Liquid crystal colloids

II Smalyukh - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Colloids are abundant in nature, science, and technology, with examples ranging from milk
to quantum dots and the colloidal atom paradigm. Similarly, liquid crystal ordering is …

Liquid crystals-enabled AC electrokinetics

C Peng, OD Lavrentovich - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Phenomena of electrically driven fluid flows, known as electro-osmosis, and particle
transport in a liquid electrolyte, known as electrophoresis, collectively form a subject of …

Design of nematic liquid crystals to control microscale dynamics

OD Lavrentovich - Liquid crystals reviews, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Dynamics of small particles, both living and inanimate, has fascinated scientists for
centuries. Learning how to control it could open technological opportunities in the …

Splay-bend nematic phases of bent colloidal silica rods induced by polydispersity

R Kotni, A Grau-Carbonell, M Chiappini… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid crystal (LC) phases are in between solids and liquids with properties of both. Nematic
LCs composed of rod-like molecules or particles exhibit long-range orientational order …

Self-assembly of aqueous soft matter patterned by liquid-crystal polymer networks for controlling the dynamics of bacteria

NP Dhakal, J Jiang, Y Guo, C Peng - ACS applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The study of controlling the molecular self-assembly of aqueous soft matter is a fundamental
scheme across multiple disciplines such as physics, chemistry, biology, and materials …

[HTML][HTML] Directing and reconfiguring colloidal assembly by disclination networks in nematic liquid crystal as templates

Y Guo, M Jiang, S Afghah, C Peng, RLB Selinger… - Giant, 2024 - Elsevier
Exotic structures with interesting physical and chemical properties can be achieved by self-
organizing engineered building blocks. The central aim for self-assembly is to precisely …

Designs of plasmonic metamasks for photopatterning molecular orientations in liquid crystals

Y Guo, M Jiang, C Peng, K Sun, O Yaroshchuk… - Crystals, 2016 - mdpi.com
Aligning liquid crystal (LC) molecules into spatially non-uniform orientation patterns is
central to the functionalities of many emerging LC devices. Recently, we developed a new …

Sorting and separation of microparticles by surface properties using liquid crystal-enabled electro-osmosis

C Peng, T Turiv, Y Guo, QH Wei, OD Lavrentovich - Liquid Crystals, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Sorting and separation of microparticles is a challenging problem of interdisciplinary nature.
Existing technologies can differentiate microparticles by their bulk properties, such as size …

Controlled placement of microparticles at the water–liquid crystal elastomer interface

G Babakhanova, H Yu, I Chaganava… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Controlled placement of microparticles is of prime importance in production of microscale
superstructures. In this work, we demonstrate the remote control of microparticle placement …

Dynamic control of active droplets using light-responsive chiral liquid crystal environment

V Jirón, M Rajabi, H Wang, OD Lavrentovich - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Microscopic active droplets are of interest since they can be used to transport matter from
one point to another. In this work, we demonstrate an approach to control the direction of …