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Michael E. McConney
Researcher at Air Force Research Laboratory
Publications - 131
Citations - 4509
Michael E. McConney is an academic researcher from Air Force Research Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liquid crystal & Chemistry. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 111 publications receiving 3749 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael E. McConney include Wright-Patterson Air Force Base & Iowa State University.
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Voxelated liquid crystal elastomers
TL;DR: A shape-programmable liquid crystal elastomer comprises polymerized, nematic monomers as mentioned in this paper and is organized into a plurality of voxels with each voxel having a director orientation.
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Dynamic color in stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals
TL;DR: A review of the state of the art in the use of cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) as color changing optical materials can be found in this article, with a brief summary of thermal and electrically induced color changes.
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Acoustically actuated ultra-compact NEMS magnetoelectric antennas.
Tianxiang Nan,Hwaider Lin,Yuan Gao,Alexei Matyushov,Guoliang Yu,Huaihao Chen,Neville Sun,Shengjun Wei,Zhiguang Wang,Menghui Li,Xinjun Wang,Amine M. Belkessam,Rongdi Guo,Brian H. Chen,James Zhou,Zhenyun Qian,Yu Hui,Matteo Rinaldi,Michael E. McConney,Brandon M. Howe,Zhongqiang Hu,John G. Jones,Gail J. Brown,Nian X. Sun +23 more
TL;DR: Nan et al. as mentioned in this paper developed acoustically actuated antennas that couple the acoustic resonance of the antenna with the electromagnetic wave, reducing the antenna footprint by up to 100. And they demonstrated 1-2 orders of magnitude miniaturization over state-of-the-art compact antennas without performance degradation.
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Probing Soft Matter with the Atomic Force Microscopies: Imaging and Force Spectroscopy
TL;DR: The development of atomic force microscopy has evolved into a wide variety of microscopy and characterization techniques well beyond conventional imaging as mentioned in this paper and the focus of this review is on characterization methods based on the scanning probe and their application in characterizing physical properties of soft materials.
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Topography from topology: photoinduced surface features generated in liquid crystal polymer networks.
Michael E. McConney,Angel Martinez,Vincent P. Tondiglia,Kyung Min Lee,Derrick Langley,Ivan I. Smalyukh,Timothy J. White +6 more
TL;DR: Using a specially designed optical setup and photoalignment materials, azo-LCN films containing either singular or multiple defects with strengths ranging from |½| to as much as |10| are examined.