Publications

(A complete list of Francesca Serra’s publications can be found here )

Preprint: K. Endresen, A. Murali, F. Serra https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17834 

Preprint: A. Murali, P. Awasthi, K. Endresen, A. Goszczak, F. Serra, Splay and bend deformations in cells near corners, Soft Matter 2025 https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sm/d5sm00093a (arxiv preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07517 )

S. Hare, A. de la Vega, F. Serra, Quantifying memory: detection of focal conic domain rearrangement across a phase transition, Soft Matter (2025) https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sm/d4sm00940a 

Z. Zheng, F. Serra, Effect of smectic polymers on cholesteric liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. E 110, 054703 (2024) https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.054703 

A. Modin, R. Leheny, F. Serra, Spatial Photo-Patterning of Nematic Liquid Crystal Pretilt and its Application in Fabricating Flat Gradient-Index Lenses, Adv. Mater. 36, e2310083  (2024)  https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202310083 

A. Modin*, B. Ash*,  K. Ishimoto, R. Leheny, F. Serra, H. Aharoni, Tunable three-dimensional architecture of nematic disclination lines, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 120, e2300833120 (2023) 

(arxiv link: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.04594)

K. Kaiyrbekov*, K. Endresen*, K. Sullivan, Z. Zheng, Y. Chen, F. Serra,  B. A. Camley, Migration and division in cell monolayers on substrates with topological defects, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 120, e2301197120 (2023) 

(bioarxiv link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.22.521493) 

M. S. Kim, F. Serra , Quasicrystalline arrays and Moire patterns in nematic liquid crystals for soft photonics, Adv. Opt. Mater. 10, 2200916 (2022)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adom.202200916

 K. D. Endresen, M.S. Kim, M. Pittman, Y. Chen, F. Serra, Topological defects of integer charge in cell monolayers, Soft Matter (2021)

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/sm/d1sm00100k

J. X. Velez, Z. Zheng, D. Beller, F. Serra, Emergence and stabilization of transient twisted defect structures in confined achiral liquid crystals at a phase transition, Soft Matter 17, 3848 (2021)

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2021/SM/D0SM02040K#!divAbstract

S. M. Hare, B. Lunsford-Poe, M.S. Kim, F. Serra, Chiral liquid crystal lenses confined in microchannels, Materials 13, 3761 (2020)

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/13/17/3761

M.S. Kim, F. Serra, Topological defect arrays in nematic liquid crystals assisted by polymeric pillar arrays: effect of the geometry of pillars,  Crystals 10, 314 (2020)

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/10/4/314/htm

M.S. Kim, F. Serra, Tunable dynamic topological defect pattern formation in nematic liquid crystals, Adv. Optical Mater.  8, 1900991 (2020) - COVER IMAGE

https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201900991

M.S. Kim, F. Serra, Tunable large-scale regular array of topological defects in nematic liquid crystals, RSC Adv. 8, 35640 (2018)

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/RA/2018/C8RA08251K#!divAbstract