A brief account of the life and research activities of Julius Planer is presented. Professor Planer is a scientist who lived one and half century ago. However, his studies, in particular, during the years when he headed ...

We give a review of the theory of large distance colloidal interaction via the nematic director eld. The new area of nematic colloidal systems (or nematic emulsions) has been guided by the analogy between the colloidal ...

The traditional formalism in liquid state theory based on the calculation of the pair distribution function is generalized and reviewed for nematic fluids. The considered approach is based on the solution of orientationally ...

Using video microscopy, we investigated melting of a two-dimensional colloidal system, formed by glycerol droplets at the free surface of a nematic liquid crystalline layer. Analyzing different structure correlation ...

A translation from German of the original paper by Prof. Planer in which he describes his observations of selective light reflection in monotropic cholesteric liquid crystal phase of cholesteryl chloride that he synthesized. ...

The Planer-Smoluchowski Soft Matter (PSSM) Workshop on Liquid Crystals and Colloidal Dispersions was held on June 22, 2009 in historic city of Lviv in Ukraine.

In 1861 Julius Planner published a paper in which he described his observations of selective light refection in monotropic cholesteric liquid crystal phase of cholesteryl chloride that he synthesized. We repeat his experiments ...