of Lawrence Honaker

INTERACT Intelligent Non-woven Textiles and Elastomeric Responsive materials by Advancing liquid Crystal Technology
Dates: 2015–2020

DISGONA DIelectric Spectroscopy Study on Nematic GOld NAnoparticle Dispersions
Dates: 2015–2017
AFR Postdoc project of Martin Urbanski

ULISCO Ultrathin LIquid crystal Shells for Smart COlloids
Dates: 2014–2018
AFR PhD project of JungHyun Noh

ESMP is funded by support from: