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Session J9: Liquid Crystals: Nematics, Lyotropics and Vesicles

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Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: Satyendra Kumar, Kent State University
Room: D220


Tuesday, March 22, 2011
11:15AM - 11:27AM

J9.00001: Dynamics of chiral liquid-crystal films driven by water transport
Jonathan V. Selinger , Lena M. Lopatina

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
11:27AM - 11:39AM

J9.00002: Linear aggregation and liquid-crystalline order: comparison of Monte Carlo simulation and analytic theory
Tatiana Kuriabova , M.D. Betterton , Matthew A. Glaser

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
11:39AM - 11:51AM

J9.00003: Modeling the Kerr effect in polymer-disordered liquid crystals
Lena M. Lopatina , Jonathan V. Selinger

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
11:51AM - 12:03PM

J9.00004: A nonlocal model of inhomogeneous nematic liquid crystals
Peter Palffy-Muhoray , Xiaoyu Zheng , Roland Ennis

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
12:03PM - 12:15PM

J9.00005: Freely Suspended Nematic Films
Wilder Iglesias , Jeffrey Choi , Elizabeth K. Mann , Antal Jakli

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
12:15PM - 12:27PM

J9.00006: Fluctuation Modes of a Bent-Core Nematic Liquid Crystal
Madhabi Majumdar , S. Chakraborty , B. Senyuk , O.D. Lavrentovich , James T. Gleeson , Antal Jakli , Samuel Sprunt

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
12:27PM - 12:39PM

J9.00007: Three dielectric constants and orientation order parameters in nematic mesophases
Hyung Guen Yoon , Seung Yeon Jeong , Satyendra Kumar , Min Sang Park , Jung Ok Park , M. Srinivasarao , Sung Tae Shin

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
12:39PM - 12:51PM

J9.00008: The interplay between fluctuations in physical structure and power consumption in electroconvecting liquid crystals
John Cressman , Zrinka Greguric , Tyrus Berry , Timothy Sauer

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
12:51PM - 1:03PM

J9.00009: Magneto-optical technique for detecting biaxial nematic phase
Tanya Ostapenko , J.T. Gleeson , S.N. Sprunt , A. Jakli

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
1:03PM - 1:15PM

J9.00010: Nonlinear electrophoresis in nematics: Flows and effects of salts
Israel Lazo-Martinez , Oleg D. Lavrentovich

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
1:15PM - 1:27PM

J9.00011: Anisotropic Stokes Drag and Dynamic Lift on Cylindrical Colloids in a Nematic Liquid Crystal
Joel Rovner , Clayton Lapointe , Daniel Reich , Robert Leheny

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
1:27PM - 1:39PM

J9.00012: Morphology and Rheology of the Liquid Crystal-Colloid Composites
Lu Zou , Chanjoong Kim

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
1:39PM - 1:51PM

J9.00013: Structural Reorganization of Liquid Crystals Revealled by Fast Scanning Calorimeter
Dongshan Zhou , Jing Jiang , Xiaoliang Wang , Gi Xue

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
1:51PM - 2:03PM

J9.00014: Parity breaking in nematic tactoids of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Luana Tortora , Oleg D. Lavrentovich

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
2:03PM - 2:15PM

J9.00015: Orientational order and defect structures on curved surfaces
Subas Dhakal , Francisco J. Solis , Monica Olvera de la Cruz

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