selected publications
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chapter
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conference proceeding
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SmAPf phase, its properties and potential dye alignment.
Proceedings of SPIE.
2016
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Physical Determinants of Bipolar Mitotic Spindle Assembly and Stability in Fission Yeast.
Biophysical Journal.
432A-432A.
2014
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Physical Effects Controlling Flock Formation in Systems of Self-Propelled Rods.
Biophysical Journal.
508A-508A.
2013
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Design and Synthesis of an Achiral Ferroelectric Smectic Liquid Crystal.
Proceedings of SPIE.
2011
- Atomistic simulation and modeling of smectic liquid crystals. Nato Asi Series C Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 263-331. 1998
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SmAPf phase, its properties and potential dye alignment.
Proceedings of SPIE.
2016
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journal article
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Toward the cellular-scale simulation of motor-driven cytoskeletal assemblies.
eLife.
2022
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Ideal mixing of paraelectric and ferroelectric nematic phases in liquid crystals of distinct molecular species.
Liquid Crystals.
1531-1544.
2022
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Coalescence of islands in freely suspended smectic films
2021
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Polar in-plane surface orientation of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal: Polar monodomains and twisted state electro-optics.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
2021
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Chiral self-sorting of active semiflexible filaments with intrinsic curvature.
Soft Matter.
4559-4565.
2021
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Collective motion of driven semiflexible filaments tuned by soft repulsion and stiffness.
Soft Matter.
9436-9442.
2020
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First -principles experimental demonstration of ferroelectricity in a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal: Polar domains and striking electro-optics.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
14021-14031.
2020
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End-to-end machine learning for experimental physics: using simulated data to train a neural network for object detection in video microscopy.
Soft Matter.
1751-1759.
2020
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Mechanisms of Chromosome biorientation and bipolar spindle assembly analyzed by computational modeling.
eLife.
2020
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Frustration between two- and three-dimensional smectic ordering leads to a biaxial nematic phase.
Soft Matter.
747-753.
2020
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Theory of Cytoskeletal Reorganization during Cross-Linker-Mediated Mitotic Spindle Assembly.
Biophysical Journal.
1719-1731.
2019
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A gas flow meter with linear sensitivity based on freely-suspended nanofilms of smectic liquid crystal.
Applied Physics Letters.
2019
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Chiral Incommensurate Helical Phase in a Smectic of Achiral Bent-Core Mesogens.
Physical Review Letters.
2019
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Understanding the Nanoscale Structure of Inverted Hexagonal Phase Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Polymer Membranes.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B: Biophysical Chemistry, Biomaterials, Liquids, and Soft Matter.
289-309.
2019
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New SmAP(F) Mesogens Designed for Analog Electrooptics Applications.
Materials.
2017
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Two-dimensional island emulsions in ultrathin, freely-suspended smectic liquid crystal films.
Soft Matter.
6314-6321.
2017
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Realization of hydrodynamic experiments on quasi-2D liquid crystal films in microgravity.
Advances in Space Research.
737-751.
2017
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Effect of Conformational Chirality on Optical Activity Observed in a Smectic of Achiral, Bent-Core Molecules.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B: Biophysical Chemistry, Biomaterials, Liquids, and Soft Matter.
6944-6950.
2017
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Understanding the origin of liquid crystal ordering of ultrashort double-stranded DNA.
Physical Review E.
2017
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Active microrheology of smectic membranes.
Physical Review E.
2017
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Contributions of Microtubule Dynamic Instability and Rotational Diffusion to Kinetochore Capture.
Biophysical Journal.
552-563.
2017
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Aggregation-driven, re-entrant isotropic phase in a smectic liquid crystal material.
Liquid Crystals.
769-783.
2017
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Physical determinants of bipolar mitotic spindle assembly and stability in fission yeast.
Science Advances.
2017
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The heliconical nematic twist-bend phase from "classic" bent-core benzylideneanilines with oligomethylene cores.
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals.
430-438.
2017
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Hydrodynamic interactions in freely suspended liquid crystal films.
Physical Review E.
2016
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Reliability of Orientational Order Parameters Determined from Two-dimensional X-ray Diffraction Patterns: A Simulation Study.
ChemPhysChem: a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry.
1568-1572.
2016
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Photoinduced and Thermal Relaxation in Surface-Grafted Azobenzene-Based Monolayers: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study.
Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids.
4004-4015.
2016
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Atomistic Simulation of Stacked Nucleosome Core Particles: Tail Bridging, the H4 Tail, and Effect of Hydrophobic Forces.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B: Biophysical Chemistry, Biomaterials, Liquids, and Soft Matter.
3048-3060.
2016
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Experimental realization of an incompressible Newtonian fluid in two dimensions.
Physical Review E.
2016
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Manipulating the twist sense of helical nanofilaments of bent-core liquid crystals using rod-shaped, chiral mesogenic dopants.
Liquid Crystals.
1083-1091.
2016
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Microscopic origins of anisotropic active stress in motor-driven nematic liquid crystals.
Soft Matter.
2676-2687.
