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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…
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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…
Films of bacteria at interfaces: three stages of behaviour
Liana Vaccari, Daniel Allan, Nima Sharifi-Mood +3
Bacterial attachment to a fluid interface can lead to the formation of a film with physicochemical properties that evolve with time. We study the time evolution of interface (micro…
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…