Thursday, 6 July 2006: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Quandary (Keystone Resort)
Posters - Structure, ordering, and defects
NMR of TGBA* phase in chiral liquid crystals
Ronald Dong, Jing Zhang, Valentina Domenici
Riverbottom texture: Patterns of compressional stress obtained on cooling an SSFLC cell from the nematic phase
Christopher D. Jones, David Coleman, Michael D. Wand, Noel A. Clark
Smectic order parameters from diffusion data
Mario Cifelli, Giorgio Cinacchi, Luca De Gaetani
Contribution of Raman mapping for the study of the pitch gradient in cholesteric polysiloxanes
Denis Bormann, Michel Mitov, Christian Bourgerette, Mahmoud Belalia, Abdelghani Krallafa, Mustapha Belhakem
Random anisotropy nematic model
Vlad Popa Nita, Samo Kralj
Numerical simulation of the TGB phase of chiral liquid crystals
Hiroto Ogawa, Nariya Uchida
Refractive index density and orientational order parameter of propoxy-4-heptyl-4'-tolane
S Mohyeddine, R Somashekar, D Revannasiddaiah
Simple experimental assessment of smectic translational order parameters
Nadia Kapernaum, Frank Giesselmann
Static and Dynamic studies of nonyloxycyanobiphenyl (9OCB) in the vicinity of first order N-to-I and weakly first order SmA-to-N phase transitions
P. Cusmin Jr., M. Rosario De la Fuente Sr., J. Salud Sr., M. A. Perez-Jubindo Sr., David O. Lopez Sr., S Diez Sr., M. Barrio Sr., Josep Ll. Tamarit Sr.
Evidences for a reentrant nematic behaviour and a nematic- smectic-Ad tricritical point in binary mixtures of heptyloxycyanobiphenyl (7OCB) and nonyloxycyanobiphenyl (9OCB)
P. Cusmin Jr., J. Salud Sr., David O. Lopez Sr., S Diez Sr., M. A. Perez-Jubindo Sr., M. Rosario De la Fuente Sr., M. Barrio Sr., Josep Ll. Tamarit Sr.
Energy transfer in high ordered liquid crystalline small molecule with two chromophores
Yun Ho Kim, Dong Ki Yoon, Young Koan Ko, Hee-Tae Jung
Polarization-enhanced interaction between islands on freely-suspended smectic C* liquid crystal films
Apichart Pattanaporkratana, Cheol S. Park, Joseph Maclennan, Noel A. Clark
Twist-grain boundary phases and Schnerk's surface
Christian Santangelo, Randall Kamien
Molecular ordering and defect of small liquid crystal molecule
Dong Ki Yoon, Myung Chul Choi, Yun Ho Kim, Mahn Won Kim, Hee-Tae Jung
Interaction of silica beads with disclination lines
David Pires, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Yves Galerne
Atomistic-level characterization of a novel thiophene-based two and three phenyl ring mesogens by solid-state NMR
Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Tanneru Narasimhaswamy, N. Somanathan
Expulsion of bend deformation from the smectic-A phase: analogy to type I superconducting meissner effect
Ishtiaque M. Syed, Ruiting Wang, Giovanni Carbone, Rolfe G. Petschek, Charles Rosenblatt
An adiabatic scanning calorimetry study of the effect of nonmesogenic solutes on the nematic-to-smectic A phase transition in a liquid crystal
Katleen Denolf, Bert Van Roie, Christ Glorieux, Jan Thoen
Annihilation of point defects in smectic-C liquid crystal films
Chenhui Zhu, Chris Muzny, Anuranjita Tewary, Darren R. Link, Aurelien Fritz, David Coleman, Joe Maclennan, Noel Clark
Orientational transition in a nematic liquid crystal at a patterned surface
T. J. Atherton, J Roy Sambles
Undulations of lamellar liquid crystals in cells with finite surface anchoring
Bohdan I. Senyuk, Ivan I. Smalyukh, Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Universalities in nematic liquid crystals
M. Simões, A. de Campos, F. da Silva Alves, D. Simeão
Fluctuations in liquid crystal films probed by subnanosecond photon correlation spectroscopy
Sunil Sharma, Krishna Neupane, AR Baldwin, Samual Sprunt
Properties of discotic-nematic to isotropic transition: Influence of dispersion interaction
T. K. Lahiri
Raman mapping of the orientation of nematic and smectic liquid crystals
Ebru A. Buyuktanir, Ke Zhang, Arne Gericke, John L. West
Phase transition and physical properties of a binary mixture of bicyclohexane compounds by x-ray diffraction measurements
Malay Kumar Das
Theory of the heat capacity and other fluctuation phenomena at the nematic – isotropic transition
Paul H. Keyes
An adiabatic scanning calorimetry study of the nematic-smectic A and nematic-isotropic phase transitions in 4-butyloxyphenyl-4'-decyloxybenzoate
Katleen Denolf, Bert Van Roie, Christ Glorieux, Sevtap Yildiz, Haluk Özbek, Jan Thoen
Field-induced motion of nematic disclinations
Paolo Biscari, Timothy J. Sluckin
Studies on typical phase transitions in 4,4'-DI-n-pentyloxyazoxybenzene
V Venkata Rao, K Vijayalakshmi, S Sreehari Sastry
Linear disclination of integer force in a homogenous magnetic field
Igor I Klebanov, Pavel Gritzay
Order measurements on a rodlike mesogen: Rewriting nematic theories?
