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 …

Over the last 10 years since the early work of Attwood, Lydon, Tiddy, and coworkers [1–3]
there has been a growing interest in a distinct family of lyotropic liquid crystals (LCs), the so …

Information display utilizing plasmonic color generation has recently emerged as an
alternative paradigm to traditional printing and display technologies. However, many …

Recent advances of modern optics have been made possible with the development of
unique materials, most notably liquid crystals (LCs), photonic crystals (PCs), and …

Gold nanorods functionalized with triphenylene‐based discotic liquid crystal (LC) motifs
show striking self‐assembly behavior both on transmission electron microscopy (TEM) grids …

A combination of rheology, optical microscopy and computer simulations was used to
investigate the microstructural changes of a semi-dilute suspension of attractive rigid rods in …

Dispersing colloidal particles into liquid crystals provides a promising avenue to build a
novel class of materials, with potential applications, among others, as photonic crystals …

The fabrication of 3D bulk metamaterials, optical materials with sub-wavelength building
blocks, is an open challenge, along with the tuning of their optical properties, such as …

Liquid crystals helped to bring a revolution in the way we present information nowadays.
The simplest liquid crystal, the so-called nematic, is a fluid with long-range orientational …

Traditionally, optical spatial dispersion (OSD) is defined as the dependence ɛ ̂ (k ⃗) of the
dielectric permittivity tensor ɛ ̂ on the light wave vector k ⃗, similarly to the frequency (ω) …