U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Structures and Defects in Lamellar Thermotropic and Lyotropic Soft Matter Systems

这项为期三年的奖项为美法合作研究提供支持， 结构缺陷在层状热致性和溶致性软物质系统中的作用。 这项合作涉及肯特州立大学科学和 先进液晶光学材料技术中心与Maurice Kleman 巴黎的玛丽和皮埃尔居里大学。 伯纳德·D罗格斯大学的科尔曼 大学也将参与该项目。 研究人员将研究 表面锚定缺陷和材料中的光诱导结构转变。 在 此外，他们将研究剪切流下的缺陷的转换和动力学。 这次合作的第二个目标是编写一本关于软物质物理学的教科书， 用于肯特州立大学的化学物理跨学科项目。 美国调查人员为这次合作带来了结构缺陷方面的专业知识， 材料、理论力学和流变学。 这是补充法语 在缺陷和溶致液晶方面的专业知识。 该项目将促进了解 软物质系统的结构特性。

This three-year award provides support for US-France cooperative research on studies of the role of structural defects in lamellar thermotropic and lyotropic soft matter systems. The collaboration involves Oleg Lavrentovich of Kent State University's Science and Technology Center on Advanced Liquid Crystal Optical Materials and Maurice Kleman of the Marie and Pierre Curie University in Paris. Bernard D. Coleman of Rutgers University will also participate in this project. The investigators will study the role of defects in surface anchoring and light-induced structural transformations in materials. In addition they will investigate transformations and dynamics of defects under shear flow. A second goal of this collaboration is the writing of a textbook on soft matter physics for use in a chemical physics interdisciplinary program at Kent State. The US investigators bring to this collaboration expertise in structural defects in materials, theoretical mechanics, and rheology. This is complemented by French expertise in defects and lyotropic liquid crystals. The project will advance understanding of the structural properties of soft matter systems.