Control and understanding of ensembles of skyrmions is important for realization of future
technologies. In particular, the order-disorder transition associated with the 2D lattice of …

Recent advances in experimental studies of nanoparticle-driven stabilization of chiral liquid-
crystalline phases are highlighted. The stabilization is achieved via the nanoparticles' …

Recent experimental and theoretical efforts have focused on using liquid-crystal systems as
a test bed for understanding the statistical mechanics of quenched random disorder. In …

To investigate size and capping agent-dependent alignment and electro-optic effects of
quantum dots (QDs) in nematic LCs, mixtures of a nematic phenylpyrimidine LC (LC1) …

We present a calorimetric study of the phase behavior of octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) liquid
crystal confined to a controlled-pore glass (CPG). We used CPG matrices with characteristic …

Fractals are remarkable examples of self-similarity where a structure or dynamic pattern is
repeated over multiple spatial or time scales. However, little is known about how fractal …

Comprehensive x-ray scattering studies have characterized the smectic ordering of
octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) confined in the hydrogen-bonded silica gels formed by aerosil …

High-resolution calorimetric techniques have substantially contributed in characterising and
understanding the delicate thermal behaviour near many phase transitions in liquid crystals …

We examine for the first time how chemically and thermally stable gold nanoparticles (NPs),
prepared by a silane conjugation approach, affect both the thermal and the electro-optical …

High-resolution ac calorimetry has been carried out on dispersions of aerosils in the liquid
crystal octyloxycyanobiphenyl (8OCB) as a function of aerosil concentration and …