Final Scientific Program
FINAL SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 
10th Ibero-American Workshop on Complex Fluids and Their Applications
25 – 29 October, 2015, Florianópolis – SC, Brazil
The final scientific program book (including the abstracts) can be downloaded here.
| 25/10 Sunday | 26/10Monday | 27/10Tuesday | 28/10Wednesday | 29/10Thursday | |
| 08:00 – 08:30 | Registration | Registration | Registration | Registration | |
| 08:30 – 09:15 | Invited 1 | Invited 6 | Invited 8 | Invited 12 | |
| 09:15 – 09:40 | Oral 01 | Oral 08 | Oral 12 | Oral 19 | |
| 09:40 – 10:05 | Oral 02 | Oral 09 | Oral 13 | Oral 20 | |
| 10:05 – 10:30 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Invited 2 | Invited 7 | Invited 9 | Invited 13 | |
| 11:15 – 11:40 | Oral 03 | Oral 10 | Oral 14 | Oral 21 | |
| 11:40 – 12:05 | Oral 04 | Oral 11 | Oral 15 | Oral 22 | |
| 12:05 – 14:20 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Closing Cerimony (20 min.) | |
| 14:20 – 15:05 | Invited 3 | FREE | Invited 10 | ||
| 15:05 – 15:30 | Oral 05 | Oral 16 | |||
| 15:30 – 15:55 | Oral 06 | Oral 17 | |||
| 15:55 – 16:20 | Coffee Break | Oral 18 | |||
| 16:20 – 17:05 | Invited 4 | Invited 11 | |||
| 17:05 – 17:30 | Oral 07 | Coffee Break+Poster section | |||
| 17:30 – 18:15 | Registration | Invited 5 | |||
| 18:15 – 19:00 | FREE | ||||
| 19:00 – 20:30 | Opening Cerimony | Conference Dinner (20:00h) | |||
| Workshop Lecture | |||||
| 20:30 – 23:00 | Cocktail |
Workshop Lecture:
Prof. Stephen M. Kelly, Faculty of Science & Engineering, University of Hull – UK. Liquid Crystalline Organic Semiconductors.
Invited Talks (45 min.):
Invited 1: Prof. Riccardo Barberi, Applied Physics, University of Calabria – Italy. Electro-convection and turbulence in nematics.
Invited 2: Prof. Luiz Roberto Evangelista, Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá – Brazil. Elastic continuum theory of the twist-bend nematic phases.
Invited 3: Prof. Rolando Castillo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – Mexico. Monolayers of Colloidal particles at the Air/Water Interface: Consequences of Capillary Interaction.
Invited 4: Prof. Régine Perzynski, University Pierre and Marie Curie – France. Structural and dynamical probing of magnetic fluids, electrostatically stabilized in water and in DMSO.
Invited 5: Prof. Jorge Marcelino Vergara Catalãn, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad de Concepción – Chile. Synthesis and study of star-shaped mesogens with 1,3,4-thiadiazole units.
Invited 6: Prof. Giuseppe Strangi, Faculty of Physics, Case Western Reserve University– USA. Exciton-Plasmon Interplay: Across Scales Approach for Soft Optical Metamaterials.
Invited 7: Prof. Antônio Martins Figueiredo Neto, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo – Brazil. Magnetic and Structural Study of Electric Double Layered Ferrofluid with MnFe2O4@ -Fe2O3 Nanoparticles of Different Mean Diameters: Determination of the Magnetic Correlation Distance.
Invited 8: Prof. Javier Diez, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional Del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires – Argentina. Inertial, dimensional and stochastic effects on the instability of a thin liquid film.
Invited 9: Dr. Jake Fontana, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory – USA.Plasmonic metafluids via directed self-assembly.
Invited 10: Prof. Maria Helena Godinho, Department of Materials Science, Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Portugal. Flexible elastic micro/nano filaments with intrinsic curvature.
Invited 11: Prof. Marcelo Leite Lyra, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas – Brazil. Defect structures in nematic shells on sphero – cylindric nanoscopic colloidal particles.
Invited 12: Prof. Oleg Lavrentovich, Department of Chemical Physics, Kent State University – USA. Active Colloids in Liquid Crystals.
Invited 13: Prof. Petrus A. Santa-Cruz, Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. Photonic Fluids for Printable Nanodevices: The UV Personal Dosimeter Case.
