Liquid Crystals I

Presentations

• Elastic multibody interactions in a nematic liquid crystal

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Carsen Grote

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Authors

  • Carsen Grote

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Saverio Spagnolie

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Thomas Chandler

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• Arrested Coarsening in Liquid Crystalline Phase Separation

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Youxing Xu

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Youxing Xu

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Austin Hopkins

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • M. Cristina Marchetti

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Defect delocalization in confined 3D active nematics

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Louise Head

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Louise Head

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Giuseppe Negro

  • Pasquale Digregorio

    • University of Barcelona

  • Ignacio Pagonabarraga

    • University of Barcelona

  • Davide Marenduzzo

    • University of Edinburgh

  • Daniel Beller

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• DNA-Hybridization-Templated Assembly of Gold Nanoparticle Condensates

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Samia Liba

    • University of California, Merced

  Authors

  • Samia Liba

    • University of California, Merced

  • Moses Akinwole

  • Tao Ye

  • Timothy Atherton

    • Tufts University

  • Linda Hirst

    • University of California, Merced

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• Optical Properties of Lens Shaped Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Publication: [1] M. T. Máthé, Á. Buka, A. Jákli, and P. Salamon, Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal thermo-motor, Phys Rev E 105, L052701 (2022).
  [2] M. T. Máthé, B. Farkas, L. Péter, Á. Buka, A. Jákli, and P. Salamon, Electric field-induced interfacial instability in a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal, Sci Rep 13, 6981 (2023).
  [3] R. Barboza, S. Marni, F. Ciciulla, F. Ali Mir, G. Nava, F. Caimi, A. Zaltron, N. A. Clark, T. Bellini, and L. Lucchetti, Explosive electrostatic instability of ferroelectric liquid droplets on ferroelectric solid surfaces, PNAS 119, e2207858119 (2022).

  Presenters

  • Manisha Talwar

    • Kent State University

  Authors

  • Manisha Talwar

    • Kent State University

  • Zakaria Siddiquee

    • Kent State University

  • Antal Jakli

    • Kent State University

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• Coexistence of Multistable States in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Fibers

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Mateusz Ratman

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Mateusz Ratman

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Jane Bernadette Denise Garcia

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Daniel Beller

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Ion Transport in Free-standing Mixed Ionic-electronic Conducting Liquid Crystal Thin Films

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Naisong Shan

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Naisong Shan

    • University of Chicago

  • Chaoqiuyu Wang

  • Manish Kumar Das

  • Shrayesh Patel

    • University of Chicago

  • Paul Nealey

    • University of Chicago

  • Fernando Escobedo

    • Cornell University

  • Christopher Ober

    • Cornell University

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• Harnessing Anisotropy in Liquid Crystal Elastomer based Solid-State Batteries

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Publication: Siddiquee, Z., Xu, W., & Jákli, Harnessing Anisotropy in Liquid Crystal Elastomer based Solid-State Batteries. RSC Advances 2025 (Submitted)

  Presenters

  • Zakaria Siddiquee

    • Kent State University

  Authors

  • Zakaria Siddiquee

    • Kent State University

  • Antal Jakli

    • Kent State University

  • Weinan Xu

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• Propagation of electromagnetic waves through liquid crystals with defect-based interfaces, resembling a metamaterial waveguide.

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Guillermo Reyes

    • Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico UNAM

  Authors

  • Guillermo Reyes

    • Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico UNAM

  • Juan Adrian Reyes

  • Panayiotis Panayotaros

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• Converse piezoelectricity of fluid ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Publication: [1] M.T. Máthé, M.S. Himel, A. Adaka, J. T. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, P. Salamon, A. Jákli, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 34, 2314158.

  Presenters

  • Minakshi Gill

    • Kent State University

  Authors

  • Minakshi Gill

    • Kent State University

  • Marcell Máthé

    • Wigner Reserach Cnetre for Physics

  • Peter Salamon

    • Wigner Research Centre for Physics

  • James Gleeson

  • Antal Jakli

    • Kent State University

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• Substituent Effects Govern Packing and Nematic Phase Stability in Liquid Crystalline Monomers and Dimers

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Publication: 1. Supramolecular bending and twisting in the hierarchical self-assembly of monodisperse mesogenic oligomers, Sci. Adv.
  2. Substituent effects govern packing and nematic phase stability in liquid crystals with precise synthesis, in prep.

  Presenters

  • Jacob Votava

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Jacob Votava

    • Princeton University

  • Emily Davidson

    • Princeton University

  • Michael Webb

    • Princeton University

  • Emily Ostermann

    • Princeton University

  • Chun Lam Clement Chan

    • Princeton University

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• Interactions of motile bacteria at complex fluid interfaces with topological defects

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Vajra Badha

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

  Authors

  • Vajra Badha

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

  • Tanvi Prajapati

  • Bhakti Joshi

  • Mohamed Amine Gharbi

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

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