Liquid Crystals: Fundamentals & recent advancements

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Oleg Lavrentovich gives a talk at the LC2CAM 08 conference about the fundamentals of liquid crystals, dielectric dispersion effects, and colloidal particles and "micromotors".

Confocal Raman Mapping of Colloidal Particles in Smectic a Liquid Crystals

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Ebru Buyuktanir gives a talk at the LC2CAM 08 conference about CRM and the results which include raman images of 5CB, focal conic domains of 8CB, and inverse smectic inclusions.

Studies of the Effects of Shear on Colloidal Aggregation and Gelation using Small Angle Light Scattering

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Tahereh Mokhtari gives a talk at the LC2CAM conference about the application of shear to enhance aggregation and gelation and to yield hybrid superaggregates.