Oral (25 min.):
| Oral | Title | Authors |
| 01 | Pore Formation between the Gel and the Liquid Crystalline Phases of a charged lyotropic Biomembrane | Francesco Spinozzi and Lia Q. Amaral |
| 02 | Cellulose micro/nano fibers designed for oil/water separation | João P. Canejo, A.P.C. Almeida, S.N. Fernandes and M.H. Godinho |
| 03 | Columnar Liquid Crystals: Self-Organized Semiconductors and Their Performance in Optoelectronic Devices | Juliana Eccher, Gregório C. Faria, Marta E.R. Dotto, Petru Apostol, Harald Bock, Heinz von Seggern, Wojciech Pisula, Ivan H. Bechtold |
| 04 | Temperature dependence of Soret coefficient in positively charged magnetic colloids | André L. Sehnem, A. M. Figueiredo Neto, R. Aquino, A. F. C. Campos, F. A. Tourinho, J. Depeyrot |
| 05 | Micellar dynamics investigated through temperature-jump Monte Carlo simulations | Germano Heinzelmann, Paulo Seide Jr, Wagner Figueiredo |
| 06 | Liquid Crystals from 2,6-dissubstituted-9,10-anthraquinones | Patricia Tuzimoto, Hugo Gallardo |
| 07 | ALTERATION:
Liquid Crystals Derived From Thiophene Connected to the 1,2,3-Triazole Heterocycle |
Edivandro Girotto, Hugo Gallardo, and Ivan H. Bechtold |
| 09 | Formation of Fully Conjugated Macrocycles by Perkin Reactions – Towards Graphene Nanobelts | Antoine Robert, Edivandro Girotto, Pierre Dechambenoit, Harald Bock, Fabien Durola |
| 08 | Dependence of the thermal lens effect of Au nanoparticles-doped lyotropic liquid crystal on clustering | Vinícius M. Lenart, Rosane F. Turchiello, G. F. Goya, Sérgio L. Gómez |
| 10 | Mechano-Optical Effect in the Isotropic Phases of Liquid Crystals: a Malus’s law approach | Victor E. Vizcarra Ruiz, Hatsumi Mukai, Jose N. Maki, Paulo R. G. Fernandes |
| 11 | Complex liquid crystalline polymorphism of 4-cyanoresorcinol derived bent-core mesogens with carbosilane end-chain group | Eduard Westphal, Nerea Sebastián, Maria-Gabriela Tamba, Giovanni F. Caramori, Alexey Eremin, Marko Prehm, Carsten Tschierske, Hugo Gallardo |
| 12 | Cation Distribution in ZnyMn1-yFe2O4@γ-Fe2O3 Spinel Magnetic Nanoparticles Obtained by Co-Precipitation Method: A Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction Study | Fernando H. Martins, J. Depeyrot, Vanessa Pilati, F. A. Tourinho, R. Perzynski, F. Porcher, Renata Aquino |
| 13 | Columnar Liquid-Crystalline Diimides | Marli Ferreira, Edivandro Girotto, Elizabeth A. Hillard, Hugo Gallardo, Fabien Durola, and Harald Bock |
| 14 | Colloidal Quantum Dots: improving the optical and electronic properties by meanings of organic stabilizer, water and core-shell structures | Lizandra M. Zimmermann, Paulo V. Baldissera, Ivan H. Bechtold |
| 15 | New strategies for determination of crystal structure of organic compounds | Carlos Eduardo Maduro de Campos |
| 16 | Tuning catalysis by polymer-surfactant complexes-stabilised Pd(0) colloidal nanoparticles | Brunno L. Albuquerque, A. Denicourt-Nowicki, A. Roucoux, Josiel. B. Domingos |
| 17 | Isoxazolines and Isoxazoles as a Source of Hexagonal Mesophase | Luana D. Lopes, Paolo R. Livotto, Ivan H. Bechtold and Aloir A. Merlo |
| 18 | Orienting Gold Nanorods Suspensions Using Electric Field | Greice K.B. Costa, Leonardo F. Araujo, João M. B. Pereira, Sebastián Etcheverry, Liza Burnichon, Alexandre R. Camara, Walter Margulis, Christiano J. S. de Matos, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, I.C.S. Carvalho and Jake Fontana. |
| 19 | Slow physical phenomena on femto- and mili second z-scan measurements of magnetic colloids | Eduardo S. Gonçalves, , D. Espinosa, and Antônio Figueiredo Neto. |
