The New Liquid Crystal Materials Facility (NLCMF) was established at the Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University by a group of professors led by Prof. Peter Palffy-Muhoray, with the goal of providing the community a central, comprehensive resource for new liquid crystalline (LC) materials. LC materials have unique and interesting properties, but may not be well known in the scientific and engineering communities. Our hope is that as more researchers discover and work with these materials, novel applications for these materials can be found. Toward that goal, the NLCMF provides the following to the academic, business, and government research community:
To learn how to make the materials available from the NCLMF, researchers either visit the facility to teach us how to make the material, or we visit other research institutes to learn how to make the materials. Researchers involved with the program include: Prof. Heino Finkelmann, Freiburg University, Prof. Tomiki Ikeda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Prof. Kenji Urayama, Kyoto University, Prof. Patrick Mather, Case Western University, Prof. Julie Kornfield, CalTech, Prof. Rudolph Zentel, Mainz University, Prof. Helena Godinho, University of Lisbon. Click here for a complete list of people working with the NLCMF.
Information is divided into four categories: About the NLCMF, Knowledge Base, Material Synthesis & Preparation Student Activity, each accessible from the top menu.