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High order nonlinear electrophoresis in a nematic liquid crystal
Mojtaba Rajabi, Taras Turiv, Bing-Xiang Li +3
Electrophoresis is the motion of particles relative to a surrounding fluid driven by a uniform electric field. In conventional electrophoresis, the electrophoretic velocity grows l…
Topological transformations of a nematic drop
Runa Koizumi, Dmitry Golovaty, Ali Alqarni +3
Morphogenesis of living systems involves topological shape transformations which are highly unusual in the inanimate world. Here we demonstrate that a droplet of a nematic liquid c…
Liquid crystal phases with unusual structures and physical properties formed by acute-angle bent-core molecules
Bing-Xiang Li, Yuriy A. Nastishin, Hao Wang +7
Liquid crystals formed by acute-angle bent-core (ABC) molecules with a 1,7 naphthalene central core show an intriguing phase behavior with the nematic phase accompanied by poorly u…
Shear-induced polydomain structures of nematic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal disodium cromoglycate
Hend Baza, Taras Turiv, Bing-Xiang Li +4
Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs) represent aqueous dispersions of organic disk-like molecules that form cylindrical aggregates. Despite the growing interest in these mat…
Soliton-induced liquid crystal enabled electrophoresis
Bing-Xiang Li, Rui-Lin Xiao, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii +1
Manipulation of particles by a uniform electric field, known as electrophoresis, is used in a wide array of applications. Of especial interest is electrophoresis driven by an alter…
Electrically driven dynamic three-dimensional solitons in nematic liquid crystals
Bing-Xiang Li, Volodymyr Borshch, Rui-Lin Xiao +4
Electric field induced collective reorientation of nematic molecules placed between two flat parallel electrodes is of importance for both fundamental science and practical applica…
Enhanced nanosecond electro-optic effect in isotropic and nematic phases of dielectrically negative nematics doped by strongly polar additive
Bing-Xiang Li, Volodymyr Borshch, Hao Wang +3
An electric field can induce or modify optical birefringence in both the isotropic and nematic phases of liquid crystals (LCs). In the isotropic phase, the electric field induces b…
Nanosecond electro-optics of nematic liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy
Volodymyr Borshch, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, Bing-Xiang Li +1
We study a nanosecond electro-optic response of a nematic liquid crystal in a geometry where an applied electric field modifies the tensor order parameter but does not…