Coalescence is an essential phenomenon that governs the equilibrium behaviour in a
variety of systems from intercellular transport to planetary formation. In this report, we study …

We study edge fluctuations of a flat colloidal membrane comprised of a monolayer of aligned
filamentous viruses. Experiments reveal that a peak in the spectrum of the in-plane edge …

We present a Ginzburg-Landau theory of microphase separation in a bidisperse chiral
membrane consisting of rods of opposite handedness. This model system undergoes a …

We confine a colloidal liquid crystal between parallel plates separated down to several times
the rod length. By connecting the system to a reservoir we effectively create a grand …

We demonstrate that an achiral stretching force transforms disk-shaped colloidal
membranes composed of chiral rods into twisted ribbons with handedness opposite the …

This paper presents a softened notion of proximity (or self-avoidance) for curves. We then
derive a sensitivity result, based on shape differential calculus, for the proximity. This is …

Membrane-mediated particle interactions depend both on the properties of the particles
themselves as well as the membrane environment in which they are suspended …

2D fluid monolayer membranes of rod-like viruses spontaneously form in a mixture of rods
and polymers through depletion attraction. The rods are uniformly oriented within the bulk …

A challenge in studying membrane materials is that they almost always present themselves
as three-dimensional vesicles due to the length of the constituent particles. However, prior to …

Controlling the shapes of surfaces provides a novel way to direct self-assembly of colloidal
particles on those surfaces and may be useful for material design. This motivates the …