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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-SPECIAL TOPICS
Volume 224, Issue 7, Pages 1263-1273Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2015-02458-y
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- MICINN [FIS2010-21924C02, FIS2011-15948-E]
- DURSI [2009 SGR 1055]
- FPU Fellowship [AP2009-0974]
- ERC through the starting grant DynaMO [335040]
- Ramon y Cajal program [RYC-2011-07605]
- European Research Council (ERC) [335040] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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We demonstrate several examples of driving and steering of colloids when dispersed in nematic liquid crystals. The driving mechanism is based on the principle of nonlinear electrophoresis which is mediated by the asymmetry in the structure of the defects that the inclusions generate in the host elastic matrix. The steering mechanism originates in the photoactivation of the anchoring conditions of the nematic liquid crystal on one of the enclosing plates. As experimental realizations we first review a scenario of water microdroplets being phoretically transported for cargo release and chemical reaction. Steering is illustrated in terms of the reconfigurable assembly of colloidal particles, either in the form of asters or rotating-mills, commanded by predesigned patterns of illumination.
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