Featured Application Nanomaterial-doped liquid crystals. Abstract The research field of
liquid crystals and their applications is recently changing from being largely focused on …

Colloidal particles in a liquid crystal (LC) behave very differently from their counterparts in
isotropic fluids. Elastic nature of the orientational order and surface anchoring of the director …

Electro-optical switching with low voltage, no hysteresis and fast response speed is
achieved in polymer-stabilized nanoparticle-enriched blue phase liquid crystals with a wide …

Spherical colloidal particles with normal and tangential surface director alignment in a
nematic liquid crystal induce elastic quadrupoles of opposite signs that attract one another …

In spite of the analogy to the electrostatics, the three-dimensional colloidal nematostatics is
substantially different in both its mathematical structure and its physical implications. The …

We apply the method developed [Chernyshuk and Lev, Phys. Rev. E 81, 041701 (2010)
PLEEE8 1539-3755 10.1103/PhysRevE. 81.041701] for theoretical investigation of colloidal …

We present numerical solutions to the Landau-de Gennes free-energy model under the one-
constant approximation for systems of single and double spherical colloidal particles …

We derive an analytical formula for the Saturn-ring configuration around a small colloidal
particle suspended in nematic liquid crystal. In particular we obtain an explicit expression for …

We develop the method proposed by Chernyshuk and Lev [Phys. Rev. E 81, 041701 (2010)
PLEEE8 1539-3755 10.1103/PhysRevE. 81.041701] for theoretical investigation of elastic …

This mini-review discusses the recent contribution of theoretical and computational physics
as well as experimental efforts to the understanding of the behavior of colloidal particles in …