Liquid Crystal Institute
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Peter Palffy-Muhoray Professor, Chemical Physics Associate Director, Liquid Crystal Institute phone: 330-672-2604 FAX: 330-672-2796 mpalffy@cpip.kent.edu |
Research Interests:
Currently, I am interested in the following topics:
- liquid crystal elastomers
- negative index materials
- mirrorless lasing in liquid crystals
- failure and breakdown
Group Members:
 Chris Grabowski Post-Doctoral Fellow |
 Greg Richards Post-Doctoral Fellow |
 Lei Kang Post-Doctoral Fellow |
 Maxim Ignatenko Post-Doctoral Fellow |
 Misha Pevnyi Graduate Student |
 Stephan Woods Post-Doctoral Fellow |
 Cheng Cheng Graduate Student |
Collaborators:
- Xiaoyu Zheng Department of Mathematical Sciences, KSU
- Michael Shelley Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
- Bahman Taheri AlphaMicron, Inc.
Outreach:
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Current outreach efforts include
interactions with undergraduates as well high school students. |
mentioned in Howstuffworks |
Some Representative Publications:
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Disordered, quasicrystalline and crystalline phases of densely packed tetrahedra | Nature 462, 773 (2009) |
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Liquid crystals: Printed actuators in a flap | Nature Materials (News and Views) 8, 614 - 615 (2009) |
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The diverse world of liquid crystals | Physics Today 60 (9), 54 (2007) |
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Distance of closest approach of two arbitrary hard ellipses in two dimensions | Phys. Rev. E, 75, 061709 (2007) |
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Fast liquid-crystal elastomer swims into the dark | Nature Materials 3, 307 (2004) |
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A dunking bird of the second kind | Am. J. Phys. 72, 782 (2004) |
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Lasing in a three-dimensional photonic crystal of the liquid crystal blue phase II | Nature Materials 1, 111 (2002) |
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Tunable Mirrorless Lasing in Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Elastomers | Adv. Mater. 13, 1069 (2001) |
Science News:
| How water splashes atop your shoes | ||
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16851-video-wet-shoe-problem-solved.html | New Scientist, March 26 (2009) |
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http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2009/03/_wet_and_wild_physics.html | Nature, March 17 (2009) |
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http://www.wetenschap24.nl/video/bekijk/wmv/1/nu!-trucje-tegen-natte-schoenen.htm | Dutch TV, March 26 (2009) |
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http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090324-wet-shoes.html | Livescience, March 24 (2009) |
| Bubbles and beer bottles: an explosive combination | ||
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http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.physics/2009-03/msg00901.html | Inside science news service, arch 18 (2009) |
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http://twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics/2009/04/index.html | Cocktail party physics, March 24 (2009) |
Teaching:
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Fall 2007: Liquid Crystal Materials (CPHY-72250) |
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Spring 2008: LC Optics and Photonics (CPHY-74495) |
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Remote Lecture |
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