Colloidal nanoparticles in liquid crystals: Bulk properties, biaxiality and untwisting in cholesterics

Prabakaran Rajamanickam, Fatimah Almutari, Apala Majumdar

We study the effects of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) in liquid crystal samples in the dilute limit, in a Landau--de Gennes theoretical framework. The effects of the suspended NPs…