Publications

Book

Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: From Viscoelastic Properties to Living Liquid Crystals, ISBN 978-3-319-52806-9, Springer, 2017

Journal Articles

14. Flow-induced periodic chiral structures in an achiral nematic liquid crystal, Qing Zhang, Weiqiang Wang, Shuang Zhou, Rui Zhang,Irmgard Bischofberger, Nature Communication, 15, 7 (2024)

13. Biofilms as self-shaping growing nematics , Japinder Nijjer, Changhao Li, Mrityunjay Kothari, Thomas Henzel, Qiuting Zhang, Jung-Shen B. Tai, Shuang Zhou, Tal Cohen, Sulin Zhang & Jing Yan, Nature Physics,  (2023), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02221-1 

12. Dendritic patterns from shear-enhanced anisotropy in nematic liquid crystals, Qing Zhang, Shuang Zhou, Rui Zhang, Irmgard Bischofberger, Science Advances,  9 (2), eabq6820 (2023)

11. Recent progresses in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal research: elasticity, viscosity, defect structures, and living liquid crystals, Shuang Zhou, Liquid Crystal Today, 27:4, 91-108 (2018)

10. Organic liquid-crystal devices based on ionic conductors, Can Hui Yang, Shuang Zhou, Samuel Shian, David R. Clarke, and Zhigang Suo, Material Horizon, 4, 1102 (2017).

9. Fine structure of the topological defect cores studied for disclinations in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals, S. Zhou, S. Shiyanovskii, H-S. Park, O.D.Laverentovich, Nature Communications, 8, 14974 (2017)

8. Dynamic states of swimming bacteria in a nematic liquid crystal cell with homeotropic alignment, Shuang Zhou, Oleh Tovkach, Dmitry Golovaty, Andrey Sokolov, Igor S Aranson, Oleg D Lavrentovich, New Journal of Physics, 19, 055006 (2017)

7. Individual behavior and pairwise interactions between microswimmers in anisotropic liquid, A. Sokolov, S. Zhou, O.D. Laverentovich, I. Aranson, Phys. Rev. E., 91, 013009 (2015)

6. Light-Driven Reversible Alignment Switching of Liquid Crystals Enabled by Azo Thiol Grafted Gold Nanoparticles, Chenming Xue, Jie Xiang, Hossein Nemati, Hari Krishna Bisoyi, Karla Gutierrez‐Cuevas, Ling Wang, Min Gao, Shuang Zhou, Deng‐ke Yang, Oleg D Lavrentovich, Augustine Urbas, Quan Li, Chem. Phys. Chem., 16, 1852 (2015)

5. Living Liquid Crystals, S. Zhou, A. Sokolov, O.D. Lavrentovich and I.S. Aranson, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 111, 1265. (2014)

4. Direct observation of liquid crystals using cryo-TEM: Specimen preparation and low-dose imaging, Min Gao, Young‐Ki Kim, Cuiyu Zhang, Volodymyr Borshch, Shuang Zhou, Heung‐Shik Park, Antal Jákli, Oleg D Lavrentovich, Maria‐Gabriela Tamba, Alexandra Kohlmeier, Georg H Mehl, Wolfgang Weissflog, Daniel Studer, Benoît Zuber, Helmut Gnägi, Fang Lin, Microscopy research and technique 77 (10), 754 (2014)

3. Ionic-content dependence of viscoelasticity of the lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal sunset yellow, S. Zhou, A. J Cervenka, O. D Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. E., 90,042505(2014)

2. Elasticity, viscosity, and orientational fluctuations of a lyotropic chromonic nematic liquid crystal disodium cromoglycate, S. Zhou, K. Neupane, Y. A. Nastishin, A. R Baldwin, S. V Shiyanovskii, O. D Lavrentovich, S. Sprunt, Soft Matter 10, 6571(2014)

1. Elasticity of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals probed by director reorientation in a magnetic field, S. Zhou, Yu. A. Nastishin, M.M. Omelchenko, L. Tortora, V.G. Nazarenko, O.P. Boiko, T. Ostapenko, T. Hu, C.C. Almasan, S.N. Sprunt, J.T. Gleeson, O.D. Lavrentovich,­­ Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 037801 (2012).