Liquid Crystals I

Presentations

• 2D Brownian motion of inclusions in low pressure environment on freely suspended liquid crystal film

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 2:30 PM – March 19, 2013, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Zhiyuan Qi

    • Department of Physics and LCMRC, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

  • Cheol Park

    • Department of Physics and LCMRC, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

  • Joseph Maclennan

    • Department of Physics and LCMRC, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

  • Matthew Glaser

    • Department of Physics and LCMRC, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

  • Noel Clark

    • Department of Physics and LCMRC, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

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• Between soap bubbles and vesicles: The dynamics of freely floating smectic bubbles

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 2:42 PM – March 19, 2013, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Ralf Stannarius

    • Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Institute of Experimental Physics, Universit\"atsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg
    • Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg

  • Kathrin May

    • Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg

  • Kirsten Harth

    • Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Institute of Experimental Physics, Universit\"atsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg
    • Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg

  • Torsten Trittel

    • Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Institute of Experimental Physics, Universit\"atsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg
    • Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg

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• Critical Behavior of A Non-polar Smectic Liquid Crystal via Optical Birefringence Measurements

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 2:54 PM – March 19, 2013, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Mehmet Can Cetinkaya

    • Piri Reis University, 34970, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey
    • Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 34469, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Selen Erkan

    • Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 34469, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Sevtap Yildiz

    • Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 34469, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Haluk Ozbek

    • Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 34469, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey

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• Statistical mechanics of bend flexoelectricity and the twist-bend phase in bent-core liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 3:06 PM – March 19, 2013, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Shaikh Shamid

    • Kent State University

  • Subas Dhakal

    • Kent State University

  • Jonathan Selinger

    • Kent State University

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• Imaging helical nano-filament and modulated smectic phases of bent shaped liquid crystals by cryo-TEM

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 3:18 PM – March 19, 2013, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Cuiyu Zhang

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

  • Hans Sawade

    • I.N. Stranski Institute, TU Berlin

  • Wolfgang Weissflog

    • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

  • Antal Jakli

    • Kent State University

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• Wide temperature range and hysteresis free blue phase liquid crystals doped with bent-core compound

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 3:30 PM – March 19, 2013, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Jie Xiang

    • Kent State University

  • Oleg Twieg

    • Department of Chemistry, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • Oleg D. Lavrentovich

    • Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State University, Kent, 44240, OH
    • Kent State University
    • Liquid crystal institute and chemical physics interdisciplinary program, Kent state university, Kent, OH, USA
    • Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242

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• Piezoelectric properties of polymers containing bent-shape liquid crystal molecules

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 3:42 PM – March 19, 2013, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • N. Diorio

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

  • Michael Varga

    • Kent State University
    • Liquid Crystal Institute

  • A. Carif

    • University of Akron

  • J.E. Puskas

    • University of Akron

  • K. Fodor-Csorba

    • Hungarian Academy of Sciences

  • S. Sprunt

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • J.T. Gleeson

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • Antal Jakli

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

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• SAXS studies of short-range order in the nematic phase of reduced symmetry mesogens

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 3:54 PM – March 19, 2013, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • S. Chakraborty

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

  • N. Diorio

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

  • Cuiyu Zhang

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

  • R. Breckon

    • Department of Chemistry, Kent State University

  • Oleg Twieg

    • Department of Chemistry, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • J.T. Gleeson

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

  • Antal Jakli

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

  • S. Sprunt

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University
    • Kent State University

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• Local orientation and temperature effects of a liquid crystal in contact with a nanoparticle

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 4:06 PM – March 19, 2013, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Jefferson Ward Taylor

    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Lynn K. Kurihara

    • Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

  • Luz J. Martinez-Miranda

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD

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• Electro-optical Characteristics of Carbon Nanotupe Doped Polar Smectic Liquid Crystal

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 4:18 PM – March 19, 2013, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Ilknur Koseoglu

    • Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 34469, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Mehmet Can Cetinkaya

    • Piri Reis University, 34970, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey
    • Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 34469, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Haluk Ozbek

    • Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 34469, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Sevtap Yildiz

    • Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 34469, Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey

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• Effect of quantum dots on the isotropic to nematic and nematic to smectic-A phase transitions in nano composites

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 4:30 PM – March 19, 2013, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Parvathalu Kalakonda

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    • WPI

  • Germano S. Iannacchione

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    • Physics Deparment, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
    • WPI

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• Towards an optical nano-laboratory in a liquid crystal defect

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 4:42 PM – March 19, 2013, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Paul Ackerman

    • University of Colorado at Boulder, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute

  • Ivan Smalyukh

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Jao van de Lagemaat

    • National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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• Interaction of discotics and nanoparticles

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 4:54 PM – March 19, 2013, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Luz J. Martinez-Miranda

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Eduardo A. Soto-Bustamante

    • Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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• High resolution synchrotron X-ray studies of lyotropic liquid crystal phases of monolayer Zirconium Phosphate nanosheet

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 5:06 PM – March 19, 2013, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Yue Shi

    • Department of Physics, Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado-Boulder, CO 80309, USA

  • Yongqiang Shen

    • Department of Physics, Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado-Boulder, CO 80309, USA

  • Noel Clark

    • Department of Physics, Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado-Boulder, CO 80309, USA
    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Min Shuai

    • McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A\&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

  • Zhengdong cheng

    • McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A\&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

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