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Liang-Chy
Chien
Liquid Crystal Institute
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44242
Tel: (330) 672-3827
Fax: (330) 672-2796
lcchien@lci.kent.edu |
Students
Past Students
Undergraduate Students
- Shelly Landis, won the
ACS Cleveland Section 1994 Lubrizol Undergraduate Research Award on her
summer '93 work, "Synthesis of LCPs"at
LCI. (Ph.D. Northwestern U.)
- Andrew Walz (KSU), Honors
Thesis, May '94: "Tailor Made
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Polymers." (Ph.D. U. Virginia)
- Sam Rubens (KSU), July
93-95, "Synthesis
of LCPs."
- Julie Cho (KSU), Spring
94-96, "Synthesis
of LCPs."
- Keith Obermeier (KSU),
Sep. 91-Aug. 92, "Synthesis of
gel monomers."
- John Bender (Baldwin-Wallace
C., OH), June 92-August 92, "Synthesisof Monomers for PSCT displays." (Brown
U.)
- Paul Pike (KSU), Sept.
92-Sept. 94, "Synthesis of LCs."
- Karen K. Winely (KSU),
Sept. 92-Sept. 94, "Synthesis
of LCs."
- Tom Perkowski (KSU),
Jan. 93-Jan 94, "Synthesis of LCPs."
- Mark Keener, (KSU),
Sept 94-May 95, "Synthesis of LCPs."
- Sandi Campbell, (KSU),
Honors Thesis, December 96, "Synthesis
and Characterization of Cholesteric Polymer Liquid Crystals." (M.S. CWRU)
- Neal D'Sidoky, (KSU),
Jan. 94-May 96, "Synthesis of
Liquid-Crystalline Polymers and Elastomers."
- Stella Souers, (KSU), August. 95-Aug. 97. (Crystaloid Inc.)
- Mike Waxter, (KSU), Jan. 96-June 97, (B.F. Goodrich)
- Lauren Borkowski, (KSU),
Fall 96-98, Honors Thesis "High
Birefringence LC Monomers for Broad Band Cholesteric Displays."
- Kate Allender, (Wooster
College), Summers 97,98, "Chiral
Lyortropic LCs."
- Bart Heldreth, (KSU),
Summer 97, "Polymer-Stabilized
Liquid Crystals."
- Brian Blake, (Miami
U., OH) Summer 98, "Emulsion Polymerization
of LCPs."
- Brian Macauley, (KSU) 97-99, synthesis of reactive liquid
crystalline monomers. (Nanomaterials, OH)
- Amy Raber (98-00) (KSU, gradutate school)
Graduate Students Directed
- Leonorina. G. Cada,
Ph.D. May 1993; "Synthesis and Properties
of Epoxy- and Siloxane-Based Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers."
(Assistant Professor, U. Phillippines)
- Bai Feng, 93- 96, M.S.
Synthesis and Properties of Regiocontrolled Liquid-Crystalline Polyesters
with Main-Chain
Chirality."
- Jennifer Colegrove, 95-97, Polymer-dispersed Liquid Crystals.
- Jaehyuck Choi, 97-99 (MS, AU, Kyu), Polymer-Dispersed Liquid
Crystals.
- Keshav S. Gavtam, 97-99 (MS, AU, Kyu), Organic Light Emitting
Polymers
- Shinwoong Kang, 99-03, "Electrically-Switchable Polymer-Stabilized
Cholesteric Diffraction Gratings".
Postdoctoral Fellows Directed
- Cui-Lien. Lin (90-91) - Johnson and Johnson (USA)
- Ibrahim G. Shenouda (91-93) Industry (USA)
- Nathalie Leroux (93- 95) Industry (France)
- Uwe Müller (93-94)
Industry (Germany)
- Marie-Flore Nabor (93-94) Ethyl Corporation (USA)
- Frédric Vicentini
(94-95) Gemplus (France)
- Mingqian He (95-96) Corning (USA)
- Chris Hudson (95-96) Thermodisc (USA)
- Yuhui. Lin (94-97) Harvard University Medical School
- Tony Ta-Hong Tong (96-98) Cornorstone Research Inc. (USA)
- Milind Sonpatki (97-99) Santec Inc. (USA)
- Shungxi Wang (98-00) U. Alabama
- Jong-Beom Baek (98-99) Air Force Research Lab
- Peihwei Chu (00-01) Mayo Clinic (USA)
- S. Suresh (00-01) U. Washington
Technicians Directed
- Carla M. Citano, Feb. 91-Dec. 91, (Miles Inc., Indiana)
- William C. Jones, June 92-Dec. 92, (Lomac Inc., Michigan)
- Mary N. Boyden, March 93-Aug. 95, (Ph.D., U.of Pittsburg).
- Julie Cho, 96-00 LCI
- Neal D'Sidoky, 95-97. (Quantum Materials, San Diego, CA)
- Sandi Campbell, 95-97, (MS, Department of Macromolecular
Science, Case Western Reserve University, Research Scientist,
NASA Lewis Center).
Current Graduate Students
- Sang Hwa Kim, 01-present, "Morphology and Electro-optical
Properties of Polymer Stabilized Liquid Crystals".
- Dong Wang, 03-present, "Polymer Stabilized Liquid Crystal Microlenses"
Current Postdoctoral Fellows
- Soonnam Lee (97-current)
- Carmen Otilia Catanescu (01- present)