Antal Jákli
| Antal István Jákli | |
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| Born |
3 October 1958 Szombathely, Hungary |
| Residence | Kent, Ohio |
| Nationality | Hungarian, American |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Kent State University |
| Alma mater | Eötvös Loránd University |
| Known for |
Bent-core liquid crystals Flexoelectricity Piezoelectricity Ferroelectricity |
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Website www.jakligroup.com | |
Antal I. Jákli (born 3 October 1958) is a Hungarian-American physicist and professor of Chemical Physics at Kent State University. He is known for his work with bent-core,[1][2] flexoelectric, and ferroelectric liquid crystals.
Education and Career
He received a Master of Science in 1983 and later a Ph.D. in 1986 in Physics from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.[3] After postdoctoral fellowship with Alfred Saupe at Kent State University from 1989 to 1992 and at the Max Planck Institute in Halle, Germany, from 1993 to 1995, he became a research fellow at the Research Institute for Solid State Physics in Budapest. He was later awarded a D.Sc. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2000.
He moved to the United States in 1999 to join the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University as a research fellow. He became an assistant professor there in 2004, receiving tenure in 2007 and a promotion to full professorship in 2012.
Research
His current research interests include studies of bent-core and other liquid crystals with reduced symmetry, electrospun responsive fibers and mats, flexoelectricity and piezoelectricity, small-scale rheometry, blue phases, and surface interactions of liquid crystals.
Works
- H. Shahsavan, S. M. Salili, A. Jákli, B. Zhao, “Smart Muscle-driven Self-cleaning of Biomimetic Microstructures from Liquid Crystal Elastomers”, Advanced Materials, vol. 27 (43) p. 6828–6833, 2015.
- Salili, S. M.; Kim, C.; Sprunt, S.; Gleeson, J. T.; Parri, O.; Jákli, A. (2014). "Flow properties of a twist-bend nematic liquid crystal". RSC Adv. 4: 57419. doi:10.1039/c4ra10008e.
- Zhang, C.; Diorio, N.; Lavrentovich, O.D.; Jákli, A. (2014). "Helical nanofilaments of bent-core liquid crystals with a second twist". Nature Communications 5 (3302): 1–8. doi:10.1038/ncomms4302.
- Borshch, V.; Kim, Y.K.; Xiang, J.; Gao, M.; Jákli, A.; Panov, V. P.; Vij, J. K.; Imrie, C. T.; Tamba, M. G.; Mehl, G. H.; Lavrentovich, O.D. (2013). "Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation". Nature Communications 4 (2635): 1–8. doi:10.1038/ncomms3635.
- Zhang, C.; Gao, M.; Diorio, N.; Weissflog, W.; Baumeister, U.; Sprunt, S.; Gleeson, J.T.; Jákli, A. (2012). "Direct observation of smectic layers in thermotropic liquid crystals". Phys. Rev. Lett. 109: 107802. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.109.107802.
- A. Jákli, A. Saupe, One and Two Dimensional Fluids – Physical Properties of Smectic Lamellar and Columnar Liquid Crystals (2006) ISBN 0-7503-0969-5
- Huang, C.; Zhang, Q.; Jákli, A. (2003). "Nematic anisotropic liquid crystal gels – self-assembled nanocomposites with high electromechanical response". Advanced Functional Materials 13 (7): 525–529. doi:10.1002/adfm.200304322.
- Jákli, A.; Huang, Y.M.; Fodor-Csorba, K.; Vajda, A.; Galli, G.; Diele, S.; Pelzl, G. (2003). "Reversible switching between optically isotropic and birefringent states in a bent-core liquid crystal". Advanced Materials 15 (19): 1606–1610. doi:10.1002/adma.200305379.
- Jákli, A.; Lischka, CH.; Weissflog, W.; Pelzl, G.; Saupe, A. (2000). "Helical filamentary growth in liquid crystals of banana-shaped molecules". Liquid Crystals 27: 1405–1409. doi:10.1080/026782900750018546.
Awards
- Outstanding Research Scholar of Kent State University (2012)
- Luckhurst-Samulski Prize 2010 (Taylor & Francis)
- Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter-ICAM Track II Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008, 2009)
- Library Research Collection Award, Kent State University (2007)
- Department of Education (2003)
- Bólyai Young Researchers Scholar (1998-1999), Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Outstanding Research Associate, Kent State University (1992)
- Young Scientist awards of the Central Research Institute of Physics, Hungary (1986, 1989)
References
- ↑ Jákli, A.; Krüerke, D.; Sawade, H.; Heppke, G. (2001). "Evidence for Triclinic Symmetry in Smectic Liquid Crystals of Bent-Shape Molecules". Phys. Rev. Lett. 86: 5715–5718. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.86.5715.
- ↑ Eremin, A.; Jákli, A. (2013). Soft Matter 9: 615–637. doi:10.1039/c2sm26780b.
- ↑ http://www.kent.edu/cas/cpip/~ajakli/