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ALCOM Update Newsletters
Nov 2002
- Neubert honored with the Freedericksz
Medal from the Former Soviet Union Liquid Crystal Society.
- ALCOM at the 19th ILCC
- LCI awarded an eminent scholar
endowed chair by the State of Ohio
- Summer interns at the LCI
- Publications
- From the Director, Transitions:
- Mary Neubert's retirement
- Elaine Landry's retirement
- Brenda Buck to fill Elaine Landry's position
- John West to become the Executive Director for Research Applications
at Kent State University
- Conference calendar
March
2002
- Local company donates cleanroom
suites to ALCOM research facility
- Edinburg, UK site of 19th ILCC
- LCI research carrels near cleanroom
facility ready for industrial partner use
- Publications
- Degrees, awards, recognition
and grants
- From the Director
- Conference calendar
October 2001
- ALCOM scientists
receive local, state and international awards (page 1
- AlphaMicron
receives Emerging Technology and National Incubator awards and
City of Kent declaration (pages 1,4)
- Kumar receives
Korean award for phase separated composite liquid crystal invention
(pages 1,3)
- ALCOM holds
liquid crystal short course (page 2)
- LCI builds research
carrels for industrial partner use (pages 3, 8)
- Polymer-stabilized
FLC with thresholdless switching (page 5)
- From the Director
(page 2)
- Publications
(pages 3,5,7)
- Meetings Calendar
(page 8)
- Web sites (page
8)
July
2001
- CoAdna Photonics
newest liquid crystal start-up company in NE Ohio (pages 1 &
2)
- Nanostructured
liquid crystals topic of ALCOM symposium (pages 1 & 6)
- ALCOM scientists
and REU students conduct summer research (page 3)
- Teaching cleanroom
dedicated (page 4)
- Elementary students
lear that science can be child's play (page 5)
- LCI hosts Mexican
exchange students (page 6)
- High school
freshman spends summer at LCI conducting research (page 6)
- Liquid crystals
short course scheduled (page 8)
- From the Director (page 2)
- Publications (pages 4 & 6)
- Meetings Calendar (page 8)
- Web sites (page 8)
March
2001
- New training program will provide skilled
work force for NE Ohio LCD manufacturers
- NSF to hold conference and awards ceremony
to honor first science and technology centers
- "Floating on Air" research
conducted by ALCOM investigators, Rosenblatt and Taylor
- ALCOM Center to hold symposium on nanostructured
liquid crystals
- Novel Electrically Switchable Liquid
Crystal Gratings
- ALCOM technologies available to license
- From the Director
- Publications
- Meetings Calendar
- Web sites
December
2000
- Milestone anniversaries
highlighted at recent ALCOM symposium
- Taylor receives
NSF and PRF research grants
- Chien serves
on SPIE committee
- Gartland is
new ILCS Treasurer
- Ameritech Electronic
Classroom students visit the ALCOM center
- Sprunt develops
instrument to aid liquid crystal research
- ALCOM holds
ninth short course on liquid crystal materials and displays
- ALCOM researchers
create displays from banana-shaped liquid crystals
- Kent State student
receives SPIE scholarship
- Kent State student
receives medal
- Graduate degrees
awarded
- From the Director
- Meetings calendar
September
2000
- ALCOM salutes
the National Science Foundation on its 50th anniversary
- Jamieson receives
NSF grant to research LC polymers and networks
- 18th International
Liquid Crystal Conference held in Sendai, Japan
- ALCOM Symposium
on Optical Beam Steering held at Kent
- ALCOM Center
to hold symposium in honor of NSF 50th anniversary
- Spring doctoral
degrees awarded to six ALCOM students
- Publications
- From the Director
- Conference calendar
May
2000
- Hana Microdisplay produces tiny LC displays for futuristic
computers
- Koenig elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Hands-on approach to liquid crystals provides students with
a memorable learning experience
- Advanced composite materials for liquid crystal photoalignment
- Optical Beam Steering symposium to be held June 29-30 at
Kent
- ALCOM research receives Meggers Award
