Liquid Crystal Net

November, 2009
LCNet has obtained two new researchers! Nina Boyarchuk and
Dasha Lysenko started to work as PhD-students in our group.

November, 2009
We are pleased to inform that IX Cristmass Conference on
Liquid Crystals will be held 12-13 of January, 2010.
Abstract's submission deadline is 20 December, 2009. Abstracts
(1/2-1 page, MS Word document, yourname.doc) sould be sent to
Chairman of Organizing committee
Yuri Kurioz by e-mail,
or brought personally (room 154, main building).

October, 2009

Denys Fedorenko has obtained the Post-doc position in the
University of Montpellier II, France.
Supervising Professor is Maurizio Nobili. The research subject
is "Colloids trapped at fluid-fluid interfaces".

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.

The Royal Society Joint Project (2008-2010)
"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)

NATO COLLABORATIVE LINKAGE GRANT (2006-2010)
"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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