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SUMMARY:Modeling Multi-component Liquid Crystal Systems - Palffy-Muhoray\,
  P (Kent State University)
DTSTART:20130321T110000Z
DTEND:20130321T115000Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:Multicomponent thermotropic liquid crystal mixtures are widely
  used in the display industry to obtain desired material properties. Usual
 ly\, the behavior of such mixtures differs little from that of pure materi
 als. In other systems\, such as lyotropic\, chromonic\, colloidal and elas
 tomeric liquid crystals\, the behavior can be dramatically different. Stan
 dard mean field theories assume a single component\, and do not provide an
  adequate description for such systems. I will discuss strategies to incor
 porate both attractive and repulsive interactions of multicomponent system
 s into mean field models\, and present some results.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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