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Electrically driven three-dimensional solitary waves as director bullets in nematic liquid crystals
Nature Communications, 2018 Solitary waves which maintain their shape have many fascinating physical and mathematical properties. Here the authors observe waves trapped along three spatial dimensions in nematic liquid crystals due to an electric field and show that these director ...
Bing-Xiang Li +6 more
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Nature Communications, 2018 The original version of this article contained an error in the description of Supplementary Movie 7, which incorrectly read ‘Collision resulting in annihilation of two solitons. U = 45.1 V, f = 600 Hz, T = 50 °C, d = 8.0 μm. The original movie is taken
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Frontiers in Physics, 2021 One objective of active matter science is to unveil principles by which chaotic microscale dynamics could be transformed into useful work. A nematic liquid crystal environment offers a number of possibilities, one of which is a directional motion of an ...
Mojtaba Rajabi +7 more
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Biophysical Journal, 2014 Significance We propose a class of active matter, the living liquid crystal (LLC), representing motile rod-shaped bacteria placed in water-based nontoxic liquid crystal. Long-range orientational order of the liquid crystal and the swimming activity of bacteria demonstrate a strong coupling that dramatically alters individual and ...
Zhou, Shuang +3 more
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Nature Communications, 2017 Topological defects play important roles in determining material properties, whilst their core regions remain unexplored due to strongly distorted structures. Zhouet al.
Shuang Zhou +3 more
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Smart Thermally Switchable Liquid Crystal Window
Advanced Photonics Research, 2021 Global warming, due to the consumption of fossil energy, is one of the biggest challenges in recent days. Air conditioning (cooling and heating) of office and residential buildings is one of the largest energy consumptions.
Yingfei Jiang +3 more
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The Freedericksz Transition in a Spatially Varying Magnetic Field
Crystals, 2021 Much is known about the Freedericksz transition induced by uniform electric and magnetic fields in nematic liquid crystals. In this work, we are interested in the effects of a spatially varying field on the transition. Specifically, we study the director
Tianyi Guo +2 more
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Designs of Plasmonic Metamasks for Photopatterning Molecular Orientations in Liquid Crystals
Crystals, 2016 Aligning liquid crystal (LC) molecules into spatially non-uniform orientation patterns is central to the functionalities of many emerging LC devices. Recently, we developed a new projection photopatterning technique by using plasmonic metamasks (PMMs ...
Yubing Guo +6 more
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Liquid crystal elastomer coatings with programmed response of surface profile
Nature Communications, 2018 Liquid crystal elastomers are anisotropic rubbers which can be actuated by an external trigger. Here the authors develop elastomer coatings with pre-patterned molecular orientation that induces deterministic topography changes in response to changes in ...
Greta Babakhanova +7 more
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ON LIQUID CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPERSIONS
Annals of the Academy of Romanian Scientists Series on Physics and Chemistry, 2022 This short review paper presents some important aspects ofliquid crystal and liquid crystal composites. Preparation methods ofpolymer dispersed liquid crystalfdms (PDLC), the obtained structure and their main application as light valve are shown. In the last decade, the field has experienced a sharp revitalization, due to nanodoping, which results in ...
Doina MĂNĂILĂ-MAXIMEAN +1 more
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