Self Assembly in Soft Matter Physics & Physical Oceanography

Publications

  1. A. P. Bartlett, M. Pichumani, M. Giuliani, W. González-Viñas, A. Yethiraj, "A modified spincoating technique to achieve directional colloidal crystallization", Langmuir (Letter) (2012). [pdf].
  2. A. Flynn, M. Ducey, A. Yethiraj, M. R. Morrow, " Dynamic Properties of Bicellar Lipid Mixtures Observed by Rheometry and Quadrupole Echo Decay ", Langmuir (2012) DOI: 10.1021/la204111z.
  3. A. P. Bartlett, A. K. Agarwal, A. Yethiraj, "Dynamic Templating of Colloidal Patterns in Three Dimensions with Nonuniform Electric Fields", Langmuir (Letter) 27, 4313 (2011) [pdf], la200179 . Supplementary Information manuscript and movies 1, 2 and 3.
  4. E.E. Burnell, R.Y. Dong, A.C.J. Weber, X. Yang, A. Yethiraj, "Separation of nematic and smectic-A potential effects on solute ordering in a series of binary 6OCB/8OCB mixtures", Can. J. Chem. 89, 900-908 (2011) Special Issue dedicated to Professor Roderick E. Wasylishen . [pdf].
  5. S. Barhoum, A. Yethiraj, "NMR Detection of an Equilibrium Phase Consisting of Monomers and Clusters in Concentrated Lysozyme Solutions ", J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 17062-17067 (2010) [pdf].
  6. M. Giuliani, W. González-Viñas, K.M. Poduska, A. Yethiraj, "Dynamics of Crystal Structure Formation in Spin-Coated Colloidal Films ", J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1, 1481 (2010). [pdf].
  7. S. Barhoum, A. Yethiraj, "An NMR Study of Macromolecular Aggregation in a Model Polymer-Surfactant Solution", J. Chem. Phys. 132, 024909 (2010). [pdf].
  8. N. Li, H. Newman, M. Valera, I. Saika-Voivod, A. Yethiraj, "Colloids with a Tunable Dipolar Interaction: Equations of State and Order Parameters via Confocal Microscopy", Soft Matter 6 , 876 (2010). [pdf].
  9. A.K. Agarwal, A. Yethiraj, "Low-Density Ordered Phase in Brownian Dipolar Colloidal Suspensions", Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 198301 (2009). [pdf]
  10. C. Arcos, K. Kumar, W. González-Viñas, R. Sirera, K.M. Poduska, A. Yethiraj, "Orientationally correlated colloidal polycrystals without long-range positional order", Phys. Rev. E 77, 050402(R) (2008). [pdf]
  11. S. Palit, A. Yethiraj, " A New Model System for Diffusion NMR Studies of Concentrated Mono-disperse and Bi-disperse Colloids ", Langmuir 24, 3747 (2008). [pdf].
  12. A. Yethiraj, " Tunable colloids: control of colloidal phase transitions with tunable interactions ", Soft Matter 3, 1099 (2007). [pdf].
  13. A. Yethiraj, R.Y. Dong, E.E. Burnell. " The smectic potential in a liquid crystal with a reentrant nematic phase: NMR of solutes ", Chem. Phys. Lett. 441, 245 (2007). [pdf].
  14. D. Capitani, A. Yethiraj, E.E. Burnell. " Memory Effects Across Surfactant Mesophases ", Langmuir 23, 3036 (2007). [pdf] .
  15. A. Yethiraj, A.C.J. Weber, R.Y. Dong, E.E. Burnell. " NMR Determination of Smectic Ordering of Probe Molecules ", J. Phys. Chem. B 111, 1632 (2007). [pdf].
  16. A. Yethiraj, "Recent Experimental Developments at the Nematic to Smectic-A Liquid Crystal Phase Transition", Thermotropic Liquid Crystals: Recent Advances, ed. A. Ramamoorthy, Springer 2007, chapter 8. [pdf], see the book's Table of Contents.
  17. A.S. Taggar, C.J. Campbell, A. Yethiraj, E.E. Burnell, "Testing assumptions about solute concentration dependence in liquid crystal NMR ", J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 1363 (2006). [pdf].
