Focus Session: Extreme Mechanics: Filaments and their Assemblies, Elasticity and Defects

Presentations

• Twisted Ribbons: Theory, Experiment and Applications

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 8:00 AM – March 4, 2014, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Julien Chopin

    • COPPE-UFRJ

  • Benjamin Davidovitch

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • UMASS-Amherst

  • Flavio A. Silva

    • COPPE-UFRJ

  • Romildo D. Toledo Filho

    • COPPE-UFRJ

  • Arshad Kudrolli

    • Clark University

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• Elastocapillarity and the curling of fibers

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 8:12 AM – March 4, 2014, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Anupam Pandey

    • Virginia Tech (Poly) Inst

  • Suzie Protiere

    • UPMC Universit\'e Paris 06, UMR 7190, Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  • Douglas Holmes

    • Virginia Tech
    • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    • Virginia Tech (Poly) Inst

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• Handedness and self assembly of chiral rods

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 8:24 AM – March 4, 2014, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Efi Efrati

    • University of Chicago

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• Spontaneous formation and evolution of kinks in elastic helical structures

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 8:36 AM – March 4, 2014, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Shuangping Liu

    • Northwestern University

  • Zhenwei Yao

    • Northwestern University

  • Monica Olvera de la Cruz

    • Northwestern University

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• Stretchable nanoparticle helical ribbons through asymmetric cross-sectional geometry

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 8:48 AM – March 4, 2014, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Alfred J. Crosby

    • Univ of Mass - Amherst
    • Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • Polymer Science \& Engineering Dept., University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts-Amherst

  • Jonathan Pham

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

  • Jimmy Lawrence

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

  • Gregory Grason

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

  • Todd Emrick

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

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• Theory of equilibria of elastic braids with applications to DNA supercoiling

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 9:00 AM – March 4, 2014, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Gert van der Heijden

    • University College London

  • Eugene Starostin

    • University College London

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• Geometrically frustrated filament assemblies: Unravelling the connection between bundle shape and inter-filament order

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 4, 2014, 9:12 AM – March 4, 2014, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Gregory Grason

    • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts-Amherst
    • Univ of Mass - Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts

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• Defect-induced shape transitions in filament bundles

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 9:48 AM – March 4, 2014, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Isaac Bruss

    • University of Massachusetts - Amherst

  • Gregory Grason

    • University of Massachusetts - Amherst

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• Optimal packing of curved filaments

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 10:00 AM – March 4, 2014, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Luis Cajamarca

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Gregory Grason

    • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts-Amherst
    • Univ of Mass - Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts

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• 3D Filament Network Segmentation with Multiple Active Contours

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 10:12 AM – March 4, 2014, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Ting Xu

    • Lehigh University

  • Dimitrios Vavylonis

    • Department of Physics, Lehigh University
    • Lehigh University

  • Xiaolei Huang

    • Lehigh University

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• Elasticity using Nambu-Goldstone modes of isometries

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 10:24 AM – March 4, 2014, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Salem Al Mosleh

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Christian Santangelo

    • Univ of Mass - Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts-Amherst

  • Arthur Evans

    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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• Optomechanical elastomeric engine

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 10:36 AM – March 4, 2014, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Milos Knezevic

    • Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

  • Mark Warner

    • Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

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• Defect interactions in blueprinted Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 10:48 AM – March 4, 2014, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Vianney Gimenez-Pinto

    • Kent State Univ.
    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

  • Andrew Konya

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

  • Robin Selinger

    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

  • Fangfu Ye

    • Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science

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