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91心頭利s Liquid Crystal Institute to Celebrate 50 Years of Innovation
The Glenn H. Brown Liquid Crystal Institute速 and the College of Arts and Sciences at 91心頭利 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
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91心頭利 Graduate Student Wins Silver Award From Materials Research Society
Anshul Sharma, a graduate student in 91心頭利 Universitys Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the Silver Graduate Student Award at the Materials Research Societys 2015 Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California. She was recognized for her
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91心頭利s Liquid Crystal Institute Hosts Chirality Symposium June 4-5
91心頭利 Universitys Liquid Crystal Institute速 will host a symposium called Chirality at the Nanoscale on June 4-5 in the Kent Student Center on the Kent Campus. This event features internationally renowned scientists presenting cutting-edge research on one of the key central to
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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, Westa senior research fellow at 91心頭利s L
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91心頭利 Spinoff Company Markets Flexible Electronics
A new company formed by a 91心頭利 University researcher and inventor will market a technological innovation flexible, electrically conductive transparent films that can be used in electronic devices, including smart phones and touchscreens, and in windows that switch from transparent to opaqu
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National Science Foundation Awards Nearly $2.5 Million to 91心頭利 Researchers
91心頭利 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
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New Liquid Crystal Structure Reported by 91心頭利 Researchers
A research group at 91心頭利 University has described the structure of a new type of liquid crystal that had been predicted theoretically but never seen. The new twist-bend nematic liquid crystal, one with a spiral twist, was observed by a 91心頭利 research group led by Oleg D. Lavrentovich,
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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
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