Welcome to the Liquid Crystal Laboratory ( LiCryL) Home Page. LICRYL originates from the Liquid Crystal Group which operates since 1980 at the University of Calabria in the field of soft matter. The main activities of the laboratory are the study and the development of innovative liquid crystalline materials (LC) and devices for photonics, opto-electronics and nanotechnologies. Its mission is to gather the different expertise on soft-matter science coming from different scientific areas of our University.
LiCryL is a large multidisciplinary group of research scientists, mainly physicists, which are involved in the Soft Matter Science. The LiCryL’s members are affiliated to two different institutions: the National Research Council (CNR) and the University of Calabria (UNICAL).
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LiCryL started the activities as an INFM Regional Laboratory (RL) with the financial support of the CEMIF.cal (Center of Excellence of Functional Nanostructured Materials of the Italian Ministry of Instruction, University and Research) of the University of Calabria and of the region Calabria.
CEMIF.cal (see) is the institutional interface of LiCryL with the University, with a larger weight of the chemistry component.
On the basis of an agreement, the University of Calabria hosts the RL in one of the buildings of the Physics Department: the general logistic for the starting of LiCryL was ensured by the transfer of the old research group into the new building of the university of Calabria devoted to this purpose, and to transfer to LiCryL all the instruments and the facilities of the group obtained through PON and POR project. In this respect we intended to built-up some general facilities in the field of the sample and demonstrators preparation (clean room) and in the field of the nano and microscopic analysis of the soft materials.
The synergic ensemble established between LiCryL and CEMIF.Cal give rise to an institutional organization unique in Europe, which involves almost 70 research scientists (permanent and not permanent members) which represent the needed critical mass for a successful multidisciplinary institution.
LiCryL is structured in several research areas strictly related with technological and service laboratories.
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