Self-assembly is one of the crucial mechanisms allowing to design multifunctional materials. Soft hybrid materials contain components of different nature and exhibit competitive interactions which drive self-organisation into structures of a particular function. Here we demonstrate a novel type of a magnetic hybrid material where the molecular tilt can be manipulated through a delicate balance between the topologically-assisted colloidal self-assembly of \rev{magnetic nanoparticles} and the anisotropic molecular interactions in a liquid crystal matrix.
@article{arxiv.2104.02404,
title = {Magnetic Tilting in Nematic Liquid Crystals driven by Self-Assembly},
author = {Martin Hähsler and Hajnalka Nádasi and Martin Feneberg and Sebastian Marino and Frank Giesselmann and Silke Behrens and Alexey Eremin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.02404},
year = {2023}
}