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Jim Gleeson |
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| Associate Professor and Assistant to the Chair | ||
| Education: | Ph.D. Physics, Kent State University, 1991 |
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| Areas of Research: | Pattern formation in liquid crystals, turbulence, granular matter | |
| Website: | http://www.physics.kent.edu/Physics/Gleeson.html | |
| Students working in our lab can expect to be part of a team engaged in exciting experimental research investigating a wide variety of topics in “soft” condensed matter. We use a broad spectrum of instrumentation with heavy emphasis on imaging and visualization. | ||
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Antal "Tony" Jakli |
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| Senior Research Fellow | ||
| Education: | Doctor of Sciences (D.Sc.), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2000
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| Areas of Research: | Ferroelectric properties of liquid crystals Piezoelectric properties of liquid crystals Banana liquid crystals Lyotropic liquid crystals |
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| Website: | http://www.lci.kent.edu/PI/Jakli.htm | |
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Oleg Lavrentovich |
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| Director Liquid Crystal Institute | ||
| Education: | Doctor of Science, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1990 |
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| Areas of Research: | Nematic Anchoring against Solid Substrates Lyotropic Systems Light-induced phenomena in nematic, smectic A and cholesteric LC Three dimensional Imaging of Liquid Crystals: Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy Liquid Crystals as Biological Sensors Electro-optical effects and materials Topological Defects in Liquid Crystals |
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| Website: | http://www.lci.kent.edu/Lavrentovich/Group.html | |
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Quan Li |
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| Senior Research Fellow | ||
| Education: | Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai,
1995 |
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| Areas of Research: | Molecular design and synthesis of novel liquid crystals. Molecular design, synthesis and assembly of well-defined nanoscale liquid crystals. |
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| Website: | http://www.lci.kent.edu/PI/Li.htm | |
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Peter Palffy-Muhoray |
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| Associate Director Liquid Crystal Institute, Professor | ||
| Education: | Ph.D., Physics, University of British Columbia, 1977 | |
| Areas of Research: | Photo-alignment and the Brownian ratchet mechanism Photonic band gap and mirrorless lasing Phase separation dynamics Liquid crystal elastomers |
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| Website: | http://ppm2002.lci.kent.edu/ | |
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Samuel Sprunt |
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| Associate Professor of Physics | ||
| Education: | Ph.D., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989 B.S., Physics, A.B. History, Stanford University, 1980 |
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| Areas of Research: | Light scattering studies of structure Dynamics, and phase transitions in liquid crystals and related complex fluids |
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| Website: | http://phys.kent.edu/Physics/Sprunt.html | |
| Message to prospective graduate students: Students participating in Dr. Sprunt’s research lab will gain an up-to-date working knowledge of optics, opto-mechanics, electro-optics, and electronic signal processing. They may also develop skills in Labview-based graphical programming for technical and research environments, as well as competence with computational tools such as Mathematica. |
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John West |
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| Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies Professor, Chemistry | ||
| Education: | Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 1980 M.S., Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 1979 B.S., Chemistry, College of William and Mary, 1976 |
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| Areas of Research: | PDLC materials, electro-optical devices, and photo-alignment ALCOM Projects Alignment and Surface Induced Phenomena Heterogeneous Structures |
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| Website: | http://www.lci.kent.edu/westlab | |
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Christopher Woolverton |
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| Associate Professor of Biological Sciences | ||
| Education: | Post-doctoral training, Cellular Immunology, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988 |
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| Areas of Research: | Liquid Crystal Biosensors Liquid Crystal Controlled Drug Delivery Bacterial-host interactions Cellular and molecular responses to inflammatory bacterial products Physiological responses to bacterial disease, novel antimicrobial therapies |
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| Website: | http://dept.kent.edu/biology/woolver.htm | |