Focus Session: Reconfiguring and Actuating Soft Matter III: Shape

Presentations

• Differential Geometry Approach to Liquid-Crystal Elastomers and Glasses

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 11:15 AM – March 5, 2015, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Jonathan Selinger

    • Kent State Univ - Kent

  • Thanh-Son Nguyen

    • Kent State Univ - Kent

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• Wrinkling in thin nematic elastomers

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 11:27 AM – March 5, 2015, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Madison Krieger

    • Brown University

  • Marcelo Dias

    • Aalto University

  • Thomas Powers

    • Brown University

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• Shape evolution in blueprinted liquid crystal polymer films: topological defects and artificial iris

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 11:39 AM – March 5, 2015, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Andrew Konya

    • Kent State Univ - Kent

  • Robin Selinger

    • Kent State Univ - Kent
    • Kent State University

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• Thickness Effects on Piezoelectric Unimorphs under Various Boundary Conditions

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 11:51 AM – March 5, 2015, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Taewoo Ha

    • Univ of Texas, Austin

  • Nanshu Lu

    • Univ of Texas, Austin
    • University of Texas at Austin

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• A Three-Dimensional Phase Diagram of Growth-Induced Surface Instabilities

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 12:03 PM – March 5, 2015, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Qiming Wang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Xuanhe Zhao

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Mechanical Responses of a Polymer Graphene-sheet Nano-sandwich

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 12:15 PM – March 5, 2015, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Xiguang Li

    • Texas Tech University

  • Juliusz Warzywoda

    • Texas Tech University

  • Gregory McKenna

    • Texas Tech Univ
    • Texas Tech University
    • Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 79409, Texas, USA

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• Reconfiguring and Actuating Liquid Metals, Gels, and Polymers

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 5, 2015, 12:27 PM – March 5, 2015, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Michael Dickey

    • NC State University

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• Osmotic robotics: Reversible shape change driven by local osmolarity gradients

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 1:03 PM – March 5, 2015, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Tao Zhang

    • Syracuse University

  • Duanduan Wan

    • Syracuse University

  • J. M. Schwarz

    • Syracuse University

  • Mark Bowick

    • Syracuse Univ
    • Syracuse University

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• Free-Standing Temperature-Sensitive Hydrogel-Particle Membranes from Evaporating Drops

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 1:15 PM – March 5, 2015, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Tim Still

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

  • Peter Yunker

    • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332

  • Kevin Aptowicz

    • Department of Physics, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383

  • Kasey Hanson

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

  • Zoey Davidson

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

  • Matthew Lohr

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

  • A.G. Yodh

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

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• Growth morphologies in active elastic bilayers

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 1:27 PM – March 5, 2015, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • David Mayett

    • Syracuse University

  • Shiladitya Banerjee

    • The University of Chicago
    • James Frank Institute, The University of Chicago
    • University of Chicago

  • J. M. Schwarz

    • Syracuse University

  • Cristina Marchetti

    • Syracuse University
    • Syracuse Univ
    • Physics Department, Syracuse University, NY-13244

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• Evolution to increase the matrix composition of clinical biofilm infections makes them stiffer, consistent with a mechanical fitness benefit

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 1:39 PM – March 5, 2015, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Megan Davis-Fields

    • Univ of Texas, Austin
    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Kristin Kovach

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Vernita Gordon

    • Univ of Texas, Austin
    • University of Texas at Austin
    • The University of Texas at Austin
    • Univ of Texas, Austinf

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• Switchable and Tunable Aerodynamic Drag on Cylinders

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 1:51 PM – March 5, 2015, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Mark Guttag

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Pedro Reis

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT

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