Jan 10:
Ming:Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles. Y. Sun and Y. Xia, Science 298, 2176-9 (2002).
Vernita:Galbraith and Sheetz, A micromachined device provides a new bend on fibroblast traction forces. PNAS, 94, 9114-9118 (August 1997)

Jan 17:
Galder:"A robust and scalable microfluidic metering method that allow protein growth by free interface diffusion" (C.L. Hansen, E. Skordalakes, J.M. Berger, S. Quake), PNAS, vol 99, no 26, 16531-16536

Jan 24:
Suliana:"Spontaneous Pertitioning of Particles into Cellar Structures in a Membrane System." Hajime Tanaka et al., PRL 89(16), 168303 (2002)
Margaret:

Jan31:
Rebecca:"Hydration-driven transport of deformable lipid vesicles through fine pores and the skin barrier" Biophysical Journal, 84, pp 1010-1024 (February 2003).
Maria:"Manipulation of single coiled DNA molecules by laser clustering of microparticles" Appl Phys Lett vol 80 pp 515-517 (January 2002).

Feb 7 :
Megan: "Micromechnical Mapping of Live Cells by Multiple-Particle-Tracking Microrheology", by Yiider Tseng, Thomas P. Kole, and Denis Wirtz which appeared in the Biophysical Journal (v. 83, p. 3162-3176) in December 2002.
Shang: December 2002 Science and January 2003 Nature articles on evolution of flight in birds.

Feb. 14:
Nicolas: Nature, Feb 13 2003, p 711. Brief communication on asymmetry in kissing.
Laura: "Attractive properties of sexual pheromones in mice: Innate or learned?," Physiology and Behavior, 77, 167 (2002). and "Ultrasensitive pheromone detection by mammalian vomeronasal neurons," Nature, 405, 792 (2002).

Feb. 21:
Jaci: "Glassy dynamics and flow properties of soft colloidal pastes." M. Cloitre et al. PRL 90, 68303, (2003).
Dave: "When jelly gets the blues: Audible sound generation with gels, and its origin." Christian Sinn. Preprint.

Feb. 28:
Darren: Whitesides lab work overview starting with "Using Hierarchical Self-Assembly to form three-dimensional lattices of spheres", H. Wu, et al., JACS, 48, 14495-14502 (2002).
You-Yeon:"Rapid Measurement of Protein Osmotic Second Virial Coefficient by Self-Interaction Chromatography" by P. M. Tessier et al., Biophys. J., 82, 1620-1631 (2002).

Mar 14:
Bivash:Entanglement Length, Mesh size and Elastic Plateau Modulus of semi-dilute actin solutions derived from QELS. Alois Popp, R Goetter, G. Gerisch, E. Sackmann and E. Frey. (Manuscript in prep)
Zhengdong:Y. Nahmad-Molinari & J. C. Ruiz-Suarez, "Epitaxial Growth of Granular Single Crystals", Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 2002, 264302-1-4.

Mar 28:
Peter S:Stability of Colloidal Quasicrystals, A.R.Denton and H.Loewen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 469 (1998).
Rebecca:Templating Organic Semiconductors via self-assembly of polymer colloids. R. Mezzenga et al. Science 299, 1872, 21 March 2003.

April 4
Cliff:
Eric: Bai, Pollard and Gao "Explanation for fracture spacing in layered materials" Nature 403 p753 (2000) Adda-Bedia and Ben Amar "Fracture spacing in layered materials" PRL 86 p5703 (2001)

April 11
Peter L.:I. Leizerson, S. G. Lipsn. A. V. Lyushin. "When larger drops evaporate faster." _Nature_ Vol. 422, p. 395-396, 27 March 2003.
Vernita:"Metallodielectric photonic structures based on polyelectrolyte multilayers" Tom C. Wang, Robert E. Cohen, and Michael F. Rubner Advanced Materials, 2002, 14, no. 21. "Multilayer nanoreactors for metallic and semiconducting particles" S. Joly, R. Kane, L. Radzilowski, T. Want, A. Wu, R E. Cohen, E. L. Thomas, and M. F. Rubner. Langmuir 2000, 16, 1354-1359

April 18
Galder: Laser-Induced Hydrodynamic instability of Fluid Interfaces. PRL 90,14,144503. Authors: Alexis Casner, Jean Pierre Delville
Ming:"Correlating Structural Dynamics and Function in Single Ribozyme Molecules", X. Zhuang et al., Science 296, 1473-1476.

