Liquid Crystals III

Presentations

• Magnetic-field induced isotropic to nematic liquid crystal phase transition

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 8:00 AM – March 20, 2009, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • J.T. Gleeson

    • Physics Department, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • T.B. Ostapenko

    • Kent State University

  • D. B. Wiant

    • Wake Forest University

  • Samuel Sprunt

    • Physics Department, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • Antal J\'akli

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

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• High Magnetic Field-Induced Birefringence in Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 8:12 AM – March 20, 2009, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • T.B. Ostapenko

    • Kent State University

  • Yu. Nastishin

    • Inst. for Phys. Opt., Lviv, Ukr.

  • J.T. Gleeson

    • Physics Department, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • Samuel Sprunt

    • Physics Department, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • Oleg Lavrentovich

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

  • P.J. Collings

    • Swarthmore College

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  March 20, 2009, 8:24 AM – March 20, 2009, 8:36 AM

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• Chromonic liquid crystalline properties of dyes

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 8:36 AM – March 20, 2009, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Xuxia Yao

    • School of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Jung Ok Park

    • School of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering, Center for Advanced Research on Optical Microscopy, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
    • 1. School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, 2. Center for Advanced Research on Optical Microscopy (CAROM), Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

    • School of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Advanced Research on Optical Microscopy
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
    • 1. School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, 2. Center for Advanced Research on Optical Microscopy (CAROM),
    • School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332.

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• Liquid Crystalline Phase Transition of Colloidal Platelets with Identical Thickness

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 8:48 AM – March 20, 2009, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Dazhi Sun

    • Texas A\&M University

  • Zhengdong Cheng

    • Texas A\&M University

  • Hung-Jue Sue

    • Texas A\&M University

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• Study of the Isotropic-Nematic and the Nematic-Smectic-A Phase Transitions in Carbon Nanotubes and Liquid Crystal Composites

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 9:00 AM – March 20, 2009, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Krishna Sigdel

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Germano Iannacchione

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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• Recovery and stabilization of a reversed phase sequence in a ternary liquid crystal mixture

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 9:12 AM – March 20, 2009, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • R. Pindak

    • Brookahven National Lab

  • Shun Wang

    • Univ. of Minnesota

  • LiDong Pan

    • Univ. of Minnesota

  • B.K. McCoy

    • Azusa Pacific Univ.

  • Suntao Wang

    • Brookhaven National Lab

  • H.T. Nguyen

    • Univ. Bordeaux

  • Cheng-Cher Huang

    • Univ. of Minnesota

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• Room-Temperature Liquid Crystal Blue Phases

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 9:24 AM – March 20, 2009, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Stefanie Taushanoff

    • Kent State University

  • Khoa Van Le

    • Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Robert Twieg

    • Kent State University

  • Antal J\'akli

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

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• Hybrid shells of nematic liquid crystal

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 9:36 AM – March 20, 2009, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Alberto Fernandez-Nieves

    • Georgia Tech

  • Teresa Lopez-Leon

    • Georgia Tech

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• Optical waveguiding in bent core liquid crystal filaments

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 9:48 AM – March 20, 2009, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Antal J\'akli

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

  • Jake Fontana

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

  • Christopher Bailey

    • Kent State University
    • Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

  • Wolfgang Weissflog

    • Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany

  • Istvan Janossy

    • Research Inst. for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest, Hungary

  • Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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

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• Dielectric properties of bent-core nematic materials

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 10:00 AM – March 20, 2009, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Peter Salamon

  • Nandor Eber

  • Samuel Sprunt

  • James Gleeson

  • Antal Jakli

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• Second Harmonic Generation in a Bent-core Nematic Liquid Crystal.

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 10:12 AM – March 20, 2009, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Seung Ho Hong

    • Kent State University

  • Antal Jakli

    • Kent State University

  • James Gleeson

    • Kent State University

  • Samuel Sprunt

    • Physics Department, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • Brettt Ellman

    • Kent State University

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• Viscoelastic parameters and flexoelectric effect in a bent-core nematic liquid crystal studied by dynamic light scattering

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 10:24 AM – March 20, 2009, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Madhabi Majumdar

    • Kent State University

  • K. Neupane

    • Kent State University

  • James T. Gleeson

    • Kent State University

  • Antal Jakli

    • Kent State University

  • Samuel Sprunt

    • Kent State University

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• Large Flow-Birefringence of Nematogenic Bent-Core Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 10:36 AM – March 20, 2009, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Christopher Bailey

    • Kent State University
    • Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

  • Katalin Fodor-Csorba

    • Research Institute for solid state physics and optics, Budapest, Hungary

  • Rafael Verduzco

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • J.T. Gleeson

    • Physics Department, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • Samuel Sprunt

    • Physics Department, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • Antal J\'akli

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

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• Activated Kinetics of Nematic and Smectic Phase Transitions in an Aligned Matrix of Nano-colloidal Liquid Crystalline Gel

  ORAL

  March 20, 2009, 10:48 AM – March 20, 2009, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Dipti Sharma

    • UML

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