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Publications and Theses

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Research Themes

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Collaborations



Our Current Projects

Our group's research is organized into a number of projects:
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BriCE
 Novel Concrete Bridge Spatially-Distributed Monitoring Through Liquid Crystal Elastomers
IAS project with Numa Bertola, UNILU
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LETZCOLOR
 Liquid Enabled Transformation of Solar Panels for Public Acceptance by Coloring without Efficiency Loss
Project with Phil Dale, UNILU
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ALCEMIST
 Atypical Liquid Crystal Elastomers:
from Materials Innovation to Scalable processing and Transformative applications
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SHADOW
 Shaping Domain Wall and defect configurations of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals
Project with Irena Drevenšek-Olenik and Miha Ravnik, University of Ljubljana
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INVISIMARK
 Unclonable Invisible Optical Markers for Defence Applications
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COSAMOS
 Control of a Soft Aerial Manipulator with CLCE-based Optical Strain sensing
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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
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TRANSCEND
 Transforming autonomous navigation, swarm robotics and construction by encoding data into surfaces
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BIOSHELLS
 Biological sensing with liquid crystal Shells
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BIOFLICS
 Biosensing the Frugal Way with Liquid Crystal Spheres

Previous Projects

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ECLIPSE
 Eye-undetectable Cholesteric LIquid crystal spheres realized by Phase Separation and Electrospray
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ECLECTIC
 Extended organoid Core Life by Elastomeric liquid Crystal Tubes In Culture
Physics Meets Biology project with Jens Schwamborn, LCSB
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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
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SSh
Security in the Shell
Dates: 2018–2021
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COReLIGHT
 Colloidal Organzation Reconfigured by LIGHT-driven thermal Marangoni flows
Dates: 2019–2022
FNR CORE Junior project of Manos Anyfantakis
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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
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MASSENA
 Doctoral Training Unit chaired by Emmanuel Defay and Susanne Siebentritt, University of Luxembourg
Dates: 2017–2021
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MISONANCE
 Materials Innovation with Self-Ordered Nanocellulose: from fundamental physics of self-assembly to realization of commercially appealing functional films
Dates: 2015–2018
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LIMEFLOW
 Liquid Metals Subject to Flow
Dates: 2015–2019
AFR PhD project of Lawrence Honaker
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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
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ULISCO
 Ultrathin LIquid crystal Shells for Smart COlloids
Dates: 2014–2018
AFR PhD project of JungHyun Noh

ESMP is funded by support from:

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