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Archive from 2003

Archive from 2002

Presented papers:

January 7:
Ryan:"Spontaneous Formation of Mesostructures in Colloidal Monolayers Trapped at the Air-Water Interface: A Simple Explanation"Langmuir 2004, 20, 6977-6980.
Henry:"Persistent Holes in a Fluid," F. S. Merkt, R. D. Deegan, D. I. Goldman, E. C. Rericha, and H. L. Swinney Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 184501 (2004).

January 14:
Rodrigo:"Surface-Charge-Governed Ion Transport in Nanofluidic Channels Derek Stein," Maarten Kruithof, and Cees Dekker Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 035901 (2004)
Keunho: "The creeping motion of liquid drops through a circular tube of comparable diameter" by B.P. Ho and L.G. Leal J. Fluid Mech. (1975) vol71. 361

January 21:
Katie: "Microfluidic sorting of mammalian cells by optical force switching," Wang, M.M., et al. Nature Biotechnology, 2005. 23(1): p. 83-87.
Chan:"Slip and Flow in Soft Particle Pastes, PRL 92 198302 (2004)

January: 28:
Charles: "Optical Imaging of the Heart," I.R. Efimov, V.P. Nikolski,G. Salama, Circ. Res. July 2004.
Dave: "Scaling up animal movements in heterogeneous landscapes: the importance of behavior," Morales JM and Ellner SP, Ecology, 83(8), 2002, pp. 2240-7.

February 4:
Yi-Chia: "A bending mode analysis for growing microtubules: evidence for a velocity-dependent rigidity", biophysical journal, 87:2723-2736
Itai: "Hitler's Scientists" by John Cornwell

February 11:
Gijsje: "Single molecule visualizations of polymer partitioning within model pore geometries" Nykypanchuk D, Strey HH, Hoagland DAMACROMOLECULES 38 (1): 145-150 JAN 11 2005.
Paul: "Continous microfluidic immunomagnetic cell separation" Applied Phys Lett, Vol 85, number 21, Date 22 November 2004.

February 18:
Andy: "Experimental Evidence of a nonlinear transition from convective to absolute instability," P.Gondret et al.PRL Feb 1999.
Johan: "Protein and solvent dynamics: How strongly are they coupled?" J. Chem. Phys. 121 2004.

February 25:
Danly: "Self-Running Droplet: Emergence of Regular Motion from Nonequilibrium Noise," Yutaka Sumino, Nobuyuki Magome, Tsutomu Hamada, and Kenichi Yoshikawa, Phys Rev Lett 068301 (2005).
Hansly: "Suspension extraction through an opening before clogging"H. Goldsztein and J. C. Santamarina, Applied Physics Letters 85(19), p.4535 (2004).

March 4:
Xavier: "Hydrogel Control of Xylem Hydraulic Resistance in Plants," Maciej A. Zwieniecki, Peter J. Melcher, N. Michele Holbrook SCIENCE VOL 291, 9 FEBRUARY 2001, pp 1059-1062.
Alvaro: "Temperature-Sensitive Hybrid Microgels with Magnetic Properties," Andrij Pich, Sanchita Bhattacharya, Yan Lu, Volodymyr Boyko, and Hans-Juergen P. Adler, Langmuir, vol 20, pg 10706-10711, 2004.

March 11:
Karen: "Nuclear body movement is determined by chromatin accessibility and dynamics" PNAS, 101(36), 2004, 13221-13226.
Jaci:

April 1:
Peter Schall: "model describing shear deformation of a glassy system,"G. Picard, A. Ajdari, F. Lequeux and L. Boquet, Phys. Rev. E 71, 01050 (2005).
Cliff:

April 8:
Dave: review manuscipt
Henry: "Finger-length ratios and sexual orientation." Williams, T.J. et al.Nature. vol404: 455-6. (2000)

April 15:
Ryan H: "Elasticity and Critical Bending Moment of Model Colloidal Aggregates" John P. Pantina and Eric M. Furst Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 138301 (2005)
Rodrigo: "Colloidal interactions and self-assembly using DNA hybridization" Phys. Rev. Lett. *94*, 058302 (2005)

April 22:
Keunho: "Spontaneous detachment of oil drops from solid substrates: governing factors" V.L. Kolev et al. Journal of colloid and interface, science V.257 357 (2003)
Chan: "Novel emulsions stabilized by pH and temperature sensitive microgels" To Ngai, Sven Holger Behrens and Helmut Auweter,Chem. Commun., 2005, 331-333

April 29:
Peter Lu: "Equilibrium cluster formation in concentrated protein solutions and colloids", A. Stradner et al., _Nature_, vol 432, p. 492 (2004).
David V: "Age-related alterations in the fractal scaling of cardiac interbeat interval dynamics" N. Iyengar et al., Am. J. Physiol. 271, 1996.

