JOURNAL CLUB 2006


History:

Archive from 2005

Archive from 2004

Archive from 2003

Archive from 2002


Jan 13
Jin:"Biphasic Janus particles with nanoscale anisotropy" Kiung-ho Roh et al. nature materials VOL 4, 759 OCTOBER 2005 Link

Jan 20
Dan N.:"Stress Release Drives Symmetry Breaking For Actin-Based Movement" Gucht, Paluch, Plastino, Sykes PNAS, 102, 7847-7852 (2005) Link
Yi-Chia:"Orientational ordering and dynamics of rodlike polyelectrolytes" PRE 72, July 2005 Link

Jan 27
Gijsje:"An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output" J.E. Hirsch, PNAS 102 (2005) 16569-16572 Link
Dan B.:"Direct measurement of the free energy by optical microscopy" Roel P. A. Dullens, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, and Willem K. Kegel PNAS 103, 529 (2006) Link

Feb 03
Christoph:"Chaos and threshold for irreversibility in sheared suspensions" D. J. Pine, J. P. Gollub, J. F. Brady and A. M. Leshansky Link
Rodrigo:"Direct Observation of Nondiffusive Motion of a Brownian Particle" B. Lukic et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 160601 (2005) Link

Feb 10
Christian:Micro/Nano Encapsulation via Electrified Coaxial Liquid Jets I. G. Loscertales, A. Barrero,I. Guerrero, R. Cortijo,M. Marquez,3,4 A. M. Gan˜a´n-Calvo Link
Hans:L. Berthier, G. Biroli, J.-P. Bouchaud, L. Cipelletti, D. El Masri, D. L’Hote, F. Ladieu, M. Pierno "Direct Experimental Evidence of a Growing Length Scale Accompanying the Glass Transition" Science 310(16) p.1797, 2005 Link

Feb 17
Andy:"Electric field unbinding of solid-supported lipid multilayers" Constantin et al., 2005Euro Phys Lett (18) Link
Claudia:"Premelting at Defects Within Bulk Colloidal Crystals", A.M. Alsayed, M. F. Islam, J. Zhang, P.J. Collings, A. G. Yodh, Sience 309, 2005, p.1207-1210. Link

Feb 24
Katie: "Stochastic gene expression in a single cell" Elowitz, M. B., A. J. Levine, et al. (2002) Link

Mar 3
Jay:"Microoxen: Microorganisms to move microscale loads," Weibel DB, Garstecki P, Ryan D, DiLuzio WR, Mayer M, Seto JE, and Whitesides GM, PNAS 102 (34): 11963-11967 AUG 23 2005 Link

Mar 10
NECF

Mar 17
Xavier:"The structure and adhesive mechanism of octopus suckers" Kier WM, Smith AM INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 42 (6): 1146-1153 DEC 2002 Link
Ryan: "Jamming, two-fluid behavior, and "self-filtration" in concentrated particulate suspensions Haw MD, PRL 92 (18): Art. No. 185506 MAY 7 2004 Link

Mar 24
Jeremy:"Design and evolution of new catalytic activity with an existing protein scaffold." Park, H. S., S. H. Nam, et al. (2006) Science 311(5760): 535-8 Link
Chinedum: Stabilization of colloidal suspensions by means of highly charged nanoparticles PRL 93 (24): Art. No. 247802 DEC 10 2004 Link

Mar 31
Thomas:"Drop Splashing on a Dry Smooth Surface" Lei Xu, Wendy W. Zhang, Sidney R. Nagel Link
Louise: "A Mitotic Lamin B Matrix Induced by RanGTP Required for Spindle Assembly" Ming-Ying Tsai, Shusheng Wang,1 Jill Heidinger, Dale Shumaker, Stephen A. Adam, Robert D. Goldman, Yixian Zheng

Apr 7
Karen:"Non-viral gene delivery regulated by stiffness of cell adhesion substrates" Hyun Joon Kong, Jodi Liu, Kathryn Riddle, Takuya Matsumoto, Kent Leach, David J. Mooney Link
Jacy: "Contact time of a bouncing drop" Richard, Clanet, & Quere (2002) Nature 417: 811 Link

Apr 14
Amy:"Controlled Microfluidic Encapsulation of Cells, Proteins, and Microbeads in Lipid Vesicles" (2006) JACS by Yung-Chieh Tan, Kanaka Hettiarachchi, Maria Siu, Yen-Ru Pan, and Abraham Phillip Lee Link
Cliff: "Breaking the Spell, Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" by Daniel C. Dennett Link

Apr 21
Kenho:"Folding of viscous threads in diverging microchannels" T. Cubaud and T. G. Mason, PRL 96, 114501 (2006). Link
Alvaro:"Magnetic Colloidosomes Derived from Nanoparticle Interfacial Self-Assembly" H. Duan et al, Nano Letters, vol.5, no.5, 949-952 (2005) Link