- Bhargava and Wall receive appointments
- From the Director
- Publications
- Conference Calendar
February
2000
- AlphaMicron begins development of LC variable transmission
eyewear
- BerremanInternet server ready to perform LCD simulations
- Ultra-high resolution liquid crystal images and gratings
- Photo-polymerized discotic films with uniaxial and twisted
optical axis configurations
- Koenig elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Cheng receives Mettler-Toledo Award
- From the Director
- Publications
- Conference Calendar
October
1999
- ALCOM investigators develop stable homogeneous
alignment technique
- Jakli is new ALCOM principal investigator
- 7th ALCOM liquid crystal short course held
at Kent
- ITO deposition system is on-line in Keck
Foundation clean room
- Formation of helical superstructure in isoregic
chiral smectic polyester
- Chemical Physics Program awards second doctoral
degree
- Integrating school based remote experiments
into the science curriculum
- From the Director
- Publications
- Degrees, Appointments & Recognition
- Meetings calendar
July
1999
- ALCOM researchers have new tool to study
soft matter
- Palffy-Muhoray recipient of distinguished
Scholar Award
- Crawford receives assistant professor chair
at Brown University
- Liquid crystal student symposium highlights
remote web experiment workshops
- Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
graduates first doctoral student
- Bistable cholesteric reflective display technology
matures and enters manufacturing phase
- New technique to measure surface polar anchoring
in nematic liquid crystals
- Photo-controlled nanophase segregation in
a liquid crystal solvent
- Langmuir-Blodgett films of conjugated polymers
and their applications in optoelectronic devices
- From the Director
- Degrees, appointments and recognition
- Meetings calendar
- Publications
April
1999
- ALCOM scientists collaborate with small college
to create new liquid crystalline compound
- ALCOM technology information on the web
- Publication on new ALCOM technique generates
interest on web and in print media
- Lasing in cholesteric liquid crystals
- Chiral materials and applications topic of
recent ALCOM/JLCS symposium
- ALCOM research part of mini-symposium to
be held in Scotland
- New Philippines liquid crystals lab linked
to collaborations with ALCOM
- Scientists from U.S. and Slovenia collaborate
in research on liquid crystals films
- Research Notes
- Synthesis and Characterization of Polar Ultra-thin Langmuir
Blodgett films for Nonlinear Optical Applications
- ALCOM Publications
- Degrees Awarded
- Meetings Calendar
December
1998
- ALCOM Center holds workshop on banana-shaped
liquid crystal molecules
- Pilot manufacturing line nears completion
- ALCOM symposium on chiral materials and applications
to be held in February
- Researchers study formation of double-twisted
helix in banana-shaped liquid crystals
- ALCOM workshops provide fun and challenge
for teachers and students
- AlphaMicron is newest liquid crystal startup
company to locate in NE Ohio
- Jon Ruth names as new IPP liaison
- Polymer tutorial receives BBS education web
guide listing
- ALCOM Publications
- Research Notes
- FTIR used to examine formation of PDLCs using UV-curable matrices
- Macroprocessing of conducting polymers as alignment layers
September
1998
- Specialized instruments provide unique opportunity
for ALCOM inter-university research
- ALCOM chemists design liquid crystalline
materials for global scientific studies
- Multiple honors given to CWRU Professor Jack
L. Koenig
- Camp and conference part of ALCOM summer
education activities
- Undergraduate students complete summer research
projects
- Thein Kyu receives research awards in 1998
- Cheng is Trustees Professor of Polymer Science
- ALCOM center participates in 17th ILCC held
in France
- Two-dimensional display simulation software
now available
- ALCOM Publications
- Research Notes
- FTIR used to examine formation of PDLCs using UV-curable
matrices
