selected publications
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conference proceeding
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Optical Manifestation of Thermal Expansion of a Nematic Liquid Crystal.
Proceedings of SPIE.
2012
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Surface Alignment, Anchoring Transitions, Optical Properties and Topological Defects in Nematic Bent-Core Materials C7 and C12.
Molecular Materials.
20-41.
2010
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Optical Manifestation of Thermal Expansion of a Nematic Liquid Crystal.
Proceedings of SPIE.
2012
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journal article
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Hybrid molecular-colloidal liquid crystals.
Science.
768-771.
2018
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Edge pinning and transformation of defect lines induced by faceted colloidal rings in nematic liquid crystals.
Physical Review E.
2016
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Triclinic nematic colloidal crystals from competing elastic and electrostatic interactions.
Science.
69-73.
2016
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Hexadecapolar colloids.
Nature Communications.
2016
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Three-dimensional patterning of solid microstructures through laser reduction of colloidal graphene oxide in liquid-crystalline dispersions.
Nature Communications.
2015
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Experimental realization of crossover in shape and director field of nematic tactoids.
Physical Review E.
2015
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Geometry-guided colloidal interactions and self-tiling of elastic dipoles formed by truncated pyramid particles in liquid crystals.
Physical Review E.
2015
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Colloidal spirals in nematic liquid crystals.
Soft Matter.
8758-8767.
2015
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Optically and elastically assembled plasmonic nanoantennae for spatially resolved characterization of chemical composition in soft matter systems using surface enhanced spontaneous and stimulated Raman scattering.
Journal of Applied Physics.
2014
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Two-dimensional skyrmions and other solitonic structures in confinement-frustrated chiral nematics.
Physical Review E.
2014
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Towards Template-Assisted Assembly of Nematic Colloids.
Physical Review Letters.
2014
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Magnetically responsive gourd-shaped colloidal particles in cholesteric liquid crystals.
Soft Matter.
6014-6023.
2014
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Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties, and topological defects in the thermotropic nematic phase of organo-siloxane tetrapodes.
Soft Matter.
500-509.
2014
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Rotational and translational diffusion of anisotropic gold nanoparticles in liquid crystals controlled by varying surface anchoring.
Physical Review E.
2013
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Nematic liquid crystal boojums with handles on colloidal handlebodies.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
9231-9236.
2013
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Active Shape-Morphing Elastomeric Colloids in Short-Pitch Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.
Physical Review Letters.
2013
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Topological colloids.
Nature: New biology.
200-205.
2013
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Molecular reorientation of a nematic liquid crystal by thermal expansion.
Nature Communications.
2012
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Nonlinear Photoluminescence Imaging of Isotropic and Liquid Crystalline Dispersions of Graphene Oxide.
ACS Nano.
8060-8066.
2012
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Plasmonic Complex Fluids of Nematiclike and Helicoidal Self-Assemblies of Gold Nanorods with a Negative Order Parameter.
Physical Review Letters.
2012
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Optical manipulation of shape-morphing elastomeric liquid crystal microparticles doped with gold nanocrystals.
Applied Physics Letters.
2012
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Reconfigurable interactions and three-dimensional patterning of colloidal particles and defects in lamellar soft media.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
4744-4749.
2012
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Shape-Dependent Oriented Trapping and Scaffolding of Plasmonic Nanoparticles by Topological Defects for Self-Assembly of Colloidal Dimers in Liquid Crystals.
Nano Letters.
955-963.
2012
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Elastic interactions between colloidal microspheres and elongated convex and concave nanoprisms in nematic liquid crystals.
Soft Matter.
8729-8734.
2012
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Search for biaxiality in a shape-persistent bent-core nematic liquid crystal.
Soft Matter.
8880-8890.
2012
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Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties, and topological defects in the nematic phase of thermotropic bent-core liquid crystal A131.
Physical Review E.
2010
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Colloidal micromotor in smectic A liquid crystal driven by DC electric field.
Soft Matter.
2471-2474.
2008
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Undulations of lamellar liquid crystals in cells with finite surface anchoring near and well above the threshold.
Physical Review E.
2006
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Optical trapping, manipulation, and 3D imaging of disclinations in liquid crystals and measurement of their line tension.
Molecular Materials.
279-295.
2006
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Electric-field-induced nematic-cholesteric transition and three-dimensional director structures in homeotropic cells.
Physical Review E.
2005
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Switchable two-dimensional gratings based on field-induced layer undulations in cholesteric liquid crystals.
Optics Letters.
349-351.
2005
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Hybrid molecular-colloidal liquid crystals.
Science.
768-771.
2018