Room: Grand Auditorium

08:45-09:35

Chair: Claudio Zannoni

PL-4 – “Morphing Liquid Crystal Elastomer Coatings: A Machine Learning Approach to Inverse Design” R.L.B. Selinger; Y.M. Golestani; M.J. Deutsch; M. Varga; B.L. Mbanga.

Coffee Break

10:00-12:00

Chair: Georg Mehl

IL-11-GA – “Ionic Conductivity in Pillarene-Based Liquid Crystals” I. Marín; S. del Moral; P. Romero; J. Barberá; R.I. Merino; J.L. Serrano.

DO-21 – “Why is there a Cp maximum in the isotropic liquid above LC phases?” Y-n Xue; Y. Wang; S-g Yang; G. Ungar; Y-x Li; L. Cseh; X-b Zeng; F. Liu.

DO-22 – “New Examples of Ferronematic Materials Showing Evidence for the Antiferroelectric Smectic-Z Phase” P. Nacke; A. Manabe; M. Klasen-Memmer; X. Chen; V. Martinez; E. Korblova; G. Freychet; M. Zhernenkov; M. Glaser; J.E. Maclennan; D.M. Walba; M. Bremer; F. Giesselmann.

DO-23 – “Does the Real Biaxial Nematic Phase Exist in the Family of Roof-Shaped Nematogens?” N. Scheuring; M. Lehmann.

DO-24 – “A Columnar Liquid Quasicrystal – Honeycomb with Triangular, Square and Trapezoidal Cells” X.B. Zeng; B. Glettner; U. Baumeirer; B. Chen; G. Ungar; F. Liu; C. Tschierske.

IL-12-GA – “LC-Elastomers: Structure -Property Relations and Concepts to Improve Applicability” R. Zentel.

Lunch

13:30-15:30

Poster Session III – Onsite (Ágora Room) + Online (Padlet and Zoom)

15:30-17:00

Chair: Alain Goriely

ILK-13-GA – “Symmetry arguments and the totalitarian principle in the physics and metaphysics of liquid crystals” T. Guo; X. Zheng; P. Palffy-Muhoray.

EO-25 – “Complex-tensor Theory of Simple Smectics” J. Paget; U. Alberti; A. Balach-Conte; M.G. Mazza; A.J. Archer; T.N. Shendruk.

EO-26 – “Formation of stacks, shift-defects, Y-defects and novel layer structures in chromonic liquid crystals” G. Yu; M.R. Wilson.

IL-14-GA – “Mathematical Models for Chromonics” E.G. Virga.

Coffee Break

17:20-18:05

Chair: Irena Drevenšek-Olenik

DO-31 – “Tris(N-phenyltriazole) as a new template for star-shaped luminescent Discotic Liquid Crystals” C. Ratto; W.A. Oliveira; H. Gallardo; E. Westphal.

IL-15-GA – “Exploration of the twist bend nematic (Ntb) and ferroelectric (Nf) nematic phase in mixtures with LC-QDs and LC-gold nanoparticles” G.H. Mehl; W. Jiang; H. Ojaym; H. Yu; S. Conopo-Holyoake; F. Liu; Y. Zhao; X.B. Zeng; G. Siligardi.

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Room: Building IV – Amphitheater I

10:00-12:00

Chair: John Ball

ILK-7-AI – “Light Control by Topological Solitons in Frustrated Chiral Nematics” A.J. Hess; G. Poy; J.B. Tai; I.I. Smalyukh; S. Žumer.

EO-21 – “A Molecular Dynamics Study of Novel Columnar Metallomesogens Forming Helical Structure” G. Watanabe; M. Hara; J. Yoshida.

EO-22 – “Electromagnetic deformation theory of a liquid bilayer vesicle” Z.C. Ou-Yang; Y.G. Shu.

EO-23 – “Gathering Metastable States in Confined Systems by Stochastic Approximation Monte Carlo Simulations” V.Y. Rudyak; I.V. Afanasyev; D.I. Lichmanov; V.V. Voevodin.

