3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Shaping boundaries to control and transport topological defects in colloidal nematic liquid crystals
Gerardo Campos-Villalobos, André F. V. Matias, Ethan I. L. Jull +2
Anisotropic rod-like particles form liquid crystalline phases with varying degrees of orientational and translational order. When confined geometrically, these phases can give rise…
cond-mat.soft2026
Tuning cholesteric cellulose nanocrystal self-assembly in spherical confinement via salt and sonication
Diogo Vieira Saraiva, Anne Meike Hogeweg, Lisa Tran
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) self-assemble into cholesteric liquid crystals that produce structural color upon solvent removal. Although most studies examine this process in plana…
cond-mat.soft2025
Controlling viscosity to engineer focal conic domains in photonic cellulose nanocrystal films
Diogo V. Saraiva, Lotte Polling, Ivo R. Vermaire +3
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) form cholesteric architectures that can have color specific reflectivity and enable sustainable photonic films. However, achieving uniform color, supp…