- - Macroprocessing of conducting polymers as alignment layers
June
1998
- From ALCOM labs to the marketplace: A technology
for improved LC displays
- Phase Separation workshop held at Courant
Institute
- New photoaligning materials subject of international
ALCOM collaboration
- Kent Displays receives prestigious product
of the year award
- ALCOM participates in K-12 science fair
- Liquid crystals short course held at Kent
- ALCOM paper highlighted by APS
- Degrees, Appointments & Recognition
- H.-T. Jung, Ph.D., 1998
- S.S. Keast, M.S., 1997
- SID recognition:
J. William Doane - Jan Rajchman Prize
William Glenn - Fellow of the Society
- Research Notes
- White reflective displays from polymer-stabilized
cholesteric textures
- ALCOM publications
December
1997
- Diverse ALCOM education program reaches all
ages
- Joint JLCS/ALCOM symposium held
- ALCOM symposium on Reflective Displays
held
- ALCOM Principal Investigators - photos and
biographical information on 34 investigators
- From the Director: A successful year for
ALCOM
- Degrees and Appointments
- Timothy Doerr, Ph.D., 1997
- Yoshimasa Ono Appointment
- Research Notes
- Polar Ultra-thin Film for Nonlinear Optical
Applications
- ALCOM Publications
September
1997
- Electronic publishing visionary Roger Fidler
collaborates with Liquid Crystal Institute
- NSF conducts on-site review of center
- Tokyo to be site of first JLCS-ALCOM seminar
- ALCOM symposium on Reflective Displays scheduled
- Physics seminar to be held at CWRU in honor
of Professor Philip Taylor
- LCD Research Facility nears completion
- Seminar on Computational Liquid Crystals
to be held at Kent
- ALCOM participates in summer Creative Connections
program
- From the Director: The hallmark of ALCOM's
success
- Web News
- CWRU web site highlighted
- ALCOM newsletters on web
- Research Notes
- Computer simulations of 3D nematic and cholesteric
structures
- Photo-illumination experiment on polyparaphenylene
June
1997
- Kent State University dedicates new Liquid
Crystal Institute/Materials Science Building
- Allan Kmetz speaks at LCI building dedication
- Phil Bos named as new LCI associate director
- Plenary lectures held at Kent
- Clean room facility construction on schedule
- Heterogeneous structures project and information
management
- Undergraduates participate in summer research
- Computational liquid crystals seminar
- Campbell is finalist for research award
- From the Director: ALCOM's spring activities
- Research Notes: Diffusion studies using IR
microspectroscopy
March
1997
- LCI cleanroom construction underway
- West named to succeed Doane as director
- ALCOM annual retreat held in January
- LCI moves into new Materials Science building
at Kent
- sVISION is newest ALCOM industrial partner
- Chemical Physics program at Kent focuses
on liquid crystal research
- Godfrey named Education Project Coordinator
- Polymers and Liquid Crystals web site receives awards
- Rosenblatt named APS Fellow
- Infrared Imaging Equipment is Operational
- From the Director: Renewal and Refocus
- Research Notes: Design and synthesis of main-chain
side-on liquid crystal polymers
- Research Notes: PPP and PPV multilayer films
- Research Notes: Fourier transform infrared
(FTIR) imaging of polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) materials
December
1996
- Researchers investigate anchoring on photoreactive
polymer films
- Symposium held on non-rub alignment techniques
- ALCOM joins trade mission to Asia
- Xerox launches company to bring new image
capture and display technologies to market
- Polymers and liquid crystals tutorial
- NRC announces associateship programs
- Koenig receives ACS award
- Research Notes: New polyimide alignment film
for LCDs
- Research Notes: Thiophene-based liquid crystals
in an electroluminescence device
ALCOM
Education Outreach Newsletters
June
1997
Contents:
- ALCOM Education project has new web site
- Soap Films
- Experiments with Soap Films
Previous ALCOM Education newsletters are available at: http://olbers.kent.edu/alcomed/k12.html