Thematical scope of the 15th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals included all its traditional subjects:
The conference started on Sunday, June 28 at 17:00 by registration, followed by welcome reception. The scientific program will start on Monday, June 29 around 8:30. The program continued until Friday, July 3 around 13:00.
A high-resolution version (PNG) of the final schedule is available for print.
| 17:00–20:00 | Registration |
| 19:00–21:00 | Welcome reception |
| 8:50 | OPENING |
| SESSION 1 (9:00–10:40) | |
| 9:00–9:45 | Hideo Takezoe Recent topics in polar liquid crystals |
| 9:45–10:15 | Fumito Araoka Improved performance in the ferroelectric columnar liquid crystal |
| 10:15–10:35 | Xiao Meng Combined electrochemical and ferroelectric behavior in a columnar liquid crystal |
| 10:40–11:10 | Coffee break |
| SESSION 2 (11:10–12:50) | |
| 11:10–11:40 | Dong Ki Yoon Orientation control of B4, helical nanofilament phase |
| 11:40–12:00 | Joseph Maclennan Field alignment of bent-core smectic liquid crystals |
| 12:00–12:20 | Mikhail Osipov Molecular origin of the ferroelectric order, effective flexoelectricity and twist-bend structure in bent-core nematics |
| 12:20–12:40 | Damian Pociecha 1D, 2D and 3D liquid crystalline phases formed by bent-core mesogens |
| 12:50–14:30 | Lunch |
| SESSION 3 (14:30–16:00) | |
| 14:30–15:00 | Martin Copic Ferromagnetism in suspensions of magnetic platelets in liquid crystal |
| 15:00–15:20 | Yoichi Takanishi Chiral doping effect on the layer structure in the B2 phase of the bent-core liquid crystal |
| 15:20–15:40 | Alexandros Vanakaras Domain structure and polar order in orthogonal bent core smectic liquid crystals |
| 15:40–16:00 | Nerea Sebastian Optical and dielectric studies of distinct ferroelectric liquid crystalline phases formed by carbosilane terminated 4-resorcinol bisbenzoates |
| 16:00–16:30 | Tea time |
| SESSION 4 (16:30–17:45) | |
| 16:30–16:50 | Pawel Perkowski Dielectric behavior of antiferroelectric liquid crystals with direct transition from isotropic liquids |
| 16:50–17:10 | Vladimir Bezborodov From 2-methylbutyl esters of 4-substituted benzoic acids to chiral polyphenylens: FLC research in Belarus |
| 17:30–19:30 | POSTER SESSION I. |
| SESSION 5 (9:00–10:40) | |
| 9:00–9:45 | Frank Giesselmann The lyotropic analogue of the chiral smectic C* phase |
| 9:45–10:15 | Antal Jakli The role of defects in sensing lipids with liquid crystals |
| 10:15–10:35 | Chloe Tartan Stabilizing photonic switching states in chiral liquid crystals using 2-photon polymerization |
| 10:40–11:10 | Coffee break |
| SESSION 6 (11:10–12:50) | |
| 11:10–11:40 | Ewa Gorecka New nematic phases - what we know and what we do not? |
| 11:40–12:00 | Alexander Emelyanenko Induction of new ferrielectric smectic phases in the electric field |
| 12:00–12:20 | Vladimira Novotna Unique field effect in the TGBA phase in a new lactic acid derivative |
| 12:20–12:40 | Akihiro Mochizuki A unique smectic liquid crystal switching behavior |
| 12:50–14:30 | Lunch |
| SESSION 7 (14:30–16:00) | |
| 14:30–15:00 | Valentina Domenici NMR contributions to understand the orientational, dynamic and conformational properties in ‘de-Vries’ liquid crystals |
| 15:00–15:20 | Samuel Sprunt Second harmonic generation by a twist-bend nematic liquid crystal |
| 15:20–15:40 | Yuri Panarin Electrooptical effects in bent-core LC systems |
