New Liquid Crystal Materials Facility

新液晶材料设施

• 批准号: 0606357
• 负责人: Peter Palffy-Muhoray
• 金额: $ 89.92万
• 依托单位: Kent State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-01 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0606357&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; Liquid; Crystal; Materials; Facility

This award to Kent State University by the Solid State Chemistry program in the Division of Materials Research is to establish a Liquid Crystal Facility for research in a new class of liquid crystal materials, namely liquid crystal elastomers (CLE) and liquid crystal gels (CLG). These novel materials are soft and solid rubbers with orientationally ordered constituents with coupling between orientational order and mechanical strain. This coupling of orientation with mechanical strain would allow the softness of liquid crystalline materials to be experienced and exploited in exciting new ways such as creation of 'rubber lasers' which would change color on stretching, while shining light on LCE samples can cause them "to bend, fold, and swim away from the light." The unparalleled responsivity of these materials has almost universal appeal, and there is enormous demand for samples even in the applied mathematics community. The planned facility will focus on producing LCEs and LCGs, their characterization, and distribution of these materials to interested scientists in academia, governmental labs and industry. The establishment of a center of excellence with international leadership in Liquid Crystal Facility would be building on existing strengths, and would provide an important bridge between the scientists who are synthesizing materials and who are studying and using these materials for devices and applications. Training graduate students and scientists in this area will add significantly to the work force in the area of liquid crystalline elastomers and gels. The Center will establish a strong cadre of workers in the US studying and developing these materials, something that is absent now. In addition, graduate students would accumulate training as a spin-off of working on samples so that the techniques can be more widely distributed in the US, both to academia and to industry.

该材料研究部固体化学计划向肯特州立大学颁发的奖项是为新的液晶材料（即液晶弹性体（CLE））和液晶凝胶（CLG）建立液晶设施。 。 这些新型材料是柔软的实心橡胶，具有定向有序成分的成分，并在定向顺序和机械应变之间耦合。这种定向与机械应变的耦合将使液晶材料的柔软度以令人兴奋的新方式（例如创建``橡胶激光器''）的柔软度，这些方式会在拉伸时改变颜色，而LCE样品的光泽可以使它们“使其”“使其”“弯曲，折叠，然后远离光线。” 这些材料的无与伦比的响应能力几乎具有普遍的吸引力，即使在应用数学界，对样本也有巨大的需求。计划中的设施将着重于生产LCE和LCG，其表征以及将这些材料分配给学术界，政府实验室和工业的有兴趣的科学家。 建立在液晶设施中具有国际领导力的卓越中心将建立在现有优势的基础上，并将在综合材料，研究和使用这些材料用于设备和应用的科学家之间提供重要的桥梁。培训该领域的培训研究生和科学家将在液晶弹性体和凝胶领域的劳动力大大增加。 该中心将在美国建立强大的工人干部，研究和开发这些材料，这是现在所缺。 此外，研究生将积累培训作为样本工作的衍生培训，以便在美国和行业上可以更广泛地分布这些技术。