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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…
December 16, 2021/Research
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…
September 09, 2019/Research
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…
January 23, 2019/Research
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…
April 07, 2015/Research
Photoluminescent nanowires
By growing core-shell nanowires and coating them with silver nanoparticles, we observed plasmon-exciton coupling through photoluminescence…
February 28, 2014/Research