Robert B. Meyer
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Robert B. Meyer's Degrees
- PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Physics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Bruce Meyer is an American physicist and professor at Brandeis University. Meyer graduated from Harvard University in 1965 with a bachelor's degree and in 1970 with a doctoral degree with advisor David Turnbull and dissertation on effects of electromagnetic fields on the structure of liquid crystals. At Harvard, Meyer was a postdoctoral student and became in 1971 an assistant professor and in 1974 an associate professor. At Brandeis University he was appointed an associate professor in 1978 and a full professor in 1985.
Robert B. Meyer's Published Works
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Published Works
- Ferroelectric liquid crystals (1975) (896)
- Piezoelectric Effects in Liquid Crystals (1969) (831)
- Polymer liquid crystals (1982) (507)
- Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals; A Review (1977) (331)
- Electroclinic Effect at the A − C Phase Change in a Chiral Smectic Liquid Crystal (1977) (313)
- EFFECTS OF ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS ON THE STRUCTURE OF CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS (1968) (277)
- On the existence of even indexed disclinations in nematic liquid crystals (1973) (222)
- Light-Scattering Study of Two-Dimensional Molecular-Orientation Fluctuations in a Freely Suspended Ferroelectric Liquid-Crystal Film (1978) (216)
- The surface tension in a structural model for the solid-liquid interface (1976) (192)
- Reconfigurable self-assembly through chiral control of interfacial tension (2012) (189)
- Electroclinic effect at the A-C phase change in a chiral smectic liquid crystal (1979) (187)
- Trigonometric Interpolation Method for One‐Dimensional Quantum‐Mechanical Problems (1970) (179)
- DISTORTION OF A CHOLESTERIC STRUCTURE BY A MAGNETIC FIELD (1969) (153)
- Strain‐induced instability of monodomain smectic A and cholesteric liquid crystals (1973) (134)
- The parabolic focal conic : a new smectic a defect (1977) (118)
- Macroscopic Orientation Patterns in Smectic-CFilms (1980) (99)
- Smectic-C * to Smectic-A Transition in Variable-Thickness Liquid-Crystal Films: Order-Parameter Measurements and Theory (1984) (96)
- Computations of the phase equilibrium, elastic constants, and viscosities of a hard-rod nematic liquid crystal (1986) (96)
- Freely Suspended Ferroelectric Liquid-Crystal Films: Absolute Measurements of Polarization, Elastic Constants, and Viscosities (1979) (95)
- Field-induced transient periodic structures in nematic liquid crystals : the splay Frederiks transition (1985) (84)
- Point Disclinations at a Nematic-lsotropic Liquid Interface (1972) (81)
- Measurements of Nematic Elastic Constants near a Second Order Nematic-Smectic- A Phase Change (1973) (79)
- Physical mechanisms of dc switching in a liquid‐crystal bistable boundary layer display (1984) (74)
- Surface Polarity Induced Domains in Liquid Crystals (1973) (61)
- MOLECULAR CRYSTALS and LIQUID CRYSTALS (1984) (60)
- Low temperature chiral nematic liquid crystals derived from β‐methylbutylaniline (1973) (60)
- Mean-field theory of the nematic-smectic-Aphase change in liquid crystals (1976) (50)
- MAGNETIC-FIELD-INDUCED ALIGNMENT AND INSTABILITIES IN ORDERED COLLOIDS OF TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS (1985) (49)
- Electro-Optical Study of Nematic Elastomer Gels (1997) (49)
- Rates of Rotation of Asymmetric Diphenyls by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1963) (44)
- Pretransitional optical rotation in the isotropic phase of cholesteric liquid crystals (1972) (43)
- Alignment of nematic liquid crystals by inhomogeneous surfaces (1985) (43)
- FREEDERICKSZ TRANSITION OF A HOMEOTROPIC NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL IN ROTATING MAGNETIC FIELDS (1975) (42)
- Self-limited self-assembly of chiral filaments. (2010) (42)
- Temperature behavior of ferroelectric liquid-crystal thin films: A classical XY system (1980) (42)
- Effect of flexoelectric coupling on helix distortions in cholesteric liquid crystals (1990) (37)
- Geometrical-optics approximation for the electromagnetic fields in layered-inhomogeneous liquid-crystalline structures (1985) (35)
- Observation of Edge Dislocations in Smectic Liquid Crystals (1978) (35)
- Rotational Constants of Torsionally Excited Molecules (1970) (32)
