AK Giese
Welcome to Essen GLCC 2024
The 50th German Liquid Crystal Conference is going to be hosted from the 13th to 15th of March 2024 at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Essen!
Contact details:
Michael Giese
Conference Chair GLCC 2024
Administrative assistant:
Andrea Nusselt
glcc2024@uni-due.de
+49 201 183 3097
Nina Harder
glcc2024@uni-due.de
+49 201 183 3096
Schedule
Wednesday - 13.03.2024
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10:45 |
Registration – Coffee / Tea |
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13:00 |
Opening Ceremony |
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Chair |
Prof. Michael Giese |
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13:30 |
Prof. Dr. Heinz Kitzerow: 50th German Liquid Crystal Conference – A Personal Perspective |
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13:45 |
O-01 – Dr. Mariia Nesterkina: Chiral Liquid-Crystalline Nanoarchitectures: A Gateway to Controlled Drug Delivery for Skin Applications |
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14:05 |
O-02 – Yang Xiao: Photonic films fabricated from xanthan aqueous solution |
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14:25 |
O-03 – Pascal Weinberger: Weakly coordinating borate anions as ionic liquid crystals |
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14:45 – 15:30 |
Coffee / Tea |
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Chair |
Prof. Dr. Sabine Laschat |
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15:30 |
O-04 Jana Tietze: Dynamic Covalent Photoswitches – Controlling Liquid Crystals by Light |
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15:50 |
O-05 Christian Anders, Virginia-Marie Fischer: Spacer Influence Between Chain Volume And Rod-like Core On The Mesophase Transitions Of Bolapolyphiles |
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16:10 |
Laudatio - Prof. Dr. Heinz-Siegfried Kitzerow |
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16:20 |
Daniel-Vorländer Lecture – Dr. Eva Otón: |
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16:50 |
Poster Appetizer 1 |
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17:10 – 19:10 |
Poster Session 1 / Odd Posters |
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20:00 |
End |
Thursday - 14.03.2023
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Chair |
tba |
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09:00 |
I-01 Prof. Dr. Danqing Liu: Interactive liquid crystal polymers for 2D robotic functions |
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09:30 |
O-06 Alexander Jarosik: Magneto- and electrooptical effects in the ferroelectric nematic phase in bulk and confinement |
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09:50 |
O-07 Michael Herbst: Micaellar lyotropic liquid crystalline physical gels - a new kind of anisotropic hydrogels |
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10:10 |
O-08 Thorben Neumann: Exploring the Potential of Dynamic Covalent Bonds for the Design of Liquid Crystals with adaptive Properties |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee / Tea |
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Chair |
Dr. Johanna Bruckner |
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11:00 |
I-02 Prof. Dr. Nathalie Katsonis: Life-like morphological transitions in liquid crystal droplets |
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11:30 |
O-09 Katja Noll: Copying Nature – Impact of DNA Bases on the Self-Assembly of Star Mesogens |
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11:50 |
O-10 Florian Kolb: The Biological Source Matters – Chitin Nanocrystals From Different Organisms And Their Liquid Crystalline Behavior |
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12:10 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Chair |
Prof. Dr. Frank Giesselmann |
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14:00 |
O-11 Zhuoqing Li: How do ionic superdiscs self-assemble in nanopores? |
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14:20 |
O-12 Dr. Christoph Klopp: Coalescence of biphasic droplets embedded in free standing smectic A films |
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14:40 |
Poster Appetizer 2 |
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15:00 – 17:00 |
Coffee / Tea – Poster 2 / Even Posters |
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Chair |
Prof. Dr. Michael Giese |
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17:00 – 17:10 |
Laudatio - Prof. Dr. Matthias Lehmann |
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17:10 – 17:40 |
Saupe Award Lecture – Prof. Dr. Albert Schenning: |
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17:45 – 19:00 |
Board Meeting |
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19:30 |
Conference Dinner |
Friday - 15.03.2023
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Chair |
tba |
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09:00 |
I-03 Prof. Dr. Paul van der Schoot: |
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09:30 |
O-13 Max Oliver Dombrowski: Time dependence of gel formation in lyotropic nematic liquid crystals: from hours to weeks |
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09:50 |
O-14 Prof. Kai Zhang: Constraining the liquid crystal phase of polysaccharide nanocrystals for optical materials |
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10:10 |
O-15 Adrian Haag (Co-Creation Lab Product Innovations): Shaping Tomorrow: A Brief Introduction to the Technologies of Polymer 3D Printing |
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10:30 – 11:15 |
Coffee / Tea |
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Chair |
Prof. Jens Voskuhl |
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11:15 |
I-04 Prof. Dr. Anne Staubitz: |
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11:45 |
O-16 Prof. Dr. Marco Saccone: Resonance-assisted Hydrogen Bonding as a Tool for the Stabilization of LC Phases |
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12:05 |
O-17 Prof. Dr. Hamid Latif: Functionalized Single Walled Carbon Nanotube based Liquid Crystals for SWCNTS/SI Hetero-Junction Solar Cells |
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12:25 – 13.00 |
Student Awards and Closing of the Conference |
Registration
We are pleased to announce that the German Liquid Crystals Conference 2024 is now open for registration.
