activity
20122026
most citedCapillary Assembly of Colloids: Interactions on Planar and Curved Interfaces

118 citations · 568 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Gelation of functional peptides by trivalent cations at the air-water interface

Stephen A. Crane, Felipe Jimenez Angeles, Monica Olvera de la Cruz +2

We report a mechanism for gelation at fluid interfaces driven by multivalent-cation-mediated bridging. At the air-water interface, peptides with bound lanthanide cations undergo a…

cond-mat.soft2026

A sweeping twist defect as a topological flagellum that drives colloid motion

Qi Xing Zhang, Claire Dore, Mojtaba Rajabi +2

Nematic liquid crystals can dramatically reconfigure under dynamic forcing, providing exciting opportunities in active matter. Here, we study a hybrid disk colloid rotated by an ex…

cond-mat.soft2025

Scallop Theorem for Swimming in Anisotropic Fluids

Mojtaba Rajabi, Enej Caf, Qi Xing Zhang +6

In isotropic fluids like water, micrometer-scale swimmers have evolved swim strokes to translate despite their tiny size. As described by Purcell in his Scallop Theorem, reciprocal…

cond-mat.soft2024

Interfacial Rheology of Lanthanide Binding Peptide Surfactants at the Air-Water Interface

Stephen A. Crane, Felipe Jimenez-Angeles, Yiming Wang +12

Peptide surfactants (PEPS) are studied to capture and retain rare earth elements (REEs) at air-water interfaces to enable REE separations. Peptide sequences, designed to selectivel…

cond-mat.soft2024

Swimmers at Interfaces Enhance Interfacial Transport

Jiayi Deng, Mehdi Molaei, Nicholas G. Chisholm +1

The behavior of fluid interfaces far from equilibrium plays central roles in nature and in industry. Active swimmers trapped at interfaces can alter transport at fluid boundaries w…

cond-mat.soft2022

Bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels with nearly uniform sub-micrometer domains via regulated co-solvent removal

Tiancheng Wang, Robert A. Riggleman, Daeyeon Lee +1

Porous materials possess numerous useful functions because of their high surface area and ability to modulate the transport of heat, mass, fluids, and electromagnetic waves. Unlike…