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Professor
Cliff Jones
FREng FInstP FRSC FRSA CPhys
Born
John Clifford Jones
Alma materUniversity of Hull (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Leeds
Thesis Optical and Dielectric Studies of Smectic C Liquid Crystals  (1990)
Websitehttps://eps.leeds.ac.uk/physics/staff/4114/professor-cliff-jones-

Cliff Jones FREng FInstP FRSC FRSA CPhys is a British physicist, chemist and entrepreneur.[1] He is a Professor at the University of Leeds, England and specialises in liquid crystals.[2][3] Jones holds over 60 patents in practical applications of liquid crystal technology, including liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and switchable liquid crystal contact lenses.[4]

Early career and education

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Jones' early career started as a a research scientist in 1885 with the General Electric Company (GEC).[5] Jones was stationed at the Hirst Research Centre and seconded to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE). Both the GEC and the RSRE were interested in wall mounted display technology.[5] While committed to these companies, Jones started working towards a PhD (Chemistry) from the University of Hull. The PhD was a study of Smectic C and ferroelectric liquid crystals, under George William Gray CBE FRS.[6]

In 1991, Jones was awarded his PhD and went on to work full-time with the RSRE.[6] During the same year, the RSRE joined other defence companies to form the Defence Research Agency (DRA).[7]

Research and career

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At the DRA, Jones was promoted to Principal Scientific Officer in 1994.[6] He managed a nearly 4-year international project on evaluating the feasibility of using liquid crystals in flat panel displays between Sharp, Japan, and UK-based defence research establishments.[6] Jones became a part of another merger when the DRA joined with other defence research establishments to form the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) in 1995.[8] Jones stayed with the DERA as Technical Leader, Chair of their Liquid Crystal Consortium, and DERA Fellow until 2000.[5]

In 2000, Jones went on to found DisplayData (at the time known as ZBD Displays).[5] DisplayData is a company that specialises in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) for commercial use.[9][10] At DisplayData, Jones worked for over a decade as the company's Chief Technology Officer (CTO).[11][12] He developed LCDs that only require power when changing image, called bistable liquid crystal displays.[13] This invention earned Jones the Science and Technology Award at the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition in 2005.[14] Jones was awarded the Cyril Hilsum Medal in 2007 by the British Liquid Crystal Society (BLCS) for all of his research into liquid crystals leading up to that point.[15]

After leaving DisplayData, Jones became a Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester in 2013. In 2015, Jones moved into the Soft Matter Group at the University of Leeds under the same role as Professor of Physics.[16][11] On arrival, Jones, along with Helen Gleeson and Mamatha Nagaraj, set up the Liquid Crystal Group within the Soft Matter Group, where Jones continues his research.[17] In the same year, Jones was awarded the Gray Medal (named after George William Gray CBE FRS), the British Liquid Crystal Society's (BLCS) highest award for research in liquid crystals.[18] At the award ceremony, it was noted that Jones is the first recipient of all four BLCS awards.[19][20][21]

Selected publications

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Jones' publications[3] include:

  • Solodkov NV, Saxena A, Jones JC, Electrically Driven Rotation and Nonreciprocal Motion of Microparticles in Nematic Liquid Crystals, Small, 16(40), 2020.[22]
  • Wahle M, Snow B, Sargent J, Jones JC, Embossing Reactive Mesogens: A Facile Approach to Polarisation-Independent Liquid Crystal Devices, Advanced Optical Materials, 7(2), 2019.[23]
  • Solodkov N, Shim JU, Jones JC, Self-Assembly of Fractal Liquid Crystal Colloids, Nature Communications, 2019.[24]
  • Spencer TJ, Care CM, Amos RM, Jones JC, Zenithal bistable device: Comparison of modeling and experiment. Physical Review E, 82(2), 2010.[25]
  • Jones JC, 40.1:Invited Paper: The Zenithal Bistable Device: From Concept to Consumer, SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers Wiley 38(1), pp. 1347-1350, 2008.[9]

Awards and honours

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References

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  1. ^ "Academic and Research staff". Dierking Group Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester. 18 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  2. ^ Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Physical. "Professor Cliff Jones | School of Physics and Astronomy | University of Leeds". eps.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Cliff Jones". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  4. ^ "John Clifford Jones Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d Media, Insider. "Dr Jones and the Holy Grail". Insider Media Ltd. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  6. ^ a b c d "Cliff Jones". ResearchGate. 18 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  7. ^ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  8. ^ Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) and its immediate predecessors: Reports and Files 1991-2001. Ministry of Defence, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Ministry of Defence, Defence Research Agency. 1985–1996.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ a b Jones, J. Cliff (2008). "The Zenithal Bistable Display: From concept to consumer". Journal of the Society for Information Display. 16 (1): 143. doi:10.1889/1.2835021. ISSN 1071-0922.
  10. ^ "About Us | Electronic Shelf Edge Specialists | Displaydata". www.displaydata.com. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  11. ^ a b "ORCID - Cliff Jones". orcid.org. 18 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  12. ^ "DISPLAYDATA LIMITED overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  13. ^ Jones, Cliff (2016), Chen, Janglin; Cranton, Wayne; Fihn, Mark (eds.), "Bistable Liquid Crystal Displays", Handbook of Visual Display Technology, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 2157–2198, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14346-0_92, ISBN 978-3-319-14345-3, retrieved 20 July 2022
  14. ^ a b "Scientist wins award for company's success". Worcester News. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  15. ^ a b "Hilsum Medal | BLCS". Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  16. ^ "Professor Cliff Jones". University of Leeds - School of Physics and Astronomy. 19 July 2022. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)
  17. ^ "From Novel Soft Materials to Switchable Contact Lenses". SoftComp. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  18. ^ a b "Gray Medal | BLCS". Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  19. ^ "Top honours for liquid crystal research". forstaff.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  20. ^ a b "Young Scientist Award | BLCS". Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  21. ^ a b "SID, the Society for Information Display > Chapters > UKI > UKI Ben Sturgeon Award". www.sid.org. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  22. ^ Solodkov, Nikita V.; Saxena, Antariksh; Jones, J. Cliff (6 September 2020). "Electrically Driven Rotation and Nonreciprocal Motion of Microparticles in Nematic Liquid Crystals". Small. 16 (40): 2003352. doi:10.1002/smll.202003352. ISSN 1613-6810.
  23. ^ Wahle, Markus; Snow, Benjamin; Sargent, Joe; Jones, J. Cliff (3 December 2018). "Embossing Reactive Mesogens: A Facile Approach to Polarization-Independent Liquid Crystal Devices". Advanced Optical Materials. 7 (2): 1801261. doi:10.1002/adom.201801261. ISSN 2195-1071.
  24. ^ Solodkov, Nikita V.; Shim, Jung-uk; Jones, J. Cliff (14 January 2019). "Self-assembly of fractal liquid crystal colloids". Nature Communications. 10 (1). doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08210-w. ISSN 2041-1723.
  25. ^ Spencer, T. J.; Care, C. M.; Amos, R. M.; Jones, J. C. (25 August 2010). "Zenithal bistable device: Comparison of modeling and experiment". Physical Review E. 82 (2). doi:10.1103/physreve.82.021702. ISSN 1539-3755.
  26. ^ "Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize recipients". 12 July 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  27. ^ "Previous Business Awards winners". Institute of Physics. 18 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  28. ^ "60 second science: Liquid crystal labels". Martyn James Bull { Writer + Filmmaker + Creative Director }. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  29. ^ "Henry Moseley Medal and Prize recipients". Institute of Physics. 18 July 2022. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)
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