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Capillary Assembly of Colloids: Interactions on Planar and Curved Interfaces
Iris B. Liu, Nima Sharifi-Mood, Kathleen J. Stebe
In directed assembly, small building clocks are assembled into an organized structures under the influence of guiding fields. Capillary interactions provide a versatile route for s…
Curvature capillary repulsion
Iris B. Liu, Giulia Bigazzi, Nima Sharifi-Mood +2
Directed assembly of colloids is an exciting field in materials science to form structures with new symmetries and responses. Fluid interfaces have been widely exploited to make de…
Capillary Interactions on Fluid Interfaces: Opportunities for Directed Assembly
Nima Sharifi-Mood, Iris B. Liu, Kathleen J. Stebe
A particle placed in soft matter distorts its host and creates an energy landscape. This can occur, for example, for particles in liquid crystals, for particles on lipid bilayers o…
Reply to the Comments on "Curvature capillary migration of microspheres" by P. Galatola and A. Wurger
Nima Sharifi-Mood, Iris B. Liu, Kathleen J. Stebe
We have studied microparticle migration on curved fluid interfaces in experiment and derived an expression for the associated capillary energy for two cases, i.e., pinned conta…
Curvature-driven, One-step Assembly of Reconfigurable Smectic Liquid Crystal "Compound Eye" Lenses
Francesca Serra, Mohamed A. Gharbi, Yimin Luo +5
Confined smectic A liquid crystals (SmA LCs) form topological defects called focal conic domains (FCDs) that focus light as gradient-index lenses. Here, we exploit surface curvatur…
Curvature Capillary Migration of Microspheres
Nima Sharifi-Mood, Iris B. Liu, Kathleen J. Stebe
We address the question: How does capillarity propel microspheres along curvature gradients? For a particle on a fluid interface, there are two conditions that can apply at the thr…
Capillary migration of microdisks on curved interfaces
Lu Yao, Nima Sharifi-Mood, Iris B. Liu +1
The capillary energy landscape for particles on curved fluid interfaces is strongly influenced by the particle wetting conditions. Contact line pinning has now been widely reported…
Shape-controlled orientation and assembly of colloids with sharp edges in nematic liquid crystals
Daniel A. Beller, Mohamed A. Gharbi, Iris B. Liu
The assembly of colloids in nematic liquid crystals via topological defects has been extensively studied for spherical particles, and investigations of other colloid shapes have re…