Focus Session: Nano to Mesoscale Structure in Ordered Soft Matter: Liquid Crystal Phases

Presentations

• DILLON MEDAL BREAK

  COFFEE_KLATCH

  Feb. 28, 2012, 2:30 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 3:06 PM

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• Nano to Meso-scale Structure in Liquid Crystals: the Cybotactic Nematic Phase of Bent-core Mesogens

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 28, 2012, 3:06 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Oriano Francescangeli

    • Polytechnic University of Marche, SIMAU Department, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy

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• Nanoscale Positional Order Correlations: Swarms, Cybotactic Groups, Clusters, and Pretransitional Fluctuations in Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 3:42 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Satyendra Kumar

    • Kent State University

  • Dena Mae Agra-Kooijman

    • Kent State University

  • Bharat Acharya

    • Platypus Technologies, LLC

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• Randomized Grain Boundary Liquid Crystal Phase

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 3:54 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • D. Chen

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • H. Wang

    • Jilin University

  • M. Li

    • Jilin University

  • M. Glaser

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • J. Maclennan

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • N. Clark

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

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• Resonant X-ray Scattering Studies of Smectic and Columnar Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Phases

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:06 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Ronald Pindak

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Philippe Barois

    • Universite Bordeaux

  • Virginie Ponsinet

    • Universite Bordeaux

  • Cesar Folcia

    • Universidad del Pa\'is Vasco

  • Josu Ortega

    • Universidad del Pa\'is Vasco

  • LiDong Pan

    • Johns Hopkins University
    • University of Minnesota
    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

  • Shun Wang

    • University of Minnesota

  • Suntao Wang

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Cheng-Cher Huang

    • University of Minnesota

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• Polyhedral Liquid Crystalline Vesicles

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:18 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Mark Bowick

    • Syracuse University
    • Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA

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• Packing Cheerios: Simulation studies of torus-shaped hard particles

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:30 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Andrew Konya

    • Kent State University

  • Robin Selinger

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

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• Effect of CNTs and Induced Chirality on Smectic- Smectic Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:42 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • P. Kalakonda

    • WPI

  • G.S. Iannacchione

    • WPI

  • Rajratan Basu

    • CWRU
    • Case Western Reserve University

  • C. Rosenblatt

    • CWRU

  • R.P. Lemieux

    • Queens U., CA

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:54 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 5:06 PM

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• Mesophase behavior and effect of polydispersity in assemblies of polyhedral particles

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 5:06 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Fernando Escobedo

    • Cornell University

  • Umang Agarwal

    • Cornell University

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• Submolecular organization of de Vries smectics with tuned frustration between SmA- and SmC- promoting elements

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 5:18 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Dena Mae Agra-Kooijman

    • Kent State University

  • S Dey

    • Kent State University

  • Q. Song

    • Queens University, Canada

  • D. Nonnenmacher

    • Universit\"at Stuttgart, Germany

  • F. Giesselmann

    • Universit\"at Stuttgart, Germany

  • R. Lemieux

    • Queens University, Canada

  • Satyendra Kumar

    • Kent State University

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