selected scholarly activity
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conferences
- Diblock-copolymers can form nearly conical equilibrium droplets. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 2007
- Crystal nucleation of polymers confined to droplets: Memory effects. Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics. 3438-3443. 2005
- Inelastic neutron scattering for investigating the dynamics of confined glass-forming liquids. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 2657-2667. 2005
- Crystal nucleation and crystal growth in confined polymers.. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. U1153-U1153. 2005
- Early stages of crystallisation in confined systems of poly(ethylene oxide).. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. U499-U499. 2004
- Crystal growth rate in ultrathin films of poly(ethylene oxide). Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics. 2615-2621. 2001
- Sub‐glass‐transition temperature interface formation between an immiscible glass rubber pair. Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics. 2664-2670. 2001
- The glass transition in thin polymer films. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. 167-195. 2001
- Instabilities in thin polymer films: from pattern formation to rupture. Macromolecular Symposia. 143-150. 2000
- Glass transition reductions in thin freely-standing polymer films : A scaling analysis of chain confinement effects. European Physical Journal: Special Topics. 221-226. 2000
- X-ray spectromicroscopy studies of polymer microstructure. AIP Conference Proceedings. 231-234. 2000
- Interface and chain confinement effects on the glass transition temperature of thin polymer films.. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. U484-U484. 1998
- Phase separation morphology of spin-coated polymer blend thin films. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 87-94. 1997
- Brillouin light scattering studies of the mechanical properties of polystyrene/polyisoprene multilayered thin films. Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics. 3009-3016. 1996
- Phase separation morphology of thin films of polystyrene/polyisoprene blends. Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics. 3017-3024. 1996
- Brillouin Light Scattering Determination of the Glass Transition in Thin, Freely-Standing Poly(styrene) Films. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings. 131-136. 1995
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journal articles
- Buckling instability in a chain of sticky bubbles,. Physical Review Research. 6. 2024
- Directed droplet motion along thin fibers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 3:pgae086. 2024
- Compression and fracture of ordered and disordered droplet rafts. Physical Review E. 109:014610. 2024
- One crumple at a time. Nature Physics. 19:1763-1764. 2023
- Synchronized locomotion can improve spatial accessibility inside ant colonies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 290:20231805. 2023
- Two-dimensional spreading of frictionless adhesive oil droplets. Soft Matter. 19:3747-3753. 2023
- Preparation of ultra-thin elastomeric films. European Physical Journal E. 46:33. 2023
- Wettability Alteration of a Thiolene-Based Polymer (NOA81): Surface Characterization and Fabrication Techniques. Langmuir. 39:2529-2536. 2023
- Spreading of a 2D granular analogue of a liquid puddle: predicting the structure and dynamics through a continuum model 2022
- Noise resistant synchronization and collective rhythm switching in a model of animal group locomotion. Royal Society Open Science. 9:211908. 2022
- Multiple droplets on a conical fiber: formation, motion, and droplet mergers. Soft Matter. 18:1364-1370. 2022
- Writhing and hockling instabilities in twisted elastic fibers. European Physical Journal E. 44:149. 2021
- Spontaneous Elastocapillary Winding of Thin Elastic Fibers in Contact with Bubbles. Physical Review Letters. 127:218001. 2021
- Mechanical properties of 2D aggregates of oil droplets as model mono-crystals. Soft Matter. 17:1194-1201. 2021