- Measurements of the anisotropic viscous and elastic properties of lyotropic polymer nematics (1985) (32)
- 6 – Macroscopic Phenomena in Nematic Polymers (1982) (31)
- Achiral symmetry breaking and positive Gaussian modulus lead to scalloped colloidal membranes (2016) (31)
- Direct measurement of the twist penetration length in a single smectic A layer of colloidal virus particles. (2009) (31)
- A nematic liquid crystal storage display based on bistable boundary layer configurations (1982) (28)
- Light scattering measurements of anisotropic viscoelastic coefficients of a main-chain polymer nematic liquid crystal (1990) (28)
- Electromechanical Fredericks effects in nematic gels. (1998) (28)
- Role of electrostatics in the texture of islands in free-standing ferroelectric liquid crystal films. (2007) (28)
- Imprintable membranes from incomplete chiral coalescence (2014) (26)
- Spirals in liquid crystals in a rotating magnetic field (1994) (26)
- Multistable orientation in a nematic liquid crystal cell induced by external field and interfacial interaction (1984) (26)
- Electromagnetic wave propagation in a periodically bent nematic liquid crystal (1983) (26)
- Electroclinic effect and modulated phases in smectic liquid crystals. (2002) (25)
- Compression induced smectic-A to smectic-C phase change in a liquid crystal (1974) (24)
- The interaction between a disclination in a nematic liquid crystal and a rubbed surface (1973) (22)
- Pretransitional anomaly in the bend elastic constant for a nematic to smectic a transition (1973) (22)
- Chaos in a neural network circuit (1990) (22)
- Piezoelectric effects in cholesteric elastomer gels (1997) (20)
- Theory of depletion-induced phase transition from chiral smectic- A twisted ribbons to semi-infinite flat membranes. (2010) (20)
- Alkylations of Acetylacetone and Certain Other β-Diketones at the Terminal Methyl Group through Dicarbanions1 (1960) (18)
- Effects of a magnetic field on the optical transmission in cholesteric liquid crystals (1972) (17)
- Kinematic and dynamic light scattering from the periodic structure of a chiral smectic C liquid crystal (1978) (16)
- X-ray scattering from polymer nematic liquid crystals (1991) (16)
- The growth of highly ordered textures in planar poly(γ-benzylglutamate) liquid crystals (1990) (16)
- Piezoelectricity of Cholesteric Elastomers (1994) (15)
- Freeze-Fracture Imaging of Ordered Phases of Tobacco Mosaic Virus in Water (1986) (15)
- Textural transformations in islands on free standing smectic-C* liquid crystal films. (2006) (15)
- Buckling instability in liquid crystalline physical gels. (2006) (14)
- Mechanisms of flexoelectric switching in a zenithally bistable nematic device (2009) (14)
- Polar Smectic Films (1998) (14)
- Optical modeling of electron microscopy on amorphous tetrahedrally coordinated materials (1974) (13)
- Bridging the experiment–theory gap (2004) (13)
- Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Smart Reflectors (1996) (13)
- Twist penetration in single-layer smectic A discs of colloidal virus particles (2009) (12)
- Switching characteristics of a field-induced structure near the isotropic-cholesteric transition (1991) (12)
- Alkylations of Phenylacetic Esters with Halides by Means of Sodium Amide in Liquid Ammonia. Comparisons with Alkylations of Phenylacetic Acid1a (1963) (12)
- Parallel Alignment of Poly-γ-Benzyl-Glutamate Nematic Liquid Crystal at a Solid Surface (1985) (12)
- Ordered Phases in Colloidal Suspensions of Tobacco Mosaic Virus (1990) (12)
- Equilibrium Size and Textures of Islands in Free-Standing Smectic C* Films (2001) (11)
- Discovery of dc switching of a bistable boundary layer liquid crystal display (1983) (10)
- Direct observation of dislocations in smectics (1978) (10)
- Thickness effects on pattern formation in liquid crystals in a rotating magnetic field (1997) (9)
- Elasticity of a nematic polymer in the infinite molecular chain limit (1987) (9)
- Reply to "Behavior of electric susceptibility and electroclinic coefficient near the chiral smectic A − C * transition" (1978) (8)
- Unwinding of a strained cholesteric elastomer by disclination loop nucleation. (2006) (8)
- Dynamics of the molecular orientation field coupled to ions in two-dimensional ferroelectric liquid crystals. (2007) (7)
- Conjugate Addition of Disodiophenylacetate to Ethyl Cinnamate to Form erythro- and threo-4-Carbethoxy-2,3-diphenylbutyric Acids (1961) (7)
