Weeks Lab Publications & Preprints

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Preprints:

none at the moment, stay tuned!

2026:

• "Droplet breakup against an isolated obstacle"
  DJ Meer, S Sista, MD Shattuck, CS O'Hern, and ER Weeks, Soft Matter (advance online publication doi: 10.1039/D5SM01266J)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2512.20846v2 / download our data (Emory Dataverse)
  • Publicity -- 2025 DSOFT Gallery of Soft Matter, see David's winning video
• "Clogging of cohesive particles in a two-dimensional hopper"
  J Hoggarth, PE Illing, ER Weeks, and K Dalnoki-Veress, Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 088201 (2026).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2512.21410 / download our data (Zenodo)
• "Microstructure of polydisperse colloidal gels"
  BF Lonial and ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 113, 025420 (2026)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2406.10321v2 / download our data (NASA PSI database)

  2025:

• "Optimal disk packing of chloroplasts in plant cells"
  N Schramma, ER Weeks, & M Jalaal, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 122, e2511696122 (2025)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2501.14336 / download our data (Zenodo)
• "Aging of colloidal gels in microgravity"
  SS Datta, W Paliwal, and ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 112, 015412 (2025).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2501.09650 / download our data (NASA PSI database)
• "Stirring supercooled colloidal liquids at the particle scale"
  P Habdas and ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 111, 065415 (2025).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2502.05166v2 / download our data (Harvard Dataverse)
• "Nonaffine motion in flowing highly polydisperse granular media"
  PE Illing and ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 111, 045422 (2025).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2502.01605 / download our data (Harvard Dataverse)

  2024:

• "Flow and clogging of capillary droplets"
  Y Cheng, BF Lonial, S Sista, DJ Meer, A Hofert, ER Weeks, MD Shattuck, and CS O'Hern, Soft Matter 20, 8036-8051 (2024). Correction.
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2406.13776v2
• "Circle radius distributions determine random close packing density"
  DJ Meer, I Galoustian, JG de Falco Manuel, and ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 109, 064905 (2024).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2404.02316 / download our data
• "Rearrangements during slow compression of a jammed two-dimensional emulsion"
  X Du & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 109, 034605 (2024).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2302.05799
• "Bounded distributions place limits on skewness and larger moments"
  DJ Meer & ER Weeks, PLoS ONE 19, e0297862 (2024).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2308.05006 / Appendix (PDF) / PubPeer comments / download our data (zip)
• "Compression and fracture of ordered and disordered droplet rafts"
  PE Illing, J-C Ono-dit-Biot, K Dalnoki-Veress, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 109, 014610 (2024).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2306.15645
• "Soft matter roadmap"
  J-L Barrat et al. (ER Weeks is author 19 out of 57), J. Phys. Mater. 7, 012501 (2024)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal

  2023:

• "Effects of polydispersity on the plastic behaviors of dense 2D granular systems under shear"
  Y Jiang, DM Sussman, and ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E. 108, 054605 (2023).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2202.13045
• "Leveraging 3D bioprinting and photon-counting computed tomography to enable noninvasive quantitative tracking of multifunctional tissue engineered constructs"
  Gil, Evans, Li, Allphin, Tomov, Jin, Vargas, Hwang, Wang, Putaturo, Kabboul, Alam, Nandwani, Wu, Sushmit, Fulton, Shen, Kaiser, Ning, Veneziano, Willet, Wang, Drissi, Weeks, Bauser-Heaton, Badea, Roeder, & V Serpooshan, Adv. Healthcare Materials 12, 2302271 (2023).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Effects of polydispersity in concentrated magnetorheological fluids"
  JG de Falco Manuel, AJF Bombard, and ER Weeks, Smart Materials and Structures 32, 045014 (2023). Corrigendum PDF / journal
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2301.09398 / Supplemental info PDF
• "Isomorphs in sheared binary Lennard-Jones glass: Transient response"
  Y Jiang, ER Weeks, and NP Bailey, Phys. Rev. E 107, 014610 (2023)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2205.04340

