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Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
- University of LjubljanaSI633 papers
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- University of CincinnatiUS544 papers
- Virginia TechUS539 papers
- National Taiwan UniversityTW538 papers
- The University of TokyoJP537 papers
- Budker Institute of Nuclear PhysicsRU534 papers
- Yonsei UniversityKR534 papers
- The University of MelbourneAU533 papers
- High Energy Accelerator Research OrganizationJP531 papers
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Designing Multivalent Copolymers for Selective Targeting of Multicomponent Surfaces
Vid Ravnik, Urban Bren, Tine Curk
Selective targeting of membranes with a specific receptor profile is an ongoing challenge in targeted drug delivery. We investigate the adsorption of copolymers on a multicomponent…
Kinetic Superselectivity in Multivalent Binding
Vid Ravnik, Baptiste Chabaud, Urban Bren +2
Multivalent binding employs multiple simultaneous supramolecular interactions, increasing avidity and selectivity compared with monovalent binding. While equilibrium aspects of mul…
Interpretable liquid crystal phase classification via two-by-two ordinal patterns
Leonardo G. J. M. Voltarelli, Natalia Osiecka-Drewniak, Marcin Piwowarczyk +4
Liquid crystal textures encode rich structural information, yet mapping these images to mesophase identity remains challenging because visually similar patterns can arise from dist…
Helix alignment, chevrons, and edge dislocations in twist-bend ferroelectric nematics
Bijaya Basnet, Priyanka Kumari, Sathyanarayana Paladugu +6
We explore surface alignment and edge dislocations in the recently discovered twist-bend ferroelectric nematic, NTBF, in which the vector of spontaneous polarization follows an obl…
Multistable polar textures in geometrically frustrated nematic liquid crystals
Ufuoma I. Kara, Boyuan Chen, Simon Čopar +10
The ability to manipulate polar entities with multiple external fields opens exciting possibilities for emerging functionalities and novel applications in spin systems, photonics,…
Ferroelectric nematic -- isotropic critical end point
Jadwiga Szydlowska, Pawel Majewski, Mojca Čepič +8
A critical end point above which an isotropic phase continuously evolves into a polar (ferroelectric) nematic phase with an increasing electric field is found in a ferroelectric ne…
Sculpting stable structures in pure liquids
Tadej Emeršič, Rui Zhang, Žiga Kos +4
Pure liquids in thermodynamic equilibrium are structurally homogeneous. In liquid crystals, flow and light pulses are used to create reconfigurable domains with polar order. Moreov…
Microfluidic control over topological states in channel-confined nematic flows
Simon Čopar, Žiga Kos, Tadej Emeršič +1
Compared to isotropic liquids, orientational order of nematic liquid crystals makes their rheological properties more involved, and thus requires fine control of the flow parameter…
Spontaneous Domain Formation in Spherically-Confined Elastic Filaments
Tine Curk, James Daniel Farrell, Jure Dobnikar +1
Although the free energy of a genome packing into a virus is dominated by DNA-DNA interactions, ordering of the DNA inside the capsid is elasticity-driven, suggesting general solut…
Multi-level Chirality in Liquid Crystals Formed by Achiral Molecules
Mirosław Salamończyk, Nataša Vaupotič, Damian Pociecha +6
In many biological materials with a hierarchical structure there is an intriguing and unique mechanism responsible for the 'propagation' of order from the molecular to the nano- or…
Nature of nematic to twist bend nematic phase transition
Damian Pociecha, Catriona Crawford, Daniel A. Paterson +4
The critical behavior at the transition from uniform nematic to twist-bend modulated nematic phase is revealed and shown to be well explained by the mean field approximation. The s…
Polarization gratings spontaneously formed by the helical Twist-Bend Nematic phase
N. Vaupotič, M. Ali, P. W. Majewski +2
Spontaneous formation of polarization gratings by liquid crystals made of bent dimeric molecules is reported. The grating is formed within the temperature range of the twist bend m…
Impact of spherical nanoparticles on the nematic order parameter
C. Kyrou, S. Kralj, M. Panagopoulou +3
We study experimentally the impact of spherical nanoparticles on the orientational order parameters of a host nematic liquid crystal. We use spherical core-shell quantum dots that…
Controlling cargo trafficking in multicomponent membranes
Tine Curk, Peter Wirnsberger, Jure Dobnikar +2
Biological membranes typically contain a large number of different components dispersed in small concentrations in the main membrane phase, including proteins, sugars, and lipids o…
Structure of nanoscale-pitch helical phases: blue phase and twist-bend nematic phase resolved by resonant soft X-ray scattering
Mirosław Salamończyk, Nataša Vaupotič, Damian Pociecha +3
Periodic structures of phases with orientational order of molecules, but homogenous electron density distribution: a short pitch cholesteric, blue phase and twist-bend nematic phas…
Impact of BaTiO nanoparticles on phase transitions and dynamics in nematic liquid crystal - temperature and pressure studies
S. Starzonek, S. J. Rzoska, A. Drozd-Rzoska +2
Broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) of pure 5OCB and nanocolloids consisting of 5OCB and paraelectric or ferroelectric BaTiO nanoparticles (NPs) was performed on varying…
Layering, freezing and re-entrant melting of hard spheres in soft confinement
Tine Curk, Anouk de Hoogh, Francisco J. Martinez-Veracoechea +4
Confinement can have a dramatic effect on the behavior of all sorts of particulate systems and it therefore is an important phenomenon in many different areas of physics and techno…
Direction dependency of extraordinary refraction index in uniaxial nematic liquid crystals
Jerneja Pavlin, Natasa Vaupotic, Mojca Cepic
The article presents a straightforward experiment that directly and illustratively demonstrates double refraction. For this purpose, two liquid crystalline cells were designed, whi…
Stochastic resonance in soft matter systems: combined effects of static and dynamic disorder
Matjaz Perc, Marko Gosak, Samo Kralj
We study the impact of static and dynamic disorder on the phenomenon of stochastic resonance (SR) in a representative soft matter system. Due to their extreme susceptibility to wea…
Poisson -- Boltzmann Brownian Dynamics of Charged Colloids in Suspension
J. Dobnikar, D. Haložan, M. Brumen +2
We describe a method to simulate the dynamics of charged colloidal particles suspended in a liquid containing dissociated ions and salt ions. Regimes of prime current interest are…
The boundary element approach to Van der Waals interactions
Gregor Veble, Rudolf Podgornik
We develop a boundary element method to calculate Van der Waals interactions for systems composed of domains of spatially constant dielectric response. We achieve this by rewriting…
Applications of fractional calculus to diffusion transport in clay-water system
Dean Korosak, Bruno Cvikl, Janja Kramer +3
The analysis of the low-frequency conductivity spectra of the clay-water mixtures is presented. The conductivity spectra for samples at different water content values are shown to…
Anomalous Low-Frequency Dielectric Response of Clay-Water System
Dean Korosak, Janja Kramer, Renata Jecl +2
In this work we give the analysis of the low frequency dielectric response of selected kaolinitic clays at different water content ranging from dry, over plastic to liquid limit. F…
Effect of optical purity on phase sequence in antiferroelectric liquid crystals
Natasa Vaupotic, Mojca Cepic
We use the discrete phenomenological model to study theoretically the phase diagrams in antiferroelectric liquid crystals (AFLCs) as a function of optical purity and temperature. R…