May 6:
Marco: "Strong through to weak 'sheared' gels," Altmann N, Cooper-White JJ, Dunstan DE, et al.JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS 124 (1-3): 129-136 Sp. Iss. SI DEC 15 2004
Yi-Chia: "Force generation by dynamic microtubules", current opinion in cell biology,17, 67 (2005)

May 13:
Katie: "An experimental study of particle effects on drop formation". Furbank, R.J. and J.F. Morris,Physics of Fluids, 2004. 16(5): p. 1777-1790
Gijsje: "Microrheology from rotational diffusion of colloidal particles" E. Andablo-Reyes, P. Diaz-Leyva, JL Arauz-Lara, Physical Review Letters, 94 (2005) 106001

May 27
Dan: "Two-Dimensional Solitons on the Surface of Magnetic Fluids"Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 184503 (2005)
Ryan L: "Template-assisted self-assembly: A practical route to complex aggregates of monodispersed colloids with well-defined sizes, shapes, and structures" JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 123 (36): 8718-8729 SEP 12 2001

Jun 3
Jay: "Replicating vesicles as models of primitive cell growth and division", Martin M. Hanczyc and Jack W. Szostak, Current Opinion in Chemical Biology,2004, 8:660-664 Link
Hans: "Hydrogel Opals" Z.B. Hu, X.H. Lu, and J. Gao, Advanced Materials 13, 1708 (2001) Link

Jun 17
Jeremy: "Sex increases the efficacy of natural selection in experimental yeast populations" Goddard MR, Godfray HC, Burt A., Nature. 2005 Mar 31;434(7033):636-40. Link
Xavier: "Images of nanobubbles on hydrophobic surfaces and their interactions" James Tyrrell and Phil Attard, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 87 (17): Art. No. 176104 OCT 22 (2001) Link

Jun 24
Claudia: "Aggregation and Breakup of Colloidal Particle Aggregates in Shear Flow,Studied with Video Microscopy" V. A. Tolpekin, M. H. G. Duits, D. van den Ende, J. Mellema, Langmuir, 2004,20, 2614-2627 Link
Chinedum: "A Reversibly Switchable Surface" by Lahann et al., Science 2003 Link

Jul 1
Jacy Bird: Xu, L., Zhang, W. W. & Nagel, S. R. "Drop splashing on a dry smooth surface" Physical Review Letters 94 (2005) Link

Jul 8
Alvaro: Bernard P. Binks and John H. Clint, "Solid Wettability from Surface Energy Components:Relevance to Pickering Emulsions", Langmuir, 18, 1270-3, 2002. Link
Karen: "Optical rheology of biological cells" Wottawah F, Schinkinger S, Lincoln B, Ananthakrishnan R, Romeyke M, Guck J, Kas J. Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Mar 11;94(9):098103. Link

Jul 15
Rodrigo: "Scaling in the time domain: Universal dynamics of order fluctuations in Fe3Al" Science vol 308 pp. 1287-1291 Link
Henry: Michael C. Rogers and Stephen W. Morris, "Buoyant Plumes and Vortex Rings in an Autocatalytic Chemical Reaction." PRL, vol. 95, 2005 Link

Jul 22
Kenho:"Ordered and disordered patterns in two-phase flows in microchannels" Remi Dreyfus, Patrick Tabeling, and Herve Willaime PRL, vol 90, 144505, 2003 Link
Ryan: Pei Yu Chiou, et al., "Massively parallel manipulation of single cells and microparticles using optical images", Nature, 436, 370-372 (2005) Link

Jul 29
Cliff: Cytoskeletal remodelling and slow dynamics in the living cell" Nature Materials July 2005 Link
Chan: "Direct Fabrication and Harvesting of Monodisperse, Shape-Specific Nanobiomaterials" JACS 127, 10096 Link

Aug 5
Andy: "Lipid Corralling and Poloxamer Squeeze-out in membranes" PRL, 93, july 2004 Link
Jin: "Dense Packing and Symmetry in Small Clusters of Microspheres", Vinothan N. Manoharan, Mark T. Elsesser, and David J. Pine, Science, 301, 483-487 (2003) Link

Aug 12
Peter: "From old wars to new wars and global terrorism" N. Johnson et al. ArXiv (0506213) Link
David V.: "A contractile nuclear actin network drives chromosome congression in oocytes" Lenart et al., Nature, 11 August 2005 Link

Aug 19
Christoph: "On the limits of digital video microscopy" J. Baumgartl and C. Bechinger Europhys. Lett. 71, 487(2005) Link
Marco: "Isoenergetic Jamming Transition in Particle-Filled Systems" C. G. Robertson and X. Wang PRL 95, 075703 (2005) Link

