Program Highlights for year 2012
Utah MRSEC sponsored 10 undergrads to work with faculty and graduate student mentors in their labs for a 9-week research program. Research opportunities for Utah MRSEC REU students are of an interdisciplinary focus on topics such as plasmonic metamaterials, and spin effects in organic LEDs & solar cells.
Mucus clearance is the primary defense
mechanism that protects airways from inhaled infectious and toxic agents. In
the current Gel-on-Liquid mucus clearance model mucus gel is propelled on top
of a “watery” periciliary layer surrounding the cilia. However,
this model fails to explain the formation of distinct mucus layer in health or
Founded by physical chemists like Flory and brought into the mainstream of theoretical physics by visionaries like de Gennes, over the last eighty years polymer physics has grown into a mature, rich, and exciting discipline.
Assembling microscopic particles
into macroscopic structures can open new pathways for producing complex
materials that cannot be produced by lithographic methods.
Although
several methods for assembling colloidal particles exist, including controlled
drying, ionic interactions, and dipolar interactions, a general pathway for
LCMRC researchers have developed a method for manipulating particles by light without touching them by using liquid crystals as a light-controlled host fluid.
Center researchers are collaborating with spin-off Displaytech (now part of Micron Technologies) to develop ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) materials for application in picoprojectors. The high-quality time sequential color and high brightness enabled by FLC switching speed, and high fill fact
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