Dr Isabel M Saez Highlights

Invited lectures and seminars

  • Chiral Nematic Octasilsesquioxanes (Invited Lecture), Materials Discussions MD4: Molecular Topology in Liquid Crystals, Grasmere (UK), September 2001.
  • Functional liquid crystals: Nanostructured soft materials, (Invited Lecture), Rank Prize Funds Meeting “Nanostructured Arrays”, Grassmere 2006.
  • Functional Liquid Crystals, (Invited lecture), ICPMS, Strasbourg, February 2007.
  • Liquid crystalline dendrimers with tetrahedral topology based on pentaerythritol, 7th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Jaca (Spain), April 2003.
  • Janus-type liquid crystalline dendritic supermolecules, Materials Discussions MD6: Controlled polymer architectures – from micro to meso scale, Durham (UK), September 2003.
  • Functional dendritic liquid crystals, International Conference Materials Chemsitry MC7, RSC, Edinburgh 2005.

Member Organising Committee International Materials Conference MC8 (RSC) 2007

Network participation

European Science Foundation Network- Self-Organised Nanostructures II: LCNANOP http://lcnanop.nano-sons.eu

Research highlight in Chemistry & Engineering News 2003, 81, No 28, p 10. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/topstory/8128/8128notw1.html

Cover story – Chemistry highlights 2003, Chemistry & Engineering News, 2003, 81, No 51, p 39-50. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/8151/8151sciencereview.html

Royal Society Science Summer Exhibition 2005, “The marvel of supermolecules” http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/exhibit.asp?id=3525&tip=1

Grants:

  • Coinvestigator, EPSRC Platform Grant “Liquid Crystals at Various Wavelengths of light” 2005-2010.