Publications

Y. Xu, Y. Yao, W. Deng, J.-C. Fang, R. L. Dupont, M. Zhang, S. Čopar, U. Tkalec, X. Wang, Magnetocontrollable droplet mobility on liquid crystal-infused porous surfaces, Nano Res. 16, 5098–5107 (2023) [Link] [PDF].

G. Skačej, L. Querciagrossa, and C. Zannoni,  On the effects of different trans and cis populations in azobenzene liquid crystal elastomers: A Monte Carlo investigation,  ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 5, 5805 (2023) [Link] [PDF].

D. Črešnar, N. Derets, M. Trček, G. Skačej, A. Rešetič, M. Lavrič, V. Domenici, B. Zalar, S. Kralj, Z. Kutnjak, and B. Rožič, Caloric effects in liquid crystal-based soft materials,  J. Phys. Energy 5, 045004 (2023) [Link] [PDF].

J. Zaplotnik, U. Mur, D. Malkar, A. Ranjkesh, I. Muševič, M. Ravnik, Photonic eigenmodes and transmittance of finite‑length 1D cholesteric liquid crystal resonators, Sci Rep 13, 16868 (2023). [Link] [PDF].

T. Potisk, M. Remskar, L. Pirker, G. Filipic, I. Mihelic, M. Jeselnik, U. Coko, and M. Ravnik, Single-Layer and Double-Layer Filtration Materials Based on Polyvinylidene Fluoride-Co-hexafluoropropylene Nanofibers Coated on Melamine Microfibers, ACS Appl. Nano. Mater., (2023), https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.3c02592. [Link] [PDF]

P. Ropac, U. Mur and M. Ravnik, Slow light by dual-periodic self-similar dielectric multilayered films, Opt. Exp. 31, 22385 (2023). [Link] [PDF].

U. Mur and M. Ravnik, Pixelated photonic crystals,  Adv. Photonics Res. 2300082 (2023) [Link] [PDF].

I. Nys, P. Ropac, B. Berteloot, M. Ravnik, K. Neyts, Highly dispersive liquid crystal diffraction gratings with continuously varying periodicity, J. Mol. Liq. 383, 122062 (2023). [Link] [PDF].

C. Dao, J.C. Everts,  M. Ravnik, and Y. Tserkovnyak, Nematronics: Reciprocal Coupling between Ionic Currents and Nematic Dynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 168102 (2023). [Link] [PDF].

N. Kralj, M. Ravnik, and Z. Kos, Defect Line Coarsening and Refinement in Active Nematics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 128101 (2023). [Link] [PDF].

J. Pisljar, M. Marincic, S. Ghosh, S. Turlapati, Rao Nandiraju, A. Nych, M. Skarabot, A. Mertelj, A. Petelin, A. Pusovnik, M. Ravnik, and I. Musevic, Skyrmions in blue phases of chiral liquid crystals, Liq. Cryst, DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2023.2188613 (2023). [Link] [PDF].

J. Zaplotnik, J. Pišljar, M. Škarabot, M. Ravnik, Neural networks determination of material elastic constants and structures in nematic complex fluids. Sci Rep 13, 6028 (2023). [Link] [PDF].