Tim Atherton

Publications

• Structural landscapes in geometrically frustrated smectics
• Elongation and percolation of defect motifs in anisotropic packing problems
• Geometry and kinetics determine the microstructure in arrested coalescence of Pickering emulsion droplets
• Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets: Ellipsoid shape effects and restructuring
• LGBT+ inclusivity in physics and astronomy: A best practices guide
• Deformation and chaining of flexible shells in a nematic solvent
• Computing equilibrium states of cholesteric liquid crystals in elliptical channels with deflation algorithms
• Predicting the influence of plate geometry on the eddy-current pendulum
• Structural Landscapes in Geometrically Frustrated Smectics
• Developing a project-based computational physics course grounded in expert practice
• Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets: triplet shape and restructuring
• Arrested Coalescence of Viscoelastic Droplets: Ellipsoid Shape Effects and Reorientation
• Shape transitions in anisotropic multicomponent lipid tubules
• Large Hexosomes from Emulsion Droplets: Particle Shape and Mesostructure Control
• Dielectric analysis of the interaction of nematic liquid crystals with carbon nanotubes
• Topological modes in one-dimensional solids and photonic crystals
• Computing equilibrium states of cholesteric liquid crystals in elliptical channels with deflation algorithms
• Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class
• Optimizing the second hyperpolarizability with minimally parametrized potentials
• Competition of elasticity and flexoelectricity for bistable alignment of nematic liquid crystals on patterned substrates
• Liquid crystal quenched orientational disorder at an AFM-scribed alignment surface
• LGBT+ physicists: Harassment, persistence, and uneven support
• Programming emergent symmetries with saddle-splay elasticity
• Shape minimisation problems in liquid crystals
• Modeling deformation and chaining of flexible shells in a nematic solvent with finite elements on an adaptive moving mesh
• Maximizing the hyperpolarizability of 1D potentials with multiple electrons
• Crystal Comets: A Geometric Model for Sculpting Anisotropic Particles from Emulsions
• Neuronal growth as diffusion in an effective potential
• Independent control of polar and azimuthal anchoring
• Semi-automatic quantification of neurite fasciculation in high-density neurite images by the neurite directional distribution analysis (NDDA)
• Simulating defect textures on relaxing nematic shells
• Silk hydrogels as soft substrates for neural tissue engineering
• Competing alignments of nematic liquid crystals on square-patterned substrates
• Maximizing the hyperpolarizability poorly determines the potential
• Competition of lattice and basis for alignment of nematic liquid crystals
• An energy-minimization finite-element approach for the Frank-Oseen model of nematic liquid crystals
• Energy minimization for liquid crystal equilibrium with electric and flexoelectric effects
• The role of curvature anisotropy in the ordering of spheres on an ellipsoid
• Thermal characterisation of thermotropic nematic liquid-crystalline elastomers
• An energy-optimization method to study gel-swelling in confinement
• Workplace climate forLGBT+ physicists: A view from students and professional physicists
• Disciplinary Inq[ee]ry in Computational Physics
• A programmable environment for shape optimization and shapeshifting problems
• Defect structure and percolation in the packing of bidispersed particles on a sphere
• Geometry and kinetics determine the microstructure in arrested coalescence of Pickering emulsion droplets
• Aggregation in viscoelastic emulsion droplet gels with capillarity-driven rearrangements
• Spontaneous Anchoring-Mediated Topography of an Orientable Fluid
• Elongation and percolation of defect motifs in anisotropic packing problems
• Jamming on convex deformable surfaces
• Shape-Recovering Liquids
• Orientational transition in a nematic liquid crystal at a patterned surface
• Naturally occurring reverse tilt domains in a high-pretilt alignment nematic liquid crystal
• Rayleigh-taylor instability experiments with precise and arbitrary control of the initial interface shape
• Direct measurement of surface-induced orientational order parameter profile above the nematic-isotropic phase transition temperature
• Patterning-induced surface chirality and modulation of director twist in a nematic cell
• Neuronal alignment on asymmetric textured surfaces
• Phase diagrams for a semi-infinite nematic in contact with a micropatterned surface
• Creating non-planar static interfaces with magnetic fields
• Anomalous uniform domain in a twisted nematic cell constructed from micropatterned surfaces
• Optical nanotomography of anisotropic fluids
• Polar-horizontal versus polar-vertical reverse-tilt-domain walls: Influence of a pretilt angle below the nematic-isotropic phase transition
• Diverging elasticity and director uniformation in a nanopatterned cell near the nematic-smectic- A phase transition
• Numerical simulation of a twisted nematic cell constructed from micropatterned substrates
• Observations of focal conic domains in smectic liquid crystals aligned on patterned self-assembled monolayers
• Shape-recovering liquids
• Nonlinear methods for shape optimization problems in liquid crystal tactoids
• Modern physics courses: Understanding the content taught in the U.S.