  2022:

• "Hopper flows of deformable particles"
  Y Cheng, JD Treado, BF Lonial, P Habdas, ER Weeks, MD Shattuck, and CS O'Hern, Soft Matter 18, 8071-8086 (2022)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2208.05581 / data (Emory Dataverse) / webpage about this work
• "Clogging and avalanches in quasi-two-dimensional emulsion hopper flow"
  X Hong, KW Desmond, D Chen, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 105, 014603 (2022)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1503.07569 / webpage about this work

  2021:

• "Soft particle clogging in two-dimensional hoppers"
  R Tao, M Wilson, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 104, 044909 (2021) -- erratum (February 2026)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2104.01698 / download our data / webpage about this work
• "Supramolecular DNA photonic hydrogels for on-demand control of coloration with high spatial and temporal resolution"
  Y Dong, JD Combs, C Cao, ER Weeks, A Bazrafshan, SKA Rashid, & K Salaita, Nano Lett. 21, 9958-9965 (2021)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Direct observation of crystal nucleation and growth in a quasi-two-dimensional nonvibrating granular system"
  A Escobar, F Donado, RE Moctezuma, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 104, 044904 (2021)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2106.06995
• "Neglecting polydispersity degrades propensity measurements in supercooled liquids
  CJ Donofrio & ER Weeks, Euro. Phys. J. E 44, 65 (2021)
  Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2012.09025 / journal view-only version of paper
• "Rheology finds distinct glass and jamming transitions in emulsions"
  C Cao, J Liao, V Breedveld, & ER Weeks, Soft Matter 17, 2587-2595 (2021).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2011.11806 / download our data
• "Mechanical properties of 2D aggregates of oil droplets as model colloidal mono-crystals"
  J-C Ono-dit-Biot, P Soulard, S Barkley, ER Weeks, T Salez, E Raphael, & K Dalnoki-Veress, Soft Matter 17, 1194-1201 (2021).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2007.00917

  2020:

• "Visualizing free energy landscapes for four hard disks"
  ER Weeks & K Criddle, Phys. Rev. E 102, 062153 (2020)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:2001.11635v2 / download our data / webpage related to this work
  • Simons webinar Eric gave about this work (March 24, 2021)
• "Embedded 3D bioprinting of gelatin methacryloyl-based constructs with highly tunable structural fidelity"
  L Ning, R Mehta, C Cao, A Theus, M Tomov, N Zhu, ER Weeks, H Bauser-Heaton, & V Serpooshan, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 12, 44563-44577 (2020).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Brownian motion of ellipsoidal particles on a granular magnetic bath"
  C Tapia-Ignacio, RE Moctezuma, F Donado, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 102, 022902 (2020).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1910.05887v2 / download our data
• "Rearrangement of 2D aggregates of droplets under compression: signatures of the energy landscape from crystal to glass"
  J-C Ono-dit-Biot, P Soulard, S Barkley, ER Weeks, T Salez, E Raphael, & K Dalnoki-Veress, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023070 (2020).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1907.08557

  2019:

• "Isomorph invariance of dynamics of sheared glassy systems"
  Y Jiang, ER Weeks, & NP Bailey, Phys. Rev. E 100, 053005 (2019)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1908.06722
• "Effect of topographical steps on the surface motility of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
  Y-R Chang, ER Weeks, D Barton, J Dobnikar, & WA Ducker, ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 5, 6436-6445 (2019).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Model-free 3D localization with precision estimates for brightfield imaged particles"
  DT Kovari, D Dunlap, ER Weeks, & L Finzi, Optics Express 27, 29875-29895 (2019).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Random packing of rods in small containers"
  JO Freeman, S Peterson, C Cao, Y Wang, SV Franklin, & ER Weeks, Granular Matter 21, 84 (2019).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1902.00565 / download our data / webpage about this work
• "The role of deformability in determining the structural and mechanical properties of bubbles and emulsions"
  A Boromand, A Signoriello, J Lowensohn, CS Orellana, ER Weeks, F Ye, MD Shattuck, & CS O'Hern, Soft Matter 15, 5854-5865 (2019).
  Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1904.07378