2016
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Spontaneous liquid crystal and ferromagnetic ordering of colloidal magnetic nanoplates.
Nature Communications.
2016
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Hysteresis, reentrance, and glassy dynamics in systems of self-propelled rods.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2015
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Multiscale modeling and simulation of microtubule-motor-protein assemblies.
Physical Review E.
2015
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Molecular structure of the discotic liquid crystalline phase of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene/oligothiophene hybrid and their charge transport properties.
Journal of Chemical Physics.
2015
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Diastereomeric liquid crystal domains at the mesoscale.
Nature Communications.
2015
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Nanoparticle Aggregation and Fractal Growth in Fluid Smectic Membranes.
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals.
14-20.
2015
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Multiscale Polar Theory of Microtubule and Motor-Protein Assemblies.
Physical Review Letters.
2015
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Mutual Diffusion of Inclusions in Freely Suspended Smectic Liquid Crystal Films.
Physical Review Letters.
2014
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Phase Winding of a Nematic Liquid Crystal by Dynamic Localized Reorientation of an Azo-Based Self-Assembled Mono.
Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids.
9560-9566.
2014
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Chiral Isotropic Sponge Phase of Hexatic Smectic Layers of Achiral Molecules.
ChemPhysChem: a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry.
1502-1507.
2014
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Twist-bend heliconical chiral nematic liquid crystal phase of an achiral rigid bent-core mesogen.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2014
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Chiral random grain boundary phase of achiral hockey-stick liquid crystals.
Soft Matter.
9105-9109.
2014
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Topography of bent-core liquid crystals at the air/liquid crystal interface.
Liquid Crystals.
1730-1735.
2013
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Chiral heliconical ground state of nanoscale pitch in a nematic liquid crystal of achiral molecular dimers.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
15931-15936.
2013
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Chiral heliconical ground state of nanoscale pitch in a nematic liquid crystal of achiral molecular dimers..
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.
15931-15936.
2013
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Microscopic origins of first-order Sm-A-Sm-C phase behavior in de Vries smectic liquid crystals.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2013
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Athermal photofluidization of glasses.
Nature Communications.
2013
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Nanoconfinement of guest materials by helical nanofilament networks of bent-core mesogens.
Soft Matter.
462-471.
2013
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Spiral layer undulation defects in B7 liquid crystals.
Soft Matter.
11303-11308.
2013
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Topological Ferroelectric Bistability in a Polarization-Modulated Orthogonal Smectic Liquid Crystal.
Journal of the American Chemical Society.
9681-9687.
2012
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Structure of the B4 Liquid Crystal Phase near a Glass Surface.
ChemPhysChem: a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry.
155-159.
2012
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Two-Dimensional Microrheology of Freely Suspended Liquid Crystal Films.
Physical Review Letters.
2011
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Chirality-Preserving Growth of Helical Filaments in the B4 Phase of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals.
Journal of the American Chemical Society.
12656-12663.
2011
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Effect of Concentration on the Photo-Orientation and Relaxation Dynamics of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Mixtures of an Azobenzene-Based Triethoxysilane with Octyltriethoxysilane.
Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids.
3336-3342.
2011
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Spontaneous Ferroelectric Order in a Bent-Core Smectic Liquid Crystal of Fluid Orthorhombic Layers.
Science.
72-77.
2011
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Biopolymers in nanopores: challenges and opportunities.
Soft Matter.
5898-5907.
2011
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Interface structure of the dark conglomerate liquid crystal phase.
Soft Matter.
1879-1883.
2011
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Crossover between 2D and 3D Fluid Dynamics in the Diffusion of Islands in Ultrathin Freely Suspended Smectic Films.
Physical Review Letters.
2010
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Pretransitional Orientational Ordering of a Calamitic Liquid Crystal by Helical Nanofilaments of a Bent-Core Mesogen.
Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids.
15541-15545.
2010
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Linear aggregation and liquid-crystalline order: comparison of Monte Carlo simulation and analytic theory.
Journal of Materials Chemistry.
10366-10383.
2010
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Nanophase segregation in binary mixtures of a bent-core and a rodlike liquid-crystal molecule.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2010
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Nanophase segregation in binary mixtures of a bent-core and a rodlike liquid-crystal molecule.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2010
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Chiral Isotropic Liquids from Achiral Molecules.
Science.
452-456.
2009
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Helical Nanofilament Phases.
Science.
456-460.
2009
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Microtubule Depolymerization by the Kinesin-8 Motor Kip3p: A Mathematical Model.
Biophysical Journal.
3050-3064.
2009
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Molecular dynamics simulation study of spherical nanoparticles in a nematogenic matrix: Anchoring, interactions, and phase behavior.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2009
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Soft spheres make more mesophases.
Europhysics Letters: a letters journal exploring the frontiers of physics.
2007
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Molecular dynamics simulations studies of nanoparticles in an isotropic liquid crystal matrix: Single particle behavior and pairwise interactions.
Journal of Chemical Physics.
2006
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Discrete elastic model for two-dimensional melting.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2006
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Phase behavior of polarizable spherocylinders in external fields.
