The introduction of chirality, ie, the lack of mirror symmetry, has a profound effect on liquid
crystals, not only on the molecular scale but also on the supermolecular scale and phase. I …

Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking is an efficient way to obtain homogeneously chiral
agents, pharmaceutical ingredients and materials. It is also in the focus of the discussion …

Viscoelastic fluids are a common subclass of rheologically complex materials that are
encountered in diverse fields from biology to polymer processing. Often the flows of …

The dielectric tensor is a physical descriptor of fundamental light–matter interactions,
characterizing anisotropic materials with principal refractive indices and optic axes. Despite …

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and plays crucial roles in biology, medicine, physics and
materials science. Understanding and controlling chirality is therefore an important research …

According to our present knowledge, the spontaneous resolution of racemic mixtures of
chiral molecules or chiral conformers of achiral molecules into macroscopic chiral …

In the recent two decades liquid crystal science has contributed significantly to the
understanding of mirror symmetry breaking and spontaneous emergence of chirality in …

Using dynamic light scattering, we study orientational fluctuation modes in the nematic
phase of a self-assembled lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal (LCLC) disodium cromoglycate …

The interaction of water and surfaces, at molecular level, is of critical importance for
understanding processes such as corrosion, friction, catalysis and mass transport. The …

I started the work on liquid crystal colloids around the year 2000 as a continuation of our
experiments on forces between surfaces in liquid crystals. We were using the atomic force …