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Robert B. Meyer meyer@brandeis.edu Professor of Physics and
Volen National Center for Complex
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Robert Meyer studies many different aspects of liquid crystals. Currently, he is interested in patterns formed in two-dimensional systems, and in the unique properties of liquid crystal gels, which combine coupling between the elasticity of the gel and the molecular orientation in the liquid crystal. He is interested in the basic science of these systems and in possible practical applications. Professor Meyer is a member of the Brandeis Complex Fluids group.
Recent Ph.D. Students:
Guangnan Meng (2004) “ Elasticity of Thin Layers of Nematic Liquid Crystalline Gels: Electro-Optics and Thermo-Mechanics” Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Texas A&M Univeristy, Dept of Chemical Engineering, College Station, TX
Jong-Bong Lee (2004) “Textures and Free Energy in Free Standing Thin Film of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals” Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School Department of Biological Chemistry& Molecular Pharmacology, Boston, MA
Sample of Recent
Publications:
"Structure
and Dynamics of Solitons in a Nematic Liquid
Crystal in a Rotating Magnetic Field" (with Chun
Zheng), Physical Review E56, 5553 (1997).
"Polar Smectic Films" (with Isabelle Krause), Physical Review Letters 82, 3815 (1999).
"Electro-mechanical Fredericks Effects in Nematic Gels" (with E.M. Terentjev, M. Warner and J. Yamamoto), Physical Review E60, 1872 (1999).
"Untwisting of a Cholesteric Elastomer by a Mechanical Field" (with M. Warner, E.M. Terentjev, and Y. Mao), Physical Review Letters 85, 2320 (2000).