Charles Rosenblatt Department of Physics Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7079 Tel: (216) 368-4125 Fax: (216) 368-4671 e-mail: cxr@po.cwru.edu

Professor of Physics and Macromolecular Science

Chuck Rosenblatt received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1978. After a two year postdoc at the University of California Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he joined the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory at M.I.T. as a research physicist. In 1987 he assumed a position at Case Western Reserve University, where he is Professor of Physics and Macromolecular Science.

Rosenblatt has published 100 refereed liquid crystal related articles, and holds several patents. He is a past membership secretary of the International Liquid Crystal Society, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Liquid Crystals. He is also director of ALCOM's Alignment Layers project. His research centers on electro and magnetooptic phenomena in liquid crystals and complex fluids, with particular emphasis on symmetry and interfacial phenomena. Rosenblatt is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Rosenblatt's home page may be found at http://liq-xtal.cwru.edu

Current research areas and ALCOM projects

• Alignment Layers
• Confinement Induced Phenomena
• New Materials and Effects
• Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals

Representative Publications

• "Biaxiality in a Cyclic Thermotropic Nematic Liquid Crystal," J.-F. Li, V. Percec, C. Rosenblatt, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Europhys. Lett. 25, 199 (1994)
• "Orientational Susceptibility in Porous Glass Near a Nematic — Isotropic Phase Transition," S. Tripathi, C. Rosenblatt, and F.M. Aliev, Phys. Rev. Lett. , 72, 2725 (1994); (E) 72, 3744 (1994)
• "Tilt Susceptibility at an Antiferroelectric Smectic CA* — Smectic A Phase Transition," J.-F. Li, C. Rosenblatt, Z. Li, and Y. Suzuki, Phys. Rev. E, 51, 462 (1995)
• "A Simple and Reliable Method for Measuring the Liquid Crystal Anchoring Strength Coefficient," D. Gu and C. Rosenblatt, Liq. Cryst. , 19, 427 (1995)
• "Reversible Propagating Fingers in an Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal," J.-F. Li, X.-Y. Wang, E. Kangas, P.L. Taylor, C. Rosenblatt, P.E. Cladis, and Y. Suzuki, Phys. Rev. B, 52, R13075 (1995)
• "Surface Anisotropy - Induced Linear Electrooptic Effect in a Nematic Liquid Crystal," D. Kang and C. Rosenblatt, Phys. Rev. E, 53, 2976 (1996)
• "Magnetic Field - Mediated Alignment of a Nematic Liquid Crystal at a Polymer Surface Exposed to Ultraviolet Light," Y. Reznikov, R.G. Petschek, and C. Rosenblatt, Appl. Phys. Lett., 68, 2201 (1996)