Polymers in liquid crystalline materials
Convener:
Ingo Dierking, University of Manchester, UK
Co-Convener: Georg Mehl, University of Hull, UK
Co-Convener: Stephen J. Picken, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Programme:
Thursday 15 July (morning and afternoon)
Symposium Information
The symposium broadly bridges the self-organisation of liquid crystals with the properties of polymers, linking physics, chemistry, material science, engineering and even biology in a truly multi-disciplinary manner. It thus covers:
- traditional liquid crystalline polymers, synthesis and properties
- polymer dispersed and polymer stabilised liquid crystals
- liquid crystalline elastomers
- liquid crystal based polymer composites
- liquid crystal phases of biopolymers
- electro-optic properties of liquid crystal based polymer systems and applications
Keynote Speaker
The new mechanics of polymers distorted by liquid crystals
Mark Warner, University of Cambridge, UK
Invited Speakers
Photopolymerization of liquid crystal networks as a tool for micro- and nano-structuring of functional polymer materials
Dirk Broer, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Liquid-crystalline dendrimers: Combining molecular complexity and order
Daniel Guillon, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, France
Speakers
Self-assembling of tapered dendrons of various nature and functionality
Maxim Shcherbina, Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, Russia
Deformation of cholesteric elastomers, taking into account of the Frank-Oseen elasticity
Werner Stille, University of Freiburg, Germany
Photomechanical outputs of glassy azobenzene liquid crystal polymer networks
Timothy White, Airforce Research Laboratory, USA
Stable Holographic Gratings Based on Small-Molecular, Liquid-Crystalline Trisazobenzene Derivatives
Pascal Wolfer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Molecular Dynamics and Biaxiality of Nematic Liquid Crystalline Polymers and Elastomers
Felicitas Brömmel, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg i. Br., Germany
Poster Presenters
Novel Liquid Crystalline and Enhanced Light Emitting Polyacetylenes: Effects of Substitition, Spacers and Terminal Groups on Polyacetylenes Bearing Terphenyl Pendants
Yiwang Chen, Nanchang University, China
A study of cationic polymerization of 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)aziridine
Marta Giamberini, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Molecular orientation behavior of azobenzene polymer liquid crystals and their application for photoresponsive 1D-photonic crystal
Sejji Kurihara, Kumamoto University, Japan
DSC and synchrotron studies of liquid crystalline copolyesters
María L Cerrada, Institute of Polymer Sience and Technology (CSIC), Spain
Relations between the Diisocyanate Structure and Properties of Liquid Crystalline Polyurethane Elastomers
Steven Fuhrmann, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
