In this presentation I will revise briefly some scenarios of dynamic self-organization in soft matter-like systems. Essentially I will refer to air/water (Langmuir) monolayers, colloids and mixed systems of the two previous materials with liquid crystals. On what respects to Langmuir monolayers I will report on a recent experimental demonstration of selection of chiral symmetry at the level of molecular assemblies at the microscale under controlled shearing. The propagation of such orientational patterns into a liquid crystal matrix will be also discussed, emphasizing the role of escaped defects. On what refers to colloids, I will concentrate on the behavior of actuated paramagnetic colloids, either driven on structured magnetic substrates or forced to precess close to a bounding support. In the first situation I will analyze a situation of giant diffusivity in ratchetted particles, while emphasis will be given to directed and controlled transport in the second case. Finally I will mention the discovered possibility to break the orientation degeneration of liquid crystal cells by using dispersed anisometric paramagnetic colloids.
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