PhD Uroš Tkalec [26467]

1. KARA, Ufuoma, CHEN, Boyuan, ČOPAR, Simon, TKALEC, Uroš, et al. Multistable polar textures in geometrically frustrated nematic liquid crystals. Nature physics. [Online ed.]. 2025, vol. 21, iss. 9, str. 1404-1411, [12] str. pril., ilustr. ISSN 1745-2481. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02966-x, Repository of the University of Ljubljana – RUL , DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02966-x. [COBISS.SI-ID 245454851]

2. YANG, Xu, RATHER, Adil M., YAO, Yuxing, FANG, Jen-Chun, MAMTANI, Rajdeep S., BENNETT, Robert K. A., ATTA, Richard G., ADERA, Solomon, TKALEC, Uroš, WANG, Xiaoguang. Liquid crystal-based open surface microfluidics manipulate liquid mobility and chemical composition on demand. Science advances. Oct. 2021, vol. 7, no. 40, 11 str. ISSN 2375-2548. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi7607. [COBISS.SI-ID 79203075]
project: P1-0055 Biofizika polimerov, membran, gelov, koloidov in celic; funder: ARRS

3. PARK, Geonhyeong, ČOPAR, Simon, SUH, Ahram, YANG, Minyong, TKALEC, Uroš, YOON, Dong Ki. Periodic arrays of chiral domains generated from the self-assembly of micropatterned achiral lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal. ACS central science. 2020, vol. 6, iss. 11, str. 1964-1970, ilustr. ISSN 2374-7951. Digital Library of the University of Maribor – DLUM, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00995. [COBISS.SI-ID 28153859]

4. ČOPAR, Simon, KOS, Žiga, EMERŠIČ, Tadej, TKALEC, Uroš. Microfluidic control over topological states in channel-confined nematic flows. Nature communications. Jan. 2020, vol. 11, art. no. 59, 10 str., ilustr. ISSN 2041-1723. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13789-9.pdf, Repository of the University of Ljubljana – RUL , Digital Library of the University of Maribor – DLUM, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13789-9. [COBISS.SI-ID 3400804]
award: Priznanje za najodličnejše raziskovalne dosežke Univerze v Ljubljani v letu 2020
project: P1-0099, P1-0055, L1-8135, J1-9149, N1-0124; funder: Slovenian Research Agency
project: CA17139; funder: COST Action

5. EMERŠIČ, Tadej, ZHANG, Rui, KOS, Žiga, ČOPAR, Simon, OSTERMAN, Natan, PABLO, Juan J. de, TKALEC, Uroš. Sculpting stable structures in pure liquids. Science advances. Feb. 2019, vol. 5, art. no. eaav4283, 8 str., ilustr. ISSN 2375-2548. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav4283. [COBISS.SI-ID 3291748]

6. KIM, Dae Seok, ČOPAR, Simon, TKALEC, Uroš, YOON, Dong Ki. Mosaics of topological defects in micropatterned liquid crystal textures. Science advances. Nov. 2018, vol. 4, art. no. eaau8064, 8 str., ilustr. ISSN 2375-2548. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau8064. [COBISS.SI-ID 3267684]

7. ČOPAR, Simon, TKALEC, Uroš, MUŠEVIČ, Igor, ŽUMER, Slobodan. Knot theory realizations in nematic colloids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2015, vol. 112, no. 6, str. 1675-1680, ilustr. ISSN 0027-8424. http://www.pnas.org/content/112/6/1675.full.pdf+html. [COBISS.SI-ID 2787940]

8. SENGUPTA, Anupam, TKALEC, Uroš, RAVNIK, Miha, YEOMANS, Julia M., BAHR, Christian, HERMINGHAUS, Stephan. Liquid crystal microfluidics for tunable flow shaping. Physical review letters. [Print ed.]. 2013, vol. 110, iss. 4, str. 048303-1-048303-5. ISSN 0031-9007. http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i4/e048303. [COBISS.SI-ID 2528868]

9. TKALEC, Uroš, RAVNIK, Miha, ČOPAR, Simon, ŽUMER, Slobodan, MUŠEVIČ, Igor. Reconfigurable knots and links in chiral nematic colloids. Science. 2011, vol. 333, issue 6038, str. 62-65. ISSN 0036-8075. DOI: 10.1126/science.1205705. [COBISS.SI-ID 2336868]

10. TKALEC, Uroš, RAVNIK, Miha, ŽUMER, Slobodan, MUŠEVIČ, Igor. Vortexlike topological defects in nematic colloids : chiral colloidal dimers and 2D crystals. Physical review letters. [Print ed.]. 2009, vol. 103, no. 12, str. 127801-1-127801-4. ISSN 0031-9007. [COBISS.SI-ID 22895655]

11. TKALEC, Uroš, ŠKARABOT, Miha, MUŠEVIČ, Igor. Interactions of micro-rods in a thin layer of a nematic liquid crystal. Soft matter. 2008, vol. 4, no. 12, str. 2402-2409. ISSN 1744-683X. [COBISS.SI-ID 22189863]

12. MUŠEVIČ, Igor, ŠKARABOT, Miha, TKALEC, Uroš, RAVNIK, Miha, ŽUMER, Slobodan. Two-dimensional nematic colloidal crystals self-assembled by topological defects. Science. 2006, 313, str. 954-958. ISSN 0036-8075. [COBISS.SI-ID 1929572]

13. TKALEC, Uroš, MUŠEVIČ, Igor. Topology of nematic liquid crystal colloids confined to two dimensions. Soft matter. 2013, vol. 9, issue 34, str. 8140-8150. ISSN 1744-683X. DOI: 10.1039/C3SM50713K. [COBISS.SI-ID 26755367]

14. TKALEC, Uroš. Liquid crystal flows under confinement : lecture at the Ohio State University, Department of chemical and biomolecular engineering, 15. 7. 2025. [COBISS.SI-ID 243383555]

15. TKALEC, Uroš. When water droplets hit liquid crystal surfaces : special seminar at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, 23. 6. 2023. [COBISS.SI-ID 157635331]

16. TKALEC, Uroš. Sculpting liquid crystal textures by surfaces, flow and temperature modulation : special seminar at the Institute for molecular engineering, University of Chicago, Eckhardt Research Center, February 4, 2019. [COBISS.SI-ID 24434184]

17. TKALEC, Uroš. Sculpting nematic fluids by flow and light pulses : seminar talk at the Gulliver labs, École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI) Paris, 6th December 2018. [COBISS.SI-ID 24226312]

18. TKALEC, Uroš. From flowing complex fluids to multilayer networks of knotted nematic colloids : invited lecture at Physics & Astronomy, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, August 9, 2016. [COBISS.SI-ID 22442248]

19. TKALEC, Uroš. Experimental topology with liquid crystal colloids : invited lectures at Squishy Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 17. June 2015. [COBISS.SI-ID 32070617]

20. TKALEC, Uroš. Reconfigurable topological structures in confined nematic liquid crystals : invited lectures at Condensed Matter & Biological Physics Seminar, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 15. June 2015. [COBISS.SI-ID 32070105]