Weeks Lab Publications & Preprints

Preprints:
• "Influence of particle size distribution on random close packing"
  KW Desmond and ER Weeks, submitted to Phys. Rev. E.
  • Abstract / PDF / arXiv:1303.4627
• "Affine and non-affine motions in sheared polydisperse jammed emulsions"
  J Clara-Rahola, TA Brzinski, D Semwogerere, K Feitosa, JC Crocker, J Sato, V Breedveld, and ER Weeks, preprint.
  • Abstract / PDF / arXiv:1204.5110

  2013:

• "Experimental study of forces between quasi-two-dimensional emulsion droplets near jamming"
  KW Desmond, PJ Young, D Chen, and ER Weeks, Soft Matter 9, 3424-3436 (2013).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1206.0070 / journal
• "Slow dynamics in cylindrically confined colloidal suspensions"
  N Saklayen, GL Hunter, KV Edmond, and ER Weeks, AIP Conf. Proc. 1518, 328-335 (2013).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1209.1108 / journal
• "Local elastic response measured near the colloidal glass transition"
  D Anderson, D Schaar, HGE Hentschel, J Hay, P Habdas, and ER Weeks, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 12A520 (2013).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1210.3586 / journal / copyright / web page related to this work
• "In search of colloidal hard spheres"
  CP Royall, WCK Poon, and ER Weeks, Soft Matter 9, 17-27 (2013). (DOI: 10.1039/c2sm26245b)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1205.6665 / journal

  2012:

• "Decoupling of rotational and translational diffusion in supercooled colloidal fluids"
  KV Edmond, MT Elsesser, GL Hunter, DJ Pine, and ER Weeks, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 109, 17891-17896 (2012)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / journal / related software
  • Publicity: Emory eScienceCommons / related movie
• "Measuring the size of individual particles from three-dimensional imaging experiments"
  R Kurita, DB Ruffner, & ER Weeks, Nature Comm. 3, 1127 (2012).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1112.1460 / journal
• "Melting colloidal crystals from the inside out"
  ER Weeks, Science 338, 55-56 (2012). (Perspective article)
  Abstract / PDF / citeulike / journal
• "Topological rearrangements and stress fluctuations in quasi-two-dimensional hopper flow of emulsions"
  D Chen, KW Desmond, & ER Weeks, Soft Matter 8, 10486-10492 (2012).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1105.3099 / journal
• "The physics of the colloidal glass transition"
  GL Hunter & ER Weeks, Rep. Prog. Phys. 75, 066501 (2012).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1106.3581 / journal
• "Influence of confinement on dynamical heterogeneities in dense colloidal samples"
  KV Edmond, CR Nugent, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 85, 041401 (2012).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1003.0856 / journal / web page related to this work
• "Free energy landscape for cage breaking of three hard disks"
  GL Hunter & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 85, 031504 (2012).
  Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1112.5128 / journal
• "On measuring colloidal volume fractions"
  WCK Poon, ER Weeks, and CP Royall, Soft Matter 8, 21-30 (2012).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1106.2566 / journal

  2011:

• "Tracking the Brownian diffusion of a colloidal tetrahedral cluster"
  KV Edmond, HJ Park, MT Elsesser, GL Hunter, DJ Pine, and ER Weeks, Chaos 21, 041103 (2011).
  • PDF / citeulike / related movie / journal / related software
• "Incompressibility of polydisperse random close packed colloidal particles"
  R Kurita & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 84, 030401(R) (2011).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1107.1765 / journal
• "Tracking rotational diffusion of colloidal clusters"
  GL Hunter, KV Edmond, MT Elsesser, & ER Weeks, Optics Express 19, 17189-17202 (2011).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1107.2614 / journal / related software
  • Publicity: Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics / related movie
• "Experimental verification of rapid, sporadic particle motions by direct imaging of glassy colloidal systems"
  JA Rodriguez Fris, GA Appignanesi, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 065704 (2011).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1103.1094 / journal / download our data
• "Two for one in a colloidal glass"
  ER Weeks, Physics 4, 61 (2011)
  • Online Viewpoint on article by Zheng, Wang, and Han / PDF
• "Glassy dynamics and dynamical heterogeneity in colloids"
  L Cipelletti & ER Weeks, book chapter in Dynamical Heterogeneities in Glasses, Colloids and Granular Materials, eds. L Berthier, G Biroli, J-P Bouchaud, L Cipelletti, & W van Saarloos (Oxford University Press, 2011).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1009.6089
• "Spatial and temporal dynamical heterogenities approaching the binary colloidal glass transition"
  T Narumi, SV Franklin, KW Desmond, M Tokuyama, & ER Weeks, Soft Matter 7, 1472-1482 (2011)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:0911.0702v2 / journal / web page related to this work / download our data

  2010:

• "Local influence of boundary conditions on a confined supercooled colloidal liquid"
  KV Edmond, CR Nugent, & ER Weeks, Europhys. J. Spec. Topics 189, 83-93 (2010).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1003.6117v2 / journal / web page related to this work
• "Microscopy of soft materials"
  ER Weeks, book chapter in Experimental and Computational Methods in Soft Condensed Matter, ed. JS Olafsen (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / Related links
• "The glass transition of two-dimensional binary soft disk mixtures with large size ratios"
  R Kurita & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 82, 041402 (2010).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:0910.2628v2 / journal
• "Experimental study of random close packed colloidal particles"
  R Kurita & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 82, 011403 (2010).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:1003.3965 / journal / supplemental material (particle coordinates) / data stored on eComploids
• "Complex dynamics of three interacting spheres in a rotating drum"
  JE Davidheiser, P Syers, PN Segre, & ER Weeks, Phys. Fluids 22, 033305 (2010).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:0907.1869 / journal / web page about this work
• "Microscopic structural relaxation in a sheared supercooled colloidal liquid"
  D Chen, D Semwogerere, J Sato, V Breedveld, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E. 81, 011403 (2010).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:0908.4226 / journal / download our data

  2009:

• "Random close packing of disks and spheres in confined geometries"
  KW Desmond & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 80, 051305 (2009).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:0903.0864 / journal / web page about this work / source code
• "The equilibrium crystal/liquid interface of colloids"
  J Hernandez-Guzman & ER Weeks, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 106, 15198-15202 (2009).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:0808.1576 / journal / web page about this work
  • Publicity: Analytical Chemistry news story / Physorg.com news story / YouTube video / Emory news release
• "Flow fields in soap films: Relating viscosity and film thickness"
  V Prasad & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 80, 026309 (2009)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:0905.1435 / journal / web page slightly related to this work
• "2D to 3D transition in soap films demonstrated by microrheology"
  V Prasad & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 178302 (2009)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:0807.4751 / journal / web page slightly related to this work
• "Quantitative imaging of colloidal flows"
  R Besseling, L Isa, ER Weeks, & WCK Poon, Advances in Col. Int. Science 146, 1-17 (2009)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:0807.4705 / journal

  2008:

• "Dynamics and structure of an aging binary colloidal glass"
  JM Lynch, GC Cianci, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 78, 031410 (2008).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:0807.0664 / web page slightly related to this work
• "From particles to spins: Eulerian formulation of supercooled liquids and glasses"
  C Chamon, LF Cugliandolo, G Fabricius, JL Iguain, & ER Weeks, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 105, 15263-15268 (2008).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / arXiv:0802.3297
• "Immersion of charged nanoparticles in a salt solution/air interface"
  P Dhar, V Prasad, ER Weeks, T Bohlein, & TM Fischer, J. Phys. Chem. B 112, 9565-9567 (2008).
  Abstract / PDF / citeulike / Journal webpage
• "Structure and dynamics of biphasic colloidal mixtures"
  A Mohraz, ER Weeks, & JA Lewis, Phys. Rev. E 77, 060403(R) (2008).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / Journal webpage / Lewis lab
• "Shear induced particle migration in binary colloidal suspensions"
  D Semwogerere & ER Weeks, Physics of Fluids 20, 043306 (2008).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / Journal webpage / copyright / web page about this work
  • Publicity: Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research

  2007:

• "Soft jammed materials"
  ER Weeks, book chapter in Statistical Physics of Complex Fluids, pp. 2-1 -- 2-87, eds. S Maruyama & M Tokuyama (Tohoku University Press, Sendai, Japan, 2007).
  • Abstract / preprint version PDF
  • If you want a bound copy of this, please send your address to weeks(at)physics.emory.edu and I'll happily mail you a copy
• "Colloidal glass transition observed in confinement"
  CR Nugent, KV Edmond, HN Patel, ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 025702 (2007).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / cond-mat/0601648v2 / web page about this work
  • Publicity: Physical Review Focus / Emory Report / digg.com
• "Three-dimensional imaging of colloidal glasses under steady shear"
  R Besseling, ER Weeks, AB Schofield, WCK Poon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 028301 (2007).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / cond-mat/0605247 / web page about this work
• "Structure of dense colloidal liquids in tight spaces"
  ER Weeks & CR Nugent, Rep. Inst. Fluid Sci. 19, 45-49 (Tohoku Univ., 2007).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / volume link / web page about this work
• "Aging of tetrahedral structure in a Lennard-Jones glass"
  GC Cianci & ER Weeks, Rep. Inst. Fluid Sci. 19, 51-56 (Tohoku Univ., 2007).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / volume link / web page about this work
• "Development of particle migration in pressure-driven flow of a Brownian suspension"
  D Semwogerere, JF Morris, ER Weeks, J. Fluid Mech. 581, 437-451 (2007).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page about this work
• "Short and long range correlated motion observed in colloidal glasses and liquids"
  ER Weeks, JC Crocker, DA Weitz, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 19, 205131 (2007)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page slightly related to this work / cond-mat/0610195 / Journal webpage / download our data
• "Semagenesis and the parasitic angiosperm Striga asiatica"
  WJ Keyes, AG Palmer, WK Erbil, JV Taylor, RP Apkarian, ER Weeks, & DG Lynn, The Plant Journal 51, 707-716 (2007).
  • Abstract - journal webpage / citeulike / web page about this work
• "Confocal microscopy of colloids"
  V Prasad, D Semwogerere, ER Weeks, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 19, 113102 (2007)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / Journal web page

