JOURNAL CLUB 2007


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Jan 12
Tommy:"MORE IS DIFFERENT - BROKEN SYMMETRY AND NATURE OF HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF SCIENCE" SCIENCE 177 (4047): 393 (1972) Link
Hans:"Dilatant shear bands in solidifying metals" Nature 445, 05426 (2007) Link

Jan 19
Jacy:"Capillary origami: spontaneous wrapping of a droplet with an elastic sheet." C. Py, P. Reverdy, L. Doppler, J. Bico, B. Roman, and C.N. Baroud. 2007 Link
Kosta: "Automated trapping, assembly, and sorting with holographic optical tweezers" Stephen C. Chapin, Vincent Germain, and Eric R. Dufresne Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 26, pp. 13095-13100 Link

Jan 26
Jiayu: "The physical properties of biogels and their permeability for macromolecular drugs and colloidal drug carriers." N.N. Sanders, S.C. de Smedt, J. Demeester Journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 89, 835-849 (2000) Link
Lolo:"Reversible stress softening of actin networks" Ovijit Chaudhuri1, Sapun H. Parekh1 Daniel A. Fletcher Nature Vol 445| 18 January 2007 Link

Feb 02
Karen: "Nonequilibrium Mechanics of Active Cytoskeletal Networks," D. Mizuno, C. Tardin, C.F. Schmidt, F.C MacKintosh. Science, vol. 315, p370 Link
Chan: "Formation and evolution of sediment layers in an aggregating colloidal suspension" Myung Han Lee and Eric M. Furst Physical Review E 74, 031401 (2006) Link

Feb 09
Jeremy: Fuerstman, M. J., P. Garstecki, et al. (2007). "Coding/Decoding and Reversibility of Droplet Trains in Microfluidic Networks." Science. Link
Cliff: Link

Feb 16
Juanjo: Hynninen AP, Christova CG, van Roij R, van Blaaderen A, Dijkstra M Prediction and observation of crystal structures of oppositely charged colloids PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 96 (13): Art. No. 138308 APR 7 2006 Link
Giovanni: Dullens RPA, Aarts DGAL, Kegel WK Dynamic broadening of the crystal-fluid interface of colloidal hard spheres PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 97 (22): Art. No. 228301 DEC 1 2006 Link

Feb 23
Rhutesh: Alexander Sidorenko, Tom Krupenkin, Ashley Taylor, Peter Fratzl, Joanna Aizenberg Reversible Switching of Hydrogel-Actuated Nanostructures into Complex Micropatterns Science 315, 487 (2007) Link
Josh: Elizabeth A. Ottesen, et al. "Microfluidic Digital PCR Enables Multigene Analysis of Individual Environmental Bacteria" Science 314, 1464 (2006) Link

Mar 02
NECF

Mar 09
March Meeting APS

Mar 16
Amy: Sebastian J. Maerkl and Stephen R. Quake A Systems Approach to Measuring the Binding Energy Landscapes of Transcription Factors Science 12 January 2007 Vol. 315. no. 5809, pp. 233 - 237 Link
Mike: Tieying Gong, Jingyi Shen, Zhibing Hu, Manuel Marquez, and Zhengdong Cheng Nucleation Rate Measurement of Colloidal Crystallization Using Microfluidic Emulsion Droplets Langmuir, 2007, 23, 2919-2923 Link

Mar 23
Peter: D. Reinke, H. Stark, H.-H. von Gruenberg, A. B. Schofield, G. Maret and U.Gasser, "Noncentral Forces in Crystals of Charged Colloids," _Phys. Rev.Lett._ 98, 038301 (2007) Link

Mar 30
Dan B.: Science and art: A leap of faith Nature 446, 488-492 (29 March 2007) ; Link
Anderson: Mirjam E. Leunissen, Andrew D. Hollingsworth, Matthew T. Sullivan, and Paul M. Chaikin Electrostatics at the oil--water interface, stability, and order in emulsions and colloids PNAS, vol. 104, no.8, 2585-2590 Link

Apr 6
David V.: Link

Apr 13
Yi-Chia: Tharmann R, Claessens MMAE, Bausch AR "Viscoelasticity of Isotropically Cross-linked Actin Networks", PRL 98, 088103 (2007). Link
Katie: Andrey Sokolov, Igor S. Aranson, John O. Kessler, and Raymond E.Goldstein "Concentration Dependence of the Collective Dynamics of Swimming Bacteria, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 158102 (2007) Link

