Rolfe G. Petschek

Case Western Reserve University — United States

Materials Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Liquid Crystal Research Advancements(88), Molecular spectroscopy and chirality(39), Nonlinear Optical Materials Research(29), Material Dynamics and Properties(24), Theoretical and Computational Physics(16)

Publications170 total

Analogy between periodic patterns in thin smectic liquid crystal films and the intermediate state of superconductors
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2020· 23 citedOpen Access
Effect of different analyte diffusion/adsorption protocols on SERS signals
Molecular Physics·2018· 1 cited
Observations of a streak texture in the hybrid-aligned smectic-C phase
Soft Matter·2017· 7 citedOpen Access
Maximizing the hyperpolarizability of 1D potentials with multiple electrons
Journal of the Optical Society of America B·2016· 2 citedOpen Access
Spontaneous liquid crystal and ferromagnetic ordering of colloidal magnetic nanoplates
Nature Communications·2016· 118 citedOpen Access
Chiral periodic mesoporous organosilica in a smectic-<i>A</i>liquid crystal: source of the electrooptic response
Liquid Crystals·2016· 5 cited
Spontaneous Ferromagnetic Ordering of Nanoplatelets in Isotropic Solvent
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2015
Liquid crystal quenched orientational disorder at an AFM-scribed alignment surface
Soft Matter·2015· 1 cited
Dielectric properties of ternary composites of triblock polymer surfactant, liquid crystal and organic solvent
Journal of Advanced Dielectrics·2014· 3 citedOpen Access
Orientation Waves as the Order Parameters for Crystals
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2014
Freeze-fracture TEM Observation of Magnetic Platelets in Colloidal Suspensions in Liquid Crystals
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2014
The Relationships Between Chebyshev, Legendre and Jacobi Polynomials: The Generic Superiority of Chebyshev Polynomials and Three Important Exceptions
Journal of Scientific Computing·2013· 47 cited
Optimizing the second hyperpolarizability with minimally parametrized potentials
Journal of the Optical Society of America B·2013· 17 citedOpen Access
Identifying molecular features that maximize the second hyperpolarizability
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2013
Maximizing the hyperpolarizability poorly determines the potential
Journal of the Optical Society of America B·2012· 26 cited
Carbon nanotube-induced chirality and macroscopic helical twist in achiral liquid crystals
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2012· 1 cited
Macroscopic torsional strain and induced molecular conformational deracemization
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2012
Applying a chiral mechanical “field” to an achiral liquid crystal
Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics·2012Open Access
Macroscopic Torsional Strain and Induced Molecular Conformational Deracemization
Physical Review Letters·2011· 21 citedOpen Access
Magnetic shaping of static fluid interfaces: application to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts·2011
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Frequent Co-authors

Charles Rosenblatt(17), Kenneth D. Singer(9), Robert J. Twieg(6), Victor Ostroverkhov(5), John C. Wheeler(4), Greg Wiggers(3), L. Sukhomlinova(3), Ling‐Chu Chien(3), Zili Li(3), Mohammad Reza Dodge(3), Keith A. Crandall(3), Timothy J. Atherton(3), Peter Palffy‐Muhoray(2), Horia Metiu(2), George A. Hinshaw(2), Lionel Sanguinet(2), Guilin Mao(2), P. Pfeuty(2), Steven F. Hubbard(2), Oksana Ostroverkhova(2)