EO-24 – “Resonant X-ray Response of a Chiral Cubic Phase” N. Vaupotic; T. Grabovac; E. Gorecka; D. Pociecha; C. Zhu.

IL-8-AI – “Freely floating smectic films” R. Stannarius.

Lunch

13:30-15:30

Poster Session III – Onsite (Ágora Room) + Online (Padlet and Zoom)

15:30-17:00

Chair: Giampaolo D’Alessandro

DO-25 – “Structure of the twist-bend nematic phase with respect to the orientational molecular order” B. Loska; A. Kocot; Y. Arakawa; K. Merkel.

DO-26 – “Chiral bent-shaped liquid crystals exhibiting a wide range of blue liquid crystalline phase and mechanochromic behaviour” V. Punjani; N. Joshi; G. Mohiuddin; S.K. Pal.

DO-27 – “Flow-induced transient chirality in a columnar liquid crystal” I. Sivakumar; K. Swamynathan; D. Ram; V.A. Raghunathan; S. Kumar.

DO-28 – “Similarities and differences between two ferroelectric nematic materials” N. Sebastián; R.J. Mandle; S. Aya; M. Huang; N. Osterman; M. Lovšin; L. Cmok; A. Petelin; A. Eremin; J. Martinez-Perdiguero; I. Drevenšek-Olenik; M. Čopič; A. Mertelj.

DO-29 – “The evidence of SmA to deVries SmA transition exhibited by bent-core hockey-stick shaped molecules” A. Roy; D. Malkar; D. Patra.

DO-30 – “Columnar Mesomorphism of Board-Shaped Diketopyrrolopyrrole, Isoindigo, and Quinoxalino-Phenanthrophenazine Dyes” S.H. Eichhorn; H. Taing; A.M. Cassar; B.R. Kaafarani.

Coffee Break

17:20-18:05

Chair: Ivan Bechtold

BO-23 – “Nematic Order in Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites: from Colloidal Solutions to Polymeric Films” F. Vita; M. Hegde; L. Marchio; S.J. Picken; E.T. Samulski; T.J. Dingemans; O. Francescangeli.

IL-9-AI – “Hyperbolic metamaterials with dye doped nematic liquid crystals for spontaneous emission engineering” K. Sielezin; A. Pianelli; R. Kowerdziej; U. Chodorow; R. Mazur; B. Jankiewicz; J. Parka.

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Room: Building IV – Amphitheater II

10:00-12:00

Chair: Hiroshi Yokoyama

ILK-8-AII – “Liquid Crystal topological defects and nanoparticles” E. Lacaze.

CO-25 – “Photopatterning Designer Disclinations and Templated Colloidal Assembly in Nematic Liquid Crystals” Y. Guo; M. Jiang; S. Afghah; C. Peng; R. Selinger; O. Lavrentovich; Q.-H. Wei.

CO-26 – “Photo-patterned defect grids for the creation of disclination lines in nematic liquid crystal cells” I. Nys; B. Berteloot; J. Beekman; K. Neyts.

CO-27 – “Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal thermo-motor” M.T. Máthé; A. Buka; A. Jákli; P. Salamon.

CO-28 – “Hidden traces of chirality in the fluctuation modes of fully unwound frustrated cholesterics” G. Poy.

CO-29 – “Rotational Phenomenon Driven by Temperature Gradient in a Cholesteric Droplet with Air Interface” J. Yoshioka; K. Fukao.

CO-30 – “Topological defects in Liquid crystal thin films” J.D. Niyozima; H. Jeridi; C. Sakr; A. Vlad; A. Coati; M. Goldmann; D. Constantin; B. Gallas; Y. Garreau; B. Croset; E. Lacaze.

Lunch

13:30-15:30

Poster Session III – Onsite (Ágora Room) + Online (Padlet and Zoom)

15:30-17:00

Chair: Paulo Ivo Teixeira

FO-26 – “Molecularly Oriented Organic-Semiconductor Thin Film based on its Mesogenic Potential” M. Osaki; E. Nishimoto; G. Uzurano; A. Fujii.

