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2025

• 262. Liquid crystal torons in Poiseuille-like flows
  Guilherme N. C.Amaral, Hanqing Zhao, Mahmoud Sedahmed, Tomás Campante, Ivan I. Smalyukh, MykolaTasinkevych, Margarida M. Telo daGama & Rodrigo C. V. Coelho
  Scientific Reports 15, 2684 (2025) | doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83294-7 | PDF

2024

• 261. Emergent biaxiality in chiral hybrid liquid crystals
  Jin-Sheng Wu, Marina Torres Lázaro, Haridas Mundoor, Henricus H. Wensink & Ivan I. Smalyukh
  Nature Communications 15, 9941 (2024) | doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54236-8 | PDF
• 260. Chiral, Topological, and Knotted Colloids in Liquid Crystals
  Ye Yuan and Ivan I. Smalyukh
  Crystals 14 (10), 885 (2024) | doi.org/10.3390/cryst14100885 | PDF
• 259. Nanocrystal Assemblies: Current Advances and Open Problems
  Carlos L. Bassani, Greg van Anders, Uri Banin, Dmitry Baranov, Qian Chen, Marjolein Dijkstra, Michael S. Dimitriyev, Efi Efrati, Jordi Faraudo, Oleg Gang, Nicola Gaston, Ramin Golestanian, G. Ivan Guerrero-Garcia, Michael Gruenwald, Amir Haji-Akbari, Maria Ibáñez, Matthias Karg, Tobias Kraus, Byeongdu Lee, Reid C. Van Lehn, Robert J. Macfarlane, Bortolo M. Mognetti, Arash Nikoubashman, Saeed Osat, Oleg V. Prezhdo, Grant M. Rotskoff, Leonor Saiz, An-Chang Shi, Sara Skrabalak, Ivan I. Smalyukh, Mario Tagliazucchi, Dmitri V. Talapin, Alexei V. Tkachenko, Sergei Tretiak, David Vaknin, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Gerard C. L. Wong, Xingchen Ye, Shan Zhou, Eran Rabani, Michael Engel, and Alex Travesset*
  ACS Nano, 18, 23, 14791–14840 (2024) | DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c10201 | PDF
• 258. Out-of-equilibrium interactions and collective locomotion of colloidal spheres with squirming of nematoelastic multipoles
  B. Senyuk, J.-S. Wu, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A. 121, e2322710121 (2024) | doi:10.1073/pnas.2322710121 | PDF
• 257. Photosynthetically-powered phototactic active nematic liquid crystal fluids and gels
  A. Repula, C. Gates, J.C. Cameron, and I. I. Smalyukh
  COMMUNICATIONS MATERIALS, 5, 37 (2024) | doi:10.1038/s43246-024-00474-8 | PDF
• 256. Controlling exciton/exciton recombination in 2-D perovskite using exciton-polariton coupling
  R. Fei, M.P. Hautzinger, A.H. Rose, Y. Dong, I. I. Smalyukh, M.P Beard, and J. van de Lagemaat
  JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 15, 1748-1754 (2024) | doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03452 | PDF
• 255. Photoswitching in a Liquid Crystalline Pt(II) coordination complex
  D. Wang, J. Chen, Y. Wang, X. Hao, H. Peng, Y. Liao, X. Zhou, I. I. Smalyukh and X. Xie
  CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 30, e202304366 (2024) | doi:10.1126/sciadv.adj9373 | PDF
• 254. Field-controlled dynamics of skyrmions and monopoles
  J-S B. Tai, A. J. Hess, J-S Wu, and I. I. Smalyukh
  SCIENCE ADVANCES, 10,  eadj9373 (2024) | doi:10.1126/sciadv.adj9373 | PDF
• 253. The association of structural chirality and liquid crystal anchoring in polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals
  B. P. Radkaa, T. Lee, I. I. Smalyukh and T. J. White
  SOFT MATTER, advance article (2024) | doi:10.1039/D3SM01558K | PDF
• 252. Mechanical actuation via homeomorphic transformations of topological solitons within polymer coatings
  J. Peixoto, D. Hall, D. J. Broer, I. I. Smalyukh and D. Liu
  ADVANCED MATERIALS, 36, 2308425 (2024) | doi:10.1002/adma.202308425 | PDF
• 251. Soft matter roadmap
  J. Barrat, E. Del Gado, S. Egelhaaf, X. Mao, M. Dijkstra, D. Pine, S. Kumar, K. Bishop, O. Gang, A. Obermeyer, C. Papadakis, C. Tsitsilianis, I. I. Smalyukh, A. Hourlier-Fargette, S.Andrieux, W. Drenckhan, N. Wagner, R. Murphy, E. Weeks, R. Cerbino, Y. Han, L. Cipelletti, L. Ramos, W. Poon, J. Richards, I. Cohen, E. Furst, A. Nelson, S. Craig, R. Ganapathy, A. Sood, F. Sciortino, M. Mungan, S. Sastry, C. Scheibner, M. Fruchart, V. Vitelli, S. Ridout, M. Stern, I. Tah, G. Zhang, A. Liu, C. O Osuji, Y. Xu, H Shewan, J. Stokes, M. Merkel, P. Ronceray, J. Rupprecht, O. Matsarskaia, F. Schreiber, F. Roosen-Runge, M. Aubin-Tam, G. Koenderink, R. M. Espinosa-Marzal, J. Yus, J. Kwon
  JPHYS MATERIALS7, 012501 (2024) | doi:10.1088/2515-7639/ad06cc | PDF

2023

• 250. Low-voltage haze tuning with cellulose-network liquid crystal gels
  S. Ghosh, E. Abraham and I. I. Smalyukh
  ACS NANO, 17, 19767-19778 (2023) | doi:10.1021/acsnano.3c03693 | PDF
• 249. Out-of-equilibrium interactions and collective locomotion of colloidal spheres with squirming of nematoelastic multipoles
  B. Senyuk, J.-S. Wu and I. I. Smalyukh
  arXiv preprint(2023) | arxiv.org/abs/2312.17470
• 248. Phase behavior of phospholipid-based myelin figures influenced by pH
  D. Benkowska-Biernacka, I. I. Smalyukh, and K. Matczyszyn
  JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS, 391, 123365 (2023) | doi:10.1016/j.molliq.2023.123365 | PDF
• 247. Sculpting liquid crystal skyrmions with external flows
  R. C.V Coelho, H. Zhao, M. Tasinkevych, I. I. Smalyukh, and M.M. Telo Da Gama
  PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH, 5, 033210 (2023) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033210 | PDF
• 246. Topological solitonic macromolecules
  H. Zhao, B.A. Malomed, and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 14, 4581 (2023) | doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40335-5 | PDF
• 245. Supramolecular liquid crystal carbon dots for solvent-free direct ink writing
  Y. Wang, Y. Liu, X. Hao, X. Zhou, H. Peng, Z. Shen, I. I. Smalyukh, X. Xie and B. Yang
  ADVANCED MATERIALS, 35, 202303680 (2023) | doi:10.1002/adma.202303680 | PDF
• 244. Transparent aerogels reduce energy loss through building windows
  I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE ENERGY, 8, 327-328 (2023) | doi:10.1038/s41560-023-01229-4 | PDF
• 243. Highly transparent silanized cellulose aerogels for boosting energy efficiency of glazing in buildings
  E. Abraham, V. Cherpak, B. Senyuk, J.B. ten Hove, T. Lee, Q. Liu and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE ENERGY, 8, 381-396 (2023) | doi:10.1038/s41560-023-01226-7 | PDF
• 242. Nanoparticle localization within chiral liquid crystal defect lines and nanoparticle interactions
  M. Tasinkevych, S. Park, H. Mundoor and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 107, 034701 (2023) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.107.034701 | PDF
• 241. Liquid crystal defect structures with Möbius strip topology
  H. Zhao, J.-S. B. Tai, J.-S. Wu and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE PHYSICS, 19, 451-459 (2023) | doi:10.1038/s41567-022-01851-1 | PDF

