Defect science and engineering of liquid crystals under geometrical frustration

Nematic Liquid Crystals Embedded in Cubic Microlattices: Memory Effects and Bistable Pixels

(2013) Francesca Serra et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Liquid Crystal Microfluidics for Tunable Flow Shaping

(2013) Anupam Sengupta et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Topological colloids

(2012) Bohdan Senyuk et al.   NATURE

Dynamic Coupling between a Multistable Defect Pattern and Flow in Nematic Liquid Crystals Confined in a Porous Medium

(2012) Takeaki Araki   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

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

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

Theory and modeling of nematic disclination branching under capillary confinement

(2012) Alireza Shams et al.   Soft Matter

Flow of a nematogen past a cylindrical micro-pillar

(2012) Anupam Sengupta et al.   Soft Matter

Smectic Liquid Crystal Defects for Self-Assembling of Building Blocks and Their Lithographic Applications

(2011) Yun Ho Kim et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

The emergence of memory in liquid crystals

(2011) Francesca Serra et al.   Materials Today

Memory and topological frustration in nematic liquid crystals confined in porous materials

(2011) Takeaki Araki et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Maximizing memory

(2011) Igor Muševič et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Colloidal entanglement in highly twisted chiral nematic colloids: Twisted loops, Hopf links, and trefoil knots

(2011) V. S. R. Jampani et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Nematic disclinations as twisted ribbons

(2011) Simon Čopar et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Nematic Braids: Topological Invariants and Rewiring of Disclinations

(2011) Simon Čopar et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A Self-Quenched Defect Glass in a Colloid-Nematic Liquid Crystal Composite

(2011) T. A. Wood et al.   SCIENCE

Reconfigurable Knots and Links in Chiral Nematic Colloids

(2011) U. Tkalec et al.   SCIENCE

Nematic textures in microfluidic environment

(2011) Anupam Sengupta et al.   Soft Matter

Topological defects of nematic liquid crystals confined in porous networks

(2011) Francesca Serra et al.   Soft Matter

Shape-tuning the colloidal assemblies in nematic liquid crystals

(2011) Jayasri Dontabhaktuni et al.   Soft Matter

Nonlinear electrophoresis of dielectric and metal spheres in a nematic liquid crystal

(2010) Oleg D. Lavrentovich et al.   NATURE

Nematics with Quenched Disorder: Violation of Self-Averaging

(2010) J. M. Fish et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Flow induced deformation of defects around nanoparticles and nanodroplets suspended in liquid crystals

(2010) Brian T. Gettelfinger et al.   Soft Matter

Defect structures in nematic liquid crystals around charged particles

(2009) K. Tojo et al.   EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E

Quadrupolar particles in a nematic liquid crystal: Effects of particle size and shape

(2009) Francisco R. Hung   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Janus nematic colloids

(2009) M. Conradi et al.   Soft Matter

Nematic braids: 2D entangled nematic liquid crystal colloids

(2009) Miha Ravnik et al.   Soft Matter

Pattern evolution of an edge-dislocation array in a lyotropic lamellar phase confined in a wedge-shaped cell: Defect formation, relaxation, and recombination

(2008) Yasutaka Iwashita et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Self-assembly of polymer droplets in a nematic liquid crystal at phase separation

(2008) Kosuke Kita et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Nematic colloids entangled by topological defects

(2008) Miha Ravnik et al.   Soft Matter