| 20 | Microfluidic Device Applied to the Photocatalytic Abatement of Pollutants | Natan Padoin, Luísa Andrade, Joana Ângelo, Adélio Mendes, Regina de F.P.M. Moreira and Cíntia Soares |
| 21 | Structural Insights on Peptide-Amphiphile Self-Assemblies | Emerson Rodrigo da Silva, Ian William Hamley and Wendel Andrade Alves |
| 22 | Thermo-optical properties and nonlinear optical response of smectic liquid crystals containing gold nanoparticles | P. B. de Melo, A. M. Nunes, L. Omena, S. M. S. do Nascimento, M. G. A. da Silva, M. R. Meneghetti, and Italo N. de Oliveira |
Poster section (28/10, 17:05h – 19:00h):
| Title | Authors | |
| 01 | Adhesion Measurements Using Atomic Force Microscopy with a Liquid Tip | Cristina Garza, Juan V. Escobar, and Rolando Castillo |
| 02 | Unusual diffusing regimes caused by different adsorbing surfaces | Veridiana G. Guimarães, Haroldo V. Ribeiro, Quan Li, Luiz R. Evangelista, Ervin K. Lenzi and Rafael S. Zola |
| 03 | Biaxial nematic phase and coexistence of the two uniaxial nematic phases in lyotropic liquid crystals | Lia Q. Amaral, O.R.Santos, W.S.Braga, N.M.Kimura, and A.J. Palangana |
| 04 | Nematic liquid crystals in planar and cylindrical hybrid cells: Role of elastic anisotropy on the director deformations | Rodolfo T. Teixeira-Souza, C. Chiccoli, P. Pasini, L. R. Evangelista, C. Zannoni |
| 05 | Systematic Investigation of Methods to Determine the Surface Charge Density on Magnetic Colloids | Alex Fabiano C. Campos, Webert C. de Medeiros, Renata Aquino, Francisco A. Tourinho and Jerome Depeyrot |
| 06 | Magnetic Fluids based on Zn-Mn Mixed Ferrites Nanoparticles for Hyperthermia and Liquid Cooling Systems | Vanessa Pilati, Gomes, R., Gomide, G., de Paula, F.L.O., Aquino, R., Tourinho, F. A., Goya, G. F, Dubois, E., Perzynski, R., Depeyrot, D. |
| 07 | Small Angle X-Ray Scattering study and textures of magnetic colloidal dispersions based on core-shell ferrite nanoparticles | Thiago. Fiuza, G. S. Gomide, F. G. da Silva, P. Coppola, R. C. Gomes, R. Aquino, F. L. O. Paula, F. A. Tourinho, J. Depeyrot |
| 08 | Synthesis, structural and magnetic properties of mixed Zinc-Cobalt ferrite nanoparticles for magnetic fluid preparation | P. Coppola, Guilherme S. Gomide, F. G. da Silva, F. L. O. Paula, R. Aquino, J. Depeyrot, F. A. Tourinho |
| 09 | Investigation of the nonlinear optical properties of magnetite nanoparticles in colloidal suspension and in thin film | Daniel Espinosa, Antônio M. Figueiredo Neto |
| 10 | Probing the IRE-NC-I phase transitions by the surface plasmon resonance of embedded Au nanoparticles | Vinícius M. Lenart, Rosane F. Turchiello, Sérgio L. Gómez |
| 11 | Pyridyl-1,3,4-thiadiazole and oxadiazole derivatives and their mesomorphic trimeric complexes induced by halogen bonding | Paulina I. Hidalgo, María L. Parra, Jorge Vergara, Claudio A. Jiménez, Jorge Pasán and Catalina Ruiz-Perez |
| 12 | Global Universal Behavior in Liquid Crystalline Phases | David S. Simeão, F. S. Alves, M. Simões |
| 13 | Investigation of Electrical Impedance of Composites formed by Hydrogel and MBBA Liquid Crystal by means of Non-Debye Models | Paulo Ricardo G. Fernandes, Keila A. da Silva, Hatsumi Mukai, Edvani C. Muniz |
| 14 | Investigations of Topological Defects in Nematic Phase of a Lyotropic Liquid Crystal | Hatsumi Mukai, Paulo Ricardo Garcia Fernandes, Breno Ferraz de Oliveira, Andréia Itami da Silva, Renato Ribeiro Guimarães, Renio dos Santos Mendes |
