Author Correction: Molecular heterogeneity drives reconfigurable nematic liquid crystal drops

Nematic Liquid-Crystal Colloids

This article provides a concise review of a new state of colloidal matter called nematic liquid-crystal colloids. These colloids are obtained by dispersing microparticles of different shapes in a nematic liquid crystal that acts as a solvent for the dispersed particles. The microparticles induce a local deformation of the liquid crystal, which then generates topological defects and long-range f...

Molecular reorientation of a nematic liquid crystal by thermal expansion

A unique feature of nematic liquid crystals is orientational order of molecules that can be controlled by electromagnetic fields, surface modifications and pressure gradients. Here we demonstrate a new effect in which the orientation of nematic liquid crystal molecules is altered by thermal expansion. Thermal expansion (or contraction) causes the nematic liquid crystal to flow; the flow imposes...

Threshold Flexoelectric Effect in Nematic Liquid Crystal

Well-posedness of Nematic Liquid Crystal Flow

In this paper, we establish the local well-posedness for the Cauchy problem of the simplified version of hydrodynamic flow of nematic liquid crystals (1.1) in R3 for any initial data (u0, d0) having small L3 uloc -norm of (u0,∇d0). Here L3uloc(R 3) is the space of uniformly locally L3-integrable functions. For any initial data (u0, d0) with small ‖(u0,∇d0)‖L3(R3), we show that there exists a un...

Sheared Nematic Liquid Crystal Polymer Monolayers

We provide a comprehensive study on the planar (2D) orientational distributions of nematic polymers under an imposed shear flow of arbitrary strength. We extend previous analysis for persistence of equilibria in steady shear and for transitions to unsteady limit cycles, from closure models [21] to the Doi-Hess 2D kinetic equation. A variation on the Boltzmann distribution analysis of Constantin...