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Newsletter Jun 2012 THE ANNUAL NEWSLETTER OF THE BRITISH LIQUID CRYSTAL SOCIETY JUNE 2012 2012 Newsletter BLCS Newsletter IN THIS ISSUE Deep Impact (in Glasgow) AWARD NEWS BLCS Gray Medal Award p2 A perspective from the current BLCS Chair, BLCS Hilsum Medal Award p3 MARK WILSON, University of Durham, BLCS Young Scientist Award p3 email: [email protected] John Goodby elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society p4 Impact in LC science observations. It is hugely important for Helen Gleeson awarded the A couple of interesting conversations at the UK liquid crystal community to “blow Holweck Medal and Prize p5 the recent BLCS conference in Glasgow its own trumpet”. We should be proud Mark Warner elected to the opened my eyes to some of the incredi- that UK LC research has been so im- Fellowship of the Royal Society p6 ble impact UK liquid crystal science has portant in shaping the modern world! Secondly, we can move into the future made, and is still making today. REPORT: BLCS Annual Meeting p7 with confidence. The 2012 conference in Some of you may not know that the Glasgow pointed to the exciting work materials in a typical modern VAN LCD, FEATURE ARTICLE going on in UK liquid crystal science found in a shiny new tablet or a big liq- right now in 2012 (and right across the BLCS Young Scientist Award uid crystal TV, are based on negative Lecture p8 multidisciplinary areas that make our dielectric anisotropy liquid crystals origi- subject so special). The impact of that nally designed and made at Hull Univer- REPORT: BLCS WINTER WORK- research is going to be felt across a SHOP p13 sity (Toyne, Hird, Goodby). Likewise, wide range of areas of life from hand- the discotic liquid crystals, that are the held devices to medicine. Finally, it’s REPORT: 2nd INTERNATIONAL key to the optical compensation films SYMPOSIUM ON LIQUID important for liquid crystal scientists to which make your screen viewable from CRYSTALS p13 get these messages across to the peo- all angles, are based on discotic materi- ple who fund us. Both EPSRC and the als developed in Hull and Leeds. As FEATURE ARTICLE UK government rightly talk about the Richard Bushby told us in his invited importance of “impact”. The message Picture This — Liquid crystal lecture in Glasgow, the same sorts of science at Baysgarth Secondary from this year's BLCS is that the path- materials are found as lubricants in School p15 ways to future impact are clear to see – modern high performance hard disk and it’s down to the liquid crystal com- TREASURER’S ANNUAL REPORT drives. munity in the UK to make sure we get p16 Multi-billion dollar technologies such this message across. BLCS DISTINGUISHED as these rely on fundamental research. LECTURERS SERIES It may be 10 years or 15 years or 20 ANNOUNCEMENT p17 A “Fairly Reasonable Scientist” years down the line before we really see One of my great pleasures of the BLCS INVITATION TO SUBMIT the true “impact” of today's science. But BURSARY APPLICATIONS p17 conference 2012 was to introduce a what an impact this original UK work keynote lecture from Professor John has made! COMMITTEE 2012 p17 Goodby of York University. John's I take a number of things from these A POEM BY JOHN LYDON p18 (continued on page 2) DATES FOR THE DIARY p19 1 2012 Newsletter (continued from the front page) amazing work in liquid crystals has BLCS-WW: “The best value for day 19th December 2012. long been recognised internationally money three days I've ever spent” Our winter workshop has been run and nationally. John was the first win- Many of you will have met the BLCS successfully for many years by Dr. ner of the BLCS's GW Gray medal. He Winter Workshop before, either as a Mike Hird, and in the last few years has also won the Royal Society of lecturer or as a student. It you haven't has been generously supported by the Chemistry's Tilden medal and its Inter- met it, then its well worth knowing EPSRC. Mike is currently in the pro- disciplinary Science Award. John's about! The workshop is held annually cess of applying again for EPSRC election, this past year, to the Fellow- in Hull over three days and provides funding to help reduce the costs of ship of the Royal Society is recognition fantastic training in all areas of liquid attending the school for EPSRC stu- of the importance of John's contribu- crystals from synthesis, to material dents. tion to our field of liquid crystals, and properties, to structure, to simulation, If you are a student working in liq- also an acknowledgement of the im- through lectures and hands-on training uid crystals (or a related area) do portance of the field itself. Our congrat- sessions with experts in the field. The please come. Each year we typically ulations go to John! We thank him for workshop is open to students, PDRAs have 30-40 students/industrialists on the discoveries, the insights