Publications

Zakharov A, Beller D. Shape multistability in flexible tubular crystals through interactions of mobile dislocations. Submitted.

Ettinger S, Dietrich C, Mishra C, Miksch C, Beller D, Collings P, Yodh A. Rods in a Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal: Emergence of Chirality, Symmetry-Breaking Alignment, and Caged Angular Diffusion. Submitted.

Memarian FL, Lopes JD, Schwarzendahl FJ, Athani MG, Gopinathan A, Beller D, Dasbiswas K, Hirst LS. Active nematic order and dynamic lane formation of microtubules driven by membrane-bound diffusing motors. Submitted.

Velez JX, Zheng Z, Beller DA, Serra F. Emergence and stabilization of transient twisted defect structures in confined achiral liquid crystals at a phase transition. Soft Matter. 2021;17 (14) :3848-3854.

Tanjeem N, Wilkin WH, Beller DA, Rycroft CH, Manoharan VN. Geometrical Frustration and Defect Formation in Growth of Colloidal Nanoparticle Crystals on a Cylinder: Implications for Assembly of Chiral Nanomaterials. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2021. Publisher's Version

Duclos G, Adkins R, Banerjee D, Peterson MSE, Varghese M, Kolvin I, Baskaran A, Pelcovits RA, Powers TR, Baskaran A, et al. Topological structure and dynamics of three-dimensional active nematics. Science. 2020;367 (6482) :1120-1124. Publisher's Version

Boniello G, Luo Y, Beller DA, Serra F, Stebe KJ. Colloids in confined liquid crystals: a plot twist in the lock-and-key mechanism. Soft Matter. 2019;15 (5220). Publisher's Version

Suh A, Gim M-J, Beller D, Yoon DK. Topological defects and geometric memory across the nematicsmectic A liquid crystal phase transition. Soft Matter. 2019;15 (5835). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Chu S, Kardar M, Nelson DR, Beller DA. Evolution in range expansions with competition at rough boundaries. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 2019;478 (153). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Luo Y, Yao T, Beller DA, Serra F, Stebe KJ. Deck the walls with anisotropic colloids in nematic liquid crystals. Langmuir. 2019;35 (9274). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Sussman DM, Beller DA. Fast, scalable, and interactive software for Landau-de Gennes numerical modeling of nematic topological defects. Frontiers in Physics. 2019;7 (204). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Gharbi MA, Beller DA, Mood NS, Gupta R, Kamien RD, Yang S, Stebe KJ. Elastocapillary driven assembly of particles at free-standing smectic-A films. Langmuir. 2018;34 (2006). Publisher's Version

Luo Y, Beller DA, Boniello G, Serra F, Stebe KJ. Tunable colloidal trajectories in nematic liquid crystals near wavy walls. Nature Communications . 2018;9 (3841). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Beller DA, Alards KMJ, Tesser F, Mosna RA, Toschi F, Möbius W. Evolution of populations expanding on curved surfaces. Europhysics Letters . 2018;123 (58005). Publisher's VersionAbstract

Gim M-J, Beller DA, Yoon DK. Morphogenesis of liquid crystal topological defects of during the nematic-smectic A phase transition. Nature Communications. 2017;8 (15453). Publisher's Version

Luo Y, Serra F, Beller DA, Gharbi MA, Li N, Yang S, Kamien RD, Stebe KJ. Around the corner: Colloidal assembly and wiring in groovy nematic cells. Physical Review. 2016;93 (032705). Publisher's Version

Xia Y, Lee E, Hu H, Gharbi MA, Beller DA, Fleischmann E-K, Kamien RD, Zentel R, Yang S. Better actuation through chemistry: Using surface coatings to create uniform director fields in nematic liquid crystal elastomers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces . 2016;8 :12466–12472. Publisher's Version

Tran L, Lavrentovich MO, Beller DA, Li N, Stebe KJ, Kamien RD. Lassoing saddle splay and the geometrical control of topological defects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 2016;113 :7106–7111. Publisher's Version

Beller DA, Nelson DR. Plastic deformation of tubular crystals by dislocation glide. Physical Review . 2016;94 (033004). Publisher's Version

Beller DA, Gharbi MA, Liu IB. Shape-controlled orientation and assembly of colloids with sharp edges in nematic liquid crystals. Soft Matter. 2015;11 :1078–1086. Publisher's Version