Autonomous materials systems from active liquid crystals

R Zhang, A Mozaffari, JJ de Pablo - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Liquid crystals (LCs) are ubiquitous in display technologies. The orientational ordering in the
nematic phase of LCs gives rise to structural anisotropy, the ability to form topological …

A Comprehensive Investigation into the Mechanisms Dictating the Movement of Liquid Crystal Polymer Flakes in Liquid Crystal Hosts

W Liu, L Xie, Y Liu, G Zhang, X Lin… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Integrating microscale liquid crystal polymer flakes into host materials takes advantage of
their compact shape and heightened responsiveness to electric fields, facilitating a range of …

Repulsion–attraction switching of nematic colloids formed by liquid crystal dispersions of polygonal prisms

B Senyuk, Q Liu, PD Nystrom, II Smalyukh - Soft Matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly of colloidal particles due to elastic interactions in nematic liquid crystals
promises tunable composite materials and can be guided by exploiting surface …

Defect-polymorphism-controlled electrophoretic propulsion of anisometric microparticles in a nematic liquid crystal

D VS, DK Sahu, RK Pujala, S Dhara - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
The nontrivial shape of colloidal particles creates complex elastic distortions and topological
defects in liquid crystals and plays a key role in governing their electrophoretic propulsion …

phase transitions probed by a pair of elastically bound colloids

KP Zuhail, A Roy, S Dhara - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
The competing effect of surface anchoring of dispersed microparticles and elasticity of
nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals has been shown to stabilize a variety of topological …

Nematske disperzije feroelektričnih mikroploščic

L Senica - 2018 - repozitorij.uni-lj.si
V magistrskem delu obravnavamo disperzije feroelektricnih plošcic mikrometrskih dimenzij v
nematskem tekocem kristalu. Najprej kratko predstavimo osnovne znacilnosti nematskih …