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    James Gleeson

    James T. Gleeson

    Professor
    Campus:
    Kent
    Contact Information
    Email:
    jgleeson@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-9592
    Fax:
    330-672-2959

    Biography

    My research focuses on understanding many of the fascinating physical properties exhibited by a wide variety of complex fluids, such as liquid crystals, polymers and proteins in solution.  These physical properties include such diverse effects as giant coupling between electric fields and mechanical strains, responses to magnetic, electric and strain fields, super-molecular organization on the nanometer scale, exotic optical properties, electrical transport measurements and electrically induced convective flows.

    We have an approach whereby we try to allow the scientific problem at hand determine what experiments are done.  Therefore, a very wide variety of techniques are employed, including high resolution, high speed, high sensitivity imaging,  advanced optics, small angle x-ray scattering, static and pulsed magnetic and electric fields.  This also has lead to a persistent program of accessing the user facilities at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory DC field facility in Tallahassee, FL, and the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

    Gleeson and students

    Expertise

    Liquid Crystals
    Energy Conversion
    Natural and Physical Sciences
    Mathematics and Technology
    Physical Sciences
    Optics
    Pattern Formation
    Planetarium and Observatory
    Physics

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