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  1. Bend instabilities and topological turbulence in shear-aligned living liquid crystal

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2026, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  2. Clifford Algebras and Liquid Crystalline Fermions

    Article • Physical Review X, December 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  3. Helix Alignment, Chevrons, and Edge Dislocations in Twist‐Bend Ferroelectric Nematics

    Article • Advanced Science, November 2025, Wiley

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  4. Submicrosecond Electric Switching of Large Birefringence in the Isotropic Phase of Ferroelectric Nematics

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, July 2025, Wiley

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  5. Twist, splay, and uniform domains in ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  6. Liquid Crystalline Structures Formed by Sphere–Rod Amphiphilic Molecules in Solvents

    Article • Crystals, February 2025, MDPI AG

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  7. Liquid Crystalline Structures Formed by Sphere-Rod Amphiphilic Molecules in Solvents

    Article • February 2025, MDPI AG

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  8. Periodic splay Fréedericksz transitions in a ferroelectric nematic

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  9. Dynamics of the antiferroelectric smectic-Z A phase in a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  10. Polar and apolar light-induced alignment of ferroelectric nematics on photosensitive polymer substrates

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  11. Directional Swimming of B. Subtilis Bacteria Near a Switchable Polar Surface

    Article • Small, December 2024, Wiley

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  12. Effects of Photopatterning Conditions on Azimuthal Surface Anchoring Strength

    Article • Crystals, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  13. Conic sections in ferroelectric nematics: Experiments and mathematical modeling

    Article • Physical Review Research, November 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  14. Effects of Photopatterning Conditions on Azimuthal Surface Anchoring Strength

    Article • November 2024, MDPI AG

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  15. Behavior of chemically powered Janus colloids in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal

    Article • Physical Review E, November 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  16. Microsecond electro-optic switching in the nematic phase of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Optics Express, October 2024, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  17. Dielectric Properties of a Ferroelectric Nematic Material: Quantitative Test of the Polarization-Capacitance Goldstone Mode

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  18. Cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase: on the role played by the length and parity of the spacer

    Article • Liquid Crystals, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  19. Electrically tunable total reflection of light by oblique helicoidal cholesteric

    Article • MRS Bulletin, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich, Mateusz Mrukiewicz

  20. Dynamic control of active droplets using light-responsive chiral liquid crystal environment

    Article • Communications Physics, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  21. Trapping of isotropic droplets by disclinations in nematic liquid crystals controlled by surface anchoring and elastic constant disparity

    Article • June 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  22. Confinement and magnetic-field effect on chiral ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals in Grandjean-Cano wedge cells

    Article • May 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  23. High-Order Nonlinear Electrophoresis in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  24. Chiral ground states of ferroelectric liquid crystals

    Article • Science, March 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  25. Polar Self-Organization of Ferroelectric Nematic-Liquid-Crystal Molecules on Atomically Flat Au(111) Surface

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  26. Dynamic control of active droplets using light-responsive chiral liquid crystal environment

    Article • January 2024, Research Square

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  27. Splay-bend elastic inequalities shape tactoids, toroids, umbilics, and conic section walls in paraelectric, twist-bend, and ferroelectric nematics

    Article • Liquid Crystals Reviews, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  28. Photoisomerization dynamics of a light-sensitive chiral dopant in a nematic medium

    Article • Liquid Crystals, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  29. Topological transformations of a nematic drop

    Article • Science Advances, July 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  30. Designing, generating and reconfiguring disclination interconnects in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Liquid Crystals, May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  31. Ferroelectric nematic liquids with conics

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  32. Preface

    Article • Liquid Crystals, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  33. Instantaneous mapping of liquid crystal orientation using a polychromatic polarizing microscope

    Article • Liquid Crystals, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  34. In situmeasurements of twist and bend elastic constants in the oblique helicoidal cholesteric

    Article • August 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  35. Soliton walls paired by polar surface interactions in a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  36. Optical control of light polarization in heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals

    Article • Optics Letters, June 2022, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  37. Elastic and electro-optical properties of flexible fluorinated dimers with negative dielectric anisotropy

    Article • Liquid Crystals, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  38. Domain patterns with paired soliton walls stabilized by polar surface interactions in a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal

    Article • January 2022, Research Square

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  39. Toroidal nuclei of columnar lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals coexisting with an isotropic phase

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  40. Combined electric and photocontrol of selective light reflection at an oblique helicoidal cholesteric liquid crystal doped with azoxybenzene derivative

    Article • October 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  41. Azimuthal Anchoring Strength in Photopatterned Alignment of a Nematic