Apr 20
Claudia: Negative normal stress in semiflexible biopolymer gels PAUL A. JANMEY, MARGARET E. MCCORMICK, SEBASTIAN RAMMENSEE,JENNIFER L. LEIGHT, PENELOPE C. GEORGES AND FRED C.MACKINTOSH Nat. mat., vol 6, Jan 2007, p.48-51 Link
Ryan: Link

Apr 27
Jin: "Plastic and moldable metals by self-assembly of sticky nanoparticle aggregates" Rafal Klajn, Kyle J. M. Bishop, Marcin Fialkowski, Maciej Paszewski, Christopher J. Campbell, Timothy P. Gray, and Bartosz A. Grzybowski Science 13 April 2007 316: 261-264 SCIENCE 316, 261-264 (2007) Link
Rodrigo: "Hydrogels with Hydrophobic Surfaces: Abnormally High Contact Angles for Water on PNIPA Nanocomposite Hydrogels" Kazutoshi Haraguchi, Huan-Jun Li, and Noriaki Okumura Macromolecules; 2007; 40(7) pp 2299 - 2302 Link

May 4
Honey: "'A microengraving method for rapid selection of single cells producing antigen-specific antibodies' J Christopher Love et. al Nature Biotechnology, vol 24, # 6, June 2006 Link
Christian H.: Surface Engineering of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Microfluidic Devices Using Transition Metal Sol-Gel Chemistry Gregory T. Roman and Christopher T. Culbertson* Langmuir 2006, 22, 4445-4451 Link

May 11
Dan N.:Strong effects of molecular topology on diffusion of entangled DNA molecules. Rae M. Robertson and Douglas E. Smith, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA (2007) 104, 4824. Link
Enric: Elastic turbulence in a polymer solution flow A. Groisman and V. Steinberg Nature/ *405*, 53-55 Link

May 18
Chinedum: "Dilatant Flow of Concentrated Suspensions of Rough Particles" by Lootens, D., van Damme H., Hemar Y., and Hebraud P. PRL 95, 268302(2005) Link
Sarah: Two-Color Far-Field Fluorescence Nanoscopy Gerald Donnert,* Jan Keller,* Christian A. Wurm et al Biophysical Journal: Biophysical Letters 92 (8): L67. (2007) Link

May 25
Lei:"Making a splash with water repellency" Cyril Duez, Christophe Ybert, Christophe Clanet and Lydéric Bocquet1 Nature Physics 3, 180 - 183 (2007) Link
Christian S.: "Modular chemical mechanism predicts spatiotemporal dynamics of initiation in the complex network of hemostasis." C.J. Kastrup, M. K. Runyon, F. Shen, R. F. Ismagilov:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Oct 24;103(43):15747-52 Link

Jun 1
Hans: "Periodic Microfluidic Bubbling Oscillator: Insight into the Stability of Two-Phase Microflows", Jan-Paul Raven and Philippe Marmottant, Physical Review Letters 97, 154501 (2006) Link
Sabine: Network Biology: Understanding the cell's functional organization, A.-L. Barabasi, Z. N. Oltvai, Natrue Reviews/Genetics, vol. 5, Feb. 2004 Link

Jun 8
Tommy:" Conversion of amino-acid sequence in proteins to classical music:search for auditory patterns" Rie Takahashi and Jeffrey H Miller Genome Biology 2007, 8:405 Link
Kosta: "Polymeric Quasicrystal: Mesoscopic Quasicrystalline Tiling in ABC Star Polymers" Kenichi Hayashida, Tomonari Dotera, Atsushi Takano, and Yushu Matsushita Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 195502 (2007) Link

Jun 15
NECF

Jun 22
Jacy: H. Ritacco, F. Kefer, and D. Langevin. "Lifetime of Bubble Rafts: Cooperativity and Avalanches" PRL 98: 244501 (2007). Link

Jun 29
Lolo: Pedersen JA, Swartz MA 'Mechanobiology in the Third Dimension'Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 11, November 2005 (© 2005) pp. 1469~V1490 Link
Juanjo: Helbing D, Farkas I, Vicsek T Simulating dynamical features of escape panic NATURE 407 (6803): 487-490 SEP 28 2000 Link

