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Publications

Daniel A. Beller, Thomas Machon, Simon Copar, Daniel M. Sussman, Gareth P. Alexander, Randall D. Kamien, and Ricardo A. Mosna.
"Geometry of the cholesteric phase."
Phys. Rev. X 4 , 031050 (2014)

M.A. Lohr, M. Cavallaro Jr., D.A. Beller, K.J. Stebe, R.D. Kamien, P.J. Collings, and A.G. Yodh.
"Self-assembly of micro-templated chromonic liquid crystal films."
Soft Matter 10, 3477-3484 (2014)

D.A. Beller*, M.A. Gharbi*, A. Honglawan*, K.J. Stebe, S. Yang, and R.D. Kamien.
"Focal conic flower textures at curved interfaces."
Phys. Rev. X 3, 041026 (2013).

M. Cavallaro*, M.A. Gharbi*, D.A. Beller*, S. Copar, Z. Shi, T. Baumgart, S. Yang, R.D. Kamien, and K.J. Stebe.
"Exploiting imperfections: Assembling surface colloids via bulk topological defects."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 110, 18804-18808 (2013).

M. Cavallaro*, M.A. Gharbi*, D.A. Beller*, S. Copar, Z. Shi, T. Baumgart, R.D. Kamien, S. Yang, and K.J. Stebe.
"Ring around the colloid."
Soft Matter 9, 9099-9102 (2013).

M.A. Gharbi, M. Cavallaro, G. Wu, D.A. Beller, R.D. Kamien, S. Yang, K.J. Stebe.
"Microbullet assembly: interactions of oriented dipoles in confined nematic liquid crystal."
Liquid Crystals 40, 1619-1627 (2013).

A. Honglawan*, D.A. Beller*, M. Cavallaro., R.D. Kamien, K.J. Stebe, S. Yang.
"Topographically induced hierarchical assembly and geometrical transformation of focal conic domain arrays in smectic liquid crystals."
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 110 (1), 34-39 (2013).

R.A. Mosna, D.A. Beller, R.D. Kamien.
"Breaking the rules for topological defects: Smectic order on concial substrates."
Phys. Rev. E 86 (1), 011707 (2012).

A. Honglawan, D.A. Beller, M. Cavallero, R.D. Kamien, K.J. Stebe, S.Yang.
"Pillar-assisted epitaxial assembly of toric focal fonic domains of smectic-A liquid crystals."
Advanced Materials 23 (46), 5519-5523 (2011).

E. Barry, D. Beller, Z. Dogic
"A model liquid crystalline system based on rodlike viruses with variable chirality and persistence length."
Soft Matter 5, 2563-2570 (2009).