Projects
TUBITAK PROJECTS
- TUBITAK-1001 Program (15/10/2022-15/10/2025)
Project no: 122Z515
Project Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erol AKPINAR
Title: Determination of dependence of lyotropic uniaxial and biaxial nematic liquid crystal phase formations on modifications in the intermicellar region by optical and non-optical methods
- TUBITAK-1001 Program (01/10/2020-01/10/2023-Completed)
Project no: 120Z209
Project Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erol AKPINAR
Title: Searching the phase biaxiality in lyotropic nematic phases and investigating the interaction of nematic phase director field with active colloids via polarising optical microscopy, laser conoscopy, and small-angle x-ray scattering
- TUBITAK-1002 Program (12/04/2021-12/04/2022-Completed)
Project no: 121Z084
Project Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erol AKPINAR
Title: Investigation of the role of the surfactant head group size on micelle surfaces in binary surfactant systems for obtaining different types of lyotropic nematic phase by polarized optical microscopy, laser conoscopy, electrical conductivity, surface tension, and UV-VIS spectroscopy techniques.
- TUBITAK-1002 Program (01/12/2020-01/12/2021-Completed)
Project no: 120Z721
Project Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erol AKPINAR
Title: Investigation of the role of surfactant/dye interactions in obtaining different types of lyotropic nematic phases by polarized optical microscopy, laser conoscopy, and electrical conductivity techniques.
- TUBITAK-1001 Program (01/06/2018-01/03/2021-Completed)
Project no: 217Z079
Project Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erol AKPINAR
Title: Investigation of physical properties of biaxial-chromonic nematic phases in lyotropic liquid crystals via polarising light microscopy, laser conoscopy, small-angle x-ray scattering, and nuclear magnetic resonance
- TUBITAK-1002 Program (01/07/2018-01/07/2019-Completed)
Project no: 117Z783
Project Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erol AKPINAR
Title: Investigation of the effect of surfactant alkyl chain length on the formation of lyotropic biaxial cholesteric phases and biaxial phase domain
- TUBITAK-2219 Program (01/06/2017-01/10/2017-Completed)
Project no: 1059B191600277/Kent State University/Liquid Crystal Institute/OH/USA
Project Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erol AKPINAR
Title: Observation of micellar shapes in lyotropic nematic phases via cryo-transmission electron microscopy
- TUBITAK-1001 Program (15/07/2014-15/01/2017-Completed)
Project no: 113Z469
Project Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Erol AKPINAR
Title: Determination of optical properties of new lyotropic liquid crystal mixtures presenting biaxial nematic phases and the factors that affect the formation of these phases
- TUBITAK-1002 Program (15/03/2014-15/03/2015-Completed)
Project no: 114Z031
Project Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Erol AKPINAR
Title: Localization effect of guest molecules with different polarity at the micelle surfaces on the formation of lyotropic biaxial nematic phases and biaxial phase domain
- TUBITAK-2219 Program (15/07/2011-15/07/2012-Completed)
Project no: 1059B191000393/University of Sao Paulo/Institute of Physics/SP/Brasil
Project Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Erol AKPINAR
Title: Optical and structural investigations of new lyotropic nematic mixtures presenting the biaxial phase properties and determination of their potential applications
BAP
BAP PROJECTS
1. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2022.03.03.1555, “Effects of surfactant/dye and surfactant/drug interactions on the formation of different lyotropic nematic phases”, 2022-2023
2. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2021.03.03.1505, “A study on the interaction of anionic azo dye ‘Sunset Yellow’ with cationic surfactants in micellar solutions”, 2021-2022
3. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2020.03.03.1459, “Investigation of uniaxial and biaxial nematic phase properties of lyotropic liquid crystals with a dye added”, 2020-2021
4. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2018.03.03.1365, “Searching the effect of strong and weak electrolytes on symmetric tensor invariants of lyotropic nematic phases”, 2018-2019
5. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2018.03.03.1343, “Effect of micelle size on biaxial phase domain and uniaxial-to-biaxial phase transitions in lyotropic cholesteric liquid crystals”, 2018-2020
6. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2018.03.03.1285, “Director distortion by colloids in lyotropic discotic and calamitic nematic phases”, 2018-2018
7. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2017.03.03.1260, “Effect of localization of chiral guest molecules in the micelle on the existence of lyotropic uniaxial and biaxial cholesteric phases and on cholesteric-cholesteric phase transitions”, 2017-2020
8. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2017.03.03.1154, “Comparison of lyotropic cholesteric phase properties of magnetically aligned hydrogenated surfactants with their fluorinated counterparts”, 2017-2018
9. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2016.03.03.1013, “Micellization thermodynamic parameters of tetradecylalkylammonium bromide surfactant molecules with symmetric and asymmetric head groups via electrical conductivity measurements”, 2016-2017
10. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2016.03.03.1012, “Investigation of the effect of Hofmeister anions on minimum surface area per surfactant head group in isotropic micellar solutions and on the formation of lyotropic nematic phases”, 2016-2017
11. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2016.03.03.988, “A role of guest molecules having aliphatic and aromatic parts on obtaining different lyotropic nematic phases”, 2016-2016
12. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2016.03.03.986, “Effect of alkali sulfate salts on micellization thermodynamic parameters of kosmotrope and chaotrope ionic surfactant molecules”, 2016-2016
13. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2015.03.03.949, “Comparison of micellization thermodynamic parameters and lyotropic nematic phase properties of hydrogenated surfactants with their fluorinated counterparts exhibiting similar hydrophobicity”, 2015-2016
14. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2015.03.03.928, “Investigation of nematic-to-nematic phase transitions in lyotropic nematic mixtures including transition metals”, 2015-2016
15. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2015.03.03.927, “Determination of micellization thermodynamic parameters and lyotropic liquid crystalline properties of didodecyldimethylammonium bromide”, 2015-2016
16. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2015.03.03.926, “Determination of micellization thermodynamic parameters of ionic surfactant molecules from electrical conductivity measurements”, 2015-2016
17. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2015.03.03.894, “Effect of symmetric and asymmetric head group growth of dodecylalkyl chloride surfactant molecule on lyotropic uniaxial-to-biaxial nematic phase transitions”, 2015-2017
18. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2014.03.03.767, “Investigation of cholesteric-to-cholesteric phase transitions in lyotropic mixtures of novel induced and intrinsic biaxial cholesteric phases”, 2014-2017
19. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2014.03.03.766, “Investigation of the effect of temperature dependence of some micellization parameters on lyotropic biaxial nematic phases”, 2014-2017
20. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2013.03.03.619, “Investigation of the effect of kosmotrope and chaotrope properties of head groups of surface active molecules and counterions on the formation of lyotropic liquid crystal mixtures presenting biaxial nematic phase”, 2013-2015
21. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2012.03.03.538, “Investigation of the effect of alkali metal sulfate salts on the birefringences of lyotropic uniaxial and biaxial nematic phases”, 2012-2013
22. Project Supervisor, Project no: 2012.03.03.529, “A study on finding new lyotropic mixtures presenting biaxial nematic phases and investigation of the phase transitions from uniaxial to biaxial phases”, 2012-2014
23. Researcher, AIBU BAP, “Investigation of the structures of lyotropic racemic and chiral nematic liquid crystal phases by small-angle x-ray scattering”, 2009-2010
24. Researcher, AIBU BAP,”Micellization thermodynamics and intermicellar interaction parameters of racemic amphiphilic mixtures and their enantiomers”, 2005-2008
25. Researcher, AIBU BAP,”A study on chiral nematic phases of fluorocarbonated molecules”, 2002-2004