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  • 2016 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society For the discovery and development of responsive soft matter electro-optical and photosensitive molecular architectures based on polymer and/or liquid crystalline materials.
  • 2007 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Timothy J. Bunning is affiliated with the United States Air Force Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with significant contributions to the subfields of Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research topics include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Photonic and Optical Devices, Advanced Cellulose Research Studies, Optical Coatings and Gratings, Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Timothy J. Bunning are:

  • Michael E. McConney
  • Dhriti Nepal
  • Vladimir V. Tsukruk
  • Victor Reshetnyak
  • D. R. Evans

Their recent papers include:

  • "Chiral Cellulose Nanocrystals with Intercalated Amorphous Polysaccharides for Controlled Iridescence and Enhanced Mechanics", 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Advances in Transparent Planar Optics: Enabling Large Aperture, Ultrathin Lenses", 2021, Advanced Optical Materials
  • "Bio-Organic Chiral Nematic Materials with Adaptive Light Emission and On-Demand Handedness", 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "Thermoplasmonics with Gold Nanoparticles: A New Weapon in Modern Optics and Biomedicine", 2021, Advanced Photonics Research
  • "Switchable Photonic Bio-Adhesive Materials", 2021, Advanced Materials

Regarding publication venues, Timothy J. Bunning has multiple works published in the following journals:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Liquid Crystals
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Advanced Photonics Research
  • Materials

Timothy J. Bunning has been recognized with the following awards:

  • Fellow of the Materials Research Society (2016) for the discovery and development of responsive soft matter electro-optical and photosensitive molecular architectures based on polymer and/or liquid crystalline materials
  • SPIE Fellow (2007)

Best Publications

  • Holographic Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals (H-PDLCs)1

    T. J. Bunning;L. V. Natarajan;V. P. Tondiglia;R. L. Sutherland

  • Electrically switchable volume gratings in polymer‐dispersed liquid crystals

    R. L. Sutherland;V. P. Tondiglia;L. V. Natarajan;T. J. Bunning

  • Three-dimensional control of the helical axis of a chiral nematic liquid crystal by light

    Zhi-gang Zheng;Yannian Li;Hari Krishna Bisoyi;Ling Wang

  • Bragg gratings in an acrylate polymer consisting of periodic polymer-dispersed liquid-crystal planes

    R. L. Sutherland;L. V. Natarajan;V. P. Tondiglia;T. J. Bunning

  • A high frequency photodriven polymer oscillator

    Timothy J. White;Timothy J. White;Nelson V. Tabiryan;Svetlana V. Serak;Uladzimir A. Hrozhyk

  • Liquid crystalline polymer cantilever oscillators fueled by light

    Svetlana Serak;Nelson Tabiryan;Rafael Vergara;Timothy J. White

  • Dynamic color in stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals

    Timothy J. White;Michael E. McConney;Timothy J. Bunning

  • Photodriven, Flexural–Torsional Oscillation of Glassy Azobenzene Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

    Kyung Min Lee;Matthew L. Smith;Matthew L. Smith;Hilmar Koerner;Nelson Tabiryan

  • Light-activated shape memory of glassy, azobenzene liquid crystalline polymer networks

    Kyung Min Lee;Hilmar Koerner;Richard A. Vaia;Timothy J. Bunning

  • Switchable Holographic Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal Reflection Gratings Based on Thiol−Ene Photopolymerization

    Lalgudi V. Natarajan;Christina K. Shepherd;Donna M. Brandelik;Richard L. Sutherland

  • Stimuli-Driven Control of the Helical Axis of Self-Organized Soft Helical Superstructures.

    Hari Krishna Bisoyi;Timothy J. Bunning;Quan Li

  • Bimaterial Microcantilevers as a Hybrid Sensing Platform

    Srikanth Singamaneni;Melburne C. Lemieux;Melburne C. Lemieux;Hans P. Lang;Christoph Gerber

  • Towards outperforming conventional sensor arrays with fabricated individual photonic vapour sensors inspired by Morpho butterflies

    Radislav A. Potyrailo;Ravi K. Bonam;John G. Hartley;Timothy A. Starkey

  • Stimuli-directed self-organized chiral superstructures for adaptive windows enabled by mesogen-functionalized graphene

    Ling Wang;Hari Krishna Bisoyi;Zhigang Zheng;Karla G. Gutierrez-Cuevas

  • ELECTRO-OPTICAL SWITCHING CHARACTERISTICS OF VOLUME HOLOGRAMS IN POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTALS

    L.V. Natarajan;R.L. Sutherland;V.P. Tondiglia;T.J. Bunning

  • Dynamic Control of Light Direction Enabled by Stimuli-Responsive Liquid Crystal Gratings.

    Rafael S. Zola;Hari Krishna Bisoyi;Hao Wang;Augustine M. Urbas

  • Polarization-controlled, photodriven bending in monodomain liquid crystal elastomer cantilevers

    Timothy J. White;Timothy J. White;Svetlana V. Serak;Nelson V. Tabiryan;Richard A. Vaia

  • Holographic Formation of Electro‐Optical Polymer–Liquid Crystal Photonic Crystals

    Vincent P. Tondiglia;Lalgudi V. Natarajan;Richard L. Sutherland;David Tomlin

  • Polymer Film with Optically Controlled Form and Actuation

    Nelson Tabiryan;Svetlana Serak;Xiao-Man Dai;Timothy J. Bunning

  • Switchable volume hologram materials and devices

    Richard L. Sutehrland;Lalquidi V. Natarajan;Vince P. Tondiglia;Timothy J. Bunning

  • The morphology and performance of holographic transmission gratings recorded in polymer dispersed liquid crystals

    T.J. Bunning;L.V. Natarajan;V. Tondiglia;R.L. Sutherland

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent P. Tondiglia
Vincent P. Tondiglia United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Lalgudi V. Natarajan
Lalgudi V. Natarajan Science Applications International Corporation (United States)
Timothy J. White
Timothy J. White University of Colorado Boulder
Nelson V. Tabiryan
Nelson V. Tabiryan University of Central Florida
W. Wade Adams
W. Wade Adams Rice University
Richard A. Vaia
Richard A. Vaia United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Quan Li
Quan Li Chinese University of Hong Kong
Vladimir V. Tsukruk
Vladimir V. Tsukruk Georgia Institute of Technology
Christopher Y. Li
Christopher Y. Li Drexel University
Hari Krishna Bisoyi
Hari Krishna Bisoyi Kent State University

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