Publications

G. Skačej and C. Zannoni, Molecular Simulations Shed Light on Supersoft Elasticity in Polydomain Liquid Crystal Elastomers, Macromolecules 47, 8824 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

T. Porenta, S. Čopar, P. J. Ackerman, M. B. Pandey, M. C. M. Varney, I. I. Smalyukh and S. Žumer, Topological switching and orbiting dynamics of colloidal spheres dressed with chiral nematic solitons, Sci. Rep. 4, 7337 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

H. R. Brand, H. Pleiner, and D. Svenšek Reversible and dissipative macroscopic contributions to the stress tensor: Active or passive?, Eur. Phys. J. E 37, 83 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

J. Turk and D. Svenšek, Backflow-mediated domain switching in nematic liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. E 89, 032508 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

M. Ravnik and S. Žumer, Topological Soft Matter for Optics and Photonics, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 594, 2 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF] [reprint].

A. Šarlah and A. Vilfan, The winch model can explain both coordinated and uncoordinated stepping of cytoplasmic dynein, Biophys. J. 107, 662 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

R. Jose, G. Skačej, V. S. S. Sastry, and S. Žumer, Colloidal nanoparticles trapped by liquid-crystal defect lines: A lattice Monte Carlo simulation, Phys. Rev. E 90, 032503 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

D. A. Beller, T. Machon, S. Čopar, D. M. Sussman, G. P. Alexander, R. D. Kamien and R. A. Mosna, The geometry of the cholesteric phase, Phys. Rev. X 4, 031050 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF] [arXiv].

M. Čančula, M. Ravnik and S. Žumer, Generation of vector beams with liquid crystal disclination lines, Phys. Rev. E 90, 022503 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF] [arXiv].

M. Štimulak and M. Ravnik, Tunable photonic crystals with partial bandgaps from blue phase colloidal crystals and dielectric-doped blue phases, Soft Matter 10, 6339 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

J-I. Fukuda and S. Žumer, Exotic Defect Structures and Their Optical Properties in a Strongly Confined Chiral Liquid Crystal, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 594, 70 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF] [reprint].

J-I. Fukuda, Simulation of the switching dynamics of a cholesteric blue phase cell by an inhomogeneous in-plane field, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 53, 010301 (2014) [Abstract]  [PDF].

M. B. Pandey, T. Porenta, J. Brewer, A. Burkart, S. Čopar, S. Žumer and I. I. Smalyukh, Self-assembly of skyrmion-dressed chiral nematic colloids with tangential anchoring, Phys. Rev. E. 89, 060502 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

J-I. Fukuda, Simulation of the switching dynamics of a cholesteric blue phase cell by an inhomogeneous in-plane field, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 53, 010301 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

A. Nych, U. Ognysta, I. Muševič, D. Seč, M. Ravnik and S. Žumer, Chiral bipolar colloids from nonchiral chromonic liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. E 89, 062502 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

M. Ravnik, J. Dontabhaktuni, M. Čančula and S. Žumer, Nematic colloidal tilings as photonic materials, Proc. SPIE 9004, 90040C (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

S. Čopar, M. Ravnik and S. Žumer, Janus nematic colloids with designable valence, Materials 7, 4272-4281 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

S. Čopar, Topology and geometry of nematic braids, Phys. Rep. 538, 1-37 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF].

J. Dontabhaktuni, M. Ravnik and S. Žumer, Quasicrystalline tilings with nematic colloidal platelets, PNAS 111, 2464 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF], highlighted in Liquid crystal research highlights.

A. Martinez, M. Ravnik, B. Lucero, R. Visvanathan, S. Žumer, and I.I. Smalyukh Mutually tangled colloidal knots and induced defect loops in nematic fields, Nature Mater. 13, 258-263 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF]; highlighted as News and Views in Nature Materials by W. T. M. Irvine and D. Kleckner [PDF] [www]; highlighted in Liquid crystal research highlights; also featured as Front Cover (March 2014 Volume 13 No 3) [www].

D. Seč, S. Čopar and S. Žumer, Topological zoo of free-standing knots in confined chiral nematic fluids, Nature Commun. 5, 3057 (2014) [Abstract] [PDF] [Pre-print].