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Samo Kralj
Researcher at University of Maribor
Publications - 212
Citations - 4035
Samo Kralj is an academic researcher from University of Maribor. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liquid crystal & Phase transition. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 198 publications receiving 3370 citations. Previous affiliations of Samo Kralj include University of Ljubljana & Eindhoven University of Technology.
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Curvature Potential Unveiled Topological Defect Attractors
TL;DR: In this article, the theoretical and positional assembling of topological defects (TDs) in effectively two-dimensional nematic liquid crystal films was considered, where geometric shapes and nematic orientational order were expressed in terms of a curvature tensor field and a nematic tensor order parameter field.
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History-Dependent Patterns in Randomly Perturbed Nematic Liquid Crystals
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the properties of a randomly perturbed nematic liquid crystal (LC) phase and show that for a weak enough interaction between the LC molecules and impurities, qualitatively different history-dependent states could be obtained.
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Pretransitional effects of the isotropic liquid-plastic crystal transition
Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska,Szymon Starzonek,Sylwester J. Rzoska,Joanna Łoś,Zdravko Kutnjak,Samo Kralj +5 more
TL;DR: A pioneering minimal model describing plastic crystal phase behavior is proposed where it is proposed to mimic derivation of classical Landau-de Gennes-Ginzburg modeling of Isotropic-Nematic-Smectic A LC phase behavior.
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Transformation of phase transitions driven by an anisotropic random field.
V. Popa-Nita,Samo Kralj +1 more
TL;DR: A comparative study of the influence of a random anisotropy field on continuous and discontinuous phase transitions of the ordered phase and of the hydrodynamic field to the imposed disorder.
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Nanomaterials dispersed liquid crystalline self-assembly of hybrid matrix application towards thermal sensor
TL;DR: In this paper, a prototype of two temperature sensors based on liquid crystal properties is presented, a wired and a wireless liquid crystal temperature sensor, which exploits the dependence of permittivity of liquid crystal with temperature and the electrical conductivity of the metallic layer.