2022

• 240. Topological steering of light by nematic vortices and analogy to cosmic strings
  C. Meng, J.-S. Wu and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE MATERIALS, 22, 64-72 (2022) | doi:10.1038/s41563-022-01414-y | PDF
• 239. Electrical switching of nematic plasmonic nanocolloids for infrared solar gain control
  S. Ghosh and I. I. Smalyukh
  ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS, 10, 2201513 (2022) | doi:10.1002/adom.202201513 | PDF
• 238. Fabrication of arrays of topological solitons in patterned chiral liquid crystal for real-time observation of morphogenesis
  G. Park, A. Suh, H. Zhao, C. Lee, Y-K. Choi, I. I. Smalyukh and D. K. Yoon
  ADVANCED MATERIALS, 34, 2201749 (2022) | doi:10.1002/adma.2201749 | PDF
• 237. Design and preparation of nematic colloidal particles
  B. Senyuk, C. Meng and I. I. Smalyukh
  LANGMUIR, 38, 9099-9118 (2022) | doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00611 | PDF
• 236. Transparent, high-charge capacity metal mesh electrode for reversible metal electrodeposition dynamic windows with dark-state transmission <0.1%
  A. L. Yeang, T. S. Hernandez, M. T. Strand, D. J. Slotcavage, E. Abraham, I. I. Smalyukh, C. J. Barile, M. D. McGehee
  ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 12, 202200854 (2022) | doi:10.1002/aenm.202200854 | PDF
• 235. Biotropic liquid crystal phase transformations in cellulose-producing bacterial communities
  A. Repula, E. Abraham, V. Cherpak and I. I. Smalyukh
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A. 119, e220093011 (2022) | doi:10.1073/pnas.2200930119 | PDF
• 234. Interaction and co-assembly of optical and topological solitons
  G. Poi, A.J. Hess, A.J. Seracuse, M. Paul, S. Žumer and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE PHOTONICS 16, 454-461 (2022) | doi:10.1038/s41566-022-01002-1 | PDF
• 233. Geometric transformation and three-dimensional hopping of Hopf solitons
  J.-S. B. Tai, J.-S. Wu and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 13, 2986 (2022) | doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30494-2 | PDF
• 232. Cellulose nanocrystal chiral photonic micro-flakes for multilevel anti-counterdeiting and indentification
  T. Chang, B. Wang, D. Yuan, Y. Wang, I. I. Smalyukh, G. Zhou and Z. Zhang
  CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL446, 136630 (2022) | doi:10.1016/j.cej.2022.136630
• 231. A site-differentiated  [4Fe-4S] cluster controls electron transfer reactivity of Clostridium acetobutylicum [Fe Fe] hydrogenase I
  C. E. Lubner, J. H. Artz, D. W. Mulder, A. Oza, R.J. Ward, S. G. Williams, A.K. Jones, J.W. Peters, I. I. Smalyukh, V.S. Bharadwaj and P.W. King 
  CHEMICAL SCIENCE 13, 4581-4588 (2022) | doi:10.1039/D1SC07120C | PDF
• 230. Hopfions, heliknotons, skyrmions, torons and both abelian and nonabelian vortices in chiral liquid crystals
  J.-S. Wu and I. I. Smalyukh 
  LIQUID CRYSTALS REVIEWS,  Just Accepted (2022) | doi:10.1080/21680396.2022.2040058 | PDF
• 229. Electrically powered locomotion of dual-nature colloid-hedgehog and colloid-umbilic topological and elastic dipoles in liquid crystals
  B. Senyuk, R. E. Adufu and I. I. Smalyukh
  LANGMUIR38, 689-697 (2022) | doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02546 | PDF

2021

• 228. Morphological and orientational controls of self-assembly of gold nanorods directed by evaporative microflows
  X. Liu, Z. Chen, Q. Liu, G. H. Sheetah, N. Sun, P. Zhao, Y. Xie and I. I. Smalyukh
  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES13, 53143–53154 (2021) | doi:10.1021/acsami.1c12594 | PDF
• 227. Cellulosic gels, films and composites including the gels, and methods of forming same
  I. I. Smalyukh, A. J. Hess, Q. Liu, J. A. De La Cruz, B. Fleury, E. Abraham, B. Senyuk, V. Cherpak
  US PATENT APP. 17/251,694 (2021)
• 226. Topology of solitons and singular defects in chiral liquid crystals
  J.-S. Wu and I. I. Smalyukh
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.14325
• 225. Geometric transformation and three-dimensional hopping of Hopf solitons
  J.-S. B. Tai, J.-S. Wu and I. I. Smalyukh
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.14260
• 224. Templated materials, structures including the materials, and methods of using and forming same
  I. I. Smalyukh, A. J. Hess, Q. Liu, J. A. De La Cruz, B. Fleury, E. Abraham, B. Senyuk, V. Cherpak
  US PATENT APP. 17/251,675 (2021)
• 223. Cellulose enabled orientationally ordered flexible gels
  A. J. Hess, Q. Liu and I. I. Smalyukh
  US PATENT 11,180,627 (2021)
• 222. Nematic order, plasmonic switching and self-patterning of colloidal gold bipyramids
  Z. Mai, Y. Yuan, J.-S. B. Tai, B. Senyuk, B. Liu, H. Li, Y. Wang, G. Zhou and I. I. Smalyukh
  ADVANCED SCIENCE8, 2102854 (2021) | doi:10.1002/advs.202102854 | PDF
• 221. Field-driven metamorphoses of isolated skyrmions within the conical state of cubic helimagnets
  A.O. Leonov, C. Pappas and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW B 104, 064432 (2021) | doi:10.1103/PhysrevB.104.064432 | PDF
• 220. Cylindrical Confinement of Nanocolloidal Cholestic Liquid Crystal
  E. Prince, Y. Wang, I. I. Smalyukh and E. Kumacheva
  JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 125, 8243-8250 (2021) | doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c04387 | PDF
• 219. Transformation between elastic dipoles, quadrupoles, octupoles, and hexadecapoles driven by surfactant self-assembly in nematic emulsion
  B. Senyuk, A. Mozaffari, K. Crust, R. Zhang, J. J. de Pablo and I. I. Smalyukh
  SCIENCE ADVANCES 7, eabg0377 (2021) | doi:10.1126/sciadv.abg0377 | PDF
• 218. Nematoelasticity of hybrid molecular-colloidal liquid crystals
  B. Senyuk, H. Mundoor, I. I. Smalyukh and H. H. Wensink
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E104, 014703 (2021) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.104.014703 | PDF
• 217. Self-organization of nanoparticles and molecules in periodic liesegang-type structures
  A. J. Ackroyd, G. Hollo, H. Mundoor, H. Zhang, O. Gang, I. I. Smalyukh, I. Lagzi and E. Kumacheva
  SCIENCE ADVANCES 7, eabe3801 (2021) | doi:10.1126/sciadv.abe3801 | PDF
• 216. Thermally reconfigurable monoclinic nematic colloidal fluids
  H. Mundoor, J.-S. Wu, H. H. Wensink and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE590, 268-274 (2021) | doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03249-0 | PDF
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• 215. Anisotropic electrostatic screening of charged colloids in nematic solvents
  J. C. Everts, B. Senyuk, H. Mundoor, M. Ravnik and I. I. Smalyukh
  SCIENCE ADVANCES 7, eabd0662 (2021) | doi:10.1126/sciadv.abd0662 | PDF
• 214. Elastomeric Nematic Colloids, Colloidal Crystals and Microstructures with Complex Topology
  Y. Yuan, P. Keller and I. I. Smalyukh
  SOFT MATTER 17, 3037-3046 (2021) | doi:10.1039/D0SM02135K | PDF

2020

• 213. Morphology of Lyotropic Myelin Figures Stained with a Fluorescent Dye
  D. Benkowska-Biernacka, I. I. Smalyukh and K. Matczyszyn
  JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 124, 11974-11979 (2020) | doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c08907 | PDF
• 212. Highly Luminescent Liquid Crystals in Aggregation Based on Platinum(II) Complexes
  X. Hao, B. Xiong, M. Ni, B. Tang, Y. Ma, H. Peng, X. Zhou, I. I. Smalyukh and X. Xie
  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS AND INTERFACES 12, 53058-53066 (2020) | doi:10.1021/acsami.0c13935 | PDF
• 211. Plasmonic gold-cellulose nanofiber aerogels
  Q. Liu, H. Mundoor, G. H. Sheetah and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS EXPRESS28, 34237-34245 (2020) | doi:10.1364/OE.399181 | PDF
• 210. Interplay of electrostatic dipoles and monopoles with elastic interactions in nematic liquid crystal nanocolloids
  B. Fleury, B. Senyuk, M. Tasinkevych and I. I. Smalyukh
  NANO LETTERS20, 7835-7843 (2020) | doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02087 | PDF
• 209. Control of light by topological solitons in soft chiral birefringent media
  A. J. Hess, G. Poy, J.-S. Tai, S. Žumer and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW X 10, 031042 (2020) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031042 | PDF 
      [Highlighted in Physics]
• 208. Chirality-enhanced periodic self-focusing of light in soft birefringent media
  G. Poy, A. J. Hess, I. I. Smalyukh and S. Žumer
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 125, 077801 (2020) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.077801 | PDF
• 207. Review: Knots and other new topological effects in liquid crystals and colloids
  I. I. Smalyukh
  REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS83, 106601 (2020) | doi:10.1088/1361-6633/abaa39 | PDF
• 206. Hopf solitons in helical and conical backgrounds of chiral magnetic solids
  R. Voinescu, J.-S. B. Tai and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 125, 057201 (2020) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.057201 | PDF
• 205. Aerogel from sustainably grown bacterial cellulose pellicle as thermally insulative film for building envelope
  B. Fleury, E. Abraham, J. De La Cruz, V. Chandrasekar, B. Senyuk, Q. Liu, V. Cherpak, S. Park, J. B. ten Hove and I. I. Smalyukh
  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES12, 34115-34121 (2020) | doi:10.1021/acsami.0c08879 | PDF
• 204. Thermal management by engineering the alignment of nanocellulose
  I. I. Smalyukh
  ADVANCED MATERIALS 33, 2001228 (2020) | doi:10.1002/adma.202001228 | PDF
• 203. Surface anchoring as a control parameter for stabilizing torons, skyrmions, twisted walls, fingers and their hybrids in chiral nematics
  J.-S. B. Tai and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E 191, 042702 (2020) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.101.042702 | PDF
• 202. Electrically powered motions of toron crystallites in chiral liquid crystals
  H. R. O. Sohn and I. I. Smalyukh
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A. 117, 6437-6445 (2020) | doi:10.1073/pnas.1922198117 | PDF
      [Highlighted in Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine]
• 201. Chiral carbon dots synthesized on cellulose nanocrystals
  M. Chekini, E. Prince, L. Zhao, H. Mundoor, I. I. Smalyukh and E. Kumacheva
  ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS 8, 1901911 (2020) | doi:10.1002/adom.201901911 | PDF
• 200. Control of quantum dot emission by colloidal plasmonic pyramids in a liquid crystal
  H. Mundoor, E. M. Cruz-Colón, S. Park, Q. Liu, I. I. Smalyukh and Jao van de Lagemaat
  OPTICS EXPRESS28, 5459-5469 (2020) | doi:10.1364/OE.383672 | PDF
• 199. Optically enriched and guided dynamics of active skyrmions
  H. R. O. Sohn, C. D. Liu, R. Voinescu, Z. Chen and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS EXPRESS28, 6306-6319 (2020) | doi:10.1364/OE.382845 | PDF
• 198. Colloidal interactions and unusual crystallization versus de-mixing of elastic multipoles formed by gold mesoflowers
  Y. Yuan, M. Tasinkevych and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 11, 188 (2020) | doi:10.1038/s41467-019-14031-2 | PDF
• 197. Topological solitons, cholesteric fingers and singular defect lines in Janus liquid crystal shells
  G. Durey, H. R. O. Sohn, P. J. Ackerman, E. Brasselet, I. I. Smalyukh and T. Lopez-Leon
  SOFT MATTER 16, 2669-2682 (2020) | doi:10.1039/C9SM02033K | PDF