  2018:

• "Spatiotemporal intermittency and localized dynamic fluctuations upon approaching the glass transition"
  JA Rodriguez Fris, ER Weeks, F Sciortino, & GA Appignanesi, Phys. Rev. E 97, 060601(R) (2018).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1801.09816
• "Surface topography hinders bacterial surface motility"
  Y-R Chang, ER Weeks, & WA Ducker, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10, 9225-9234 (2018).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal

  2017:

• "Aging near rough and smooth boundaries in colloidal glasses"
  C Cao, X Huang, CB Roth, & ER Weeks, J. Chem. Phys. 147, 224505 (2017).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1708.04867
  • Publicity: Scilight article about our work by Chris Patrick / PDF of Scilight
• "Clogging of soft particles in 2D hoppers"
  X Hong, M Kohne, M Morrell, H Wang, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 96, 062605 (2017). -- erratum (February 2026)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1512.02500 / download our data / simulation code / webpage about this work
  • Publicity: Emory news story
• "Cooperative behavior of biased probes in crowded interacting systems"
  OA Vasilyev, O Benichou, C Mejia-Monasterio, ER Weeks, & G Oshanin, Soft Matter 13, 7617-7624 (2017).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Decoupling of translational and rotational diffusion in quasi-2D colloidal fluids"
  S Vivek & ER Weeks, J. Chem. Phys. 147, 134502 (2017).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1707.06160
  • Publicity: JCP 2017 Editor's choice
• "Polyoxometalate-based gelating networks for entrapment and catalytic decontamination"
  KP Sullivan, WA Neiwert, H Zeng, AK Mehta, Q Yin, DA Hillesheim, S Vivek, P Yin, DL Collins-Wildman, ER Weeks, T Liu, & CL Hill, Chem. Commun. 53, 11480-11483 (2017).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Long wavelength fluctuations and the glass transition in 2D and 3D"
  S Vivek, CP Kelleher, PM Chaikin, & ER Weeks, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 114, 1850-1855 (2017).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1604.07338 / download our data
  • Publicity: Commentary by Gilles Tarjus
• "Introduction to the colloidal glass transition"
  ER Weeks, ACS Macro Lett. 6, 27-34 (2017)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1611.00240
• "Multiplexed, tethered particle microscopy for studies of DNA-enzyme dynamics"
  S Ucuncuoglu, DA Schneider, ER Weeks, D Dunlap, & L Finzi, Methods in Enzymology 587, 415-435 (2017)
  • Abstract / journal

  2016:

• "Predicting the size of droplets produced through Laplace pressure induced snap-off"
  S Barkley, SJ Scarfe, ER Weeks, & K Dalnoki-Veress, Soft Matter 12, 7398-7404 (2016)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1604.05646
• "Energy barriers, entropy barriers, and non-Arrhenius behavior in a minimal glassy model"
  X Du & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E. 93, 062613 (2016)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1511.09453 / webpage related to this work
• "Programmable DNA hydrogels assembled from multi-domain DNA strands"
  H Jiang, V Pan, S Vivek, ER Weeks, and Y Ke, ChemBioChem 17, 1156 (2016)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / Supplemental PDF
• "High-speed DNA-based rolling motors powered by RNase H"
  K Yehl, A Mugler, S Vivek, Y Liu, Y Zhang, M Fan, ER Weeks, and K Salaita, Nature Nanotech. 11, 184-190 (2016)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / Supplemental PDF

  2015:

• "Tips and tricks: Snap-off production of monodisperse droplets"
  S Barkley, ER Weeks, and K Dalnoki-Veress, Eur. Phys. J. E 38, 138 (2015)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1508.03259
• "Measurements of stress redistribution in flowing emulsions"
  KW Desmond and ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 098302 (2015).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1306.0269 / download our data
• "Experimental observation of local rearrangements in dense quasi-2D emulsion flow"
  D Chen, KW Desmond, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 91, 062306 (2015).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Glasses pinned down"
  ER Weeks, Nature Phys. 11, 381-382 (2015).
  Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Measuring and overcoming limits of the Saffman-Delbruck model for soap film viscosities"
  S Vivek and ER Weeks, PLoS ONE 10, e0121981 (2015).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1408.4087 / download our data / supplemental PDF
• "Affine and non-affine motions in sheared polydisperse jammed emulsions"
  J Clara-Rahola, TA Brzinski, D Semwogerere, K Feitosa, JC Crocker, J Sato, V Breedveld, and ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 91, 010301(R) (2015).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1204.5110

  2014:

• "Influence of particle size distribution on random close packing of spheres"
  KW Desmond and ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E. 90, 022204 (2014)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1303.4627 / webpage about this work / download our data
• "Boundary mobility controls glassiness of confined colloidal liquids"
  GL Hunter, KV Edmond, and ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 218302 (2014).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1405.0753 / download our data

  2013:

• "Experimental study of forces between quasi-two-dimensional emulsion droplets near jamming"
  KW Desmond, PJ Young, D Chen, and ER Weeks, Soft Matter 9, 3424-3436 (2013).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1206.0070
• "Slow dynamics in cylindrically confined colloidal suspensions"
  N Saklayen, GL Hunter, KV Edmond, and ER Weeks, AIP Conf. Proc. 1518, 328-335 (2013).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1209.1108
• "Local elastic response measured near the colloidal glass transition"
  D Anderson, D Schaar, HGE Hentschel, J Hay, P Habdas, and ER Weeks, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 12A520 (2013).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1210.3586 / copyright / webpage related to this work
• "In search of colloidal hard spheres"
  CP Royall, WCK Poon, and ER Weeks, Soft Matter 9, 17-27 (2013). (DOI: 10.1039/c2sm26245b)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1205.6665

  2012:

• "Decoupling of rotational and translational diffusion in supercooled colloidal fluids"
  KV Edmond, MT Elsesser, GL Hunter, DJ Pine, and ER Weeks, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 109, 17891-17896 (2012)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / related software
  • Publicity: Emory eScienceCommons / related movie
• "Measuring the size of individual particles from three-dimensional imaging experiments"
  R Kurita, DB Ruffner, & ER Weeks, Nature Comm. 3, 1127 (2012).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1112.1460 / download our data
• "Melting colloidal crystals from the inside out"
  ER Weeks, Science 338, 55-56 (2012). (Perspective article)
  Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Topological rearrangements and stress fluctuations in quasi-two-dimensional hopper flow of emulsions"
  D Chen, KW Desmond, & ER Weeks, Soft Matter 8, 10486-10492 (2012).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1105.3099
• "The physics of the colloidal glass transition"
  GL Hunter & ER Weeks, Rep. Prog. Phys. 75, 066501 (2012).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1106.3581
• "Influence of confinement on dynamical heterogeneities in dense colloidal samples"
  KV Edmond, CR Nugent, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 85, 041401 (2012).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1003.0856 / webpage related to this work
• "Free energy landscape for cage breaking of three hard disks"
  GL Hunter & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 85, 031504 (2012).
  Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1112.5128 / webpage related to this work
• "On measuring colloidal volume fractions"
  WCK Poon, ER Weeks, and CP Royall, Soft Matter 8, 21-30 (2012).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1106.2566

  2011:

