Liquid Crystal Net

February, 2009
Denys Fedorenko defended his Ph.D. thesis named "Anchoring of the nematic liquid crystal with the polymer surface due to the light-induced adsorption and desorption of dye molecules".

January, 2009
Yu. Kurioz, O. Ouskova, D. Fedorenko and Yu. Reznikov organized the Christmass Conference on Liquid Crystals" devoted to 80th anniversary of Institute of Physics, NAS of Ukraine.

June, 2008
Yu. Kurioz attended the 5th Polish-Ukranian Conference "Polymer of Special Applications", June 17-19, Radom-Swieta Katarzyna, Poland.

June, 2008
Yu. Reznikov, O. Ouskova and A. Ilyin attended the American-Korean-Ukrainian Workshop "New Horizons of Liquid Crystals: Science and Application II", Jeonju, Korea.

April, 2008
We have won several international grants. Take a look at Current Grants and Networks for details.

February, 2008

Platon Korniychuk is invited to the Department of Polymer Physics of the Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences in Lodz within the frame of Marie Curie Research Training Network (RTN) carried out within the (P Framework Programme on Research, Technological Development and Demonstration of the European Community.
The research subject is "Threaded molecular wires as supramolecularly engineered multifunctional materials".

September, 2007
Yuri Kurioz and Andrey Iljin paticipated in XVII Conference on Liquid Crystals , September 17-22, 2007, Augustow, Poland

September, 2007
Oleksandr Buchnev defended his Ph.D. thesis named "Suspensions of ferroelectric nanoparticles Sn2P2S6 and BaTiO3 in nematic liquid crystals"

The Royal Society Joint Project (2008-2009)
"Nanoengineering of liquid crystals for strong photorefraction response"
- Prof.Yuriy Reznikov
- Prof. Kaczmarek, Southampton University, (UK)

Joint Ukrainian-French (National Academy of Sciences and CNRS) (2008 - 2009)
"Ferromagnetic nano-colloids of nematic liquid crystals"
- Dr.Elena Ouskova
- Dr. Christophe Blanc - Laboratoire des Colloides, Universite Montpellier II, (France)

Joint Ukrainian-Turkish (The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) (2008-2010)
"Investigation of Electro-optical Properties of Nano-particles in Liquid Crystals"
- Prof.Yuriy Reznikov
- Dr.Ridvan Karapinar - Yuzuncu Yil University, (Turkey).

Project funded by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2007-2011)
"Nano-Physics of quantum-size and low-dimentional structures,
including on solid surface in metal, polymer and liquid
crystals systems; Molecular nano-electronics"

Project funded by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2008-2012)
"Self-organization and structuring, physical properties of anisotropic system based on liquid crystals matrix".
- Prof. Reznikov
- Prof. Puchkovskaja (Ukraine)

Project of Israel-Ukraine Collaborative Program (2006-2009)
"Development of advanced photosensitive materials for alignment of liquid crystals and their application in adaptive micro-lens array technology"
- Dr. M.Manevich, Jerusalem College of Technology-Machon Lev, (Israel)
- Prof.Reznikov

NATO COLLABORATIVE LINKAGE GRANT (2006-2009)
"Colloids of ferroelectric nano-particles in nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals":
- Prof.Reznikov
- Prof.Nobili, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier (France)
- Prof.Glushchenko, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (USA)

I. Gvozdovskyy, Yu. Kurioz and Yu. Reznikov. Exposure and Temperature Dependencies of Contact Angle of Liquid Crystals on Photoaligning Surface. Opto-Electronics Review, Vol. 17, N2, pp. 116-119, 2009.

O. Kurochkin, O. Buchnev, A. Iljin, S.K. Park, S.B. Kwon, O. Grabar and Yu. Reznikov. A colloid of ferroelectric nanoparticles in a cholesteric liquid crystal. J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt., 11, P.024003, 2009.

H.Atkuri, G.Cook, D.R.Evans, C-I.Cheon, A.Glushchenko, V. Reshetnyak, Yu.Reznikov, J.West and K.Zhang. Preparation of ferroelectric nanoparticles for their use in liquid crystalline colloids. J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt., 11, P. 024006, 2009.

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