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6 papers
Liquid-crystal enabled electrophoresis: Scenarios for driving and reconfigurable assembling of colloids
S. Hernàndez-Navarro, P. Tierno, J. Ignés-Mullol +1
We demonstrate several examples of driving and steering of colloids when dispersed in nematic liquid crystals. The driving mechanism is based on the principle of nonlinear electrop…
Reconfigurable Flows and Defect Landscape of Confined Active Nematics
Jérôme Hardoüin, Rian Hughes, Amin Doostmohammadi +5
Using novel micro-printing techniques, we develop a versatile experimental setup that allows us to study how lateral confinement tames the active flows and defect properties of the…
Probing the shear viscosity of an active nematic
Pau Guillamat, Jordi Ignés-Mullol, Suraj Shankar +2
In vitro reconstituted active systems, such as the ATP-driven microtubule bundle suspension developed by the Dogic group, provide a fertile testing ground for elucidating the pheno…
Continuous rotation of achiral nematic liquid crystal droplets driven by heat flux
Jordi Ignés-Mullol, Guilhem Poy, Patrick Oswald
Suspended droplets of cholesteric (chiral nematic) liquid crystals spontaneously rotate in the presence of a heat flux due to a temperature gradient, a phenomenon known as Lehmann…
Nematic Colloidal Swarms Assembled and Transported on Photosensitive Surfaces
Sergi Hernàndez-Navarro, Pietro Tierno, Jordi Ignés-Mullol +1
We demonstrate a novel method to assemble and transport swarms of colloidal particles by combining liquid crystals enabled electrophoresis and photo-sensitive surface patterning. C…
Formation of disclination lines near a free nematic interface
Jordi Ignes-Mullol, Jean Baudry, Lubor Lejcek +1
We have studied the nucleation and the physical properties of a -1/2 wedge disclination line near the free surface of a confined nematic liquid crystal. The position of the disclin…