2019

• 196. Plasmonic metamaterial gels with spatially patterned orientational order via 3D Printing
  A. J. Hess, A. J. Funk, Q. Liu, J. A. De La Cruz, G. H. Sheetah, B. Fleury and I. I. Smalyukh
  ACS OMEGA 4, 20558-20563 (2019) | doi:10.1021/acsomega.9b02418 | PDF
• 195. Programmable ultralight magnets via orientational arrangement of ferromagnetic nanoparticles within aerogel hosts
  Y. Li, Q. Liu, A. J. Hess, S. Mi, X. Liu, Z. Chen, Y. Xie and I. I. Smalyukh
  ACS NANO13, 13875-13883 (2019) | doi:10.1021/acsnano.9b04818 | PDF
      [Highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News]
• 194. Schools of skyrmions with electrically tunable elastic interactions
  H. R. O. Sohn, C. D. Liu and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 10, 4744 (2019) | doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12723-3 | PDF
      [Highlighted in Nature Physics 15, 1105 (2019)]
• 193. Three-dimensional crystals of adaptive knots
  J.-S. B. Tai and I. I. Smalyukh
  SCIENCE 365, 1449-1453 (2019) | doi:10.1126/science.aay1638 | PDF
      [Highlighted in Science 365, 1377 (2019), Phys.org News (2019), SciTechDaily, Nanowerk, Physicsworld, Science Daily, NewScientist, Long Room, CU Boulder Today]
• 192. Light-controlled skyrmions and torons as reconfigurable particles
  H. R. O. Sohn, C. D. Liu, Y. Wang and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS EXPRESS27, 29055-29068 (2019) | doi:10.1364/OE.27.029055 | PDF
• 191. Electrostatically controlled surface boundary conditions in nematic liquid crystals and colloids
  H. Mundoor, B. Senyuk, M. Almansouri, S. Park, B. Fleury and I. I. Smalyukh
  SCIENCE ADVANCES5, eaax4257 (2019) | doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax4257 | PDF
• 190. Real-space observation of skyrmion clusters with mutually orthogonal skyrmion tubes
  H. R. O. Sohn, S. M. Vlasov, V. M. Uzdin, A. O. Leonov and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW B100, 104401 (2019) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.104401 | PDF
• 189. Controlled multistep self-assembling of colloidal droplets at a nematic liquid crystal–air interface
  N. Wang, J. S. Evans, C. Li, V. M. Pergamenshchik, I. I. Smalyukh and S. He
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS123, 087801 (2019) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.087801 | PDF
• 188. Holographic polymer nanocomposites with simultaneously boosted diffraction efficiency and upconversion photoluminescence
  X. Zhang, W.Yao, X. Zhou, W. Wu, Q. Liu, H. Peng, J. Zhu, I. I.Smalyukh and X. Xie
  COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 181, 107705 (2019) | doi:10.1016/j.compscitech.2019.107705 | PDF
• 187. Elastic colloidal monopoles and reconfigurable self-assembly in liquid crystals
  Y. Yuan, Q. Liu, B. Senyuk and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE 570, 214–218 (2019) | doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1247-7 | PDF
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• 186. Two-dimensional skyrmion bags in liquid crystals and ferromagnets
  D. Foster, C. Kind, P. J. Ackerman, J.-S. B. Tai, M. R. Dennis and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE PHYSICS 15, 655–659 (2019) | doi:10.1038/s41567-019-0476-x | PDF
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• 185. Self-organized nonlinear gratings for ultrafast nanophotonics
  D. D. Hickstein, D. R. Carlson, H. Mundoor, J. B. Khurgin, K. Srinivasan, D. Westly, A. Kowligy, I. I. Smalyukh, S. A. Diddams and S. B. Papp
  NATURE PHOTONICS13, 494–499 (2019) | doi:10.1038/s41566-019-0449-8 | PDF
      SHARED ACCESS LINK
• 184. High-order elastic multipoles as colloidal atoms
  B. Senyuk, J. Aplinc, M. Ravnik and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 10, 1825 (2019) | doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09777-8 | PDF
     SHARED ACCESS LINK
• 183. Degenerate conic anchoring and colloidal elastic dipole-hexadecapole transformations
  Y. Zhou, B. Senyuk, R. Zhang, I. I. Smalyukh and J. J. de Pablo
  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS10, 1000 (2019) | doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08645-9 | PDF
• 182. Colloidal plasmonic DNA-origami with photo-switchable chirality in liquid crystals
  Q. Liu, A. Kuzyk, M. Endo and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS LETTERS44, 2831-2834 (2019) | doi:10.1364/OL.44.002831 | PDF
• 181. Visible light rewritable and long‐lived colors in cholesteric liquid crystals: a facile co‐doping strategy
  D. Zhao, X. Zhao, J. Wang, H. Peng, Y. Liao, X. Xie, I. I. Smalyukh and Y. Yu
  MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS, 1900037 (2019) | doi:10.1002/marc.201900037 | PDF
• 180. Bacterial cellulose gels, process for producing and methods of use
  A. J. Hess, I. I. Smalyukh, Q. Liu, J. A. De La Cruz, B. Fleury, E. Abraham, V. Cherpak, B. Senyuk
  US PATENT APP. 16/017319 (2019)
• 179. Liquid crystalline order and electric switching of upconversion luminescence in colloidal nanorod suspensions
  S. Park, H. Mundoor, B. Fleury, P. Davidson, J. van de Lagemaat and I. I. Smalyukh
  ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS, 1900041 (2019) | doi:10.1002/adom.201900041 | PDF
• 178. Liquid crystalline nanocolloids for storage of electro-optic responsive images
  H. Peng, L. Yu, G. Chen, Z. Xue, Y. Liao, J. Zhu, X. Xie, I. I. Smalyukh and Yen Wei
  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 11, 8612–8624 (2019) | doi:10.1021/acsami.8b22636 | PDF

