Antal Jákli Explained

Antal István Jákli
Birth Date:	3 October 1958
Birth Place:	Szombathely, Hungary
Nationality:	Hungarian, American
Fields:	Physics
Alma Mater:	Eötvös Loránd University, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Work Institution:	Kent State University
Doctoral Advisor:	Ágnes Buka

Antal I. "Tony" Jákli (born 3 October 1958) is a Hungarian-American physicist and professor of chemical physics at Kent State University. He is known for his work with bent-core,^{[1] [2]} flexoelectric, and ferroelectric liquid crystals.

Education and career

Jákli received a Master of Science in 1983 and later a Ph.D. in 1986 in Physics from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary.^[3] After postdoctoral fellowships with Alfred Saupe at Kent State University from 1989 to 1992 and at the Max Planck Institute in Halle, Germany, from 1993 to 1995, he became a research fellow at the Research Institute for Solid State Physics in Budapest. He was later awarded a D.Sc. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2000.

He moved to the United States in 1999 to join the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University as a research fellow. He became an assistant professor there in 2004, receiving tenure in 2007 and a promotion to full professorship in 2012.

Research

His current research interests include studies of bent-core and other liquid crystals with reduced symmetry, electrospun responsive fibers and mats, flexoelectricity and piezoelectricity, small-scale rheometry, blue phases, and surface interactions of liquid crystals.

Works

• S. M. Salili, M. G. Tamba, S. N. Sprunt, C. Welch, G. H. Mehl, A. Jákli, J. T. Gleeson, "Anomalous Increase in Nematic-Isotropic Transition Temperature in Dimer Molecules Induced by Magnetic Field", Physical Review Letters, 116 (21), 217801, 2016. .
• S. M. Salili, T. Ostapenko, O. Kress, C. Bailey, W. Weissflog, K. Harth, A. Eremin, R. Stannarius, A. Jákli, "Rupture and Recoil of Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Filaments", Soft Matter, 12 (21), 4725–4730, 2016.
• H. Shahsavan, S. M. Salili, A. Jákli, B. Zhao, "Smart Muscle-driven Self-cleaning of Biomimetic Microstructures from Liquid Crystal Elastomers", Advanced Materials, vol. 27 (43) p. 6828–6833, 2015.
• Salili . S. M. . Kim . C. . Sprunt . S. . Gleeson . J. T. . Parri . O. . Jákli . A. . 2014 . Flow properties of a twist-bend nematic liquid crystal . RSC Advances . 4 . 101. 57419 . 10.1039/c4ra10008e. 2014RSCAd...457419S .
• Zhang . C. . Diorio . N. . Lavrentovich . O.D. . Jákli . A. . 2014 . Helical nanofilaments of bent-core liquid crystals with a second twist . Nature Communications . 5 . 3302. 1–8 . 10.1038/ncomms4302 . 24548912. 2014NatCo...5.3302Z . free .
• Borshch . V. . Kim . Y.K. . Xiang . J. . Gao . M. . Jákli . A. . Panov . V. P. . Vij . J. K. . Imrie . C. T. . Tamba . M. G. . Mehl . G. H. . Lavrentovich . O.D. . 2013 . Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation . Nature Communications . 4 . 2635. 1–8 . 10.1038/ncomms3635 . 24189583 . 3831290. 2013NatCo...4.2635B . 1309.1452 .
• Zhang . C. . Gao . M. . Diorio . N. . Weissflog . W. . Baumeister . U. . Sprunt . S. . Gleeson . J.T. . Jákli . A. . 2012 . Direct observation of smectic layers in thermotropic liquid crystals . Phys. Rev. Lett. . 109 . 10. 107802 . 10.1103/physrevlett.109.107802 . 23005329 . 2012PhRvL.109j7802Z . free .
• A. Jákli, A. Saupe, One and Two Dimensional Fluids – Physical Properties of Smectic Lamellar and Columnar Liquid Crystals (2006)
• Huang . C. . Zhang . Q. . Jákli . A. . 2003 . Nematic anisotropic liquid crystal gels – self-assembled nanocomposites with high electromechanical response . Advanced Functional Materials . 13 . 7. 525–529 . 10.1002/adfm.200304322. 95356380 .
• Jákli . A. . Huang . Y.M. . Fodor-Csorba . K. . Vajda . A. . Galli . G. . Diele . S. . Pelzl . G. . 2003 . Reversible switching between optically isotropic and birefringent states in a bent-core liquid crystal . Advanced Materials . 15 . 19. 1606–1610 . 10.1002/adma.200305379. 2003AdM....15.1606J . 137174380 .
• Jákli . A. . Lischka . CH. . Weissflog . W. . Pelzl . G. . Saupe . A. . 2000 . Helical filamentary growth in liquid crystals of banana-shaped molecules. Liquid Crystals . 27 . 1405–1409 . 10.1080/026782900750018546. 123397085 .

Awards

• Alfred Saupe Prize (2020)
• Outstanding Research Scholar of Kent State University (2012)
• Luckhurst-Samulski Prize 2010 (Taylor & Francis)
• Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter-ICAM Track II Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008, 2009)
• Library Research Collection Award, Kent State University (2007)
• Department of Education (2003)
• Bólyai Young Researchers Scholar (1998-1999), Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Outstanding Research Associate, Kent State University (1992)
• Young Scientist awards of the Central Research Institute of Physics, Hungary (1986, 1989)

Notes and References

1. Evidence for Triclinic Symmetry in Smectic Liquid Crystals of Bent-Shape Molecules. Jákli, A.. Krüerke, D. . Sawade, H.. Heppke, G. . 17126162. Phys. Rev. Lett. . 86 . 25. 5715–5718 . 2001. 10.1103/physrevlett.86.5715 . 11415340. 2001PhRvL..86.5715J.
2. Eremin . A. . Jákli . A. . Polar bent-shape liquid crystals – from molecular bend to layer splay and chirality . Soft Matter . Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) . 9 . 3 . 2013 . 1744-683X . 10.1039/c2sm26780b . 615–637. 2013SMat....9..615E .
3. Web site: Antal Jakli, Department of Chemical Physics - Faculty . 2014-03-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140322082824/http://www.kent.edu/cas/cpip/~ajakli/ . 2014-03-22 .