Orientational order of motile defects in active nematics

SJ DeCamp, GS Redner, A Baskaran, MF Hagan… - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
The study of liquid crystals at equilibrium has led to fundamental insights into the nature of
ordered materials, as well as to practical applications such as display technologies. Active …

Living liquid crystals

S Zhou, A Sokolov, OD Lavrentovich, IS Aranson - Biophysical Journal, 2014 - cell.com
Bio-mechanical hybrids are an emerging class of engineered composite soft materials with
the ability to move and reconfigure their structure and properties in response to external …

Topology control of human fibroblast cells monolayer by liquid crystal elastomer

T Turiv, J Krieger, G Babakhanova, H Yu… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Eukaryotic cells in living tissues form dynamic patterns with spatially varying orientational
order that affects important physiological processes such as apoptosis and cell migration …

Polarized light microscopy in reproductive and developmental biology

M Koike‐Tani, T Tani, SB Mehta… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The polarized light microscope reveals orientational order in native molecular structures
inside living cells, tissues, and whole organisms. It is a powerful tool used to monitor and …

[图书][B] Handbook of optical metrology: Principles and Applications

T Yoshizawa - 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
The field of optical metrology offers a wealth of both practical and theoretical
accomplishments, and can cite any number of academic papers recording such. However …

Topological transformations of a nematic drop

R Koizumi, D Golovaty, A Alqarni, BX Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Permittivity tensor imaging: modular label-free imaging of 3D dry mass and 3D orientation at high resolution

LH Yeh, IE Ivanov, T Chandler, JR Byrum, BB Chhun… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The dry mass and the orientation of biomolecules can be imaged without a label by
measuring their permittivity tensor (PT), which describes how biomolecules affect the phase …

[PDF][PDF] Highâ Resolution and Highâ Throughput Plasmonic Photopatterning of Complex Molecular Orientations in Liquid Crystals

Y Guo, M Jiang, C Peng, K Sun, O Yaroshchuk… - 2016 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Optical metasurfaces made of 2D nanoantenna arrays are emerging with extraordinary
abilities in controlling the flow of light at subwavelength length scales.[21, 22] It has been …

Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal thermomotor

MT Máthé, Á Buka, A Jákli, P Salamon - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
A thermal gradient-induced circular motion of particles placed on ferroelectric nematic liquid
crystal sessile drops is demonstrated and explained. Unlike hurricanes and tornadoes that …

Method and apparatus for performing optical imaging using frequency-domain interferometry

SH Yun, BE Bouma, GJ Tearney, JF De Boer - US Patent 7,733,497, 2010 - Google Patents
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