Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Fall 2020 Meeting of the APS New England Section
Volume 65, Number 21
Friday–Saturday, November 6–7, 2020; Virtual
Session B01: Contributed: Solid State and Material Sciences |
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Chair: Dan Liu, University of Hartford |
Friday, November 6, 2020 3:15PM - 3:35PM |
B01.00001: Preliminary Study of Internal Interventions to Collective Behaviors of Insect Swarm Dan Liu Animal groups present impressive and interesting self-organized collective behaviors. The goal of this project is to explore the potential for controlling the motions of insect swarms by internal interventions. Internal intervention consists of introducing agents into an insect swarm in order to control the behaviors of the swarm. These agents are insects controlled by technical means or consist of tiny drones that influence the behavior of the swarm. The work will contribute to an alternative way to handle plagues such as locust infestation. This preliminary study presents the feasibility analysis of internal interventions based on previous studies on collective behaviors in active matter. The proposed model is built on active Ising Models with the integration of mutual expectation for the rule of alignment of individuals. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, November 6, 2020 3:35PM - 3:55PM |
B01.00002: Unconventional Ionic and Electro-Optical Effects Enabled by Nanomaterials in Liquid Crystals Yuriy Garbovskiy Nanomaterials in liquid crystals are a hot topic of contemporary liquid crystal research. An understanding of the effects of nanodopants on the properties of liquid crystals is critical for the development of novel mesogenic materials with improved functionalities tailored to a variety of applications. They include advanced displays for virtual and augmented reality, tunable electro-optical components for biomedical devices, diffractive optical elements for imaging with flat optics, and reconfigurable signal processing devices operating at microwave and millimeter wave frequencies, to name a few. In my talk, I will focus on the electrical and electro-optical behavior of liquid crystals doped with nanomaterials. Conventional and unconventional ionic and electro-optical effects (including a recently observed inverse guest-host effect) enabled by nanoparticles in liquid crystals will be discussed. [Preview Abstract] |
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