FO-27 – “Realizing Rashba-Dresselhaus lasing in tunable liquid crystal birefringent optical microcavity” M. Muszyński; M. Król; R. Rechcińska; P. Oliwa; M. Kędziora; K. Łempicka-Mirek; R. Mazur; P. Morawiak; W. Piecek; P. Kula; P.G. Lagoudakis; B. Piętka; J. Szczytko.

FO-28 – “Photoaligning and photopatterning of liquid crystals: physics and applications” Chigrinov, V.G.

FO-29 – “Chiral Liquid Crystal laser with metallic end-mirror” F. Van Acker; K. Neyts; J. Beeckman.

FO-30 – “Electrical Switching of Nematic Plasmonic Nanocolloids for Infrared Solar Gain Control” S. Ghosh; I. Smalyukh.

FO-31 – “Liquid Crystal Polarization Holograms for Thinner and Lighter AR/VR Display Systems” L. Lu; X. Feng; H. Cheng; E. Huang; F. Peng; Y.-H. Lee; M. Wang; J. Wang; B. Silverstein.

Coffee Break

17:20-18:05

Chair: Jun Yamamoto

EO-27 – “Dynamics of flowing skyrmions” R.C.V. Coelho; M. Tasinkevych; M.M. Telo da Gama.

EO-28 – “Better than counting: Orientational distribution functions from torque sampling” J. Renner; M. Schmidt; D. de las Heras.

DO-36 – “Zig-Zag Morphology of 2π Disclination Lines in the Ferroelectric Nematic Phase” X. Chen; E. Korblova; M. Glaser; J. Maclennan; D. Walba; N. Clark.

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Room: Building IV – Amphitheater III

10.00-12.00

Chair: Antal Jakli

ILK-10-AIII – “Stretching the imagination; new applications for liquid crystal elastomers” H.F. Gleeson; T. Raistrick; R. Mandle; D. Mistry.

DO-32 – “Fundamental Studies and Functional Applications of Mechanotropic Phase Transitions in Polymer Networks Containing Appreciable Liquid Crystalline Content” J.A. Herman; J.A. Koch; T.J. White.

DO-33 – “Bidirectional flow in ferromagnetic ferrofluids generated by a uniaxial magnetic field” M. Vilfan; B. Lampret; Ž. Gregorin; N. Sebastián; J. Klepp; J. Kohlbrecher; P. Hribar Boštjančič; D. Lisjak; A. Mertelj.

DO-34 – “Liquid Crystalline Elastomers Containing Supramolecular Bonds” K. Lewis; K. Herbert; T. White.

DO-35 – “Polar nature of the ferroelectric nematic studied by dielectric and electrooptic spectroscopy.” Y.P. Panarin; N. Yadav; J.K. Vij; W. Jiang; G.H. Mehl.

IL-11-AIII – “Photocontrollable LC hybrid composites based on organic and inorganic porous matrices” A. Bobrovsky; S. Valery.

Lunch

13:30-15:30

Poster Session III – Onsite (Ágora Room) + Online (Padlet and Zoom)

15.30-17.00

Chair: Mohan Srinivasarao

CO-31 – “Quantum dot-polymer stabilized blue phase liquid crystals for next generation displays” S. Yadav; P. Malik.

CO-32 – “Helfrich-Hurault-like undulations in cholesteric liquid crystals induced by anchoring transitions” M.O. Lavrentovich; L. Tran.

CO-33 – “Tuning the photonic bandgap by actinic light in one and three-dimensional photonic structures of liquid crystals” R. Sahoo; D.S. Rao; U.S. Hirenath; C.V. Yelamaggad; S. Prasad.

CO-34 – “Microfluidic production of chromonic microdroplets with precise topology control” C.M. Tone; A. Zizzari; L. Spina; M. Bianco; M.P. De Santo; R. Barberi; V. Arima; F. Ciuchi.

