Boniello G, Luo Y, Beller D, Serra F, Stebe K. Colloids in confined liquid crystals: a plot twist in the lock-and-key mechanism. Soft Matter. 2019;15(5220).
Publications
2019
2018
Gharbi M, Beller D, Mood N, Gupta R, Kamien R, Yang S, Stebe K. Elastocapillary driven assembly of particles at free-standing smectic-A films. Langmuir. 2018;34(2006).
Luo Y, Beller D, Boniello G, Serra F, Stebe K. Tunable colloidal trajectories in nematic liquid crystals near wavy walls. Nature Communications. 2018;9(3841).
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Beller D, Alards K, Tesser F, Mosna R, Toschi F, Möbius W. Evolution of populations expanding on curved surfaces. Europhysics Letters. 2018;123(58005).
arXiv bioRxiv
2017
Gim M-J, Beller D, Yoon D. Morphogenesis of liquid crystal topological defects of during the nematic-smectic A phase transition. Nature Communications. 2017;8(15453).
2016
Beller D, Nelson DR. Plastic deformation of tubular crystals by dislocation glide. Physical Review. 2016;94(033004).
Luo Y, Serra F, Beller D, Gharbi M, Li N, Yang S, Kamien R, Stebe K. Around the corner: Colloidal assembly and wiring in groovy nematic cells. Physical Review. 2016;93(032705).
Xia Y, Lee E, Hu H, Gharbi M, Beller D, Fleischmann E-K, Kamien R, 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.
Tran L, Lavrentovich M, Beller D, Li N, Stebe K, Kamien R. Lassoing saddle splay and the geometrical control of topological defects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016;113:7106–7111.
2015
Honglawan A, Kim D, Beller D, Yoon D, Gharbi M, Stebe K, Kamien R, Yang S. Synergistic assembly of nanoparticles in smectic liquid crystals. Soft Matter. 2015;11:7367–7375.