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Associate Professor of GIR, Takahiro Ichikawa, won “The JLCS Young Researcher’s Award” and “The JLCS Best Paper Award – Category C”

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2019.10.18

Takahiro Ichikawa, Associate Professor of GIR, won “The JLCS Young Researcher’s Award” and “The JLCS Best Paper Award – Category C” from Japanese Liquid Crystal Society (JLCS) on September 5, 2019.

■Award
The JLCS Young Researcher’s Award

■Outline of the award
Awarded Theme: Study on the establishment of molecular design method of bicontinuous cubic liquid crystal and its functionalization.

Dr. Ichikawa is promoting the research of bicontinuous cubic liquid crystal, which is very rare among liquid crystal, and leading in the world in establishing the molecular design method of bicontinuous cubic liquid crystal. The award was given to Dr. Ichikawa for his contribution in the field of liquid crystal and for further development of design method of cubic crystal.

■Award
The JLCS Best Paper Award – category C

■Outline of the award

Awarded Paper: “Transport of ions and electrons in nanostructured liquid crystals” Nature Reviews Materials, 2, 17001 (2017)

Awarded Paper comprises pioneering research results on liquid crystal. Its substantial contribution to Liquid Crystal Science and Liquid Crystal Industry were highly recognized as worth the award.

The Japanese Liquid Crystal Society

Ichikawa Lab.