Congratulations to Martin for the publication in J. Mater. Chem. C of his new paper on nematic liquid crystals doped with gold nanoparticles, entitled "Nanoparticles dispersed in liquid crystals: Impact on conductivity, low-frequency relaxation and electro-optical performance". The paper deals specifically with the effect of the nanoparticles on the dielectric and conductive behavior of the composite, finding that the doping has negligible effect on the permittivity as such, but it comes with an ionic contamination that leads to electrode polarization build-up and increased low-frequency conductivity. This means that the low-frequency electrooptic response is also negatively affected by the doping. Read the paper here.

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Congratulations to Johanna Bruckner, who was awarded the German Liquid Crystal Society's best poster award at the joint conference of the British and German liquid crystal societies, in Edinburgh, UK, 21-23rd of March 2016. The poster, entitled "Solvent effects on chiral nematic self‐assembly of cellulose nanocrystals" (co-authors Camila Honorator-Rios and Jan Lagerwall), describes the behavior of cellulose nanocrystal suspensions in non-aqueous but polar solvents, as well as a new method of exchanging the solvent without inducing aggregation of the rods. A publication is on the way...

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In an advertisement for the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) of the University of Luxembourg in the last issue of the journal Times Higher Education, JungHyun and Jan are featured as representatives.

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