Barry E, Beller D, Dogic Z. A model liquid crystalline system based on rodlike viruses with variable chirality and persistence length. Soft Matter. 2009;5:2563–2570.
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Peer-Reviewed Publications | 24 Publications
Honglawan A, Beller D, Cavallaro M, Kamien R, Stebe K, Yang S. Pillar-assisted epitaxial assembly of toric focal conic domains of smectic-A liquid crystals. Advanced Materials. 2011;23:5519– 5523.
Mosna R, Beller D, Kamien R. Breaking the rules for topological defects: Smectic order on conical substrates. Physical Review. 2012;86(011707).
Beller D, Gharbi M, Honglawan A, Stebe K, Yang S, Kamien R. Focal conic flower textures at curved interfaces. Physical Review. 2013;3:041026.
Popular press coverage: Scientific American, NSF News, Materials Views, discovery.com, phys.org.
Cavallaro M, Gharbi M, Beller D, Čopar S, Shi Z, Baumgart T, Yang S, Kamien R, Stebe K. Exploiting imperfections: Assembling surface colloids via bulk topological defects. PNAS. 2013.
Gharbi M, Cavallaro M, Wu G, Beller D, Kamien R, Yang S, Stebe K. Microbullet assembly: interactions of oriented dipoles in confined nematic liquid crystal. Liquid Crystals. 2013;40:1619–1627.
Honglawan A, Beller D, Cavallaro M, Kamien R, Stebe K, Yang S. Topographically induced hierarchical assembly and geometrical transformation of focal conic domain arrays in smectic liquid crystals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2013;110:34–39.
Beller D, Machon T, Čopar S, Sussman D, Alexander G, Kamien R, Mosna R. Geometry of the cholesteric phase. Physical Review. 2014;4(031050).
Lohr M, Cavallaro M Jr, Beller D, Stebe K, Kamien R, Collings P, Yodh A. Elasticity-dependent self-assembly of micro-templated chromonic liquid crystal films. Soft Matter. 2014;10:3477–3484.
Honglawan A, Kim D, Beller D, Yoon D, Gharbi M, Stebe K, Kamien R, Yang S. Synergistic assembly of nanoparticles in smectic liquid crystals. Soft Matter. 2015;11:7367–7375.
Beller D, Nelson DR. Plastic deformation of tubular crystals by dislocation glide. Physical Review. 2016;94(033004).
Beller D, Gharbi M, Liu I. Shape-controlled orientation and assembly of colloids with sharp edges in nematic liquid crystals. Soft Matter. 2015;11:1078–1086.
Tran L, Lavrentovich M, Beller D, Li N, Stebe K, Kamien R. Lassoing saddle splay and the geometrical control of topological defects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016;113:7106–7111.
Xia Y, Lee E, Hu H, Gharbi M, Beller D, Fleischmann E-K, Kamien R, Zentel R, Yang S. Better actuation through chemistry: Using surface coatings to create uniform director fields in nematic liquid crystal elastomers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2016;8:12466–12472.
Luo Y, Serra F, Beller D, Gharbi M, Li N, Yang S, Kamien R, Stebe K. Around the corner: Colloidal assembly and wiring in groovy nematic cells. Physical Review. 2016;93(032705).
Gim M-J, Beller D, Yoon D. Morphogenesis of liquid crystal topological defects of during the nematic-smectic A phase transition. Nature Communications. 2017;8(15453).
Beller D, Alards K, Tesser F, Mosna R, Toschi F, Möbius W. Evolution of populations expanding on curved surfaces. Europhysics Letters. 2018;123(58005).
arXiv bioRxiv
Luo Y, Beller D, Boniello G, Serra F, Stebe K. Tunable colloidal trajectories in nematic liquid crystals near wavy walls. Nature Communications. 2018;9(3841).
Popular press coverage: medium.com
Gharbi M, Beller D, Mood N, Gupta R, Kamien R, Yang S, Stebe K. Elastocapillary driven assembly of particles at free-standing smectic-A films. Langmuir. 2018;34(2006).
Sussman D, Beller D. Fast, scalable, and interactive software for Landau-de Gennes numerical modeling of nematic topological defects. Frontiers in Physics. 2019;7(204).
arXiv
Luo Y, Yao T, Beller D, Serra F, Stebe K. Deck the walls with anisotropic colloids in nematic liquid crystals. Langmuir. 2019;35(9274).
arXiv
Boniello G, Luo Y, Beller D, Serra F, Stebe K. Colloids in confined liquid crystals: a plot twist in the lock-and-key mechanism. Soft Matter. 2019;15(5220).
Chu S, Kardar M, Nelson DR, Beller D. Evolution in range expansions with competition at rough boundaries. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 2019;478(153).
arXiv
Suh A, Gim M-J, Beller D, Yoon D. Topological defects and geometric memory across the nematicsmectic A liquid crystal phase transition. Soft Matter. 2019;15(5835).
arXiv