Monday, 3 July 2006: 11:00 AM-12:40 PM
Shavano (Keystone Resort)
Biaxial nematics
Chair:P. Barois
11:00 AMBIAX-O1On the Landau theory of biaxial nematics: A molecular field approach
G R Luckhurst, T J Sluckin, K S Thomas
11:20 AMBIAX-O2Universal mean-field phase diagram for biaxial nematics
Fulvio Bisi, Epifanio G. Virga, Eugene C. Gartland Jr., Giovanni De Matteis, Andre' Sonnet, Georges E. Durand
11:40 AMBIAX-O3Stronger evidence for bent-core biaxial nematics
Louis A. Madsen, Nicholas A. Zafiropoulos, Theo J. Dingemans, Edward T. Samulski
12:00 PMBIAX-O4The nature of phases, phase transitions, and defects in achiral bent-core and Ge-tetrapodic mesogens exhibiting the biaxial nematic phase
Shinwoong Kang, Veena Prasad, Vishal Pandya, Leela Joshi, Qingbing Wang, Georg H. Mehl, D. Finotello, Satyendra Kumar
12:20 PMBIAX-O5Shape persistent bent mesogens: Biaxial molecules forming biaxial nematic phases
Matthias Lehmann, Christiane Köhn, Satyendra Kumar, Shinwoong Kang, Ute Kolb, Tatiana Gorelik, Dieter Schollmeyer

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