  18. A. Yethiraj, D. Capitani, N. E. Burlinson, E. E. Burnell, "An NMR study of Translational Diffusion and Structural Anisotropy in Magnetically Alignable Nonionic Surfactant Mesophases", Langmuir, 21, 3311 (2005). [pdf].
  19. A. Yethiraj, Z. Sun, R. Y. Dong, E. E. Burnell, "NMR measurement of smectic ordering and nematic-smectic-A coupling in a liquid crystal", Chem. Phys. Lett. 398, 517 (2004) [pdf].
  20. A. Yethiraj, J. Thijssen, A. Wouterse and A. van Blaaderen, "Large Electric-Field-Induced Colloidal Single Crystals for Photonic Applications", Adv. Mater. 16, 596 (2004). [pdf].
  21. A. Yethiraj, A. Wouterse, B. Groh and A. van Blaaderen, "The nature of an electric-field-induced colloidal martensitic transition", Phys. Rev. Lett., 92, 058301 (2004). [pdf].
  22. A. Yethiraj and A. van Blaaderen, "A colloidal model system with an interaction tunable from hard sphere to soft and dipolar", Nature 421, 513 (2003). [pdf].
  23. A. van Blaaderen, J. P. Hoogenboom, D. L. J. Vossen, A. Yethiraj, A. van der Horst, K. Visscher, M. Dogterom, "Colloidal epitaxy: playing with the boundary conditions of colloidal crystallization", Faraday Discussions 123, 107 (2003). [pdf].
  24. J. P. Hoogenboom, A. Yethiraj, A. K. van Langen, J. Romijn and A. van Blaaderen, "Epitaxial crystal growth of charged colloids", Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 256104 (2002). [pdf].
  25. A. Yethiraj and A. Van Blaaderen, "Colloidal suspensions as model electrorheological fluids: a real-space analysis of structure formation", ERMR 2001 Conference Proceedings (refereed), Int. J. Mod. Phys. 16, 2328 (2002). [pdf].
  26. A. Yethiraj, R. Mukhopadhyay and J. Bechhoefer, "Two experimental tests of a fluctuation-induced first-order phase transition: Intensity Fluctuation Microscopy at the nematic-smectic-A transition", Phys. Rev. E 65, 021702 (2002). [pdf].
  27. A. van Blaaderen, K. Velikov, J. Hoogenboom, D. Vossen, A. Yethiraj, R. Dullens, T. van Dillen, A. Polman, "Manipulating colloidal crystallization for photonic applications: from self-organization to do-it-yourself organization", in NATO ASI: Photonic Crystals and Light Localization, C. M. Soukoulis, ed. (2001). [pdf].
  28. A. Yethiraj and J. Bechhoefer, "High-resolution study of fluctuation effects at the nematic-smectic-A phase transition", Liq. Cryst. Today 10, 1 (2001), invited article. [pdf].
  29. I. Herbut, A. Yethiraj and J. Bechhoefer, "Effect of order-parameter fluctuations on the Halperin-Lubensky-Ma first-order transition in superconductors and liquid crystals", Europhys. Lett. 55, 317 (2001). [pdf].
  30. A. Yethiraj and J. Bechhoefer, "Two experimental tests of the Halperin-Lubensky-Ma effect at the nematic-smectic-A phase transition", Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3642 (2000). [pdf].
  31. R. Mukhopadhyay, A. Yethiraj and J. Bechhoefer, " External-field-induced tricritical point in a fluctuation-driven nematic-smectic-A transition", Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4796, (1999). [pdf].
  32. A. Yethiraj and J. Bechhoefer, "Using nematic director fluctuations as a sensitive probe of the nematic-smectic-A phase transition in liquid crystals", conference proceedings, 16th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 304, 301 (1997). [pdf].
  33. A. Sonin, A. Yethiraj, J. Bechhoefer, B. J. Frisken, "Temperature-induced orientational phase transitions in freely-suspended nematic films", Phys. Rev. E. 52 6 (1995). [pdf].

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