A symposium to review ongoing efforts in the science and technology of sub-micrometer sized
liquid crystalline structures and to explore future paths of research and development in this field.
Sub-100 nm pixels may be achieved
Image by Wen Bing
| Anniversary Symposium October 30-31, 2000 |
Optical Beam Steering June 29-30, 2000 |
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A symposium to review ongoing efforts in the science and technology of sub-micrometer sized liquid crystalline structures and to explore future paths of research and development in this field. |
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Sub-100 nm pixels may be achieved Image by Wen Bing |
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| Invited Speakers |
 Atomic Force Microscope image of nanostructured lyotropic liquid crystal Image by Tod Schneider |
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| Nicholas L. Abbott, University of Wisconsin | ||
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| Timothy Bunning, Air Force Research Laboratory | ||
| Matthew Glaser, University of Colorado | ||
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| Shui-Chih Alan Lien, IBM | ||
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| Yuri Reznikov, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences | ||
| Cyrus Safinya, University of California, Santa Barbara | ||
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National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Japan |
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Agenda
| Tuesday, June
19, 2001 Samsung Auditorium, Liquid Crystal Institute |
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| 8:20 | - | 8:30 | Welcome John L. West, Director, LCI and ALCOM |
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9:05 | Hiroshi Yokoyama, Japanese
Science & Technology Corp. Creating Nanostructured Liquid Crystals by Scanned Probe Technology: Potentialities and Consequences |
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9:25 | Satyendra Kumar, Kent
State University Exploiting New Limits of Phase Separation to Construct Sub-micron Liquid Crystal Photonic Devices |
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| 9:25 | - | 10:00 | Timothy J. Bunning,
Air Force Research Laboratory Holographic Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals |
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| 10:00 | - | 10:20 | Break | |
| 10:20 | - | 10:55 | Yuriy Reznikov, Ukrainian
Academy of Sciences Ultra-fine Particle Suspensions in Liquid Crystals |
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| 10:55 | - | 11:15 | Daniele Finotello, Kent
State University Deuteron NMR Study of Nanosize Liquid Crystal Films in Porous Media |
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| 11:15 | - | 11:50 | George S. Attard, University
of Southampton Nanostructured Materials from Lyotropic Systems: Synthesis, Properties and Applications |
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| 11:50 | - | 12:10 | Charles Rosenblatt,
Case Western Reserve University Scanning Probe Lithography: From Technology to Science |
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| 12:10 | - | 1:25 | Lunch | |
| 1:25 | - | 2:00 | Nicholas L. Abbott,
University of Wisconsin Using Liquid Crystals on Nanostructured Surfaces to Image Biomolecular Interactions |
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| 2:00 | - | 2:20 | John L. West, Kent State
University Nanostructured Liquid Crystal Polymer Composites |
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| 2:20 | - | 2:55 | Slobodan Zumer, University
of Ljubljana Stability of Very Thin Nematic Films |
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| 2:55 | - | 3:15 | Break | |
| 3:15 | 3:50 | Virgil Percec, University
of Pennsylvania Nature as a Model for the Design of Nanostructured Liquid Crystals |
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| 3:50 | - | 4:25 | Maurice Kleman, University
of Paris, VI Identification of a TGBA Liquid Crystal Phase via its Defects |
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| 4:25 | - | 4:45 | Rolfe G. Petschek, Case
Western Reserve University Self-Assembly of Nematic Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Gels |
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| 4:45 | - | 5:20 | Shui-Chih Alan Lien,
IBM A Non-Contact LC Alignment Method Using DLC Film and Ion Beam |
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6:45 |
Poster Session, Liquid Crystal Institute,
South Wing Cash Bar and Hors D'oeuvres, LCI Atrium |
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| 6:45 | - | Banquet Kent Student Center, Room 306 |
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| Wednesday,
June 20, 2001 Samsung Auditorium, Liquid Crystal Institute |
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| 8:30 | - | 8:50 | Peter Palffy-Muhoray,
Kent State University Lasing in Cholesteric Band-gap Materials |
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| 8:50 | - | 9:25 | Matthew Glaser, University
of Colorado Fluctuations and Clinicity in Tilted Smectics |
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| 9:25 | - | 9:45 | Philip J. Taylor, Case
Western Reserve University Order in Nanoscopic Liquid Crystal Droplets -- How Small is Too Small? |
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| 9:45 | - | 10:20 | Cyrus Safinya, University
of California, Santa Barbara Supramolecular Assembly in DNA and Cytoskeletal Proteins Complexed with Lipids: Liquid Crystalline Soft Condensed Matter Materials for Biomedical Applications |
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| 10:20 | - | 10:40 | Break | |
| 10:40 | - | 11:00 | David W. Allender, Kent
State University Wetting and Prewetting Transitions in Cholesteric and Nematogenic Materials |
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| 11:00 | - | 11:20 | J. Adin Mann, Case Western
Reserve University Optical Properties of nCB Monomolecular Films using Brewster Angle Microscopy and Surface Light-Scattering Spectroscopy |
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| 11:20 | - | 11:40 | Thein Kyu, The University
of Akron Formation of Microlens Arrays via Pattern-Photopolymerization-Induced Phase Separation of Liquid Crystal/Monomer Mixtures using Four-Wave Mixing |
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| 11:40 | - | 12:00 | Steven D. Hudson, Case
Western Reserve University Phase Behavior and Transitions in Nanostructured Polymers |
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| 12:00 | - | 12:20 | Oleg D. Lavrentovich,
Kent State University Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals |
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| 12:20 | Closing Remarks, Jack L. Koenig, Case Western Reserve University | |||
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D. Lavrentovich Liquid Crystal Institute Kent State University (330) 672-4844 odl@lci.kent.edu |
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Rosenblatt Department of Physics Case Western Reserve University (216) 368-4125 cxr@po.cwru.edu |
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the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials a consortium of three Northeast Ohio universities Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University and The University of Akron John L. West, Director (KSU) Jack L. Koenig, Associate Director (CWRU) |
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