Editorial Board for section 'Liquid Crystals'
- Liquid Crystals Section
- Biomolecular Crystals Section
- Crystal Engineering Section
- Industrial Crystallization Section
- Inorganic Crystalline Materials Section
- Organic Crystalline Materials Section
- Macromolecular Crystals Section
- Mineralogical Crystallography and Biomineralization Section
- Hybrid and Composite Crystalline Materials Section
- Materials for Energy Applications Section
- Crystalline Metals and Alloys Section
- Polycrystalline Ceramics Section
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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
Interests: liquid crystals; electrooptics; displays; photonics; photoalignment; photopatterning
* Section: Liquid Crystals
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Interests: molecular modeling of soft matter (theory and simulations); chirality; elasticity; liquid crystals; lipid membranes
Interests: liquid crystals; photonic materials; devices sensors; soft matter; self assembly
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Interests: liquid crystal; nanoparticles; display application; fast switching; phase retardation; tunable lenses; beam steering devices; polymers; composite structures
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
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
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
Interests: liquid crystals; integrated optics; electro-optic effects; optical nonlinear effects; photonic applications of liquid crystals
Interests: liquid crystals; liquid crystalline polymers; photochemistry; photochromism; chiral mesophases
Interests: pattern forming instabilities and defects in liquid crystals
Interests: liquid crystals; soft materials science; displays and applications of liquid crystals
Interests: liquid crystals; topological defects; phase transitions; interfaces; colloids
Interests: liquid crystals; ferroelectric; antiferroelectric; dichroic dye; smectic; nematic
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2. i3N, CENIMAT, Materials Science Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Campus da Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Interests: polymeric materials; liquid crystalline polymers; liquid crystals; liquid crystals applications; electro-optical properties; sensors
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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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Interests: soft matter; NMR; food; spectroscopy; chemical-physical characterization
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Interests: liquid crystals; high pressures; nanocolloids; nanocomposites; polymers; critical phenomena; model foods; model cosmetics
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Interests: liquid crystals; nanomaterials; nanochemistry; liquid crystal nanocomposite; lyotropic liquid crystals; chirality; self-assembly
Interests: liquid crystals; molecular/ionic liquids; soft matter; bulk structure and thin layer morphology; X-ray scattering/diffraction; neutron scattering; thermal properties
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
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
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
Section Board Member
Interests: liquid crystals; alignment; colloids
Interests: liquid crystals; fluid dynamics; molecular dynamics simulations
2. Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: liquid crystals; nanocomposites; phase transitions; instabilities; wetting; topological defects
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Interests: bulk and interfacial structure and morphology; electro-optical studies and applications of liquid crystals; elastomers; and biomaterials
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
Interests: liquid crystal photoelectric element; liquid crystal optics; liquid crystal physics
Interests: magnetic colloids; lyotropic liquid crystals; low-density lipoproteins; nonlinear optical properties; structure of mesophases
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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