Liquid Crystals III: Nematic and Twist Bend Phases

Presentations

• Direct mapping of local director field of nematic liquid crystals at the nano-scale

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 2:30 PM – March 5, 2015, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Yu Xia

    • Univ of Pennsylvania

  • Francesca Serra

    • Univ of Pennsylvania

  • Shu Yang

    • Univ of Pennsylvania
    • LRSM, University of Pennsylvania

  • Randall Kamien

    • Univ of Pennsylvania

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• Topological Defects in Liquid Crystals: Studying the Correlation between Defects and Curvature

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 2:42 PM – March 5, 2015, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Charles Melton

    • University of California Merced

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• Ground States of Nematic Tori with radial boundary conditions

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 2:54 PM – March 5, 2015, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Karthik Nayani

    • School of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Perry Ellis

    • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Jung Ok Park

    • School of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

    • School of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Alberto Fernandez De Las Nieves

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Using chemically patterns with different anchoring behavior to control the orientation of nematic liquid crystal

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 3:06 PM – March 5, 2015, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Xiao Li

    • University of Chicago

  • Julio Armas Perez

    • University of Chicago

  • Jose Adrian Martinez-Gonzalez

    • University of Chicago

  • Helou Xie

    • University of Chicago

  • Juan de Pablo

    • University of Chicago

  • Paul Nealey

    • University of Chicago

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• Planar Anchoring of Achiral Nematic Liquid Crystals in Capillaries --- with a Twist

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 3:18 PM – March 5, 2015, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Zoey S. Davidson

    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

  • Joonwoo Jeong

    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

  • Louis Kang

    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

  • Peter J. Collings

    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy, Swarthmore, Department of Physics \& Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

  • Tom C. Lubensky

    • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

  • A. G. Yodh

    • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

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• Dynamics of isothermal phase transition of liquid crystal with zero anchoring

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 3:30 PM – March 5, 2015, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Jinxin Fu

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Karthik Nayani

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Jung Ok Park

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Optical Switching of Nematic Liquid Crystal Film based on Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 3:42 PM – March 5, 2015, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Makiko Quint

    • University of California, Merced

  • Silverio Delgado

    • University of California, Merced

  • Zachary Nuno

    • University of California, Merced

  • Linda Hirst

    • University of California, Merced

  • Sayantani Ghosh

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Merced
    • University of California, Merced

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• Substrate induced gliding for a nematic liquid crystal layer

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 3:54 PM – March 5, 2015, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Ensela Mema

    • New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • Linda Cummings

    • New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • Lou Kondic

    • New Jersey Institute of Technology

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• A novel twisted nematic alignment and its effects on the electro-optical dynamics of nanoscale liquid crystalline films

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 4:06 PM – March 5, 2015, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Brittany Rauzan

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Lay Min Lee

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801

  • Ralph Nuzzo

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801

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• Rheology of a Twist-bend Nematic Liquid Crystal

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 4:18 PM – March 5, 2015, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Seyyed Muhammad Salili

    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 USA

  • Chanjoong Kim

    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA

  • Samuel Sprunt

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University
    • Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA

  • James Gleeson

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University
    • Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA

  • Owain Parri

    • Merck Chemicals Ltd., Chilworth Technical Centre, University Parkway, Southampton SO16 7QD, UK

  • Antal J\'akli

    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
    • Liquid Crystal Institute
    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 USA

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• Second Harmonic Light Scattering Study of a Twist-Bend Nematic Liquid Crystal

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 4:30 PM – March 5, 2015, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Shokir Pardaev

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University

  • James Gleeson

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University
    • Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA

  • Antal J\'akli

    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
    • Liquid Crystal Institute
    • Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
    • Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 USA

  • Samuel Sprunt

    • Department of Physics, Kent State University
    • Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA

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• Coarse-grained model and light scattering of the twist-bend nematic phase

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 4:42 PM – March 5, 2015, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Shaikh Shamid

    • Kent State Univ - Kent

  • David Allender

    • Kent State Univ - Kent

  • Jonathan Selinger

    • Kent State Univ - Kent

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• Fullerene (C$_{60}$) nano-colloids in nematic liquid crystal

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 4:54 PM – March 5, 2015, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Angelo Visco

    • Slippery Rock University

  • Kevin Sobczak

    • Slippery Rock University

  • Rizwan Mahmood

    • Slippery Rock University

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• Computational and theoretical analysis of chiral rafts in colloidal membranes

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 5:06 PM – March 5, 2015, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Raunak Sakhardande

    • Brandeis University

  • Michael Hagan

    • Brandeis University

  • Aparna Baskaran

    • Brandeis University

  • Bulbul Chakraborty

    • Brandeis University

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