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Session H13: Liquid Crystals: Nanoparticles and Surfaces

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Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: Robin Selinger, Kent State University
Room: B112


Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8:00AM - 8:12AM

H13.00001: Maier-Saupe-type theory of ferroelectric nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals
Jonathan Selinger , Lena Lopatina

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8:12AM - 8:24AM

H13.00002: Study of Phase Transitions in Barium Titanate - Liquid Crystal Nano-colloidal Suspensions
Krishna Sigdel , Germano Iannacchione

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8:24AM - 8:36AM

H13.00003: Optical control of nano-particles and colloidal architectures
Hector Mireles , Angel Martinez , Ivan Smalyukh

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8:36AM - 8:48AM

H13.00004: Interaction of a bi-molecular liquid crystal film with functionalized nanoparticles
Jefferson W. Taylor , L.J. Martinez-Miranda

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8:48AM - 9:00AM

H13.00005: The Role of Liquid Crystal Order in Liquid Crystal-Zno Nanoparticle Photovoltaics
Luz J. Martinez-Miranda , Kaitlin M. Traister , Lourdes Salamanca-Riba , Iriselies Melendez-Rodriguez

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
9:00AM - 9:12AM

H13.00006: Electro-optical properties of CdSe quantum dots dispersed in a chiral nematic liquid crystal
J. Kirchhoff , R.H. Inman , S. Ghosh , L.S. Hirst

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
9:12AM - 9:24AM

H13.00007: The Study Of Charge Carrier Transport On The Calamitic Liquid Crystals `` 5, 5'-Di-(Alkyl-Pyridin-Yl) - 2' Bithiophenes''
Naresh Shakya , Chandra Pokhrel , Brett Ellman , Yulia Getmanenko , Robert Twieg

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
9:24AM - 9:36AM

H13.00008: Bent-core alignment monolayers
Wilder Iglesias , Antal Jakli , Elizabeth K. Mann

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
9:36AM - 9:48AM

H13.00009: Island Diffusion in Freely Suspended Smectic A Films: Crossover From 2D to 3D Behavior
Zoom Nguyen , Markus Atkinson , Cheol Park , Joseph Maclennan , Matthew Glaser , Noel Clark

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
9:48AM - 10:00AM

H13.00010: Title: Liquid crystal cells with ``dirty" substrates
Quan Zhang , Leo Radzihovsky

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
10:00AM - 10:12AM

H13.00011: Thickness dependent phase behavior of AFLC liquid crystal films
Cheng-Cher Huang , LiDong Pan , Shun Wang , Chain-Shu Hsu

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
10:12AM - 10:24AM

H13.00012: Colloidal crystal-liquid Interface: Anisotropy, Free energy, and Structure
Duc Nguyen , Triet Dang , Bart Weber , Peter Schall

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
10:24AM - 10:36AM

H13.00013: Cooperative Ordering at Liquid Crystal Interfaces and its Role in Orientational Memory
David Patrick

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
10:36AM - 10:48AM

H13.00014: Effect of Alignment on the Nematic to Isotropic Phase Transitions of 8CB
Dipti Sharma

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
10:48AM - 11:00AM

H13.00015: Study on the surface enhanced ordering effect of liquid crystal films
LiDong Pan , Shun Wang , Chain-Shu Hsu , Cheng-Cher Huang

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