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Session V8: Liquid Crystals I: Structure and Defects

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Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: Oleg Lavrentovich, Kent State University
Room: Morial Convention Center RO6


Thursday, March 13, 2008
11:15AM - 11:27AM

V8.00001: Effect of Concentration Variations on the Interaction of a Sm-A Liquid Crystal and a Nanoparticle
Luz J. Martinez-Miranda , Lynn K. Kurihara , Rahina S. Rabiu

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
11:27AM - 11:39AM

V8.00002: Simulating defect structures in nematic liquid crystal shells
Lena Lopatina , Andrew Konya , Jonathan Selinger , Robin Selinger , Alex Travesset

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
11:39AM - 11:51AM

V8.00003: String defects in smectic-C monolayers and hybrid nematic films
Fangfu Ye , Zhao Lu , Lena Lopatina , Jonathan Selinger , Alex Travesset

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
11:51AM - 12:03PM

V8.00004: Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering polarized microscopy of 3D director structures in liquid crystals
Ivan Smalyukh , Alexander Kachynski , Andrey Kuzmin , Paras Prasad

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:03PM - 12:15PM

V8.00005: Light Scattering Study of Biaxiality in Nematic Liquid Crystal Tetrapodes
Krishna Neupane , Shinwoong Kang , Sunil Sharma , D. Carney , T. Meyer , George H. Mehl , David W. Allender , Satyendra Kumar , Samuel Sprunt

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:15PM - 12:27PM

V8.00006: Effects of dielectric relaxation on the director dynamics of uniaxial nematic liquid crystals
Mingxia Gu , Ye Yin , Sergij V. Shiyanovskii , Oleg D. Lavrentovich

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:27PM - 12:39PM

V8.00007: Condensation of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals by additives
Luana Tortora , H.-S. Park , S.-W. Kang , S. Kumar , K.V. Kaznatcheev , O.D. Lavrentovich

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:39PM - 12:51PM

V8.00008: Interactions in the NOBOW and 8CB Mixtures
Dong Chen , Chenhui Zhu , Noel Clark

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:51PM - 1:03PM

V8.00009: Effect of Solvent Concentration on the Liquid Crystal Phase Transitions of Octylcyanobiphenyl-Hexane Mixtures
Krishna Sigdel , Germano Iannacchione

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
1:03PM - 1:15PM

V8.00010: Landau potential of polymer stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals
Paul Archer , Ingo Dierking

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
1:15PM - 1:27PM

V8.00011: Varying the optical properties of cholesteric liquid crystals
Sabrina Relaix , Michele Moreira , Peter Palffy-Muhoray , Michel Mitov

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
1:27PM - 1:39PM

V8.00012: Three-dimensional imaging of chemical bond orientation in liquid crystals by coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy.
Oleg D. Lavrentovich , Heung-Shik Park , Brian G. Saar , X. Sunney Xie

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
1:39PM - 1:51PM

V8.00013: Low electric field induced phase transition of the B1 bent-core liquid crystal phase to a switching phase
J. Kirchhoff , L.S. Hirst

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Thursday, March 13, 2008
1:51PM - 2:03PM

V8.00014: Evidence of Broken Reciprocity in Chiral Liquid Crystals
Michele Moreira , Nithya Venkataraman , Bahman Taheri , Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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