Humankind has been obsessed with knots in religion, culture and daily life for millennia,
while physicists like Gauss, Kelvin and Maxwell already involved them in models centuries …

This article re-examines a classic question in liquid-crystal physics: What are the elastic
modes of a nematic liquid crystal? The analysis uses a recent mathematical construction …

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 …

I started the work on liquid crystal colloids around the year 2000 as a continuation of our
experiments on forces between surfaces in liquid crystals. We were using the atomic force …

Confined liquid crystals (LC) provide a unique platform for technological applications and for
the study of LC properties, such as bulk elasticity, surface anchoring, and topological …

The presumed ground state of a nematic fluid confined in a cylindrical geometry with planar
anchoring corresponds to that of an axial configuration, wherein the director, free of …

We study chiral symmetry-broken configurations of nematic liquid crystals (LCs) confined to
cylindrical capillaries with homeotropic anchoring on the cylinder walls (ie, perpendicular …

An experimental and theoretical study of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs)
confined in cylinders with degenerate planar boundary conditions elucidates LCLC director …

This book presents a compilation of self-contained chapters covering a wide range of topics
within the broad field of soft condensed matter. Each chapter starts with basic definitions to …

Chiral nematic droplets with perpendicular surface alignment of liquid crystalline molecules
frustrate the helical structure into convoluted 3D textures with complex topology. We observe …