Guoqiang (Matt), Zhang Email: matt@lci.kent.edu Tel: 330-672-1557 Fax: 330-672-2796 #39 Liquid Crystal Institute Kent State University Kent, OH 44242

• Sept.1993~July.1997 B.S. Major : Organic Chemistry Dept. of Chemistry, Jilin University, China
  
• Sept.1997~July,2000 M.S. Major: Polymer Science Dept. of Chemistry, Key Lab of Supramolecular Structure and Spectroscopy, Jilin University, China
  
• August 2000-present PhD candidate Major: Chemical Physics Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, USA

• Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals (PDLCs)
  
• Photoalignment for liquid crystal devices
  
• Design and development of liquid crystal devices for displays, telecommunications, and broad band beam steering Optical Phased Arrays.
  
• Infrared measurement and numerical simulations on Infrared properties of liquid crystals and polymers and devices.
  
• Stressed Liquid Crystals (SLC): stressed liquid crystal are films consisting of unidirectionally oriented domains of liquid crystal separated with polymer chains; they are fast and can be used in electrically controlled phase retardation devices
  

• International Liquid Crystal Society, since 2000
  
• Society of Information Display, since 2002
  
• SPIE since 2003
  
• OSA since 2003
  
• APS since 2003

• “Stressed Liquid Crystals for IR application”, presentation at 2003 APS Ohio section meeting. Guoqiang Zhang, Anatoliy Glushchenko, John West, Toshihiro Aoki
  
• “Morphology and performance of the Stressed Liquid Crystals” poster at 2003 APS Ohio section meeting. Toshihiro Aoki, John West, Guoqiang Zhang, Anatoliy Glushchenko
  
• “Stressed Liquid Crystals for Electrically Controlled Fast Shift of Phase Retardation” SID 2003, 55:1 John L. West , Guoqiang Zhang, and Anatoliy Glushchenko
  
• “A New Kind of Copolymerization of Styrene and p-Quinodimethane Intermediates” Macromolecular Rapid Communications Volume: 22, Issue: 6, March 2001. pp. 383 - 385. Zhang, Ruifeng; Tang, Jiecong; Zhang, Guoqiang; Shen, Jiacong
  
• “A new approach for the synthesis of conjugated/non-conjugated poly(phenylene vinylene)–polyacrylamide copolymers” Chemical Communications Volume: 2000, Issue: 10, May 21, 2000. pp. 823-824. Zhang, Ruifeng; Zhang, Guoqiang; Shen, Jiacong
  
• “The effect of conformational dependent properties of radical cations on poly(N,N-dimethylaniline)” Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics Volume: 201, Issue: 14, September 2000. pp. 1774 - 1779. Zhang, Ruifeng; Zhang, Guoqiang; Su, Zhongmin; Qiu, Yongqing; Shen, Jiacong
  

• Jilin University Outstanding Student Scholarship first prize(1993-94, 1994-1995,1995-96), P.R.China
  
• Tao Weisun fellowship 1994 (2 of 200 student), Jilin University, P.R.China
  

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