2018

• 177. Self-assembled nematic colloidal motors powered by light
  Y. Yuan, G. N. Abuhaimed, Q. Liu and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 9, 5040 (2018) | doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07518-x | PDF
• 176. Chirality enabled liquid crystalline physical gels with high modulus but low driving voltage
  H. Ruan, G. Chen, X. Zhao, Y. Wang, Y. Liao, H. Peng, C.-L. Feng, X. Xie and I. I. Smalyukh
  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 10, 43184–43191 (2018) | doi:10.1021/acsami.8b14488 | PDF
• 175. Static Hopf solitons and knotted emergent fields in solid-state noncentrosymmetric magnetic nanostructures
  J.-S. B. Tai and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 121, 187201 (2018) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.187201 | PDF
• 174. Self‐assembly of cellulose nanocrystals into semi‐spherical photonic cholesteric films
  P. Rofouie, M. Alizadehgiashi, H. Mundoor, I. I. Smalyukh and E. Kumacheva
  ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 28, 1803852 (2018) | doi:10.1002/adfm.201803852 | PDF
• 173. Super-resolution stimulated emission depletion microscopy of director structures in liquid crystals
  J.-S. B. Tai and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS LETTERS 43, 5158-5161 (2018) | doi:10.1364/OL.43.005158 | PDF
• 172. Cellulos-enabled orientationally ordered flexible gels
  A. J. Hess, Q. Liu and I. I. Smalyukh
  US PATENT APP. 15/868,714 (2018)
• 171 Liquid crystals under confinement in submicrometer capsules
  H. Peng, W. Jiang, Q. Liu, G. Chen, M. Ni, F. Liang, Y. Liao, X. Xie and I. I. Smalyukh
  LANGMUIR 34, 10955–10963 (2018) | doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b01056 | PDF
• 170. Hybrid molecular-colloidal liquid crystals
  H. Mundoor, S. Park, B. Senyuk, H. H. Wensink and I. I. Smalyukh
  SCIENCE360, 768-771 (2018) | doi:10.1126/science.aap9359 | PDF
     OPEN ACCESS LINKSAbstract | Full Text | PDF
      [Highlighted in Science 360, 712 (2018), Nature Research Highlights (2018), Phys.org News (2018), Brinkwire]
• 169. Supramolecular hydrogel prepared from thymine-containing artificial nucleolipid: study of assembly and lyotropic mesophases
  D. Zhang, Q. Liu, R. Visvanathan, M. Tuchband, G. H. Sheetah, B. Fairbanks, N. A Clark, I. I. Smalyukh and C. N. Bowman 
  SOFT MATTER14, 7045-7051 (2018) | doi:10.1039/C8SM01383G | PDF
• 168. Electric switching of visible and infrared transmission using liquid crystals co-doped with plasmonic gold nanorods and dichroic dyes
  G. H. Sheetah, Q. Liu, B. Senyuk, B. Fleury and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS EXPRESS26, 22264-22272 (2018) | doi:10.1364/OE.26.022264 | PDF
• 167. Dynamics of topological solitons, knotted streamlines, and transport of cargo in liquid crystals
  H. R. O. Sohn, P. J. Ackerman, T. J. Boyle, G. H. Sheetah, B. Fornberg and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E97, 052701 (2018) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.97.052701 | PDF
• 166. Cellulose-based reflective liquid crystal films as optical filters and solar gain regulators
  J. A. De La Cruz, Q. Liu, B. Senyuk, A. W. Frazier, K. Peddireddy and I. I. Smalyukh
  ACS PHOTONICS 5, 2468-2477 (2018) | doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00289 | PDF
• 165. The effect of thickness-tunable ZrO₂ shell on enhancing the tunneling magnetoresistance of Fe₃O₄ supraparticles
  S. Mi, Y. Xie, Y. Li, R. Liu, X. D. Liu, I. I. Smalyukh and Z. Y. Chen
  ADVANCED MATERIALS INTERFACES 5, 1800236 (2018) | doi:10.1002/admi.201800236 | PDF
• 164. Flexible transparent aerogels as window retrofitting films and optical elements with tunable birefringence
  Q. Liu, A. W. Frazier, X. Zhao, J. A. De La Cruz, A. J. Hess, R. Yang and I. I. Smalyukh
  NANO ENERGY 48, 266-274 (2018) | doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2018.03.029 | PDF
• 163. Tuning and switching a plasmonic quantum dot ‘sandwich’ in a nematic line defect
  H. Mundoor, G. H. Sheetah, S. Park, P. J. Ackerman, I. I. Smalyukh and J. van de Lagemaat
  ACS NANO 12, 2580–2590 (2018) | doi:10.1021/acsnano.7b08462 | PDF
• 162. Thermal conductivity model for nanofiber networks
  X. Zhao, C. Huang, Q. Liu, I. I. Smalyukh and R. Yang
  JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS123, 085103 (2018) | doi:10.1063/1.5008582 | PDF
• 161. Liquid crystal self-assembly of upconversion nanorods enriched by depletion forces for mesostructured material preparation
  Y. Xie, Y. Li, G. Wei, Q. Liu, H. Mundoor, Z. Chen and I. I. Smalyukh
  NANOSCALE 10, 4218-4227 (2018) | doi:10.1039/C7NR06663E | PDF
• 160. Topological transformations of Hopf solitons in chiral ferromagnets and liquid crystals
  J.-S. B. Tai, P. J. Ackerman and I. I. Smalyukh
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A. 115, 921-926 (2018) | doi:10.1073/pnas.1716887115 | PDF
• 159. Liquid crystal colloids (invited review)
  I. I. Smalyukh
  ANNUAL REVIEW OF CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS9, 207-226 (2018) 
  doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-033117-054102 | PDF
  Free access e-print URL
• 158. Chiral liquid crystal colloids
  Y. Yuan, A. Martinez, B. Senyuk, M. Tasinkevych and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE MATERIALS 17, 71–79 (2018) | doi:10.1038/nmat5032 | PDF
      [Highlighted in Nat. Mater. 17, 14 (2018)]

2017

• 157. Squirming motion of baby skyrmions in nematic fluids
  P. J. Ackerman, T. Boyle and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS8, 673 (2017) | doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00659-5 | PDF
• 156. Compositions comprising anisotropic nanoparticle liquid crystal dispersions having tunable optical properties
  US PATENT APP. 15/512,793 (2017)
  Q. Liu and I. I. Smalyukh
• 155. Repulsion-attraction switching of nematic colloids formed by liquid crystal dispersions of polygonal prisms
  B. Senyuk,  Q. Liu,  P. D. Nystrom and I. I. Smalyukh
  SOFT MATTER13, 7398-7405 (2017) | doi:10.1039/c7sm01186e | PDF
• 154. Liquid crystalline cellulose-based nematogels
  Q. Liu and I. I. Smalyukh
  SCIENCE ADVANCES3, e1700981 (2017) | doi:10.1126/sciadv.1700981 | PDF
• 153. Symmetry control of nanorod superlattice driven by a governing force
  Y. Liang, Y. Xie, D. Chen, C. Guo, S. Hou, T. Wen, F. Yang, K. Deng, X. Wu, I. I. Smalyukh and Q. Liu
  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS8, 1410 (2017) | doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01111-4 | PDF
• 152. Static three-dimensional topological solitons in fluid chiral ferromagnets and colloids
  P. J. Ackerman and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE MATERIALS16, 426-432 (2017) | doi:10.1038/NMAT4826 | PDF
      [Highlighted in Nat. Mater. 16, 392 (2017), Nat. Phys. 13, 208 (2017), Nat. Photon. 11, 273 (2017)]
• 151. Diversity of knot solitons in liquid crystals manifested by linking of preimages in torons and hopfions
  P. J. Ackerman and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW X 7, 011006 (2017) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.7.011006 | PDF
      [Highlighted in Physics, February 07 (2017)]

2016

• 150. Colloidal surfaces with boundaries, apex boojums, and nested elastic self-assembly of nematic colloids
  S. Park, Q. Liu, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 117, 277801 (2016) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.277801 | PDF
      [Highlighted in Physics, December 29 (2016)]
• 149. Nonsingular defects and self-assembly of colloidal particles in cholesteric liquid crystals
  R. P. Trivedi, M. Tasinkevych, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E 94, 062703 (2016) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.94.062703 | PDF
• 148. Self-assembly of colloidal particles in deformation landscapes of electrically driven layer undulations in cholesteric liquid crystals
  M. C. M. Varney, Q. Zhang, B. Senyuk, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E94, 042709 (2016) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.94.042709 | PDF
• 147. Self-assembly of pre-designed optical materials in nematic codispersions of plasmonic nanorods
  G. H. Sheetah, Q. Liu, and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS LETTERS41, 4899-4902 (2016) | doi:10.1364/OL.41.004899 | PDF
• 146. Cellulose nanocrystal/poly(ethylene glycol) composite as an iridescent coating on polymer substrates: structure-color and interface adhesion
  M. Gu, C. Jiang, D. Liu, N. Prempeh, and I. I. Smalyukh
  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES8, 32565–32573 (2016) | doi:10.1021/acsami.6b12044 | PDF
• 145. Biaxial ferromagnetic liquid crystal colloids
  Q. Liu, P. J. Ackerman, T. C. Lubensky, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A.113, 10479-10484 (2016) | doi:10.1073/pnas.1601235113 | PDF
• 144. Electric switching of fluorescence decay in gold-silica-dye nematic nanocolloids mediated by surface plasmons
  L. Jiang, H. Mundoor, Q. Liu, and I. I. Smalyukh
  ACS NANO10, 7064-7072 (2016) | doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b03216 | PDF
• 143. Pristine polysulfone networks as a new class of polysulfide-derived high-performance functional materials
  M. Podgórski, C. Wang, Y. Yuan, D. Konetski, I. I. Smalyukh, and C. N. Bowman
  CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS28, 5102-5109 (2016) | doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02026 | PDF
• 142. Edge pinning and transformation of defect lines induced by faceted colloidal rings in nematic liquid crystals
  B. Senyuk, Q. Liu, Y. Yuan, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E93, 062704 (2016) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.062704 | PDF
• 141. Conventional and nonlinear optical microscopy of liquid crystal colloids
  T. Lee and I. I. Smalyukh
  Chapter in Liquid Crystals with Nano and Microparticles, pp. 179-207
  J. P. F. Lagerwall and G. Scalia (eds.), (World Scientific, 2016)
• 140. Reversal of helicoidal twist handedness near point defects of confined chiral liquid crystals
  P. J. Ackerman and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E93, 052702 (2016) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.052702 | PDF
• 139. Optical microscopy of soft matter systems
  T. Lee, B. Senyuk, R. P. Trivedi, and I. I. Smalyukh
  Chapter in Fluids, Colloids and Soft Materials: An Introduction to Soft Matter Physics, pp. 165-187. Alberto Fernandez-Nieves and Antonio Manuel Puertas (eds.), (Wiley-VCH, 2016)
  doi:10.1002/9781119220510.ch10 | http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3287 | PDF
• 138. Triclinic nematic colloidal crystals from competing elastic and electrostatic interactions
  H. Mundoor, B. Senyuk, and I. I. Smalyukh
  SCIENCE352, 69-73 (2016) | doi:10.1126/science.aaf0801 | PDF
     Open Access LinksAbstract | Full Text | PDF
     [Highlighted in Science 352, 40 (2016); Liquid Crystals Today 25, 66 (2016)]
• 137. Hexadecapolar colloids
  B. Senyuk, O. Puls, O. M. Tovkach, S. B. Chernyshuk and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS7, 10659 (2016) | doi:10.1038/ncomms10659 | PDF

