Jonathan V. Selinger
Professor, Chemical Physics
Ohio Eminent Scholar
Liquid Crystal Institute &
Chemical Physics Program
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242
Tel.: (330) 672 4875
Fax: (330) 672 2796

Dr. Jonathan V. Selinger is Ohio Eminent Scholar at the Liquid Crystal Institute and a professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program at Kent State University.

Education:

• Harvard University, Department of Physics, Ph. D., 1989
  Advisor: Prof. David R. Nelson
  Thesis: "Statistical Mechanics of Liquid Crystals and Metallic Glasses"
• Harvard University, Department of Physics, A. M., 1985
• Harvard University, Department of Physics, A. B., 1983

Professional Positions:

• Kent State University, Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
  Professor of Chemical Physics and Ohio Eminent Scholar, 2005-present
• Naval Research Laboratory, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering
  Deputy Head, Laboratory for Biosensors and Biomaterials, 2004-2005
  Research Physicist, 1993-2005
  National Research Council Research Associate, 1993
  Office of Naval Technology Postdoctoral Fellow, 1992-93
• University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Physics
  Assistant Research Physicist and Adjunct Assistant Professor, 1989-92
• California Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering
  Visiting Research Associate, 1991-92 (joint appointment with UCLA)
• Harvard University, Department of Physics
  Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Fellow, 1983-89

Recent Professional Activities:

• Physical Review E
  Associate Editor, 2003-present
• American Physical Society
  Member of Committee on Meetings, 2005-present
• 21st International Liquid Crystal Conference
  Member of Scientific Committee, 2006
• Kent State University Symposium on Democracy
  Member of Planning Committee, 2006

Papers:

