PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS


  • Scientific monograph "Liquid Crystal Colloids" Springer 2017.

  • Scientific monograph "The physics of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals", World Scientific 2000
  • Co-editor of the monograph "Surfaces and interfaces of liquid crystals", Springer Verlag, 2002
  • Co-author of the university text book "Tekoči kristali", 1998
  • Guest co-editor "Proceedings of the 20th Intentational Liquid Crystal Conference, Ljubljana 2004"
  • 9 contributions to monographs
  • More than 235 publications in international journals and conference proceedings.
  • 17 papers published in Physical Review Letters.
  • Selected publication in Science (2006), Nature Photonics (2009), Nature Materials (2011), Science (2011), and and Nature Physics (2015, 2017).
  • 30 patents and patent applications, 6 international patents.
  • More than 5400 citations in the period 1984-2020, h-index=37.
  • More than 40 invited lectures at international conferences and workshops in the period 1995-2019
  • More than 40 invited lectures at foreign universities in the period 1992-2019
  • Plenary lecture at "21st International Liquid Crystal Conference", Keystone, Colorado, USA, 2006.
  • Plenary lecture at "9th European Conference on Liquid Crystals-ECLC 2007, Lisabon, Portugal, July 1-4, 2007.
  • Plenary lecture at “11th European Conference on Liquid Crystals-ECLC 2011, Maribor, Slovenia, 6-11 February 2011.
  • Plenary lecture at "7th Liquid Matter Conference", Vienna, September 2011
  • Plenary lecture at "24th International Liquid Crystal Conference", Mainz, Germany, 2012
  • Plenary lecture at "46th Biennial Meeting of the Colloid Society" Paderborn, Germany 2013



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


  • Ulyana Ognysta, Andriy Nych, Vassili Nazarenko, Igor Muševič, Miha Škarabot, Miha Ravnik, Slobodan Žumer, Igor Poberaj, Dušan Babič. 2D interactions and binary crystals of dipolar and quadrupolar nematic colloids.  Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 217803(2008).

  • Miha Ravnik, Miha Škarabot, Slobodan Žumer, Uroš Tkalec, Igor Poberaj, Dušan Babič, Natan Osterman, Igor Muševič. Entangled nematic colloidal dimers and wires. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 247801(2007)

  • Andriy Nych, Ulyana Ognysta, Victor M. Pergamenschik, Boghdan Lev, Vassili Nazarenko, Igor Muševič,Miha Škarabot,  Oleg Lavrentovich. Coexistence of two colloidal crystal at the nematic-liquid-crystal-air interface.  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 057801(2007).

  • Igor Muševič, Miha Škarabot, Uroš Tkalec, Miha Ravnik, Slobodan Žumer. Two-dimensional nematic colloidal crystals self-assembled by topological defects. Science 313, 954-958(2006).

  • Igor Muševič, Miha Škarabot, Dušan Babič, Natan Osterman, Igor Poberaj, Vassili Nazarenko, Andriy Nych. Laser trapping  of small colloidal particles in a menatic liquid crystal: clouds and ghosts. Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 187801(2004)

  • Marjetka Conradi, Mojca Čepič, Martin Čopič, Igor Muševič. Structures and phase transitions in thin free standing films of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal. Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 227802(2004)

  • Klemen Kočevar, Anamarija Borštnik, Igor Muševič, Slobodan Žumer. Capillary condensation of a nematic  liquid crystal observed by force spectroscopy. Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5914-5917(2001).

  • M. Wittebrood M., Rasing, Th., S. Stallinga, Igor Muševič. Confinement effects on the collective excitations in thin nematic films. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1232-1235(1998).

  • Igor Muševič, A. Kityk, Miha Škarabot, Robert Blinc. Polarization noise in a ferroelectric liquid crystal. Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1062-1065(1997)

  • Igor Muševič, Abbas Rastegar, Mojca Čepič, Boštjan Žekš, Martin Čopič, D. Moro, G. Heppke. Observation of an opticlike  phase mode in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal. Phys. Rev. Lett. 77,1769-1772(1996).

  • Igor Muševič, Robert Blinc, Boštjan Žekš, Martin Čopič, M.Wittebrood, Th. Rasing, Th., H. Orihara,  Y. Ishibashi. Gapless phason in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal. Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1180-1183(1993)

  • Igor Muševič, Boštjan Žekš, Robert Blinc, H. A. Wierenga, Th. Rasing. Phason dispersion and  magnetic-field-induced band gap in a ferroelectric liquid crystal. Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 1850-1853(1992).

  • Igor Muševič, Robert Blinc, Boštjan Žekš, Cene Filipič, Martin Čopič, A. Seppen, P. Wyder, A. P. Levanyuk. Observation  of phason dispersion in a ferroelectric liquid crystal by light scattering. Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1530-1533(1988).

  • Igor Muševič, Boštjan Žekš, Robert Blinc, Th. Rasing, P. Wyder. Phase diagram and a ferroelectric  chiral smectic liquid crystal near the Lifshitz point. Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 192-195(1982).

  • Igor Muševič, Robert Blinc, Boštjan Žekš. The physics of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals.  World Scientific, Singapore, cop. 2000. XII, 668 pages, ISBN 981-02-0325-X