RESEARCH INTERESTS
RESEARCH INTERESTS

Liquid Crystals:

- Chiral dopants; Cholesteric liquid crystals; Photosensitive cholesteric liquid crystals; Photosensitive chiral nematic colloids and suspensions; Cholesteric diffraction gratings.

- Lehmann-type effects (dissolution of the chiral dopants in the nematic and cholesteric droplet); Rotation of single crystals of chiral (or non-chiral) dopants at the top of a nematic (cholesteric and blue phase) droplet.

- Blue phases; Blue phase of polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals.

- Uniform lying helix (ULH).

- Hybrid photorefractive/liquid crystal cells (CdTe-LC-CdTe); Liquid crystal light valve (based on the photoconductive GaAs substrate).

- Photoalignment of the nematic liquid crystals; Contact angle and wetting of liquid crystals on photoaligning surfaces.

- The alignment of nematic liquid crystals by layers processed by means of the laser-induced periodic surface structuring (LIPSS).

- Studies of nemanic twist-bend phases (Ntb).

- Studies of ferroelectric nemanic phases (NF).

Spectroscopy:

- Photoisomerization of provitamin D; UV-biodosimetry.

- Ozone hole in Antarctica (Dobson ozone spectrophotometer).

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