  2006:

• "Contribution of slow clusters to the bulk elasticity near the colloidal glass transition"
  JC Conrad, PP Dhillon, ER Weeks, DR Reichman, DA Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 265701 (2006).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page about this work / Journal webpage
• "Two-particle microrheology of quasi-2D viscous systems"
  V Prasad, SA Koehler, ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 176001 (2006).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page about this work / cond-mat/0604262 / Journal webpage
  • Publicity: Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
• "A genetic toolbox for creating reversible Ca2+ sensitive materials"
  S Topp, V Prasad, GC Cianci, ER Weeks, & JP Gallivan, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 13994-13995 (2006)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / Supporting Infomation / Journal webpage / QuickTime movies / web page about this work
• "Correlations of structure and dynamics in an aging colloidal glass"
  GC Cianci, RE Courtland, & ER Weeks, Solid State Comm. 139, 599-604 (2006)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page about this work / cond-mat/0512698 / Journal webpage / download our data
• "Experimental studies of the flow of concentrated hard sphere suspensions into a constriction
  L Isa, R Besseling, ER Weeks, & WCK Poon, J. Phys.:Conference Series 40, 124-132 (2006).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page slightly related to this work
• "Invariance of structure in an aging colloidal glass"
  GC Cianci, RE Courtland, & ER Weeks, AIP Conf. Proc. 832: Flow Dynamics: The Second International Conference on Flow Dynamics, eds. M Tokuyama & S Maruyama, pp. 21-25 (2006).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page about this work / cond-mat/0511301 / copyright / AIP article link / download our data
• "Squishy materials"
  P Habdas, ER Weeks, & DG Lynn, The Physics Teacher 44, 276-279 (May 2006).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page about this work / EPAPS information (extra materials online)
  • Publicity: AAPT News "Recommended Reading" (June 2006) / Selected for free access at TPT website

  2005:

• "Confocal microscopy"
  D Semwogerere & ER Weeks, Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (Taylor & Francis, 2005).
  • Abstract / PDF / Direct link to web article / web page about this work
• "Phase behavior and 3D structure of strongly attractive microsphere-nanoparticle mixtures"
  JF Gilchrist, AT Chan, ER Weeks, & JA Lewis, Langmuir 21, 11040-11047 (2005).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page about this work (Lewis group)
• "Interparticle interactions and direct imaging of colloidal phases assembled from microsphere-nanoparticle mixtures"
  CJ Martinez, J Liu, SK Rhodes, E Luijten, ER Weeks, & JA Lewis, Langmuir 21, 9978-9989 (2005).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / journal / web page about this work (Lewis group)
• "Conformations of laulimalide in DMSO-d6"
  P Thepchatri, DO Cicero, E Monteagudo, AK Ghosh, B Cornett, ER Weeks, & JP Snyder, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 12838-12846 (2005).
  • Abstract / PDF / Jim Snyder

  2004:

• "Forced motion of a probe particle near the colloidal glass transition"
  P Habdas, D Schaar, AC Levitt, & ER Weeks, Europhys. Lett. 67, 477-483 (2004).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page about this work / cond-mat/0308622
• "Foam drainage on the microscale. Part 2: Imaging flow through single Plateau borders"
  SA Koehler, S Hilgenfeldt, ER Weeks, & HA Stone, J. Coll. Interf. Sci. 276, 439-449 (2004).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page about this work
• "Anomalous diffusion probes microstructure dynamics of entangled F-actin networks"
  IY Wong, ML Gardel, DR Reichman, ER Weeks, MT Valentine, AR Bausch, DA Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 178101 (2004)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page about this work

  2003:

• "Particle migration in pressure-driven flow of a Brownian suspension"
  M Frank, D Anderson, ER Weeks, & JF Morris, J. Fluid Mech. 493, 363-378 (2003)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page about this work
• "Direct visualization of ageing in colloidal glasses"
  RE Courtland & ER Weeks, J Phys: Cond Mat 15, S359-S365 (2003)
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page about this work / cond-mat/0209148 / download our data

  2002:

