Focus Session: Nano to Mesoscale Structure in Ordered Systems: Liquid Crystal Topology and Defects

Presentations

• Polymer Physics Prize Break

  COFFEE_KLATCH

  Feb. 28, 2012, 8:00 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 8:36 AM

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• Chiral Self-Assembly

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 28, 2012, 8:36 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Robert B. Meyer

    • Brandeis University
    • Physics Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454

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• Pillar-Assisted Epitaxial Assembly of Focal Conic Domain Arrays in Smectic-A Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 9:12 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Daniel Beller

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Apiradee Honglawan

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Marcello Cavallaro

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Randall Kamien

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Kathleen Stebe

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Shu Yang

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Shape and chirality transitions in twisted nematic elastomer ribbons: Finite element simulation studies

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 9:24 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Vianney Gimenez-Pinto

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

  • Fangfu Ye

    • University of Illinois, Urbana

  • Badel Mbanga

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Jonathan Selinger

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

  • Robin Selinger

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

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• Frustrated orientational order on extrinsic geometries

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 9:36 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Badel L. Mbanga

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

  • Gregory Grason

    • Dept. of Polymer Science \& Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst, PSE Department

  • Christian Santangelo

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • Physics, U. of Massachusetts

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• Topology of knots and links in chiral nematic colloids

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 9:48 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Slobodan Zumer

    • University of Ljubljana and Jozef Stefan Institute

  • Simon Copar

    • University of Ljubljana

  • Igor Musevic

    • University of Ljubljana and Jozef Stefan Institute

  • Miha Ravnik

    • University of Oxford

  • Uros Tkalec

    • Jozef Stefan Institute

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• Modeling texture transitions in cholesteric liquid crystal droplets

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 10:00 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Robin Selinger

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

  • Vianney Gimenez-Pinto

    • Kent State University

  • Shin-Ying Lu

    • Kent State University

  • Jonathan Selinger

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

  • Andrew Konya

    • Kent State University

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• Necklaces of Liquid Crystal Beads: Nematic Drops Constrained on Thin Cellulosic Fibers

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 10:12 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Pedro Almeida

    • FCT/UNL
    • Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

  • Yong Geng

    • FCT/UNL
    • Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

  • Eugene Terentjev

    • University of Cambridge
    • Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

  • Maria Helena Godinho

    • FCT/UNL
    • Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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• Controlling the location of defects in nematic shells

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 10:24 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Josefa Guerrero

    • Georgia Tech
    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Teresa Lopez-Leon

    • University of Montpellier 2

  • Maurizio Nobili

    • University of Montpellier 2

  • Christophe Blanc

    • University of Montpellier 2

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• Structures in liquid crystalline shells at a nematic-smectic transition

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 10:36 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Jan Lagerwall

    • Seoul National University, Grad. School of Convergence Science \& Technology, Korea
    • Seoul National University

  • Hsin-Ling Liang

    • Inst. of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

  • Per Rudquist

    • Chalmers University of Technology, Dept. for Microtechnology \& Nanoscience, Goteborg, Sweden

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• Visualizing, manipulating, and imprinting $\pi$-wall defects in self-assembled colloidal membranes

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 10:48 AM – Feb. 28, 2012, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Mark J. Zakhary

    • Brandeis University

  • Thomas Gibaud

    • Brandeis University

  • C. Nadir Kaplan

    • Brandeis University

  • Edward Barry

    • Brandeis University

  • Rudolf Oldenbourg

    • Marine Biology Laboratory

  • Robert B. Meyer

    • Brandeis University
    • Physics Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454

  • Zvonimir Dogic

    • Department of Physics, Brandeis University
    • Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham MA, USA
    • Brandeis Univeristy
    • Brandeis University

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