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  1. A Hybrid AI-Driven Knowledge-Based Expert System for Optimizing Gear Design: A Case Study for Education

    Article • Future Internet, January 2026, MDPI AG

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  2. Continuous Symmetry Breaking and Complexity of Biological Membranes

    Article • Crystals, August 2025, MDPI AG

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  3. Intelligent System For Education In Design

    Article • July 2025, MDPI AG

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  4. Microscale structural fluctuations at the melting phase transition of strongly confined achiral and chiral nematics

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

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  5. Twist disclinations mediated transformations in confined nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Journal of Molecular Liquids, November 2024, Elsevier

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  6. Dynamics and Topology of Symmetry Breaking with Skyrmions

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

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  7. Qualitatively and Quantitatively Different Configurations of Nematic–Nanoparticle Mixtures

    Article • Nanomaterials, February 2024, MDPI AG

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  8. Criticality Controlling Mechanisms in Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Nanomaterials, February 2024, MDPI AG

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  9. Biaxial Structures of Localized Deformations and Line-like Distortions in Effectively 2D Nematic Films

    Article • Nanomaterials, January 2024, MDPI AG

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  10. Caloric effects in liquid crystal-based soft materials

    Article • Journal of Physics Energy, August 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

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  11. MULTISTABILNE MREŽE TOPOLOŠKIH DEFEKTOV

    Article • Anali PAZU, June 2023, Faculty of Law, University of Maribor

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  12. Reconfiguration of Nematic Disclinations in Plane-Parallel Confinements

    Article • Crystals, June 2023, MDPI AG

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  13. Stable Assemblies of Topological Defects in Nematic Orientational Order

    Article • ACS Omega, December 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

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  14. Disorder- driven gradual transition of the continuous symmetry- breaking phase transition

    Article • Anali PAZU, May 2022, Faculty of Law, University of Maribor

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  15. Dual-frequency electrically driven nematic microstructures confined to biaxial porous polymer membranes

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, November 2021, American Institute of Physics

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  16. Experimental Advances in Nanoparticle-Driven Stabilization of Liquid-Crystalline Blue Phases and Twist-Grain Boundary Phases

    Article • Nanomaterials, November 2021, MDPI AG

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  17. On the Role of Electrostatic Repulsion in Topological Defect-Driven Membrane Fission

    Article • Membranes, October 2021, MDPI AG

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  18. Topological Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals: Laboratory of Fundamental Physics

    Article • phys stat sol (a), September 2021, Wiley

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  19. Curvature Potential Unveiled Topological Defect Attractors

    Article • Crystals, May 2021, MDPI AG

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  20. Topological Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals: Laboratory of Fundamental Physics

    Article • phys stat sol (a), February 2021, Wiley

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  21. Pretransitional Effects of the Isotropic Liquid–Plastic Crystal Transition

    Article • Molecules, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Szymon Starzonek, samo kralj

  22. Co-revolving topological defects in a nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

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  23. Dynamics and Pretransitional Effects in C60 Fullerene Nanoparticles and Liquid Crystalline Dodecylcyanobiphenyl (12CB) Hybrid System

    Article • Nanomaterials, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Szymon Starzonek, samo kralj

  24. Annihilation of Highly-Charged Topological Defects

    Article • Crystals, August 2020, MDPI AG

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  25. Multiple Twisted Chiral Nematic Structures in Cylindrical Confinement

    Article • Crystals, July 2020, MDPI AG

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  26. Blue phase stabilization by CoPt-decorated reduced-graphene oxide nanosheets dispersed in a chiral liquid crystal

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

    dr. Marta Lavric, samo kralj

  27. Electric field driven reconfigurable multistable topological defect patterns

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

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  28. Transition from escaped to decomposed nematic defects, and vice versa

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

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  29. Normal red blood cells’ shape stabilized by membrane’s in-plane ordering

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

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  30. Topological defect enabled formation of nematic domains

    Article • Liquid Crystals, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

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  31. Impact of Weak Nanoparticle Induced Disorder on Nematic Ordering

    Article • Crystals, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Szymon Starzonek, samo kralj

