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• Directed Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles onto Nematic Liquid Crystalline Defects Engineered by Chemically Patterned Surfaces  Article
• Directed self-assembly of nematic liquid crystals on chemically patterned surfaces: Morphological states and transitions  Article
• Mesoscale martensitic transformation in single crystals of topological defects  Article
• Perfection in Nucleation and Growth of Blue-Phase Single Crystals: Small Free-Energy Required to Self-Assemble at Specific Lattice Orientation  Article
• Soft crystal martensites: An in situ resonant soft x-ray scattering study of a liquid crystal martensitic transformation  Article