Antal I. "Tony" Jákli (born 3 October 1958) is a Hungarian-American

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and professor of chemical physics at

Kent State University Kent State University (KSU) is a Public university, public research university in Kent, Ohio, United States. The university includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio located in Kent State University at Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Kent State ...

. He is known for his work with bent-core, flexoelectric, and ferroelectric

liquid crystal Liquid crystal (LC) is a state of matter whose properties are between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. For example, a liquid crystal can flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a common direction as i ...

Education and career

Jákli received a

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in 1983 and a Ph.D. in 1986 in

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from

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University (, ELTE, also known as ''University of Budapest'') is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in ...

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, Hungary. After postdoctoral fellowships 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 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, received tenure in 2007, and was promoted 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 Piezoelectricity (, ) is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials—such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA, and various proteins—in response to applied mechanical stress. The piezoel ...

, small-scale rheometry, blue phases, and surface interactions of liquid crystals.

Works

*S. M. Salili, M. G. Tamba, S. N. Sprunt, C. Welch, G. H. Mehl, A. Jákli, J. T. Gleeson, "Anomalous Increase in Nematic-Isotropic Transition Temperature in Dimer Molecules Induced by Magnetic Field", Physical Review Letters, 116 (21), 217801, 2016. . *S. M. Salili, T. Ostapenko, O. Kress, C. Bailey, W. Weissflog, K. Harth, A. Eremin, R. Stannarius, A. Jákli, "Rupture and Recoil of Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Filaments", Soft Matter, 12 (21), 4725–4730, 2016. *H. Shahsavan, S. M. Salili, A. Jákli, B. Zhao, "Smart Muscle-driven Self-cleaning of Biomimetic Microstructures from Liquid Crystal Elastomers", ''Advanced Materials'', vol. 27 (43) p. 6828–6833, 2015. * * * * * A. Jákli, A. Saupe, ''One and Two Dimensional Fluids – Physical Properties of Smectic Lamellar and Columnar Liquid Crystals'' (2006) * * *

Awards

* Alfred Saupe Prize (2020) * Outstanding Research Scholar of Kent State University (2012) * Luckhurst-Samulski Prize 2010 (Taylor & Francis) * Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter-ICAM Track II Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008, 2009) * Library Research Collection Award, Kent State University (2007) * Department of Education (2003) * Bólyai Young Researchers Scholar (1998-1999), Hungarian Academy of Sciences * Outstanding Research Associate, Kent State University (1992) * Young Scientist awards of the Central Research Institute of Physics, Hungary (1986, 1989)

References

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