8:00AM-3:30PM    FRIDAY, APRIL 3     Crystal 3
Symposium on Artificial Muscles and Liquid Crystalline Elastomers Organizers:  P.E. Cladis, Advanced Liquid Crystal Technologies, Summit, NJ                        M. Shahinpoor, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM   SLCE Artificial Muscle      8:00am -10.00am      Novel Applications for Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

H. R. Brand    Bayreuth Univ., Bayreuth, GERMANY	Macroscopic Properties of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers  and their Potential Applications
E.  Nishikawa    Freiburg Univ., Freiburg, GERMANY	Novel Properties of Smectic A Elastomers
M. Mauzac    Paul Sabatier Univ., Toulouse,  FRANCE	Novel Optical Properties of Liquid Single Crystalline Elastomers: Contact Lenses
V. Percec    Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH	Constructing Giant Macromolecular Supra Molecular Systems: Using Nature as a Model and Liquid Crystallinity as a Synthetic Tool

Chair: P. E. Cladis   10:30am -12:30pm      I. Artificial Polymeric Muscles

R. Truman   Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM	Flow Control using Polymeric Artificial Muscles
M. Shahinpoor   Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM	Modeling Force Interactions in Ionic Polymeric Metal Composite Artificial Muscles
D. Segalman and W. Witkowski   Sandia Natl. Labs., Albuquerque, NM	Numerical Simulation of Swelling and De-swelling of Polyelectrolyte Gels as Artificial Muscles

 Chairman: M. Shahinpoor       1:30pm -3:30pm      II. Artificial Polymeric Muscles

Y. B.-Cohen and T. Xue    CalTech, Pasadena, CA	Electro-Active Polymer Actuators as Artificial Muscles for Space Applications
C. Becker    NRaD, San Diego, CA	Polymeric Artificial Muscles
D. Brock      Artificial Intelligence   Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA	Control of Polymeric Artificial Muscles

  Chairman: M. Shahinpoor   

Program Summary

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