Session B37: Liquid Crystals II

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Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: Luz J. Martinez-Miranda, U of Maryland
LACC - 512


Monday, March 21, 2005
11:15AM - 11:27AM

B37.00001: Structure within bent-core liquid crystals films at the air/water interface
Lu Zou , Ji Wang , Elizabeth K. Mann , Antal J\'akli , Wolfgang Weissflog

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Monday, March 21, 2005
11:27AM - 11:39AM

B37.00002: Investigation of the physical properties of banana liquid crystal fibers
Christopher Bailey , Antal Jakli

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Monday, March 21, 2005
11:39AM - 11:51AM

B37.00003: Adiabatic Scanning Calorimetric Investigation of the Smectic-A to Hexatic-B Phase Transition in the Liquid Crystal 65OBC.
Jan Thoen , Bert Van Roie , Katleen Denolf , Guido Pitsi

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Monday, March 21, 2005
11:51AM - 12:03PM

B37.00004: Optical Rotation of Layered Liquid Crystalline Phases in the Absence of Helical Winding of Molecular Orientation
L.E. Hough , Noel Clark

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Monday, March 21, 2005
12:03PM - 12:15PM

B37.00005: Subdiffusive Dynamics of Photo-Addressable Self-Assembled Monolayers
Guanjiu Fang , Noel Clark , Joseph Maclennan , Matthew Farrow , David Walba , Youngwoo Yi , Thomas Furtak

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Monday, March 21, 2005
12:15PM - 12:27PM

B37.00006: Optical Tweezer Studies of Liquid Crystals Using Multiple Optical Traps
Apichart Pattanaporkratana

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Monday, March 21, 2005
12:27PM - 12:39PM

B37.00007: Measurement of strain birefringence in isotropic and liquid crystal elastomers and ferrogels
Chris Bailey , Antonio M. Figueiredo Neto , Maria H. Godinho , Peter Palffy-Muhoray , Tibor Toth-Katona

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Monday, March 21, 2005
12:39PM - 12:51PM

B37.00008: Modeling the Dynamics of Shape Change in Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Peter Palffy-Muhoray , Roland Ennis , Luis Malacarne , Michael Shelley

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Monday, March 21, 2005
12:51PM - 1:03PM

B37.00009: Dynamics of the Growth of Twist Fingers in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Clinton Braganza , Deng-Ke yang

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Monday, March 21, 2005
1:03PM - 1:15PM

B37.00010: Dynamics of the acousto-optic effect in a nematic liquid crystal
Jonathan V. Selinger , Viktoria A. Greanya , Anthony P. Malanoski , Brian T. Weslowski , Mark S. Spector

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Monday, March 21, 2005
1:15PM - 1:27PM

B37.00011: Molecular simulation of nematic liquid crystals under acoustic fields
Anthony P. Malanoski , Jonathan V. Selinger

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Monday, March 21, 2005
1:27PM - 1:39PM

B37.00012: Dynamics of pulse laser induced holographic grating in azo-dye doped nematic liquid crystal host
Chie-Tong Kuo , Shuan-Yu Huang

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Monday, March 21, 2005
1:39PM - 1:51PM

B37.00013: The escape-configuration lattice near the nematic-isotropic transition: tilt analogue of blue phases
Yashodhan Hatwalne , Buddhapriya Chakrabarti , N.V. Madhusudhana

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Monday, March 21, 2005
1:51PM - 2:03PM

B37.00014: Bogomol'nyi, Prasad, Sommerfield Configurations in Smectics
Christian Santangelo , Randall Kamien

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Monday, March 21, 2005
2:03PM - 2:15PM

B37.00015: Density of States in Photonic Band Gap Liquid Crystals
Wenyi Cao , Peter Palffy-Muhoray , Bahman Taheri

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B37.00016: Freeze Fracture and AFM Studies of the Liquid Crystal Dark Conglomerate and B4 Phases
L.E. Hough , M. Spannuth , H.J. Jung , J. Zasadzinski , D. Kruerke , G. Heppke , David Walba , Noel Clark

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