Liquid Crystals III

Presentations

• Dielectric Dispersion Effects in Liquid Crystals.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 2:30 PM – March 16, 2006, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Oleg Lavrentovich

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

  • Ye Yin

  • Mingxia Gu

  • Sergij Shiyanovskii

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• Using micro-focus synchrotron X-ray diffraction to probe textured liquid crystal samples

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 2:42 PM – March 16, 2006, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Ronald Pindak

    • Brookhaven National Lab.
    • Brookhaven National Lab

  • Brandon Chapman

    • Brookhaven National Lab

  • Ruiting Wang

  • Ishtiaque Syed

  • Giovanni Carbone

  • Charles Rosenblatt

    • Case Western Reserve Univ.

  • Michi Nakata

  • Christopher Jones

  • Noel Clark

    • Univ. of Colorado

  • Shin-Woong Kang

    • Kent State Univ.

  • Satyendra Kumar

    • National Science Foundation

  • Julie Cross

    • Argonne National Lab

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• Impurity Induced Cross-over from Continuous to First-order Nematic-to-Smectic A Phase Transitions in a Liquid Crystal.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 2:54 PM – March 16, 2006, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Jan Thoen

  • Katleen Denolf

  • Bert Van Roie

  • Christ Glorieux

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

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• Phase morphology of a disk-sphere dyad molecule.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 3:06 PM – March 16, 2006, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Li Cui

  • Jeffrey Collet

  • Lei Zhu

    • Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science and Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3136
    • Polymer Program, Institute of Material Science and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3136

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• Excitation-Enhanced Optical Reorientation in Pure Liquid Crystalline Materials

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 3:18 PM – March 16, 2006, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Thai V. Truong

  • Yuen-Ron Shen

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

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• Effect of disorder on a nematic-smectic A phase transition

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2006, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Simon Larochelle

    • U. Toronto

  • Mehmet Ramazanoglu

    • Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto

  • Robert J. Birgeneau

    • Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto and Dept. of Physics, University of California Berkeley

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• Observation of polarization current accompanying smectic A electroclinic reorientation

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2006, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Renfan Shao

  • Lixing Wang

  • Christopher D. Jones

    • U. of Colorado

  • David A. Coleman

  • Duong Nguyen

  • Michi Nakata

  • Joseph E. Maclennan

    • LCMRC and Univ of Colorado

  • Per Rudquist

    • Chalmers Univ of Tech

  • David M. Walba

  • 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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• Defects in liquid crystal nematic shells

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2006, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • A. Fernandez-Nieves

  • A.S. Utada

  • V. Vitelli

  • D.R. Link

  • D.R. Nelson

  • D.A. Weitz

    • Harvard University

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• Water as a Wetting Agent for Liquid Crystal Films

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2006, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Ergys Subashi

  • Rafael Garcia

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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• Surface morphology of SiO deposited substrates and alignment of nematic LC*

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2006, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Leela Joshi

  • 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

  • Riccardo Barberi

    • Physics Department, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy

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• Crystal Nucleation behavior near gas-liquid spinodal line

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2006, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Limei Xu

    • Boston University

  • Giancarlo Franzese

    • Universitat de Barcelona

  • Sergey V. Buldyrev

    • Yeshiva University

  • H. E. Stanley

    • Boston University

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• Entropy driven formation of a chiral liquid crystalline phase of helical rods

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2006, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Zvonimir Dogic

    • Rowland Institute at Harvard University

  • Edward Barry

  • Zach Hensel

  • Michael Shribak

    • Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

  • Rudolf Oldenbourg

    • Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

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• Dynamics of Director Fluctuations in Confined and Filled Liquid Crystals.

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2006, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Edwin Arroyo

  • Sarmistha Basu

  • Fouad Aliev

    • University of Puerto Rico

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• Micro-focus synhrotron X-ray diffraction study of novel mesomorphic porphyrin derivatives

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2006, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Shin-Woong Kang

  • Lanfang Li

  • Quan Li

    • Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242

  • Michi Nakata

    • University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309

  • Brandon Chapman

  • Ronald Pindak

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973

  • 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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• Stochastic Rotation Dynamics: generalizations and applications for non-ideal fluids, binary mixtures and colloids

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2006, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Thomas Ihle

    • Department of Physics, North Dakota State University

  • Erkan Tuzel

    • School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota

  • Daniel Kroll

    • Department of Physics, North Dakota State University

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