Liquid Crystals II

Presentations

• Structure within bent-core liquid crystals films at the air/water interface

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 8:15 AM – March 21, 2005, 8:27 AM

  Authors

  • Lu Zou

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

  • Ji Wang

  • Elizabeth K. Mann

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

  • Antal J\'akli

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

  • Wolfgang Weissflog

    • Univ. Halle Wittenberg, Inst. Phys. Chem., D-06108 Halle Saale, Germany

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• Investigation of the physical properties of banana liquid crystal fibers

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 8:27 AM – March 21, 2005, 8:39 AM

  Authors

  • Christopher Bailey

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

  • Antal J\'akli

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

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• Adiabatic Scanning Calorimetric Investigation of the Smectic-A to Hexatic-B Phase Transition in the Liquid Crystal 65OBC.

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 8:39 AM – March 21, 2005, 8:51 AM

  Authors

  • Jan Thoen

  • Bert Van Roie

  • Katleen Denolf

  • Guido Pitsi

    • Lab. Akoestiek en Thermische Fysica, Dept. Natuurkunde en Sterrenkunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

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• Optical Rotation of Layered Liquid Crystalline Phases in the Absence of Helical Winding of Molecular Orientation

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 8:51 AM – March 21, 2005, 9:03 AM

  Authors

  • L.E. Hough

  • Noel Clark

    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

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• Subdiffusive Dynamics of Photo-Addressable Self-Assembled Monolayers

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 9:03 AM – March 21, 2005, 9:15 AM

  Authors

  • Guanjiu Fang

  • Noel Clark

  • Joseph Maclennan

    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

  • Matthew Farrow

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

  • David Walba

    • University of Colorado

  • Youngwoo Yi

  • Thomas Furtak

    • Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA

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• Optical Tweezer Studies of Liquid Crystals Using Multiple Optical Traps

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 9:15 AM – March 21, 2005, 9:27 AM

  Authors

  • Apichart Pattanaporkratana

    • Department of Physics and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, U.S.A

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• Measurement of strain birefringence in isotropic and liquid crystal elastomers and ferrogels

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 9:27 AM – March 21, 2005, 9:39 AM

  Authors

  • Christopher Bailey

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

  • Antonio M. Figueiredo Neto

    • Instituto de F\'isica, Universidade de S\~ao Paulo, S\~ao Paulo, SP, Brazil

  • Maria H. Godinho

    • Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia e CENIMAT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, Caparica, Portugal

  • Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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

  • T. Toth-Katona

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

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• Modeling the Dynamics of Shape Change in Liquid Crystal Elastomers

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 9:39 AM – March 21, 2005, 9:51 AM

  Authors

  • Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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

  • Roland Ennis

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

  • Luis Malacarne

    • Department of Physics, University of Maringa, Maringa, Brazil

  • Michael Shelley

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

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• Dynamics of the Growth of Twist Fingers in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 9:51 AM – March 21, 2005, 10:03 AM

  Authors

  • Clinton Braganza

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

  • Deng-Ke yang

    • Kent State University

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• Dynamics of the acousto-optic effect in a nematic liquid crystal

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 10:03 AM – March 21, 2005, 10:15 AM

  Authors

  • Jonathan V. Selinger

    • Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

  • Viktoria A. Greanya

  • Anthony P. Malanoski

  • Brian T. Weslowski

  • Mark S. Spector

    • Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

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• Molecular simulation of nematic liquid crystals under acoustic fields

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 10:15 AM – March 21, 2005, 10:27 AM

  Authors

  • Anthony P. Malanoski

  • Jonathan V. Selinger

    • Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

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• Dynamics of pulse laser induced holographic grating in azo-dye doped nematic liquid crystal host

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 10:27 AM – March 21, 2005, 10:39 AM

  Authors

  • Chie-Tong Kuo

  • Shuan-Yu Huang

    • Department of Physics and Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, 804 Taiwan, Republic of China

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• The escape-configuration lattice near the nematic-isotropic transition: tilt analogue of blue phases

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 10:39 AM – March 21, 2005, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • Yashodhan Hatwalne

    • Raman Research Institute, C. V. Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore 560080, India.

  • Buddhapriya Chakrabarti

    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.

  • N.V. Madhusudhana

    • Raman Research Institute, C. V. Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore 560080, India.

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• Bogomol'nyi, Prasad, Sommerfield Configurations in Smectics

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 10:51 AM – March 21, 2005, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Christian Santangelo

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Randall Kamien

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania

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• Density of States in Photonic Band Gap Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 11:03 AM – March 21, 2005, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Wenyi Cao

  • Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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

  • Bahman Taheri

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

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• Freeze Fracture and AFM Studies of the Liquid Crystal Dark Conglomerate and B4 Phases

  ORAL

  Authors

  • L.E. Hough

  • M. Spannuth

    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

  • H.J. Jung

  • J. Zasadzinski

    • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

  • D. Kruerke

  • G. Heppke

    • Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Technical University of Berlin

  • David Walba

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder

  • Noel Clark

    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

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