Liquid crystals (LCs) are ubiquitous in display technologies. The orientational ordering in the
nematic phase of LCs gives rise to structural anisotropy, the ability to form topological …

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 …

Active colloids in liquid crystals (ACLCs) are an active matter with qualitatively new facets of
behavior as compared to active matter that becomes isotropic when relaxed into an …

Dynamics of small particles, both living and inanimate, has fascinated scientists for
centuries. Learning how to control it could open technological opportunities in the …

Different phoretic driving mechanisms have been proposed for the transport of solid or liquid
microscopic inclusions in integrated chemical processes. It is now shown that a substrate …

Two Multi-particle collision dynamics algorithms that simulate nematic liquid crystals are
generalised to reproduce active behaviour. One of the algorithms is due to Shendruk and …

We establish experimentally the flow patterns of induced-charge electro-osmosis around
immobilized metallic spheres in aqueous electrolyte. The ac field modifies local electrolyte …

Transport of fluids and particles at the microscale is an important theme in both fundamental
and applied science. One of the most successful approaches is to use an electric field, which …

In this review, we focus on recent experimental research involving active colloidal particles
of non-biological origin evolving in non-Newtonian fluids. This includes self-propelling active …

A contactless emulsification method is presented using corona discharge. The corona
discharge forms using a pin-to-plate configuration, creating a non-uniform electric field. This …