- Film coating by directional droplet spreading on fibers. Physical Review Fluids. 6. 2021
- Continuum Model Applied to Granular Analogs of Droplets and Puddles. Physical Review Letters. 125:228001. 2020
- Self-organisation and convection of confined magnetotactic bacteria. Scientific Reports. 10:13578. 2020
- Symmetrization of Thin Freestanding Liquid Films via a Capillary-Driven Flow. Physical Review Letters. 124:184502. 2020
- Rearrangement of two dimensional aggregates of droplets under compression: Signatures of the energy landscape from crystal to glass. Physical Review Research. 2. 2020
- The emergence of local wrinkling or global buckling in thin freestanding bilayer films. European Physical Journal E. 43:20. 2020
- Asymptotic regimes in elastohydrodynamic and stochastic leveling on a viscous film. Physical Review Fluids. 4. 2019
- Hydroelastic wake on a thin elastic sheet floating on water. Physical Review Fluids. 4. 2019
- Droplets Capped with an Elastic Film Can Be Round, Elliptical, or Nearly Square. Physical Review Letters. 121:248004. 2018
- Liquid dewetting under a thin elastic film. Soft Matter. 14:3557-3562. 2018
- Adsorption-induced slip inhibition for polymer melts on ideal substrates. Nature Communications. 9:1172. 2018
- Surface energy of strained amorphous solids. Nature Communications. 9:982. 2018
- Adhesion-induced fingering instability in thin elastic films under strain. European Physical Journal E. 41:36. 2018
- Liquid droplets on a free-standing glassy membrane: Deformation through the glass transition. European Physical Journal E. 40:69. 2017
- Liquid Droplets Act as “Compass Needles” for the Stresses in a Deformable Membrane. Physical Review Letters. 118:198002. 2017
- Elastocapillary bending of microfibers around liquid droplets. Soft Matter. 13:720-724. 2017
- Glass transition at interfaces. Europhysics News. 48:24-28. 2017
- Direct Measurement of the Critical Pore Size in a Model Membrane. Physical Review Letters. 117:257801. 2016
- Capillary Leveling of Freestanding Liquid Nanofilms. Physical Review Letters. 117:167801. 2016
- Predicting the size of droplets produced through Laplace pressure induced snap-off. Soft Matter. 12:7398-7404. 2016
- Controlling Marangoni-induced instabilities in spin-cast polymer films: How to prepare uniform films. European Physical Journal E. 39:90. 2016
- Why can’t you separate interleaved books?. Physics Today. 69:74-75. 2016
- Self-Amplification of Solid Friction in Interleaved Assemblies. Physical Review Letters. 116:015502. 2016
- New section for The European Physical Journal E: “Tips and Tricks in Soft Matter and Biological Physics”. European Physical Journal E. 38. 2015
- Snap-off production of monodisperse droplets. European Physical Journal E. 38:138. 2015
- Liquid Droplets on a Highly Deformable Membrane. Physical Review Letters. 115:206101. 2015
- The effects of viscosity on the undulatory swimming dynamics of C. elegans. Physics of Fluids. 27. 2015
- Symmetry plays a key role in the erasing of patterned surface features. Applied Physics Letters. 107. 2015
- Onset of Area-Dependent Dissipation in Droplet Spreading. Physical Review Letters. 115:046103. 2015
- Cooperative strings and glassy interfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112:8227-8231. 2015
- Influence of slip on the Plateau–Rayleigh instability on a fibre. Nature Communications. 6:7409. 2015
- The nematode C. elegans as a complex viscoelastic fluid. European Physical Journal E. 38:118. 2015
- Approach to universal self-similar attractor for the levelling of thin liquid films. Soft Matter. 10:8608-8614. 2014
- Direct Measurements of Drag Forces in C. elegans Crawling Locomotion. Biophysical Journal. 107:1980-1987. 2014
- Strain rate effects on symmetric diblock copolymer liquid bridges: Order-induced stability of polymer fibres. European Physical Journal E. 37:100. 2014
- Undulatory microswimming near solid boundaries. Physics of Fluids. 26. 2014
- Tangling of Tethered Swimmers: Interactions between Two Nematodes. Physical Review Letters. 113:138101. 2014
- Dynamic force patterns of an undulatory microswimmer. Physical Review E. 89:050701. 2014
