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Dr. Quan Li, Senior Research Fellow in the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

91²Ö¿â Researcher and Professor Elected to the European Academy of Sciences

One of 91²Ö¿â’s most prolific and renowned researchers has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences. Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins the prestigious Brussels-based organization that includes about 660 member…

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Materials Science Graduate Program: Graduate Education on Soft Matter Science

91²Ö¿â Senior Research Fellow Quan Li, Ph.D., has been elected to the prestigious European Academy of Sciences.

91²Ö¿â Researcher and Professor Elected to the European Academy of Sciences

One of 91²Ö¿â’s most prolific and renowned researchers has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences. Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in 91²Ö¿â’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins the prestigious Brussels-based organization that has about 660 members from 45 nations, including 65 Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners.

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Military personnel in camouflage put on ventilator masks before an exercise involving airborne toxins

NSF Supports Inter-institutional Project to Develop Chemical Sensor Technology

Toxic air pollutants such as chlorine and ozone are hazards for civilian workers and public service employees like firefighters, police and military personnel. Some airborne chemicals can be difficult to detect at low levels with high specificity, though, and relevant technologies like wearable sens…

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Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

Dr. Quan Li, Senior Research Fellow in the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

91²Ö¿â Researcher and Professor Elected to the European Academy of Sciences

One of 91²Ö¿â’s most prolific and renowned researchers has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences. Quan Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow in the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, joins the prestigious Brussels-based organization that includes about 660 member…

Tags: Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute , Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program , College of Arts and Sciences

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Oleg Lavrentovich, Ph.D. (second from left), works in a microscopy lab with a colleague and 91²Ö¿â students.

NSF Awards 91²Ö¿â Researcher Nearly $1 Million for Separate Liquid Crystal Studies

Trustees Research Professor Oleg Lavrentovich, Ph.D., a chemical physicist in 91²Ö¿â’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute (AMLCI), just received nearly $1 million between two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for separate studies with potential applications in biomedical science, commercial electronics and beyond.

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MEDIA ADVISORY: 91²Ö¿â to Introduce the New Director of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

WHAT: 91²Ö¿â President Todd Diacon will introduce the new director of the university’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute on Tuesday, July 16. The birthplace of liquid crystal displays, the institute embraces all materials research on campus with an initial emphasis on m…

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91²Ö¿â researchers Elda and Torsten Hegmann pose with one of the sensors they created that detects toxic gases. The sensors can be made any shape or size and require no power to function.

NSF Award Funds Sensor Research at 91²Ö¿â’s New Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

Thanks to a rare Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), 91²Ö¿â researchers in the new Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute will be able to work with partners at Merck Performance Materials to advance life-saving sensory technology.

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George R. Newkome, Ph.D., a two-time 91²Ö¿â alumnus, smiles with 91²Ö¿â President Beverly J. Warren.

Alumnus Dr. George R. Newkome Awards $1 Million Gift for Endowed Professorship in Materials Science at 91²Ö¿â

George R. Newkome, Ph.D., and his wife, Mary Jane Saunders, Ph.D., have pledged $1 million to fund a first-ever professorship in materials science in 91²Ö¿â’s College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Newkome is a two-time 91²Ö¿â alumnus. “George and Mary Jane both have a passion and d…

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NSF-supported research at the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute: Liquid crystals command swimming bacteria

Transport of fluids and particles at the micro scale is an important theme both in fundamental and applied science. The project explores how this transport can be controlled by anisotropic fluids, namely, by a liquid crustal with pre-designed spatially-variable orientation of molecules. The main foc…

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NSF sponsored research at the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute: Controlled placement of colloids by patterns liquid crystals

Exploration of liquid crystals often brings beautiful images of birefringent textures with topological defects and structures that underscore the intimate connections between condensed matter, optics and mathematics. Oleg Levrentovich's two images of liquid crystals have been selected for outdoor ex…

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