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Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline phases
Nerea Sebastián, Martin Čopič, Alenka Mertelj
Recent experimental realization of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline phases stimulated material development and numerous experimental studies of these new phases, guided by…
Ferroelectric-ferroelastic phase transition in a nematic liquid crystal
Nerea Sebastián, Luka Cmok, Richard J. Mandle +4
Ferroelectric ordering in liquids is a fundamental question of physics. Here, we show that ferroelectric ordering of the molecules causes formation of recently reported splay nemat…
Q-tensor model of twist-bend and splay nematic phases
Martin Čopič, Alenka Mertelj
The twist-bend nematic phase (NTB) is characterized by a conically twisting director and by a dramatic softening of the bend elastic constant before the transition to NTB phase. In…
Evolution of nematic and ferromagnetic ordering in suspensions of magnetic nanoplatelets
Alenka Mertelj, Borut Lampret, Darja Lisjak +3
Suspensions of magnetic nanoplatelets in isotropic solvents are very interesting examples of ferrofluids. It has been shown that above a certain concentration ΦNI such suspensions…
Director switching dynamics of ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystals
Nerea Sebastian, Natan Osterman, Darja Lisjak +2
Successful realization of ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystals has opened up the possibility to experimentally study a completely new set of fundamental physical phenomena. In thi…
Spontaneous Liquid Crystal and Ferromagnetic Ordering of Colloidal Magnetic Nanoplates
Min Shuai, Arthur Klittnick, Yongqiang Shen +10
Ferrofluids are familiar as colloidal suspensions of ferromagnetic nanoparticles in aqueous or organic solvents. The dispersed particles are randomly oriented but their moments bec…
Photodynamics of stress in clamped nematic elastomers
Milos Knezevic, Mark Warner, Martin Copic +1
We describe the complex time-dependence of the build up of force exerted by a clamped photo-elastomer under illumination. Nonlinear (non-Beer) absorption leads to a bleaching wave…
Depth Profile of Optically Recorded Patterns in Light-Sensitive Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Marko Gregorc, Boštjan Zalar, Valentina Domenici +4
We investigated nonlinear absorption and photobleaching processes in a liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) doped with light-sensitive azobenzene moiety. A conventional one-dimensional h…
Polarization modulation instability in liquid crystals with spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking
Natasa Vaupotic, Martin Copic
We present a theoretical model which describes the polarization modulated and layer undulated structure of the B7 phase and gives the phase transition from the synclinic ferroelect…