Liquid Crystals I: Structure and Defects

Presentations

• Effect of Concentration Variations on the Interaction of a Sm-A Liquid Crystal and a Nanoparticle

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 10:15 AM – March 13, 2008, 10:27 AM

  Authors

  • Luz J. Martinez-Miranda

    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Lynn K. Kurihara

    • Navy Research Lab, Washington, DC

  • Rahina S. Rabiu

    • University of Maryland and Norfolk State University

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• Simulating defect structures in nematic liquid crystal shells

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 10:27 AM – March 13, 2008, 10:39 AM

  Authors

  • Lena Lopatina

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ

  • Andrew Konya

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ

  • Jonathan Selinger

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ.
    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ

  • Robin Selinger

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

  • Alex Travesset

    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State Univ. and Ames Lab
    • Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State Univ
    • Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
    • Iowa State University and Ames Lab

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• String defects in smectic-C monolayers and hybrid nematic films

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 10:39 AM – March 13, 2008, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • Fangfu Ye

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ

  • Zhao Lu

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ

  • Lena Lopatina

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ

  • Jonathan Selinger

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ.
    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ

  • Alex Travesset

    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State Univ. and Ames Lab
    • Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State Univ
    • Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory
    • Iowa State University and Ames Lab

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• Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering polarized microscopy of 3D director structures in liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 10:51 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Ivan Smalyukh

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Alexander Kachynski

    • The State University of New York at Buffalo

  • Andrey Kuzmin

    • The State University of New York at Buffalo

  • Paras Prasad

    • The State University of New York at Buffalo

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• Light Scattering Study of Biaxiality in Nematic Liquid Crystal Tetrapodes

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:03 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Krishna Neupane

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

  • Shinwoong Kang

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

  • Sunil Sharma

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

  • D. Carney

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

  • T. Meyer

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

  • George H. Mehl

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

  • David W. Allender

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

  • Satyendra Kumar

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

  • Samuel Sprunt

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

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• Effects of dielectric relaxation on the director dynamics of uniaxial nematic liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:15 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Mingxia Gu

    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA

  • Ye Yin

    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA

  • Sergij V. Shiyanovskii

    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA

  • Oleg Lavrentovich

    • Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242
    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
    • Kent State University

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• Condensation of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals by additives

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:27 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Luana Tortora

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

  • H.-S. Park

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

  • S.-W. Kang

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

  • S. Kumar

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 and DMR NSF

  • K.V. Kaznatcheev

    • Canadian Light Source, SK S7N 0X4, Canada

  • O.D. Lavrentovich

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

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• Interactions in the NOBOW and 8CB Mixtures

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:39 AM – March 13, 2008, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Dong Chen

    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Chenhui Zhu

    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Noel Clark

    • University of Colorado
    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Effect of Solvent Concentration on the Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions of Octylcyanobiphenyl-Hexane Mixtures

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 11:51 AM – March 13, 2008, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Krishna Sigdel

    • WPI

  • Germano Iannacchione

    • WPI
    • Physics Department, WPI, MA, USA
    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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• Landau potential of polymer stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:03 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Paul Archer

    • The University of Manchester
    • University of Manchester

  • Ingo Dierking

    • The University of Manchester
    • University of Manchester

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• Varying the optical properties of cholesteric liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:15 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Sabrina Relaix

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU

  • Michele Moreira

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU

  • Peter Palffy-Muhoray

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU

  • Michel Mitov

    • CEMES/CNRS

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• Three-dimensional imaging of chemical bond orientation in liquid crystals by coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy.

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:27 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Oleg Lavrentovich

    • Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242
    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
    • Kent State University

  • Heung-Shik Park

    • Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242

  • Brian G. Saar

    • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

  • X. Sunney Xie

    • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

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• Low electric field induced phase transition of the B1 bent-core liquid crystal phase to a switching phase

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:39 PM – March 13, 2008, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • J. Kirchhoff

    • Florida State University

  • L.S. Hirst

    • Florida State University

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• Evidence of Broken Reciprocity in Chiral Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  March 13, 2008, 12:51 PM – March 13, 2008, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Michele Moreira

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU

  • Nithya Venkataraman

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU

  • Bahman Taheri

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU

  • Peter Palffy-Muhoray

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, KSU

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