31

Aug

Control of Light by Topological Solitons in Soft Chiral Birefringent Media

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

28

Aug

Tying different knots in a molecular strand

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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

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

20

Aug

Melts of nonconcatenated rings in spherical confinement

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

10

Aug

Nacre Is a Liquid-Crystal Thermometer of the Oceans

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

4

Aug

Knotting a molecular strand can invert macroscopic effects of chirality

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Transferring structural information from the nanoscale to the macroscale is [...] Read More

4

Aug

Physics-based multistep beam propagation in inhomogeneous birefringent media

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We present a unified theoretical framework for paraxial and wide-angle [...] Read More

28

Jul

Effective control of optical purity by chiral HPLC separation for ester-based liquid crystalline materials forming anticlinic smectic phases

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Currently, effective control of optical purity by chiral separation of [...] Read More

28

Jul

Laser-induced formation of “craters” and “hills” in azobenzene-containing polymethacrylate films

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Functional organic polymer materials with an ability to change their [...] Read More

23

Jul

Separation of Geometrical and Topological Entanglement in Confined Polymers Driven out of Equilibrium

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How do knots form and transform, even in our ordinary [...] Read More