An experimental physicist who coauthored the self-assembly of ordered colloidal crystals in a thin nematic liquid crystal. Particles distort the surrounding orientational order and create topological defects; sharing those distortions can bind neighboring particles. The observed structures depended on the type of local ordering, showing how a host material's defects can organize suspended particles into larger patterns.[ref]
Two-Dimensional Nematic Colloidal Crystals Self-Assembled by Topological Defects by Igor Muševič and others. Abstract: confined nematic colloids and defect-mediated dipolar and quadrupolar assemblies
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