Recent Publications

• Entropic Crystal-Crystal Transitions of Brownian Squares, K. Zhao, R. Bruinsma, and T.G. Mason, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (online Early Edition - Jan. 31, 2011).

• Time-Dependent Nanoemulsion Droplet Size Reduction by Evaporative Ripening, M.M. Fryd and T.G. Mason, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1 3349-3353 (2010).

• Electrically Driven Multiaxis Rotational Dynamics of Colloidal Platelets in Nematic Liquid Crystals, C.P. Lapointe, S. Hopkins, T.G. Mason, and I.I. Smalyukh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 178301/1-4 (2010).

• Tensorial Generalized Stokes-Einstein Relation for Anisotropic Probe Microrheology, T.M. Squires and T.G. Mason, Rheol. Acta 49 1165-1177 (2010).

• Fluid Mechanics of Microrheology, T.M. Squires and T.G. Mason, Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech. 42 413-438 (2010).

• Shape-Controlled Colloidal Interactions in Nematic Liquid Crystals, C.P. Lapointe, T.G. Mason, and I.I. Smalyukh, Science 326 1083-1086 (2009).

• Frustrated Rotator Crystals and Glasses of Brownian Pentagons, K. Zhao and T.G. Mason, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 208302/1-4 (2009).

• Mesoscale Structure of Diffusion Limited Aggregates of Colloidal Rods and Disks, J.R. Rothenbuhler, J.-R. Huang, B.D. DiDonna, A.J. Levine, and T.G. Mason, Soft Matter 5 3639-3645 (2009).

• Scattering from Highly Packed Disordered Colloids. F. Scheffold and T.G. Mason, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21 332102/1-4 (2009).

• Suppressing and Enhancing Depletion Attractions Between Surfaces Roughened by Asperities, K. Zhao and T.G. Mason, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 148301/1-4 (2008).

• Nanoscale Double Emulsions Stabilized by Single-Component Block Copolypeptides, J. Hanson, C.B. Chang, S.M. Graves, Z. Li, T.G. Mason, and T.J. Deming, Nature 455 85-88 (2008).

• Shear Oscillation Light Scattering of Droplet Deformation and Restructuring in Concentrated Emulsions, J.-R. Huang and T.G. Mason, Europhys. Lett. 83 28004/1-5 (2008).

• Curvature Dependence of Viral Protein Structures on Encapsidated Nanoemulsion Droplets, C.B. Chang, C.M. Knobler, W.M. Gelbart, and T.G. Mason, ACS Nano 2 281-286 (2008).

• Roughness-Controlled Depletion Attractions for Directing Colloidal Self-Assembly, K. Zhao and T.G. Mason, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 268301/1-4 (2007).

• Irreversible Shear-Induced Elastic Vitrification of Nanoemulsions by Extreme Droplet Rupturing, J.N. Wilking and T.G. Mason, Phys. Rev. E 75 041407/1-5 (2007).

• Slippery Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, C.R. Seager and T.G. Mason, Phys. Rev. E 75 011406/1-4 (2007).

• Colloidal Alphabet Soup: Monodisperse Dispersions of Shape-Designed Particles, C.J. Hernandez and T.G. Mason, J. Phys. Chem. C 111 4477-4480 (2007).

Featured on the cover of the March 29, 2007 JPC C issue

Featured in Nature's Research Highlights [see Nature 446 586 (2007)].

Highlighted in Nature's Technology Features [see H.M. Birch, Cell Biology: Down to the Letter, Nature 446 940 (2007)].

Featured in over 30 web journals and tech blogs

• Swirling of Viscous Fluid Threads in Microchannels, T. Cubaud and T.G. Mason, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 264501/1-4 (2007).

AIP Gallery of Fluid Motion 2006 Award _ Invited Paper

• Nanoemulsions: Formation, Structure, and Physical Properties, T.G. Mason, J.N. Wilking, K. Meleson, C.B. Chang, and S.M. Graves, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18 R635-R666 (2006). (invited topical review article)

Featured in the "Top Papers of 2006" highlights by IoP

• Folding of Viscous Threads in Diverging Microchannels, T. Cubaud and T.G. Mason, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 114501/1-4 (2006). (published online - Nov., 2006).

Featured as "Viscous threads investigated in diverging microchannels" by P.R. Dittrich in Lab-on-a-Chip 6 707-709 (2006).

Featured in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology

• Dense Cluster Formation During Aggregation and Gelation of Attractive Slippery Nanoemulsion Droplets, J.N. Wilking, S.M. Graves, C.B. Chang, K. Meleson, M.Y. Lin, and T.G. Mason, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 015501/1-4 (2006).

• Shear-Induced Configurations of Confined Spherical Suspensions, I. Cohen, T.G. Mason, and D.A. Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 046001/1-4 (2004).

Other Selected Publications

1. Optical Measurements of the Linear Viscoelastic Moduli of Complex Fluids, T.G. Mason and D.A. Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 1250-1253 (1995).

2. Elasticity of Compressed Emulsions, T.G. Mason, J. Bibette, and D.A. Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 2051-2054 (1995).

3. Linear Viscoelasticity of Hard Sphere Suspensions Near the Glass Transition, T.G. Mason and D.A. Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 2770-2773 (1995).

4.   Emulsification in Viscoelastic Media, T.G. Mason and J. Bibette, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3481-3481 (1996).

5.  Particle Tracking Microrheology of Complex Fluids, T.G. Mason, K. Ganesan, D. Wirtz, J. H. van Zanten, and S.C. Kuo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3282-3285 (1997). (Featured as "Particle Tracking and Liquid Flow" in Science News, 151 (1997)).

6.  Concentrated DNA Rheology and Microrheology, T.G. Mason, A. Dhople, and D. Wirtz, MRS Proceedings on Statistical Mechanics in Physics and Biology 463, 153-158 (1997).

7.  Estimating the Viscoelastic Moduli of Complex Fluids Using the Generalized Stokes-Einstein Equation, T.G. Mason, Rheol. Acta. 39, 371-378 (2000).

8.  Light Streak Tracking of Optically Trapped Thin Microdisks, Z. Cheng, P.M. Chaikin, and T.G. Mason, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 108303/1-4 (2002). (Featured as "Bitty Beacon" by P. Weiss in Science News 162, 149 (2002) and Featured in Nature Physics Portal and Nature Materials Website, 9/5 - 9/11/2002).

9.  Osmotically Driven Shape Dependent Separations, T.G. Mason, Phys. Rev. E Rapid Comm. 66, 060402/1-4 (2002).

10. Rotational Diffusion Microrheology, Z. Cheng and T.G. Mason, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 018304/1-4 (2003).

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