• "Tracking the Brownian diffusion of a colloidal tetrahedral cluster"
  KV Edmond, HJ Park, MT Elsesser, GL Hunter, DJ Pine, and ER Weeks, Chaos 21, 041103 (2011).
  • PDF / related movie / journal / related software
• "Incompressibility of polydisperse random close packed colloidal particles"
  R Kurita & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 84, 030401(R) (2011).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1107.1765 / webpage about this work
• "Tracking rotational diffusion of colloidal clusters"
  GL Hunter, KV Edmond, MT Elsesser, & ER Weeks, Optics Express 19, 17189-17202 (2011).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1107.2614 / related software
  • Publicity: Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics / related movie
• "Experimental verification of rapid, sporadic particle motions by direct imaging of glassy colloidal systems"
  JA Rodriguez Fris, GA Appignanesi, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 065704 (2011).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1103.1094 / download our data
• "Two for one in a colloidal glass"
  ER Weeks, Physics 4, 61 (2011)
  • Online Viewpoint on article by Zheng, Wang, and Han / PDF
• "Glassy dynamics and dynamical heterogeneity in colloids"
  L Cipelletti & ER Weeks, book chapter in Dynamical Heterogeneities in Glasses, Colloids and Granular Materials, eds. L Berthier, G Biroli, J-P Bouchaud, L Cipelletti, & W van Saarloos (Oxford University Press, 2011).
  • Abstract / PDF / DOI link / arXiv:1009.6089
• "Spatial and temporal dynamical heterogenities approaching the binary colloidal glass transition"
  T Narumi, SV Franklin, KW Desmond, M Tokuyama, & ER Weeks, Soft Matter 7, 1472-1482 (2011)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:0911.0702v2 / download our data

  2010:

• "Local influence of boundary conditions on a confined supercooled colloidal liquid"
  KV Edmond, CR Nugent, & ER Weeks, Europhys. J. Spec. Topics 189, 83-93 (2010).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1003.6117v2 / webpage related to this work
• "Microscopy of soft materials"
  ER Weeks, book chapter in Experimental and Computational Methods in Soft Condensed Matter, ed. JS Olafsen (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
  • Abstract / PDF / DOI link / Related links
• "The glass transition of two-dimensional binary soft disk mixtures with large size ratios"
  R Kurita & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 82, 041402 (2010).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:0910.2628
• "Experimental study of random close packed colloidal particles"
  R Kurita & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 82, 011403 (2010).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:1003.3965 / supplemental material (particle coordinates) / webpage about this work
• "Complex dynamics of three interacting spheres in a rotating drum"
  JE Davidheiser, P Syers, PN Segre, & ER Weeks, Phys. Fluids 22, 033305 (2010).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:0907.1869
• "Microscopic structural relaxation in a sheared supercooled colloidal liquid"
  D Chen, D Semwogerere, J Sato, V Breedveld, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E. 81, 011403 (2010).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:0908.4226 / download our data

  2009:

• "Random close packing of disks and spheres in confined geometries"
  KW Desmond & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 80, 051305 (2009).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:0903.0864 / webpage about this work / source code
• "The equilibrium intrinsic crystal/liquid interface of colloids"
  J Hernandez-Guzman & ER Weeks, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 106, 15198-15202 (2009).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:0808.1576 / download our data / webpage about this work
  • Publicity: Analytical Chemistry news story / Physorg.com news story / YouTube video / Emory news release
• "Flow fields in soap films: Relating viscosity and film thickness"
  V Prasad & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 80, 026309 (2009)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:0905.1435 / webpage slightly related to this work
• "2D to 3D transition in soap films demonstrated by microrheology"
  V Prasad & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 178302 (2009)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal arXiv:0807.4751 / / webpage slightly related to this work
• "Quantitative imaging of colloidal flows"
  R Besseling, L Isa, ER Weeks, & WCK Poon, Advances in Col. Int. Science 146, 1-17 (2009)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:0807.4705

  2008:

• "Dynamics and structure of an aging binary colloidal glass"
  JM Lynch, GC Cianci, & ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. E 78, 031410 (2008).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:0807.0664 / webpage slightly related to this work
• "From particles to spins: Eulerian formulation of supercooled liquids and glasses"
  C Chamon, LF Cugliandolo, G Fabricius, JL Iguain, & ER Weeks, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 105, 15263-15268 (2008).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / arXiv:0802.3297
• "Immersion of charged nanoparticles in a salt solution/air interface"
  P Dhar, V Prasad, ER Weeks, T Bohlein, & TM Fischer, J. Phys. Chem. B 112, 9565-9567 (2008).
  Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Structure and dynamics of biphasic colloidal mixtures"
  A Mohraz, ER Weeks, & JA Lewis, Phys. Rev. E 77, 060403(R) (2008).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / Lewis lab
• "Shear induced particle migration in binary colloidal suspensions"
  D Semwogerere & ER Weeks, Physics of Fluids 20, 043306 (2008).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / copyright / webpage about this work
  • Publicity: Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research

  2007:

• "Soft jammed materials"
  ER Weeks, book chapter in Statistical Physics of Complex Fluids, pp. 2-1 -- 2-87, eds. S Maruyama & M Tokuyama (Tohoku University Press, Sendai, Japan, 2007).
  • Abstract / PDF (preprint version)
• "Colloidal glass transition observed in confinement"
  CR Nugent, KV Edmond, HN Patel, ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 025702 (2007).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / cond-mat/0601648v2 / webpage about this work
  • Publicity: Physical Review Focus / Emory Report / digg.com
• "Three-dimensional imaging of colloidal glasses under steady shear"
  R Besseling, ER Weeks, AB Schofield, WCK Poon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 028301 (2007).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / cond-mat/0605247 / webpage about this work
• "Structure of dense colloidal liquids in tight spaces"
  ER Weeks & CR Nugent, Rep. Inst. Fluid Sci. 19, 45-49 (Tohoku Univ., 2007).
  • Abstract / PDF / volume link / webpage about this work
• "Aging of tetrahedral structure in a Lennard-Jones glass"
  GC Cianci & ER Weeks, Rep. Inst. Fluid Sci. 19, 51-56 (Tohoku Univ., 2007).
  • Abstract / PDF / volume link / webpage about this work
• "Development of particle migration in pressure-driven flow of a Brownian suspension"
  D Semwogerere, JF Morris, ER Weeks, J. Fluid Mech. 581, 437-451 (2007).
  • Abstract / PDF / webpage about this work
• "Short and long range correlated motion observed in colloidal glasses and liquids"
  ER Weeks, JC Crocker, DA Weitz, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 19, 205131 (2007)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal cond-mat/0610195 / web page slightly related to this work / / download our data
• "Semagenesis and the parasitic angiosperm Striga asiatica"
  WJ Keyes, AG Palmer, WK Erbil, JV Taylor, RP Apkarian, ER Weeks, & DG Lynn, The Plant Journal 51, 707-716 (2007).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / web page about this work
• "Confocal microscopy of colloids"
  V Prasad, D Semwogerere, ER Weeks, J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 19, 113102 (2007)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal

  2006:

• "Contribution of slow clusters to the bulk elasticity near the colloidal glass transition"
  JC Conrad, PP Dhillon, ER Weeks, DR Reichman, DA Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 265701 (2006).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Two-particle microrheology of quasi-2D viscous systems"
  V Prasad, SA Koehler, ER Weeks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 176001 (2006).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / cond-mat/0604262 / webpage about this work
  • Publicity: Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
• "A genetic toolbox for creating reversible Ca2+ sensitive materials"
  S Topp, V Prasad, GC Cianci, ER Weeks, & JP Gallivan, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 13994-13995 (2006)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / Supporting Infomation / QuickTime movies
• "Correlations of structure and dynamics in an aging colloidal glass"
  GC Cianci, RE Courtland, & ER Weeks, Solid State Comm. 139, 599-604 (2006)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / cond-mat/0512698 / webpage about this work / download our data
• "Experimental studies of the flow of concentrated hard sphere suspensions into a constriction
  L Isa, R Besseling, ER Weeks, & WCK Poon, J. Phys.:Conference Series 40, 124-132 (2006).
  • Abstract / PDF / webpage slightly related to this work
• "Invariance of structure in an aging colloidal glass"
  GC Cianci, RE Courtland, & ER Weeks, AIP Conf. Proc. 832: Flow Dynamics: The Second International Conference on Flow Dynamics, eds. M Tokuyama & S Maruyama, pp. 21-25 (2006).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / webpage about this work / cond-mat/0511301 / copyright / download our data
• "Squishy materials"
  P Habdas, ER Weeks, & DG Lynn, The Physics Teacher 44, 276-279 (May 2006).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / web page about this work / EPAPS information (extra materials online)
  • Publicity: AAPT News "Recommended Reading" (June 2006) / Selected for free access at TPT website

