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Where is the Air?

Dynamics of drop splashing

Folding sheets

Folding sheets are a form of soliton.

Glassy Dynamics

Mapping the glassy dynamics of soft spheres onto hard-sphere behavior

Superconducting Nanocrystals

Superconductivity in the films of colloidal nanocrystals

Squeezing a Film

Geometric Stability and Elastic Response of a Supported Gold Nanoparticle Film

Multicomponent Arrays

Multicomponent Arrays

Charge transport in arrays of multicomponent nanostructures

Hele Shaw

Granular Materials in a Hele-Shaw Cell

Gradients

Generating well-defined Gradients of Adhesion Molecules for the Attachment of Cells

Spin Blockade

Spin Blockade in a Colloidal CdSe Quantum Dot Solid

Gold Nanocrystal Membrane stretching across hole

Nanocrystalline Superlattices

Electronic Transport Properties of Artificial Solids

Splash

Splashless!!!

Bacteria

Spinning Bacterial Flagellum Makes Noise

Microfluidic Devices

A Microfluidic System for Controlling Reaction Networks in Time

Experimental Apparatus

Crystalline Granular Arrays

How an ordered sand-pack resists a push

Molecular Diodes

Molecular Diodes

A New Building Block for Molecular Electronics

Biochips

A more reliable and cost-effective method to perform laboratory tests

Self-Assembling Metal Wires

Decorating copolymer films with metals

Step Doubling of Ni(977)

Watching a microscopic reconstruction in real-time

Buckled Surfactant Monolayers

Folding and rippling in surfactant layers

Electrohydrodynamic Spout

How electric fields affect fluid flow

Dynamic Substrates

Special surfaces that can bind and release living cells

Pollen-Stigma Adhesion

Understanding the nature and role of cell adhesion in plants

Electrochromic Nanocrystals

Exploring the optical properties of tiny crystals

AFM of Staphylococcus Aureus

Can we predict antibiotic resistance via morphology?

Overlayer Templating

Rational design of interfacial structure

Granular Flow

Predicting behavior of granular materials

Polymer Alignment

Spontaneous organization of nanoscale structures

Proteins Fibrils Immobilized at SAMs

New route to nanostructured materials?

How a Sheet Crumples

Improving the design of future structural materials

Dynamical Heterogeneity

Controlling viscous fluids

Encapsulation of Islet Cells

A new approach for treating diseases

Quantum Annealing

Strategies for the design of quantum computers

Frictionless Beads

Can a Pile of Beads Hold Itself Up?

Nanocrystals with Dipoles

Wurtzite and Zincblende (Sphalerite) crystal Structures

Electric Dipoles

Shaping light emission with electric dipoles

Nanostripes II

Watching copolymer molecules organize themselves

The Coffee Ring Effect

Why do drying drops leave a ring stain?

Probing the Pinscape

The "Swiss Cheese" Condition

A Peek at the Superconducting "Pinscape"

The Step Doubling Effect

The Step Doubling Effect of Oxygen on Terraced Metal Surfaces

Magnetoresistive Devices

A silver compound controls electric current via magnetism

How Does Turbulence Sound?

Analyzing liquid helium using sound.

Metastable Crystallites

Can like-charged particles attract?

Nanostripes

Polymer Templates for Nanostructure Fabrication

Phonons

A Route to Understanding Forces at Extended Surface Defects

Viewing Granular Flow from Inside

Three dimensional convection patterns of poppy seeds

Giant Void in a Colloidal Crystal

Microscopic dynamics of the liquid-glass transition

Dynamics of Sand and Avalanches

Avalanche in a pile of mustard seeds

Diblock Copolymers

Self-assembled 6 nm gold islands on diblock copolymers

Size-Tuned Light from Single Nanocrystals

Fluorescence of single nanocrystals via two-photon excitation

Crumpling Thin Sheets

Stretching ridges in a crumpled sheet

Optical Tweezers

Forces between lightwave-sized particles

Holographic Optical Tweezers

Using light to manipulate small particles

Compositional Profile of Al-Li Alloy

SIMS compositional imaging

Structure in a Drop Falling from a Faucet

The breakup and control of drops and their satellites