Recent and Current Researchers:
Yakov Lapitsky
Naa Larteokor Quarcoo
Selected Publications:
  • "Liquid crystals - Smoothing out the wrinkles", E. W. Kaler, Nature Materials, 4, 11 (2005).
  • "Polymerization of wormlike micelles induced by hydrotropic salt", S. Y. Liu, Y. I. Gonzalez, D. Danino and E. W. Kaler, Macromolecules, 38, 2482 (2005).
  • "Fibrous assemblies and water gelation in mixtures of lysine with sodium alkyl sulfates", Y. I. Gonzalez and E. W. Kaler, Langmuir, 21 (16): 7191 (2005).
  • "Two-dimensional Crystallization of Microspheres by Coplanar AC Electric Field", S. O. Lumsdon, O. D. Velev, and E. W. Kaler, Langmuir, 20, 2108 (2004).
  • "Formation of Surfactant and Polyelectrolyte Gel Particles in Aqueous Solutions", Y. Lapitsky and E. W. Kaler, Colloids and Surfaces A, 250, 179 (2004).
  • "Polymerization of and within self-organized media", H. P. Hentze, E. W. Kaler, Curr. Opin, Colloid Interf. Sci., 8, 164 (2003).
  • "Dielectrophoretic Assembly of Oriented and Switchable Two-dimensional Photonic Crystals", S. O. Lumsdon, E. W. Kaler, J. P. Williams and O. D. Velev, Appl. Phys. Lett., 82, 949 (2003).
  • "Structured Metallic Films for Optical and Spectroscopic Applications via Colloidal Crystal Templating", P. M. Tessier, O. D. Velev, A. T. Kalambur, A. M. Lenhoff, J. F. Rabolt and E. W. Kaler, Advanced Materials, 13, 396 (2001).
  • "Dielectrophoretic Assembly of Electrically Funiitonal Microwires from Nanoparticle Suspensions", K. D. Hermanson, S. O. Lumsdon, J. P. Williams, E. W. Kaler and O. D. Velev, Science, 294, 1082 (2001).
  • "A Class of Microstructured Particles Through Colloidal Crystallization", O. D. Velev, A. M. Lenhoff and E. W. Kaler, Science, 287, 2240 (2000).
  • "Templating Hollow Polymeric Spheres from Catanionic Equilibrium Vesicles: Synthesis and Characterization", C. A. McKelvey, E. W. Kaler, J. A. Zasadzinski, B. Coldren and H-T. Jung, Langmuir, 16, 8285 (2000).
  • "Assembly of Gold Nanostructured Films Templated by Colloidal Crystals and Use in Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy", P. M. Tessier, O. D. Velev, A. T. Kalambur, J. F. Rabolt, A. M. Lenhoff and E. W. Kaler, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 9554 (2000).
  • "Undulations in Salt-Free Charged Lamellar Phases Detected by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering and Neutron Reflectivity", G. Salamat, R. de Vries, E. W. Kaler, S. Satija and L. Sung, Langmuir, 16, 102 (2000).
  • "A Class of Porous Metallic Nanostructures", O. D. Velev, P. M. Tessier, A. M. Lenhoff and E. W. Kaler, Nature, 401, 548 (1999).
  • "In Situ Assembly of Colloidal Particles into Miniaturized Biosensors", O. D. Velev and E. W. Kaler, Langmuir, 15, 3693 (1999).
  • "Colloidal Dispersions in Lyotropic Lamellar Phases", G. Salamat and E. W. Kaler, Langmuir, 15, 5414 (1999).
  • "Colloidal Phase Transitions in Aqueous Nonionic Surfactant Solutions", R. D. Koehler and E. W. Kaler, Langmuir, 13, 2463 (1997).
  • "Interactions in Binary Mixtures: Partial Structure Factors in Mixtures of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Micelles and Colloidal Silica", S. R. Kline and E. W. Kaler, J. Chem. Phys., 105, 3813 (1996).
  • "Aggregation of Colloidal Silica by n-Alkyl Sulfates", S. R. Kline and E. W. Kaler, Langmuir, 12, 2402 (1996).
Patents:
  • "Miniaturized Immunosensor Assembled From Colloidal Particles Between Micropatterned Electrodes", US Patent 6,333,200.