Thermotropic liquid crystals can be formed by various molecular shapes, some discovered
over 125 years ago. The simplest and most-studied liquid crystals are made of rod-shaped …

This article reviews recent progress in the computer simulation of liquid crystals at the
molecular level. It covers the use of simple rigid-body models of the constituent molecules …

We propose a general formalism to characterize orientational frustration of smectic liquid
crystals in confinement by interpreting the emerging networks of grain boundaries as objects …

We perform an extensive computational study on the phase behavior of hard banana-
shaped particles, and show that biaxial, twist-bend, and splay-bend nematic phases are …

Liquid crystal (LC) phases are in between solids and liquids with properties of both. Nematic
LCs composed of rod-like molecules or particles exhibit long-range orientational order …

Spatially ordered systems confined to surfaces such as spheres exhibit interesting
topological structures because of curvature induced frustration in orientational and …

Understanding how colloidal suspensions behave in confined environments has a striking
relevance in practical applications. Despite the fact that the behavior of colloids in the bulk is …

Colloidal cuboids have the potential to self-assemble into biaxial liquid crystal phases,
which exhibit two independent optical axes. Over the last few decades, several theoretical …

We perform dynamic Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the equilibrium dynamics of
hard board-like colloidal particles in oblate and prolate nematic liquid crystals. In particular …

Field-induced reorientation of colloidal particles is especially relevant to manipulate the
optical properties of a nanomaterial for target applications. We have recently shown that …