This jointly organised mini conference will take place at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH). Venue - FORTH Main Amphitheatre. More information about the venue can be found here.
Saturday 1 July
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Sunday 2 July
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09:00-09:20 Welcome and Opening remarks
Prof Dirk Aarts, DiStruc Coordinator, University of Oxford
Prof Sofia Kantorovitch, Colldense Coordinator, University of Vienna
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09:00-09:40 Invited speaker 3 – Dr. Alexander Semenov, University of Strasbourg: Rods, Plateau-Rayleigh instability, and fiber spinning
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| 9:20-10:00 Invited speaker 1 - Prof. Cristiano De Michele, “Sapienza” University of Rome: Self-Assembly-Driven Liquid Crystals” |
09:40-10:00 Javier Fernández-Castañón: Percolation threshold in the gelation process of DNA self-assembled structures |
| 10:00-10:20 Louis Cortes: Colloidal liquid crystals in confinement: isotropic, nematic and smectic phases |
10:00-10:20 Cristian Lang: Morphological influences on the shear banding instability of semiflexible rods |
| 10:20-10:40 Marion Rollet: Droplets in emulsion gels: from fillers to networks |
10:20-10:40 Jaramillo-Cano: Rheological properties of isolated telechelic star polymers |
| 10:40-11:00 Marie Föllmer: Structuration of lignin-based carbon through liquid crystalline graphene oxide |
10:40-11:30 Poster session & coffee break
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| 11:00-11:30 Coffee break |
11:30-11:50 Mohandas: Flow induced vorticity aligned clusters of rod like particle suspension |
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11:30-11:50 Andrei Bazarenko: Electro-osmotic flow and droplets electrophoresis in bicomponent fluids
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11:50-12:10 Alexander Cumberworth: Lattice models for DNA origami self-assembly |
| 11:50-12:10 Andrii Repula: Directing structure in colloidal liquid crystals with patchy rod-like particles |
12:10-12:30 Maxime Tortora: Density-functional theory for cholesteric phases of realistic flexible particles |
| 12:10-12:30 Martina Foglino: Rheology of deformable droplets suspension: a lattice Boltzmann study |
12:30-14:00 Lunch break |
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12:30-14:00 Lunch break
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14:00-14:40 Invited speaker 4 - Prof. James Swan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Large, anisotropic structures during steady shear of colloidal gels” |
| 14:00-14:40 Invited speaker 2 - Prof. Stephen J. Picken, Delft University of Technology: Ultimate material properties of biopolymer nanocomposites – making advanced materials from waste |
14:40-15:00 Léo Gury: Searching for rheological signatures of jamming transition in soft hairy colloids |
| 14:40-15:00 Hanna Anop: Directing self-organization of viral rod-like particle dispersions |
15:00-15:20 Roland Gouzy: Suspension of cellulose microfibrils in glycol ether solvents:
homogenization level matters |
| 15:00-15:20 José Manuel Ruiz: Crystallization of star polymer under shear flow |
15:20-16:00 Otero: Spontaneous droplet bridge formation driven by solvent exchange |
| 15:20-16:00 Shari Finner: Continuum Percolation Theory of Polydisperse Rods in Quadropole Fields |
16:00-16:30 Coffee break |
| 16:00-17:00 Poster session & coffee break |
Discussions
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| ESRs - Round table |
16:30 Departure |
| 18:00 Departure |
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** If you would like to attend, but you are not a member of either of the two networks please email distruc@chem.ox.ac.uk