Abstract

Porous nematic microfluidics is shown to produce diverse fluid states --umbilic defect structures- which emerge as the result of backflow coupling between the flow shear and the fluid orientational field. Structures as diverse as square, triangular, rhombic and even Kagome lattices are found.

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