  32. Thickness Induced Line-Defect Reconfigurations in Thin Nematic Cell

    Article • Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, March 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

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  33. Giant electrocaloric response in smectic liquid crystals with direct smectic-isotropic transition

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

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  34. Assembling of Topological Defects at Neck‐Shaped Membrane Parts

    Article • phys stat sol (a), January 2019, Wiley

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  35. Nematic topological defects positionally controlled by geometry and external fields

    Article • Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, January 2018, Beilstein Institut

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  36. Liquid crystalline droplets in aqueous environments: electrostatic effects

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

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  37. Liquid crystals with nano and microparticles, edited by Jan P. F. Lagerwall and Giusy Scalia, Singapore, World Scientific, 2017, 2 volume set, 920 pp., £328 ($435, 370 Euro) (hardback), ISBN: 978-981-4619-25-7

    Article • Liquid Crystals Today, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

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  38. Influence of polar dopant on internal configuration of azoxybenzene nematic-in-water droplets

    Article • Liquid Crystals, June 2017, Taylor & Francis

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  39. On the role of external force of actin filaments in the formation of tubular protrusions of closed membrane shapes with anisotropic membrane components

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

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  40. Decomposition of strongly charged topological defects

    Article • April 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

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  41. Twist-grain boundary phase induced by Au nanoparticles in a chiral liquid crystal host

    Article • Liquid Crystals, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    samo kralj, ioannis lelidis

  42. Impact of diffusion limited aggregates of impurities on nematic ordering

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, February 2017, Elsevier

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  43. Impact of curvature on topological defects

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, January 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

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  44. Electrocaloric and elastocaloric effects in soft materials

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, August 2016, Royal Society Publishing

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  45. Orientational fluctuations and phase transitions in 8CB confined by cylindrical pores of the PET film

    Article • Phase Transitions, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

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  46. Effective Topological Charge Cancelation Mechanism

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2016, Nature

    Dr Wojciech Tomasz Gozdz, samo kralj

  47. Closed membrane shapes with attached BAR domains subject to external force of actin filaments

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces, May 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Wojciech Tomasz Gozdz, samo kralj

  48. The effect of magnetic nanoparticles upon the smectic-A to smectic-C* phase transition

    Article • Liquid Crystals, November 2015, Taylor & Francis

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  49. Blue Phase Range Widening Induced by Laponite Nanoplatelets in the Chiral Liquid Crystal CE8

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

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  50. Domain Patterns in Homogeneous and Random Perturbed Nematic Liquid Crystals: A Simulation Study

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amid Ranjkesh Siahkal, samo kralj

  51. Random nematic structures in the absence of inherent frustrations

    Article • Liquid Crystals, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

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  52. Defect unbinding on a toroidal nematic shell

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

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  53. Controlled Nanoparticle Targeting and Nanoparticle-Driven Nematic Structural Transition

    Article • Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, January 2015, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

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  54. Hysteresis in Two-Dimensional Liquid Crystal Models

    Article • Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, January 2015, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

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  55. Modeling of closed membrane shapes

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, December 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Wojciech Tomasz Gozdz, samo kralj

  56. Smectic A herringbone patterns

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, December 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

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  57. Light and phospholipid driven structural transitions in nematic microdroplets

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, October 2014, American Institute of Physics

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  58. Nanoparticle-induced twist-grain boundary phase

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

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  59. Order reconstruction patterns in nematic liquid crystal wells

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, June 2014, Royal Society Publishing

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  60. Computational studies of history dependence in nematic liquid crystals in random environments

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

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  61. Numerical Study of Membrane Configurations

    Article • Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, January 2014, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Wojciech Tomasz Gozdz, samo kralj

  62. Defects in Planar Cell Polarity of Epithelium

    Article • January 2014, Elsevier

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  63. Field Induced Memory Effects in Random Nematics

    Article • Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, January 2014, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

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  64. The effect of graphene on liquid-crystalline blue phases

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

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  65. Symmetry breaking in nematic liquid crystals: analogy with cosmology and magnetism

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, September 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

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  66. Principle of Universality in Crack Incubation and Propagation

