LC Elastomer Workshop

25.- 28. September 2001

Ebernburg, Germany



Programme

Tuesday, September 25th

arrival
18:00 dinner


Wednesday, September 26th

08:00 breakfast
08:45-09:30 F. Kremer (Leipzig): Electrostriction in ferroelectric liquid crystalline elastomers
09:30-10:15 R. Stannarius (Leipzig): Structure and elastic properties of thin films of smectic A and C* elastomers
10:15-10:45 coffee break
10:45-11:05 J. Prigann (Leipzig): Time-resolved FTIR spectroscopy on the reorientational dynamics of ferroelectric
liquid crystalline gels and elastomers
11:05-11:50 K. Kremer (Mainz): Simulation of liquid crystalline elastomers - a personal view
12:00 lunch
 
 
16:00-16:30 coffee
16:30-17:15 N. Uchida (Mainz/Kyoto): Polydomain soft elasticity and phase separation in nematic networks
17:15-18:00 H. Pleiner (Mainz): Hydrodynamics of liquid crystalline elastomers
18:00 dinner
19:15-20:00 E. Terentjev (Cambridge): Dynamical properties of nematic elastomers

Thursday, September 27th

08:00 breakfast
08:45-09:30 P. Martinoty (Strasbourg): Shear mechanical properties of polydomain, mono-domain and
non-mesomorphic side-chain elastomers
09:30-10:15 W. Stille (Freiburg): Light scattering of director fluctuations in a nematic side-group elastomer
10:15-10:45 coffee break
10:45-11:05 J. Schmidtke (Freiburg): Lasing in cholesteric networks
11:05-11:50 R. Zentel (Mainz): Liquid crystals and physical gels
12:00 lunch
 
 
16:00-16:30 coffee
16:30-18:00 General discussion; discussion groups
18:00 dinner

Friday, September 28th

08:00 breakfast
08:45-09:30 H. Finkelmann (Freiburg): Nematic elastomers: orientation behavior and crosslinking topology
09:30-10:15 H.R. Brand (Bayreuth): The uniaxial-biaxial nematic transition in polymers and elastomers
10:15-10:45 coffee break
10:45-11:05 M. Hickl (Freiburg): Liquid crystalline hydrogels
11:05-11:50 H. Kitzerow (Paderborn): In-situ photopolymerization of dissipative structures
12:00 lunch
departure

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