Nuno Silvestre

Communications Comunicações

A non-chronological story on liquid crystal colloids MTG Fest, University of Lisboa, 27-28 June 2016
Interfacial phenomena of nematic liquid crystals at structured surfaces Complex Liquids at Structured Surfaces: Theory meets Experiment Workshop, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA, 2011
Islands in free standing smectic C films Flow(ers) and Jam(mers): from liquid crystals to grains Interdisciplinary Complex, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009

Liquid crystals at CFTC: an overview Soft.Matter@PT, 2-3 July 2015, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Mean field modelling of liquid crystals at patterned substrates: from wetting to the controlled assembly of colloidal particles Computational Approaches to Materials Design, 25th - 26th June 2015, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
The key-lock mechanism of nematic colloids The 13th European conference on liquid crystals, University of Manchester (2015)
Controlling nematic colloids through topographic templates Flowing matter 2014 - COST Action [MP1305] event, Instituto para a Investigação Interdisciplinar, Universidade de Lisboa, 15-17 December 2014
Bonded boojum-colloids in nematic liquid crystals 9th Ibero-American Workshop on Complex Fluids and 2nd Italian-Brazilian Workshop on Liquid Crystals, 14-18 October 2013, Maceió - Brazil

Interfaces of chiral nematics: patterned interfaces of a double twist phase 4th International Soft Matter Conference, Grenoble, 12-16 September (2016)
Controlling nematic colloids through topographic templates 4th Complex Liquids at Structured Surfaces: Theory Meets Experiment, Berlin, Germany, 2015
Boojum-colloids in nematic liquid crystals Workshop Soft.Matter@PT, Lisbon, Portugal, 2014
Towards template-assisted assembly of nematic colloids 9th Liquid Matter Conference of the EPS, Lisbon, Portugal, 2014
Boojum-colloids in nematic liquid crystals Physics of complex colloids -- comploids conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2013
Boojum-colloids in nematic liquid crystals Gordon Conference on Liquid Crystals, University of New England Biddeford, ME, USA, 2013
The structure of boojums on nematic colloids 2^nd Workshop on Complex Liquids at Structured Surfaces, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012
Colloidal particles with planar anchoring in liquid crystals 8th Liquid Matter Conference, Vienna, Austria, 2011
Filling and wetting transitions of nematic liquid crystals 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference, University of Kraków, Poland, 2010

Beyond Flatland: surface enhanced effects in liquid crystals End of career seminar at CFTC, Universidade de Lisboa (2016)
Dispersões de colóides em cristais líquidos Seminar at Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, 29 April 2015
Dispersões de colóides em cristais líquidos: o papel dos padrões topográficos Seminar at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Lisbon, 27 April 2015
Towards template-assisted assembly of nematic colloids CFTC, Instituto para a Investigação Interdisciplinar, Universidade de Lisboa, 10 April 2014
Liquid crystal colloids Centro de Física do Porto, Universidade do Porto, 2012 (link)
Liquid crystal colloids: a 2d picture CFTC - Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Lisboa, Portugal, 2010
Cristais Líquidos Nemático: o comportamento de colóides CFTC - Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Lisboa, Portugal, 2003