Congresses

Zixuan (ESR-11) participated in the  International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference 2023, ILCEC2023, which took place in Boulder, Colorado, EEUU,  from the 8th to the 11th of October 2023. ILCEC2023 was attended by several STORM-BOTS members, including ESRs and supervisors.

Zixuan gave an oral communication titled Light-fueled self-sustained cilia on October 11.

Fantastic representation of STORM-BOTS!

Lovish (ESR-5) participated in the International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference 2023, ILCEC2023, which took place in Boulder, Colorado, EEUU,  from the 8th to the 11th of October 2023. ILCEC2023 was attended by several STORM-BOTS members, including ESRs and supervisors.

Lovish presented his results on the 3D director alignment of liquid crystalline structures using magnetic fields with an oral communication on October 10.

This is the first conference attended by Lovish within STORM-BOTS. Way to go, Lovish!

Michał (ESR-7) participated in the International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference 2023, ILCEC2023, which took place in Boulder, Colorado, EEUU,  from the 8th to the 11th of October 2023. ILCEC2023 was attended by several STORM-BOTS members, including ESRs and supervisors.

Michał presented his work on a poster titled Vector Slicer for rapid generation of print-paths for 3D printing of complex director patterns. Good job, Michał!

Paolo (ESR-4) participated in the International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference 2023, ILCEC2023, which took place in Boulder, Colorado, EEUU,  from the 8th to the 11th of October 2023. ILCEC2023 was attended by several STORM-BOTS members, including ESRs and supervisors.

Paolo presented his work on a poster titled Photochemically Induced Propulsion of a 4D Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Biomimetic free swimmer.

This is the first conference attended by Paolo within STORM-BOTS. Good job, Paolo!

Zixuan (ESR-11) has participated in the Workshop at Les Houches School of Physics, Bio-inspired aerial and aquatic locomotion, which took place from the 11th to the 15th of September 2023 at Les Houches, France.

The workshop aimed to present a complete overview of the latest developments in biolocomotion – the study of how animals move – a field between physics and biology. The program included talks from specialists in the field, as well as shorter presentations and poster sessions.

Zixuan presented his work on a poster entitled Light-fueled torus swimmer in Stokes regime. Good job, Zixuan!

Giulia (ESR-12) has participated at the IEEE World Haptics 2023 conference, which took place in Delft,  the Netherlands,  from the 10th to 13th of July 2023.

Giulia presented her work on a poster titled Electrically Driven Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuator Matrix for Haptic Surfaces.

She also learnt from the latest innovations in the field from seeing the demos presented at the conference!

Rahul Singh Yadav (ESR-2) is participating in the XXXIX Bienal meeting of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry which is taking place in Zaragoza, Spain, from the 25th to the 29th of June 2023.

He presented his results in the posters sessions on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th.

Giulia Spallanzani (ESR-12) presented her results at the last Spring Meeting of the Materials

Research Society which took place in San Francisco, USA, from April 10th to April 14th, 2023.

She gave a talk titled Electrically Driven Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuator Matrix for Haptic Surfaces.

This was the first conference attended by Giulia within STORM-BOTS.

Michał Zmyślony (ESR-7) presented a poster at this internal conference, organised by the University of Cambridge, where graduate students of this University presented their results.

Reza Norouzikudiani (ESR-6) presented his results on the equilibrium and transient response of photoactive nematic LCE beams with an oral communication at the International Workshop on Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures 2022 (MIMS22).

This conference took place in Cetara, Italy, from 29/09 to 01/10/2022.