U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Study of Ferroelectric LC Polymers

合作研究项目旨在建立在康奈尔大学与德国美因茨大学和克劳萨尔大学在铁电液晶聚合物研究方面的一项规模较小但非常成功的合作的基础上。美方在嵌段共聚物的制备和使用同步辐射x射线衍射仪实时表征嵌段共聚物和液晶方面拥有经验。克劳萨尔的德国小组是使用常规方法进行液晶聚合物的X射线衍射的专家，而克劳萨尔的小组在铁电液晶聚合物方面经验丰富。合作将通过教师的短期访问和学生的长期交流来加强研究，学生将学习表征他们合成的聚合物的新方法。作为交流的结果，德国人开发的研究液晶聚合物的大多数方法将在康奈尔大学内部进行。

The cooperative research program is intended to build on a small but highly successful collaboration between Cornell and the German universities of Mainz and Clausthal in the study of ferroelectric liquid crystalline polymers. The U.S. side has experience in the preparation of block copolymers and the characterization of block copolymers and liquid crystals in real time using synchrotron x-ray diffraction. The German group in Clausthal is expert in the x-ray diffraction of liquid crystal polymers using conventional methods, while the group in Clausthal is experienced in ferroelectric liquid crystal polymers. The collaboration will enhance the research through short-term visits of faculty and longer- term exchanges of students, who will learn new methods of characterizing the polymers they synthesize. Most of the methods developed by the Germans to study liquid crystal polymers will, as a result of the exchanges, be brought in-house to Cornell.