2015

• 136. Topological nanocolloids with facile electric switching of plasmonic properties
  Y. Yuan and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS LETTERS40, 5630-5633 (2015) | doi:10.1364/OL.40.005630 | PDF
• 135. Plasmon-exciton interactions probed using spatial co-entrapment of nanoparticles by topological singularities
  P. J. Ackerman, H. Mundoor, I. I. Smalyukh and J. van de Lagemaat
  ACS NANO9, 12392-12400 (2015) | doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b05715 | PDF
• 134. Colloidal spirals in nematic liquid crystals
  B. Senyuk, M. B. Pandey, Q. Liu, M. Tasinkevych, and I. I. Smalyukh
  SOFT MATTER11, 8758-8767 (2015) | doi:10.1039/C5SM01539A | PDF
• 133. Mesostructured composite materials with electrically tunable upconverting properties
  H. Mundoor and I. I. Smalyukh,
  SMALL11, 5572-5580 (2015) | doi:10.1002/smll.201501788 | PDF
• 132. Ferromagnetic switching of knotted vector fields in liquid crystal colloids
  Q. Zhang, P. J. Ackerman, Q. Liu, and I. I. Smalyukh,
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS115, 097802 (2015) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.097802 | PDF
• 131. Optical patterning of magnetic domains and defects in ferromagnetic liquid crystal colloids
  A. J. Hess, Q. Liu, and I. I. Smalyukh,
  APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS107, 071906 (2015) | doi:10.1063/1.4928552 | PDF
• 130. Hierarchy of periodic patterns in the twist-bend nematic phase of mesogenic dimers
  V. P. Panov, M. C. M. Varney, I. I. Smalyukh, J. K. Vija, M. G. Tambac, and G. H. Mehl,
  MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS611, 180-185 (2015) | doi:10.1080/15421406.2015.1030252 | PDF
• 129. Large range electrically-induced reflection notch tuning in polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals
  K. M. Lee, V. P. Tondiglia, T. Lee, I. I. Smalyukh, and T. J. White
  JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C3, 8788-8793 (2015) | doi:10.1039/C5TC01320H | PDF
• 128. Three-dimensional patterning of solid microstructures through laser reduction of colloidal graphene oxide in liquid-crystalline dispersions
  B. Senyuk, N. Behabtu, A. Martinez, T. Lee, D. E. Tsentalovich, G. Ceriotti, J. M. Tour, M. Pasquali, and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS6, 7157 (2015) | doi:10.1038/ncomms8157 | PDF
• 127. Stick-slip motion of surface point defects prompted by magnetically controlled colloidal-particle dynamics in nematic liquid crystals
  M. C. M. Varney, Q. Zhang, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E91, 052503 (2015) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.052503 | PDF
• 126. Experimental realization of crossover in shape and director field of nematic tactoids
  V. Jamali, N. Behabtu, B. Senyuk, J. A. Lee, I. I. Smalyukh, P. van der Schoot, and M. Pasquali
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E91, 042507 (2015) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.042507 | PDF
• 125. Linked topological colloids in a nematic host
  A. Martinez, L. Hermosillo, M. Tasinkevych, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A.112, 4546-4551 (2015) | doi:10.1073/pnas.1500998112 | PDF
• 124. Geometry-guided colloidal interactions and self-tiling of elastic dipoles formed by truncated pyramid particles in liquid crystals
  B. Senyuk, Q. Liu, E. Bililign, P. D. Nystrom, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E91, 040501(R) (2015) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.040501 | PDF
• 123. Metal nanoparticle dispersion, alignment and assembly in nematic liquid crystals for applications in switchable plasmonic color filters and E-polarizers
  Y. Zhang, Q. Liu, H. Mundoor, Y. Yuan, and I. I. Smalyukh
  ACS NANO9, 3097-3108 (2015) | doi:10.1021/nn5074644 | PDF
• 122. Light-driven dynamic Archimedes spirals and periodic oscillatory patterns of topological solitons in anisotropic soft matter
  A. Martinez and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS EXPRESS23, 4591-4604 (2015) | doi:10.1364/OE.23.004591 | PDF
• 121. Self-assembly and electrostriction of arrays and chains of hopfion particles in chiral liquid crystals
  P. J. Ackerman, J. van de Lagemaat, and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS6, 6012 (2015) | doi:10.1038/ncomms7012 | PDF
• 120. Topology and self-assembly of defect-colloidal superstructure in confined chiral nematic liquid crystals
  M. B. Pandey, P. J. Ackerman, A. Burkart, T. Porenta, S. Žumer, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E91, 012501 (2015) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.012501 | PDF
• 119. Fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy of a fluorescent bent-core liquid crystal exhibiting polarization splay modulated (B7) structures and defects
  R. Deb, M. Oneill, N. V. S. Rao, N. A. Clark, and I. I. Smalyukh
  CHEMPHYSCHEM16, 243-255 (2015) | doi:10.1002/cphc.201402405 | PDF

2014

• 118. Topological switching and orbiting dynamics of colloidal spheres dressed with chiral nematic solitons
  T. Porenta, S. Čopar, P. J. Ackerman, M. B. Pandey, M. C. M. Varney, I. I. Smalyukh and S. Žumer
  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS4, 7337 (2014) | doi:10.1038/srep07337 | PDF
•  117. Orientationally ordered colloidal co-dispersions of gold nanorods and cellulose nanocrystals
  Q. Liu, M. G. Campbell, J. S. Evans, and I. I. Smalyukh
  ADVANCED MATERIALS26, 7178-7184 (2014) | doi:10.1002/adma.201402699 | PDF
• 116. Periodic dynamics, localization metastability, and elastic interaction of colloidal particles with confining surfaces and helicoidal structure of cholesteric liquid crystals
  M. C. M. Varney, Q. Zhang, M. Tasinkevych, N. M. Silvestre, K. A. Bertness, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E90, 062502 (2014) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.90.062502 | PDF
• 115. Splitting, linking, knotting, and solitonic escape of topological defects in nematic drops with handles
  M. Tasinkevych, M. G. Campbell, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A.111, 16268-16273 (2014) | 10.1073/pnas.1405928111 | PDF
• 114. Optically and elastically assembled plasmonic nanoantennae for spatially resolved characterization of chemical composition in soft matter systems using surface enhanced spontaneous and stimulated Raman scattering
  H. Mundoor, T. Lee, D. G. Gann, P. J. Ackerman, B. Senyuk, J. van de Lagemaat, and I. I. Smalyukh
  JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS116, 063511 (2014) | doi:10.1063/1.4892932 | PDF
• 113. Topological defects in cholesteric liquid crystals induced by monolayer domains with orientational chirality
  N. Petit-Garrido, R. P. Trivedi, F. Sagués, J. Ignés-Mullol, and I. I. Smalyukh
  SOFT MATTER10, 8163-8170 (2014) | doi:10.1039/C4SM00872C | PDF
• 112. Two-dimensional skyrmions and other solitonic structures in confinement-frustrated chiral nematics
  P. J. Ackerman, R. P. Trivedi, B. Senyuk, J. van de Lagemaat, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E90, 012505 (2014) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.90.012505 | PDF
• 111. Magnetically responsive gourd-shaped colloidal particles in cholesteric liquid crystals
  B. Senyuk, M. C. M. Varney, J. A. Lopez, S. Wang, N. Wu, and I. I. Smalyukh
  SOFT MATTER10, 6014-6023 (2014) | doi:10.1039/C4SM00878B | PDF
• 110. Self-assembly of skyrmion-dressed chiral nematic colloids with tangential anchoring
  M. B. Pandey, T. Porenta, J. Brewer, A. Burkart, S. Čopar, S. Žumer, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E89, 060502(R) (2014) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.89.060502 | PDF
• 109. Electrically and optically tunable plasmonic guest-host liquid crystals with long-range ordered nanoparticles
  Q. Liu, Y. Yuan, and I. I. Smalyukh
  NANO LETTERS14, 4071–4077 (2014) | doi:10.1021/nl501581y | PDF
• 108. Towards template-assisted assembly of nematic colloids
  N. M. Silvestre, Q. Liu, B. Senyuk, I. I. Smalyukh, and M. Tasinkevych
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS112, 225501 (2014) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.225501 | PDF
• 107. Topological polymer dispersed liquid crystals with bulk nematic defect lines pinned to handlebody surfaces
  M. G. Campbell, M. Tasinkevych, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS112, 197801 (2014) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.197801 | PDF
• 106. Shape-dependent dispersion and alignment of nonaggregating plasmonic gold nanoparticles in lyotropic and thermotropic liquid crystals 
  Q. Liu, J. Tang, Y. Zhang, A. Martinez, Sh. Wang, S. He, T. J. White, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E89, 052505 (2014) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.89.052505 | PDF
• 105. Effect of plasmon-enhancement on photophysics in upconverting nanoparticles
  Q.-C. Sun, J. C. Ribot, V. Singh, H. Mundoor, I. I. Smalyukh, and P. Nagpal
  OPTICS EXPRESS22, 11516 (2014) | doi:10.1364/OE.22.011516 | PDF
• 104. Preparation of nanocomposite plasmonic films made from cellulose nanocrystals or mesoporous silica decorated with unidirectionally aligned gold nanorods
  M. G. Campbell, Q. Liu, A. Sanders, J.S. Evans, and I. I. Smalyukh
  MATERIALS7, 3021-3033 (2014) | doi:10.3390/ma7043021 | PDF
• 103. Geometrically unrestricted topologically constrained control of liquid crystal defects using simultaneous holonomic magnetic and holographic optical manipulation
  Michael C. M. Varney, Nathan J. Jenness, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E89, 022505 (2014) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.89.022505 | PDF
• 102. Mutually tangled colloidal knots and induced defect loops in nematic fields
  A. Martinez, M. Ravnik, B. Lucero, R. Visvanathan, S. Žumer, and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE MATERIALS13, 258 (2014) | doi:10.1038/nmat3840 | PDF
     [Highlighted inNat. Phys. 10, 86 (2014); Nat. Mater. 13, 229 (2014); Liq. Cryst. Today 23, 30 (2014)]
• 101. Plasmon-enhanced energy transfer for improved upconversion of infrared radiation in doped-lanthanide nanocrystal
  Q.-C. Sun, H. Mundoor, J. C. Ribot, V. Singh, I. I. Smalyukh, and P. Nagpal
  NANO LETTERS14, 101 (2014) | doi:10.1021/nl403383w | PDF
     [Highlighted inNat. Mater. 13, 117 (2014)]

