Ephraim is a physicist trying to simplify complex systems
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A polycrystalline whorl state
When you rotate the particles of a normal crystal, what was once a stable structure can spontaneously fall apart into whorl-like patches…
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An odd colloidal liquid
A liquid made up of spinning particles behaves a lot like water - until you take a closer look. Working in the Irvine Lab at the…
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Granular statistical mechanics
How do you measure the temperature of a granular packing? To start, it turns out you need to measure the forces. Working with Karen Daniels…
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Quasicrystals in liquid crystals
When embedded in a nematic liquid crystal, we found that truncated pyramid-like particles with a pentagonal shape self-organized into…
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Photoluminescent nanowires
By growing core-shell nanowires and coating them with silver nanoparticles, we observed plasmon-exciton coupling through photoluminescence…
