[HTML][HTML] Introduction to liquid crystals

D Andrienko - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Photoinduced movement: how photoirradiation induced the movements of matter

T Yamaguchi, M Ogawa - Science and Technology of Advanced …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Pioneered by the success on active transport of ions across membranes in 1980 using the
regulation of the binding properties of crown ethers with covalently linked photoisomerizable …

Chemoresponsive assemblies of microparticles at liquid crystalline interfaces

GM Koenig Jr, IH Lin, NL Abbott - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Assemblies formed by solid particles at interfaces have been widely studied because they
serve as models of molecular phenomena, including molecular self-assembly. Solid …

Viscoelastic and photoresponsive properties of microparticle/liquid-crystal composite gels: tunable mechanical strength along with rapid-recovery nature and …

T Yamamoto, M Yoshida - Langmuir, 2012 - ACS Publications
We investigated viscoelastic and photoresponsive properties of the microparticle/liquid-
crystal (LC) composite gels. The mechanical strength of the colloidal gels can be widely …

Use of topological defects as templates to direct assembly of colloidal particles at nematic interfaces

MA Gharbi, M Nobili, C Blanc - Journal of colloid and interface science, 2014 - Elsevier
In this work, we experimentally investigate the ability of topological defects to guide
interfacial assembly of spherical particles with homeotropic anchoring confined to nematic …

Electrical transport and NDR property on the cis–trans photo-isomerization of (1R, 3S)-2, 2-dimethyl-3-(2-methylprop-1-en-1-yl) cyclopropanecarboxylate as an optical …

V Darugar, M Vakili, SA Brandán - Chemical Physics Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
A first-principles method joined to non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) is used to study
the transport of (1R, 3S)-2, 2-dimethyl-3-(2-methylprop-1-en-1-yl) cyclopropanecarboxylate …

First-principle study of the current–voltage on the β-diketones with alkyl and methoxy groups at the beta position as molecular switches

ME Aliabadi, M Vakili, A Kanaani, V Darugar… - Chemical Physics …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the nonequilibrium green's function (NEGF) combination with density functional
theory (DFT) was used to investigate the molecular switching properties in some β-diketones …

Theory of elastic interaction between arbitrary colloidal particles in confined nematic liquid crystals

OM Tovkach, SB Chernyshuk, BI Lev - … E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter …, 2012 - APS
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 …

Colloidal particles in liquid crystal films and at interfaces

M Tasinkevych, D Andrienko - arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1189, 2010 - arxiv.org
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 …

Theory of elastic interaction between colloidal particles in a nematic cell in the presence of an external electric or magnetic field

SB Chernyshuk, OM Tovkach, BI Lev - … E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter …, 2012 - APS
The Green's function method developed previously [SB Chernyshuk and BI Lev, Phys. Rev.
E 81, 041701 (2010) PLEEE8 1063-651X 10.1103/PhysRevE. 81.041701] is used to …