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Jan P. F. Lagerwall

Jan P. F. Lagerwall

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Materials Science

D-Index
45
Citations
8250
World Ranking
11702
National Ranking
4

Overview

Jan P. F. Lagerwall is a researcher affiliated with the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg. Their work primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with notable contributions in subfields such as Mechanical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • Polymer composites and self-healing

Lagerwall has contributed to numerous publications, frequently appearing in venues such as Default Digital Object Group, Crystals, arXiv (Cornell University), Programmable Materials, and Liquid Crystals.

Significant recent papers include:

  • Robust cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer fibres for mechanochromic textiles, 2022, Nature Materials
  • From Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Formation and Kinetic Arrest to Photonic Bandgap Films Using Suspensions of Cellulose Nanocrystals, 2020, Crystals
  • Multiresponsive Cylindrically Symmetric Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers Templated by Tubular Confinement, 2023, Advanced Science
  • Responsive Photonic Liquid Marbles, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Interrogating helical nanorod self-assembly with fractionated cellulose nanocrystal suspensions, 2020, Communications Materials

The scientist has collaborated with several frequent co-authors including Anjali Sharma, A. M. Stoffel, Yong Geng, Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath, and Apala Majumdar. These collaborations have produced multiple publications across various topics in materials science and engineering.

Best Publications

  • Cellulose nanocrystal-based materials: from liquid crystal self-assembly and glass formation to multifunctional thin films

    Jan P F Lagerwall;Christina Schütz;Michaela Salajkova;JungHyun Noh

  • A new era for liquid crystal research: Applications of liquid crystals in soft matter nano-, bio- and microtechnology

    Jan P.F. Lagerwall;Giusy Scalia

  • Current topics in smectic liquid crystal research.

    Jan P. F. Lagerwall;Frank Giesselmann

  • Carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals

    Jan P. F. Lagerwall;Giusy Scalia;Giusy Scalia

  • Nanotube Alignment Using Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

    Jan Lagerwall;Giusy Scalia;Giusy Scalia;Miroslav Haluska;Ursula Dettlaff-Weglikowska

  • Rod Packing in Chiral Nematic Cellulose Nanocrystal Dispersions Studied by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Laser Diffraction

    Christina Schütz;Michael Agthe;Andreas B. Fall;Korneliya Gordeyeva

  • Liquid crystals in micron-scale droplets, shells and fibers

    Martin Urbanski;Catherine G Reyes;JungHyun Noh;Anshul Sharma

  • The case of thresholdless antiferroelectricity: polarization-stabilized twisted SmC* liquid crystals give V-shaped electro-optic response

    Per Rudquist;Jan Lagerwall;M. Buivydas;F. Gouda

  • One-piece micropumps from liquid crystalline core-shell particles

    Eva-Kristina Fleischmann;Hsin-Ling Liang;Nadia Kapernaum;Frank Giesselmann

  • High-fidelity spherical cholesteric liquid crystal Bragg reflectors generating unclonable patterns for secure authentication.

    Yong Geng;JungHyun Noh;Irena Drevensek-Olenik;Romano Rupp

  • Macroscopic control of helix orientation in films dried from cholesteric liquid-crystalline cellulose nanocrystal suspensions.

    Ji Hyun Park;JungHyun Noh;Christina Schütz;German Salazar‐Alvarez

  • Antiferroelectric liquid crystals with 45° tilt - a new class of promising electro-optic materials

    K. D’havé;A Dahlgren;Per Rudquist;Jan Lagerwall

  • Optical and x-ray evidence of the "de Vries" Sm-A*-Sm-C* transition in a non-layer-shrinkage ferroelectric liquid crystal with very weak interlayer tilt correlation.

    Jan P. F. Lagerwall;Frank Giesselmann;Marc D. Radcliffe

  • Facile Anisotropic Deswelling Method for Realizing Large‐Area Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Uniform Structural Color and Broad‐Range Mechanochromic Response

    Rijeesh Kizhakidathazhath;Yong Geng;Yong Geng;Venkata Subba Rao Jampani;Cyrine Charni

  • Tuneable multicoloured patterns from photonic cross-communication between cholesteric liquid crystal droplets

    JungHyun Noh;Hsin-Ling Liang;Irena Drevensek-Olenik;Irena Drevensek-Olenik;Jan P. F. Lagerwall

  • Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Shells as Enabling Material for Information-Rich Design and Architecture.

    Mathew Schwartz;Gabriele Lenzini;Yong Geng;Peter B. Rønne

  • Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Phase Diagrams and Detection of Kinetic Arrest in Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions

    Camila Honorato Rios;Anja Kuhnhold;Johanna Bruckner;Rick Dannert

  • Nematic-Smectic Transition under Confinement in Liquid Crystalline Colloidal Shells

    Hsin-Ling Liang;Stefan Schymura;Per Rudquist;Jan Lagerwall

  • Coaxial electrospinning of microfibres with liquid crystal in the core

    Jan P. F. Lagerwall;Jesse T. McCann;Eric Formo;Giusy Scalia;Giusy Scalia

  • From Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Formation and Kinetic Arrest to Photonic Bandgap Films Using Suspensions of Cellulose Nanocrystals

    Christina Schütz;Johanna R. Bruckner;Camila Honorato-Rios;Zornitza Tosheva

  • Nanoparticles dispersed in liquid crystals: impact on conductivity, low-frequency relaxation and electro-optical performance

    Martin Urbanski;Jan P. F. Lagerwall

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolf Zentel
Rudolf Zentel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Siegmar Roth
Siegmar Roth Wake Forest University
David M. Walba
David M. Walba University of Colorado Boulder
Lennart Bergström
Lennart Bergström Stockholm University
Noel A. Clark
Noel A. Clark University of Colorado Boulder
Ute Baumeister
Ute Baumeister Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Peter Y. A. Ryan
Peter Y. A. Ryan University of Luxembourg
Carsten Tschierske
Carsten Tschierske Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Yoichi Takanishi
Yoichi Takanishi Kyoto University
German Salazar-Alvarez
German Salazar-Alvarez Uppsala University

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