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Circularization, photomechanical switching, and a supercoiling transition of actin filaments by Sanchez, T, Kulic, I M, Dogic, Z

“…We confine actin filaments onto a 2D surface using depletion interactions and show that this significantly increases the probability of intramolecular…”
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Condensation of isolated semi-flexible filaments driven by depletion interactions by Lau, A. W. C, Prasad, A, Dogic, Z

“…Using fluorescence microscopy, we directly visualize the condensed structures of individual semi-flexible actin filaments in a poor solvent. The condensation…”
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Development of model colloidal liquid crystals and the kinetics of the isotropic–smectic transition by Dogic, Z., Fraden, S.

“…We have prepared a homologous series of filamentous viruses with varying contour length using molecular cloning techniques. These viruses are monodisperse…”
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Self-diffusion of rod-like viruses in the nematic phase by Lettinga, M. P, Barry, E, Dogic, Z

“…We measure the self-diffusion of colloidal rod-like virus fd in an isotropic and nematic phase. A low-volume fraction of viruses are labelled with a…”
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Pair potential of charged colloidal stars by Huang, F, Addas, K, Ward, A, Flynn, N T, Velasco, E, Hagan, M F, Dogic, Z, Fraden, S

“…We report on the construction of colloidal stars: 1 microm polystyrene beads grafted with a dense brush of 1 microm long and 10 nm wide charged semiflexible…”
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Nematic nanotube gels by Islam, M F, Alsayed, A M, Dogic, Z, Zhang, J, Lubensky, T C, Yodh, A G

“…We report the creation of nematic nanotube gels containing large domains of isolated, oriented, half-micron-long, single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). We make…”
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Elongation and fluctuations of semiflexible polymers in a nematic solvent by Dogic, Z, Zhang, J, Lau, A W C, Aranda-Espinoza, H, Dalhaimer, P, Discher, D E, Janmey, P A, Kamien, Randall D, Lubensky, T C, Yodh, A G

“…We directly visualize single polymers with persistence lengths l(p), ranging from 0.05 to 16 microm, dissolved in the nematic phase of rodlike fd virus…”
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Counterion-mediated attraction and kinks on loops of semiflexible polyelectrolyte bundles by Cēbers, A, Dogic, Z, Janmey, P A

“…The formation of kinks in a loop of bundled polyelectrolyte filaments is analyzed in terms of the thermal fluctuations of charge density due to polyvalent…”
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Melting of lamellar phases in temperature sensitive colloid-polymer suspensions by ALSAYED, A. M, DOGIC, Z, YODH, A. G

“…We prepare a novel suspension composed of rodlike fd virus and thermosensitive polymer poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) whose phase diagram is temperature and…”
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Ordered phases of filamentous viruses by Dogic, Zvonimir, Fraden, Seth

“…This review will focus on the equilibrium and non-equilibrium phase behavior of colloidal suspensions of rod-like viruses. It will treat the simplest case…”
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Topology and dynamics of active nematic vesicles by Keber, Felix C., Loiseau, Etienne, Sanchez, Tim, DeCamp, Stephen J., Giomi, Luca, Bowick, Mark J., Marchetti, M. Cristina, Dogic, Zvonimir, Bausch, Andreas R.

“…Engineering synthetic materials that mimic the remarkable complexity of living organisms is a fundamental challenge in science and technology. We studied the…”
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Vorticity banding in rodlike virus suspensions by Kang, Kyongok, Lettinga, M P, Dogic, Z, Dhont, Jan K G

“…Vorticity banding under steady shear flow is observed in a suspension of semiflexible colloidal rods (fd virus particles) within a part of the…”
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Surface freezing and a two-step pathway of the isotropic-smectic phase transition in colloidal rods by Dogic, Zvonimir

“…We study the kinetics of the isotropic-smectic phase transition in a colloidal rod/polymer mixture by visualizing individual smectic layers. First, we show…”
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Cholesteric Phase in Virus Suspensions by Dogic, Zvonimir, Fraden, Seth

“…We report measurements of the cholesteric pitch and twist elastic constant (K 22) in monodisperse suspensions of the rodlike virus filamentous bacteriophage…”
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Entropy-driven formation of a chiral liquid-crystalline phase of helical filaments by Barry, Edward, Hensel, Zach, Dogic, Zvonimir, Shribak, Michael, Oldenbourg, Rudolf

“…We study the liquid-crystalline phase behavior of a concentrated suspension of helical flagella isolated from Salmonella typhimurium. Flagella are prepared…”
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Entropically driven microphase transitions in mixtures of colloidal rods and spheres by Fraden, Seth, Adams, Marie, Dogic, Zvonimir, Keller, Sarah L

“…Although the idea that entropy alone is sufficient to produce an ordered state is an old one in colloid science, the notion remains counter-intuitive and it is…”
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Smectic Phase in a Colloidal Suspension of Semiflexible Virus Particles by Dogic, Zvonimir, Fraden, Seth

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Flow Behavior of Colloidal Rodlike Viruses in the Nematic Phase by Lettinga, M. Paul, Dogic, Zvonimir, Wang, Hao, Vermant, Jan

“…The behavior of a colloidal suspension of rodlike fd viruses in the nematic phase, subjected to steady state and transient shear flows, is studied. The…”
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Enhanced stability of layered phases in parallel hard spherocylinders due to addition of hard spheres by Dogic, Z, Frenkel, D, Fraden, S

“…There is increasing evidence that entropy can induce microphase separation in binary fluid mixtures interacting through hard particle potentials. One such…”
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Erratum: Elongation and Fluctuations of Semiflexible Polymers in a Nematic Solvent [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 , 125503 (2004)] by Dogic, Z., Zhang, J., Lau, A. W. C., Aranda-Espinoza, H., Dalhaimer, P., Discher, D. E., Janmey, P. A., Kamien, Randall D., Lubensky, T. C., Yodh, A. G.

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