- When Does a Glass Transition Temperature Not Signify a Glass Transition?. ACS Macro Letters. 3:310-314. 2014
- A Direct Quantitative Measure of Surface Mobility in a Glassy Polymer. Science. 343:994-999. 2014
- Quantized Contact Angles in the Dewetting of a Structured Liquid. Physical Review Letters. 112:068303. 2014
- Capillary levelling of a cylindrical hole in a viscous film. Soft Matter. 10:2550-2550. 2014
- Systematic study of alginate-based microcapsules by micropipette aspiration and confocal fluorescence microscopy. Materials Science and Engineering C. 33:4295-4304. 2013
- Erratum to: Numerical solutions of thin-film equations for polymer flows. European Physical Journal E. 36. 2013
- Relaxation and intermediate asymptotics of a rectangular trench in a viscous film. Physical Review E. 88:035001. 2013
- Morphology Induced Spinodal Decomposition at the Surface of Symmetric Diblock Copolymer Films. ACS Macro Letters. 2:441-445. 2013
- Viscoelastic properties of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans , a self-similar, shear-thinning worm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110:4528-4533. 2013
- Capillary leveling of stepped films with inhomogeneous molecular mobility. Soft Matter. 9:8297-8297. 2013
- Relaxation of non-equilibrium entanglement networks in thin polymer films. European Physical Journal E. 36:7. 2013
- Step Edges in Thin Films of Lamellar-Forming Diblock Copolymer. Macromolecules. 45:9531-9538. 2012
- Film thickness dependent ordering dynamics of lamellar forming diblock copolymer thin films. European Physical Journal E. 35:9809. 2012
- Numerical solutions of thin-film equations for polymer flows. European Physical Journal E. 35:114. 2012
- Beyond Tanner’s Law: Crossover between Spreading Regimes of a Viscous Droplet on an Identical Film. Physical Review Letters. 109:154501. 2012
- Capillary-driven flow induced by a stepped perturbation atop a viscous film. Physics of Fluids. 24. 2012
- Self-Similarity and Energy Dissipation in Stepped Polymer Films. Physical Review Letters. 109:128303. 2012
- Reduced Glass Transition Temperatures in Thin Polymer Films: Surface Effect or Artifact?. Physical Review Letters. 109:055701. 2012
- Crystal Growth Rate in a Blend of Long and Short Polymer Chains. Macromolecules. 45:1688-1691. 2012
- Dynamics of interacting edge defects in copolymer lamellae. European Physical Journal E. 34:1-7. 2011
- Nanoparticle Flotation Collectors: Mechanisms Behind a New Technology. Langmuir. 27:10438-10446. 2011
- Ellipsometry as a probe of crystallization in binary blends of a sphere‐forming diblock copolymer. Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics. 49:712-716. 2011
- Reversible sphere-to-lamellar wetting transition at the interface of a diblock copolymer system. European Physical Journal E. 34:51. 2011
- Capillary levelling as a probe of thin film polymer rheology. Soft Matter. 7:7832-7832. 2011
- Surface nucleation in the crystallisation of polyethylene droplets. European Physical Journal E. 34:6. 2011
- Understanding and predicting viscous, elastic, plastic flows. European Physical Journal E. 34:1. 2011
- Homogeneous Bulk, Surface, and Edge Nucleation in Crystalline Nanodroplets. Physical Review Letters. 105:237801. 2010
- Squeezing and Detachment of Living Cells. Biophysical Journal. 99:3555-3562. 2010
- Swelling molecular entanglement networks in polymer glasses. Physical Review E. 82:021802. 2010
- Hole nucleation in free-standing polymer membranes: the effects of varying molecular architecture. Soft Matter. 6:5547-5547. 2010
- Plateau-Rayleigh instability in a torus: formation and breakup of a polymer ring. Soft Matter. 6:1258-1258. 2010
- Ordering of a lamella-forming fluid near an interface. Physical Review E. 80:051803. 2009
- Adhesion and membrane tension of single vesicles and living cells using a micropipette-based technique. European Physical Journal E. 30:117-121. 2009
- Spreading of diblock copolymer droplets: A probe of polymer micro-rheology. European Physical Journal E. 29:239-244. 2009
