Liquid Crystalline Order in Polymer and Complex Fluids

Presentations

• Nonlinear Dielectric Response of the Liquid Crystal 8CB near the phase transitions

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 11:15 AM – March 25, 2011, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Hannah Buchanan

    • University of West Florida

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• A Novel Liquid Crystal Elastomer with Large Spontaneous Length Changes

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 11:27 AM – March 25, 2011, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Patricia Cladis

    • ALCT, Inc.

  • Simon Krause

  • Yusril Yusuf

    • Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia

  • Shohei Hashimoto

    • Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan

  • Leonid Fel

    • Technion-IIT, 32000 Haifa, Israel

  • Shoichi Kai

    • Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan

  • Heino Finkelmann

    • Makromolekulare Chemie, Freiburg University, 79104 Freiburg, Germany

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• Magnetic field directed self-assembly of liquid crystalline block copolymers for membrane applications

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 11:39 AM – March 25, 2011, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Manesh Gopinadhan

    • Yale University

  • Pawel Majewski

    • Yale University

  • Chinedum Osuji

    • Yale University

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• Temperature Dependent Self-Assembly of Side-Group Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers in LC Solvent

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 11:51 AM – March 25, 2011, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Paul Pirogovsky

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Zuleikha Kurji

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Rohan Hule

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Julia Kornfield

    • California Institute of Technology
    • Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

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• In-Situ X-Ray Diffraction Study of the Elongation Behavior of a Main Chain Liquid Crystal Elastomer

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 12:03 PM – March 25, 2011, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Sonal Dey

  • D.M. Agra-Kooijman

  • Leela Joshi

  • Satyendra Kumar

    • Kent State University

  • Wanting Ren

  • Whitney M. Kline

  • Anselm C. Grrifin

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Evaporative Self-Assembly and Formation of the Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Phase of Poly(3-hexyl thiophene)

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 12:15 PM – March 25, 2011, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Min Sang Park

    • School of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Avishek Aiyar

  • Jung Ok Park

    • School of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Elsa Reichmanis

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Lyotropic nematic droplets of single-walled carbon nanotubes in super acids: equilibrium shape and dynamics

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 12:27 PM – March 25, 2011, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Natnael Behabtu

    • Rice University

  • Budhadipta Dan

    • Rice University

  • Lee Taewoo

    • University of Colorado

  • Ivan Smalyukh

    • University of Colorado

  • Matteo Pasquli

    • Rice University

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• The unique behavior of chiral templated polymers swollen with liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 12:39 PM – March 25, 2011, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Michael McConney

    • Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Jennifer Hurtubise

    • Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Vincent Tondiglia

    • Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Timothy White

    • Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Timothy Bunning

    • Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
    • Air Force Research Laboratory

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• The Shape of Structured Polymer Vesicles

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 12:51 PM – March 25, 2011, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Mark Bowick

    • Syracuse University

  • Min-Hui Li

    • Institut Curie (Paris)

  • Homin Shin

    • UMass Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Xiangjun Xing

    • Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Zhenwei Yao

    • Syracuse University

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• Curvature-induced transitions in two-dimensional nematics

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 1:03 PM – March 25, 2011, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Badel L. Mbanga

    • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA

  • Christian Santangelo

    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, 01003
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • Department of Physics, UMass-Amherst

  • Gregory Grason

    • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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• Effect of chain stiffness on structural and thermodynamic properties of polymers

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 1:15 PM – March 25, 2011, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Kiran Khanal

  • Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann

    • Departments of Chemistry and Physics, The University of Akron
    • Departments of Physics and Chemistry, The University of Akron

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• Symmetric reflection band broadening of weakly polymer stabilized cholesteric thin films using low DC electric fields

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 1:27 PM – March 25, 2011, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Madeline Dunning

  • Christopher Bailey

  • Anastasia Voevodin

  • Vincent Tondiglia

  • Lalgudi Natarajan

  • Timothy White

  • Timothy Bunning

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• Structure of Rigid Hard-Ring Fluids

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 1:39 PM – March 25, 2011, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Mariam Nouri

    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University

  • Marc Robert

    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University

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• Fast Off-Lattice Monte Carlo Simulations with a Novel Soft-Core Spherocylinder Model

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 1:51 PM – March 25, 2011, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Jing Zong

    • Colorado State University

  • Xinghua Zhang

    • Colorado State University

  • Qiang (David) Wang

    • Colorado State University
    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University

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• Solvent involved self-crystallization of C$_{70}$ molecules into high definition cube microstructure

  ORAL

  March 25, 2011, 2:03 PM – March 25, 2011, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Chibeom Park

    • Department of Chemistry and Division of Advanced Materials Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

  • Hee Cheul Choi

    • Department of Chemistry and Division of Advanced Materials Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)

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