Liquid Crystalline Order in Polymers, Soft Matter, and Complex Fluids

Presentations

• Shape Memory as a Process: Optimizing Polymer Design for Shape Recovery

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 8:00 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Richard Vaia

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Hilmar Koerner

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Kyungmin Lee

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Robert Strong

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Mattew Smith

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Huabin Wang

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Tim White

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Loon-Seng Tan

    • Air Force Research Laboratory

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• Shape and Memory in Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 8:12 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Anselm Griffin

    • Georgia Tech

  • Wanting Ren

    • Georgia Tech

  • Philip McMullan

    • Georgia Tech

  • Whitney Kline

    • Georgia Tech

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

    • Georgia Tech

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• Phase Behavior of Disk-Coil Macromolecules

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 8:24 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • YongJoo Kim

    • MIT

  • Edward Ha

    • MIT

  • Alfredo Alexander-Katz

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT
    • MIT, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering

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• Liquid Crystal Phases of Semiflexible Polymers

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 8:36 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Ian MacKay

    • University of Guelph

  • Don Sullivan

    • University of Guelph

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• Photomechanical mechanism and structure-property considerations in the generation of photomechanical work in glassy, azobenzene liquid crystal polymer networks

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 8:48 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Kyung Min Lee

    • Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB

  • Nelson Tabiryan

    • BEAM Engineering for Advanced Measurements Company

  • Timothy Bunning

    • Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB

  • Timothy White

    • Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB

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• Surface wrinkling in liquid crystal elastomer bilayers

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 9:00 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Aditya Agrawal

    • Rice University

  • Paul Luchette

    • Kent University

  • Walter Chapman

    • Rice University

  • Peter Muhoray

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
    • Kent University

  • Rafael Verduzco

    • Rice University

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• Field-induced orientational order of liquid crystals in random environments

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 9:12 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Lena Lopatina

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

  • Jonathan Selinger

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
    • Kent State University
    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Ohio 44242, USA

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• Highly viscous liquid crystalline mixtures: the alternative to liquid crystalline elastomers

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 9:24 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Petr Shibaev

    • Fordham University
    • Fordham University, Dept of Physics
    • Fordham University, Department of Physics

  • Cristina Schlesier

    • Fordham University, Department of Physics

  • Leah Newman

    • Fordham University, Department of Physics

  • Scott McDonald

    • Fordham University, Department of Physics

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• Linear aggregation and liquid crystalline ordering: from semi-flexible polymers to rigid rods

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 9:36 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Tatiana Kuriabova

    • Brown University

  • Zach Kost-Smith

    • Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado
    • Colorado University, Boulder

  • M.D. Betterton

    • Colorado University, Boulder

  • Zach Kost-Smith

    • Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado
    • Colorado University, Boulder

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• Liquid Crystal Elastomer Motors

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 9:48 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Peter Muhoray

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
    • Kent University

  • Xiaoyu Zheng

    • Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University

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• Orientational fluctuations of amorphous nematogenic solids

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 10:00 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Fangfu Ye

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Bing Lu

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Paul Goldbart

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  Feb. 27, 2012, 10:12 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 10:24 AM

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• Non-Monotonic Concentration Effects in the Phase Behavior and Nematic Orders: Mixtures of Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Low-Molecular-Weight Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 10:24 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Bilin Zhuang

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Zhen-Gang Wang

    • California Institute of Technology

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• Effect of blending on nematic order in semiflexible polymers

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 10:36 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Kiran Khanal

    • Departments of Physics and Chemistry, University of Akron

  • Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann

    • Departments of Physics and Chemistry, University of Akron

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