- Effect of atmosphere on reductions in the glass transition of thin polystyrene films. European Physical Journal E. 27:375-377. 2008
- Kinetics of layer hopping in a diblock copolymer lamellar phase. European Physical Journal E. 27:407-411. 2008
- Reply to comment on “The properties of free polymer surfaces and their effect upon the glass transition temperature of thin polystyrene films" by S.A. Hutcheson and G.B. McKenna. European Physical Journal E. 22:287-291. 2007
- Confinement Effects in Polymer Crystal Nucleation from the Bulk to Few-Chain Systems. Physical Review Letters. 97:247802. 2006
- Ellipsometry as a probe of crystallization kinetics in thin diblock copolymer films. Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics. 44:3448-3452. 2006
- Droplet Shape of an Anisotropic Liquid. Physical Review Letters. 97:204502. 2006
- Measurement of adhesion energies and Young's modulus in thin polymer films using a novel axi-symmetric peel test geometry. European Physical Journal E. 19:453-459. 2006
- Spinodal wrinkling in thin-film poly(ethylene oxide)/polystyrene bilayers. European Physical Journal E. 19:423-432. 2006
- Introduction. Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics. 43:3355-3356. 2005
- Chain Entanglement in Thin Freestanding Polymer Films. Physical Review Letters. 94:127801. 2005
- Homogeneous Crystallization of Poly(Ethylene Oxide) Confined to Droplets: The Dependence of the Crystal Nucleation Rate on Length Scale and Temperature. Physical Review Letters. 92:255509. 2004
- PEO Penetration into Water-Plasticized Poly(vinylphenol) Thin Films. Macromolecules. 37:494-500. 2004
- First inelastic neutron scattering studies on thin free standing polymer films. European Physical Journal E. 12:93-96. 2003
- Ion crater healing and variable temperature ellipsometry as complementary probes for the glass transition in thin polymer films. European Physical Journal E. 12:81-85. 2003
- Direct visualisation of homogeneous and heterogeneous crystallisation in an ensemble of confined domains of poly(ethylene oxide). European Physical Journal E. 12:111-117. 2003
- Crystallization kinetics and crystal morphology in thin poly(ethylene oxide) films. European Physical Journal E. 11:191-198. 2003
- Differential pressure experiment to probe hole growth in freely standing polymer films. Review of Scientific Instruments. 74:2796-2804. 2003
- First inelastic neutron scattering studies on thin free standing polymer films. European Physical Journal E. 12:81-84. 2003
- Changes in the Morphology of Self-Assembled Polystyrene Microsphere Monolayers Produced by Annealing. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 243:143-155. 2001
- Molecular weight dependence of reductions in the glass transition temperature of thin, freely standing polymer films. Physical Review E. 63:031801. 2001
- Effect of end group chemistry on surface molecular motion of monodisperse polystyrene films. Macromolecular Symposia. 159:35-42. 2000
- Glass transition reductions in thin freely-standing polymer films: A scaling analysis of chain confinement effects. European Physical Journal: Special Topics. 10. 2000
- Optical Probes of the Glass Transition in Thin Polymer Films. ACS Symposium Series. 736:127-139. 1999
- Dispersion-Driven Morphology of Mechanically Confined Polymer Films. Physical Review Letters. 82:1486-1489. 1999
- Hole formation and growth in freely standing polystyrene films. Physical Review E. 59:2153-2156. 1999
- Brillouin light scattering studies of the mechanical properties of thin freely standing polystyrene films. Physical Review E. 58:6109-6114. 1998
- Mechanical confinement effects on the phase separation morphology of polymer blend thin films. Physical Review E. 57:5811-5817. 1998
- Interface and chain confinement effects on the glass transition temperature of thin polymer films. Physical Review E. 56:5705-5716. 1997
- Effect of Free Surfaces on the Glass Transition Temperature of Thin Polymer Films. Physical Review Letters. 77:4108-4108. 1996
- Effect of Free Surfaces on the Glass Transition Temperature of Thin Polymer Films. Physical Review Letters. 77:2002-2005. 1996
- One crumple at a time. Nature Physics.
