Session A37: Liquid Crystals I

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Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: Antal Jakli, Kent State University
LACC - 512


Monday, March 21, 2005
8:00AM - 8:12AM

A37.00001: Spatially Periodic Alignment of Liquid Crystals by Patterned Photopolymerization
Jian Zhou , David Collard , Jung Park , Mohan Srinivasarao

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Monday, March 21, 2005
8:12AM - 8:24AM

A37.00002: Quantitative study of the colloidal interaction forces and defect line tension in liquid crystals using optical trapping of polymer particles and defects
Ivan Smalyukh , Oleg Lavrentovich , Andrey Kuzmin , Aleksandr Kachynski , Paras Prasad

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Monday, March 21, 2005
8:24AM - 8:36AM

A37.00003: Effect of Magnetic Nanoparticles, Their Size and Functionalization on Liquid Crystal Order
Luz J. Martinez-Miranda , Kevin McCarthy, Jr , Lynn K. Kurihara , Jason J. Harry , Robert L. Bruce

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Monday, March 21, 2005
8:36AM - 8:48AM

A37.00004: Pattern formation by liquid crystal of colloidal gold nanorods
Kyoungweon Park , Mohan Srinivasarao

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Monday, March 21, 2005
8:48AM - 9:00AM

A37.00005: Generalized Order Parameters for Systems of Orientationally Ordered Anisometric Particles
Michael Shelley , Sharon C. Glotzer , Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Monday, March 21, 2005
9:00AM - 9:12AM

A37.00006: Liquid crystals in random porous media: Disorder is stronger in low--density aerosils
Dima Feldman , Robert Pelcovits

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Monday, March 21, 2005
9:12AM - 9:24AM

A37.00007: The Effect of Aerosil Network on Liquid Crystal (4O.8) Phase Transition
Mehmet Ramazanoglu , Simon Larochelle , Robert J. Birgeneau

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Monday, March 21, 2005
9:24AM - 9:36AM

A37.00008: Rf/ac-calorimetry on 8CB+aerosil dispersions
Saimir Barjami , Germano Iannacchione

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Monday, March 21, 2005
9:36AM - 9:48AM

A37.00009: Structure and Phase Behavior of Smectic Liquid Crystals in Anisotropic Disorder
Dennis Liang , Robert Leheny

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Monday, March 21, 2005
9:48AM - 10:00AM

A37.00010: Ordered Patterns of Liquid Crystal Toroidal Defects by Microchannel Confinement
Youli Li , Myung Chul Choi , Thomas Pfohl , Jacob N. Israelachvili , Cyrus R. Safinya , Zhiyu Wen , Mahn Won Kim

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Monday, March 21, 2005
10:00AM - 10:12AM

A37.00011: Coarsening dynamics of a liquid crystal biosensor: Effects of adsorbed nanoparticles, flow and thermal fluctuations
Orlando Guzman , Manan Chopra , Nicholas Abbott , Juan de Pablo

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Monday, March 21, 2005
10:12AM - 10:24AM

A37.00012: A Light Driven Artificial Goldfish
J. Neal , H. Finkelmann , P. Palffy-Muhoray , M. Shelley , T. Toth-Katona

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Monday, March 21, 2005
10:24AM - 10:36AM

A37.00013: Real-time microbe detection based on director distortions and light transmittance around growing immune complexes in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Oleg Lavrentovich , Sergei Shiyanovskii , Tod Schneider , Ivan Smalyukh , Tomohiro Ishikawa , Gary Niehaus , Kathy Doane , Christopher Woolverton

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Monday, March 21, 2005
10:36AM - 10:48AM

A37.00014: Dielectric relaxation in confined liquid crystal: molecular and collective modes
Manuel Rivera , Fouad Aliev

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Monday, March 21, 2005
10:48AM - 11:00AM

A37.00015: Dynamics of director relaxation in nanoconfined liquid crystal: dynamic light scattering investigation
Sarmistha Basu , Fouad Aliev

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