We review the state of the art concerning drops and shells of liquid crystal. We especially
focus on the defect structures observed with liquid crystals with different degrees of order …

We demonstrate several examples of driving and steering of colloids when dispersed in
nematic liquid crystals. The driving mechanism is based on the principle of nonlinear …

This study reports the characterization of disperse red 1 acrylate compound by spectral
techniques and quantum chemical calculations. The spectroscopic properties were …

Photosensitive surfaces treated to have in-plane structural anisotropy by illumination with
polarized light can be used to orient liquid crystals (LCs). Here we report a detailed study of …

We describe a new type of optically controlled liquid crystal alignment layer that
demonstrates unprecedented performance. It consists of an aminoazobenzene-type material …

In the present work, a combined experimental and quantum chemical study on ground state
equilibrium structure, spectroscopic and nonlinear optical properties of selected disperse …

Chirality, the absence of mirror symmetry, can be equally invoked in relation to physical
forces and chemical induction processes, yet a competition between these two types of …

We study the dynamics of annihilation of point defects in Langmuir monolayers. The
absence of hydrodynamic effects allows us to quantitatively relate the asymmetry in defect …

We use Langmuir-Blodgett molecular monolayers and nematic liquid crystals as model two-
and three-dimensional orientationally ordered systems to study the stability and healing of …

Condensed matter physics is facing new challenges and opportunities raising from the vast
and increasingly attractive field of soft materials and complex fluids. Here, we concentrate on …