Publications 2005 to present
2007
H.K. Chan, I. Dierking
Growth Dynamics of a Liquid Crystal at the Three- to Two-dimensional Crossover in a Hele-Shaw Cell
J. Phys. Chem. B, 111, 13383-13385.
I. Dierking, P. Cass, K. Syres, R. Cresswell, S. Morton
Electromigration of Microspheres in Ferroelectric Smectic Liquid Crystals
Phys. Rev. E, 76, 021707.
P. Archer, I. Dierking, M. Hird
Determination of the Landau Potential of Chiral Enantiomer Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Mixtures
Soft Matter, 3, 207-213.
T. Mullin, S. Deschanel, K. Bertoldi, M.C. Boyce
Pattern transformation triggered by deformation
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (8), 084301.
N. J. McCullen, T. Mullin and M. Golubitsky
Sensitive signal detection using a feed-forward oscillator network
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 254101.
J. Peixinho and T. Mullin
Finite-amplitude thresholds for transition in pipe flow
J. Fluid Mech. 582, 169-178.
J. R. T. Seddon and T. Mullin
The motion of a prolate ellipsoid in a rotating Stokes flow
J. Fluid Mech. 583, 123-132.
S. A. Jewell, P. Vukusic, and N.W. Roberts
Circularly polarised colour reflection from helicoidal structures in the beetle Plusiotis boucardi
New J. Phys. *9* 99.
H-G Yoon, N W Roberts and H F Gleeson
Accurate modelling of multilayer chiral nematic devices through Berreman 4x4 matrix methods
Journal of Physics: Applied Physics, accepted for publication.
Zuriguel I., Mullin T. and Rotter J.M.
Effect of particle shape on the stress dip under a sandpile
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 028001.
2006
A.G. Nasonov, S.V. Bronnikov, I. Dierking
A Statistical Study of the Kinetics of Phase Separation for a Liquid Crystalline Mixture
Russian J. Phys. Chem., 80, 427-431.
Mullin T. and Peixinho J..
Transition to turbulence in pipe flow
J. Low Temp. Phys. 145, 75-88.
Reis P.M., Sykes T. and Mullin T.
Phases of granular segregation in a binary mixture
Phys. Rev. E 74, 051306 .
T A Wood, H F Gleeson and M R Dickinson
Laser Manipulation in Liquid Crystals: an approach to microfluidics and micromachines
Phil Trans Royal Soc., 364, 2789-2805.
Jaradat, S., Roberts, N., Wang, Y., Hirst, L.S., and Gleeson, H.F.
Remarkably wide four-layer smectic phases in mixtures of liquid crystals and highly chiral dopants
J. Mat. Chem., 16, 3753-3761.
Archer, P., and Dierking, I.
A bent-core dopant induced smectic A* twist state
Liq. Cryst., 33, 257-265.
S J Cowling, A W Hall, J W Goodby, Y Wang and H F Gleeson
Examination of the interlayer strength of smectic liquid crystals through the study of partially fluorinated and branched fluorinated end groups
J. Mater. Chem, 16, 2181-2191.
Zuriguel, I., Gray, J. M. N. T., Peixinho, J. and Mullin, T.
Pattern selection by a granular wave in a rotating drum
Phys. Rev. E 73, 061302.
Yang, L., Seddon, J. R. T., Mullin, T., del Pino, C. and Ashmore, J.
The motion of a rough particle in a Stokes flow adjacent to a boundary
J. Fluid Mech., 557, 337-346.
Seddon, J. R. T. and Mullin, T.
Reverse rotation of a cylinder near a wall
Phys. Fluids, 18, 041703.
Yoon, H.-G., Roberts, N. W. and Gleeson, H. F.
An experimental investigation of discrete changes in pitch in a thin, planar chiral nematic device
Liquid Crystals, 33(4), 503-510.
McCullen, N. J. and Moresco, P.
Method for measuring unstable dimension variability from time series
Phys. Rev. E. 73, 046203.
Grigorenko, A. N., Gleeson, H. F., Zhang, Y., Roberts, N. W., Sidorov A. R. and Panteleev A. A.
An antisymmetric plasmon resonance in coupled gold nanoparticles as a sensitive tool for detection of local index of refraction
Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 124103.
Gleeson, H. F. and Hirst, L. S.
Resonant X-ray scattering: A tool for structure elucidation in liquid crystals
CHEMPHYSCHEM 7 (2): 321-328
Peixinho, J. and Mullin T.
Decay of turbulence in pipe flow
Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 094501
Dierking, I., Biddulph, G. and Matthews, K.
Electro-migration of micro-spheres in nematic liquid crystals
Phys. Rev. E, 73, 011702
Roberts N. W.
The optics of vertebrate photoreceptors: anisotropy and form birefringence
Vision Research, 46 (19), 3259-3266
Gleeson, H. F., Roberts, N. W., Conn, J., Jaradat, S. and Wang, Y.
Mechanisms of switching in an antiferroelectric liquid crystal device revealed by time-resolved x-ray scattering
Liquid Crystals, 33(4), 451-458
2005
Dierking, I. and San, S. E.
A Magnetically Steered Liquid Crystal - Nanotube Switch
Appl. Phys. Lett., 87, 233507
Roberts, N., Jaradat, S., Thurlow, M., Hirst, L., Wang, Y., Wang, S. T., Lui, Z., Huang, C. C., Jaiming, B., Pindak, R. and Gleeson, H. F.
Biaxiality and the temperature dependence of 3- and 4-layer intermediate smectic phase structures as revealed by resonant x-ray scattering
Europhys. Letts. 72(6) 976-982
Grigorenko, A. N., Geim, A. K., Gleeson, H. F. et al.
Nanofabricated media with negative permeability at visible frequencies
Nature 438 (7066) 335-338
Archer, P. and Dierking, I.
Experimental determination of the full Landau potential of bent-core doped ferroelectric liquid crystals
Phys. Rev. E, 72, 041713
Archer, P. and Dierking, I.
Quantitative experimental determination of the Landau-potential of chiral enantiomer doped ferroelectric liquid crystals
Eur. Phys. J. E 18, 373-381
Mullin, T., Li, Y., Del Pino, C. and Ashmore, J.
An experimental study of fixed points and chaos in the motion of spheres in a Stokes flow
IMA J. Appl. Math., 70, 666-676
Dierking, I.
Polarisation-Tilt Coupling of a Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal with Varying Molecular Configuration
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 17, 4403-4410
Conn, J., Roberts, N. W. and Gleeson, H. F.
Investigation into the effects of Optical Tilt Angle Profile, Biaxiality and Dispersion of the Optic Axis on the Calculation of SmC* Liquid Crystal Films.
Ferroelectrics, 315 (2005) 205-211
Dierking, I., Scalia, G. and Morales, P.
Liquid Crystal - Nanotube Dispersions
J. Appl. Phys., 97, (2005), 044309
Bronnikov, S. and Dierking, I.
Quench Depth Dependence of Liquid Crystal Nucleus Growth: A Time Resolved Statistical Analysis
Physica B, 358, (2005), 339-347
Dierking, I., Marshall, O., Wright, J. and Bulleid, N.
Annihilation Dynamics of Nematic Liquid Crystal Umbilics Under Applied Electric Fields
Phys. Rev. E, 71, 061709
Ashmore, J., del Pino, C. and Mullin, T.
Cavitation in a lubrication flow between a moving sphere and a boundary
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (12): art. no. 124501 APR 1 2005