    Article • Crystals, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  42. Heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals as electrically tunable optical filters in notch and bandpass configurations

    Article • Liquid Crystals, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  43. Dynamically morphing microchannels in liquid crystal elastomer coatings containing disclinations

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, November 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Oleg Lavrentovich, Hao Yu, Dr. Paul Shiller

  44. Design of Chiral Domains by Surface Confinement of Liquid Crystals

    Article • ACS Central Science, October 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  45. Directional self-locomotion of active droplets enabled by nematic environment

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  46. Liquid crystal phases with unusual structures and physical properties formed by acute-angle bent core molecules

    Article • Physical Review Research, September 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  47. Electromagnetically tunable cholesterics with oblique helicoidal structure [Invited]

    Article • Optical Materials Express, September 2020, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  48. Optics of oblique helicoidal cholesterics

    Article • August 2020, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  49. Control of microswimmers by spiral nematic vortices: Transition from individual to collective motion and contraction, expansion, and stable circulation of bacterial swirls

    Article • Physical Review Research, July 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Hao Yu, Oleg Lavrentovich

  50. Design of nematic liquid crystals to control microscale dynamics

    Article • Liquid Crystals Reviews, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  51. Elasticity and Viscosity of DNA Liquid Crystals

    Article • ACS Macro Letters, June 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  52. Topology control of human fibroblast cells monolayer by liquid crystal elastomer

    Article • Science Advances, May 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Hao Yu, Oleg Lavrentovich

  53. Temperature dependence of bend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics

    Article • Physical Review Research, March 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich, Georg Mehl

  54. Soliton-induced liquid crystal enabled electrophoresis

    Article • Physical Review Research, February 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  55. Cell alignment by smectic liquid crystal elastomer coatings with nanogrooves

    Article • Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, February 2020, Wiley

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  56. Shear-induced polydomain structures of nematic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal disodium cromoglycate

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  57. Pitch tuning induced by optical torque in heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review Research, December 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  58. Three-dimensional solitary waves with electrically tunable direction of propagation in nematics

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  59. Nanoparticle-laden droplets of liquid crystals: Interactive morphogenesis and dynamic assembly

    Article • Science Advances, July 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  60. Wide temperature range of an electrically tunable selective reflection of light by oblique helicoidal cholesteric

    Article • Liquid Crystals, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich, Mateusz Mrukiewicz

  61. Effect of Crowding Agent Polyethylene Glycol on Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal Phases of Disodium Cromoglycate

    Article • Crystals, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  62. Dye-doped dual-frequency nematic cells as fast-switching polarization-independent shutters

    Article • Optics Express, February 2019, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  63. Liquid Crystals-Enabled AC Electrokinetics

    Article • Micromachines, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  64. Enhanced nanosecond electro-optic effect in isotropic and nematic phases of dielectrically negative nematics doped by strongly polar additive

    Article • Journal of Molecular Liquids, October 2018, Elsevier

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  65. Publisher Correction: Electrically driven three-dimensional solitary waves as director bullets in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  66. Electrically driven three-dimensional solitary waves as director bullets in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  67. Sorting and separation of microparticles by surface properties using liquid crystal-enabled electro-osmosis

    Article • Liquid Crystals, June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  68. Soft matter united

    Article • Physics Today, May 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  69. Tuning selective reflection of light by surface anchoring in cholesteric cells with oblique helicoidal structures

    Article • Optics Letters, April 2018, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Georg Mehl, Oleg Lavrentovich

  70. Author Correction: Liquid crystal elastomer coatings with programmed response of surface profile

    Article • Nature Communications, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  71. Liquid crystal elastomer coatings with programmed response of surface profile

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  72. Order parameters and time evolution of mesophases in the lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal Sunset Yellow FCF by DNMR

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  73. Computational modelling of tactoid dynamics in chromonic liquid crystals

    Article • Liquid Crystals, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  74. Electro-optics of cholesterics with oblique helicoidal director (Conference Presentation)

    Article • September 2017, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  75. Liquid Crystals

    Article • July 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  76. Dynamic states of swimming bacteria in a nematic liquid crystal cell with homeotropic alignment

    Article • New Journal of Physics, May 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  77. Designs of Plasmonic Metamasks for Photopatterning Molecular Orientations in Liquid Crystals

    Article • Crystals, December 2016, MDPI AG

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  78. Rapid control of liquid crystals for ultrafast communications

    Article • SPIE Newsroom, March 2015, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  79. Domain walls and anchoring transitions mimicking nematic biaxiality in the oxadiazole bent-core liquid crystal C7