• Methods for Characterizing Interspike Intervals and Identifying Bursts in Neuronal Activity. J. V. Selinger, N. V. Kulagina, T. J. O'Shaughnessy, W. Ma, and J. J. Pancrazio, preprint.
• Dynamics of the Acousto-Optic Effect in a Nematic Liquid Crystal. V. A. Greanya, A. P. Malanoski, B. T. Weslowski, M. S. Spector, and J. V. Selinger, Liquid Crystals 32, 933 (2005).
• Isotropic-Nematic Transition in Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers: Lattice Model with Quenched Disorder. J. V. Selinger and B. R. Ratna, Phys. Rev. E, 70, 041707 (2004).
• Counterintuitive Influence of Microscopic Chirality on Helical Order In Polymers. K. S. Cheon, J. V. Selinger, and M. M. Green, J. Phys. Org. Chem. 17, 719 (2004).
• Theory of the Acoustic Realignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals. A. P. Malanoski, V. A. Greanya, B. T. Weslowski, M. S. Spector, J. V. Selinger, and R. Shashidhar, Phys. Rev. E 69, 021705 (2004).
• Shape Selection in Chiral Self-Assembly. R. L. B. Selinger, J. V. Selinger, A. P. Malanoski, and J. M. Schnur, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 158103 (2004). Also included in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
• Acousto-Optic Response of Nematic Liquid Crystals. V. A. Greanya, M. S. Spector, J. V. Selinger, B. T. Weslowski, and R. Shashidhar, J. Appl. Phys. 94, 7571 (2003).
• Chiral and Antichiral Order in Bent-Core Liquid Crystals. J. V. Selinger, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 165501 (2003).
• Chiral Conflict. The Effect of Temperature on the Helical Sense of a Polymer Controlled by the Competition between Structurally Different Enantiomers: From Dilute Solution to the Lyotropic Liquid Crystal State. K. Tang, M. M. Green, K.-S. Cheon, J. V. Selinger, and B. A. Garetz, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 7313 (2003).
• Measuring Synchronization in Neuronal Networks for Biosensor Applications. J. V. Selinger, J. J. Pancrazio, and G. W. Gross, Biosens. Bioelectron. 19, 675 (2004).
• Simulations of Helix Unwinding in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals. N. Baytch, R. L. B. Selinger, J. V. Selinger, and R. Shashidhar, Phys. Rev. E 68, 041702 (2003).
• Acoustic Realignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals. J. V. Selinger, M. S. Spector, V. A. Greanya, B. T. Weslowski, D. K. Shenoy, and R. Shashidhar, Phys. Rev. E 66, 051708 (2002).
• Imaging Biological Cells Using Liquid Crystals. J. Fang, W. Ma, J. V. Selinger, and R. Shashidhar, Langmuir 19, 2865 (2003).
• Chiral Molecular Self-Assembly. M. S. Spector, J. V. Selinger, and J. M. Schnur, in Materials-Chirality: Volume 24 of Topics in Stereochemistry, edited by M. M. Green, R. J. M. Nolte, and E. W. Meijer (Wiley, Hoboken, 2003), p. 281.
• Isotropic-Nematic Transition in Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers. J. V. Selinger, H. G. Jeon, and B. R. Ratna, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 225701 (2002).
• Field-Dependent Tilt and Birefringence of Electroclinic Liquid Crystals: Theory and Experiment. J. V. Selinger, P. J. Collings, and R. Shashidhar, Phys. Rev. E 64, 061705 (2001).
• Monte Carlo Simulation of Liquid-Crystal Alignment and of Chiral Symmetry-Breaking. J. Xu, R. L. B. Selinger, J. V. Selinger, and R. Shashidhar, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 4333 (2001).
• Theory of Self-Assembled Tubules and Helical Ribbons. J. V. Selinger, M. S. Spector, and J. M. Schnur, J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 7157 (2001).
• Order and Frustration in Chiral Liquid Crystals. R. D. Kamien and J. V. Selinger, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 13, R1 (2001).
• Imaging Nanoscale Patterns on Biologically Derived Microstructures. Y. M. Lvov, R. R. Price, J. V. Selinger, A. Singh, M. S. Spector, and J. M. Schnur, Langmuir 16 , 5932 (2000).
• Switching a Helical Polymer Between Mirror Images Using Circularly Polarized Light. J. Li, G. B. Schuster, K.-S. Cheon, M. M. Green, and J. V. Selinger, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122, 2603 (2000).
• Designing a Helical Polymer that Reverses Handedness at a Selected, Continuously Variable, Temperature. K.-S. Cheon, J. V. Selinger, and M. M. Green, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 39, 1482 (2000).
• Chiral Twisting of a Smectic-A Liquid Crystal. M. S. Spector, S. K. Prasad, B. T. Weslowski, R. D. Kamien, J. V. Selinger, B. R. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar, Phys. Rev. E 61, 3977 (2000).
• Monte Carlo Simulation of Smectic Liquid Crystals and the Electroclinic Effect: the Role of the Molecular Shape. J. Xu, R. L. B. Selinger, J. V. Selinger, B. R. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar, Phys. Rev. E 60, 5584 (1999).
• Effect of Side Chain Substitution on the Field-Dependent Birefringence in a Series of Chiral Smectic-A Liquid Crystals. J. R. Lindle, F. J. Bartoli, S. R. Flom, J. V. Selinger, R. Shashidhar, and B. R. Ratna, in Liquid Crystal Materials and Devices, edited by T. J. Bunning, S. H. Chen, L. C. Chien, T. Kajiyama, N. Koide, and S.-C. A. Lien (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, 1999), p. 33.
• Theory of Chiral Modulations and Fluctuations in Smectic-A Liquid Crystals Under an Electric Field. J. V. Selinger, J. Xu, R. L. B. Selinger, B. R. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar, Phys. Rev. E 62, 666 (2000).
• Coarsening of Reverse Tilt Domains in Liquid-Crystal Cells with Heterogeneous Alignment Layers. D. K. Shenoy, J. V. Selinger, K. A. Grüneberg, J. Naciri, and R. Shashidhar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1716 (1999).
• Chiral Optical Properties of a Helical Polymer Synthesized from Nearly Racemic Chiral Monomers Highly Diluted with Achiral Monomers. S. K. Jha, K.-S. Cheon, M. M. Green, and J. V. Selinger, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 121, 1665 (1999).
• The Macromolecular Route to Chiral Amplification. M. M. Green, J. W. Park, T. Sato, A. Teramoto, S. Lifson, R. L. B. Selinger, and J. V. Selinger, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 38, 3139 (1999). German version: Die makromolekulare Route zur Chiralitätsverstärkung. M. M. Green, J. W. Park, T. Sato, A. Teramoto, S. Lifson, R. L. B. Selinger, and J. V. Selinger, Angew. Chem. 111, 3329 (1999).
• Director Orientation and Optical Stripe Texture in Electroclinic Liquid Crystals. F. J. Bartoli, J. R. Lindle, S. R. Flom, R. Shashidhar, G. Rubin, J. V. Selinger, and B. R. Ratna, Phys. Rev. E 58, 5990 (1998).
