Liquid Crystals I

Presentations

• Aggregation in Two Dye Systems That Form Chromonic Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2006, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Peter J. Collings

  • Viva R. Horowitz

  • Michelle R. Tomasik

    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081

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• Orientational order of an ideal rodlike nematic: Rewriting the theory of nematic liquid crystals?

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 8:12 AM – March 16, 2006, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Edward T. Samulski

    • University of North Carolina - Department of Chemistry

  • Louis A. Madsen

  • Theo Dingemans

    • University of North Carolina - Department of Chemistry

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• Interlayer interactions in ferroelectric liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 8:24 AM – March 16, 2006, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Mehdi Hamaneh

    • Case Western Reserve University

  • Philip Taylor

    • Case Western Reserve University

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• The B4 phase: layer curvature driven by frustrated intralayer packing

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2006, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • L.E. Hough

    • LCMRC, Physics Dept., CU Boulder

  • D. Kruerke

    • Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, TU of Berlin

  • C.D. Jones

    • LCMRC, Physics Dept., CU Boulder

  • H.T. Jung

  • J. Zasadzinski

    • Dept. of Chemical Engineering, UCSB

  • G. Heppke

    • Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, TU of Berlin

  • J. Rabe

  • W. Stocker

    • Institute for Physics, Humboldt U. Berlin

  • E. Korblova

  • D. Walba

    • LCMRC, Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CU Boulder

  • N.A. Clark

    • LCMRC, Physics Dept., CU Boulder

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• Polarization-Enhanced Interaction between Islands on Freely-Suspended Smectic C* Liquid Crystal Films

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 8:48 AM – March 16, 2006, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Apichart Pattanaporkratana

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

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• Riverbottom texture: Patterns of compressional stress in an SSFLC cell

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 9:00 AM – March 16, 2006, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Christopher D. Jones

    • U. of Colorado

  • David A. Coleman

  • Noel Clark

    • University of Colorado
    • LCMRC and Univ of Colorado
    • U. of Colorado
    • Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA

  • Michael D. Wand

    • Diplaytech, Inc., Longmont, CO 80503 USA

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• Random Lasing in Multidomain Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2006, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Michele Moreira

  • Mingxia Gu

  • Oleg Lavrentovich

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

  • Bahman Taheri

  • P. Palffy-Muhoray

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

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• Wavelength Hopping in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Lasers

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 9:24 AM – March 16, 2006, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Michele Moreira

  • Christopher Bailey

  • Wenyi Cao

  • Bahman Taheri

  • P. Palffy-Muhoray

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

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• Poisson-bracket formulation of the dynamics of polar liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 9:36 AM – March 16, 2006, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • William Kung

  • M. Cristina Marchetti

    • Syracuse University

  • Karl Saunders

    • California Polytechnic State University

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• Finite Element Elastodynamics Studies of Shape Evolution in Liquid Crystal Elastomers

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2006, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Robin Selinger

    • Kent State University

  • Badel Mbanga

  • Jonathan Selinger

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

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• Temperature Dependence of Acousto-Optic Effect in a Nematic Liquid Crystal Cell

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2006, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Steven Sundbeck

  • Anthony Malanoski

  • Brian Weslowski

  • Devanand Shenoy

    • United States Naval Research Laboratory

  • Jonathan Selinger

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

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• Elliptic Phases: A Study of the Nonlinear Elasticity of Twist-

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 10:12 AM – March 16, 2006, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Christian Santangelo

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Randall Kamien

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Calorimetric study of aligned liquid crystal + aerosil

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 10:24 AM – March 16, 2006, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • F. Cruceanu

  • Germano Iannacchione

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • D. Liang

  • Robert Leheny

    • Johns Hopkins University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
    • Johns Hopkins U.

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• Disordering Effects in Smectic -- Aerosil Gels*

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 10:36 AM – March 16, 2006, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Vishal Pandya

  • Daniele Finotello

    • Kent State University

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• The Effect of Aerosil Network on Smectic A-Reentrant Nematic Liquid Crystal

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 10:48 AM – March 16, 2006, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Mehmet Ramazanoglu

  • Simon Larochelle

    • U. Toronto

  • Robert J. Birgeneau

    • U. Toronto and U.C. Berkeley

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