2013

• 100. Rotational and translational diffusion of anisotropic gold nanoparticles in liquid crystals controlled by varying surface anchoring
  B. Senyuk, D. Glugla, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E88, 062507 (2013) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.88.062507 | PDF
• 99. Three-dimensional textures and defects of soft material layering revealed by thermal sublimation
  D. K. Yoon, Y. H. Kim, D. S. Kim, S. D. Oh, I. I. Smalyukh, N. A. Clark, and H.-T. Jung
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A.110, 19263 (2013) | doi:10.1073/pnas.1317922110 | PDF
• 98. Topography from topology: photoinduced surface features generated in liquid crystal polymer networks
  M. E. McConney, A. Martinez, V. P. Tondiglia, K. M. Lee, D. Langley, I. I. Smalyukh, and T. J. White
  ADVANCED MATERIALS25, 5880 (2013) | doi:10.1002/adma.201301891 | PDF
• 97. Nematic liquid crystal boojums with handles on colloidal handlebodies
  Q. Liu, B. Senyuk, M. Tasinkevych, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A.110, 9231 (2013) | doi:10.1073/pnas.1301464110 | PDF
    [Highlighted inJournal Club for Condensed Matter Physics, August (2013)]
• 96. Imaging of director fields in liquid crystals using stimulated Raman scattering microscopy
  T. Lee, H. Mundoor, D. G. Gann, T. J. Callahan, and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS EXPRESS21, 12129 (2013) | doi:10.1364/OE.21.012129 | PDF
    [Highlighted inVirtual Journal for Biomedical Optics 8(6) (2013)]
• 95. Review of “Fundamentals of Condensed Matter and Crystalline Physics: An Introduction for Students of Physics and Materials Science”
  I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICS TODAY66, 49 (2013) | doi:10.1063/PT.3.1980 | PDF
• 94. Generating the Hopf fibration experimentally in nematic liquid crystals
  B. G. Chen, P. J. Ackerman, G. P. Alexander, R. D. Kamien, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS110, 237801 (2013) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.237801 | PDF
    [Highlighted in Physics 6, 65 (2013)]
• 93. Active shape-morphing elastomeric colloids in short-pitch cholesteric liquid crystals
  J. S. Evans, Y. Sun, B. Senyuk, P. Keller, V. M. Pergamenshchik, T. Lee, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS110, 187802 (2013) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.187802 | PDF
• 92. Dispersion and orientation of single-walled carbon nanotubes in a chromonic liquid crystal
  N. Ould-Moussa, Ch. Blanc, C. Zamora-Ledezma, O. D. Lavrentovich, I. I. Smalyukh, M. F. Islam, A. G. Yodh, M. Maugey, P. Poulin, E. Anglaret and M. Nobili
  LIQUID CRYSTALS40, 1628 (2013) | doi:10.1080/02678292.2013.772254 | PDF
• 91. Optical generation, templating, and polymerization of three-dimensional arrays of liquid-crystal defects decorated by plasmonic nanoparticles
  J. S. Evans, P. J. Ackerman, D. J. Broer, J. van de Lagemaat, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E87, 032503 (2013) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.87.032503 | PDF
• 90. Optical manipulation of self-aligned graphene flakes in liquid crystals
  Ch. W. Twombly, J. S. Evans, and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS EXPRESS21, 1324-1334 (2013) | doi:10.1364/OE.21.001324 | PDF
• 89. Topological colloids
  B. Senyuk, Q. Liu, S. He, R. D. Kamien, R. B. Kusner, T. C. Lubensky and I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE493, 200-205 (2013) | doi:10.1038/nature11710 | PDF
     [Highlighted inNature 493, 168 (2013); Nat. Mater. 12, 187 (2013); Liq. Cryst. Today 21, 81 (2012); La Recherche 473, 15 (2013); CU Boulder News Releases; Boulder iJournal; Penn News; UMassAmherst News; myScience.us; Space Mart; Materialsgate News; Nanowerk News; "Math in the madia" of AMS]

2012

• 88. Plasmonic complex fluids of nematic-like and helicoidal self-assemblies of gold nanorods with negative order parameter
  Q. Liu, B. Senyuk, J. Tang, T. Lee, J. Qian, S. He, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS109, 088301 (2012) | PDF
• 87. Nonlinear photoluminescence imaging of isotropic and liquid crystalline dispersions of graphene oxide
  B. Senyuk, N. Behabtu, B. G. Pacheco, T. Lee, G. Ceriotti, J. M. Tour, M. Pasquali, and I. I. Smalyukh
  ACS NANO6, 8060 (2012) | PDF
• 86. Optical generation of crystalline, quasicrystalline, and arbitrary arrays of torons in confined cholesteric liquid crystals for patterning of optical vortices in laser beams
  P. J. Ackerman, Z. Qi, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E86, 021703 (2012) | PDF
• 85. Elastic interactions between colloidal microspheres and elongated convex and concave nanoprisms in nematic liquid crystals
  B. Senyuk and I. I. Smalyukh
  SOFT MATTER8, 8729 (2012) | PDF
• 84. Optical manipulation of birefringent shape-morphing colloidal microparticles made from liquid crystal elastomers doped with gold nanospheres
  Y. Sun, J. S. Evans, T. Lee, B. Senyuk, P. Keller, S. He, and I. I. Smalyukh
  APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS100, 241901 (2012) | PDF
• 83. Laser-directed hierarchical assembly of liquid crystal defects and control of optical phase singularities
  P. J. Ackerman, Z. Qi, Y. Lin, C. W. Twombly, M. J. Laviada, Y. Lansac and I. I. Smalyukh
  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS2, 414 (2012) | PDF
• 82. Alignment of the columnar liquid crystal phase of nano-DNA by confinement in channelss
  D. K. Yoon, G. P. Smith, E. Tsai, M. Moran, D. M. Walba, T. Bellini, I. I. Smalyukh, and N. A. Clark
  LIQUID CRYSTALS39, 571 (2012) | PDF
• 81. Unconventional structure-assisted optical manipulation of high-index nanowires in liquid crystals
  D. Engström, M. C. M. Varney, M. Persson, R. P. Trivedi, K. A. Bertness, M. Goksör, and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS EXPRESS20, 7741 (2012) | PDF
     [Highlighted in Laser Focus World 48(7), 20 (2012)]
• 80. Optically generated reconfigurable photonic structures of elastic quasiparticles in frustrated cholesteric liquid crystals
  I. I. Smalyukh, D. Kaputa, A. V. Kachynski, A. N. Kuzmin, P. J. Ackerman, C. W. Twombly, T. Lee, R. P. Trivedi, P. N. Prasad
  OPTICS EXPRESS20, 6870 (2012) | PDF
• 79. Reconfigurable interactions and three-dimensional patterning of colloidal particles and defects in lamellar soft media
  R. P. Trivedi, I. I. Klevets, B. Senyuk, T. Lee and I. I. Smalyukh
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A.109, 4744 (2012) | PDF
• 78. Shape-dependent oriented trapping and scaffolding of plasmonic nanoparticles by topological defects for self-assembly of colloidal dimers in liquid crystals
  B. Senyuk, J. S. Evans, P. Ackerman, T. Lee, P. Manna, L. Vigderman, E.R. Zubarev, J. van de Lagemaat and I. I. Smalyukh
  NANO LETTERS12, 955-963 (2012) | PDF
• 77. Three-dimensional complex-shaped photopolymerized microparticles at liquid crystal interfaces
  A. Martinez, T. Lee, Th. Asavei, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop and I. I. Smalyukh
  SOFT MATTER8, 2432-2437 (2012) | PDF