April 25
Margaret:"Cell Death and Mechanoprotection by Filamin A in Connective Tissues after Challenge by Applied Tensile Forces" T. Kainulainen et. al. JBC Vol 277, No. 24 (June 14, 2002). with implications to: "Localized mutations in the gene encoding of the cytoskeletal protein filamin A cause diverse malformations in humans" Robertson et. al. Nature Genetics (March 3, 2003)

May 2:
Maria:X-ray structure of a voltage-dependent K^+ channel Youxing Jiang*, Alice Lee, Jiayun Chen, Vanessa Ruta, Martine Cadene, Brian T. Chait & Roderick MacKinnon Nature 423, 33-41 (1 May 2003) The principle of gating charge movement in a voltage-dependent K^+ channel Youxing Jiang*, Vanessa Ruta, Jiayun Chen, Alice Lee & Roderick MacKinnon Nature 423, 42-48 (1 May 2003)
Shang:Hsp90 as a capacitor for morphological evolution. Nature.

May 9:
Itai:Pressure driven flow of suspensions: simulation and theory. by P. R. Nott and J. F. Brady
Nicolas:Mechanical instability induced by complex fluid desiccation C. R. Physique 4 (2003) 231-239 Ludovic Pauchard and Catherine Allain

May 16:
Erwan:"Microfluidic Actuation Using Electrochemically Generated Bubbles", by Susan Z. Hua, Frederic Sachs, David X. Yang and Harsh Deep Chopra, Anal. Chem. 74, 6392-6396 (2002).
Johan:"Gelation in Physically Associating Polymer Solutions" by S.K. Kumar and J.F. Douglas, PRL 87, 188301-1 (2001).

May 23:
Laura:Giardini, P.A., Fletcher, D.A., Theriot, J.A. "Compression forces generated by actin comet tails on lipid vesicles," PNAS, 100, 6493-6498.
Andy:Microfluidic Memory and Control Devices, Groisman, A. et al. Science 2003, 300: 955-958

May 30:
Megan:"Brownian particles in supramolecular polymer solutions" J. van der Gucht, N.A.M. Bessling, W. Knoben, L. Bouteiller, and M.A. Cohen Stuart; appeared in PRE May 19, 2003, page 051106
Suliana:"Viscous Sintering Phenomena in Liquid-Liquid Dispersions," Phys Rev Lett 84, 2018 (2000).

June 6:
Dave:
Darren:Overview of Whitesides' group papers.

June 20
You-Yeon: "Slippery Questions about Complex Fluids Flowing past Solids," by S. Granick, Y. X. Zhu, and H. Lee (Nature Materials, 2(4): 221-227, April 2003).
Jaci:PRL 90, 236101 (2003) -- "Shearing or compressing a soft glass in 2d: time-concentration superposition", by Pietro Cicuta, Edward J. Stancik, and Gerald G. Fuller.

June 27
Rebecca:Bolhuis,Meijer, Louis. "Colloid-Polymer Mixtures in the Protein Limit".PRL 90, 068304 (2003).
Bivash:Lorenceau, Restagno and Quere, Fracture of a Viscous Liquid - PRL 90 184501 (2003)

July 11
Peter S:"Large difference in the elastic properties of fcc and hcp hard-sphere crystals" by S. Pronk and D. Frenkel.
Vernita: "Top 50 things a woman can do, #6", by Peter Lu. Glamour Magazine, July, 2003.

July 18:
Eric:K. Mangold, P. Leiderer and C. Bechinger, Phase transitions of colloidal monolayers in periodic pinning arrays, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 158302 (2003).
Zhengdong:B. Ambravaneswaran, S.D. Philips, Osman A. Basaran, "theoretical analysis of a dripping faucet", PRL, 85 (2000) 5332.

July 25:
Emily: "Controlling the Direction of Kinesin-Driven Mocrotubule Movements along Microlithographic Tracks, " Yuichi Hiratsuka et. al., Biophysics Journal, Sept. 2001, 61: 1555-1561.
Peter L:S. D. MacMillan et al. "In Situ Small angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) Studies of Polymorphism with the Associated Crystallization of Cocoa Butter Fat Using Shearing Conditions." _Crystal Growth and Design_. Vol 2, pp. 221-226 (2002).

August 1:
Ming:Measuring dipolar width across liquid-liquid interfaces with 'molecular rulers', W. H. Steel and R. A. Walker, Nature 424, 296-299.
Emma: "Shape bistability of a membrane neck: a toggle switch to control vesicle content release". PNAS, vol 100, no.15, 8698-8703 by Frolov, Lizunov, Dunina, Samsonov, Zimmerberg

August 8:
Andy:Optical Manipulation of Microscale Fluid Flow PRE, vol 91, Number 5, 8/1/2003 Garnier, N., Grigoriev, R. O., Schatz, M. F.
Johan:"Aging vs crystallization dynamics in hyperquenched glasses and a resolution of the water Tg controversy" by Y-Z Yue and C.A. Angell.

