A great variety of tunable multifunctional materials can be produced by combining
nanoparticles and liquid crystals. Typically, the tunability of such soft nanocomposites is …

Topological line defects are ubiquitous in nature and appear at all physical scales, including
in condensed matter systems, nuclear physics, and cosmology. Particularly useful systems …

In 3D nematic liquid crystals, disclination lines have a range of geometric structures. Locally,
they may resemble+ 1/2 or− 1/2 defects in 2D nematic phases, or they may have 3D twist …

Exotic structures with interesting physical and chemical properties can be achieved by self-
organizing engineered building blocks. The central aim for self-assembly is to precisely …

Topological defects in nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) are an interesting material system to
study both from a theoretical point of view and for applications in photonics, soft-robotics and …

An escaped radial director profile in a nematic liquid crystal cell can be transformed into a
pair of strength m=+ 1/2 surface defects (and their associated disclination lines) at a …

Beyond a traditional stimuli‐responsive soft actuator that shows a single motion by a
stimulus, multidirectional actuation reversal with a single stimulus is highly required in …

A patterned surface defect of strength m=+ 1 and its associated disclination lines can
decompose into a pair of surface defects and disclination lines of strength m=+ 1/2. For a …

We study numerically the reconfiguration process of colliding m= 1/2 strength disclinations in
an achiral nematic liquid crystal (NLC). A Landau–de Gennes approach in terms of tensor …

We study numerically the reconfiguration process of colliding| m|= 1/2 strength disclinations
in an achiral nematic liquid crystal (NLC). A Landau–de Gennes approach in terms of tensor …