We present the advancement in the research of the dispersion of gold nanoparticles (GNPs)
in thermotropic calamitic liquid crystals. The formation/behavior of surface plasmon …

A general method is presented for computing the motions of hydrodynamically interacting
particles in various kinds of host fluids for arbitrary Reynolds numbers. The method follows …

A computational method is presented to resolve hydrodynamic interactions acting on solid
particles immersed in incompressible host fluids. In this method, boundaries between solid …

We numerically study many-body interactions among colloidal particles suspended in a
nematic liquid crystal, using a fluid particle dynamics method, which properly incorporates …

We propose a numerical method to simulate electrohydrodynamic phenomena in charged
colloidal dispersions. This method enables us to compute the time evolutions of colloidal …

Previously, we have proposed a direct simulation scheme for colloidal dispersions in a
Newtonian solvent (Phys. Rev. E 71, 036707 (2005)). An improved formulation called the …

Design rules for the investigation of nanoparticles covered with an organic monolayer are
explored. The combination of small “spherical” particles in conjunction with nematogenic …

Colloidal inclusions in thin free standing liquid crystal films are ideal model systems for 2D
anisotropic dispersions. Different types of self-organization in chain and lattice structures …

We report results for the potential of mean force (PMF) and the defect structures that arise
when spherocylindrical nanoparticles are immersed in a nematic liquid crystal. Using a …

Spontaneous symmetry breaking while preserving flow ability is a remarkable feature of
nematic liquid crystals. When a nematic liquid crystal coexists with a solid, the surface field …