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

Nematic Braids: Topological Invariants and Rewiring of Disclinations

(2011) Simon Čopar et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Knot Your Simple Defect Lines?

(2011) R. D. Kamien   SCIENCE

Reconfigurable Knots and Links in Chiral Nematic Colloids

(2011) U. Tkalec et al.   SCIENCE

Colloids in liquid crystals: a lattice Boltzmann study

(2010) J. S. Lintuvuori et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

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

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

Symmetry breaking in smectics and surface models of their singularities

(2009) B. G.-g. Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Skyrmion Lattice in a Chiral Magnet

(2009) S. Muhlbauer et al.   SCIENCE

Interactions of quadrupolar nematic colloids

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

Non-Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation

(2008) Chetan Nayak et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Nematic colloids entangled by topological defects

(2008) Miha Ravnik et al.   Soft Matter