Topic: Functional Liquid Crystals

This session focussed on liquid crystals and covered the synthetic methodologies, structure and applications of liquid crystalline functional materials. Special emphasis was placed on liquid crystalline supramolecular assemblies, photoactive, conducting and magnetic systems, liquid crystals in biology, catalytic materials, sensors, dendrimers, polymers and nanoparticles. The session included the synthesis and liquid crystal behaviour of these systems, the evaluation of their physical properties and studies on nanostructures derived from mesomorphic architectures. Their applications based on their electronic, photonic and magnetic behaviour was also be included.

Session: Functional Liquid Crystals (i) - Thursday 5 July (am)

Keynote
Stuart Rowan
Case Western Reserve University, USA

Ionic Self-Assembly for the production of nanostructured materials with addressable function 
Yuriy Zakrevskyy, Bernd Smarsly, Joachim Stumpe and Charl F J Faul*
University of Bristol, UK

Complex soft matter structures formed by self-organization of programmed low molecular weight polyphilic molecules
C Tschierske*, G Ungar, U Baumeister, B Chen, R Kieffer, M Prehm and X Zeng
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Formation of periodic stripe patterns in nematic liquid crystals doped with functionalized gold nanoparticles
H Qi and T Hegmann*
University of Manitoba, Canada

Supramolecular electronics by self-assembly of pi-conjugated oligomers using biomolecules as a template
A P H J Schenning*
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

[60]Fullerene : a versatile building-block for the synthesis of liquid-crystalline functional dendrimers
Robert Deschenaux*
Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Session: Functional Liquid Crystals (ii) - Thursday 5 July (pm)

Keynote: Organic nanostructures from self-assembly of rod amphiphiles
Myongsoo Lee
Yonsei University, South Korea

Star-shaped mesogens containing chromophores: synthesis and properties of functional liquid crystals
M Lehmann*, M Jahr, F Grozema and L D A Siebbeles 
Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Incorporating functional units into the columnar mesophases
Andrew N Cammidge*, Hemant Gopee and Hadiza Isah
University of East Anglia, UK

Cellulose fibers functionalized with liquid crystalline polymers prepared by ATRP
Robert Westlund, Anna Carlmark, Isabel Saez, Anders Hult and Eva Malmström*
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Anisotropic nanoparticles in anisotropic fluids: carbon nanotube-liquid crystal composites
Jan P F Lagerwall*, Giusy Scalia, Siegmar Roth and Frank Giesselmann
Universität Stuttgart, Germany

Frustration in a non-chiral ordered fluid
Verena Görtz*, Christopher Southern, Nicholas Roberts, Helen F Gleeson and John W Goodby
University of York, UK

Chirality transfer from an optically active mesogenic oligomer to macroscopic order in the liquid crystalline phase
Atsushi Yoshizawa*, Masatada Sato, Keiko Kobayashi and Hirotoshi Iwamochi
Hirosaki University, Japan