Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Prof. Juliana Eccher is a distinguished physicist specialising in liquid crystals, organic electronics, and optoelectronic devices. She earned her PhD in Physics from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil in 2014 under the supervision of Ivan Helmuth Bechtold, following her MSc (2010) and dual undergraduate degrees in Licenciatura (2006) and Bacharelado (2008) in Physics, also from UFSC. She holds a CNPq Research Productivity scholarship (Level C) and has been deeply involved in research and education in exact and earth sciences since. Prof. Eccher has published over 27 academic documents, which have together amassed approximately 575 citations, and her h-index stands at 12. Her work focuses on the synthesis, characterisation and application of discotic and columnar liquid crystals, organic semiconductors, doped nanocomposites including metallic nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes, and thin-film alignment techniques for advanced optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices. She has led and participated in multiple funded research projects domestically and internationally, including Projects in organic charge transfer, solar cell applications, and photophysics of luminescent liquid crystals. Her contributions also include supervising graduate and postgraduate students, coordinating extension and outreach activities, and regularly reviewing for international journals. Proficient in laboratory techniques for structural, optical, and electronic characterisation, she integrates research with teaching and community engagement to advance both scientific knowledge and application in sustainable technologies.
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Featured Publications
Stadtlober, C. H., Olegario, J. E. S., Mezalira, D. Z., Bock, H., Franca, L. G., Monkman, A. P., & Eccher, J. (2025). Homeotropic alignment and delayed fluorescence of thin films of a columnar liquid crystal doped with multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Liquid Crystals. Advance online publication.
Liguori, D., Kern, B. S., Eising, R., Mezalira, D. Z., Nome, R. C., Ely, F., Gallardo, H., Bock, H., Bechtold, I. H., & Eccher, J. (2025). Surface plasmon-dependent photoluminescence in a columnar liquid crystal doped with metallic nanoparticles. Liquid Crystals. Advance online publication.
Avila, L. B., Chulkin, P., Serrano, P. A., Dreyer, J. P., Berteau-Rainville, M., Orgiu, E., Franca, L. D. L., Zimmermann, L. M., Bock, H., Faria, G. C., … (2024). Perylene-based columnar liquid crystal: Revealing resistive switching for nonvolatile memory devices. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 413, 124757.
Alves, A. L., Bernardino, S. V., Stadtlober, C. H., Girotto, E., Farias, G., do Nascimento, R. M., Curcio, S. F., Cazati, T., Dotto, M. E. R., Eccher, J., … (2023). Charge carrier transport in perylene-based and pyrene-based columnar liquid crystals. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 19, 128.
Silva, F. N., Luciano, H. M., Stadtlober, C. H., Farias, G., Durola, F., Eccher, J., Bechtold, I. H., Bock, H., Gallardo, H., & Vieira, A. A. (2023). Dissymmetric triaryltriazines: Small mass columnar glasses. Chemistry – A European Journal, 29(46), e202301319.