Smectic membranes are perfect model systems for studying low-dimensional phase
transitions and the associated fluctuations. During the last two decades we have seen …

Based on graduate lectures given by the authors, Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals:
Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments examines lamellar (smectic) …

Colloidal inclusions in thin free standing liquid crystal films are ideal model systems for 2D
anisotropic dispersions. Different types of self-organization in chain and lattice structures …

Smectic and lamellar liquid crystals are three-dimensional layered structures in which each
layer behaves as a two-dimensional fluid. Because of their reduced dimensionality they …

4.7 nm Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) capped with mesogenic ligands, dispersed in
homeotropically aligned smectic A liquid crystal (LC), reversibly form arrays of aggregates …

The Stokes paradox, that moving a disk at finite velocity through an infinite two-dimensional
(2D) viscous fluid requires no force, leads, via the Einstein relation, to an infinite diffusion …

The contact angle between a free standing film of a smectic-A liquid crystal and its meniscus
is different from zero. It increases independently of the meniscus size when the film …

Freely standing thin liquid films containing supramolecular structures including micelles,
nanoparticles, polyelectrolyte–surfactant complexes, and smectic liquid crystals undergo …

In this article we review interactions and collective behavior of inclusions in free-standing
smectic films with in-plane orientational ordering. The inclusions interact on large distances …

We present a theoretical study and numerical simulation of Marangoni convection within
ellipsoidal isotropic droplets embedded in free-standing smectic films (FSSFs). The …