Publications

H. R. Brand, H. Pleiner, and D. Svenšek, Macroscopic behavior of systems with an axial dynamic preferred direction, Eur. Phys. J. E 34, 121 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

S. Čopar, T. Porenta and S. Žumer, Nematic disclinations as twisted ribbons, Phys. Rev. E 84, 051702 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

S. Žumer, M. Ravnik, and J-i Fukuda, Confined blue phases: trapping of colloidal particles in disclination superstructures, Proc. SPIE 8114, 811403 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

J. Fukuda and S. Žumer, Structural forces in liquid crystalline blue phases, Phys. Rev. E 84, 040701 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

M. Ravnik, J. Fukuda, J. M. Yeomans, and S. Žumer, Confining blue phase colloids to thin layers, Soft Matter 7, 10144 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

G. Skačej and C. Zannoni, Main-chain swollen liquid crystal elastomers: a molecular simulation study, Soft Matter 7, 9983 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

M. Ravnik, Colloidal structures in confined nematic liquid crystals, Liq. cryst. today 20, 77 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

V. S. R. Jampani, M. Škarabot, M. Ravnik, S. Čopar, S. Žumer and I. Muševič, Colloidal entanglement in highly twisted chiral nematic colloids: Twisted loops, Hopf links, and trefoil knots, Phys. Rev. E 84, 031703 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

Z. Bradač, S. Kralj, S. Žumer, Early stage domain coarsening of the isotropic-nematic phase transition, J. chem. phys. 135, 024506 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

U. Tkalec, M. Ravnik, S. Čopar, S. Žumer and I. Muševič, Reconfigurable Knots and Links in Chiral Nematic Colloids, Science 333, 62 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

S. Čopar and S. Žumer, Nematic Braids: Topological Invariants and Rewiring of Disclinations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 177801 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

M. Ravnik, G. P. Alexander, J. M. Yeomans, and S. Žumer, Three-dimensional colloidal crystals in liquid crystalline blue phases, PNAS 108, 5188 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

J. Fukuda and S. Žumer, Quasi-two-dimensional Skyrmion lattices in a chiral nematic liquid crystal, Nature Communications 2, 246 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

I. Muševič and S. Žumer, Liquid crystals: Maximizing memory, Nature Materials 10, 266 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

J. Fukuda and S. Žumer, Ring Defects in a Strongly Confined Chiral Liquid Crystal, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 097801 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

M. Ravnik and S. Žumer, Blue phases decorated with colloidal particles: photonic crystals, Photonics Letters of Poland 3, 1 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].

T. Porenta, M. Ravnik, and S. Žumer, Effect of flexoelectricity and order electricity on defect cores in nematic droplets, Soft Matter 7, 132 (2011) [Abstract] [PDF].