Register and submit your abstract here: https://www.conftool.com/glcc2024/
Registration Deadline: 22. February 2024
Registered delegates are able to attend all conference talks, poster sessions and exhibitions. The registration fee includes coffee breaks, the conference dinner and a visit of the coking plant of mine Zollverein followed by a “Ruhrgebiets”-snack – “Currywurst Pommes” (as well as vegan alternative).
Cancellation conditions: 100 % refund before 1.02.2024; 50 % refund before 26.02.2024. We cannot offer refunds after 26.02.2024.
Note: Accommodations must be booked separately. The accommodation page provides information on different hotels and the distance to the planned conference location.
Each participant will need to make his own reservation.
Registration Fee
| Status group | Early-bird registration (until 22.02.2024) |
Late registration (after 22.02.2024) |
| Regular (non-members of the DFKG) | 290 € | 320 € |
| Members of DFKG | 250 € | 270 € |
| PhD Students / Postdocs | 150 € | 170 € |
| Staff | Free | Free |
Venue
The 50th German Liquid Crystal Conference will be held on the Campus of the University Duisburg-Essen located in the north of Essen close to the city center.
The auditorium is on the ground floor of the buildung S07.
Hörsaal S07 S00 D06
Universität Duisburg – Essen
Faculty of Chemistry
Universitätsstraße 7
45141 Essen
The campus in Essen
The Building S07
Campus Map
Accommodation
Here is a list of recommended accommodation possibilities:
| Flowers Hotel | 1,3 km by foot – 2 km by car | https://flowershotels.de/essen |
| Premier Inn Hotel Am Limbecker Platz | 1,1 km by foot – 1,5 km by car | https://www.premierinn.com/de/de/hotels/deutschland/nordrhein-westfalen/essen/essen-city-limbecker-platz.html |
| Ramada By Wyndham | 1,4 km by foot – 3,4 km by car | https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/de-de/ramada/essen-germany/ramada-essen/overview |
| Novum Hotel Ambassador | 1,3 km by foot – 2,3 km by car | https://www.novum-hotels.com/hotel-ambassador-essen |
| Wohnzimmer Essen Steele | 4,3 km by car | https://wohnzimmer-essen.com/ |
Travel
Arrival by train or by plane
Several bus lines and S-Bahn lines are going to the University of Duisburg – Essen.
The Düsseldorf airport is connected to the Essen main station via train and S-Bahn.
A comfortable connection might be:
- RE6 and RE2 (regional Express): Düsseldorf Airport to Essen main station (25 minutes)
Subway lines U11 and U17: Essen main station to Universität station (5 minutes)
4 minutes-walk to the yellow building S07
The City of Essen
Essen has undergone an enormous development over the centuries: from a medieval settlement with a monastery for the ladies of the high nobility to one of the world´s most important centers of the coal and steel industry to a modern metropolis in which globally active companies from the fields of administration, health, trade and services have found their home.
Essen really offers exciting contrasts:
Industrial culture at the UNESCO World Heritage Zollverein.
High culture at the Museum Folkwang, the Philharmonie, the Aalto theatre and of course the Villa Hügel, former residence of the Krupp family.
Huge recreation areas as the Lake Baldeney, the Ruhr river and several hiking trails.
Essen is one of the greenest cities in Germany!
