Publications

Oscillators...(in preparation)

Multifunctional colloids...(in preparation)

Micellar Design....(under review)

Vidal-Ceballos A., Díaz Amaya J. A., Preston J., Vairamon C., Shen C., Koder R. & Elbaum-Garfinkle S. “Liquid to solid transition of elastin condensates” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2022, 119, 37, e2202240119. Article Link. 

Mohammed A. Abdelaziz, Díaz Amaya J. A., Aider J.-L., Pine D. J., Grier D. G., Hoyos M. “Ultrasonic Chaining of Emulsion Droplets” Phys. Rev. Research 2021, 3, 043157. Article Link.

Díaz Amaya J. A., Oh J., Yi G-R., Pine D. J. “Photo-printing of faceted DNA patchy particles” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2020, 117, 10645–10653. Article Link. Featured Commentary

Shrestha S., Díaz J. A., Ghanbari S., Youngblood J. P. “Hygroscopic Swelling Determination of Cellulose Nanocrystal (CNC) Films by Polarized Light Microscopy Digital Image Correlation” Biomacromolecules 2017, 18, 1482–1490. Article Link.  

Díaz J. A., Youngblood J. P. “Multivariable Dependency of Thermal Shrinkage in Highly Aligned Polypropylene Tapes for Self-reinforced Polymer Composites” Composites Part A: Applied Science and Technology 2016, 90, 771-777. Article Link.  

Díaz J. A., Braun J. L., Moon R. J., Youngblood J. P. “Iridescent Cellulose Nanocrystal / Polyethylene Oxide Composite Films with Low Coefficient of Thermal Expansion” International Journal of Experimental and Computational Biomechanics 2015, 3(3), 188–199. Article Link.    

Díaz J. A., Ye Z., Wu X., Moon R. J., Martini A., Boday D. J., Youngblood J. P. “Thermal Conductivity in Nanostructured Films: From Single Cellulose Nanocrystals to Bulk Films” Biomacromolecules 2014, 15, 4096– 4101. Article Link.

Díaz J. A., Youngblood J. P., Moon R. J. “Polarized Light in the Contact Free Determination of Thermal Expansion of Organized Cellulose Nanocrystal Materials” Optomechatronic Technol. (ISOT), IEEE, Int. Symp. 2014, 333–334. (proceeding) Article Link.

Díaz J. A., Moon R. J., Youngblood J. P. “Contrast Enhanced Microscopy Digital Image Correlation: A General Method to Contact-free Coefficient of Thermal Expansion Measurement in Polymer Films” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6, 4856–4863. Article Link.    

Díaz J. A., Wu X., Martini A., Youngblood J. P., Moon R. J. “Thermal Expansion of Self-organized and Shear- oriented Cellulose Nanocrystal Films” Biomacromolecules 2013, 14, 2900–2908. Article Link.