2015 – 2019

Wei, Y., M.J. Solomon, and R.G. Larson, “Time-dependent shear rate inhomogeneities and shear bands in a thixotropic yield-stress fluid under transient shear,” Soft Matter, 15, 7956 – 7967 (2019). 

Gasbarro, N.M. and M.J. Solomon, “Yield stress and rheology of a self-associating chitosan solution,” Rheologica Acta, 58, 729 – 739 (2019). 

Kao, P.K., VanSaders, B. J., Durkin, M. D., Glotzer, S. C. and M.J. Solomon, “Anisotropy effects on the kinetics of colloidal crystallization and melting: comparison of spheres and ellipsoids,” Soft Matter, 15, 7479 – 7489 (2019). 

Szakasits, M.E., Saud, K., Mao, X. and M.J. Solomon, “Rheological implications of embedded active matter in colloidal gels,” Soft Matter, 15, 8012 – 8021 (2019). 

Wei, Y., M.J. Solomon, and R.G. Larson, “Letter to the Editor: Modeling the nonmonotonic time-dependence of viscosity bifurcation in thixotropic yield-stress fluids,” Journal of Rheology 63(4) 673-674 (2019). 

Whitaker, K., Z. Varga, L.C. Hsiao, M.J. Solomon, J.W. Swan, and E.M. Furst, “Colloidal gel elasticity arises from the packing of locally glassy clusters,” Nature Communications (2019). 

Shemi, O. and M.J. Solomon, “Self-propulsion and active motion of Janus ellipsoids,” J. Phys. Chem. B 122(44) 10247-10255 (2018).

Adams, A.A., M.J. Solomon and R.G. Larson, “Nonlinear kinetic-rheology model for reversible scission and deformation of wormlike micelles,” Journal of Rheology, 62(6) 1419-1427 (2018).

Ferrar, J.A., D.S. Bedi, S. Zhou, P. Zhu, X. Mao, and M.J. Solomon,” Capillary-driven binding of thin triangular prisms at fluid interfaces,” Soft Matter, 14 3902-3918 (2018).

Solomon, M.J., “Tools and Functions of Reconfigurable Colloidal Assembly,” Langmuir 34 11205-11219 (2018).

Wei, Y., M.J. Solomon, and R.G. Larson, “A Multi-Mode Structural Kinetics Constitutive Equation for the Transient Rheology of Thixotropic Elasto-viscoplastic Fluids,” Journal of Rheology 62 (2018).

Ferrar, J.A., L. Pavlovsky, Y. Liu, E. Viges, and M.J. Solomon, “Two-step continuous production of monodisperse colloidal ellipsoids at rates of one gram per day,” AIChE Journal 64(2) 697-707 (2018).

Adams, A., X. Xia, M.J. Solomon, and R.G. Larson, “Concentration, salt and temperature dependence of strain hardening of step shear in CTAB/NaSal surfactant solutions,” Journal of Rheology 61, 967–977 (2017).

Hsiao, L.C., I. Saha-Dalal, R.G. Larson, Solomon, M.J., “Translational and rotational dynamics in dense suspensions of smooth and rough colloids,” Soft Matter 13(48) 9229-9236 (2017).

Ma, T.M., J.S. vanEpps, M.J. Solomon, “Structure, Mechanics, and Instability of Fibrin Clot Infected with Staphylococcus epidermidis,” Biophysical Journal 113(9) 2100-2109 (2017).

Silvera Batista, C., H. Rezvantalab, R.G. Larson, and M.J. Solomon, “Controlled Levitation of Colloids through Direct Current Electric Fields,” Langmuir 33 (41), 10861–10867 (2017).

Hsiao, L. C., Jamali, S., Glynos, E., Green, P. F., Larson, R. G., and Solomon, M. J. “Rheological State Diagrams for Rough Colloids in Shear Flow,” Physical Review Letters 119, no. 15 (2017): 158001.

Szakasits, M.E., W. Zhang, and M.J. Solomon, “Dynamics of fractal cluster gels with embedded active colloids,” Physical Review Letters 119, 58001 (2017).

