A stokes polarimetric light microscopy view of liquid crystal droplets
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-95674-4
Abstract: The optical characteristics of materials, such as their magnetooptical effects, birefringence, optical activities, linear and circular dichroism, are probed via the polarisation states of light transmitted through or reflected from the specimens. As such, the… read more here.
Keywords: microscopy; polarisation states; crystal droplets; liquid crystal ... See more keywords
Probing cytoplasmic streaming using liquid crystal droplets
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DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2302457
Abstract: ABSTRACT Giant cells of characean algae provide an excellent platform for testing different techniques to explore cytoplasmic streaming, electrophysiological behaviour, intercellular communication, and drug delivery methods. In this study, we successfully applied nematic emulsions based… read more here.
Keywords: liquid crystal; using liquid; streaming using; probing cytoplasmic ... See more keywords
Influence of surfactants in nematic liquid crystal droplets
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DOI: 10.1080/15421406.2024.2379668
Abstract: Abstract Liquid crystals in spherical droplets are highly sensitive to surfactants that control their orientation at interfaces. These molecules are widely used in optics. We fabricated 5CB liquid crystal droplets using SDS, CTAB, and DTAB… read more here.
Keywords: liquid crystal; surfactants nematic; influence surfactants; crystal droplets ... See more keywords
Enhanced automatic sorting of liquid crystal droplets via a rotating radial light pattern in an optoelectronic tweezers system
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DOI: 10.1088/1361-6439/ae00d0
Abstract: This study presents an advanced approach for the precise manipulation and automated sorting of liquid crystal (LC) droplets using an optoelectronic tweezers (OETs) system. By employing a dynamically rotating radial light pattern to create virtual… read more here.
Keywords: liquid crystal; light pattern; sorting liquid; pattern ... See more keywords
Laser Processing of Liquid Crystal Droplets with Diverse Internal Structures
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DOI: 10.3390/cryst13040683
Abstract: To control the spatial placement and organize micro/nanodroplets (NDs) has fundamental importance both in science and engineering. Cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) droplets with topological diversity can offer many self-assembly modalities to arrange guest NDs in… read more here.
Keywords: processing liquid; liquid crystal; geometry; crystal droplets ... See more keywords
Miniaturized Metalens Based Optical Tweezers on Liquid Crystal Droplets for Lab-on-a-Chip Optical Motors
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DOI: 10.3390/cryst9100515
Abstract: Surfaces covered with layers of ultrathin nanoantenna structures—so called metasurfaces have recently been proven capable of completely controlling phase of light. Metalenses have emerged from the advance in the development of metasurfaces providing a new… read more here.
Keywords: optical tweezers; crystal droplets; metalens based; liquid crystal ... See more keywords
Optical orientation of nematic liquid crystal droplets via photoisomerization of an azodendrimer dopant
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DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.9.81
Abstract: Two sequential transformations of the orientational structure in nematic liquid crystal droplets containing a dendrimer additive (nanosized macromolecules with light-absorbing azobenzene terminal moieties) under light irradiation in the UV–blue spectral range were investigated. The origin… read more here.
Keywords: nematic liquid; photoisomerization; crystal droplets; liquid crystal ... See more keywords