Bulletin of the American Physical Society

APS March Meeting 2012

Volume 57, Number 1

Monday–Friday, February 27–March 2 2012; Boston, Massachusetts

Session Index

Session A50: Liquid Crystalline Order in Polymers, Soft Matter, and Complex Fluids	Show Abstracts
Sponsoring Units: DPOLY Chair: Peter Shibayev, Fordham University Room: 162B

Monday, February 27, 2012 8:00AM - 8:12AM		A50.00001: Shape Memory as a Process: Optimizing Polymer Design for Shape Recovery Richard Vaia, Hilmar Koerner, Kyungmin Lee, Robert Strong, Mattew Smith, Huabin Wang, Tim White, Loon-Seng Tan Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 8:12AM - 8:24AM		A50.00002: Shape and Memory in Liquid Crystalline Elastomers Anselm Griffin, Wanting Ren, Philip McMullan, Whitney Kline, Mohan Srinivasarao Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 8:24AM - 8:36AM		A50.00003: Phase Behavior of Disk-Coil Macromolecules YongJoo Kim, Edward Ha, Alfredo Alexander-Katz Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 8:36AM - 8:48AM		A50.00004: Liquid Crystal Phases of Semiflexible Polymers Ian MacKay, Don Sullivan Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 8:48AM - 9:00AM		A50.00005: Photomechanical mechanism and structure-property considerations in the generation of photomechanical work in glassy, azobenzene liquid crystal polymer networks Kyung Min Lee, Nelson Tabiryan, Timothy Bunning, Timothy White Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 9:00AM - 9:12AM		A50.00006: Surface wrinkling in liquid crystal elastomer bilayers Aditya Agrawal, Paul Luchette, Walter Chapman, Peter Muhoray, Rafael Verduzco Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 9:12AM - 9:24AM		A50.00007: Field-induced orientational order of liquid crystals in random environments Lena Lopatina, Jonathan Selinger Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 9:24AM - 9:36AM		A50.00008: Highly viscous liquid crystalline mixtures: the alternative to liquid crystalline elastomers Petr Shibaev, Cristina Schlesier, Leah Newman, Scott McDonald Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 9:36AM - 9:48AM		A50.00009: Linear aggregation and liquid crystalline ordering: from semi-flexible polymers to rigid rods Tatiana Kuriabova, Zach Kost-Smith, M.D. Betterton, Matthew A. Glaser Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 9:48AM - 10:00AM		A50.00010: Liquid Crystal Elastomer Motors Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Xiaoyu Zheng Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 10:00AM - 10:12AM		A50.00011: Orientational fluctuations of amorphous nematogenic solids Fangfu Ye, Bing Lu, Paul Goldbart Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 10:12AM - 10:24AM		A50.00012: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 10:24AM - 10:36AM		A50.00013: Non-Monotonic Concentration Effects in the Phase Behavior and Nematic Orders: Mixtures of Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Low-Molecular-Weight Liquid Crystals Bilin Zhuang, Zhen-Gang Wang Preview Abstract
Monday, February 27, 2012 10:36AM - 10:48AM		A50.00014: Effect of blending on nematic order in semiflexible polymers Kiran Khanal, Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

APS March Meeting 2012

Volume 57, Number 1

Monday–Friday, February 27–March 2 2012; Boston, Massachusetts

Session Index

Session A50: Liquid Crystalline Order in Polymers, Soft Matter, and Complex Fluids

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