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Multistable nematic liquid crystal pores as reconfigurable optical vortex metasurfaces
Claire Doré, Brian Edwards, Nader Engheta +1
Nematic liquid crystals confined in cylindrical pores adopt multiple stable director topologies --- radial, escaped, and arches --- each imprinting a distinct optical signature on…
A sweeping twist defect as a topological flagellum that drives colloid motion
Qi Xing Zhang, Claire Dore, Mojtaba Rajabi +2
Nematic liquid crystals can dramatically reconfigure under dynamic forcing, providing exciting opportunities in active matter. Here, we study a hybrid disk colloid rotated by an ex…
Dynamics of active defects on the anisotropic surface of an ellipsoidal droplet
Martina Clairand, Ali Mozaffari, Jérôme Hardoüin +6
Cells are fundamental building blocks of living organisms displaying an array of shapes, morphologies, and textures that encode specific functions and physical behaviors. Elucidati…
Active boundary layers
Jérôme Hardoüin, Claire Doré, Justine Laurent +3
The role of boundary layers in conventional liquid crystals is commonly subsumed in their anchoring on confining walls. In the classical view, anchoring enslaves the orientational…