| 15:40–16:00 | Pawel Karbowniczek Excluded volume interactions and structure formation in thin layers of bent-core systems |
| 16:00–16:30 | Tea time |
| SESSION 8 (16:30–17:45) | |
| 16:30–17:00 | Wiktor Piecek Orthoconic antiferroelectric smectic liquid crystals – the extensive study of influence of the molecular structure on the physical properties and electrooptical performance |
| 17:00–17:20 | Jun Yamamoto Slippery Interfaces - Drastic reduction of driving voltage for ultra-fast switching SmC* by the lubrication of the motion of C-director on the slippery interfaces |
| 17:20–17:40 | Michal Kohout Design and synthesis of photosensitive bent-shaped liquid crystals based on 3-hydroxybenzoic acid |
| 17:45–19:30 | POSTER SESSION II. |
| SESSION 9 (9:00–10:40) | |
| 9:00–9:45 | M. Blanca Ros Bent-core structures as versatile building blocks for polar self-assembling systems |
| 9:45–10:15 | Ingo Dierking Smectic layer instabilities in chiral liquid crystals |
| 10:15–10:35 | Jan Lagerwall Chiral smectic C materials in shells and in fibers |
| 10:40–11:10 | Coffee break |
| SESSION 10 (11:10–13:10) | |
| 11:10–11:30 | Awards |
| 11:30–11:50 | Zbigniew Galewski New class of chiral azobenzene mesogens. 4-[(E)-(4-alkylphenyl)diazenyl]phenyl cholesteryl succinates |
| 11:50–12:10 | Agnieszka Chrzanowska Possible mechanisms of polar order in 2D systems of banana type liquid crystals |
| 12:10–12:30 | Shin-Ya Sugisawa Extra-ordinary disruption dynamics in smectic-A films in polar and non-polar LC mixture |
| 12:30–12:50 | Dharmendra Singh ZnS:Mn d-dots dispersed ferroelectric liquid crystal: Modulation of mesophase, relaxation dynamics and faster display characteristics |
| 12:50–13:10 | Chia-Rong Lee Wide-band tunable liquid crystal polymer template photonic bandgap and laser |
| 13:10–14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30–19:00 | Free time |
| 19:00–22:00 | Boat trip & dinner |
| SESSION 11 (9:00–10:40) | |
| 9:00–9:45 | Carsten Tschierske Dynamic symmetry breaking in liquids and liquid crystals |
| 9:45–10:15 | Przemyslaw Kula Synthesis and properties of oligophenyl based chiral dopants for short pitch ferroelectric materials |
| 10:15–10:35 | Jiri Svoboda Aryl end-capped bent-shaped liquid crystals |
| 10:40–11:10 | Coffee break |
| SESSION 12 (11:10–12:50) | |
| 11:10–11:40 | David Walba The helical nanofilament phase – structure and applications |
| 11:40–12:00 | Noel Clark Diastereomeric liquid crystal domains at the mesoscale |
| 12:00–12:20 | Oliver Kress Tension of self assembled bent-core liquid crystal filaments with and without carbon nanotubes |
| 12:20–12:40 | Manju Middha Improved electro-optic behaviour of induced chiral nematic liquid crystals doped with multiwalled carbon nano tubes |
| 12:50–14:30 | Lunch |
| SESSION 13 (14:30–16:00) | |
| 14:30–15:00 | Natasa Vaupotic Cubic and tetragonal phases based on chiral rod-like molecules |
| 15:00–15:20 | Mojca Cepic 3D smectic phase: Can the discrete phenomenological model of antiferroelectric liquid crystals account for it? |
| 15:20–15:40 | Jun Yoshioka Director/Barycentric rotation in Cholesteric droplets under heat flow |
| 15:40–16:00 | Grzegorz Pajak Modulated structures induced by chirality and flexopolarization: Landau–deGennes approach |
| 16:00–16:30 | Tea time |
| SESSION 14 (16:30–18:00) | |