Jul 6
Jiayu: Jonathan P. Celli, Bradley S. Turner, Nezam H. Afdhal, Randy H. Ewoldt, Gareth H. McKinley, Rama Bansil, and Shyamsunder Erramilli* "Rheology of Gastric Mucin Exhibits a pH-Dependent Sol-Gel Transition" Biomacromolecules, 8 (5), 1580 -1586, 2007. Link
Andy: Cubaud and Mason, "Swirling of viscous fluid threads in microchannels" PRL, 98, 264501 (2007) Link

Jul 13
Chan: Three-Dimensional Imaging of Colloidal Glasses under Steady Shear R. Besseling,1 Eric R. Weeks,2 A. B. Schofield,1 and W. C. K. Poon1 PRL 99, 028301 (2007) Link
Adam: "Elastic Instability and Curved Streamlines" Peyman Pakdel and Gareth H. McKinley, PRL V 77, No. 12 2459 (1996) Link

Jul 20
Rhutesh: Synthesis of monodisperse bicolored Janus particles with electrical anisotropy using a microfluidic co-flow system Nisisako T, Torii T, Takahashi T, Takizawa Y Advanced Materials 2006, 18, 1152-1156 Link
Mike: Colloidal Glass Transition Observed in Confinement C.R. Nugent, K.V. Edmond, H.N. Patel and E.R. Weeks Physical Review Letters 99, 025702 (2007) Link

Jul 27
Jeremy: Bacterial metapopulations in nanofabricated landscapes Juan E. Keymer, Peter Galajda, Cecilia Muldoon, Sungsu Park, and Robert H. Austin Link
Daeyeon: "Solvent-Resistant Photocurable "Liquid Teflon" for Microfluidic Device Fabrication" Jason P. Rolland, R. Michael Van Dam, Derek A. Schorzman, Stephen R. Quake, and Joseph M. DeSimone J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2004; 126(8) pp 2322 - 2323 Link

Aug 3
Peter: A reversible wet/dry adhesive inspired by mussels and geckos, Haeshin Lee, Bruce P. Lee & Phillip B. Messersmith Nature 448, 338-341 (19 July 2007) Link

Aug 10
Anderson: "Cascades of Trnasient Pores in Giant Vesicles: Line Tension and Transport" by Erdem Karatekin, Olivier Sndre, Hicham Guitouni, Nicolas Borghi, Pierre-Henri Puech and Francoise Brochard-Wyart" Biophysical Journal, Volume 84, March 2003, 1734-1749 Link
Karen: "MALLEABLE SKIN COLORATION IN CEPHALOPODS: SELECTIVE REFLECTANCE, TRANSMISSION AND ABSORBANCE OF LIGHT BY CHROMATOPHORES AND IRIDOPHORES" MTHGER LM, HANLON RT.CELL TISSUE RES. 2007 JUL;329(1):179-86. EPUB 2007 APR 5. Link

Aug 17
Rodrigo: Space intensity correlations in the near field of the scattered light: A direct measurement of the density correlation function g(r) Giglio M, Carpineti M, Vailati APHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 85 (7): 1416-1419 AUG 14 2000 Link
Amy: Forced unfolding of proteins within cells Johnson CP , Tang HY , Carag C , Speicher DW , Discher DE SCIENCE 317 (5838): 663-666 AUG 3 2007 Link

Aug 24
Sarah: Martin G L van den Heuvel and Cees Dekker: Motor Proteins at Work for Nanotechnology Science 317 (2007) 333-336 Link
Dave Vader: Nature Reviews Neuroscience 4, 158 (March 2003) | doi:10.1038/nrn1065 "In the news: A close shave" Heather Wood Link

Sep 7
Yi-Chia: Kerssemakers JWJ , Munteanu EL, Laan L (, Noetzel TL , Janson ME , Dogterom M Assembly dynamics of microtubules at molecular resolution Source: NATURE 442 (7103): 709-712 AUG 10 2006 Link
Katie:Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo, Román González-Prieto, Pascual Riesco-Chueca, Miguel A. Herrada1 & María Flores-Mosquera Focusing capillary jets close to the continuum limit Nature Physics Published online: 2 September 2007 | doi:10.1038/nphys710 Link

