Faculty

Chemical Physics, Liquid Crystal Physics, Biomaterials, ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, Soft Matter, Natural and Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Technology, Chemical Sciences, Materials Science, sensing (responsive) and flexible materials, fabric research

Liquid Crystals, Applications, Displays, Optical Components, Sensors, Chemical Physics, Natural and Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Technology, Physical Sciences, Design, modeling and processes for liquid crystal based optical devices, processes and modeling of electrically controllable, non-mechanical lenses and optical beam steering devices, Materials, processes and modeling on Pancharatnam phase devices, processes related to azodye-based photo alignment

Liquid Crystal Materials, Liquid Crystal Alignment, Displays, Spatial Light Modulators, Flexible Displays, Electronic Papers, Natural and Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Technology, Physical Sciences, Chemical Physics

clean energy materials, advanced ceramic materials, feul cell anode, cathode, electrolyte materials, reforming catalyst materials, high-temperature conducting materials, additive manufacturing

Computational electronic structure, condensed phase, electron and energy transfer, photochemistry, molecular junction, organic semiconducting material properties, solar energy, drug design

Liquid Crystals, Nanoparticles, Nanocomposites, Drug Delivery, Chemical Synthesis, Nanomaterials, nanoscale chirality, magnetic nanomaterials and brain drug delivery, liquid crystal sensors

polymer liquid crystals, liquid crystal elastomers, 3D scaffolds, microspheres, cell proliferation, biodegradable, biocompatible, star copolymers, reactive mesogens, microemulsions, photopolymerization, artificial muscles, amphiphilic surfactants

adsorption, adsorbents, catalysts, chemical separations, chemistry of materials, interfacial chemistry, mesoporous materials, nanomaterials for energy applications, nanomaterials for environmental applications, nanoporous materials, ordered nanostructures, photocatalysts, self-assembled nanomaterials

Biological Sciences, Lipid Membranes, Lipid Droplets, Lipid Storage, Membrane Structure, Lipid Signaling, Perilipins

Liquid Crystals, Lyotropic Liquid Crystals, Sensors, Electrophoresis, 3-D Imaging, sensing (responsive) and flexible materials, Soft Matter, active matter, biosynthetic material

Surfaces, Langmuir Layers, Thin Films, surfactants, Phase Separation, Lipid, liquid crystalline, and macromolecular films at interfaces, transport, Pattern Formation, formation, orientation, surface and line tensions; line active agents, Lipid Droplets

Chemistry, Folded DNA, Molecular Biology, Microfluidics, Single Molecules, Biosensors, Lab-On-A-Chip, DNA nanoassembly, DNA origami, single-molecule device, single-molecule biosensing

Apoptosis, cell physiology, Techniques in optical microscopy, Aspects of apoptosis, drug screening, membrane channels, etc, Quantitative Fluorescence, 3D Image Restoration, Microscopy, Confocal, necrosis, Optics, intracellular potassium, Cell volume regulation

Liquid Crystal, Optics & Photonics, Statistical Physics, Nanoparticles, Metamaterials

Liquid Crystal, Computational Materials Science, Theory And Simulation, Soft Matter Theory, K-12 Outreach, responsive materials, active matter

Soft Materials, Liquid Crystals, Statistical Mechanics, Geometry and Elasticity, Acoustic And Thermal Imaging, Lipid Membranes, polymers, topological defects, Chirality, flexoelectricity, diffusion, lipid microstructures, nanoparticle suspensions and other soft materials, connections between fundamental statistical mechanics and technological applications

Physics, Soft Matter, Light Scattering, Liquid Crystal, Mesomorphic, Phase Translation

Liquid Crystals

Liquid Crystal, Liquid Crystal Polymer, Display, Chirality, Phase Transition, liquid crystal display, cholesteric liquid crystal, switchable window, polymer stabilization, reflective display, optical film

Soft Matter, engineering, nanofabrication, micro- and nano-optical devices, ultrafine inkjet technology, scanning probe microscopy, micro- and nano-structures in liquid crystals and soft matter, nanofabrication and nanocharacterization techniques using scanning probe and photonic effects, self-assembly, micro- and nano-bubbles and foam structures