Editorial Board for section 'Liquid Crystals'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members

Department of Electronic, Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Interests: liquid crystals; electrooptics; displays; photonics; photoalignment; photopatterning
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Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Interests: molecular modeling of soft matter (theory and simulations); chirality; elasticity; liquid crystals; lipid membranes
Cavendish Professor of Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Interests: liquid crystals; photonic materials; devices sensors; soft matter; self assembly
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UCCS BioFrontiers Center and Department of Physics, University of Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO 80918, USA
Interests: liquid crystal; nanoparticles; display application; fast switching; phase retardation; tunable lenses; beam steering devices; polymers; composite structures
Head of the Laboratory of Theoretical Studies, Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, NRC "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow 119333, Russia
Interests: structure and phase transitions of liquid crystals and liquid crystal polymers; plasmonic and dielectric metamaterials; homogenization; nonlinearity; tunability and artificial chirality; liquid-crystal-tunable metasurfaces
Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnici 835, 252 41 Dolni Brezany, Czech Republic
Interests: lipid polymorphism; lipid cubic phases; non-lamellar lipid phases; lipid nanoparticles; protein crystallization; kinetics of crystal growth; kinetics of phase transitions; liquid crystals; time resolved X-ray scattering (SAXS and WAXS); X-ray powder diffraction; pump-probe and stop-flow kinetics; membrane biophysics
Department of Physics, The United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402, USA
Interests: directed self-assembly of nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, ferroelectric nanoparticles, graphene, ferromagnetic nanoparticles, gold nanoparticles, nanodiamonds etc.) in liquid crystals; development of liquid crystal / nanomaterials based nano- electromechanical systems; electro-optic devices; micro-switching devices; and electromechanical memory functions; order-disorder phenomena in soft matter systems; liquid crystal phases and phase transitions
Electronics and Information Systems Department, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: liquid crystals; integrated optics; electro-optic effects; optical nonlinear effects; photonic applications of liquid crystals
Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Leninskiegory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Interests: liquid crystals; liquid crystalline polymers; photochemistry; photochromism; chiral mesophases
Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
Interests: pattern forming instabilities and defects in liquid crystals
Materials Science, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Interests: liquid crystals; soft materials science; displays and applications of liquid crystals
Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, 34000 Montpellier, France
Interests: liquid crystals; topological defects; phase transitions; interfaces; colloids
Department of Chemistry, The University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
Interests: liquid crystals; ferroelectric; antiferroelectric; dichroic dye; smectic; nematic
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1. Physics Department, Lisbon Superior Institute of Engineering, Rua Conselheiro Emídio Navarro, 1, 1959-007 Lisboa, Portugal
2. i3N, CENIMAT, Materials Science Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Campus da Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Interests: liquid crystals; liquid crystals applications; polymeric materials; liquid crystalline polymers; cellulosic materials and derivatives; cellulosic liquid crystals; solid state NMR; Rheo-NMR; electro-optical properties; anisotropic mechanical properties; mechano-optical properties
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Interests: liquid crystals; chiral liquid crystals; ferroelectric liquid crystals; polymer stabilized liquid crystals; nanoparticles in anisotropic fluids; liquid crystal-nanotube dispersions; defects and defect dynamics; phase ordering in soft matter; fractal structures
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Soft Matter Spectroscopy Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 13 - 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: soft matter; NMR; food; spectroscopy; chemical-physical characterization
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Institute of High Pressure Physics Polish Academy of Science, ul. Sokołowska 29/37, 01-142 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: soft matter; liquid crystals; supercooled liquid; bioliquids; glasses; critical phenomena; food; cosmetics; high pressure; broadband dielectric spectroscopy; strong electric field; non-thermal food preservation
Ohio Research Scholar in Science & Technology of Advanced Nanomaterials, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Interests: liquid crystals; nanomaterials; nanochemistry; liquid crystal nanocomposite; lyotropic liquid crystals; chirality; self-assembly
Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS), CNRS − Université de Strasbourg, 23 rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg, France
Interests: liquid crystals; molecular/ionic liquids; soft matter; bulk structure and thin layer morphology; X-ray scattering/diffraction; neutron scattering; thermal properties
South China Advanced Institute of Soft Matter Science and Technology, School of Molecular Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
Interests: self-assembly study of hybrid macromolecules; design of functional polymer materials for specific needs in energy strorage and optical films; liquid crystals/liquid crystal polymers with unprecedented properties for applications in optical and electric materials
Departament de Ciència de Materials i Química Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: active soft matter; surfactant and nanoparticle Langmuir-Blodgett films; liquid crystal defects and patterns; colloids dispersed in liquid crystals; nonequilibrium dynamics of colloid assemblies
Soft Matter Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Interests: liquid crystals; LC displays; non display applications of LC; nano-imprint lithography and device fabrication; optics of liquid crystals; ferroelectric liquid crystals; bistable LCD; novel LC phases
Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Interests: liquid crystals; alignment; colloids
Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Interests: liquid crystals; fluid dynamics; molecular dynamics simulations
1. Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroska 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
2. Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: liquid crystals; nanocomposites; phase transitions; instabilities; wetting; topological defects
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Associate Vice President for Research, University at Albany, Albany, NY 12222, USA
Interests: bulk and interfacial structure and morphology; electro-optical studies and applications of liquid crystals; elastomers; and biomaterials
Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Department of Physics and Materials Science Graduate Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Interests: lyotropic chromonic lquid crystals; twist-bend nematics; heliconical cholesterics; electrophoresis and electro-osmosis enabled by liquid crystals; nanosecond electro-optics; living liquid crystals; topological defects; chirality and confinement; materials for transformation optic; liquid crystal elastomers
Department of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University Taiwan, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Interests: liquid crystal photoelectric element; liquid crystal optics; liquid crystal physics
Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, Rua do Matão Nr.1371 CEP 05508-090 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, Brazil
Interests: magnetic colloids; lyotropic liquid crystals; low-density lipoproteins; nonlinear optical properties; structure of mesophases
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Bar Ilan's Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Ramat Gan, Israel
Interests: chiral surfaces; chiral crystallization; chiral self-assembled monolayers; supramolecular chemistry; chiral polymers; Nanomaterials; thin films; water and liquids in nanoporous materials; biomimetic chemistry; crystal engineering; ALD
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