Welcome Emily
06/09/24 17:12
Welcome Emily,
Emily is a visiting PhD student from Prof. Emily Davidson's research group in Princeton University, USA. In our group, she is investigating the effect of chiral dopants on spontaneous symmetry-breaking in monodisperse 'flexible' bent-core LC oligomers she has synthesized. She is also working on tuning liquid crystal elastomer phase behavior, actuation, and optical properties via the chemical incorporation of these 'flexible' bent-core LC's.
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Emily is a visiting PhD student from Prof. Emily Davidson's research group in Princeton University, USA. In our group, she is investigating the effect of chiral dopants on spontaneous symmetry-breaking in monodisperse 'flexible' bent-core LC oligomers she has synthesized. She is also working on tuning liquid crystal elastomer phase behavior, actuation, and optical properties via the chemical incorporation of these 'flexible' bent-core LC's.
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Welcome Alejandro and Larry
21/08/24 15:20
Welcome Alejandro(left) and welcome back Larry(right)
This August we have two postdocs join us.
Alejandro will work on the LiCER(Liquid-crystal Elastomer Robotics) project, which aims to design and develop an instrumented actuator from liquid crystal elastomers to build an endoscope soft robot.
Larry did his Ph.D. in our group. After 4 years postdoc stay at Wageningen University & Research, he return to ESMP to work on the Marie Sktodowska-Curie Action-funded project TECHSTILE, working to create wearable technology incorporating liquid crystal and liquid armor functionality.
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This August we have two postdocs join us.
Alejandro will work on the LiCER(Liquid-crystal Elastomer Robotics) project, which aims to design and develop an instrumented actuator from liquid crystal elastomers to build an endoscope soft robot.
Larry did his Ph.D. in our group. After 4 years postdoc stay at Wageningen University & Research, he return to ESMP to work on the Marie Sktodowska-Curie Action-funded project TECHSTILE, working to create wearable technology incorporating liquid crystal and liquid armor functionality.
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Welcome Rebecca
17/06/24 15:04
Welcome back Rebecca,
After one year, Rebecca finished her B.S. in Industrial Design and come back for an internship to help our group members construct equipment and experimental setups for various projects.
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After one year, Rebecca finished her B.S. in Industrial Design and come back for an internship to help our group members construct equipment and experimental setups for various projects.
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New publication
21/02/24 17:34
It's time to congrats to myself, Yucen, Yansong, Yong, Apala and Jan for a new paper: Tunable templating of photonic microparticles via liquid crystal order-guided adsorption of amphiphilic polymers in emulsions on nature communications
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New publiction
20/12/23 16:37
Congrats to Jan for a new paper : The good, the bad and the ugly faces of cyanobiphenyl mesogens in selected tracks of fundamental and applied liquid crystal research on Liquid Crystals.
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New Publication
05/10/23 16:15
Congrats to Yong, Camila, JungHyun and Jan for their paper on Advanced Materials: Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors with Tunable Color from Single-Domain Cellulose Nanocrystal Microshells.
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Welcome back Yosuke and Axel
15/09/23 15:42
Welcome back to Axel (left) and Yosuke (right)
After one year, Axel and Yosuke rejoin our group for their master project.
They both will engaged in the REVEAL project. Axel will focus on developing methods to create CLCE films that are suitable for a wide range of practical applications. Yosuke will focus on the development of liquid crystal polymer fibres, designed to exhibit mechanochromic response, employing a microfluidics wet spinning technique.
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New Publication
22/06/23 14:35
Congrats to Jan for a new review paper about liquid crystal elastomer actuators and sensors on Programmable Materials.
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New Publication
25/05/23 11:35
Congrats to Yong and Jan for a new paper about Cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer fibers on Advanced Science.
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New Publication
29/03/23 10:41
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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