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Featured Liquid Crystal Picture Art of the Month
November 2024©Shamima Akhter Dark Odyssey
Description We have synthesized a new series of hybrid materials called clustomesogens. These materials consist of liquid crystalline hybrid nanomaterials that contain functional metal nanoclusters combined with liquid crystalline ammonium cations. Under polarized optical microscopy (POM), this material exhibits a nematic liquid crystal phase. |
Author
Shamima Akhter is a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Kent State University (USA). She is conducting her research in Dr. Marianne Prévôt's lab, where she focuses on emissive functional liquid crystal devices, sensors, and optics. In the summer of 2024, Shamima had the opportunity to visit Professor Yann Molard's lab, supported by the Thomas Jefferson Transatlantic Research program. The accompanying picture is the outcome of this collaboration.
Jury Comment
The combination of colors, contrast and shapes in the picture aesthetically portrays the beauty of the science of liquid crystals.
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