Colloids are abundant in nature, science, and technology, with examples ranging from milk
to quantum dots and the colloidal atom paradigm. Similarly, liquid crystal ordering is …

Revolutionary developments in the fabrication of nanosized particles have created
enormous expectations in the last few years for the use of such materials in areas such as …

This pedagogical overview of liquid crystals is based on lectures for postgraduate students
given at the International Max Planck Research School “Modeling of Soft Matter”. I am …

More than four decades ago, Brochard and de Gennes proposed that colloidal suspensions
of ferromagnetic particles in nematic (directionally ordered) liquid crystals could form …

Robust control over the positions, orientations, and assembly of nonspherical colloids may
aid in the creation of new types of structured composite materials that are important from …

Besides nanostructured materials, individual particles are key elements for nanosciences.
The structuring properties of liquid crystals (LCs) are appealing to assemble them, to …

Using laser tweezers, we study colloidal interactions of solid microspheres in the nematic
bulk caused by elastic distortions around the particles with tangential surface anchoring. The …

This review presents experimental realization and behaviour of the ferromagnetic nematic
phase, which is observed in different suspensions of magnetic nanoplatelets. After a general …

Interparticle forces in a nematic liquid-crystal colloid have been directly observed by the dual
beam laser trapping method with pN sensitivity. We introduce two different types of spatial …

We numerically study many-body interactions among colloidal particles suspended in a
nematic liquid crystal, using a fluid particle dynamics method, which properly incorporates …