NMR of Liquid Crystal Dendrimers

Carlos R. Cruz received his PhD in physics from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1994. He is a senior lecturer at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, and coordinator of the Complex Fluids NMR and Surfaces Group, Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials (CeFEMA), University of Lisbon. His research work focuses on liquid crystal experimental physics, with an emphasis on NMR and X-ray diffraction studies. In recent years, he has been the Portuguese team leader of two European projects on liquid crystal dendrimers.

João L. Figueirinhas received his PhD in physics from Kent State University, Ohio, USA, in 1987. He is currently a senior lecturer at IST and a researcher at CeFEMA. His main research interests focus on NMR spectroscopy and electro-optics of anisotropic fluids, including liquid crystals, polymer liquid crystals, and their composites. He has coauthored more than 70 research articles on these subjects.

Pedro J. Sebastião received his PhD in physics from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1993. He is an associate professor of physics at IST and a researcher at CeFEMA. His current research interests include the NMR study of molecular dynamics in liquid crystals, ionic liquids, and other soft-matter systems; the development of new fast-field-cycling NMR technology; and model-fitting software.