04.12.2020 English version of our web-site is available.

04.12.2020 Liquid-Crystal Society Seminar

The anniversary (seventieth) Seminar of the Liquid-Crystal Society “Commonwealth” “Liquid Crystals”, organized within the framework of the collaboration between Lomonosov Moscow State University and Moscow Region State University, has taken place ONLINE on Dec. 4, 2020. The report “Molecular nature of liquid-crystal heterogeneities” by Alexander V. Emelyanenko, Doctor of Science, Professor RAS, head of the Laboratory of Liquid Crystals at the Faculty of Physics of MSU (e-mail: emel@polly.phys.msu.ru), was presented.

The video of report is available at the following reference:
https://yadi.sk/d/Ufp7DNAJkbUUcQ?w=1 (in Russian)

It is discussed in the report about how it is possible to describe the heterogeneities of the director and order parameters in the smectic, nematic and conventionally isotropic* phases, and also the transitions between them, being based exclusively on the symmetry of the pair interaction potential of liquid crystal molecules. The expressions for the translational and orientational order parameters are presented, as well as their gradients and five elastic constants in the general form - without any presuppositions about the structure of liquid crystal, based on symmetry of its boundaries. It is shown that the nano-scopic defects in the liquid crystals create the areas around themselves with the lowered order parameters, which can be observed in the optical microscope. This opens wide perspectives for creating the simple optical methods of the visualization of nano-objects. *We call “conventionally isotropic” the phase with miserable orientational ordering of molecules, which arises instead of the isotropic phase in the presence of rigid surfaces.

To submit a report to be presented at Seminar, please e-mail to: kazna@ineos.ac.ru.

04.12.2019 Liquid-Crystal Society Seminar

The sixty ninth Seminar of Liquid-Crystal Society “Commonwealth” “Liquid Crystals” has taken place on Dec. 4, 2019. The report “Switching of liquid crystals in the spatially periodical electric field” by Ivan V. Simdyankin, the graduate student of the Shubnikov Crystallography Institute RAS, e-mail: simdyankinivan@mail.ru, (based on the author’s PhD thesis) was presented. The Seminar was organized in the Liquid Crystal Lab at the Faculty of Physics of MSU.

To submit a report to be presented at Seminar, please e-mail to: kazna@ineos.ac.ru.

13.11.2019 Liquid-Crystal Society Seminar

The sixty eighth Seminar of Liquid-Crystal Society “Commonwealth” “Liquid Crystals” has taken place on Nov. 13, 2019. The report “Theory of the processes and states stability in anisotropic fluids” by Aleksey G. Kalugin, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of MSU, e-mail: kalugin@mech.math.msu.su,was presented. The Seminar was organized in the Liquid Crystal Lab at the Faculty of Physics of MSU.

To submit a report to be presented at Seminar, please e-mail to: kazna@ineos.ac.ru.

26.10.2019
Visit of the representatives of the Industrial Research Technology Institute of Taiwan (ITRI) to the Laboratory of Liquid Crystals at the Faculty of Physics of MSU and scientific seminar have taken place.

09.10.2019 Liquid-Crystal Society Seminar

The sixty seventh Seminar of Liquid-Crystal Cociety “Commonwealth” “Liquid Crystals” has taken place on Oct. 9, 2019. The report “Circular dichroism in the cholesteric liquid crystals” by Boris A. Umanskii, senior research associate of the Shubnikov Crystallography Institute RAS, e-mail: umanskii@yahoo.com, was presented. The Seminar was organized in the Liquid Crystal Lab at the Faculty of Physics of MSU.

To submit a report to be presented at Seminar, please e-mail to: kazna@ineos.ac.ru.

30.09.2019 Liquid-Crystal Society Seminar

Visit of the representatives of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan to the Laboratory of Liquid Crystals at the Faculty of Physics of MSU and scientific seminar have taken place. The report «The mission of Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan and its international cooperations» (Tasks of the Ministry of Science and Technologies of Taiwan and international collaboration) by professor Chih-Peng Chu (Department Director of International Collaboration, Sciences and Education of the Ministry of Science and Technologies of Taiwan, was presented.

To submit a report to be presented at Seminar, please e-mail to: kazna@ineos.ac.ru.

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