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  80. Chirality amplification and detection by tactoids of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  81. Properties of the broad-range nematic phase of a laterally linked H-shaped liquid crystal dimer

    Article • Liquid Crystals, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Antal Jakli, Oleg Lavrentovich

  82. Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties, and topological defects in the thermotropic nematic phase of organo-siloxane tetrapodes

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich, Georg Mehl

  83. Transport of particles in liquid crystals

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  84. Elasticity, viscosity, and orientational fluctuations of a lyotropic chromonic nematic liquid crystal disodium cromoglycate

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  85. Blue-phase-polymer-templated nematic with sub-millisecond broad-temperature range electro-optic switching

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, July 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  86. Cryo-TEM studies of two smectic phases of an asymmetric bent-core material

    Article • Liquid Crystals, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  87. Editorial

    Article • Liquid Crystals Reviews, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  88. Liquid-crystal-enabled electrophoresis of spheres in a nematic medium with negative dielectric anisotropy

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, March 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  89. Dispersion and orientation of single-walled carbon nanotubes in a chromonic liquid crystal

    Article • Liquid Crystals, February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  90. Molecular reorientation of a nematic liquid crystal by thermal expansion

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  91. Electric Field Induced Biaxial Order and Differential Quenching of Uniaxial Fluctuations in a Nematic with Negative Dielectric Anisotropy

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, July 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  92. Liquid Crystal Structures for Transformation Optics

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, July 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  93. Elasticity of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals Probed by Director Reorientation in a Magnetic Field

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  94. Photoisomerization-Controlled Phase Segregation in a Submicron Confined Azonematic Liquid Crystal

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  95. Search for biaxiality in a shape-persistent bent-core nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  96. Aggregation of colloidal particles in a non-equilibrium backflow induced by electrically-driven reorientation of the nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Journal of Molecular Liquids, November 2011, Elsevier

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  97. Surface Alignment, Anchoring Transitions, Optical Properties and Topological Defects in Nematic Bent-Core Materials C7 and C12

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  98. Liquid crystals, photonic crystals, metamaterials, and transformation optics

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  99. Chiral symmetry breaking by spatial confinement in tactoidal droplets of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  100. Condensation of Self-Assembled Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal Sunset Yellow in Aqueous Solutions Crowded with Polyethylene Glycol and Doped with Salt

    Article • Langmuir, March 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  101. Electro-Optic Effects in Colloidal Dispersion of Metal Nano-Rods in Dielectric Fluid

    Article • Materials, February 2011, MDPI AG

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  102. Smectic Liquid Crystal Defects for Self‐Assembling of Building Blocks and Their Lithographic Applications

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, January 2011, Wiley

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  103. Inelastic Collisions and Anisotropic Aggregation of Particles in a Nematic Collider Driven by Backflow

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  104. Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal semiconductors for water-solution processable organic electronics

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, December 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  105. Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties, and topological defects in the nematic phase of thermotropic bent-core liquid crystal A131

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  106. Nonlinear electrophoresis of dielectric and metal spheres in a nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Nature, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  107. Electrically reconfigurable optical metamaterials based on orientationally ordered dispersions of metal nano-rods in dielectric fluids

    Article • August 2010, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  108. Dielectric relaxation and memory effects in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Liquid Crystals, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  109. Surface Alignment and Anchoring Transitions in Nematic Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  110. Electric-Field Induced Transitions in a Cholesteric Liquid-Crystal Film with Negative Dielectric Anisotropy

    Article • Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, April 2010, American Scientific Publishers

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  111. Self-assembly, condensation, and order in aqueous lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals crowded with additives

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  112. Electrically reconfigurable optical metamaterial based on colloidal dispersion of metal nanorods in dielectric fluid

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, December 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  113. Spontaneous Lamellar Alignment in Thickness-Modulated Block Copolymer Films

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, August 2009, Wiley

    Chair Professor Sang Ouk Kim, Oleg Lavrentovich

  114. Orientational order in systems of nanorods: side-by-side and end-to end controlled assembly using lyotropic chromonic materials

    Article • August 2009, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  115. Liquids with conics

    Article • Liquid Crystals, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  116. Effects of dielectric relaxation in electrooptics of nematic cells

    Article • February 2009, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  117. Confined Self-Assembly of Toric Focal Conic Domains (The Effects of Confined Geometry on the Feature Size of Toric Focal Conic Domains)

    Article • Langmuir, January 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  118. Controllable Side-by-Side and End-to-End Assembly of Au Nanorods by Lyotropic Chromonic Materials

    Article • Langmuir, November 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  119. Polar and nonpolar orderings in the electrically induced isotropic-nematic phase transition

