Asymmetry-driven irregular topological defects and hydrodynamic cavitation of tadpole particles in nematic liquid crystals

2025/01/01 by Xiaowei Wang, Teagan Hamlett, Sid Hashemi +5 · 1 voice
Materials Science · Chemistry · Engineering · #Liquid Crystal Research Advancements #Surfactants and Colloidal Systems #Advanced Materials and Mechanics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1039/d5ma00550g

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

Asymmetric tadpole-shaped Janus particles with micrometer-sized flexible SiO 2 tails can distort the surrounding LC field into butterfly-shaped defects and create metastable cavities by balancing capillary, elastic, and viscous forces.

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