Viscoelastic fluids are a common subclass of rheologically complex materials that are
encountered in diverse fields from biology to polymer processing. Often the flows of …

Complex fluids encompass a significant proportion of the materials we utilise today from
feedstocks such as cellulose fibre dispersions, materials undergoing processing or …

Topological defects and defect phases of rigid and flexibly bent-shaped liquid crystals are
reviewed with emphasis on how they are affected by the departure of molecular shapes from …

Dynamics of small particles, both living and inanimate, has fascinated scientists for
centuries. Learning how to control it could open technological opportunities in the …

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 …

Graphene oxide (GO) has become a key component for high-performance carbon-based
films or fibers based on its dispersibility and liquid crystallinity in an aqueous suspension …

An exact kinematic law for the motion of disclination lines in nematic liquid crystals as a
function of the tensor order parameter Q is derived. Unlike other order parameter fields that …

Supramolecular chirality typically originates from either chiral molecular building blocks or
external chiral stimuli. Generating chirality in achiral systems in the absence of a chiral input …

Controlling the growth morphology of fluid instabilities is challenging because of their self-
amplified and nonlinear growth. The viscous fingering instability, which arises when a less …

Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals are water-based materials composed of self-assembled
cylindrical aggregates. Their behavior under flow is poorly understood, and quantitatively …