Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute
The Liquid Crystal Institute
Founded in 1965 by Glenn H. Brown, Kent State University's Liquid Crystal Institute is the world's first research center focused on the science of liquid crystals.
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Kent State鈥檚 Liquid Crystal Institute to Celebrate 鈥50 Years of Innovation鈥
The Glenn H. Brown Liquid Crystal Institute庐 and the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University will host a 50th anniversary celebration of the institute on Friday, Sept. 25, starting at 10 a.m. in the Kent Student Center Kiva on the Kent Campus. The event will kick off a yearlong celebra鈥
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Meeting of the Minds
Undergraduate research is thriving at Kent State, as students and their faculty mentors find mutual benefit in their collaborative efforts. by Jan Senn Photography by Melissa Olson Scientific research, scholarship and artistic work don鈥檛 happen in isolation by lone individuals in a lab, study or 鈥
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Kent State Graduate Student Wins Silver Award From Materials Research Society
Anshul Sharma, a graduate student in Kent State University鈥檚 Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the Silver Graduate Student Award at the Materials Research Society鈥檚 2015 Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California. She was recognized for her 鈥
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Kent State鈥檚 Liquid Crystal Institute Hosts Chirality Symposium June 4-5
Kent State University鈥檚 Liquid Crystal Institute庐 will host a symposium called 鈥淐hirality at the Nanoscale鈥 on June 4-5 in the Kent Student Center on the Kent Campus. 鈥淭his event features internationally renowned scientists presenting cutting-edge research on one of the key central to鈥
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Window on the Future
It started with an accidental discovery. In 2012, John West was in his lab when a doctoral student working with him at the time brought him a microscopic image that showed uniform cracks in a coated film he had been cutting with a razor. Fascinated, West鈥攁 senior research fellow at Kent State鈥檚 L鈥
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Kent State Spinoff Company Markets Flexible Electronics
A new company formed by a Kent State University researcher and inventor will market a technological innovation 鈥 flexible, electrically conductive transparent films 鈥 that can be used in electronic devices, including smart phones and touchscreens, and in windows that switch from transparent to opaqu鈥
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National Science Foundation Awards Nearly $2.5 Million to Kent State Researchers
Kent State University faculty members have been awarded nearly $2.5 million in funding from the National Science Foundation for research over the next three years in biology, physics and the science of liquid crystals. The awards will fund basic research on: How plants respond to environmen鈥
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New Liquid Crystal Structure Reported by Kent State Researchers
A research group at Kent State University has described the structure of a new type of liquid crystal that had been predicted theoretically but never seen. The new 鈥渢wist-bend nematic鈥 liquid crystal, one with a spiral twist, was observed by a Kent State research group led by Oleg D. Lavrentovich, 鈥
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NSF supports theoretical study on pattern formation and shape evolution in soft matter
Professors Robin Selinger and Jonathan Selinger have been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research. The project is entitled, "Topological Defects, Curved Geometries, and Shape Evolution in Soft Matter." This award is funded by the Divisi鈥
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