·        Viscoelastic Properties of  a  Smectic Liquid Crystal Determined by Polarized Surface Light Scattering from a Thick Free-standing  Films ,S. Sharma, K. Neupane, A. Adorjan, A. R. Baldwin, S. Sprunt, Department of Physics, Kent  State University, Kent, Ohio 44242 USA,  To be submitted in Physical Review E.

 ·   Biaxiality and the nature of the uniaxial-biaxial transition in nematic liquid crystalline tetrapodes: A dynamic light scattering study, K. Neupane¹, S. W. Kang¹, T. Meyer², G. H. Mehl², D. W. Allender¹, S. Kumar¹, and S. Sprunt¹. ¹Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 and ²Department of Chemistry, The University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK (To be submitted to Physical Review E). 

 ·   On the connection between orientational fluctuations and the giant Flexoelectric response in bent-core nematic liquid crystals, M. Majumdar¹, K. Neupane¹, J. T. Gleeson¹, A. Jákli², and S. Sprunt¹. ¹Dept. of Physics and ²Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. (To be submitted to Physical Review E). 

·     Viscoelasticity of a Lyotropic Chromonic Nematic Studied with Dynamic Light Scattering, Yu. A. Nastishin¹, K. Neupane², O. D. Lavrentovich³, and S. Sprunt². ¹Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 USA and Institute of Physical Optics, 23 Dragomanov str., Lviv, 79005, Ukraine; ²Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 USA; and ³Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA.   Submitted to Physical Review Letters.

                Reprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2669

        Reprint: e-LCC: http://www.e-lc.org/docs/2008_07_15_15_23_06/

 ·  Observation of Possible Tetrahedratic Phase  In  Bent-core Liquid Crystal, D. Wiant¹, K. Neupane¹, S. Sharma¹, N. Pradhan², G. Iannacchione², A. Jákli³, J. T. Gleeson¹, and S. Sprunt¹. ¹Dept. of Physics and ³Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242; and Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 01609. Review E 77, 061701 (2008). 

·      High Field Magneto-Optical Studies of Liquid Crystals and Complex Fluids, S. N. Sprunt, J. T. Gleeson, A. Jakli, D. Wiant, K. Neupane (Kent State University), MAG LAB REPORTS, Special Edition, 14, 38 (2007) p 38. http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/mediacenter/publications/reports/maglabreports-2007-v14-i2.pdf. 

·         Dynamic Light Scattering Study of Biaxial Ordering in a Thermotropic Liquid Crystal, K. Neupane¹, S. W. Kang¹, S. Sharma¹, D. Carney², T, Meyer³, G.H.Mehl³, S.Kumar¹, S. Sprunt¹, ¹Department of Physics Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242 ²Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45221 USA  ³Department of Chemistry, The University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK.  Physical Review Letters 97 207802 (2006). 

·         Critical Behavior at the Isotropic-to-Nematic Phase Transition In  a  Bent-core Liquid Crystal, D. Wiant¹, S. Stojadinovic¹, K. Neupane¹, S. Sharma¹, K.Fodor-Csorba³, A. Jakli², J. T. Gleeson¹, S. Sprunt¹, ¹Dept. of Physics   and ²Liquid Crystal Institute Kent State University, Kent, OH  44242   ³Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary. Physical Review E :Rapid Commun 73, 03070 (2006). 

 Reprint: electronic-Liquid Crystal Communications.  http://www.e-lc.org/docs/2005_11_23_10_05_03 

·         One Nanosecond Photon Correlation Spectroscopy on Smectic Liquid Crystal   Films, S. Sharma, K. Neupane, A. Adorjan, A. R. Baldwin, S. Sprunt, Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242 USA , Physical  Review Letters  94, 067801 (2005). 

                       Reprint: Virtual Journal of NanoScience and Technology, Vol. 11, Issue 8.

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