Liquid Crystals and Complex Fluids

Presentations

• Simulation study of liquid crystal anchoring at a polymer surface

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 11:30 AM – March 21, 2005, 11:42 AM

  Authors

  • Mehdi Hamaneh

  • Philip Taylor

    • Case Western Reserve University

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• PVDF homopolymer and copolymer coated surfaces for liquid crystal alignment

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 11:42 AM – March 21, 2005, 11:54 AM

  Authors

  • Hemang Shah

  • Adam Fontecchio

    • Drexel University

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• Dynamics of Evolution of Striped Structures in Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 11:54 AM – March 21, 2005, 12:06 PM

  Authors

  • Deng-Ke Yang

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• Network and cellular pattern formation in a phase-separating lyotropic liquid crystal

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 12:06 PM – March 21, 2005, 12:18 PM

  Authors

  • Yasutaka Iwashita

  • Hajime Tanaka

    • Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo

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• Routes to spatiotemporal chaos in the rheology of nematogenic fluids

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 12:18 PM – March 21, 2005, 12:30 PM

  Authors

  • Moumita Das

    • Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
    • Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.
    • Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

  • Buddhapriya Chakrabarti

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

  • Sriram Ramaswamy

    • Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
    • Indian Institute of Science

  • Chandan Dasgupta

    • Indian Inst.\ of Science--Bangalore \& UM
    • Indian Institute of Science

  • Ajay Sood

    • Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
    • Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

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• Rupture of an Amphiphile layer on air-water interface

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 12:30 PM – March 21, 2005, 12:42 PM

  Authors

  • Mahesh Bandi

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • John Cressman

    • Krasnow Institute, George Mason University

  • Walter Goldburg

    • University of Pittsburgh

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• Nucleated growth patterns in binary phase-separating liquid gas systems

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 12:42 PM – March 21, 2005, 12:54 PM

  Authors

  • Christopher Pooley

  • Anna C. Balazs

    • Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh
    • University of Pittsburgh
    • Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.

  • Julia Yeomans

    • Oxford University
    • University of Oxford

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• The formation and growth of myelin figures.

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 12:54 PM – March 21, 2005, 1:06 PM

  Authors

  • Ling-Nan Zou

    • James Frank Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago

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• Why Myelins Form: Shape Instability of Flat Lamellae Due to Interlayer Repulsion

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 1:06 PM – March 21, 2005, 1:18 PM

  Authors

  • Jung-Ren Huang

    • University of Chicago

  • Thomas Witten

    • University of Chicago

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• Viscoelasticity of Networks of Wormlike Micelles with Encapsulated Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 1:18 PM – March 21, 2005, 1:30 PM

  Authors

  • M.F. Islam

  • L.A. Hough

  • A.M. Alsayed

  • A.G. Yodh

    • Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania

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• Formation of localized shear induced states in wormlike micelle solutions using magnetic nanowire probes

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 1:30 PM – March 21, 2005, 1:42 PM

  Authors

  • Nathan Cappallo

  • Clayton Lapointe

  • Robert Leheny

    • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

  • Daniel Reich

    • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21210
    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Structure and Dynamics of Microemulsions/Micelles in the Presence of a Monolayer Interface in the Ternary Amphilphilic Systems: A Computer Simulation Study

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 1:42 PM – March 21, 2005, 1:54 PM

  Authors

  • Hongxia Guo

    • Department of Material Sciences and Engineering, Northwestern University

  • Monica Olvera de la Cruz

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• Dynamics of self-assembling rigid rods

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 1:54 PM – March 21, 2005, 2:06 PM

  Authors

  • Johan Dubbeldam

    • Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

  • Paul Van der Schoot

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• The Interactions Between Two Rotating Dipoles Inside Electrorheological Fluids

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 2:06 PM – March 21, 2005, 2:18 PM

  Authors

  • Y. C. Lan

  • R. Tao

    • Dept.of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
    • Dept. of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

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• Structure of Concentrated Suspensions of Square Crosses

  ORAL

  March 21, 2005, 2:18 PM – March 21, 2005, 2:30 PM

  Authors

  • Carlos Hernandez

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California- Los Angeles

  • Thomas Mason

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California- Los Angeles
    • UCLA
    • University of California- Los Angeles

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