| 16:30–17:00 | Giusy Scalia The effects of well-dispersed carbon nanotubes on the phase sequence of ferro- and antiferroelectric liquid crystals |
| 17:00–17:20 | Yoshiaki Uchida Luminol emission in cholesteric liquid crystalline microcapsule |
| 17:20–17:40 | Eduardo Soto Bustamante Electropolymerization process as a tool to enhance alignment layer for ferroelectrics |
| 17:40–18:00 | Martin Cigl Azo-based liquid crystals with stabilized Z-isomers |
| SESSION 15 (9:00–10:40) | |
| 9:00–9:50 | Vladimir Chigrinov Ferroelectric LC devices for displays and photonics |
| 9:50–10:20 | Morten Geday Ultrafast AFLC based for passive display for true 3D images |
| 10:20–10:40 | Stephen Morris Optically switchable smart windows and photovoltaics using chiral liquid crystals |
| 10:40–11:10 | Coffee break |
| SESSION 16 (11:10–12:50) | |
| 11:10–11:30 | Jagdish Vij Periodic patterns in the Ntb phase of achiral bimesogens and the elastic constants close to the nematic-Ntb phase transition |
| 11:30–11:50 | Jia-De Lin Omni-directionally and all-optically controllable dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystal fiber laser |
| 11:50–12:10 | Valeri Lapanik Viscous ferroelectric liquid crystalline compounds: Basis for fast-switching displays |
| 12:10–12:30 | Hoi Sing Kwok FLC as a replacement of IPS LCD |
| 12:30–12:40 | FLC 2017 |
| 12:40–12:50 | CLOSING |
| 12:50–14:00 | Lunch |
P1 – Takuya Akita
New molecular design strategy for chiral paramagnetic nitroxide radical liquid crystals
P2 – Mohamed Alaasar
Chiral and polar phases formed by photosensitive fluorinated bent-core liquid crystals
P3 – Fumito Araoka
Self-assembly of a dimer molecule to form diverse supermolecular archtectures
P4 – Kvetoslava Bajzikova
All-organic paramagnetic bent-shaped liquid crystals
P5 – Vladimir Bezborodov
Ferroelectric liquid crystalline derivatives of aminoacids
P6 – Shinji Bono
The nematic order induced by anchoring surface of nanoemulsion droplets
P7 – Alexej Bubnov
Chiral photosensitive liquid crystals as functional dopants for organic solar cells
P8 – Alexej Bubnov
Tuning the phase diagrams – miscibility studies of multilactate liquid crystalline compounds
P9 – Daniel Budaszewski
Photonic crystal fibers infiltrated with photo-aligned ferroelectric liquid crystals
P10 – Agnes Buka
Unusual polarity-dependent patterns in a bent-core nematic liquid crystal under low frequency ac field
P11 – Sylwia Calus
Ferroelectric liquid crystal in nanoconfinement: Molecular ordering inside tabular nanochannels explored by optical polarimetry techniques
P12 – Ting-Huei Chen
Utilized polymer-dispersed blue-phase liquid crystals to fabricate polarization independence gratings
P13 – Zhengdong Cheng
The twisted structure formation in discotic suspensions
P14 – Nakcho Choi
Retardation analysis of vesicle structure of lyotropic liquid crystals
P15 – Nakcho Choi
Piezoelectric effect of FLC in vertical and horizontal Alignment
P16 – Wing-Kit Choi
Effects of floating electrode on the electro-optic properties of polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal displays
P17 – Wing-Kit Choi
Polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal displays with low operation voltage
P18 – Noel Clark
Onsager ferromagnetic fluids: Spontaneous polar liquid crystal orderingof magnetic nano-plates
P19 – Dorota Dardas
Image processing technique for liquid crystalline blue phases optical textures analysis
P20 – Dorota Dardas
Orientational order of some liquid crystal/dye mixtures