| 15 | Electrical Impedance and Refractive Index of Grape Seed Oils Extracted by Mechanical Pressing and Soxhlet | Denner. S. Vieira, M. Menezes, H. Mukai, P. R. G. Fernandes |
| 16 | Schiff Bases from Isoxazolines and Isoxazoles. Synthesis and Liquid-Crystalline behavior. | Caroline S. B. Weber, Rafaela R. da Rosa, Aloir A. Merlo |
| 17 | Liquid crystalline and fluorescent acids and cyanoderivatives as potential dyes for dye sensitized solar cells | Aline Tavares, Aloir Antonio Merlo |
| 18 | Liquid crystalline and fluorescent coumarins derivatives for application in dye sensitized solar cells | Aline Tavares, Aloir Antonio Merlo, Sherdil Khan, Marcos José Leite Santos |
| 19 | Synthesis and Thermal Behavior of 3-arylisoxazoles | Gabriel Weber Zimmermann, Aloir A. Merlo , Eric S. Sales Guilherme D. Vilela. |
| 20 | Photoresponsive liquid crystals: a study of mesomorphic and optical behavior | Thamires dos S. Moreira, Welisson de P. Silva, Juliana Eccher, Ivan H. Bechtold, Rodrigo Cristiano |
| 21 | Synthesis and termal/optical characterization of benzylidene-ketone derivatives as potential anisotropic dyes | Alan Ferreira de Araújo, Welisson de P. Silva , Rodrigo Cristiano |
| 22 | Synthesis and study of Janus structure liquid crystal with 1,3,4-thiadiazole heterocycle | Jorge Vergara C., F. Olate M., M. Parra |
| 23 | Synthesis of anisometric compounds derived from9,10-bis(5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)anthracene | Carlos Ratto, Eduard Westphal, Daniela Mezalira, Hugo Gallardo |
| 24 | Hockey stick shaped liquid crystals: A comparison between azo vs. triple bond, and the influence of different heterocycles. | Paola Zimmermann Crocomo, Eduard Westphal, Daniela Zambelli Mezalira and Hugo Gallardo |
| 25 | New bent shaped liquid crystals based on Chalcone and Cyanopyridine | Rafael Levi Coelho, Eduard Westphal and Hugo Gallardo |
| 26 | Synthesis of bent-core liquid crystals containing sulfone as bending unit | Saúl Ovalle, Priscila P. Abatti, Eduard Westphal, Daniela Z. Mezalira and Hugo Gallardo |
| 27 | Study of binary and ternary phase diagrams of PTS/Water and PTS/Water/Alcohol | Leila. T. Thieghi, S. Alves, L. Longo |
| 28 | Analysis of Optical and Mechanical Properties of Thin Films of Liquid-Crystal Elastomers Doped with Azo dyes | Luan Henrique Glasser, Jean-Jacques Bonvent |
| 29 | Immunochromatographic test using gold nanoparticles for detection of proteins | Gisele Elias Nunes Pauli, Alfredo de la Escosura-Muñiz,Claudio Parolo, Ivan H. Bechtold, Arben Merkoçi |
| 30 | Increased fluorescence of Qds ZnO with added water | Paulo V. Baldissera, Lizandra M. Zimmermann, Alan D. Tabalipa, Ivan H. Bechtold |
| 31 | Morphological study of natural rubber blends doped with calcium phosphate | Larissa Gomes França and Ivan H. Bechtold |
| 32 | Composites of Columnar Liquid Crystal with Gold Nanoparticles | Deborah S.A. Liguori, Barbara Schvuchov Kern, Juliana Eccher and Ivan H. Bechtold |
| 33 | Fabrication, characterization and possible applications of functionalized submicrometric spheres and nanostructured films | Bruno Leal Dias, Maria Luisa Sartorelli, Ivan H. Bechtold |
| 34 | Characterization of Thin Films of an Azo Photoisomerizable Columnar Liquid Crystal | Luiza Spanamberg, Juliana Eccher, Eduard Westphal, Hugo Gallardo, Ivan H. Bechtold |
| 35 | Morphological influence in the variation of proportion of P3HT:PCBM blend films | Franco Sauvisky, Inácio Momm and Marta Elisa Rosso Dotto |