3 papers
physics.optics2026
Drop-on-demand printed negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystal droplets for adaptive complex beam manipulation and assessment
Jinge Guo, Xuke Qiu, Runchen Zhang +12
Adaptive manipulation of vectorial optical fields are important for optical metrology, imaging, and structured light related applications, yet existing approaches often rely on bul…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026
Field-Programmable Topological Torons in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals
Adithya Pradeep, Urban Mur, Ji Qin +7
Torons are three-dimensional double-twist solitons in chiral nematic liquid crystals that form localised director configurations protected by topology and bounded by closed defect…
cond-mat.soft2024
Fine-tuning the Microstructure and Photophysical Characteristics of Fluorescent Conjugated Copolymers Using Photoalignment and Liquid-crystalline Ordering
Yuping Shi, Katharina Landfester, Stephen M. Morris
Replicating the microstructure and near-unity excitation energy transfer efficiency in natural light-harvesting complexes (LHCs) remains a major challenge for synthetic energy-harv…