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Overview

Robert J. Twieg is affiliated with Kent State University in the United States and focuses their research predominantly in the field of Materials Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, Computer Networks and Communications, Organic Chemistry, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The main topics explored in their research include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation, Surfactants and Colloidal Systems, Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies, Molecular Spectroscopy and Chirality, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, and X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography.

Twieg's recent papers illustrate their continued involvement with liquid crystal materials and soft matter systems. Notable recent publications include:

  • Multiple ferroelectric nematic phases of a highly polar liquid crystal compound, 2022, Liquid Crystals
  • Ferroelectric nematic droplets in their isotropic melt, 2022, Soft Matter
  • Fluorinated triphenylenes and a path to short tailed discotic liquid crystals: synthesis, structure and transport properties, 2021, Materials Advances
  • Designing chemically selective liquid crystalline materials that respond to oxidizing gases, 2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Design of Chemoresponsive Soft Matter Using Hydrogen-Bonded Liquid Crystals, 2021, Materials

Their research work has been published frequently in several venues. The most common outlets for their publications are:

  • Liquid Crystals
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Soft Matter
  • Materials Advances

As for scientific collaboration, Twieg works regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Antal Jákli
  • Parikshit Guragain
  • Manos Mavrikakis
  • Nicholas L. Abbott
  • Pawan Nepal

The concentration of Twieg's research on liquid crystalline materials, their physicochemical properties, and responsive behaviors aligns with their expertise in materials chemistry and physical chemistry. Their interdisciplinary approach also incorporates elements of optics, magnetic materials, and computational aspects related to networks and communications.

Best Publications

  • Observation of the photorefractive effect in a polymer.

    Stephen Ducharme;J. C. Scott;R. J. Twieg;W. E. Moerner

  • Broadband terahertz characterization of the refractive index and absorption of some important polymeric and organic electro-optic materials

    Paul D. Cunningham;Nestor N. Valdes;Felipe A. Vallejo;L. Michael Hayden

  • Organic Glasses: A New Class of Photorefractive Materials

    P. M. Lundquist;R. Wortmann;C. Geletneky;R. J. Twieg

  • Nonlinear optical chromophores with large hyperpolarizabilities and enhanced thermal stabilities

    Christopher R. Moylan;Robert J. Twieg;Victor Y. Lee;Sally A. Swanson

  • Corona poling and real‐time second‐harmonic generation study of a novel covalently functionalized amorphous nonlinear optical polymer

    M. Eich;A. Sen;H. Looser;G. C. Bjorklund

  • Electrochromic and optical waveguide studies of corona-poled electro-optic polymer films

    Ralph H. Page;M. C. Jurich;B. Reck;A. Sen

  • Structural studies of semifluorinated n-alkanes. 1. Synthesis and characterization of F(CF2)n(CH2)mH in the solid state

    John F. Rabolt;T. P. Russell;R. J. Twieg

  • A solvatochromic method for determining second-order polarizabilities of organic molecules

    M. S. Paley;J. M. Harris;H. Looser;J. C. Baumert

  • Investigation of two-photon absorption properties in branched alkene and alkyne chromophores.

    Ajit Bhaskar;Guda Ramakrishna;Zhikuan Lu;Robert Twieg

  • (DICYANOMETHYLENE)PYRAN DERIVATIVES WITH C2V SYMMETRY : AN UNUSUAL CLASS OF NONLINEAR OPTICAL CHROMOPHORES

    Christopher R. Moylan;Susan Ermer;Steven M. Lovejoy;I-Heng McComb

  • Highly efficient and stable nonlinear optical polymers via chemical cross‐linking under electric field

    D. Jungbauer;B. Reck;R. Twieg;D. Y. Yoon

  • Coherent effects in energy transport in model dendritic structures investigated by ultrafast fluorescence anisotropy spectroscopy.

    Oleg P. Varnavski;Jacek C. Ostrowski;Ludmila Sukhomlinova;Robert J. Twieg

  • High-speed photorefractive polymer composites

    D. Wright;M. A. Dı́az-Garcı́a;J. D. Casperson;M. DeClue

  • Structural characterization of semifluorinated n-alkanes. 2. Solid-solid transition behavior

    Thomas P. Russell;John F. Rabolt;Robert J. Twieg;Richard L. Siemens

  • Orientational decay in poled second‐order nonlinear optical guest‐host polymers: Temperature dependence and effects of poling geometry

    M. Stähelin;C. A. Walsh;D. M. Burland;R. D. Miller

  • High performance photorefractive polymer with improved stability

    A. Grunnet-Jepsen;C. L. Thompson;R. J. Twieg;W. E. Moerner

  • Photorefractive Properties of Poly(N-vinyl carbazole)-Based Composites for High-Speed Applications

    M. A. Diaz-Garcia;D. Wright;J. D. Casperson;B. Smith

  • Transitions to Liquid Crystalline Phases in a Semifluorinated Alkane

    C. Viney;T. P. Russell;L. E. Depero;R. J. Twieg

  • Temperature dependence of the third‐order nonlinear optical susceptibilities in polysilanes and polygermanes

    J.‐C. Baumert;G. C. Bjorklund;D. H. Jundt;M. C. Jurich

  • Observations of a gel phase in binary mixtures of semifluorinated n-alkanes with hydrocarbon liquids

    Robert J. Twieg;Thomas P. Russell;R. Siemens;John F. Rabolt

  • Re‐evaluation of the thermal stability of optically nonlinear polymeric guest‐host systems

    M. Stähelin;D. M. Burland;M. Ebert;R. D. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

W. E. Moerner
W. E. Moerner Stanford University
Do Y. Yoon
Do Y. Yoon Stanford University
Willi Volksen
Willi Volksen IBM (United States)
Robert D. Miller
Robert D. Miller Stanford University
Stephen Ducharme
Stephen Ducharme University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Thomas P. Russell
Thomas P. Russell University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ayusman Sen
Ayusman Sen Pennsylvania State University
Rudolf Zentel
Rudolf Zentel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
C. Grant Willson
C. Grant Willson The University of Texas at Austin
Jean M. J. Fréchet
Jean M. J. Fréchet University of California, Berkeley

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