Publications
Papers published in 2012:
D. Seč, T. Porenta, M. Ravnik, and S. Žumer, Geometrical frustration of chiral ordering in cholesteric droplets, Soft Matter 8, 11982 (2012) [Abstract] [PDF].
J. Polajnar, D. Svenšek, and A. Čokl, Resonance in herbaceous plant stems as a factor in vibrational communication of pentatomid bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), Journal of the Royal Society interface 9, 1898 (2012) [Abstract] [PDF].
D. Svenšek and R. Podgornik, Confined chiral polymer nematics : ordering and spontaneous condensation, Europhys. Lett. 100, 66005 (2012) [Abstract] [PDF].
S. Žumer, T. Porenta, and M. Ravnik, Complex field-induced nematic defect structures in Laguerre-Gaussian optical tweezers, Proc. SPIE 8475, 84750V (2012) [Abstract] [PDF].
Jun-Ichi Fukuda and S. Žumer, Simulation of a cholesteric blue phase in a thin cell: exotic defect structures and their response to an electric field, Proc. SPIE 8279, 82790V (2012) [Abstract] [PDF].
D. Seč, T. Lopez-Leon, M. Nobili, C. Blanc, A. Fernandez-Nieves, M. Ravnik, and S. Žumer, Defect trajectories in nematic shells: Role of elastic anisotropy and thickness heterogeneity, Phys. Rev. E 86, 020705 (2012) [Abstract] [PDF].
S. Čopar, T. Porenta, V. S. R. Jampani, I. Muševič, and S. Žumer, Stability and rewiring of nematic braids in chiral nematic colloids, Soft Matter 8, 8595 (2012) [Abstract] [PDF].
G. Skačej and C. Zannoni, Molecular simulations elucidate electric field actuation in swollen liquid crystal elastomers, PNAS 109, 10193 (2012) [Abstract] [PDF].
S. Žumer, J-i Fukuda, and M. Ravnik Confined Colloidal Blue Phases with Potential for Photonics, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 561, 107 (2012) [Abstract] [PDF] [reprint].
S. Čopar and S. Žumer, Topological and geometric decomposition of nematic textures, Phys. Rev. E 85, 031701 (2012) [Abstract] [PDF].
I. Dierking, M. Ravnik, E. Lark, J. Healey, G. P. Alexander, and J. M. Yeomans, Anisotropy in the annihilation dynamics of umbilic defects in nematic liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. E 85, 021703 (2012) [abstract] [PDF].
J. Dontabhaktuni, M. Ravnik and S. Žumer, Shape-tuning the colloidal assemblies in nematic liquid crystals, Soft Matter 8, 1657 (2012) [Abstract] [PDF].
T. Porenta, M. Ravnik and S. Žumer, Complex field-stabilised nematic defect structures in Laguerre-Gaussian optical tweezers, Soft Matter 8, 1865 (2012) [Abstract] [PDF].