Publications
Papers published in 2009:
M. Ravnik and S. Žumer, Nematic colloids entangled by topological defects, Soft Matter 5, 269 (2009) [abstract] [PDF].
G. Cordoyiannis, A. Lebar, B. Rožič, B. Zalar, Z. Kutnjak, S. Žumer, F. Brömmel, S. Krause, H. Finkelmann, Controlling the critical behavior of paranematic to nematic transition in main-chain liquid single-crystal elastomers, Macromolecules 42, 2069 (2009) [abstract] [PDF].
Jun-ichi Fukuda and S. Žumer, Confinement effect on the interaction between colloidal particles in a nematic liquid crystal: an analytical study, Phys. Rev. E 79, 041703 (2009) [abstract] [PDF].
M. K. McCamley, M. Ravnik, A. W. Artenstein, S. M. Opal, S. Žumer, G. P. Crawford, Detection of alignment changes at the open surface od confined nematic liquid crystal sensor, J. appl. physi. 105, 123504 (2009) [abstract] [PDF].
M. Conradi, M. Ravnik, M. Bele, M. Zorko, S. Žumer and I. Muševič, Janus nematic colloids, Soft Matter 5, 3905 (2009) [abstract] [PDF].
M. Ravnik, B. Črnko, and S. Žumer, Nematic Braids: Modeling of Colloidal Structures, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 508, 150 (2009) [abstract] [PDF] [reprint].
U. Tkalec, M. Ravnik, S. Žumer and I. Muševič, Vortexlike Topological Defects in Nematic Colloids: Chiral Colloidal Dimers and 2D Crystals, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 127801 (2009) [abstract] [PDF].
M. Humar, M. Ravnik, S. Pajk and I. Muševič, Electrically tunable liquid crystal optical microresonators, Nat. Photonics 3, 595 (2009) [abstract] [PDF].
M. Ravnik and S. Žumer, Nematic braids: 2D entangled nematic liquid crystal colloids, Soft Matter 5, 4520 (2009) [abstract] [PDF].
M. Ravnik and S. Žumer, Landau-de Gennes modelling of nematic liquid crystal colloids, Liq. Cryst. 36, 1201 (2009) [abstract] [PDF] [reprint].
Xin Ma, G. P. Crawford, R. J. Crawford, I. Amimori, S. Žumer, G. Skačej, S. G. Cloutier, Nuclear magnetic resonance of pretransitional ordering of liquid crystals in well defined nano-geometries: the utility of the Landau-de Gennes formalism, Liq. Cryst. 36, 1229 (2009) [abstract] [PDF].
M. Škarabot, M. Ravnik, U. Tkalec, M. Humar, S. Žumer, A. Nych, U. Ognysta, V. Nazarenko, I. Muševič, Colloidal structures and interactions in a nematic liquid crystal, Proceedings of SPIE 7414, 74140M (2009) [abstract] [PDF].