Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals (FNLCs) represent an emerging class of functional soft materials that combine the orientational order of nematic liquid crystals with spontaneous electrical polarization. In a striking departure from the conventional nonpolar nematic liquid crystals, FNLCs form freely suspended liquid filaments that thin in time. These filaments exhibit a two-stage thinning dynamics, consisting of an initial elastocapillary regime followed by a terminal visco-elastocapillary
Elastocapillary thinning dynamics in ferroelectric nematic filaments
B. Bag·Surajit Dhara·Anirban Debnath·Tejasvi Hegde·Harish N. Dixit·Jakub Karcz·Przemysław Kula·K. Anaswara Das