    Article • Key Engineering Materials, September 2013, Trans Tech Publications

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  67. Memory-controlled smectic wetting of liquid crystals confined to controlled-pore matrices

    Article • Fluid Phase Equilibria, August 2013, Elsevier

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  68. Effect of anisotropic MoS2nanoparticles on the blue phase range of a chiral liquid crystal

    Article • Applied Optics, June 2013, Optical Society of America (OSA)

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  69. Vesiculation of biological membrane driven by curvature induced frustrations in membrane orientational ordering

    Article • International Journal of Nanomedicine, February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Wojciech Tomasz Gozdz, samo kralj, Ales Iglic

  70. Different modulated structures of topological defects stabilized by adaptive targeting nanoparticles

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

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  71. History-Dependent Patterns in Randomly Perturbed Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, January 2013, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

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  72. Indirect Magnetoelectric Coupling in Mixtures of Magnetite and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal

    Article • Ferroelectrics, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

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  73. Exocytotic fusion pore stability and topological defects in the membrane with orientational degree of ordering

    Article • Cell Calcium, September 2012, Elsevier

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  74. Parallel transport and defects on nematic shells

    Article • Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  75. Mixtures of Nanoparticles and Liquid Crystal Phases Exhibiting Topological Defects

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

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  76. Magnetoelectric effect in soft composite materials

    Article • July 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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  77. Impact of Surface-Functionalized CdSe Nanoparticles on Phase Transitions of 8CB And CE8 Liquid Crystals

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

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  78. The Impact of Static Disorder on Vibrational Resonance in a Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal

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

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  79. Thin Nematic Films: Laboratory of Physics for Topological Defects

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

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  80. Dimensional crossover and scaling behavior of a smectic liquid crystal confined to controlled-pore glass matrices

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

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  81. Mixtures of Magnetic Nanoparticles and the Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal: New Soft Magnetoelectrics

    Article • Ferroelectrics, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

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  82. Early stage domain coarsening of the isotropic-nematic phase transition

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2011, American Institute of Physics

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  83. Double Peak Specific Heat Capacity Anomaly in Mixtures of Liquid Crystals and Nanoparticles

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

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  84. Multiferroic Behaviour in Mixtures of the Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal and Magnetic Nanoparticles

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

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  85. Stochastic resonance in a locally excited system of bistable oscillators

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter and Quanta, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    samo kralj

  86. Theoretical and experimental study of the nanoparticle-driven blue phase stabilisation

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Uroš Tkalec, samo kralj

  87. Curvature control of valence on nematic shells

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  88. Blue phase III widening in CE6-dispersed surface-functionalised CdSe nanoparticles

    Article • Liquid Crystals, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Uroš Tkalec, samo kralj

  89. Orientational Order-Magnetization Coupling in Mixtures of Magnetic Nanoparticles and the Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal

    Article • Ferroelectrics, November 2010, Taylor & Francis

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  90. Nanoparticle-induced widening of the temperature range of liquid-crystalline blue phases

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

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  91. Finite-size effects on order reconstruction around nematic defects

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

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  92. Liquid crystal-carbon nanotubes mixtures

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, January 2010, American Institute of Physics

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  93. Competition between local disordering and global ordering fields in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, January 2010, Beilstein Institut

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  94. The Influence of Disorder on Thermotropic Nematic Liquid Crystals Phase Behavior

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, September 2009, MDPI AG

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  95. Influence of confinement in controlled-pore glass on the layer spacing of smectic-Aliquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

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  96. Memory effects in randomly perturbed systems exhibiting continuous symmetry breaking

    Article • Liquid Crystals, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    samo kralj

  97. Fingered core structure of nematic boojums

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

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  98. The influence of nanoparticles on the phase and structural ordering for nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, May 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

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  99. Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes in Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, March 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

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  100. Stochastic resonance in soft matter systems: combined effects of static and dynamic disorder

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

    samo kralj

  101. Presmectic wetting and supercritical-like phase behavior of octylcyanobiphenyl liquid crystal confined to controlled-pore glass matrices

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 2007, American Institute of Physics

    samo kralj

  102. Defect-enhanced nematic surface order reconstruction

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

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  103. Pretransitional effects near the smectic-A–smectic-C

