Liquid Crystals II: Nano & Bio

Presentations

• A Phenomenological Model of the Effect of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Their Surface Coating on Smectic - A Liquid Crystal Order

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 11:15 AM – March 16, 2006, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Luz J. Martinez-Miranda

    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Lynn K. Kurihara

    • Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

  • Kevin McCarthey

    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Jason Harry

    • Xavier University, New Orleans, LA

  • Alexis Noel

    • Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD

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• Carbon nanotube liquid crystal composites

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 11:27 AM – March 16, 2006, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Reza Dodge

  • Shin-Woong Kang

  • Satyendra Kumar

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242

  • Cheol Park

  • Mia Siochi

    • National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA 23666, Advanced Materials and Processing Branch, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681

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• Organization of Magnetic Nanowires via Elastic Forces in a Periodic Multi-Domain Nematic Liquid Crystal

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 11:39 AM – March 16, 2006, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Clayton Lapointe

  • Daniel Reich

    • The Johns Hopkins University
    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Robert Leheny

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

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• Liquid Crystal Alignment Induced by a Magnetic Field and the Associated Surface Memory Effect

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 11:51 AM – March 16, 2006, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Rui Guo

  • Qingbing Wang

  • Satyendra Kumar

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242

  • Yuri Reznikov

    • Institute of Physics of National Academy of Science, Prospect Nauki 46, Kyiv 252022, Ukraine

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• The Study of the Fluorescent Spectrum of Cd-Se Quantum Dots in Liquid Crystal Cell

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 12:03 PM – March 16, 2006, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Yu-sung Lin

    • Dept. of Physics, Natl. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan
    • Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, 804, Taiwan

  • Wen-chi Hung

    • Inst. of Electro-Optical Engr., Natl. Sun Yat-sen Univ.,Taiwan

  • Wood-hi Cheng

    • Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Sun Yat- sen University, Kaohsiung, 804, Taiwan

  • I-min Jiang

    • Dept. of Physics, Natl. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan
    • Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, 804, Taiwan

  • Ming-shan Tsai

    • Dept. of Applied Physics, Natl. Chiayi Univ., Taiwan
    • Department of Applied Physics, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, 600, Taiwan

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• Transmissive Fabry-Perot Spectrum of Liquid Crystal Device for measuring the Surface Plasmon Effect of Silver nano-Particle

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 12:15 PM – March 16, 2006, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Wen-chi Hung

    • Inst. of Electro-Optical Engr., Natl. Sun Yat-sen Univ.,Taiwan

  • Yu-sung Lin

    • Dept. of Physics, Natl. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan
    • Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, 804, Taiwan

  • Ming-shan Tsai

    • Dept. of Applied Physics, Natl. Chiayi Univ., Taiwan
    • Department of Applied Physics, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, 600, Taiwan

  • I-min Jiang

    • Dept. of Physics, Natl. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan
    • Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, 804, Taiwan

  • Wood-hi Cheng

    • Inst. of Electro-Optical Engr., Natl. Sun Yat-sen Univ.,Taiwan

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• Investigating mixtures of rotor molecules and liquid crystals by dielectric spectroscopy and optical microscopy

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 12:27 PM – March 16, 2006, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Debra Krause

  • Charles T. Rogers

    • Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Jose E. Nunez

  • Miguel Garcia-Garibay

    • Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

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• Flexible plastic cells fabricated using phase separation of liquid crystal from its mixture in a prepolymer

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 12:39 PM – March 16, 2006, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Qingbing Wang

  • Rui Guo

  • Satyendra Kumar

    • National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230
    • Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242
    • Department of Physics, Kent State University, OH 44240

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• Adding Mono- and Multivalent Ions to Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 12:51 PM – March 16, 2006, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Luana Tortora

  • Heung-Shik Park

  • Kelly Antion

  • Chris Woolwerton

  • Daniele Finotello

    • Kent State University

  • Oleg Lavrentovich

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

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• Building Shape Surfactants: Creating rod-coil complexes using genetically engineered viruses

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 1:03 PM – March 16, 2006, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Phil Huang

  • Seth Fraden

    • Brandeis University

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• Stretching the limits of membrane charge density using Dendrimer Lipids - New Highly Transfecting Hexagonal Phases for Gene Delivery

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 1:15 PM – March 16, 2006, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Kai Ewert

  • Alexandra Zidovska

  • Heather M. Evans

  • Cyrus R. Safinya

    • UC, Santa Barbara
    • Materials, Physics, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Departments, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
    • Materials Dept. University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Materials, Physics, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Departments, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

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• Hollow Rectangular Columnar Structure in Dendritic Supramolecular Assemblies

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 1:27 PM – March 16, 2006, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Mihai Peterca

  • Paul Heiney

    • Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Pennsylvania

  • Marc Ilies

  • Andres Dulcey

  • Sami Nummelin

  • Virgil Percec

    • Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Pennsylvania

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• X-Ray Determination of the Structure and Phases of Liquid Crystals of Nanoscale Duplex DNA

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 1:39 PM – March 16, 2006, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Michi Nakata

    • U. of Colorado

  • Giuliano Zanchetta

    • U. of Milano (IT)
    • U. of Milano, Italy

  • Christopher D. Jones

    • U. of Colorado

  • Brandon Chapman

    • Brookhaven National Lab.

  • Ronald Pindak

    • Brookhaven National Lab.
    • Brookhaven National Lab

  • Tommaso Bellini

    • University of Milano, Italy
    • U. of Milano
    • U. of Milano, Italy

  • 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

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• Probing the mechanical unzipping of DNA

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 1:51 PM – March 16, 2006, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Nikos K. Voulgarakis

  • A. R. Bishop

    • Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545

  • Kim O. Rasmussen

    • Theoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA

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• Asymmetrical binding of cationic peptides onto an oppositely-charged lipid-bilayer membrane: area expansion and membrane rupture

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 2:03 PM – March 16, 2006, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Sattar Taheri-Araghi

  • Bae-Yeun Ha

    • Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada

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