Sep 14
Lei: Richard L. Sandberg, Ariel Paul, Daisy A. Raymondson, Steffen Hdrich, David M. Gaudiosi, Jim Holtsnider, Ra'anan I. Tobey, Oren Cohen, MargaretM. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn "Lensless Diffractive Imaging Using Tabletop Coherent High-Harmonic Soft-X-Ray Beams", Phys. Rev. Lett.99, 098103 (2007). Link
Christian: Kohanski MA, Dwyer DJ, Hayete B, Lawrence CA, Collins JJ.A common mechanism of cellular death induced by bactericidal antibiotics. Cell. 2007 Sep 7;130(5):797-810.  Link

Sep 21
Claudia: An atomic force microscope tip designed to measure time-varying nanomechanical forces O. Sahin, S. Magonov, C. Su, C.F. Quate, O. Solgaard Nature Nanotechnology, Vol 2, 2007, p.507-514 Link
Hans: Statistics of Particle Trajectories at Short Time Intervals Reveal fN-Scale Colloidal Forces Sunil K. Sainis, Vincent Germain, and Eric R. Dufresne Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 018303 (2007) Link

Sept 27
NECF

Oct 5
Juanjo: Dullens RPA, Mourad MCD, Aarts DGAL, Hoogenboom JP, Kegel WK Shape-Induced Frustration of Hexagonal Order in Polyhedral Colloids Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 028304 (2006) Link
Sabine: "Physics, Computation, and Why Biology Looks so Different" J.J. Hopfield J. theor. Biol 171, 53-60 (1994) Link

Oct 12
Tommy:Long-lived giant number fluctuations in a swarming granular nematic. V. Narayan, S. Ramaswamy, N. Menon Science, V 317, p 105, July 2007. Link
Jacy: Vibration-Induced Climbing of Drops P. Brunet, J. Eggers, and R. D. Deegan Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 144501 (2007) Link

Oct 19
Elio: Ali Asgar S. Bhagat, Preetha Jothimuthu and Ian Papautsky, "Photodefinable polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) for rapid lab-on-a-chip prototyping", Lab Chip, 2007, 7, 1192~V1197 | 1193 Link
Lolo: Muscular Thin Films for Building Actuators and Powering Devices Adam W. Feinberg,1 Alex Feigel,2 Sergey S. Shevkoplyas,2 Sean Sheehy,1 George M. Whitesides,2* Kevin Kit Parker1* Link

Oct 26
Kosta: Link

Nov 2
Chan: Link
Adam: Link

Nov 9
Daeyeon: E. M. Herzig1, K. A. White1, A. B. Schofield, W. C. K. Poon & P. S. Clegg BICONTINUOUS EMULSIONS STABILIZED SOLELY BY COLLOIDAL PARTICLES Nature Materials Published online: 4 November 2007 | doi:10.1038/nmat2055 Link
Mike: C. Patrick Royall, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts & Hajime Tanaka Bridging length scales in colloidal liquids and interfaces from near-critical divergence to single particles Nature Physics 3, 636 - 640 (2007) Link

Nov 16
Karen: Garner EC, Campbell CS, Weibel DB, Mullins RD. Reconstitution of DNA segregation driven by assembly of a prokaryotic actin homolog. Science. 2007 Mar 2;315(5816):1270-4. Link
Rodrigo: How pre-melting on surrounding interfaces broadens solid.liquid phase transitions Hans Riegler & Ralf Khler Link

Nov 23
Thanksgiving Holiday

Nov 30
NECF

Dec 7
Peter: K. Fliessbach, B. Weber, P. Trautner, T. Dohmen, U. Sunde, C. E. Elger, and A. Falk, Social Comparison Affects Reward-Related Brain Activity in the Human Ventral Striatum. Science 318, 1305 (November 2007). Link
Rhutesh:D. Suzuki, S. Tsuji, and H. Kawaguchi, Janus Microgels Prepared by Surfactant-Free Pickering Emulsion-Based Modification and Their Self-Assembly. JACS 129, 8088 (July 2007). Link

Dec 14
Anderson: T. Nisisako and T. Torii, Microfluidic large-scale integration on a chip for mass production of monodisperse droplets and particles. Lab Chip, DOI: 10.1039/b713141k (2007). Link
Sarah: E.M. Purcell, Life at low Reynolds number, Am. J. Phys. 45, 3 (1977). Link