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Polymers & Liquid Crystals (PLC) is a pilot program produced by a cooperative effort between the Department of Physics and the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM) at Kent State University. A part of the ALCOM educational outreach program,this tutorial provides a basic introduction at the college freshman level to the fields of polymers, liquid crystals (LC), polymer LC, and LC displays. It is intended to demonstrate the advantages and capabilities of the Hypertext medium as an educational tool. The Polymers & Liquid Crystals (PLC) project is the evolution of The Electronic Polymer Liquid Crystal Tutorial. The Electronic Tutorial was initially created during the summers of 1994 and 1995 by undergraduate students at CWRU with the guidance of Professors Koenig and Gordon and of Dr. Cramer. This tutorial featured a "virtual textbook" and related simulations, intended for study of basic polymer and liquid crystal science. As World Wide Web (WWW) technology evolved, the tutorial's scope and multimedia content experienced exponential growth, beyond its original expectations. Eventually the Electronic Tutorial became the PLC project, a multimedia study and teaching tool available on the WWW and CDROM. Today, PLC covers a wide variety of polymer and liquid crystal science and device topics including some aspects of current research in these fields. |
Polymers and Liquid Crystals Team (Summer 2004) |
| Tom Boatwright - simulations, graphics, text, and site interface |
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Polymers and Liquid Crystals Team (Summer 2002 and 2003) |
| Matthew Finnerty - simulations, movies, graphics, and text |
Polymers and Liquid Crystals Team (Summer 2001) |
| Andrey Utis - simulations, movies, graphics, and text |
Polymers and Liquid Crystals Team (Summer 2000) |
| Steven Israel - simulations, movies, graphics, and text |
| Polymers and Liquid Crystals Team (Summer 99) |
| Ron Lazebnik -simulations, movies, graphics, and text |
| Kimberly Charlton - movies, graphics, and text |
| Mike Curtiss - simulations, graphics, and text |
| PLC Version 2.0 Team (Summer 97 & 98) |
| Roee Lazebnik - CDROM design, core software, interface, simulations, movies, graphics, and text |
| Ron Lazebnik - Virtual Laboratory simulations and CDROM software engine |
| Robert Ondris - graphics and text |
| William Weng - movies, graphics, and text |
| Genevieve Mathieson - movies, graphics, and text |
| Carl Rustic - simulations |
| PLC Version 1.0 Team (Summer 96) |
| John Graff - CDROM software engine, movies, graphics, and text |
| Roee Lazebnik - CDROM design, movies, graphics, and text |
| Matthew Banning - movies, graphics, and text |
| David Tobias - movies, graphics, and text |
| The Electronic Polymer Liquid Crystal Tutorial team (Summer 95) |
| John Graff - graphics, and text |
| Roee Lazebnik - programming, graphics, and text |
| Matthew Banning - programming, graphics, and text |
| Benjamin Ruedlinger - programming, graphics, and text |
| Cheryl Wozniak - programming, graphics, and text |
| The Electronic Polymer Liquid Crystal Tutorial team (Summer 94) |
| John W. Graff - programming, graphics, and text |
| Dave Coleman - programming, graphics, and text |
| Denver Dash - animations and text |
| Shannon M. Lynch - graphics, movies, and text |
| Special thanks to the following individuals for their help |
| Andrew Harey - technical and programming support |
| Lydia Horvath - Tech support on movies |
| The following CWRU faculty are among those who contributed to this project: |
| William L. Gordon - Department of Physics |
| Jack L. Koenig - Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering |
| Peter G. Cramer - formerly of the Department of Physics |
| Bibliography |
Billmeyer, Fred W. (1984) Textbook of Polymer Science. (John Wiley & Sons, New York) Chandrasekhar, S. (1992) Liquid Crystals. 2nd ed.(Cambridge University Press, London) Ferry, J. D. (1980) Viscoelastic Properties of Polymers. 3rd ed. (John Wiley & Sons, New York) Flory, Paul J. (1988) Statistical Mechanics of Chain Molecules. (Hanser Publishers, New York) Hecht, E. and A. Zajac. (1974) Optics. (Addison-Wesley Company, Reading, MA) Jenkins, Francis A. and Harvey E. White. (1976) Fundamentals of Optics. (McGraw Hill Inc., New York) Kim, Y., J. Francl, B. Taheri, and J. L. West. (1998) Applied Physics Letters. 72, 2253. Koenig, Jack L. (1980) Chemical Microstructure of Polymer Chains. (John Wiley & Sons, New York) Morrison, Robert T. and Robert N. Boyd. (1987) Organic Chemistry. (Allyn & Bacon, Boston) Munk, P. (1989) Introduction to Macromolecular Science. (Wiley-Interscience, New York) Rajaram, C. V., S. D. Hudson, and L. C. Chien. (1996) Chemical Materials. 8, 2451. Seymour, Raymond B. and Charles E. Carraher. (1990) Giant Molecules. (John Wiley & Sons, New York) Sperling, L. H. (1986) Physical Polymer Science. (John Wiley & Sons, New York) |
| Sources of Special Photos and Movies |
Geon Corporation Merck Companies Professor Steven Hudson, Macromolecular Science Department, CWRU Dr. Mary Neubert, LCI-KSU Professor Charles Rosenblatt, Physics Department, CWRU R. Bhargava, Macromolecular Science Department, CWRU S. R. Challa, Macromolecular Science Department, CWRU |
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