Louis A. Madsen, Theo J. Dingemans, Edward T. Samulski
Anisotropic and isotropic electroconvection
Ágnes Buka, Nandor Eber, Werner Pesch, Alexei A. Krekhov, Lorenz Kramer
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy studies of nematic liquid crystals
Sosuke Tanaka, Yoshinori Okada, Kohji Yamamoto, Yoichi Takanishi, Masahiko Tani, Ken Ishikawa, Masanori Hangyo, Hideo Takezoe
Dislocation climb in cholesteric lamellae controlled by electric field
Bohdan I. Senyuk, Ivan I. Smalyukh, Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Determination of the nematic order parameter of 4-butyloxyphenyl-4'-decyloxybenzoate liquid crystal from refractive index data
Sevtap Yildiz, Haluk Ozbek, Christ Glorieux, Jan Thoen
Bistable anchoring transitions in ferronematic liquid crystal
Oksana Semyonova, AN. Zakhlevnykh
Elastic actions exchanged by eccentric cylinders in liquid crystals
Riccardo Rosso, Samo Kralj, Epifanio G. Virga
Effect of different surfaces on nematic-smectic A phase transition of -butyloxyphenyl-4'-decyloxybenzoate liquid crystal
Haluk Ozbek, Sevtap Yildiz, Esra Ozkan Zayim, Onder Pekcan
Molecular ordering in a SmAb phase studied by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM)
Torsten Hegmann, Konstantine Kaznatcheev
Influence of quenched disorder on the second order continuous symmetry breaking phase transition
Milan Svetec, Vlad Popa-Nita, Samo Kralj
The critical point in the smectic-C* - smectic-C*-alpha phase transition
Zengqiang Liu, Suntao Wang, Andy Cady, Cheng-Cher Huang, Ron Pindak, Wolfgang Caliebe, Tinh H. Nguyen
Pressure – temperature phase diagrams for long members of two homologous series of liquid crystals: nCB and nBT
Stanislaw Urban, Joanna Czub, Albert Würflinger
Pretilt control of a nematic liquid crystal on a selectively etched homeotropic layer over a homogeneous layer
Hyungwu Pae, Yoonseuk Choi, Sin-Doo Lee
Wide angle X-ray studies of 1-(4-Hexylcyclohexyl)-4-[2-(4-isothiocynatophenyl) ethyl]benzene in nematic phase
S Mohyeddine, R Somashekar, D Revannasiddaiah
Investigation of structural effects in liquid crystals by experimental infrared spectroscopy spectroscopy and computer modelling
Sergey I. Tatarinov
Defects in liquid crystals and in the cosmos: A geometrical optics analogy
Caio Satiro, Fernando Moraes
Kinked focal conic domains in a smectic A
Claire Meyer, Yuriy Nastyshyn, Maurice Kleman
13C NMR and dielectric studies of two fluorinated nematogens
Alberto Marini, Donata Catalano, Marco Geppi, Carlo Alberto Veracini, Stanislaw Urban, Joanna Czub, Roman Dabrowski, Wojciech Kuczynski
13C NMR and DFT studies of chemical shielding tensors of two fluorinated nematogens
Alberto Marini, Donata Catalano, Marco Geppi, Benedetta Mennucci, Carlo Alberto Veracini, Stanislaw Urban

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