Ingo Dierking

Nov 27, 2024 | chemistryviews.org | Vera Koester |Ingo Dierking |Yann Sarrazin

Ingo Dierking and colleagues from the University of Manchester, UK, explore how ferrofluids, when dispersed in liquid crystals, form unique droplet chains with magnetic functionality. These chains, stabilized with surfactants, can be precisely controlled with external magnetic fields. By examining the formation, movement, and stability of these chains they aim to innovate materials with potential applications in advanced technology. What did you do?

Mar 4, 2023 | pubs.rsc.org | Yuan Shen |Maryam Qaiser |Ingo Dierking

Temperature Reconfigurable skyrmionic solitons in cholesteric liquid crystals In this work, a reversible transformation between torons and cholesteric fingers is realized by continuously changing the pitch through temperature variation of the chiral nematic liquid crystal twist inversion system. By decreasing the pitch, the torons act as seeds from which cholesteric fingers gradually grow.