Liquid Crystals I

Presentations

• Spatially Periodic Alignment of Liquid Crystals by Patterned Photopolymerization

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 5:00 AM – March 21, 2005, 5:12 AM

  Authors

  • Jian Zhou

  • David Collard

  • Jung Park

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Advanced Research in Optical Microscopy (CAROM)
    • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332
    • School of Polymer, Fiber and Textile Engineering; School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    • School of Polymer, Textiles and Fiber engineering and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry,Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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• Quantitative study of the colloidal interaction forces and defect line tension in liquid crystals using optical trapping of polymer particles and defects

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 5:12 AM – March 21, 2005, 5:24 AM

  Authors

  • Ivan Smalyukh

  • Oleg Lavrentovich

    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and the Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242

  • Andrey Kuzmin

  • Aleksandr Kachynski

  • Paras Prasad

    • The Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260-3000

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• Effect of Magnetic Nanoparticles, Their Size and Functionalization on Liquid Crystal Order

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 5:24 AM – March 21, 2005, 5:36 AM

  Authors

  • Luz J. Martinez-Miranda

  • Kevin McCarthy, Jr

    • University of Maryland

  • Lynn K. Kurihara

    • Naval Research Laboratory

  • Jason J. Harry

    • Xavier University and MARC Program

  • Robert L. Bruce

    • University of Maryland

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• Pattern formation by liquid crystal of colloidal gold nanorods

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 5:36 AM – March 21, 2005, 5:48 AM

  Authors

  • Kyoungweon Park

    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering
    • School of Polymer, Textiles and Fiber engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Advanced Research in Optical Microscopy (CAROM)
    • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332
    • School of Polymer, Fiber and Textile Engineering; School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    • School of Polymer, Textiles and Fiber engineering and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry,Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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• Generalized Order Parameters for Systems of Orientationally Ordered Anisometric Particles

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 5:48 AM – March 21, 2005, 6:00 AM

  Authors

  • Michael Shelley

    • Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, NY, USA
    • Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, USA

  • Sharon C. Glotzer

    • Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
    • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  • Peter Palffy-Muhoray

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

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• Liquid crystals in random porous media: Disorder is stronger in low--density aerosils

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 6:00 AM – March 21, 2005, 6:12 AM

  Authors

  • Dima Feldman

    • Brown University

  • Robert Pelcovits

    • Brown University

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• The Effect of Aerosil Network on Liquid Crystal (4O.8) Phase Transition

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 6:12 AM – March 21, 2005, 6:24 AM

  Authors

  • Mehmet Ramazanoglu

    • U. Toronto

  • Simon Larochelle

    • U. Toronto

  • Robert J. Birgeneau

    • U. Toronto and U.C. Berkeley

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• Rf/ac-calorimetry on 8CB+aerosil dispersions

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 6:24 AM – March 21, 2005, 6:36 AM

  Authors

  • Saimir Barjami

    • WPI

  • Germano Iannacchione

    • WPI

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• Structure and Phase Behavior of Smectic Liquid Crystals in Anisotropic Disorder

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 6:36 AM – March 21, 2005, 6:48 AM

  Authors

  • Dennis Liang

  • Robert Leheny

    • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

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• Ordered Patterns of Liquid Crystal Toroidal Defects by Microchannel Confinement

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 6:48 AM – March 21, 2005, 7:00 AM

  Authors

  • Youli Li

  • Myung Chul Choi

  • Thomas Pfohl

  • Jacob N. Israelachvili

    • Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara
    • Dept. of Chem. Eng, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Cyrus R. Safinya

    • (Materials, MCDB, \& Physics Departments, UCSB)
    • Materials, Physics, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Departments, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UCSB
    • University of California Santa Barbara

  • Zhiyu Wen

    • Chongqing University, China

  • Mahn Won Kim

    • Dept.of Physics,KAIST
    • KAIST
    • Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    • Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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• Coarsening dynamics of a liquid crystal biosensor: Effects of adsorbed nanoparticles, flow and thermal fluctuations

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 7:00 AM – March 21, 2005, 7:12 AM

  Authors

  • Orlando Guzman

  • Manan Chopra

  • Nicholas Abbott

    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,University of Wisconsin Madison

  • Juan de Pablo

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • University of Wisconsin, Madison

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• A Light Driven Artificial Goldfish

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 7:12 AM – March 21, 2005, 7:24 AM

  Authors

  • J. Neal

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

  • H. Finkelmann

    • Institute fuer Macromoleculare Chemie, Albert-Ludwigs Universitat, Freiburg, Germany

  • Peter Palffy-Muhoray

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

  • Michael Shelley

    • Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, NY, USA
    • Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, USA

  • T. Toth-Katona

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

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• Real-time microbe detection based on director distortions and light transmittance around growing immune complexes in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 7:24 AM – March 21, 2005, 7:36 AM

  Authors

  • Oleg Lavrentovich

    • Kent State University

  • Sergei Shiyanovskii

  • Tod Schneider

  • Ivan Smalyukh

  • Tomohiro Ishikawa

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242

  • Gary Niehaus

  • Kathy Doane

    • Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, Ohio 44272

  • Christopher Woolverton

    • Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242

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• Dielectric relaxation in confined liquid crystal: molecular and collective modes

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 7:36 AM – March 21, 2005, 7:48 AM

  Authors

  • Manuel Rivera

  • Fouad Aliev

    • University of Puerto Rico

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• Dynamics of director relaxation in nanoconfined liquid crystal: dynamic light scattering investigation

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 7:48 AM – March 21, 2005, 8:00 AM

  Authors

  • Sarmistha Basu

  • Fouad Aliev

    • University of Puerto Rico

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