The seemingly simple step of molding a cholesteric liquid crystal into spherical shape,
yielding a Cholesteric Spherical Reflector (CSR), has profound optical consequences that …

Soft matter covers a wide range of materials based on linear or branched polymers, gels and
rubbers, amphiphilic (macro) molecules, colloids, and self-assembled structures. These …

The extraordinary responsiveness and large diversity of self-assembled structures of liquid
crystals are well documented and they have been extensively used in devices like displays …

Nematic order on curved surfaces is often disrupted by the presence of topological defects,
which are singular regions in which the orientational order is undefined. In the presence of …

Chirality, ubiquitous in complex biological systems, can be controlled and quantified in
synthetic materials such as cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) systems. In this work, we study …

Liquid crystals are known to exhibit intriguing textures and color patterns, with applications
in display and optical technologies. This work focuses on chiral materials and examines the …

Spheres of cholesteric liquid crystal generate dynamic patterns due to selective reflection
from a helical structure subject to continuously curved boundaries. So far the patterns are …

As an effective platform to exploit triplet–triplet-annihilation-based photon upconversion
(TTA-UC), microcapsules composed of a fluidic UC core and photonic shell are …

Cholesteric liquid crystals have attracted much attention in biosensors, in communication
systems, security identification, hierarchical materials assembly, and microlasers, due to …

The Helfrich-Hurault (HH) elastic instability is a well-known mechanism behind patterns that
form as a result of strain upon liquid crystal systems with periodic ground states. In the HH …