2011

• 76. Deft tricks with liquid crystals
  I. I. Smalyukh
  NATURE478, 330 (2011) | PDF
• 75. Large-area optoelastic manipulation of colloidal particles in liquid crystals using photoresponsive molecular surface monolayers
  A. Martinez, H. C. Mireles, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A.108, 20891 (2011) | PDF
• 74. Three-dimensional imaging of liquid crystal structures and defects by means of holographic manipulation of colloidal nanowires with faceted sidewalls
  D. Engström, R. P. Trivedi, M. Persson, M. Goksör, K. A. Bertness, and I. I. Smalyukh
  SOFT MATTER7, 6304 (2011) | PDF
• 73. Self-Alignment of Dye Molecules in Micelles and Lamellae for Three-Dimensional Imaging of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
  Q. Liu, C. Beier, J. Evans, T. Lee, S. He, and I. I. Smalyukh
  LANGMUIR27, 7446 (2011) | PDF
• 72. Measurement of Viscosity Coefficients of Liquid Crystals by Rotating Laser-Trapped Anisotropic Micropartricles
  Q. Liu, T. Asavei, T. Lee, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, S. He, and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS EXPRESS19, 25134 (2011) | PDF
• 71. Spontaneous Ordering of Gold Nanorods on Highly Aligned SWNT Macrostructures
  B. Dan, T. Wingfield, J. Evans, F. Mirri, C. Pint, M. Pasquali, and I. I. Smalyukh
  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES3, 3718 (2011) | PDF
• 70. Alignment of high-aspect ratio colloidal gold nanoplatelets in nematic liquid crsytals
  J. S. Evans, C. Beier, and I. I. Smalyukh
  JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS110, 033535 (2011) | PDF
• 69. Towards total photonic control of complex-shaped colloids by vortex beams
  C. P. Lapointe, T. G. Mason, and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS EXPRESS19, 18182 (2011) | PDF
• 68. Towards Reconfigurable Optical Metamaterials: Colloidal Nanoparticle Self-Assembly and Self-Alignment in Liquid Crystals
  D. F. Gardner, J. S. Evans, and I. I. Smalyukh
  MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS545, 1227 (2011) | PDF
• 67. Optical manipulation of colloids and defect structures in anisotropic liquid crystal fluids
  R. P. Trivedi, D. Engström, and I. I. Smalyukh
  JOURNAL OF OPTICS13, 044001 (2011) | PDF
• 66. Homeotropic alignment and director structures in thin films of triphenylamine based discotic liquid crystals controlled by supporting nanostructured substrates and surface confinement
  T. Dutta Choudhury, N. V. S. Rao, R. Tenent, J. Blackburn, B. Gregg, and I. I. Smalyukh
  THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B115, 609 (2011) | PDF
• 65. Orientation of a Helical Nanofilament (B4) Liquid-Crystal Phase: Topographic Control of Confinement, Shear Flow, and Temperature Gradients
  D.-K. Yoon, Y. Yi, Y. Shen, E. D. Korblova, D. M. Walba, I. I. Smalyukh, and N. A. Clark
  ADVANCED MATERIALS23, 1962 (2011) | PDF
• 64. 3D parallel particle tracking with holographic optical tweezers using engineered psf
  D. B. Conkey, R. P. Trivedi, S. R. P. Pavani, I. I. Smalyukh, and R. Piestun
  OPTICS EXPRESS19, 3835 (2011) | PDF
• 63. Optical microscopy of soft matter systems
  T. Lee, B. Senyuk, R. P. Trivedi, and I.I. Smalyukh
  In press. In Soft Matter, A. Fernandez De Las Nieves (ed.), (Wiley-VCH, 2011) http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3287 | PDF
• 62. Confined Liquid Crystals: a Workshop in Ljubljana
  I. I. Smalyukh
  LIQUID CRYSTALS TODAY20, 63 (2011) | PDF
• 61. Healing of defects at the interface of nematic liquid crystals and structured Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers
  N. Petit-Garrido, R. P. Trivedi, J. Ignes-Mullol, J. Claret, C. Lapointe, F. Sagues, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS107, 177801 (2011) | PDF
• 60. Liquid Crystals of Aqueous, Giant Graphene Oxide Flakes
  B. Dan, N. Behabtu, A. Martinez, J. S. Evans, D. V. Kosynkin, J. M. Tour, M. Pasquali, and I. I. Smalyukh
  SOFT MATTER7, 11154 (2011) | PDF

2010

• 59. Three-dimensional structure and multistable optical switching of Triple Twist Toron quasiparticles in anisotropic fluids
  I. I. Smalyukh, Y. Lansac, N. Clark, R. Trivedi
  NATURE MATERIALS9, 139-145 (2010) | PDF
• 58. Self-Alignment of Plasmonic Gold Nanorods in Reconfigurable Anisotropic Fluids for Tunable Bulk Metamaterial Applications
  Q. Liu, Y. Cui, D. Gardner, X. Li, S. He, I. I. Smalyukh
  NANO LETTERS10, 1347 (2010) | PDF
• 57. Liquid crystals enable chemoresponsive reconfigurable colloidal self-assembly
  I. I. Smalyukh
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A.107, 3945-3946 (2010) | PDF
• 56. Electrically-Driven Multi-axis Rotational Dynamics of Colloidal Platelets in Nematic Liquid Crystals
  C. P. Lapointe, S. Hopkins, T. G. Mason, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS105, 178301 (2010) | PDF
• 55. Multimodal nonlinear optical polarizing microscopy of long-range molecular order in liquid crystals
  T. Lee, R. P. Trivedi, and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS LETTERS35, 3447-3449 (2010) | PDF
• 54. Colloidal gold nanoparticle dispersions in smectic liquid crystals and thin nanoparticle-decorated smectic films
  R. Pratibha, W. Park, I. I. Smalyukh
  JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS107, 063511 (2010) | PDF
• 53. Electric-Field Induced Transitions in a Cholesteric Liquid-Crystal Film with Negative Dielectric Anisotropy
  E. C. Gartland, Jr., H. Huang, O. D. Lavrentovich, P. Palffy-Muhoray, I. I. Smalyukh, T. Kosa and B. Taheri
  JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL & THEORETICAL NANOSCIENCE7, 709-725 (2010) | PDF
• 52. Four-ring achiral unsymmetrical bent core molecules forming strongly fluorescent smectic liquid crystals with spontaneous polar and chiral ordered B7 and B1 phases
  R. Deb, R. Nath, M. Paul, N.V. S. Rao, F. Tuluri, Y. Shen, R. Shao, D. Chen, C. Zhu, I. I. Smalyukh, and N. A. Clark
  JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY20, 7332-7336 (2010) | PDF
• 51. Liquid crystal periodic zigzags by geometrical & surface anchoring induced confinement: Origin and internal structure from mesoscopic scale to molecular level
  D.-K. Yoon, J. Yoon, Y. H. Kim, M. C. Choi, J. Kim, O. Sakata, S. Kimura, M. W. Kim, I. I. Smalyukh, N. A. Clark, M. Ree, and H.-T. Jung
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E82, 041705 (2010) | PDF
• 50. Three dimensional optical manipulation and structural imaging of soft materials by use of laser tweezers and multimodal nonlinear microscopy
  R. T. Trivedi, T. Lee, K. A. Bertness I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS EXPRESS18, 27658 (2010) | PDF
• 49. Organization of Polarization Splay Modulated (B7) Smectic Phases by Confinement in Channels
  D.-K. Yoon, R. Deb, E. Körblova, R. Shao, N. V. S. Rao, D. M. Walba, I. I. Smalyukh, N. A. Clark
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A.107, 21311 (2010) | PDF
• 48. Optically Generated Adaptive Localized Structures in Confined Chiral Liquid Crystals Doped with Fullerene
  O. Trushkevych, P. Ackerman, W. A. Crossland, and I. I. Smalyukh
  APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS97, 201906 (2010) | PDF
• 47. Fluorescent lanthanide complexes of Schiff base ligands possessing N-aryl moiety: influence of chain length on crossover (calamitic to discotic) phase behaviour
  N. V. S. Rao, T. Dutta Choudhury, R. Deb, M. K. Paul, T. R. Rao, Tuluri Francis, and I. I. Smalyukh
  LIQUID CRYSTALS37, 1393 (2010) | PDF

2009

• 46. Shape-controlled colloidal interactions in nematic liquid crystals
  C. Lapointe, T. Mason, and I. I. Smalyukh
  SCIENCE326, 1083-1086 (2009) | doi:10.1126/science.1176587 | PDF
• 45. Tunable optical metamaterial based on liquid crystal-gold nanosphere composites
  R. Pratibha, K. Park, I. I. Smalyukh, and W. Park
  OPTICS EXPRESS17, 19459-19469 (2009) | doi:10.1364/OE.17.019459 | PDF
• 44. Non-contact optical control of multiple particles and defects using holographic optical trapping with phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator
  S. Anand, R. P. Trivedi, G. Stockdale, and I. I. Smalyukh
  PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE7232, 723208 (2009) | doi:10.1117/12.807873 | PDF

2008

• 43. Elasticity-mediated nematic-like bacterial organization in model extracellular DNA matrix
  I. I. Smalyukh, J. Butler, J. D. Shrout, M. R. Parsek, and G. C. L. Wong
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E (R)78 030701(R) (2008) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.78.030701 | PDF
     [Highlighted in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research]
• 42. Realignment-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) and three-dimensional imaging in anisotropic fluids
  A. V. Kachynski, A. N. Kuzmin, P. N. Prasad, and I. I. Smalyukh
  OPTICS EXPRESS16, 10617-10632 (2008) | doi:10.1364/OE.16.010617 | PDF;
     [Highlighted in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics]
• 41. Self-organized gels in DNA/F-actin mixtures without crosslinkers: entangled networks of nematic domains with tunable density
  G. H. Lai, J. C. Butler, O. V. Zribi, I. I. Smalyukh, T. E. Angelini, K. Purdy, R. Golestanian, and G. C. L. Wong
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS101, 218303 (2008) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.218303 | PDF

2007

• 40. Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) polarized microscopy of three-dimensional director structures in liquid crystals
  A. V. Kachynski, A. N. Kuzmin, P. N. Prasad, and I. I. Smalyukh
  APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS91, 151905 (2007) | doi:10.1063/1.2800887 | PDF
• 39. Confocal microscopy of director structures in strongly confined and composite systems
  I. I. Smalyukh
  MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS477, 23-41 (2007) | doi:10.1080/15421400701683956 | PDF
• 38. Optical trapping of director structures and defects in liquid crystals using laser tweezers
  I. I. Smalyukh, D. S. Kaputa, A. V. Kachynski, A. N. Kuzmin, and P. N. Prasad
  OPTICS EXPRESS15, 4359 (2007) | doi:10.1364/OE.15.004359 | PDF

