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Molecular chirality controls droplet division and helical fiber formation in liquid crystal emulsions
Simon Čopar, Mariana V. M. Rodriguez, Peter Marinko +9
Molecular chirality is a source of broken mirror symmetry, but using it to control mesoscale structures with a tunable length scale remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate that a…
Scallop Theorem for Swimming in Anisotropic Fluids
Mojtaba Rajabi, Enej Caf, Qi Xing Zhang +5
In isotropic fluids like water, micrometer-scale swimmers have evolved swim strokes to translate despite their tiny size. As described by Purcell in his Scallop Theorem, reciprocal…
Nematic liquid crystal flow driven by time-varying active surface anchoring
Seyed Reza Seyednejad, Miha Ravnik
We demonstrate the generation of diverse material flow regimes in nematic liquid cells as driven by time-variable active surface anchoring, including no-net flow, oscillatory flow,…
Controllable shifting, steering, and expanding of light beam based on multi-layer liquid-crystal cells
Urban Mur, Miha Ravnik, David Seč
Shaping and steering of light beams is essential in many modern applications, ranging from optical tweezers, camera lenses, vision correction to 3D displays. However, current reali…
Numerical modeling of optical modes in topological soft matter
Urban Mur, Miha Ravnik
Vector and vortex laser beams are desired in many applications and are usually created by manipulating the laser output or by inserting optical components in the laser cavity. Dist…
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…