Apr 28
Carlos:"Self-Propelled Leidenfrost Droplets" H. Linke et al. PRL, 96, 154502 (2006) Link
Chan:"Slaved diffusion in phospholipid bilayers" Liangfang Zhang, and Steve Granick ,PNAS June 28, 2005 vol. 102 no. 26 9118-9121 Link

May 5
Dave V.:"Confined Compression of a Tissue-Equivalent: Collagen Fibril and Cell Alignment in Response to Anisotropic Strain" J Biomech Eng. 2002 Oct;124(5):568-75 Link

May 12
Jiayu:"Microstructure and viscoelasticity of confined semiflexible polymer networks" M.M.A.E. Claessens, R. Tharmann, K. Kroy and A. R. Bausch Nature Physics 2, 186-189 (2006) Link
Jin:"Self-Organization of Bidisperse Colloids in Water Droplets", JACS, 127, 15968-15975 (2005). Link

May 19
Yi-Chia:"Banding in Entangled Polymer Fluids under Oscillatory Shearing", PRL 96, 196001 (2006). Link
Lietor-Santos:"Control of Drop positioning using Chemical patterning" APL 87 024103 (2005) Link

May 26
Marco:"Transient rheology of solvent-responsive complex fluids by integrating microrheology and microfluidics" Jun Sato and Victor Breedveld Journal of Rheology, 2006 Link
Dan N.:"An acidic protein aligns magnetosomes along a filamentous structure in magnetotactic bacteria" André Scheffel et al. Nature 440, 110-114 (2 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/nature04382 Link

Jun 2
Gijsje:"Engineering cooperativity in biomotor-protein assemblies" Diehl MR, Zhang K, Lee HJ, Tirrell DA. Science. 2006 Mar 10;311(5766):1468-71. Link
Dan B.:"Irreversible Shear-Activated Aggregation in Non-Brownian Suspensions" J. Guery, E. Bertrand, C. Rouzeau, P. Levitz,2 D. A. Weitz, and J.Bibette, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 198301 (2006) Link

Jun 9
NECF

Jun 16
Christoph:Hans Joachim Schöpe, Gary Bryant, and William van Megen: "Two-Step Crystallization Kinetics in Colloidal Hard-Sphere Systems" PRL 96, 175701 (2006) Link
Claudia:"Single-molecule force spectroscopy reveals signatures of glassy dynamics in the energy landscape of ubiquitin" Jasna Brujic, Rodolfo I Hermans Z., Kirstin A. Walther, Julio M. Fernandez Nature Physics, Vol.2, p. 282-286 (April 2006) Link

Jun 23
Katie:Louis and A. Kumar. The red rain phenomenon of kerala and its possible extraterrestrial origin. Astrophysics and Space Science, pages 1–13, 2006. Link
Rodrigo: Link

Jun 30
Ryan:Yield stress and thixotropy: on the difficulty of measuring a yield stress in practice, P. C. F. Møller et al, Soft Matter 2 (2006) Link

Jul 7
Christian:"Controlled Production of Monodisperse Double Emulsions by Two-Step Droplet Breakup in Microfluidic Devices" Shingo Okushima, Takasi Nisisako,* Toru Torii, and Toshiro Higuchi Langmuir 2004, 20, 9905-9908 Link
Xavier: Link

Jul 14
Toxic waste disposal seminar

Jul 21
Chinedum:"Suppression of Thermally Excited Capillary Waves by Shear Flow", PRL 97,038301 (2006) by Didi Derks, Henk Lekkerkerker, Arnout Imhof et al. Link
Hans:Measurement of Forces Inside a Three-Dimensional Pile of Frictionless Droplets J. Zhou, S. Long, Q. Wang, and A. D. Dinsmore Science 16 June 2006 312: 1631-1633 Link

Jul 28
Kosta: Link

Aug 4
Thomas: Link
Louise:Review on bacterial surface motility Link

Aug 11
Norm:"Nonlinear Elasticity in Biological Gels" by Cornelis Storm et al Nature (May 2005) Link
Jacy: "Soft Lubrication" J.M. Skotheim and L. Mahadevan (2004) PRL 92:24 (245509) Link

Aug 18
Amy:"Intermediate filament interactions can be altered by HSP27 and alphaB-crystallin" J Cell Sci (1999) 112:2099-112. Link

Aug 25
Jeremy:"Controllable Preparation of Monodisperse O/W and W/O Emulsions in the Same Microfluidic Device" J. H. Xu, S. W. Li, J. Tan, Y. J. Wang, and G. S. Luo Web Release Date: 18-Aug-2006 Link

Sep 1
Karen:"Ballistic intracellular nanorheology reveals ROCK-hard cytoplasmic stiffening response to fluid flow" Lee JS, Panorchan P, Hale CM, Khatau SB, Kole TP, Tseng Y, Wirtz D. J Cell Sci. 2006 May 1;119(Pt 9):1760-8. Link
Chan:"Spatially Controlled Chemistry Using Remotely Guided Nanoliter Scale Containers" Timothy Leong, Zhiyong Gu, Travis Koh, and David H. Gracias, JACS, 128, 11336 (2006) Link

