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Cellulose-Based Reflective Liquid Crystal Films as Optical Filters and Solar Gain Regulators
Joshua A. De La Cruz, Qingkun Liu, Bohdan Senyuk +3
Many promising approaches for designing interactions of synthetic materials with light involve solid optical monocrystals and nanofabricated photonic crystal structures with spatia…
Aerogel from sustainably grown bacterial cellulose pellicle as thermally insulative film for building envelope
Blaise Fleury, Eldho Abraham, Joshua A. De La Cruz +7
Improving building energy performance requires the development of new highly insulative materials. An affordable retrofitting solution comprising a thin film could improve the resi…
Self-assembled nematic colloidal motors powered by light
Ye Yuan, Ghaneema N. Abuhaimed, Qingkun Liu +1
Biological motors are marvels of nature that inspire creation of their synthetic counterparts with comparable nanoscale dimensions, high efficiency and diverse functions. Molecular…
Elastic colloidal monopoles and reconfigurable self-assembly in liquid crystals
Ye Yuan, Qingkun Liu, Bohdan Senyuk +1
Monopole-like electrostatic interactions are ubiquitous in biology and condensed matter, but they are often screened by counter-ions and cannot be switched from attractive to repul…
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…
Electric Switching of Fluorescence Decay in Gold-Silica-Dye Nematic Nanocolloids Mediated by Surface Plasmons
Li Jiang, Haridas Mundoor, Qingkun Liu +1
Tunable composite materials with interesting physical behavior can be designed through integrating unique optical properties of solid nanostructures with the facile responses of so…
Optical patterning of magnetic domains and defects in ferromagnetic liquid crystal colloids
Andrew J. Hess, Qingkun Liu, Ivan I. Smalyukh
A promising approach in designing composite materials with unusual physical behavior combines solid nanostructures and orientationally ordered soft matter at the mesoscale. Such co…
Edge pinning and transformation of defect lines induced by faceted colloidal rings in nematic liquid crystals
Bohdan Senyuk, Qingkun Liu, Ye Yuan +1
Nematic colloids exhibit a large diversity of topological defects and structures induced by colloidal particles in the orientationally ordered liquid crystal host fluids. These def…
Nematic liquid crystal boojums with handles on colloidal handlebodies
Qingkun Liu, Bohdan Senyuk, Mykola Tasinkevych +1
Topological defects that form on surfaces of ordered media, dubbed boojums, are ubiquitous in superfluids, liquid crystals (LCs), Langmuir monolayers, and Bose-Einstein condensates…
Topological colloids
Bohdan Senyuk, Qingkun Liu, Sailing He +4
Abundant in nature, colloids also find increasingly important applications in science and technology, ranging from direct probing of kinetics in crystals and glasses to fabrication…
Plasmonic complex fluids of nematiclike and helicoidal self-assemblies of gold nanorods with a negative order parameter
Qingkun Liu, Bohdan Senyuk, Jianwei Tang +4
We describe a soft matter system of self-organized oblate micelles and plasmonic gold nanorods that exhibit a negative orientational order parameter. Because of anisotropic surface…
Colloidal spirals in nematic liquid crystals
Bohdan Senyuk, Manoj B. Pandey, Qingkun Liu +2
One of the central experimental efforts in nematic colloids research aims to explore how the interplay between the geometry of particles along with the accompanying nematic directo…
Geometry-guided colloidal interactions and self-tiling of elastic dipoles formed by truncated pyramid particles in liquid crystals
Bohdan Senyuk, Qingkun Liu, Ephraim Bililign +2
The progress of realizing colloidal structures mimicking natural forms of organization in condensed matter is inherently limited by the availability of suitable colloidal building…
Colloidal Surfaces with Boundaries, Apex Boojums and Nested Elastic Self-Assembly of Nematic Colloids
Sungoh Park, Qingkun Liu, Ivan I. Smalyukh
Self-assembly of colloidal particles is poised to become a powerful composite material fabrication technique, but remains challenged by a limited control over the ensuing structure…