{"paper":{"title":"Curvature-guided topology and self-assembly in chiral nematics and liquid-crystal colloids","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cond-mat.mtrl-sci"],"primary_cat":"cond-mat.soft","authors_text":"Ivan I. Smalyukh, Mykola Tasinkevych","submitted_at":"2026-06-08T09:36:51Z","abstract_excerpt":"In soft condensed matter, curvature does more than simply distort an ordered medium: it helps select defect structures, redistribute elastic stress, bias chirality, and guide self-assembly. This review examines how curved, multiply connected, and knotted boundaries in liquid-crystal colloids and confined nematics generate topological defects and localized solitonic textures, and how these structures mediate interactions between mesoscale building blocks. We introduce a unifying framework based on genus, Euler characteristic, anchoring, and chirality, and use it to discuss spherical, handlebody"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2606.09265","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2606.09265/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}