selected publications

• article

  • A Generalizable Approach to Direct the Self-Assembly of Functional Blue-Phase Liquid Crystals.  Advanced Functional Materials.  32:-. 2022-01-01
  • Serum zinc levels are associated with obesity and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in Mexican adults.  Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology.  73:-. 2022-01-01
  • Nucleation and growth of blue phase liquid crystals on chemically-patterned surfaces: A surface anchoring assisted blue phase correlation length.  Molecular Systems Design and Engineering.  6:534-544. 2021-01-01
  • Soft crystal martensites: An in situ resonant soft x-ray scattering study of a liquid crystal martensitic transformation.  Science Advances.  6:-. 2020-01-01
  • Perfection in Nucleation and Growth of Blue-Phase Single Crystals: Small Free-Energy Required to Self-Assemble at Specific Lattice Orientation.  ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.  11:9487-9495. 2019-01-01
  • Sculpted grain boundaries in soft crystals.  Science Advances.  5:-. 2019-01-01
  • Directed Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles onto Nematic Liquid Crystalline Defects Engineered by Chemically Patterned Surfaces.  ACS Nano.  11:6492-6501. 2017-01-01
  • Directed self-assembly of liquid crystalline blue-phases into ideal single-crystals.  Nature Communications.  8:-. 2017-01-01
  • Mesoscale martensitic transformation in single crystals of topological defects.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  114:10011-10016. 2017-01-01
  • Sharp Morphological Transitions from Nanoscale Mixed-Anchoring Patterns in Confined Nematic Liquid Crystals.  Langmuir.  33:12516-12524. 2017-01-01
  • Directed self-assembly of nematic liquid crystals on chemically patterned surfaces: Morphological states and transitions.  Soft Matter.  12:8595-8605. 2016-01-01
  • Biochemically and topographically engineered poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate hydrogels with biomimetic characteristics as substrates for human corneal epithelial cells.  Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A.  101 A:1184-1194. 2013-01-01
  • The influence of substrate topography on the migration of corneal epithelial wound borders.  Biomaterials.  34:9244-9251. 2013-01-01
  • Arrays of topographically and peptide-functionalized hydrogels for analysis of biomimetic extracellular matrix properties.  Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B:Nanotechnology and Microelectronics.  30:-. 2012-01-01

• chapter

  • Engineering the biophysical properties of basement membranes into biomaterials: Fabrication and effects on cell behavior.  Comprehensive Biomaterials II. 404-429. 2017-01-01
  • Engineering the biophysical properties of basement membranes into biomaterials: Fabrication and effects on cell behavior.  Comprehensive Biomaterials. 527-546. 2011-01-01

• conference paper

  • Thickness dependence of forming single crystal by liquid-crystalline blue phase on chemically patterned surface.  Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. -. 2018-01-01