Publications Bahr group

Bahr, C.: Flow-induced disclination lines in nematic liquid crystals. Physical Review E 112, 045408 (2025)

Chao, Y.; Ramírez-Soto, O.; Bahr, C.; Karpitschka, S.: How liquid–liquid phase separation induces active spreading. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (30), e2203510119 (2022)

Bahr, C.: Lattice Boltzmann and Jones matrix calculations for the determination of the director field structure in self-propelling nematic droplets. Physical Review E 104, 044703 (2021)

Peddireddy, K.; Čopar, S.; Le, K. V.; Muševič, I.; Bahr, C.; Jampani, V. S. R.: Self-shaping liquid crystal droplets by balancing bulk elasticity and interfacial tension. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (14), e2011174118 (2021)

Vajdi Hokmabad, B.; Baldwin, K. A.; Krüger, C.; Bahr, C.; Maass, C. C.: Topological stabilization and dynamics of self-propelling nematic shells. Physical Review Letters 123 (17), 178003 (2019)

Agha, H.; Bahr, C.: Nematic line defects in microfluidic channels: Wedge, twist and zigzag disclinations. Soft Matter 14 (4), pp. 653 - 664 (2018)

Giomi, L.; Kos, Z.; Ravnik, M.; Sengupta, A.: Cross-talk between topological defects in different fields revealed by nematic microfluidics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (29), pp. E5771 - E5777 (2017)

Stieger, T.; Agha, H.; Schoen, M.; Mazza, M.; Sengupta, A.: Hydrodynamic cavitation in Stokes flow of anisotropic fluids. Nature Communications 8, 15550 (2017)

Krüger, C.; Klös, G.; Bahr, C.; Maass, C. C.: Curling liquid crystal microswimmers: A cascade of spontaneous symmetry breaking. Physical Review Letters 117 (4), 048003 (2016)

Krüger, C.; Bahr, C.; Herminghaus, S.; Maass, C. C.: Dimensionality matters in the collective behaviour of active emulsions. The European Physical Journal E 39 (6), 64 (2016)

Agha, H.; Bahr, C.: Connecting and disconnecting nematic disclination lines in microfluidic channels. Soft Matter 12 (18), pp. 4266 - 4273 (2016)

Maass, C. C.; Krüger, C.; Herminghaus, S.; Bahr, C.: Swimming droplets. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 7, pp. 171 - 193 (2016)

Sasaki, Y.; Hoshikawa, H.; Seto, T.; Kobayashi, F.; Jampani, V. S. R.; Herminghaus, S.; Bahr, C.; Orihara, H.: Direct visualization of spatiotemporal structure of self-assembled colloidal particles in electrohydrodynamic flow of a nematic liquid crystal. Langmuir 31 (13), pp. 3815 - 3819 (2015)

Sengupta, A.; Herminghaus, S.; Bahr, C.: Liquid crystal microfluidics: surface, elastic and viscous interactions at microscales. Liquid Crystals Reviews 2, pp. 73 - 110 (2014)

Schulz, B.; Mazza, M. G.; Bahr, C.: Single-molecule diffusion in freely suspended smectic films. Physical Review E 90, 040501 (2014)

Sasaki, Y.; Takikawa, Y.; Jampani, V. S. R.; Hoshikawa, H.; Seto, T.; Bahr, C.; Herminghaus, S.; Hidaka, Y.; Orihara, H.: Colloidal caterpillars for cargo transportation. Soft Matter 10, pp. 8813 - 8820 (2014)

Herminghaus, S.; Maass, C. C.; Krüger, C.; Thutupalli, S.; Goehring, L.; Bahr, C.: Interfacial mechanisms in active emulsions. Soft Matter 10, pp. 7008 - 7022 (2014)

Schulz, B.; Steffen, P.; Bahr, C.: Nanoscale viscoplastic behavior of smectic liquid crystals and its application in nanolithography. Journal of Applied Physics 115, 074302 (2014)

Peddireddy, K.; Jampani, V. S. R.; Thutupalli, S.; Herminghaus, S.; Bahr, C.; Muševič, I.: Lasing and waveguiding in smectic A liquid crystal optical fibers. Optics Express 21, pp. 30233 - 30242 (2013)

Peddireddy, K.; Kumar, P.; Thutupalli, S.; Herminghaus, S.; Bahr, C.: Myelin Structures Formed by Thermotropic Smectic Liquid Crystals. Langmuir 29, pp. 15682 - 15688 (2013)