Invited Session: Controlling and Exploiting Topological Defects in Liquid Crystals

Presentations

• Colloid-in-liquid crystal gels

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 22, 2013, 8:00 AM – March 22, 2013, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Nicholas Abbott

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

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• TopologicallyRequired Defects in Nematic Liquid Films over Microposts or in contact with Anisotropic Particles

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 22, 2013, 8:36 AM – March 22, 2013, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Mohamed Amine Gharbi

    Department of Physics and Astronomy. University of Pennsylvania

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• Control of periodic, quasicrystalline, and arbitrary arrays of liquid crystal defects stabilized by topological colloids and chirality

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 22, 2013, 9:12 AM – March 22, 2013, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Ivan Smalyukh

    University of Colorado Boulder

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• Nanoparticles at fluid interfaces: how capping ligands control adsorption, stability and dynamics

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 22, 2013, 9:48 AM – March 22, 2013, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Valeria Garbin

    Imperial College London

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• Resolving Defect Formation and Dynamics of the Smectic-A Mesophase

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 22, 2013, 10:24 AM – March 22, 2013, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir

    University of Waterloo

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