Dr. Sharmistha Ghosh
Hello! I am an experimental physicist and my research aims to develop understanding of self-assembly and self-organizing materials, especially liquid crystals with reduced symmetry........................
Expertise
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Liquid crystal physics
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Soft matter
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Ferroelectricity
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Natural and physical sciences
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Materials science
Research interests
Thermal stabilization of novel blue phase of bent-core liquid crystals.
Flexoelectric studies of bent-core nematic liquid crystals using different methods......
January 16, 2019
Congratulations to Raj Kumar Khan for successfully defending his thesis!
March 20, 2018
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The paper entitled "Impact of terminal polar substitution on elastic, electro-optic and dielectric properties of four-ring bent-core nematic liquid crystal" is accepted in RSC Advances.
March 14, 2018
Paper entitled "Observation of polar order and thermochromic behaviour in a chiral bent-core system exhibiting exotic mesophases by superstructural frustration" accepted in ChemComm
November 04, 2017
Dr. Sharmistha Ghosh visited Prof. Igor Musevic's lab at Inštitut Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia .
June 11, 2017
Paper entitled "Novel achiral four-ring bent-core molecules containing trifluoromethyl phenyl core exhibiting near-room temperature nematic liquid-crystalline phase and highest Kerr constant in blue phase III" published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C