Prof. Dr. Jan P. F. Lagerwall

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsPhysical Chemistry of Molecules, Liquids and Interfaces, Biophysical Chemistry,Experimental Condensed Matter Physics,Mechanics
KeywordsColloids, Electrical and optical properties of soft matter, Electrospinning, Liquid crystals, Microfluidics

Current contact address

CountryLuxembourg
CityLuxemburg
InstitutionUniversite de Luxembourg
InstituteDepartment of Physics and Materials Science
Homepagehttp://www.lcsoftmatter.com

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Frank GießelmannInstitut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2003

Programme(s)

2003Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2006Jan P.F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann: Current Topics in Smectic Liquid Crystal Research. In: ChemPhysChem, 2006, 20-45
2006Jan P.F. Lagerwall, David Coleman, Eva Körblova, Chris Jones, Renfan Shao, José M. Otón, David M. Walba, Noel Clark, Frank Giesselmann: The peculiar optic, dielectric and X-ray diffraction properties of a fluorinated de Vries asymmetric diffuse cone-model ferroelectric liquid crystal. In: Liquid Crystals, 2006, 17-23
2005Jan P.F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Sebastian Rauch, Gerd Heppke, Per Rudquist, Sven T. Lagerwall: Chiral smectic C subphases induced by mixing a bistereogenic antiferroelectric liquid crystal with a non-chiral liquid crystal. In: Ferroelectrics, 2005, 221-230
2005Jan P.F. Lagerwall: Demonstration of the antiferroelectric aspect of the helical superstructures in Sm-C *, Sm-C_\alpha* and Sm-C_a* liquid crystals. In: Physical Review E, 2005, 051703-1-051703-10
2005Prabir K. Mukherjee, Jan P.F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann: Electrolyte effects on the nematic-isotropic phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals. In: Liquid Crystals, 2005, 1301-1306
2005Jan P.F. Lagerwall, Gerd Heppke, Frank Giesselmann: Frustration between syn- and anticlinicity in mixtures of chiral and non-chiral tilted smectic-C-type liquid crystals. In: European physical journal E, 2005, 113-121
2005Jan P.F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann, Christine Selbmann, Sebastian Rauch, Gerd Heppke: Generation of frustrated liquid crystal phases by mixing an achiral nematic¿smectic-C mesogen with an antiferroelectric chiral smectic liquid crystal. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2005, 144906/1-144906/8
2004Jan P.F. Lagerwall Frank Giesselmann Michael D. Wand David. M. Walba: A chameleon chiral polar liquid crystal: rod-shaped when nematic, bent-shaped when smectic. In: Chemistry of Materials, 2004, 3606-3615
2004Martin Rössle, Rudolf Zentel, Jan Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann: Ferroelectric polysiloxane liquid crystals with 'de Vries'-type smectic A* -smectic C* transitions. In: Liquid Crystals, 2004, 883-887
2004Jan P.F. Lagerwall, Frank Giesselmann. Alexander Saipa, Roman Dabrowski: On the origin of high optical director tilt in a partially fluorinated orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystal. In: Liquid Crystals, 2004, 1175-1184