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Spherical liquid-crystal laser

Patent Spherical liquid-crystal laser refers to droplets of chiral liquid crystal used as a source of laser light.

F.32 International patent

COBISS.SI-ID: 24447015

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Method and capacitive sensor for counting aerosol nanoparticles

The patent covers a new method for conting nanoparticles in the air based on changes of the electrical capacity of a planar capacitor with porous electrods.

F.32 International patent

COBISS.SI-ID: 29133607

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Fractal and quasi-crystalline nematic colloids for photonics

Invited lecture at the most prestigeous international meeting devoted to liquid crystaline science: 2015 Liquid Crystals Gordon Research Conference: Liquid Crystallinity in Soft Matter at and Beyond Equilibrium, Biddeford, USA, June 21-26, 2015 (https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=11481).

B.04 Guest lecture

COBISS.SI-ID: 2824292

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Light-controlled topological charge in a nematic liquid crystal

Invited lecture at the most prestigeous international meeting devoted to liquid crystaline science: 2015 Liquid Crystals Gordon Research Conference: Liquid Crystallinity in Soft Matter at and Beyond Equilibrium, Biddeford, USA, June 21-26, 2015 (https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=11481).

B.04 Guest lecture

COBISS.SI-ID: 2937188

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Topological soft matter: Complex disclination loops, knots, and solitons in constrained nematics

Complex confinement of chiral and achiral nematogenic liquid crystals often leads to stable or metastable disclinations and solitons in the orientational order-parameter field. Such frustrated mesophases where defect stabilization is a consequence of a conflict between confining geometries and chirality are prime examples of a topological soft matter. Nematic braids with knots and links of arbitrary complexity that were recently realized by the laser manipulation of disclinations entangling particles in nematic colloids and the extension of the conventional topological theory by self-linking numbers as topological invariants of discination loops, stimulated further studies. Here I present some of the most recent achievements based on numerical modeling and experiments: complex disclination loops and cylindrical colloidal particles, spherical colloidal particles dressed by solitons, mutually tangled colloidal knots & defect loops in nematic fields, presence of reshapable particles.

B.04 Guest lecture

COBISS.SI-ID: 2798948