• Controlling the Morphology of Chiral Lipid Tubules. M. S. Spector, J. V. Selinger, A. Singh, J. M. Rodriguez, R. R. Price, and J. M. Schnur, Langmuir 14, 3493 (1998).
• Cooperative Chiral Order in Polyisocyanates: New Statistical Problems. J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger, Macromolecules 31, 2488 (1998).
• Thermodynamics of Phospholipid Tubules in Alcohol/Water Solutions. M. S. Spector, J. V. Selinger, and J. M. Schnur, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 119, 8533 (1997).
• Electric-Field Induced Layer Buckling in Chiral Smectic-A Liquid Crystals. R. E. Geer, S. J. Singer, J. V. Selinger, B. R. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar, Phys. Rev. E 57, 3059 (1998).
• Cooperative Chiral Order in the B-Z Transition in Random Sequences of DNA. J. V. Selinger and J. M. Schnur, Biophys. J. 73, 966 (1997).
• A Chiral Polymeric Analogy to a One Dimensional Paramagnetic Material. J. V. Selinger, R. L. B. Selinger, S. K. Jha, and M. M. Green, Chirality 10, 41 (1998).
• Cooperative Chiral Order in Copolymers of Chiral and Achiral Units. J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger, Phys. Rev. E 55, 1728 (1997).
• Chiral Molecular Self-Assembly of Phospholipid Tubules: A Circular Dichroism Study. M. S. Spector, K. R. K. Easwaran, G. Jyothi, J. V. Selinger, A. Singh, and J. M. Schnur, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 12943 (1996).
• Field-Induced Optical Biaxiality in Chiral Smectic-A Liquid Crystals. F. J. Bartoli, J. R. Lindle, S. R. Flom, J. V. Selinger, B. R. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar, Phys. Rev. E (Rapid Communications) 55, R1271 (1997).
• Cooperative Chiral Order in Random Copolymers. J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 288, 33 (1996).
• Theory of Heterogeneity in Displacement Reactions. J. V. Selinger and S. Y. Rabbany, Anal. Chem. 69, 170 (1997).
• Induced Polarization in the SmA* Phase: A Comparison of Theoretical Models and Experimental Methods. D. Hermann, L. Komitov, S. T. Lagerwall, G. Andersson, R. Shashidhar, J. V. Selinger, and F. Giesselmann, Ferroelectrics 181, 371 (1996).
• Theory of Cylindrical Tubules and Helical Ribbons of Chiral Lipid Membranes. J. V. Selinger, F. C. MacKintosh, and J. M. Schnur, Phys. Rev. E 53, 3804 (1996).
• Theory of Chiral Order in Random Copolymers. J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 58 (1996).
• New Fluctuation Mode in a Chiral Smectic-A Liquid Crystal with a Uniaxial Layer Modulation. S. Sprunt, J. V. Selinger, G. P. Crawford, B. R. Ratna, and R. Shashidhar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 4671 (1995).
• Theory of Chiral Defects in Langmuir Monolayers. J. V. Selinger and R. L. B. Selinger, Phys. Rev. E (Rapid Communications) 51, R860 (1995).
• The Electrostatic Polarization of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: A New Interpretation of the Triangle-Wave Technique. J. Ruth, J. V. Selinger, and R. Shashidhar, Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 1590 (1994).
• Diacetylenic Lipid Tubules: Experimental Evidence for a Chiral Molecular Architecture. J. M. Schnur, B. R. Ratna, J. V. Selinger, A. Singh, G. Jyothi, and K. R. K. Easwaran, Science 264 , 945 (1994).
• Tilt Stripe Textures in Langmuir Monolayers of Fatty Acids. D. K. Schwartz, J. Ruiz-Garcia, X. Qiu, J. V. Selinger, and C. M. Knobler, Physica A 204, 606 (1994).
• Theory of Chiral Lipid Tubules. J. V. Selinger and J. M. Schnur, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 4091 (1993).
• Dynamics of the Diluted Ising Antiferromagnet Fe0.46Zn0.54F2 in the (H,T) Plane. M. Lederman, J. V. Selinger, R. Bruinsma, R. Orbach, and J. Hammann, Phys. Rev. B 48, 3810 (1993).
• Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Pattern Formation in Two-Dimensional Films. J. V. Selinger, Z.-G. Wang, and R. F. Bruinsma, in Biomolecular Materials, edited by S. T. Case, J. H. Waite, and C. Viney (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, 1993), p. 235.
• Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Langmuir Monolayers and Smectic Films. J. V. Selinger, Z.-G. Wang, R. F. Bruinsma, and C. M. Knobler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1139 (1993).
• Theory of Defects in Condensed Phases of Langmuir Monolayers. J. V. Selinger, in Complex Fluids, edited by E. B. Sirota, D. Weitz, T. Witten, and J. Israelachvili (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, 1992), p. 29.
• Low-Temperature Dynamics of a Diluted Ising Antiferromagnet. M. Lederman, J. V. Selinger, R. Bruinsma, J. Hammann, and R. Orbach, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 2086 (1992).
• Statistical Mechanics of Defects in Polymer Liquid Crystals. J. V. Selinger and R. F. Bruinsma, J. Phys. (Paris) II 2, 1215 (1992).
• Dynamics of Tilted Hexatic Phases in Liquid-Crystal Films. J. V. Selinger, J. Phys. (Paris) II 1, 1363 (1991).
• Direct Observation of Domain Structure in Condensed Monolayer Phases. X. Qiu, J. Ruiz-Garcia, K. J. Stine, C. M. Knobler, and J. V. Selinger, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 703 (1991).
• Hexagonal and Nematic Phases of Chains: II. Phase Transitions. J. V. Selinger and R. F. Bruinsma, Phys. Rev. A 43, 2922 (1991).
• Hexagonal and Nematic Phases of Chains: I. Correlation Functions. J. V. Selinger and R. F. Bruinsma, Phys. Rev. A 43, 2910 (1991).
• Theory of Transitions Among Tilted Hexatic Phases in Liquid Crystals. J. V. Selinger and D. R. Nelson, Phys. Rev. A 39, 3135 (1989).
• Theory of Hexatic-to-Hexatic Transitions. J. V. Selinger and D. R. Nelson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 416 (1988).
• Layer Fluctuations and Hexatic Order in Liquid Crystals. J. V. Selinger, J. Phys. (Paris) 49, 1387 (1988).
• Density-Functional Theory of Nematic and Smectic-A Order Near Surfaces. J. V. Selinger and D. R. Nelson, Phys. Rev. A 37, 1736 (1988).
• Polytope Models of Metallic Glasses: S-Band Electronic Properties. J. V. Selinger and D. R. Nelson, in Phase Transitions in Condensed Systems--Experiments and Theory, edited by G. S. Cargill, F. Spaepen, and K. N. Tu (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, 1987), p. 185.
• The Kinetic Boundary Layer for the Klein-Kramers Equation; A New Numerical Approach. J. V. Selinger and U. M. Titulaer, J. Stat. Phys. 36, 293 (1984).

