Linda S. Hirst

Hierarchical self-assembly of actin bundle networks: gels with surface protein skin layers.

Morphology transition in lipid vesicles due to in-plane order and topological defects.

Fiber-optic trap-on-a-chip platform for probing low refractive index contrast biomaterials.

Tuning quantum-dot organization in liquid crystals for robust photonic applications.

Designing highly tunable semiflexible filament networks.

Magnetic field induced quantum dot brightening in liquid crystal synergized magnetic and semiconducting nanoparticle composite assemblies.

Self-assembled nanoparticle micro-shells templated by liquid crystal sorting.

Stability and instability for low refractive-index-contrast particle trapping in a dual-beam optical trap.

Effects of Low Concentrations of Docosahexaenoic Acid on the Structure and Phase Behavior of Model Lipid Membranes.

Biological physics: Liquid crystals in living tissue.

Plasmon-actuated nano-assembled microshells.

Phase Transition-Driven Nanoparticle Assembly in Liquid Crystal Droplets.

Modeling deformation and chaining of flexible shells in a nematic solvent with finite elements on an adaptive moving mesh.

Free-energy model for nanoparticle self-assembly by liquid crystal sorting.

Nanoparticle-based hollow microstructures formed by two-stage nematic nucleation and phase separation.

Membrane mediated motor kinetics in microtubule gliding assays.

Directed assembly of magnetic and semiconducting nanoparticles with tunable and synergistic functionality.

Evidence of chitin in the ampullae of Lorenzini of chondrichthyan fishes.

Colloidal aggregation in anisotropic liquid crystal solvent.

Fractal generation in a two-dimensional active-nematic fluid.

Colloidal structure and proton conductivity of the gel within the electrosensory organs of cartilaginous fishes.

Submersed micropatterned structures control active nematic flow, topology, and concentration.

Directional, Low-Energy Driven Thermal Actuating Bilayer Enabled by Coordinated Submolecular Switching.

Active nematic order and dynamic lane formation of microtubules driven by membrane-bound diffusing motors.