麻豆淫院

Research Interests:

I'm interested the statistical physics of soft condensed matter, including liquid crystals, colloids, and biomaterials.

I'm interested in the equilibrium and nonequilibrium self-organization of soft condensed matter, including liquid crystals, colloids, and biomaterials. My research involves the use of computer simulation and modeling to advance basic understanding of a variety of problems in materials physics and biophysics, including nanostructure formation in bent-core liquid crystals, clustering instabilities and complex phase behavior in soft colloids, the nonequilibrium steady state behavior of active liquid crystalline matter, mechanisms of charge transport in liquid crystalline semiconductors, and two-dimensional fluid physics in free-standing smectic liquid crystalline films. I'm also interested in the first-principles design of organic materials and in the development of novel coarse-graining methods for molecular simulation.

Selected Publications:

1. 鈥淗elical nanofilament phases,鈥� L. E. Hough, H. T. Jung, D. Kr眉erke, M. S. Heberling, M. Nakata, C. D. Jones, D. Chen, J. Zasadzinski, G. Heppke, J. Rabe, W. Stocker, E. K枚rblova, D. M. Walba, M. A. Glaser, and N. A. Clark, Science 325, 456-460 (2009).
2. 鈥淐hiral isotropic liquids from achiral molecules,鈥� L. E. Hough, M. Spannuth, M. Nakata, D. A. Coleman, C. D. Jones, G. Dantlgraber, C. Tschierske, J. Watanabe, E. K枚rblova, D. M. Walba, M. A. Glaser, and N. A. Clark, Science 325, 452-456 (2009).
3. 鈥淢icrotubule depolymerization by the kinesin-8 motor Kip3p: a mathematical model,鈥� L. E. Hough, A. Schwabe, M. Glaser, J. R. McIntosh, and M. D. Betterton, Biophysical Journal 96, 3050-3064 (2009).
4. 鈥淢olecular dynamics simulation study of spherical nanoparticles in a nematogenic matrix: anchoring, interactions, and phase behavior,鈥� J. Xu, D. Bedrov, G. D. Smith, and M. A. Glaser, Phys. Rev. E 79, 011704 (2009).
5. 鈥淪oft spheres make more mesophases,鈥� M. A. Glaser, G. M. Grason, R. D. Kamien, A. Kosmrlj, C. D. Santangelo, and P. Ziherl, Europhysics Letters 78, 46004 (2007).
6. 鈥淒iscrete elastic model for two-dimensional melting,鈥� Y. Lansac, M. A. Glaser, and N. A. Clark, Physical Review E 73, 041501 (2006).
7. 鈥淔luctuations and clinicity in tilted smectic liquid crystals,鈥� M. A. Glaser and N. A. Clark, Physical Review E 66, 021711 (2002).
8. 鈥淚nduced anticlinic ordering and nanophase segregation of bow-shaped molecules in a smectic solvent,鈥� P. K. Maiti, Y. Lansac, M. A. Glaser and N. A. Clark, Physical Review Letters 88, 065504 (2002).
9. 鈥淎 ferroelectric liquid crystal conglomerate composed of racemic molecules,鈥� D. M. Walba, E. K枚rblova, R. Shao, J. E. Maclennan, D. R. Link, M. A. Glaser, and N. A. Clark, Science 288, 2181 (2000).
10. 鈥淧hotocontrolled nanophase segregation in a liquid-crystal solvent,鈥� Y. Lansac, M. A. Glaser, N. A. Clark, and O. D. Lavrentovich, Nature 398, 54-57 (1999).
11. 鈥淢elting and liquid structure in two dimensions,鈥� M. A. Glaser and N. A. Clark, Advances in Chemical Physics 83, 543-709 (1993).