Liquid crystal torons in Poiseuille-like flows

We are pleased to announce that WPI-SKCM2 Director Ivan Smalyukh and Co-PI Mykola Tasinkevych, has published “Liquid crystal torons in Poiseuille-like flows” in Nature.  

Ivan and colleagues reveal that torons adopt a steady-state configuration at low flow velocity before disintegrating at higher velocities, aligning with experimental results. Furthermore, researchers found that under partial slip conditions at the boundaries, the flow induces a reversible elongation of the torons, also consistent with the experimental observations. 

The results provide insights for the future studies of other topological solitons, like hopfions and heliknotons, in flowing soft matter systems.

To read the full article, please see: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-83294-7