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  120. Electro-optical effects in liquid crystals with dielectric dispersion

    Article • August 2008, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  121. Polarity-Dependent Dielectric Torque in Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  122. Effects of Dielectric Relaxation on the Dynamics and Dielectric Heating of Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  123. Colloidal micromotor in smectic A liquid crystal driven by DC electric field

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  124. X-ray microscopy study of chromonic liquid crystal dry film texture

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  125. Effects of dielectric relaxation on the director dynamics of uniaxial nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  126. Internal structure visualization and lithographic use of periodic toroidal holes in liquid crystals

    Article • Nature Materials, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  127. Levitation, Lift, and Bidirectional Motion of Colloidal Particles in an Electrically Driven Nematic Liquid Crystal

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  128. Polarizing Properties of Functional Optical Films Based on Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, May 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  129. Erratum

    Article • Letters in Applied Microbiology, March 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  130. Thermodielectric Bistability in Dual Frequency Nematic Liquid Crystal

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  131. Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals as materials for optical and biosensing applications

    Article • February 2007, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  132. Coexistence of Two Colloidal Crystals at the Nematic-Liquid-Crystal–Air Interface

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  133. Three-dimensional imaging of chemical bond orientation in liquid crystals by coherent anti- Stokes Raman scattering microscopy

    Article • Optics Express, January 2007, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  134. Electrically controlled negative refraction in a nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, December 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  135. Comment on “Structure of Smectic Defect Cores: X-Ray Study of 8CB Liquid Crystal Ultrathin Films”

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  136. Three-dimensional imaging of dielectric patterns in electrohydrodynamic convection of a nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  137. Hypothesis of Dye Aggregation in a Nematic Liquid Crystal: From Experiment to a Model of the Enhanced Light-Director Interaction

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sergii Yakunin, Oleg Lavrentovich

  138. Topological point defects in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics, September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  139. Undulations of lamellar liquid crystals in cells with finite surface anchoring near and well above the threshold

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  140. Electric heating effects in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, July 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  141. Electrically tunable lens based on a dual-frequency nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Applied Optics, July 2006, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  142. Lyotropic liquid crystal as a real-time detector of microbial immune complexes

    Article • Letters in Applied Microbiology, July 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  143. Optical Trapping, Manipulation, and 3D Imaging of Disclinations in Liquid Crystals and Measurement of their Line Tension

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, July 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  144. Structure and Dynamics of Liquid Crystalline Pattern Formation in Drying Droplets of DNA

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  145. Smectic-A-filled birefringent elements and fast switching twisted dual-frequency nematic cells used for digital light deflection

    Article • Optical Engineering, April 2006, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  146. Achromatic linear polarization switch for visible and near infrared radiation based on dual-frequency twisted nematic cell

    Article • February 2006, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  147. Directed vertical alignment liquid crystal display with fast switching

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, February 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  148. Liquid Crystals

    Article • January 2006, Elsevier

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  149. Electric-field-induced nematic-cholesteric transition and three-dimensional director structures in homeotropic cells

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  150. Optical characterization of the nematic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals: Light absorption, birefringence, and scalar order parameter

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  151. Elasticity-Mediated Self-Organization and Colloidal Interactions of Solid Spheres with Tangential Anchoring in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  152. Publisher's Note: Electrorotation of colloidal particles in liquid crystals [Phys. Rev. E72, 031704 (2005)]

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  153. Focused laser beams and liquid crystals: fast three-dimensional imaging of structures and topological defects

    Article • September 2005, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  154. Electrorotation of colloidal particles in liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  155. Dielectric Torque and Orientation Dynamics of Liquid Crystals with Dielectric Dispersion

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  156. A model of stressed liquid crystals: close-packed, shaped liquid crystal droplets inside a sheared polymer matrix

    Article • August 2005, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  157. Electrically-controlled two-dimensional gratings based on layers undulations in cholesteric liquid crystals

    Article • August 2005, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  158. Electric-field-induced deformation dynamics of a single nematic disclination

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  159. Electro-Optical Properties of UV Stabilized Sub-Micron Dispersion with Low Liquid Crystal Content

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  160. Liquid Crystal Digital Beam Steering Device Based on Decoupled Birefringent Deflector and Polarization Rotator

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  161. Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals for Biological Sensing Applications

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  162. The Multimode LC Alignment on the Substrates Obliquely Treated with a Plasma Flux

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  163. Gradient beam steering device based on a nematic cell with continuous ramp of the phase retardation

    Article • April 2005, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  164. Liquid crystal effects on bacterial viability