- Tensiometer for free standing smectic films (1996) (7)
- Configurations of the Diastereomeric 4-Benzoyl-2,3-diphenylbutyric Acids and Derivatives1 (1962) (7)
- Colloidal membranes of hard rods: unified theory of free edge structure and twist walls. (2014) (6)
- Conjugate Additions of the Disodio Salts of 2-Phenylacetamide and Its N-Phenyl and N-Methyl Derivatives to Ethyl Cinnamate in Liquid Ammonia1 (1961) (6)
- Intrinsic curvature determines the crinkled edges of “crenellated disks” (2013) (6)
- Alkylations at the α-Carbon of Phenylacetamide and Phenylacetic Acid Through Their Disodio Salts1 (1961) (5)
- Light Scattering Studies of a Nematic to Smectic — A Phase Transition in Rigid Rod Polymer Solutions (1994) (5)
- A new low-voltage electrically-addressed bistable nematic liquid-crystal boundary-layer display (1983) (5)
- Flexible detection optics for light scattering (1984) (4)
- Quantitative high-pressure liquid chromatographic procedure for the determination of plasma and tissue levels of 2,4-diamino-5-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-6-methylpyrimidine (metoprine) and its application to the measurement of brain capillary permeability coefficients. (1978) (4)
- An automated light scattering system scanning in two spherical angles (1990) (3)
- Hydrodynamic properties of the smectic A phase formed in colloidal solutions (1989) (3)
- Textures in 2D-confined circular domains on a polar smectic film (1999) (2)
- Ferroelectric liquid crystals - fundamentals, and possibilities for applications (1980) (2)
- Introduction to Flexoelectricity: Its Discovery and Basic Concepts (2012) (2)
- Optically-Induced Bistability in a Nematic Liquid Crystal (1983) (2)
- STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF SOLITONS IN A NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL IN A ROTATING MAGNETIC FIELD (1997) (2)
- Brillouin light scattering from nematic polymer solutions (1992) (1)
- Ac field-induced order in dense colloidal systems (1985) (1)
- Effects of Magnetic and Electric Fields on the Structure of Liquid Crystals. (1970) (1)
- Artificial muscles based on liquid crystal elastomers. Discussion (2006) (1)
- Thermo/Electro-Mechanical Instabilities in Confined Samples of Nematic Gels (2004) (1)
- Macroscopic Phenomena in Polymer Liquid Crystals (1984) (1)
- Chiral Self-Assembly (2012) (1)
- Neutron-Diffraction Study of Phases of CD. Monolayer Films on Graphite (2003) (1)
- Liquid crystal smart reflectors (1995) (1)
- Langley's Aero Engine of 1903 (2011) (0)
- Buckling transition of nematic gels in confined geometry (2009) (0)
- Bridging the experiment-theory gap A new generation of liquid-crystal gels provides ideal models to study the unique phenomena arising from the combination of molecular orientation and elastic strain. (2004) (0)
- Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Distortion of Structure by External Fields (2001) (0)
- Interaction of Liquid Crystals with Inhomogeneous Surfaces. (1985) (0)
- Chiral Self-Assembly of Rodlike Viruses (2009) (0)
- Progress in linear optics, non-linear optics and surface alignment of liquid crystals (1990) (0)
- Chiral Control of Interfacial Tension (2011) (0)
- PNAS Plus Significance Statements (2017) (0)
- Visualizing, manipulating, and imprinting $\pi$-wall defects in self-assembled colloidal membranes (2012) (0)
- Unified theory of chiral smectic A monolayers and $\pi$-wall defects (2012) (0)
- Development of a Liquid Crystal Smart Reflector. (1996) (0)
- Liquid crystals for magneticians ferroelectric liquid crystals (1976) (0)
- Self-Assembled Membranes and Chirality Driven Transitions from 2D Surfaces into 1D Ribbons (2010) (0)
- Army Research Office Workshop on Smart Materials Held at Waltham, Massachusetts on 15-17 August 1994. (1994) (0)
- The First Airplane Diesel Engine - Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 (2012) (0)
- Chiral smectic A membranes: Unified theory of free edge structure and twist walls (2014) (0)
- Wheeled bodenbehandlungsgeraet with a clutch between engine and wheels (1980) (0)
- Isotropic-cholesteric transition in liquid-crystalline gels. (2002) (0)
- Curvature, chirality, and polar symmetry in liquid crystals (2006) (0)
- A Dye-Dispersed Liquid Crystal Smart Reflector (1994) (0)
- The liquid crystal smart reflector (1994) (0)
- Periodic Director Patterns in Twist and Splay Frederiks Transitions in Tobacco Mosaic Virus Liouid Crystals (1984) (0)
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