Colloidal particles in a liquid crystal (LC) behave very differently from their counterparts in
isotropic fluids. Elastic nature of the orientational order and surface anchoring of the director …

The hydrodynamic properties of nematic liquid crystals are characterized by a complex
mutual coupling between flow, viscosity, and nematic order. While the flow behaviour of …

Active matter composed of self-propelled interacting units holds a major promise for the
extraction of useful work from its seemingly chaotic dynamics. Streamlining active matter is …

The ability to dictate the motion of microscopic objects is an important challenge in fields
ranging from materials science to biology. Field-directed assembly drives microparticles …

Physically intelligent micro‐robotic systems exploit information embedded in micro‐robots,
their colloidal cargo, and their milieu to interact, assemble, and form functional structures …

Liquid crystal display (LCD) is a display device based on liquid crystal electro-optic effect,
and LCDs have gradually appeared and have become an indispensable part of people's …

Cavitation, the nucleation of vapour in liquids, is ubiquitous in fluid dynamics, and is often
implicated in a myriad of industrial and biomedical applications. Although extensively …

Swimming in low-Reynolds-number fluids requires the breaking of time-reversal symmetry
and centrosymmetry. Microswimmers, often with asymmetric shapes, exhibit nonreciprocal …

Dispersing colloidal particles into liquid crystals provides a promising avenue to build a
novel class of materials, with potential applications, among others, as photonic crystals …

Morphogenesis is a hierarchical phenomenon that produces various macroscopic structures
in living organisms, with high reproducibility. This study demonstrates that such structural …