CO-35 – “Blue Phase Liquid Crystal Core-Shells” S. Norouzi; A. Tavera-Vazquez; T. Lopez Leon; J.J. de Pablo; J.A. Martinez-Gonzalez; M. Sadati.

CO-36 – “Liquid Crystal-Infused Porous Surfaces with Molecular Order-Dependent Slipperiness and Cargo Release” X. Wang; Y. Xu; A. Rather; R. Dupont; U. Kara; R. Mamtani; U. Tkalec.

Coffee Break

17:20-18:05

Chair: Goran Ungar

DO-37 – “Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in All-Aqueous Liquid Crystal Colloids: Binary Polymers meets Self-assembled Nanocellulose” G. Chu; O.J. Rojas.

IL-12-AIII – “Do aqueous suspensions of smectite clays form a smectic liquid-crystalline phase?” K. El Rifaii; H.H. Wensink; F. Puchtler; I. Dozov; T. Bizien; L.J. Michot; J.C.P. Gabriel; J. Breu; P. Davidson.

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Room: Building IV – Amphitheater IV

10:00-12:00

Chair: Masanori Ozaki

FO-20 – “Self-Steering Lasing System Enabled by Soft Photo-Actuators with Sandwich-Like Structure” Y.-S. Zhang; Z.-W. Lin; C.-R. Lee.

FO-21 – “3D-Printed Biomimetic Systems with Synergetic Color and Shape Responses Based on Oblate Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets” C. Yang; C. Dong.

FO-22 – “Interaction of Smectic A Defects with Light, and Application to Active Glazing” C. Mahyaoui; G. Boniello; P. Davidson; C. Meyer; I. Dozov; F. Mondiot.

FO-23 – “Controlled Photoluminescence from  Liquid-Crystalline Gold(I) Complexes with  High Aggregation-Induced Emission Character” O. Tsutsumi; Y. Kuroda; A. Ando; K. Yamaguchi; K. Hisano.

FO-24 – “On-demanding secreting functional liquid from liquid crystal polymer network” Y. Zhan; D.J. Broer; D. Liu.

FO-25 – “Mechanically stabilized discotic liquid crystals via UV-crosslinked reactive nematogen manifest effective drift mobility of charge carriers accompanied by enhanced dielectric properties” A. Shah; D. Singh; A. Elass; B. Duponchel; S. Kumar; R. Douali; A. Daoudi.

IL-5-AIV – “Properties of chiral liquid crystal gratings and their use in optical components” K. Neyts; I. Nys; M. Stebryte; B. Berteloot; Ye. Ussembayev; X. Xue; J. Beeckman.

Lunch

13:30-15:30

Poster Session III – Onsite (Ágora Room) + Online (Padlet and Zoom)

15:30-17:00

Chair: António Figueiredo Neto

ILK-6-AIV – “Liquid crystals to control active matter” O.D. Lavrentovich.

AO-14 – “Local ordering in the isotropic phase of a liquid crystal investigated by NMR relaxometry” A. Gradisek; T. Apih; M.J. Beira; C. Cruz; S.N. Fernandes; M.H. Godinho; P.J. Sebastiao.

AO-15 – “Active nematics microfluidics : from channels to autonomous flow networks” C. Dore; J. Laurent; J. Hardouin; J. Ignés-Mullol; F. Sagués; T. Lopez-Leon.

ILK-7-AIV – “Controlling chaos in active nematics” L.S. Hirst.

Coffee Break

17:20-18:05

Chair: Epifanio Virga

AO-16 – “Liquid-liquid crystalline phase separations in DNA based coacervates” T.P. Fraccia; T.Z. Jia; N. Martin.

AO-17 – “Pf4 tactoids interaction with synthetic rods” M. De Oliveira Silva; I. Grobas; Y. Han; L. Zhang; A. Majumdar; A. Tarafder; T. Bharat; D. Aarts.

AO-18 – “Epithelia are multiscale active liquid crystals” J.-M. Armengol-Collado; L.N. Carenza; J. Eckert; D. Krommydas; L. Giomi.