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

    samo kralj

  104. Elastic actions exchanged by eccentric cylinders in liquid crystals

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

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  105. Influence of a random field on particle fractionation and solidification in liquid-crystal colloid mixtures

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, November 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

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  106. Phase Behaviour and Structure of Weakly Perturbed Liquid Crystals

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

    samo kralj

  107. Sudden Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition Within a Plan-Parallel Cell

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

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  108. Annihilation of nematic point defects: Pre-collision and post-collision evolution

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, May 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

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  109. Random anisotropy nematic model: Nematic–non-nematic mixture

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

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  110. Soft-stiff regime crossover for an aerosil network dispersed in liquid crystals

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

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  111. Influence of polymer network in polymer-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals and its direct observation using a confocal microscope

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

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  112. Smectic Ordering of 8CB Liquid Crystal Confined to a Controlled-Pore Glass

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

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  113. Waves at the nematic-isotropic interface: Thermotropic nematogen–non-nematogen mixtures

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

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  114. Transformation of phase transitions driven by an anisotropic random field

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

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  115. Periodic saddle-splay Freedericksz transition in nematic liquid crystals

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

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  116. Confinement-Induced Orientational Order in a Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Containing Dispersed Aerosils

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

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  117. Annihilation of edge dislocations in smectic-Aliquid crystals

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

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  118. Nematic point defect annihilation in a cylindrical capillary

    Article • September 2004, SPIE

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  119. Thermal study of octylcyanobiphenyl liquid crystal confined to controlled-pore glass

    Article • Fluid Phase Equilibria, August 2004, Elsevier

    samo kralj

  120. Local elastic stability for nematic liquid crystals

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

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  121. Random anisotropy nematic model: Connection with experimental systems

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, June 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

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  122. Interference textures of defects in a thin nematic film: an applet presentation

    Article • European Journal of Physics, May 2004, Institute of Physics Publishing

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  123. HEDGEHOG ANNIHILATION IN A CONFINED NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL

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

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  124. Observation of twist nematic liquid-crystal lines

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, October 2003, American Institute of Physics

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  125. Physics of defects in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • European Journal of Physics, July 2003, Institute of Physics Publishing

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  126. Effect of dispersed silica particles on the smectic-A–smectic-C*...

    Article • October 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

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  127. Core hysteresis in nematic defects

    Article • August 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  128. Molecular dynamics study of the isotropic-nematic quench

    Article • January 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

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  129. Universal fine structure of nematic hedgehogs

    Article • Journal of Physics A General Physics, January 2001, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Epifanio G Virga, samo kralj

  130. Deuteron NMR study of an 8CB liquid crystal confined to porous glass

    Article • February 1998, SPIE

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  131. Landau-de Gennes theory of the core structure of a screw dislocation in smectic A liquid crystals

    Article • Liquid Crystals, June 1995, Taylor & Francis

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  132. Deuteron NMR study of liquid crystals confined in aerogel matrices

    Article • April 1995, American Physical Society (APS)

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  133. Saddle-splay elasticity of nematic structures confined to a cylindrical capillary

    Article • January 1995, American Physical Society (APS)

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  134. Landau–de Gennes theory of the chevron structure in a smectic-Aliquid crystal

    Article • October 1994, American Physical Society (APS)

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  135. Core structure of a screw disclination in smectic-Aliquid crystals

    Article • November 1993, American Physical Society (APS)

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  136. Deuterium NMR of a pentylcyanobiphenyl liquid crystal confined in a silica aerogel matrix

    Article • July 1993, American Physical Society (APS)

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  137. Influence of K 24 on the structure of nematic liquid crystal droplets

    Article • Liquid Crystals, October 1992, Taylor & Francis

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  138. Fréedericksz transitions in supra-μm nematic droplets

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

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  139. Nematic-isotropic phase transition in a liquid-crystal droplet

    Article • Physical Review A, March 1991, American Physical Society (APS)

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  140. Proton N.M.R. lineshape in nematic microdroplets

    Article • Liquid Crystals, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

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