Sep 8
Cliff: Link
Dave V.:"Affine Versus Non-Affine Fibril Kinematics in Collagen Networks: Theoretical Studies of Network Behavior", Preethi L. Chandran, Victor H. Barocas, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, April 2006, Vol. 128 Link

Sep 15
NECF

Sep 22
Enric:"Kinetically driven self assembly of highly ordered nanoparticlemonolayers" TERRY P. BIGIONI, XIAO-MIN LIN, TOAN T. NGUYEN, ERIC I. CORWIN, THOMAS A. WITTEN AND HEINRICH M. JAEGER Nature Materials 19 March 2006 Link
Rutesh:"Core-shell particles having silica cores and pH-responsive poly(vinylpyridine) shells" Rob Atkin, Melanie Bradley and Brian Vincent Soft Matter 1,160-165,2005 Link

Sep 29
Jiayu:"Cytoskeletal polymer networks: molecular structure of crosslinkers determine macrosopic properties" B. Wagner, R. Tharmann, I. Haase, M. Fischer, and A.R. Bausch Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., /published/ September 8, 2006, 10.1073/pnas.0510190 Link
Susumu:"Dynamics of Charged Microparticles at Oil-Water Interfaces" Chih-yuan Wu, Sowmitri Tarimala, and Lenore L. Dai Langmuir, 22, 2112 (2006) Link

Oct 6
Dan N.:"Solitary Modes of Bacterial Culture in a Temperature Gradient" H. Slman, A. Zilman, C. Loverdo, M. Jeffroy, A. Libchaber PRL 97, 118101 (2006) Link
Yi-Chia:"Exploring the mechanical properties of single vimentin intermediate filaments by atomic force microscopy" Guzman C, Jeney S, Kreplak L, Kasas S, Kulik AJ, Aebi U, Forro L J. Mol. Biol. (2006) 360, 623-630 Link

Oct 13
Anderson: "Vesicles surfing on a lipid bilayer: Self-induced haptotactic motion" Jérôme Solon, Pia Streicher*, Ralf Richter, Françoise Brochard-Wyart, and Patricia Bassereau PNAS, August 15, 2006, vol. 103, no. 33, 12382-12387 Link
Lietor-Santos: "Like-Charge attraction in confinement: myth or truth?" Jorg Baumgartl, Jose Luis Arauz-Lara & Clemens Bechinger Soft Matter 2 631 (2006) Link

Oct 20
Dan B.: "Satellite Gravity Measurements Confirm Accelerated Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet" J. L. Chen, C. R. Wilson, and B. D. Tapley Science 29 September 2006: 1958-1960 Link
Christoph: "Measured long-ranged attractive interaction between charged polystyrene latex spheres at a water-air interface" Wei Chen, Susheng Tan, Zhoushen Huang, Tai-Kai Ng, Warren T. Ford, and Penger Tong PHYSICAL REVIEW E 74, 021406 (2006) Link

Oct 27
Claudia: "Enzyme catalysed assembly of DNA hydrogel" Soong Ho Um, Jong Bum Lee, Nokyoung Park, Sang Yeon Kwon, Christopher C.Umbach, Dan Luo Nature Materials 5, 2006, p.797-801 Link
Katie: "Experimental characterization of hydrodynamic dispersion in shallow microchannels" Bontoux N, Pepin A, Chen Y, Ajdari A, Stone HA Lab Chip 6(7): 930-5 Link

Nov 3
Jin: "Janus and Ternary particles generated by Microfluidic Synthesis: Design, Synthesis and Self-Assembly" Zhihong Nie, Wei Li, Minseok Seo, Shengqing Xu, and Eugenia Kumacheva* JACS 128 9408 (2006) Link

Nov 10
Veteran's Day

Nov 17
Rodrigo: "Segment Distributions of End-Tethered Polymers in a Good Solvent" R. Lehner, J. Koota, G. Maret, and T. Gisler Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 107801 (2006) Link
Ryan: "Relaxation of jammed colloidal suspensions after shear cessation" Ianni F, Lasne D, Sarcia R, et al. PHYSICAL REVIEW E 74 (1): Art. No. 011401 Part 1 JUL 2006 Link

Nov 24
Thanksgiving holidays

Dec 1
NECF

Dec 8
Sabine: "Length Control of the Metaphase Spindle" Goshima G, Wollman R, Stuurman N, Scholey JM, Vale RD CURRENT BIOLOGY 15 (22): 1979-1988 NOV 22 2005 Link
Carlos: "Microfluidic Assembly of Homogeneous and Janus Colloid-Filled Hydrogel Granules" Shepherd, R. F.; Conrad, J. C.; Rhodes, S. K.; Link, D. R.; Marquez, M.; Weitz, D. A.; Lewis, J. A. Langmuir 22(21); 8618-8622 (2006) Link

Dec 15
Christian: "Catalyst–Substrate Coimmobilization: A Strategy for Catalysts Discovery in Split-and-Mix Libraries" Philipp Krattiger, Catherine McCarthy, Andreas Pfaltz, and Helma Wennemers Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 1722 – 1724 Link
Chinedum: Link