- Stretching a Solid Modifies its Wettability … Or Does it?. ChemViews.
- Wetting ridge dissipation at large deformations. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
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preprints
- Wetting ridge dissipation at large deformations 2024
- Buckling instability in a chain of sticky bubbles 2023
- Compression and fracture of ordered and disordered droplet rafts 2023
- Wettability alteration in thiolene-based polymer microfluidics: surface characterization and advanced fabrication techniques 2022
- Multiple droplets on a conical fiber: formation, motion, and droplet mergers 2021
- Writhing and hockling instabilities in twisted elastic fibers 2021
- Film coating by directional droplet spreading on fibers 2020
- Droplet Migration on Conical Fibers 2020
- Mechanical properties of model colloidal mono-crystals 2020
- Capillary Levelling of Immiscible Bilayer Films 2020
- The emergence of local wrinkling or global buckling in thin freestanding bilayer films 2020
- Symmetrization of Thin Free-Standing Liquid Films via Capillary-Driven Flow 2019
- Rearrangement of 2D aggregates of droplets under compression: signatures of the energy landscape from crystal to glass 2019
- Asymptotic regimes in elastohydrodynamic and stochastic leveling on a viscous film 2019
- Droplets capped with an elastic film can be round, elliptical, or nearly square 2018
- Hydroelastic wake on a thin elastic sheet floating on water 2018
- Adhesion-induced fingering instabilities in thin elastic films under strain 2017
- Liquid dewetting under a thin elastic film 2017
- Surface energy of strained amorphous solids 2017
- Adsorption-Induced Slip Inhibition for Polymer Melts on Ideal Substrates 2017
- Liquid droplets on a free-standing glassy membrane: deformation through the glass transition 2017
- Liquid droplets act as "compass needles" for the stresses in a deformable membrane 2017
- Direct measurement of the critical pore size in a model membrane 2016
- Controlling Marangoni induced instabilities in spin-cast polymer films: how to prepare uniform films 2016
- Elastocapillary bending of microfibers around liquid droplets 2016
- Predicting the size of droplets produced through Laplace pressure induced snap-off 2016
- Capillary levelling of free-standing liquid nanofilms 2016
- Self-amplification of solid friction in interleaved assemblies 2015
- Snap-off production of monodisperse droplets 2015
- Symmetry Plays a Key Role in the Erasing of Patterned Surface Features 2015
- Cooperative Strings and Glassy Interfaces 2015
- Influence of Slip on the Plateau-Rayleigh Instability on a Fibre 2015
- Approach to universal self-similar attractor for the levelling of thin liquid films 2014
- A direct quantitative measure of surface mobility in a glassy polymer 2014
- Capillary levelling of a cylindrical hole in a viscous film 2014
- Relaxation and Intermediate Asymptotics of a Rectangular Trench in a Viscous Film 2013
- Capillary leveling of stepped films with inhomogeneous molecular mobility 2013
- Numerical solutions of thin film equations for polymer flows 2012
- Capillary-driven flow induced by a stepped perturbation atop a viscous film 2012
- Beyond Tanner's Law: Crossover between Spreading Regimes of a Viscous Droplet on an Identical Film 2012
- Self-Similarity and Energy Dissipation in Stepped Polymer Films 2012
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presentations
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theses
- Direct force measurement of microscopic droplets pulled along soft surfaces. Nature Communications. 2022
- Capillary levelling of immiscible bilayer films. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2021
- Droplet migration on conical fibers. European Physical Journal E. 2021