and the and industry alike. This year's work- the course but have the capacity to enthusiasm he's given to liquid crys- shop will run from lunchtime Monday handle even more! tals; and we look forward to many new 17th December to lunchtime Wednes- insights and discoveries in the future! AWARD NEWS GRAY MEDAL Article by INGO DIERKING, University of Manchester Prof Noel Clark receives the 2012 George Gray medal of the British Liquid Crystal Society The G.W. Gray Medal of the British Liquid Crystal Society is awarded for outstanding contributions to research in the field of liquid crystal science and technology. Prof Noel A. Clark is one of the most mainly focused on fundamental sci- outstanding liquid crystal scientists ence. This is primarily evident from worldwide. Through his rigorous sci- his work on liquid crystals, but he has entific efforts, he has profoundly influ- also published significant and sub- enced liquid crystal research both stantial work in related areas, such as fundamentally, as well as via applica- colloidal crystals, or Raman and IR tions, for the past four decades. Not spectroscopy. Nevertheless, his main only has he realised the “surface sta- achievements are in the field of liquid bilized ferroelectric liquid crys- crystals. Research on Ferroelectric tal” (SSFLC) together with Sven Liquid Crystals (FLCs) would not be Lagerwall, he has also opened the conceivable without the contributions door to many applications which are of Noel Clark. The above mentioned employed today, such as the micro- SSFLC state provided the basis of all displays of DisplayTech, which are applications of ferroelectric liquid crys- nowadays produced by the millions tals. The characterisation of chevrons every year. and their avoidance via deVries be- But Noel’s interests were always haviour, was a great step towards 2 2012 Newsletter FLC applications. In the last decade or But besides the enormous contribu- tries and free standing films. Noel so, Noel has devoted much attention tions listed above, not everybody Clark continues to work hard at pre- towards bent-core, or so called knows that Noel Clark also significantly sent. In recent years he has actively “banana” molecules, which exhibit chi- contributed to many other areas of liq- been involved in the new field of DNA ral effects, without themselves being uid crystal research, such as lyotropic LC phases together with Tommaso chiral. membranes, LCs in confined geome- Bellini. HILSUM MEDAL Article by INGO DIERKING, University of Manchester Prof Doug Cleaver receives the 2012 Cyril Hilsum medal of the British Liquid Crystal Society The C. Hilsum Medal of the British Liquid Crystal Society is awarded to members of the So- ciety, normally working in the UK, for contributions to liquid crystal science and technology. Doug Cleaver has contributed largely also physical properties in relation to to the field of computer simulations of substrates, for example anchoring liquid crystals. His contributions are transitions of liquid crystals on pat- not limited to standard computer simu- terned substrates. Doug has further lations of the structure and occurrence applied modelling techniques to inves- of different phases, but also to sys- tigate amphiphilic self-organised sys- tems of confined geometries, and thin tems. films. He has proposed and imple- In addition, Doug is very engaged mented extensions and generaliza- in public awareness events to promote tions of modelling potentials, modelled science in general and liquid crystals phase transitions, physical properties in particular to the general public, and of liquid crystals, such as elasticity, but especially to school pupils. YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD Article by INGO DIERKING, University of Manchester Dr Apala Majumdar from the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Ap- plied Mathematics of the University of Oxford received this years Young Scientist Award of the British Liquid Crystal Society for her rigorous mathematical treatment of the physics of nematic liquid crystals, fundamental aspects of continuum theory and multi- scale modeling approaches, especially also to applied systems. The BLCS Young Scientist Award is normally presented annually for significant research contributions to the field of liquid crystals. Candidates are normally within 10 years of beginning their PhD and are active members of the Society, working in the UK at the time of their nomination. (See page 8 for the Young Scientist Award Lecture article) 3 2012 Newsletter John Goodby elected Fellow of the Article by VERENA GÖRTZ and Royal Society in 2011 PETER RAYNES, University of York We were all incredibly delighted when entitled ‘Smectic Liquid Crys- it was announced last year that John tals: Textures and Structures’, Goodby had been elected a Fellow of John wrote with George Gray.
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