Transport of particles in liquid crystals

OD Lavrentovich - Soft Matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal particles in a liquid crystal (LC) behave very differently from their counterparts in
isotropic fluids. Elastic nature of the orientational order and surface anchoring of the director …

Liquid crystal microfluidics: surface, elastic and viscous interactions at microscales

A Sengupta, S Herminghaus, C Bahr - Liquid Crystals Reviews, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The hydrodynamic properties of nematic liquid crystals are characterized by a complex
mutual coupling between flow, viscosity, and nematic order. While the flow behaviour of …

Liquid crystals in micron-scale droplets, shells and fibers

M Urbanski, CG Reyes, JH Noh… - Journal of Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The extraordinary responsiveness and large diversity of self-assembled structures of liquid
crystals are well documented and they have been extensively used in devices like displays …

Microfluidic control over topological states in channel-confined nematic flows

S Čopar, Ž Kos, T Emeršič, U Tkalec - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Compared to isotropic liquids, orientational order of nematic liquid crystals makes their
rheological properties more involved, and thus requires fine control of the flow parameters to …

[图书][B] Liquid crystal sensors

A Schenning, GP Crawford, DJ Broer - 2017 - books.google.com
Liquid Crystal Sensors discusses novel applications of liquid crystals that lie beyond
electrically driven optical switches and displays. The main focus is on recent progress in the …

Cross-talk between topological defects in different fields revealed by nematic microfluidics

L Giomi, Ž Kos, M Ravnik… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Topological defects are singularities in material fields that play a vital role across a range of
systems: from cosmic microwave background polarization to superconductors and biological …

Liquid crystal-enabled electro-osmosis through spatial charge separation in distorted regions as a novel mechanism of electrokinetics

I Lazo, C Peng, J Xiang, SV Shiyanovskii… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Electrically controlled dynamics of fluids and particles at microscales is a fascinating area of
research with applications ranging from microfluidics and sensing to sorting of biomolecules …

Structures and topological defects in pressure-driven lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

Q Zhang, R Zhang, B Ge, Z Yaqoob… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals are water-based materials composed of self-assembled
cylindrical aggregates. Their behavior under flow is poorly understood, and quantitatively …

Engineering nano/microscale chiral self-assembly in 3D printed constructs

M Esmaeili, E Akbari, K George, G Rezvan… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2024 - Springer
Helical hierarchy found in biomolecules like cellulose, chitin, and collagen underpins the
remarkable mechanical strength and vibrant colors observed in living organisms. This study …

Mesomorphic study and DFT simulation of calamitic Schiff base liquid crystals with electronically different terminal groups and their binary mixtures

HA Ahmed, E Mansour, M Hagar - Liquid Crystals, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Two series of Schiff bases liquid crystals with electronically different terminal substituents, 4-
(alkoxy) phenylimino) methyl) benzonitrile (In-a) and N-(4-(hexyloxy) benzylidene)-4 …