Noel A. Clark
Noel Anthony Clark (born 17 December 1940 in Cleveland, Ohio)[1] is an American physicist, university professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, and pioneer in the development of electro-optical applications of liquid crystals.
Clark graduated from
Clark has worked in many areas in
ferroelectric liquid crystals. His current interests are in liquid crystals of nucleic acids and in the exotic soft phases formed by banana-shaped molecules, especially their interplay of polarity and chirality, and the appearance of macroscopic chiral phases in fluids of achiral molecules.[4]
Professor Clark's group has pioneered a major new liquid crystal electro-optic technology, employing ferroelectric liquid crystals to make high-speed bistable light valves. These devices, which can be configured into linear and matrix arrays, are of particular use in optical computing and are one of the principal technologies to be developed in the Center for Optoelectronic Computing Systems at the University of Colorado. Recently the group has begun a new project on fabrication of structures on a nanometer length scale. This work, which grew out of their research on biomembrane liquid crystals, is directed toward using two-dimensional protein crystals as fabrication masks and templates.[5]
In 2006 he received, jointly with
Selected publications
- Chen, Dong; Porada, Jan H.; Hooper, Justin B.; Klittnick, Arthur; Shen, Yongqiang; Tuchband, Michael R.; Korblova, Eva; Bedrov, Dmitry; Walba, David M.; Glaser, Matthew A.; Maclennan, Joseph E.; Clark, Noel A. (4 September 2013). "Chiral heliconical ground state of nanoscale pitch in a nematic liquid crystal of achiral molecular dimers". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (40): 15931–15936. PMID 24006362.
- Hough, L. E.; Jung, H. T.; Krüerke, D.; Heberling, M. S.; Nakata, M.; Jones, C. D.; Chen, D.; Link, D. R.; Zasadzinski, J.; Heppke, G.; Rabe, J. P.; Stocker, W.; Körblova, E.; Walba, D. M.; Glaser, M. A.; Clark, N. A. (23 July 2009). "Helical Nanofilament Phases". Science. 325 (5939). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 456–460. S2CID 26379217.
- Hough, L. E.; Spannuth, M.; Nakata, M.; Coleman, D. A.; Jones, C. D.; Dantlgraber, G.; Tschierske, C.; Watanabe, J.; Körblova, E.; Walba, D. M.; Maclennan, J. E.; Glaser, M. A.; Clark, N. A. (23 July 2009). "Chiral Isotropic Liquids from Achiral Molecules". Science. 325 (5939). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 452–456. S2CID 29480672.
- Fang, G.J.; Maclennan, J.E.; Yi, Y.; Glaser, M.A.; Farrow, M.; Korblova, E.; Walba, D.M.; Furtak, T.E.; Clark, N.A. (26 February 2013). "Athermal photofluidization of glasses". Nature Communications. 4 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 1521. PMID 23443549.
- Chen, Dong; Maclennan, Joseph E.; Shao, Renfan; Yoon, Dong Ki; Wang, Haitao; Korblova, Eva; Walba, David M.; Glaser, Matthew A.; Clark, Noel A. (27 July 2011). "Chirality-Preserving Growth of Helical Filaments in the B4 Phase of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133 (32). American Chemical Society (ACS): 12656–12663. PMID 21692442.
References
- ^ biographical information from American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae — Noel A. Clark" (PDF). experts.colorado.edu.
- ^ "N. A. Clark". American Institute of Physics.
- ^ a b Buckley Prize 2006
- ^ "Noel Clark". Physics, University of Colorado Boulder. 2016-04-05.
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