Aug 26
Dan N.: "Osmotic Force-Controlled Microrheometry of Entangled Actin Networks" Uhde, Feneberg, Ter-Oganessian, Sackman, Boulbitch PRL 94, 198102 (2005) Link
Yi-Chia:"Mechanical shear can accelerate the gelation of actin filament networks", PRL 95, 048301 (2005) Link

Sep 2
Dan B.: "Colloidal Hard-Sphere Crystal Growth Frustrated by Large Spherical Impurities" Volkert W. A. de Villeneuve et al. Science 19 August 2005: 1231-1233 Link
Gijsje: "Direct visualization of colloidal rod assembly by confocal microscopy" A. Mohraz and MJ Solomon Langmuir 21 (2005) 5298-5306 Link

Sep 9
Seminar: "Rheology of complex fluids: Rheochaos and local velocimetry" Jean-Baptiste Salmon, CNRS researcher LOF

Sep 16
NECF

Sep 23
Hans:"Ionic colloidal crystals of oppositely charged particles" Mirjam E. et al. Nature 437, (2005) 235-240 Link
Ryan L.: "Giant Stress Fluctuations at the Jamming Transition" Didier Lootens et al. Prl 90,17 (2003) 178301-1 Link

Sep 30
Katie:"Electro-generation of single femtoliter-and picoliter-volume aqueous droplets in microfluidic systems." He, M., J. S. Kuo, et al. Applied Physics Letters 87: 031916 (2005) Link
Jay:"Controlling nonspecific protein adsorption in a plug-based microfluidic system by controlling interfacial chemistry using fluorous-phase surfactants" L. Spencer Roach et al. Analytical chemistry 77,3 pg: 785 (2005) Link

Oct 07
Chinedum: "Polymer Bridging Probed by Magnetic Colloids" by L. Cohen-Tannoudji et al. PRL 94, 038301 (2005) Link
Thomas:"Emergent patterns of growth controlled by multicellular form and mechanics" Nelson, et al. PNAS, v. 102, 11594, 2005. Link

Oct 14
Xavier: "Walking and orbiting droplets" Y. Couder, S. Protière, E. Fort and A. Boudaoud, Brief Communications Nature 437, 208 (8 September 2005) Dynamical phenomena Link
Jeremy:"Unusual microbial xylanases from insect guts", Brennan et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2004 Jun;70(6):3609-17 Link

Oct 21
Jacy B.:"Buckling instability induced by polymer solution drying" Pauchard and Allain, Europhys. Lett., 62 (6), pp. 897-903 (2003) Link
Karen: "A self-organized vortex array of hydrodynamically entrained sperm cells" Riedel IH, Kruse K, Howard J. Science. 2005 Jul 8;309(5732):300-3. Link

Oct 28
Louise: "Meniscus climbing insects" Hu DL, Bush JW, Nature 2005, Sep 29;437(7059):733-6. Link
Cliff: "Cell Fates as High-Dimensional Attractor States of a Complex Gene Regulatory Network" Sui Huang, Gabriel Eichler, Yaneer Bar-Yam, and Donald E. Ingber, PRL 94 April 1, 2005 Link

Nov 04
Kenho: "Microfluidic serial transfer circuit: Atomated evolution of RNA catalysts" B.M. paegel and G.F. Joyce microTAS 2005 conference proceeding
Ryan H.: "Microrheological detection of protein unfolding", R.S. Tu and V. Breedveld PHYSICAL REVIEW E 72, 041914 (2005) Link

Nov 11
Alvaro:"Beads-on-string phenomena in wormlike micellar fluids" M. C. Sostarecz and A. Belmonte, Phys. Fluids, 16(9), 2004, L67-L70 Link

Nov 18
Carlos: "Towards a medically approved technology for alginate-based microcapsules allowing long-term immunoisolated transplantation" J Mater Sci Mater Med. 2005 Jun;16(6):491-501 Link
Chan: "Colloidal Jamming at Interfaces: A Route to Fluid-Bicontinuous Gels", STRATFORD K, ADHIKARI R, PAGONABARRAGA I, et al.SCIENCE 309 (5744): 2198-2201 SEP 30 2005 Link

Nov 25

Dec 2
NECF

Dec 9
Peter: "Breaking the diffraction barrier in fluorescence microscopy at low light intensities by using reversibly photoswitchable proteins" M. Hofmann et al.,PNAS 102, 17565 (2005) Link
Dave V.:"Running on water: Three-dimensional force generation by basilisk lizards", by Hsieh and Lauder, PNAS, 101 (48), November 30, 2004 Link

Dec 16
Henry:"The origin of bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics" Barabasi, Nature, vol 435, pp. 207-211. (2005) Link
Marco:"Light scattered by model phantom bacteria reveals molecular interactions at their surface" Getta et al. PNAS 2005, vol.102,44,15866-15870 Link