24

Sep

Rotation by shape change, autonomous molecular motors and effective timecrystalline dynamics

Publication

A deformable body can rotate even with no angular momentum, [...] Read More

24

Sep

Single-molecule stretching experiments of flexible (wormlike) chain molecules in different ensembles: Theory and a potential application of finite chain length effects to nick-counting in DNA

Publication

We propose a formalism for deriving force-elongation and elongation-force relations [...] Read More

24

Sep

Entropic Unmixing in Nematic Blends of Semiflexible Polymers

Publication

Binary mixtures of semiflexible polymers with the same chain length [...] Read More

23

Sep

Lattice orientation of cholesteric blue phases in contact with surfaces enforcing unidirectional planar anchoring

News, Publication

We investigate numerically the lattice orientation of cholesteric blue phases [...] Read More

14

Sep

Periodic Arrays of Chiral Domains Generated from the Self-Assembly of Micropatterned Achiral Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal

News, Publication

Achiral building blocks forming achiral structures is a common occurrence [...] Read More

31

Aug

Control of Light by Topological Solitons in Soft Chiral Birefringent Media

News, Publication

In practically all branches of physics, different types of solitons, [...] Read More

28

Aug

Tying different knots in a molecular strand

News, Publication

The properties of knots are exploited in a range of [...] Read More

27

Aug

Chirality-Enhanced Periodic Self-Focusing of Light in Soft Birefringent Media

News, Publication

We experimentally and numerically show that chirality can play a [...] Read More

20

Aug

Melts of nonconcatenated rings in spherical confinement

News, Publication

Motivated by the chromosomes enclosed in a cell nucleus, we [...] Read More

10

Aug

Nacre Is a Liquid-Crystal Thermometer of the Oceans

News, Publication

Nacre, or mother of pearl, is a biomaterial with a [...] Read More