August 15:
Itai:The hydrodynamics of water strider locomotion by: David L. hu, Brian Chan, and John W. M. Bush Nature 424 p. 663-666
Shang:Spontaneous Cell Polarization Through Actomyosin-Based Delivery of the Cdc42 GTPase Science 299: 1231-1235

August 22:
Laura:"The structural basis for giant enhancement enabling single-molecule Raman scattering". The reference is: Wang, Z., Pan, S., Krauss, T., Du, H., Rothberg, L., PNAS, 100, 8638 (2003).
Darren:"Surface-driven switching of liquid crystals using redox-axtive groups on electrodes" by Yan-Yeung Luk and Nicholas L. Abbott from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at U of Wisconsin-Madison. It was published 1Aug2003 in Science on page 623.

August 29:
Rebecca:"Mechanisms of silk processing in insects and spiders" Nature 424, p1057 (28 August 2003).
Suliana:"Mixing and Condensation in a Wet Granular Medium," Phys Rev Lett 90 168702, April 25 2003

September 5:
Jaci:Peter Sheridan Dodds, Roby Muhamad, Duncan J. Watts, "An experimental study of search in global social networks," Science 301, 827 (2003) and Daniel M. Abrams and Steven H. Strogatz, "Modelling the dynamics of language death," Nature 424, 900 (2003).
Galder:Morphology and Scaling of Impact Craters in Granular Media; M. Walsh, D. E. Holloway, P. Habdas and J. R. de Bruyn Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 91, 10, (2003)

September 12:
Bivash:Fluctuating Particle Motion during Shear induced Granular Compaction Pouliquen, Belzons and Nicolas. PRL 91 014301 (2003)
Wolfgang: "On the Grier-Crocker/Tata-Ise Controversy on the Macroion-Macroion Pair Potential in a Salt-Free Colloidal Suspension" K.S.Schmitz et al., Langmuir 2003, 19, 7160-7163

September 26:
Eric:Video-speed electronic paper based on electrowetting by R.A. Hayes and B.J. Feenstra, Nature _425_ 383 (2003) and related papers....
Dave: Preprint on three-body interactions from laser tweezer measurements.

Oct 3:
Cliff:
Hans:D. Rudhardt et al. "Direct measurement of depletion potentials in mixtures of colloids and nonionic polymers" PRL 81(6), p. 1330 (1998) D. Wasan and A. D. Nikolov "Spreading of Nanofluids on solids" Nature 423, p.156 (2003)

Oct 10:
Peter L:
Jiayu:Structure of Actin Cross-Linked with alpha-Actinin: A Network of Bundles, O. Pelletier et al. Physical Review Letters, 91, 14.

Oct 17:
Ming:"A Reversibly Switching Surface", J. Lahann et al., Science 299, 371-374 (17 Jan 2003).
Zhengdong:"Double Emulsion: A Tool for Probing Thin-Film Metastability", PRL v87 (2001) P178304.

Oct 24:
Itai:
Shang:An Age-Induced Switch to a Hyper-Recombinational State Michael A. McMurray and Daniel E. Gottschling Science 2003 301: 1908-1911

Oct 31:
Rebecca:Weird stuff on Ball Lightning
Johan:preprint by Sharp and Forrest with the title: "Free surfaces cause reductions in the glass transition temperature of thin polystyrene films".

Nov 7:
Andy:The Aerodynamics of Free-Flight Manuvers in Drosophila, Fry, S. et al. Science 2003 300: 495-498
Peter S.:

Nov 14:
Laura:
Elise:Controlled vesicle deformation and lysis by single oscillating bubbles By: P. Marmottant and S. Hilgenfeldt (university of Twente, The Netherlands) Nature, 423, 153 (2003)

Dec 12:
Suliana:
Eric:Drying-mediated self-assembly of nanoparticles by E. Rabini, D. Reichman, P Geissler, and L Brus. Nature _426_ 271 (2003)

Dec 19:
Dan: Microfluidic sorting in an optical lattice. M. P. MACDONALD, G. C. SPALDING & K. DHOLAKIA. Nature 426, 421 27 November 2003
Charles:"Subwavelength-diameter silica wires for low-loss optical wave guiding".by Limin Tong, Rafael Gattas, Jonathan B. Ashcom, Sailing He, Jingyi Lou, Mengyan Shen, Iva Maxwell, and Eric Mazur. Nature, 426,p. 816-819, 18/25 Dec. 2003.