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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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cond-mat.soft2013★ 411 cited

Living Liquid Crystals

Shuang Zhou, Andrey Sokolov, Oleg D Lavrentovich +1

Collective motion of self-propelled organisms or synthetic particles often termed active fluid has attracted enormous attention in broad scientific community because of it fundamen…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 146 cited

Transport of Particles in Liquid Crystals

Oleg D. Lavrentovich

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…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 124 cited

Effect of collective molecular reorientations on Brownian motion of colloids in nematic liquid crystal

Taras Turiv, Israel Lazo, Alexander Brodin +4

In the simplest realization of Brownian motion, a colloidal sphere moves randomly in an isotropic fluid; its mean squared displacement (MSD) grows linearly with time . Br…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 663 cited

Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

Volodymyr Borshch, Young-Ki Kim, Jie Xiang +8

A state of matter in which molecules show a long-range orientational order and no positional order is called a nematic liquid crystal. The best known and most widely used (for exam…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 73 cited

Brownian Motion of Boomerang Colloidal Particles

Ayan Chakrabarty, Andrew Konya, Feng Wang +3

We investigate the Brownian motion of boomerang colloidal particles confined between two glass plates. Our experimental observations show that the mean displacements are biased tow…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 3 cited

Polymer-disordered liquid crystals: Susceptibility to electric field

Lena M. Lopatina, Jonathan V. Selinger

When nematic liquid crystals are embedded in random polymer networks, the disordered environment disrupts the long-range order, producing a glassy state. If an electric field is ap…