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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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Influence of finite size and wetting on nematic and smectic phase behavior of liquid crystal confined to controlled-pore matrices.
TL;DR: A striking similarity is found between the shifts in the isotropic to nematic and nematic to smectic-A phase transition temperatures as a function of the void radius in which order parameter variations at the LC-void interface play the dominant role.
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Influence of K 24 on the structure of nematic liquid crystal droplets
Slobodan Žumer,Samo Kralj +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a phenomenological free energy is used to describe the stable ordering of nematic liquid crystals confined to supramicron spherical cavities, and the effects of the saddle splay elastic constant, K 24, on the equilibrium structures and phase diagram of droplets with homeotropic surface anchoring are discussed.
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Closed membrane shapes with attached BAR domains subject to external force of actin filaments.
TL;DR: This theoretical study mainly focuses on the role of I-BAR in the membrane tubular deformations generated or stabilised by actin filaments, and has shown that the BARs with a higher intrinsic curvature induce thinner and longer cylindrical protrusions.
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The effect of graphene on liquid-crystalline blue phases
Marta Lavrič,Vassilios Tzitzios,Samo Kralj,G. Cordoyiannis,Ioannis Lelidis,George Nounesis,V. Georgakilas,Heinz Amenitsch,Aleksander Zidanšek,Zdravko Kutnjak +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of surface functionalized graphene nanosheets on the blue phase range of a chiral liquid crystal was investigated and it was shown that the resulting soft nanocomposite exhibits an increased blue phase temperature stability range for a minute concentration of dispersed graphene.
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Parallel transport and defects on nematic shells
TL;DR: In this paper, a tensor field Q vanishes whenever a defect occurs in the molecular order, and the concept of parallel transport on a manifold is adapted to define the topological charge m of a defect.