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Antal Jakli is affiliated with Kent State University in the United States. Their research focuses mainly on materials science and engineering, with particular attention to electronic, optical, and magnetic materials. Their work also spans biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, and materials chemistry.

Jakli's publication record includes significant contributions to the study of liquid crystals, with over 110 publications covering advances in liquid crystal research. Other main topics in their research include advanced materials and mechanics, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, electrowetting and microfluidic technologies, material dynamics and properties, nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, and photonic crystals and applications.

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals and related materials:

  • "Electrically Tunable Reflection Color of Chiral Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals," 2021, published in Advanced Optical Materials
  • "Multiple ferroelectric nematic phases of a highly polar liquid crystal compound," 2022, published in Liquid Crystals
  • "Ionic Elastomers for Electric Actuators and Sensors," 2021, published in Engineering
  • "Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal thermo-motor," 2022, published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Liquid Piezoelectric Materials: Linear Electromechanical Effect in Fluid Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals," 2024, published in Advanced Functional Materials

Jakli has frequently published in several scientific venues, with the most publications appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), Liquid Crystals, Advanced Optical Materials, Soft Matter, and the Journal of Molecular Liquids.

They have collaborated extensively with a group of researchers, including:

  • Samuel Sprunt
  • J. T. Gleeson
  • Péter Salamon
  • Robert J. Twieg
  • Marcell Tibor Máthé

Best Publications

  • Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

    Volodymyr Borshch;Young-Ki Kim;Jie Xiang;Min Gao

  • Giant flexoelectricity of bent-core nematic liquid crystals

    John Harden;Badel Mbanga;Nandor Eber;Katalin Fodor-Csorba

  • Preliminary communication Helical superstructures in a novel smectic mesophase formed by achiral banana-shaped molecules

    G. Pelzl;S. Diele;A. Jákli;W. Weissflog

  • Physics of liquid crystals of bent-shaped molecules

    Antal Jákli;Oleg D. Lavrentovich;Jonathan V. Selinger

  • Thermally Active Liquid Crystal Network Gripper Mimicking the Self-Peeling of Gecko Toe Pads

    Hamed Shahsavan;Seyyed Muhammad Salili;Antal Jákli;Boxin Zhao

  • Thermotropic liquid crystal films for biosensors and beyond

    Piotr Popov;Piotr Popov;Elizabeth K. Mann;Antal Jákli

  • Polar bent-shape liquid crystals – from molecular bend to layer splay and chirality

    A. Eremin;Antal Jakli;Antal Jakli

  • Liquid crystals of the twenty-first century – nematic phase of bent-core molecules

    A. Jákli

  • Nonstandard electroconvection in a bent-core nematic liquid crystal.

    D. B. Wiant;James T. Gleeson;Nandor Éber;Katalin Fodor-Csorba

  • One- and Two-Dimensional Fluids: Properties of Smectic, Lamellar and Columnar Liquid Crystals

    Antal Jakli;A. Saupe

  • Stable Amorphous Blue Phase of Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with a Chiral Material

    Stefanie Taushanoff;Khoa Van Le;Jarrod Williams;Robert J. Twieg

  • Ester‐type banana‐shaped monomers and investigations of their electro‐optical properties

    Katalin Fodor-Csorba;Aniko Vajda;Giancarlo Galli;Antal Jákli

  • Twist-bend nematic liquid crystals in high magnetic fields

    P. K. Challa;V. Borshch;O. Parri;C. T. Imrie

  • Blue Phase, Smectic Fluids, and Unprecedented Sequences in Liquid Crystal Dimers

    Channabasaveshwar V. Yelamaggad;Indudhara Swamy Shashikala;Guangxun Liao;Doddamane S. Shankar Rao

  • Electric-field-induced chiral separation in liquid crystals.

    G. Heppke;Antal Jákli;S. Rauch;Hans Sawade

  • Smart Muscle-Driven Self-Cleaning of Biomimetic Microstructures from Liquid Crystal Elastomers.

    Hamed Shahsavan;Seyyed Muhammad Salili;Antal Jákli;Boxin Zhao

  • Evidence for Triclinic Symmetry in Smectic Liquid Crystals of Bent-Shape Molecules

    Antal Jakli;D. Kruerke;Hans Sawade;G. Heppke

  • Direct observation of liquid crystals using cryo-TEM: Specimen preparation and low-dose imaging

    Min Gao;Young-Ki Kim;Cuiyu Zhang;Volodymyr Borshch

  • Nature-inspired light-harvesting liquid crystalline porphyrins for organic photovoltaics

    Lanfang Li;Shin-Woong Kang;John E. Harden;Qingjiang Sun

  • Liquid crystal fibers of bent-core molecules.

    Antal Jákli;Daniel Krüerke;Geetha G. Nair

  • Elastic Constants and Orientational Viscosities of a Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal

    Madhabi Majumdar;Peter Salamon;Antal Jakli;James T. Gleeson

Frequent Co-Authors

Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Oleg D. Lavrentovich Kent State University
Wolfgang Weissflog
Wolfgang Weissflog Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Georg H. Mehl
Georg H. Mehl University of Hull
Chenhui Zhu
Chenhui Zhu Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Robert J. Twieg
Robert J. Twieg Kent State University
Rafael Verduzco
Rafael Verduzco Rice University
Corrie T. Imrie
Corrie T. Imrie University of Aberdeen
Quan Li
Quan Li Chinese University of Hong Kong
Gerhard Pelzl
Gerhard Pelzl Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Christopher J. Welch
Christopher J. Welch Indiana Consortium for Analytical Science & Engineering

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