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Professor Charles Rosenblatt & team develop novel ‘shapeshifting’ liquid crystal

Professor Charles Rosenblatt & collaborators say they’ve changed the shape of a flat liquid crystal surface without applying any local stimulus—essentially remotely altering its physical appearance without touching it. The scientists essentially manipulated what Rosenblatt called “an orientable Newtonian liquid,” referring in this case to a nematic liquid crystal that...

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Biophysics: Prof. Lydia Kisley awarded $1.9 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant

Lydia Kisley, Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor in CWRU Departments of Physics and Chemistry, was recently awarded a $1.9 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for a project focusing on the “super-resolution fluorescence imaging of extracellular environments.” CWRU's the daily recently profiled her in its 5 questions with... Lydia...

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