Optical generation of crystalline, quasicrystalline, and arbitrary arrays of torons in confined cholesteric liquid crystals for patterning of optical vortices in laser beams

Shape-Dependent Oriented Trapping and Scaffolding of Plasmonic Nanoparticles by Topological Defects for Self-Assembly of Colloidal Dimers in Liquid Crystals

(2012) Bohdan Senyuk et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optically generated reconfigurable photonic structures of elastic quasiparticles in frustrated cholesteric liquid crystals

(2012) Ivan I. Smalyukh et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Reconfigurable interactions and three-dimensional patterning of colloidal particles and defects in lamellar soft media

(2012) R. P. Trivedi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Colloquium: Disclination loops, point defects, and all that in nematic liquid crystals

(2012) Gareth P. Alexander et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Laser-directed hierarchical assembly of liquid crystal defects and control of optical phase singularities

(2012) Paul J. Ackerman et al.   Scientific Reports

A continuous-viewing-angle-controllable liquid-crystal display using a blue-phase liquid crystal

(2011) Li-Wei Liu et al.   Journal of the Society for Information Display

Frustrated nematic order in spherical geometries

(2011) T. Lopez-Leon et al.   Nature Physics

Three-dimensional imaging of liquid crystal structures and defects by means of holographic manipulation of colloidal nanowires with faceted sidewalls

(2011) David Engström et al.   Soft Matter

Optically generated adaptive localized structures in confined chiral liquid crystals doped with fullerene

(2010) O. Trushkevych et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Self-Organization of Particles with Planar Surface Anchoring in a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal

(2010) Niek Hijnen et al.   LANGMUIR

Pleats in crystals on curved surfaces

(2010) William T. M. Irvine et al.   NATURE

Production and application of electron vortex beams

(2010) J. Verbeeck et al.   NATURE

Generation of electron beams carrying orbital angular momentum

(2010) Masaya Uchida et al.   NATURE

Isolated optical vortex knots

(2010) Mark R. Dennis et al.   Nature Physics

Multimodal nonlinear optical polarizing microscopy of long-range molecular order in liquid crystals

(2010) Taewoo Lee et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Mesoscopic modelling of colloids in chiral nematics

(2009) Miha Ravnik et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Manipulation of photons at the surface of three-dimensional photonic crystals

(2009) Kenji Ishizaki et al.   NATURE

Printed artificial cilia from liquid-crystal network actuators modularly driven by light

(2009) Casper L. van Oosten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Three-dimensional structure and multistable optical switching of triple-twisted particle-like excitations in anisotropic fluids

(2009) Ivan I. Smalyukh et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Shape-Controlled Colloidal Interactions in Nematic Liquid Crystals

(2009) C. P. Lapointe et al.   SCIENCE

Skyrmion Lattice in a Chiral Magnet

(2009) S. Muhlbauer et al.   SCIENCE

Archimedean-like tiling on decagonal quasicrystalline surfaces

(2008) Jules Mikhael et al.   NATURE

Linked and knotted beams of light

(2008) William T. M. Irvine et al.   Nature Physics

Hierarchical self-assembly of nematic colloidal superstructures

(2008) M. Škarabot et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Geometrical frustration and defects in condensed matter systems

(2007) Rémy Mosseri   COMPTES RENDUS CHIMIE

Acclaimed defects

(2007) Chih-Hung Sun et al.   Nature Photonics