    Article • Liquid Crystals, April 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  165. Real-time microbe detection based on director distortions around growing immune complexes in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  166. Oriented Monolayers Prepared from Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal

    Article • Langmuir, February 2005, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Kateryna Artyushkova, Oleg Lavrentovich

  167. Switchable two-dimensional gratings based on field-induced layer undulations in cholesteric liquid crystals

    Article • Optics Letters, February 2005, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  168. Selective imaging of 3D director fields and study of defects in biaxial smectic A liquid crystals

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, February 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  169. Optical trapping of colloidal particles and measurement of the defect line tension and colloidal forces in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, January 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  170. Pretransitional fluctuations in the isotropic phase of a lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal

    Article • Physical Review E, November 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  171. Ordered Droplet Structures at the Liquid Crystal Surface and Elastic-Capillary Colloidal Interactions

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  172. Comment on “Self-Organized Periodic Photonic Structure in a Nonchiral Liquid Crystal”

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  173. Planar and tilted uniform alignment of liquid crystals by plasma-treated substrates

    Article • Liquid Crystals, June 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  174. Fast-switching dual-frequency liquid crystal optical retarder for beam steering applications

    Article • May 2004, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  175. Dislocations and Disclinations in Mesomorphic Phases

    Article • January 2004, Elsevier

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  176. Fast Switching Optical Modulator Based on Dual Frequency Nematic Cell

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  177. Electric field-induced nucleation and growth of focal-conic and stripe domains in a smectic A liquid crystal

    Article • Liquid Crystals, December 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  178. Fast switching dual-frequency liquid crystal optical retarder, driven by an amplitude and frequency modulated voltage

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, November 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  179. Free-standing films of twist grain boundary TGBAand UTGBC*liquid crystals studied by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy

    Article • Liquid Crystals, August 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  180. Soft Matter Physics: An Introduction

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  181. Defects in Liquid Crystals: Surface and Interfacial Anchoring Effects

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  182. Three-dimensional director structures of defects in Grandjean-Cano wedges of cholesteric liquid crystals studied by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy

    Article • November 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  183. Topological defects in schlieren textures of biaxial and uniaxial nematics

    Article • September 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  184. Effect of director distortions on morphologies of phase separation in liquid crystals

    Article • June 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  185. Preparation and in vitro characterization of a eutectic based semisolid self-nanoemulsified drug delivery system (SNEDDS) of ubiquinone: mechanism and progress of emulsion formation

    Article • International Journal of Pharmaceutics, March 2002, Elsevier

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  186. Three-dimensional imaging of orientational order by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, March 2001, Elsevier

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  187. Nematic Liquid Crystals: Defects

    Article • January 2001, Elsevier

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  188. Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  189. Self-Assembled Monolayers and Multilayered Stacks of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystalline Dyes with In-Plane Orientational Order

    Article • Langmuir, May 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  190. Photocontrolled nanophase segregation in a liquid-crystal solvent

    Article • Nature, March 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  191. Cholesteric diffraction devices with a field-controlled grating vector

    Article • October 1998, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  192. <title>Electrically controlled cholesteric gratings</title>

    Article • April 1998, SPIE

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  193. Crossing of disclinations in nematic slabs

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), January 1998, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  194. Switchable diffractive cholesteric gratings

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, September 1997, American Institute of Physics

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  195. Measurement of polar anchoring coefficient for nematic cell with high pretilt angle

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, July 1995, American Institute of Physics

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  196. Magnetic field effect on periodic stripe domains in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • January 1995, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  197. Stripe Domain Phase of a Thin Nematic Film and theK13

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 1994, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  198. Surface Anchoring and Growth Pattern of the Field-Driven First-Order Transition in a Smectic-ALiquid Crystal

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 1994, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  199. Anchoring transition in a nematic liquid crystal composed of centrosymmetric molecules

    Article • February 1994, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  200. Periodic stripe domains and hybrid-alignment regime in nematic liquid crystals: Threshold analysis

    Article • February 1994, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  201. Field-driven first-order structural transition in the restricted geometry of a smectic-Acell

    Article • July 1993, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  202. Focal conic domains with positive Gaussian curvature and saddle-splay rigidity of smecticL

    Article • Physical Review A, August 1992, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  203. Geometrical anchoring at an inclined surface of a liquid crystal

    Article • Physical Review A, July 1992, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  204. Dielectric quenching of the electric polar surface instability in a nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Physical Review A, May 1992, American Physical Society (APS)

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  205. Parity-breaking phase transition in tangentially anchored nematic drops

    Article • Il Nuovo Cimento D, September 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich

  206. Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Defects and Topology

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Oleg Lavrentovich