Paper on docking sites for colloidal particles in liquid crystals appears in Nature Communications!

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.
Open-access paper available online here.
Writeup on medium.com here.

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