P21 – Sergio Diez-Berart
Miscibility studies on two homologue twist-bend liquid crystal dimers
P22 – Sergio Diez-Berart
Existence of two consecutive glass transitions in the nematic order of an odd non-symmetric liquid crystal dimer dispersed with ?-alumina nanoparticles
P23 – Ting-Jie Ding
Electrically-tunable blue phase microlens with a photoconductive layer
P24 – Pavel Dolganov
2π-walls in antiferroelectric free-standing films at high temperature
P25 – Nandor Eber
Characteristics of flexoelectric domains in a bent-core nematic under ultra-low frequency ac electric field
P26 – Alexander Emelyanenko
Induced polarization and new ferrielectric smectic phases in the electric field
P27 – Sahbi Essid
Field-Induced ferrielectric state and transitions in chiral antiferroelectric liquid crystal in applied electric fields
P28 – Jakub Fitas
New ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals for application in new generation of LCDs
P29 – Hirokazu Furue
Study on blue phase liquid crystals using photocurable monomers for nano-structured materials
P30 – Hirokazu Furue
Study on lyotropic liquid crystals doped with DNA
P31 – Edward Guzman
New developments in SmAPF materials
P32 – Vera Hamplova
Photo-optical properties of amorphous and crystalline films of azobenzene-containing bent-shaped photochromes
P33 – Vera Hamplova
Lactic acid derivatives - eutectic behavior of binary mixtures
P34 – Sho Hanehara
Transmembrane mass transport driven by the director rotation in smectic-C* free-standing films
P35 – David Hansford
Coherence properties of liquid crystal lasers
P36 – Kazuyuki Hiraoka
Phase transition and electric-field-induced deformation of a chiral smectic A liquid crystalline elastomer
P37 – Kazuyuki Hiraoka
Molecular fluctuation of chiral and achiral smectic liquid crystals studied by 13C-NMR spectroscopy
P38 – Tomas Hodik
Chiral liquid crystalline ligands for nanocomposites
P39 – Martin Horcic
Bent-shaped mesogens with terminal hydroxyl group
P40 – Yung-H. Hsu
Polarization independent liquid crystal lens base on a hole-patterned metal foil electrode
P41 – Tahir Ibragimov
Formation of local electric fields in the ferroelectric BaTiO3 particles-liquid crystal colloids
P42 – Yosuke Iwai
Rotation of a chiral nematic liquid crystalline microcapsule
P43 – Antal Jakli
Azo-containing asymmetric bent-core liquid crystals with modulated smectic phases
P44 – Rui-Fu Jian
Blue phase liquid crystals applied in polarization switching 1D/2D gratings
P45 – Sung Yong Jo
Polymer stabilized blue phase II for liquid crystal laser
P46 – Ki-Beom Kim
Chiral-optical modulation using achiral rod-like molecules nanosegregated in the B4 structure of achiral bent-core molecule
P47 – Magdalena Knapkiewicz
Experimental evidence of the switching process in smectic C*? phase of chiral ferroelectric liquid crystals
P48 – Vaclav Kozmik
Liquid crystals with naphthalene central core
P49 – Wojciech Kuczynski
Non-linear electro-optical effects in the study of the helical smectic liquid crystals
P50 – Katarzyna Kurp
Influence of two ring compound structure on helical pitch in SmC* phase
P51 – Valeri Lapanik
Electrooptic properties of nematic and ferroelectric liquid crystalline graphene nanocolloids
P52 – Valeri Lapanik
Goldstone mode and beyond. Is the Goldstone mode relaxation frequency in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals really temperature independent?
