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Liquid Crystal Gordon Conference
liquid crystals, Soft Matter

Liquid Crystal Gordon Conference

November 6, 2017 Linda Hirst Leave a comment

This summer Linda Hirst co-chaired the liquid crystals Gordon Conference with Torsten Hegmann.

Click here to see what you missed.

The next meeting will be in 2019 – at Salve Regina College, chaired by Ivan I. Smalyukh and Dirk J. Broer.

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Soft Matter and biophysics at the University of California, Merced

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  1. Professor Hirst is the author of “Fundamentals of Soft Matter Science”

    Fundamentals of Soft Matter Science introduces and explores the scientific study of soft matter and molecular self-assembly, covering the major classifications of materials, their structure and characteristics, and everyday applications.

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    Fundamentals of Soft Matter Science

    November 3, 2014 Linda Hirst Leave a comment
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Modeling topological defects on a lipid vesicle
Templating QDs at the Isotropic to nematic phase transition
Grandjean texture of the Cholesteric phase in a wedge cell
Semi-flexible filament networks
Polarized optical microscope image of a liquid crystal columnar phase
Quantum dot aggregates in the cholesteric phase – See our publication in “Photonics” http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/2/3/855
Templating QDs at the Isotropic to nematic phase transition
Molecular dynamics simulation of network of semiflexible filaments
Granjean cholesteric texture

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