Journal of Chemical Physics.
5541-5549.
2004
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Coarse-grained simulation of polymer translocation through an artificial nanopore.
Polymer.
3099-3110.
2004
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Entropy-stabilized smectic C phase in a system of zigzag-shaped molecules.
Physical Review Letters.
2004
- Supermolecular stereochemistry in liquid crystals. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U280-U280. 2003
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Phase behavior of bent-core molecules.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2003
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Phase behavior of bent-core molecules.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2003
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A molecular-dynamics simulation study of the switching dynamics of a nematic liquid crystal under an applied electrical field.
Journal of Chemical Physics.
9452-9459.
2002
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Fluctuations and clinicity in tilted smectic liquid crystals.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2002
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Fluctuations and clinicity in tilted smectic liquid crystals.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2002
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Mean field theory-based calculation of FLC polarization.
Liquid Crystals.
1073-1085.
2002
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Isodesmic self-assembly in lyotropic chromonic systems.
Liquid Crystals.
619-626.
2002
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Self-assembly in surfactant oligomers: A coarse-grained description through molecular dynamics simulations.
Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids.
1908-1918.
2002
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Induced anticlinic ordering and nanophase segregation of bow-shaped molecules in a smectic solvent.
Physical Review Letters.
2002
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Ferroelectric liquid crystal induced by a bridged biphenyl dopant with helical topography.
Journal of Materials Chemistry.
586-592.
2002
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Transition moment orientation and rotational bias of three carbonyl groups in large polarization FLCs observed by polarized FTIR.
Liquid Crystals.
27-37.
2002
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A molecular dynamics simulation study of the phase behavior of an ensemble of rigid bead-necklace molecules.
Journal of Chemical Physics.
9055-9064.
2001
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Evidence from infrared dichroism, x-ray diffraction, and atomistic computer simulation for a "zigzag" molecular shape in tilted smectic liquid crystal phases.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2001
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Evidence from infrared dichroism, x-ray diffraction, and atomistic computer simulation for a "zigzag" molecular shape in tilted smectic liquid crystal phases.
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics .
2001
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Microscopic structure and dynamics of a partial bilayer smectic liquid crystal.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2001
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Microscopic structure and dynamics of a partial bilayer smectic liquid crystal.
Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
2001
- Polarity, clinicity, and chirality in systems of bow-shaped molecules.. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. U328-U328. 2001
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Ferroelectric liquid crystals induced by atropisomeric biphenyl dopants: Dependence of the polarization power on the nature of the symmetry-breaking groups.
Chemistry of Materials.
1692-1699.
2001
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Supermolecular stereochemistry in ferroelectric liquid crystals.
Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry.
830-836.
2000
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Infrared spectroscopic study of molecular hydrogen bonding in chiral smectic liquid crystals.
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics .
5027-5035.
2000
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Infrared spectroscopic study of molecular hydrogen bonding in chiral smectic liquid crystals.
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics .
5027-5035.
2000
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A ferroelectric liquid crystal conglomerate composed of racemic molecules.
Science.
2181-2184.
2000
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The case of thresholdless antiferroelectricity: polarization-stabilized twisted SmC* liquid crystals give V-shaped electro-optic response.
Journal of Materials Chemistry.
1257-1261.
1999
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HFF: a force field for liquid crystal molecules.
Computational and Theoretical Chemistry.
39-48.
1999
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Photocontrolled nanophase segregation in a liquid-crystal solvent.
Nature.
54-57.
1999
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Liquid crystal phase diagram of the Gay-Berne fluid by density functional theory.
Liquid Crystals.
227-234.
1997
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Quantum chemistry based force fields for soft matter.
Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy.
1325-1346.
1997
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A new potential for the description of intermolecular interactions for rigid biaxial molecules.
Chemical Physics.
253-260.
1997
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Studies of nematic-isotropic transition for a Gay-Berne fluid using the second virial approximation.
Liquid Crystals.
265-271.
1996
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ATOMIC-DETAIL SIMULATION STUDIES OF SMECTIC LIQUID-CRYSTALS.
Molecular Simulation.
343-360.
1995
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ATOMIC-DETAIL SIMULATION STUDIES OF TILTED SMECTICS.
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
A261-A268.
1994
- COMPUTATION OF THE SPONTANEOUS POLARIZATION AND POLAR STRUCTURE IN FERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTALS USING EMPIRICAL FORCE-FIELDS. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 448-ORGN. 1994
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SHEAR-INDUCED MELTING OF 2-DIMENSIONAL SOLIDS.
Physical Review B (Condensed Matter).
5622-5628.
1993
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EFFECTS OF FINITE LASER COHERENCE IN QUASI-ELASTIC MULTIPLE-SCATTERING.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.
5215-5223.
1991
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STATISTICAL GEOMETRY OF SIMPLE LIQUIDS IN 2 DIMENSIONS.
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.
4585-4588.
1990
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Toward the cellular-scale simulation of motor-driven cytoskeletal assemblies.
eLife.
2022