This article reviews the physics of colloidal dispersions in nematic liquid crystals as a novel
challenging type of soft matter. We first investigate the nematic environment of one particle …

The introduction of chirality, ie, the lack of mirror symmetry, has a profound effect on liquid
crystals, not only on the molecular scale but also on the supermolecular scale and phase. I …

Chirality and liquid crystals are both widely expressed in nature and biology. Helical
assembly of mesophasic molecules and colloids may produce intriguing chiral liquid …

The Handbook of Liquid Crystals is a unique compendium of knowledge on all aspects of
liquid crystals. In over 2000 pages the Handbook provides detailed information on the basic …

A smectic liquid-crystal phase made from achiral molecules with bent cores was found to
have fluid layers that exhibit two spontaneous symmetry-breaking instabilities: polar …

Liquid crystals allow us to perform experiments that provide insight into fundamental
problems of modern physics, such as phase transitions, frustration, elasticity …

The existence or nonexistence of mirror symmetry plays an important role in nature. The lack
of mirror symmetry, called chirality, can be found in systems of all length scales, from …

Structures and properties of liquid crystalline phases formed by bent-core molecules are
reviewed. At least eight phases designated as B1–B8 have been found, being …

Inverse nematic emulsions, in which surfactant-coated water droplets are dispersed in a
nematic host fluid, have distinctive properties that set them apart from dispersions of two …

Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study
of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical …