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Nematic colloidal micro-robots as physically intelligent systems
Tianyi Yao, Žiga Kos, Yimin Luo +4
Physically intelligent micro-robotic systems exploit information embedded in micro-robots, their colloidal cargo, and their milieu to interact, assemble and form functional structu…
Tunable colloid trajectories in nematic liquid crystals near wavy walls
Yimin Luo, Daniel A. Beller, Giuseppe Boniello +2
The ability to dictate colloid motion is an important challenge in fields ranging from materials science to living systems. Here, by embedding energy landscapes in confined nematic…
Curvature-driven, One-step Assembly of Reconfigurable Smectic Liquid Crystal "Compound Eye" Lenses
Francesca Serra, Mohamed A. Gharbi, Yimin Luo +5
Confined smectic A liquid crystals (SmA LCs) form topological defects called focal conic domains (FCDs) that focus light as gradient-index lenses. Here, we exploit surface curvatur…
Non-linear dynamics of absorption and photo-bleaching of dyes
Francesca Serra, Eugene M. Terentjev
The celebrated Lambert-Beer law of light absorption in photochromic media is only valid at low intensities of incident light and low concentration of chromophore. Here we address t…