2006

• 37. Laser trapping in anisotropic fluids and polarization-controlled particle dynamics
  I. I. Smalyukh, A. V. Kachynski, A. N. Kuzmin, and P. N. Prasad
  PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. U.S.A.103, 18048 (2006) | doi:10.1073/pnas.0608698103 | PDF
• 36. Structure and dynamics of liquid crystalline pattern formation in drying droplets of DNA
  I. I. Smalyukh, O. V. Zribi, J. C. Butler, O. D. Lavrentovich, G. C. L. Wong
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS96, 177801 (2006) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.177801 | PDF
• 35. Directed vertical alignment liquid crystal display with fast switching
  M. Gu, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich
  APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS88, 061110 (2006) | doi:10.1063/1.2172299 | PDF
• 34. Three-dimensional imaging of dielectric patterns in electrohydrodynamic convection of a nematic liquid crystal
  N. Gheorghiu, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, J. T. Gleeson
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E74, 041702 (2006) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.74.041702 | PDF
• 33. Undulations of lamellar liquid crystals in cells with finite surface anchoring near and well above the threshold
  B. I. Senyuk, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E74, 011712 (2006) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.74.011712 | PDF
• 32. Optical trapping, manipulation, and 3D imaging of disclinations in liquid crystals and measurement of their line tension
  I. I. Smalyukh, B. I. Senyuk, S. V. Shiyanovskii, O. D. Lavrentovich, A. N. Kuzmin, A. V. Kachynski, and P. N. Prasad
  MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS450, 79-95 (2006) | doi:10.1080/15421400600587787 | PDF
• 31. Defects, surface anchoring, and three-dimensional director fields in the lamellar structure of cholesteric liquid crystals as studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy
  I. I. Smalyukh and O. D. Lavrentovich
  Chapter in Topology in Condensed Matter, pp. 205-250. M. Monastyrsky (ed.), (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, Vol. 150, Springer, Berlin, 2006)
  doi:10.1007/3-540-31264-1_10

2005

• 30. Elasticity-Mediated Self-Organization and Colloidal Interactions of Solid Spheres with Tangential Anchoring in a Nematic Liquid Crystal
  I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, A. Kuzmin, A. Kachynski, P. N.Prasad
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS95, 157801 (2005) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.157801 | PDF
• 29. Optical trapping of colloidal particles and measurement of the defect line tension and colloidal forces in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal
  I. I. Smalyukh, A. Kuzmin, A. Kachynski, P. N.Prasad, O. D. Lavrentovich
  APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS86, 021913 (2005) | doi:10.1063/1.1849839 | PDF
• 28. Selective imaging of 3D director fields and study of defects in biaxial smectic A liquid crystals
  I. I. Smalyukh, R. Pratibha, N. V. Madhusudana, O. D. Lavrentovich
  THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E16, 179 (2005) | doi:10.1140/epje/e2005-00019-8 | PDF
• 27. Switchable two-dimensional gratings based on field-induced layer undulations in cholesteric liquid crystals
  B. I. Senyuk, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich
  OPTICS LETTERS30, 349-351 (2005) | doi:10.1364/OL.30.000349 | PDF
• 26. Electric-field-induced nematic-cholesteric transition and three-dimensional director structures in homeotropic cells
  I. I. Smalyukh, B. I. Senyuk, P. Palffy-Muhoray, O. D. Lavrentovich, H. Huang, E. C. Gartland, Jr., V. H. Bodnar, T. Kosa, B. Taheri
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E72, 061707 (2005) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.72.061707 | PDF
• 25. Electrorotation of colloidal particles in liquid crystals
  G. Liao, I. I. Smalyukh, J. R. Kelly, O. D. Lavrentovich, A. Jakli
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E72, 031704 (2005) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.72.031704 | PDF
• 24. Real-time microbe detection based on director distortions around growing immune complexes in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
  S. V. Shiyanovskii, T. Schneider, I. I. Smalyukh, et al.
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E71, 020702(R) (2005) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.71.020702 | PDF
• 23. Electric-field-induced deformation dynamics of a single nematic disclination
  A. Vella, R. Intartaglia, C. Blank, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, M. Nobili
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E71, 061705 (2005) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.71.061705 | PDF
• 22. Shearing effects of stressed liquid crystals with various liquid crystal domain sizes
  G. Zhang, J. L. West, A. Glushchenko, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich
  SID DIGEST36, 691 (2005) | doi:10.1889/1.2036535 | PDF
• 21. Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals for biological sensing applications
  S. V. Shiyanovskii, O. D. Lavrentovich, T. Schneider, T. Ishikawa, I. I. Smalyukh, C. Woolverton, G. Niehaus, K. J. Doane
  MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS434, 587 (2005) | doi:10.1080/15421400590957288 | PDF
• 20. Electrically-controlled two-dimensional gratings based on layers undulations in cholesteric liquid crystals
  B. I. Senyuk, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich
  PROCCEDINGS OF SPIE5936, 59360W1 (2005) | doi:10.1117/12.615976 | PDF
• 19. A model of stressed liquid crystals: close-packed, shaped liquid crystal droplets inside a sheared polymer matrix
  G. Zhang, A. Glushchenko, J. L. West, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich
  PROCCEDINGS OF SPIE5936, 593615 (2005) | doi:10.1117/12.618358 | PDF
• 18. Focused laser beams and liquid crystals: fast three-dimensional imaging of structures and topological defects
  I. I. Smalyukh, B. I. Senyuk, M. Gu, O. D. Lavrentovich
  PROCCEDINGS OF SPIE5947, 594707 (2005) | doi:10.1117/12.620310 | PDF

2004

• 17. Ordered droplet structures at the liquid crystal surface and elastic-capillary colloidal interactions
  I. I. Smalyukh, S. Chernyshuk, B. Lev, A. Nych, U. Ognysta, V. Nazarenko, O. D. Lavrentovich
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS93, 117801 (2004) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.117801 | PDF

2003

• 16. Anchoring-mediated interaction of edge dislocations with bounding surfaces in confined cholesteric liquid crystals
  I. I. Smalyukh and O. D. Lavrentovich
  PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS90, 085503 (2003) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.085503 | PDF
• 15. Free-standing films of twist grain boundary TGBA and UTGB_C^* liquid crystals studied by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy
  I. I. Smalyukh, R. Pratibha, O. D. Lavrentovich, N. V. Madhusudana
  LIQUID CRYSTALS30, 877-888 (2003) | doi:10.1080/0267829031000121233 | PDF
• 14. Electric field-induced nucleation and growth of focal-conic and stripe domains in a smectic A liquid crystal
  S. Garg, K. Purdy, E. Bramley, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich
  LIQUID CRYSTALS30, 1377-1390 (2003) | doi:10.1080/02678290310001621886 | PDF

2002

• 13. Three-dimensional director structures of defects in Grandjean-Cano wedges of cholesteric liquid crystals studied by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy
  I. I. Smalyukh and O. D. Lavrentovich
  PHYSICAL REVIEW E66, 051703- 051716 (2002) | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.66.051703 | PDF
• 12. Preparation and in vitro characterization of a eutectic based semisolid self-nanoemulsified drug delivery system (SNEDDS) of ubiquinone: mechanism and progress of emulsion formation
  S. Nazzal, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, and M. A. Khan
  INT. J. OF PHARMACEUTICS235, 247-265 (2002) | doi:10.1016/S0378-5173(02)00003-0 | PDF
• 11. Three-dimensional imaging of liquid crystals
  I. I. Smalyukh, S. V. Shiyanovskii, D. Termine, O. D. Lavrentovich
  G.I.T. Laboratory Journal3, 118-120 (2002)

2001

• 10. Three-dimensional imaging of orientational order by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy
  I. I. Smalyukh, S. V. Shiyanovskii, and O. D. Lavrentovich
  CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS336, 88-96 (2001) | doi:10.1016/S0009-2614(00)01471-8 | PDF
• 9. Three-dimensional imaging of liquid crystals
  I. I. Smalyukh, S. V. Shiyanovskii, D. J. Termine, O. D. Lavrentovich
  IMAGING&MICROSCOPY3, 16-19 (2001) | PDF
• 8. Computer simulations and fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy of structures in cholesteric liquid crystals
  S. V. Shiyanovskii, I. I. Smalyukh, and O. D. Lavrentovich
  Chapter in Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments, pp. 229-270. O. D. Lavrentovich, P. Pasini, C. Zannoni, and S. Zumer (eds.), (NATO Science Series, Vol. 43, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001)
  doi:10.1007/978-94-010-0512-8_10

2000 & before

• 7. I. I. Smalyukh and Yu. A. Nastishin, Ukrainian Phys. J.45, 941-948 (2000)
• 6. Yu. A. Nastishin and I. I. Smalyukh, Optics & Spectroscopy85, 465-468 (1998); Optika i spectroscopiya85, 507-511 (1998)
• 5. Yu. A. Nastishin and I. I. Smalyukh, Journal of Physical Studies2, 335-338 (1998)
• 4. Yu. A. Nastishin and I. I. Smalyukh, Proc. SPIE3488, 149-155 (1998)
• 3. Yu. A. Nastishin, I. I. Smalyukh, and Z.Yu. Gotra, Proc. SPIE3488, 21-28 (1998)
• 2. Gotra O. Z., Smalyukh I. I., Visnyk LPNU305, 82-86 (1996)
• 1. Z. Yu. Gotra, Yu. A. Nastishin, I. I. Smalyukh, Visnyk LPNU305, 91-99 (1996)