Antal Jákli


Antal István Jákli
Born (1958-10-03) 3 October 1958
Szombathely, Hungary
Residence Kent, Ohio
Nationality Hungarian, American
Fields Physics
Institutions Kent State University
Alma mater Eötvös Loránd University
Known for Bent-core liquid crystals
Flexoelectricity
Piezoelectricity
Ferroelectricity
Website
www.jakligroup.com
The native form of this personal name is Jákli Antal. This article uses the Western name order.

Antal I. Jákli (born 3 October 1958) is a Hungarian-American physicist and professor of Chemical Physics at Kent State University. He is known for his work with bent-core,[1][2] flexoelectric, and ferroelectric liquid crystals.

Education and Career

He received a Master of Science in 1983 and later a Ph.D. in 1986 in Physics from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.[3] After postdoctoral fellowship with Alfred Saupe at Kent State University from 1989 to 1992 and at the Max Planck Institute in Halle, Germany, from 1993 to 1995, he became a research fellow at the Research Institute for Solid State Physics in Budapest. He was later awarded a D.Sc. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2000.

He moved to the United States in 1999 to join the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University as a research fellow. He became an assistant professor there in 2004, receiving tenure in 2007 and a promotion to full professorship in 2012.

Research

His current research interests include studies of bent-core and other liquid crystals with reduced symmetry, electrospun responsive fibers and mats, flexoelectricity and piezoelectricity, small-scale rheometry, blue phases, and surface interactions of liquid crystals.

Works

Awards

References

  1. Jákli, A.; Krüerke, D.; Sawade, H.; Heppke, G. (2001). "Evidence for Triclinic Symmetry in Smectic Liquid Crystals of Bent-Shape Molecules". Phys. Rev. Lett. 86: 5715–5718. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.86.5715.
  2. Eremin, A.; Jákli, A. (2013). Soft Matter. 9: 615–637. doi:10.1039/c2sm26780b.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-03-22. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
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