Rajdeep Deb, featured ILCC liquid crystal artist, July 2011

He then joined Liquid crystal Material Research Center (LCMRC), University of Colorado at Boulder being ICAM-I2CAM Junior Exchange Awardee. There he studied the most spectacular defects and structures in B7 phases in Prof. Noel A Clark and Prof. Ivan I Smalyukh’s Lab. On his return, he joined National Institute of Technology, Silchar as a teaching assistant in Chemistry and was promoted to Lecturer in 2010.
Dr. Deb has research interests in different aspects of materials science, central to which is an abiding passion for the design and synthesis of all different liquid crystal systems with novel molecular architecture.

Jury comment: Crown jewels en miniature made of organic mesogens. One can melt them and rebuild them within minutes, in ever-changing beauty, with the turn of a knob of the temperature controller.