Ganesan, M. and M.J. Solomon, “High-density Equilibrium Phases of Colloidal Ellipsoids by Application of Optically Enhanced, Direct Current Electric Fields,” Soft Matter 6, 557–562 (2017)

Stewart, E.J., D.E. Payne, B.R. Boles, J.G. Younger, M.J. Solomon, “Effect of antimicrobial and physical treatments on growth of multispecies staphylococcal biofilms,” Applied and Environmental Microbiology, (2017).

Wei, Y., M.J. Solomon, and R.G. Larson, “Quantitative nonlinear thixotropic model with stretched exponential relaxation in transient shear flows,” Journal of Rheology, 60 1301-1315 (2016).

Ganesan, M., S. Knier, J.G. Younger, and M.J. Solomon, “Associative and entanglement contributions to the solution rheology of a bacterial polysaccharide,” Macromolecules 49(21) 8313-8321 (2016).

McCarroll, L., M.J. Solomon, and W. Schultz, “Differential analysis of capillary break-up rheometry for Newtonian liquids,” J. Fluid Mechanics 804 116-129 (2016).

Kim, Y, A. Adams, W.H. Hartt, R.G. Larson, and M.J. Solomon, “Transient, near-wall shear-band dynamics in channel flow of wormlike micelle solutions,” J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 232 77-87 (2016).

Stotsky, Jay A., Jason F. Hammond, Leonid Pavlovsky, Elizabeth J. Stewart, John G. Younger, Michael J. Solomon, and David M. Bortz. “Variable Viscosity and Density Biofilm Simulations Using an Immersed Boundary Method, Part II: Experimental Validation and the Heterogeneous Rheology-IBM.” Journal of Computational Physics 316: 204–22 (2016).

Beltran-Villegas, D., Colón-Meléndez, L., M.J. Solomon, and R.G. Larson, “Kinetic modeling and design of colloidal lock and key assembly,” J. Colloid Interface Science 463 242-257 (2016).

Richardson, I.P., R. Sturtevant, M. Heung, M.J. Solomon, J.G. Younger, and J. Scott VanEpps, “Hemodialysis Catheter Heat Transfer for Biofilm Prevention and Treatment,” ASAIO Journal 62(1) 92-9 (2016).

K. Schwartz, M. Ganesan, DE Payne, M. J. Solomon & BR Boles, “Extracellular DNA facilitates the formation of functional amyloids in Staphylococcus aureus biofilms,” Molecular Microbiology, 99(1), 123-134 (2016).

Rahami, S., C.H. Villa, A.F. Dishman, M.E. Grabowski, D. Pan, H. Durmaz, A.C Misra, L. Colón-Meléndez, M.J. Solomon, V.R. Muzykantov, and J. Lahann, “Long-circulating Janus nanoparticles made by electrohydrodynamic co-jetting for systemic drug delivery applications,” Journal of Drug Targeting 23 750-758 (2015).

Lilian C. Hsiao, Benjamin A. Schultz, Jens Glaser, Michael Engel, Megan E. Szakasits, Sharon C. Glotzer & Michael J. Solomon, “Metastable orientational order of colloidal discoids,” Nature Communications, 6, 8507 (2015).

Elizabeth J. Stewart, Mahesh Ganesan, John G. Younger & Michael J. Solomon, “Artifical Biofilms establish the role of matrix interactions in staphylococcal biofilm assembly and disassembly,” Scientific Reports, 5, 13081 (2015).

Laura Colón-Meléndez, Daniel J. Beltran-Villegas, Greg van Anders, Jun Liu, Matthew Spellings, Stefano Sacanna, David J. Pine, Sharon C. Glotzer, Ronald G. Larson, and Michael J. Solomon. “Binding kinetics of lock and key colloids,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, 142 (2015).

Joseph A. Ferrar and Michael J. Solomon, “Kinetics of colloidal deposition, assembly, and crystallization in steady electric fields,” Soft Matter, 11, 3599-3611 (2015).

Pavlovsky, L., Sturtevant, R.A., Younger, J.G., and Solomon, M.J., “Effects of Temperature on the Morphological, Polymeric, and Mechanical Properties of Staphylococcus epidermidis Bacterial Biofilms,” Langmuir, 31(6), 2036-2042 (2015).

Shah, A.A., Schultz, B., Zhang, W., Glotzer, S., and Solomon, M.J., “Actuation of shape-memory colloidal fibres of Janus ellipsoids,” Nature Materials, 4, 117-124 (2015).