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Chiral liquid crystal colloids
Ye Yuan, Angel Martinez, Bohdan Senyuk +2
Colloidal particles disturb the alignment of rod-like molecules of liquid crystals, giving rise to long-range interactions that minimize the free energy of distorted regions. Parti…
Liquid crystal self-assembly of upconversion nanorods enriched by depletion forces for mesostructured material preparation
Yong Xie, Yuanyuan Li, Guoqing Wei +4
Monodisperse rod-like colloidal particles are known for spontaneously forming both nematic and smectic liquid crystal phases, but their self-assembly was typically exploited from t…
Repulsion-attraction switching of nematic colloids formed by liquid crystal dispersions of polygonal prisms
Bohdan Senyuk, Qingkun Liu, Philip D. Nystrom +1
Self-assembly of colloidal particles due to elastic interactions in nematic liquid crystals promises tunable composite materials and can be guided by exploiting surface functionali…
Tuning and Switching a Plasmonic Quantum Dot Sandwich in a Nematic Line Defect
Haridas Mundoor, Ghadah. H. Sheetah, Sungoh Park +3
We study the quantum-mechanical effects arising in a single semiconductor core/shell quantum dot controllably sandwiched between two plasmonic nanorods. Control over the position a…
Liquid Crystal Colloids
Ivan I. Smalyukh
Colloids are abundant in nature, science and technology, with examples ranging from milk to quantum dots and the "colloidal atom" paradigm. Similarly, liquid crystal ordering is im…
Collective behavior of active topological solitons, knotted streamlines, and transport of cargo in liquid crystals
Hayley R. O. Sohn, Paul J. Ackerman, Timothy J. Boyle +3
Active colloids and liquid crystals are capable of locally converting the macroscopically-supplied energy into directional motion and promise a host of new applications, ranging fr…