P53 – Jun Hyup Lee
Vertical alignment of liquid crystal using an in situ self-assembled molecular layer on the hydrophilic ITO electrodes
P54 – Lubor Lejcek
Filaments in the TGBA phase
P55 – Lubor Lejcek
Inclusions with finite surface anchoring energies in smectic C and chiral smectic C* free-standing films
P56 – Shih-Hung Lin
A fast-tunable Blue-phase liquid crystal microlens array
P57 – Jia-De Lin
Wide-band spatially tunable and hyper-reflective cholesteric liquid crystal polymer template
P58 – Jia-De Lin
Spatially tunable lasing in polymer-stabilized blue phase
P59 – Ke-Chin Lin
Polarization-independent blue phase Fresnel lens with a photoconductive layer
P60 – Monika Marzec
New ferroelectric liquid crystals studied by complementary methods
P61 – Hiroshi Moritake
Bandwidth control of full pitch band in a chiral smectic liquid crystal by varying incident angle, temperature, and electric field
P62 – Stephen Morris
Enhanced amplified spontaneous emission in perovskites using flexible cholesteric liquid crystal reflectors
P63 – Suwat Nanan
Blueshift in photoluminescence of composites based on dispersion of either CdS or ZnS nanoparticle in nematic liquid crystal
P64 – Izabela Niezgoda
Mesomorphic and spectroscopic properties of 2-methylbutyl 4-[(E)-2-[4-(dodecyloxy)phenyl]diazenyl]benzoate
P65 – Josu Ortega
Ferroelectric switching in a chromonic nematic liquid crystal based on a bowl-shaped boron subphthalocyanine (SubPc) derivative
P66 – Josu Ortega
Origin of the degradation of cholesteric liquid crystal lasers: Thermally-induced light scattering effects
P67 – Yuri Panarin
Deformed Helix Electrooptic effect in non-chiral bent-core LCs
P68 – Rami Pashameah
Synthesis and properties of novel liquid crystals with bulky terminal groups for ferroelectric mixtures
P69 – Marta Podruczna
Liquid-crystalline polymorphism of azobenzene derivatives with carbonyl moiety
P70 – Anna Poryvai
New chiral photosensitive liquid crystalline ligands
P71 – Beatriz Robles-Hernández
Dielectric studies of a cyanostilbene bent-core liquid crystal
P72 – Patricio Romero
Effect of electropolymerization in orthoconic antiferroelectric mixtures
P73 – Stanislaw Rozanski
Influence of hydrophobic aerosil nanoparticles on the dielectric properties of ferroelectric liquid crystal
P74 – Genadz Sasnouski
Condensation synthetic approach in the synthesis of lateral substituted ester-type FLC compounds
P75 – Nerea Sebastian
A fibre-forming modulated smectic liquid crystalline phase below a twist-bend nematic phase
P76 – Sithara P. Sreenilayam
Flexoelectric polarization studies in bent-core nematic LC
P77 – Maddasani Srinivasulu
Synthesis and characterization of new achiral ferroelectric 1,2,4 – oxadiazole liquid crystalline materials with different end moieties
P78 – Yoichi Takanishi
Field-induced superlattice structures and effective long-range interlayer interactions (LRILIs) in ferrielectric liquid crystals
P79 – Yulay Timirov
Dynamics of microdispersed chiral nematic droplets
in ac electric field
P80 – Jiri Tuma
DFT calculations of bent-core liquid crystals based on 3-hydroxybenzoic acid: structure vs. mesomorphic behaviour
P81 – Kiyoaki Usami
Electric field dependence of the size of domains induced in optically isotropic phase of bent-core liquid crystals
P82 – Terezia Vojtylova
Comparison of separation behavior of ferroelectrics liquid crystals by chiral HPLC
P83 – Terezia Vojtylova
New approach in chiral HPLC for a study of the optical purity of new synthetized diazenes
P84 – Hui-Chen Yeh
Switchable Fresnel lens in polymer network surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals
P85 – Jun Yoshioka
Stability of double twisted structure in spherical cholesteric droplets
P86 – Magdalena Zurowska
Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of new high tilted antiferroelectric liquid crystals with the direct SmCA*-Iso transition
P87 – Magdalena Zurowska
Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of new orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystals formed from different 1-methylalkanols
P88 – Xiao Meng
Combined electrochemical and ferroelectric behavior in a columnar liquid
crystal
P89 – Giusy Scalia
Optical investigations of an orthoconic AFLC
