In a spatially expanding biological population, subpopulations compete for space along the propagating population front. Often this front is not smooth, but instead increasingly rough with time. For...
Undulated boundaries offer a way to direct the assembly of colloidal particles in liquid crystals, by creating docking sites for a “lock-and-key” interaction. What happens when the liquid crystal...
Dan Beller and other UC Merced Physics professors shared their scientific work and career paths with local area 6th-9th graders at Merced County’s 13th annual Dinner with A Scientist event hosted by...
With the research group of Dong Ki Yoon at KAIST (Korea), we explain how topological defect configurations in the nematic liquid crystal (LC) phase can be “remembered” in the smectic LC phase after a...
Of Goldilocks, hedgehogs, and distorted Saturn rings: “Deck the walls: Tunable energy fields for colloidal particles”
with Yimin Luo, Giuseppe Boniello, Francesca Serra, and Kathleen Stebe.
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