Recent Events
1. Recent Conference Participations
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Chathuranga Prageeth Rajapaksha, Pushpa Paudel , P M Sineth Gayashan Kodikara , Drona Dahal , Chenrun
Feng, Vikash Kaphle, Bjorn Lussem, Antal Istvan Jákli, “Steady-State and Transient Behavior of Ionic Liquid
Crystal Elastomers Based Organic Electrochemical Transistors”, APS March Meeting, 2021 (Virtual), L04.00009
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Kelum Perera Ahlam, Nemati, Elizabeth K Mann, Torsten Hegmann, Antal Istvan Jakli, “Liquid crystals
microlens array using chiral ligand capped Au nanoparticles”, APS March Meeting, 2021 (Virtual), R05.00001
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Chenrun Feng, Jun Feng, Rony Saha, Yuki Arakawa, James Gleeson, Samuel N Sprunt, Chenhui Zhu,
Antal Istvan Jakli, “Manipulation of the nanoscale heliconical structure of a twist-bend nematic
material with polarized purple light” APS March Meeting, 2021 (Virtual), R05.00002
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Rony Saha, Chenrun Feng, Christopher Welch, Georg H. Mehl, Jun Feng, Chenhui Zhu, James Gleeson,
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Samuel N Sprunt, Antal Istvan Jakli, “The interplay between spatial and heliconical bond order in twist-bend
nematic materials”, APS March Meeting, 2021 (Virtual), R05.00011
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Chathuranga Prageeth Hemantha Rajapaksha: Gordon Research Conference (July 7 - July 12, 2019)
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Zoltan Karaszi visited Wigner Research Centre in Budapest, Hungary (July 1 - July 26, 2019) ~
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Antal Jakli visited Wigner Research Centre in Budapes, Hungary (June 26 - July 31, 2019) ~
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Jenieve Cumberland has participated in the NSF U. Akron I-Corps program (February - April, 2019)
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Haumed Rahmani has participated in the NSF U. Akron I-Corps program (June - July, 2019)
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Matthew Murachver is in Intership at Nasa Glenn Center (January 1 - December 31, 2019)
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Chenrun Feng has received a Doctoral Fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
(October 1 - September 30, 2020) ~
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Hemantha Rajapaksha, Kelum Perera, Chenrun Feng and Rony Saha presented in APS 2021 March meeting in
virtual APS March meeting
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Antal Jákli had invited virtual talk in the International Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Conference, Ljubliana,
Slovenia, September 7, 2021
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Hemantha Rajapaksha, Kelum Perera, Chenrun Feng, Rony Saha Pushpa Paudel presented in APS March
Meeting,
2022 in Chichago
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Kelum Perera, Rony Saha, Md Sakhawat Hossain, Md Mostafa, Alex Adaka, Ronan Waroquet and Alex
Adaka
presented in APS March meeting 2023 in Las Vegas.
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Antal Jákli presented in the 16th ECLC, Rende, Italy, July 12. 2023.
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Recent Invited Talks at Conferences
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17th International Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Conference, Boulder, Colorado (August 4-7, 2019)
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European Liquid Crystal Conference 2019: Wroclaw, Poland (June 30 -July 5, 2019)
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16th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Rende, Italy, July 10-14, 2023
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AMLCI Materials Day, April 29, 2023
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29th Indian National Liquid Crystal Conference, Bangalore, India, December 8, 2022
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22nd International Liquid Crystal Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 26, 2022
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International Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Conference, Ljubliana, Slovenia, September 7, 2021
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Alfred Saupe Prize Lecture, 37th German Liquid Crystal Conference, Magdeburg, Germany, 2021
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Recent Awards
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Jákli, Alfred Saupe Prize of the German Liquid Crystal Society (2021)
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Chenrun Feng, Alfred Saupe Fellowship, For outstanding graduate students working on
physics or material sciences of liquid crystals (2021) ~
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Hemantha Prageeth Rajapaksha, James Fergason Fellowship, For outstanding graduate students
working on applied research using liquid crystals. (2021) ~
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Tech Transfer Grant: Liquid crystal Clad fibers for wearable responsive textiles (2020)
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Zoltan Karaszi, Awardee of the KSU GSS International Travel Award (2020) ~
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Jákli, President’s Faculty Excellence Award of Kent State University (2018)
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I-Corps – Fast Optical Switch (2019)
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NSF-DMR: Phase Behavior and Physical Properties of Thermotropic and
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Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Oligomers Jákli: Co-PI (July 15, 2019 - June 30, 2022)
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Colloquia and Seminars
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A. Jakli: Alfred Saupe Prize Lecture, 37th German Liquid Crystal Conference, Magdeburg, Germany (2021)
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A. Jakli: SPIE 11472, Liquid Crystals XXIV, 24 August 2020; Virtual Conference (2020)
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Antal Jákli gave colloquia in Reality Lab at Meta, February 7, 2022 and at School of Polymer Science and
Polymer Engineering, Akron University in January 29. 2021
