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Zvonimir Dogic
zdogic@brandeis.edu
781-736-2800
Office: Abelson-Bass-Yalem 216
Assistant Professor of Physics
Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2001
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My research covers several areas in complex fluids and biological physics. The objective of my research is to understand and control the self-assembly of matter on a colloidal length scale. The basic building blocks used are colloids of chemical or biological origin with well controlled spherical or rod-like shape and polymers with varying persistence length. The interactions between these components are well understood and can be modified in systematic ways. Despite the simplicity of these building blocks, they assemble into a variety of novel structures with unexpected complexity, e.g. 2D smectic phases, colloidal membranes, twisted chiral ribbons, and lamellar and columnar phases. These processes of self-assembly are under thermodynamic control and we use statistical mechanics to understand the final equilibrium structures. In the future we intend to study the assembly, phase transitions and dynamics of colloidal systems under non-equilibrium conditions.
Currently active topics include rods in shear flow, polymers in nematics, isotropic-smectic phase transition, chiral ribbons, 2D smectic phases, lamellar melting, and studies of the fd virus.
Sample of Recent Publications:
Z. Dogic and S. Fraden, , (to be published in Current opinion
in Colloid and Interface Science)
E. Barry, Z. Hensel, M. Shribak, R. Oldenbourg and Z. Dogic,
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(to be published in Physical Review Letters)
M. P. Lettinga, Z. Dogic, H. Wang and J. Vermant, , Langmuir, 21, 8048 (2005).
M. P. Lettinga, E. Barry and Z. Dogic, , Europhysics Letters, 71, 692, (2005).
Z. Dogic and S. Fraden, “Phase behavior of rod-like viruses and
virus-sphere mixtures”, to appear in Soft Matter, volume 2, Editors
Gerhard Gompper and Michael Schick.
A. M. Alsayed, Z. Dogic, and A. G. Yodh, , Phys. Rev. Lett., 93, 057801 (2004).
Z. Dogic, K. R. Purdy, E. Grelet, M. Adams and S. Fraden, , Phys. Rev. E., 69,
051702 (2004).
Z. Dogic, J. Zhang, A. W. C. Lau, P. Dalhaimer, H. Aranda-Espinoza, D. Disher, P. Janmey, R. D. Kamien,
T. C Lubensky and A. G. Yodh, , Phys. Rev. Lett., 92, 125503 (2004).
M. F. Islam, A. M. Alsayed, Z. Dogic, J. Zhang, T. C. Lubensky, and A. G. Yodh, , Phys. Rev. Lett., 92, 088303, (2004).
Z. Dogic, ,
Phys. Rev. Lett., 91, 165701, (2003).
K. R. Purdy, Z. Dogic, S. Fraden, A. Rühm, L. Lurio, S. G. J. Mochrie, , Phys. Rev. E., 67, 031708 (2003).
J. K. G. Dhont, M. P. Letting, Z. Dogic, T. A. J. Lenstra, H. Wang, S. Rathgeber, P. Carletto,
L. Willner, H. Frielinghaus and P. Lindner, , Faraday Discussions, 123, 157 (2003).
T. A. J. Lenstra, Z. Dogic and J. K. G. Dhont, , J. Chem. Phys., 114, 10151 (2001).
Dogic, Z. and S. Fraden,
, Phil. Tran. R. Soc. Lond. A. , 359, 997 (2001).
Dogic, Z. and S. Fraden, , Langmuir 16, 7820 (2000).
Dogic, Z., A.P. Philipse, S. Fraden, and J.K.G. Dhont, , J. Chem. Phys. 113, 8368 (2000).
Dogic, Z., D. Frenkel, and S. Fraden,
, Phys. Rev. E 62, 3925 (2000).
Adams, M., Z. Dogic, S.L. Keller, and S. Fraden, , Nature 393, 349 (1998).
Dogic, Z. and S. Fraden, , Phys. Rev. Lett., 78, 2417 (1997).