Patents:

• Temperature Measurement and Temperature Controlled Switching Using Change in Helical Sense. M. M. Green and J. V. Selinger, U.S. Patent No. 6,630,997 (2003).
• Sustained Delivery of Active Compounds from Tubules, with Rational Control. R. R. Price, J. M. Schnur, A. S. Rudolph, J. Selinger, A. Singh, and B. P. Gaber, U.S. Patent No. 5,705,191 (1998).

Other Publications:

• Visualizing Chiral Self-Assembly (Gallery of Nonlinear Images). R. L. B. Selinger, J. V. Selinger, A. P. Malanoski, and J. M. Schnur, Chaos 14, S3 (2004). Also included in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology and the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.
• Neuronal Network Biosensor for Environmental Threat Detection. K. M. Schaffer, S. A. Gray, S. J. Fertig, J. V. Selinger, T. J. O’Shaughnessy, N. V. Kulagina, D. A. Stenger, and J. J. Pancrazio, 2004 NRL Review, 118 (2004).
• Liquid Crystals: Experimental Study of Physical Properties and Phase Transitions (Book Review). J. V. Selinger, Mat. Res. Soc. Bull. 27, 471 (2002).
• Cosmic Chirality (Letter to the Editor). M. M. Green and J. V. Selinger, Science 282, 880 (1998).
• Self-Assembled Molecular Templates: Microtubule-Based Controlled Release for Biofouling Control and Medical Applications. R. Price, A. Rudolph, J. Selinger, and J. Schnur, 1994 NRL Review, 83 (1994).