• "Video microscopy of colloidal suspensions and colloidal crystals"
  P Habdas & ER Weeks, Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Sci. 7, 196-203 (2002).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / cond-mat/0204507
• "Drainage of single Plateau borders: direct observation of rigid and mobile interfaces"
  SA Koehler, S Hilgenfeldt, ER Weeks, & HA Stone, Phys. Rev. E 66, 040601 (2002).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / postscript version / web page about this work

Publications from Harvard & U Penn (postdoctoral work of Eric Weeks)

• "Rheological microscopy: Local mechnical properties from microrheology"
  DT Chen, ER Weeks, JC Crocker, MF Islam, R Verma, J Gruber, AJ Levine, TC Lubensky, & AG Yodh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 108301 (2003).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page related to this work
• "Properties of cage rearrangements observed near the colloidal glass transition"
  ER Weeks & DA Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 095704 (2002).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / download our data
• "Subdiffusion and the cage effect studied near the colloidal glass transition"
  ER Weeks & DA Weitz, Chemical Physics 284, 361 (2002).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / cond-mat/0111073 / download our data
• "Real space imaging of nucleation and growth in colloidal crystallization"
  U Gasser, ER Weeks, A Schofield, PN Pusey, & DA Weitz, Science 292, 258 (2001).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page related to this work
• "Three-dimensional confocal microscopy of colloids"
  AD Dinsmore, ER Weeks, V Prasad, AC Levitt, & DA Weitz, App. Optics 40, 4152-4159 (2001).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike
• "Three-dimensional direct imaging of structural relaxation near the colloidal glass transition"
  ER Weeks, JC Crocker, AC Levitt, A Schofield, & DA Weitz, Science 287, 627 (2000).
  
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page related to this work / download our data
  • Publicity: Physics Web article
• "Two-point microrheology of inhomogeneous soft materials"
  JC Crocker, MT Valentine, ER Weeks, T Gisler, PD Kaplan, AG Yodh, & DA Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 888 (2000).
  
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page related to this work

• Dissertation: "Experimental studies of anomalous diffusion, blocking phenomena, and two-dimensional turbulence"
  ER Weeks, December 1997
  • Abstract / PDF (5 MB)
• "Experimental and numerical studies of an eastward jet over topography"
  Y Tian, ER Weeks, K Ide, JS Urbach, CN Baroud, M Ghil, & HL Swinney, J. Fluid Mech. 438, 129-157 (2001).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike
• "Anomalous diffusion resulting from strongly asymmetric random walks,"
  ER Weeks & HL Swinney, Phys. Rev. E 57, 4915-4920 (1998).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / postscript, gzip'd / web page describing this research
• "Anomalous diffusion in quasi-geostrophic flow"
  JS Urbach, ER Weeks, & HL Swinney, in Chaos, Kinetics, and Nonlinear Dynamics in Fluids and Plasmas, eds. S Benkadda & G Zaslavsky (Springer-Verlag, 1998), pp. 171-197.
  • Abstract / postscript, gzip'd / postscript, zip file / postscript, uncompressed
• Random walks and Levy flights observed in fluid flows
  ER Weeks & HL Swinney, formerly online at Nonlinear Science Today (Springer-Verlag, 1998). Now only available here!
  • Abstract / PDF / postscript version, gzip'd
• "Transitions between blocked and zonal flows in a rotating annulus with topography,"
  ER Weeks, Y Tian, JS Urbach, K Ide, HL Swinney, & M Ghil, Science 278, 1598-1601 (1997).
  
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page describing this research
• "Evolving artificial neural networks to control chaos,"
  ER Weeks & JM Burgess, Phys. Rev. E 56, 1531-1540 (1997).
  
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / postscript version / web page describing this research
  • You can download the program that we used, with some documentation.
• "Why electric field line diagrams don't work,"
  A Wolf, SJ VanHook, & ER Weeks, Am. Jour. Phys. 64, 714-724 (1996).
  
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike
• "Anomalous diffusion in asymmetric random walks with a quasi-geostrophic flow example,"
  ER Weeks, JS Urbach, & HL Swinney, Physica D 97, 291-310 (1996).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page describing this research
• "Observation of anomalous diffusion and Levy flights"
  ER Weeks, TH Solomon, JS Urbach, & HL Swinney, in Levy Flights and Related Phenomena in Physics, eds. GM Zaslavsky, MS Shlesinger, & U Frisch (Springer-Verlag, 1995).
  • Abstract
• Chaotic advection in a two-dimensional flow: Levy flights and anomalous diffusion
  TH Solomon, ER Weeks, & HL Swinney, Physica D 76, 70-84 (1994).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page describing this research
• "Observations of anomalous diffusion and Levy flights in a 2-dimensional rotating flow,"
  TH Solomon, ER Weeks, & HL Swinney, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 3975-3979 (1993).
  • Abstract / PDF / citeulike / web page describing this research