Chromonic systems are lyotropic mesophases formed by soluble aromatic compounds. The
basic structural units in these systems are stacks of molecules (rather than individual …

Carbon nanotubes are the best of known materials with a combination of excellent
mechanical, electronic, and thermal properties. To fully exploit individual nanotube …

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 …

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

Controlling the growth morphology of fluid instabilities is challenging because of their self-
amplified and nonlinear growth. The viscous fingering instability, which arises when a less …

Phase separation is a universal physical transition process whereby a homogeneous
mixture splits into two distinct compartments that are driven by the component activity …

Chromonic systems are lyotropic liquid crystal phases formed by soluble aromatic
compounds. They occur as the result of the face-to-face aggregation of the molecules into …

We report the observation of liquid crystals formed by giant graphene oxide flakes (aspect
ratio above 10 000) suspended in water. As their concentration increases, the flakes …

In many colloidal systems, an orientationally ordered nematic (N) phase emerges from the
isotropic (I) melt in the form of spindle-like birefringent tactoids. In cases studied so far, the …

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