  2005:

• "Confocal microscopy"
  D Semwogerere & ER Weeks, Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (Taylor & Francis, 2005).
  • Abstract / PDF / DOI used to work: 10.1081/E-EBBE2-120024153 / web page about this work
• "Phase behavior and 3D structure of strongly attractive microsphere-nanoparticle mixtures"
  JF Gilchrist, AT Chan, ER Weeks, & JA Lewis, Langmuir 21, 11040-11047 (2005).
  • Abstract / PDF / Lewis lab
• "Interparticle interactions and direct imaging of colloidal phases assembled from microsphere-nanoparticle mixtures"
  CJ Martinez, J Liu, SK Rhodes, E Luijten, ER Weeks, & JA Lewis, Langmuir 21, 9978-9989 (2005).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / Lewis lab
• "Conformations of laulimalide in DMSO-d6"
  P Thepchatri, DO Cicero, E Monteagudo, AK Ghosh, B Cornett, ER Weeks, & JP Snyder, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 12838-12846 (2005).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal

  2004:

• "Forced motion of a probe particle near the colloidal glass transition"
  P Habdas, D Schaar, AC Levitt, & ER Weeks, Europhys. Lett. 67, 477-483 (2004).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / cond-mat/0308622 / webpage about this work /
• "Foam drainage on the microscale. Part 2: Imaging flow through single Plateau borders"
  SA Koehler, S Hilgenfeldt, ER Weeks, & HA Stone, J. Coll. Interf. Sci. 276, 439-449 (2004).
  • Abstract / PDF / webpage about this work
• "Anomalous diffusion probes microstructure dynamics of entangled F-actin networks"
  IY Wong, ML Gardel, DR Reichman, ER Weeks, MT Valentine, AR Bausch, DA Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 178101 (2004)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal

  2003:

• "Particle migration in pressure-driven flow of a Brownian suspension"
  M Frank, D Anderson, ER Weeks, & JF Morris, J. Fluid Mech. 493, 363-378 (2003)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / webpage about this work
• "Direct visualization of ageing in colloidal glasses"
  RE Courtland & ER Weeks, J Phys: Cond Mat 15, S359-S365 (2003)
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / cond-mat/0209148 / webpage about this work / download our data

  2002:

• "Video microscopy of colloidal suspensions and colloidal crystals"
  P Habdas & ER Weeks, Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Sci. 7, 196-203 (2002).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / cond-mat/0204507
• "Drainage of single Plateau borders: direct observation of rigid and mobile interfaces"
  SA Koehler, S Hilgenfeldt, ER Weeks, & HA Stone, Phys. Rev. E 66, 040601 (2002).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / webpage about this work

  unpublished from Emory:

• "Dynamic facilitation observed near the colloidal glass transition"
  SV Franklin and ER Weeks, preprint
  • Abstract / PDF / arXiv:1406.5782

Publications from Harvard & U Penn (postdoctoral work of Eric Weeks)

• "Rheological microscopy: Local mechnical properties from microrheology"
  DT Chen, ER Weeks, JC Crocker, MF Islam, R Verma, J Gruber, AJ Levine, TC Lubensky, & AG Yodh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 108301 (2003).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / webpage related to this work
• "Properties of cage rearrangements observed near the colloidal glass transition"
  ER Weeks & DA Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 095704 (2002).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / download our data
• "Subdiffusion and the cage effect studied near the colloidal glass transition"
  ER Weeks & DA Weitz, Chemical Physics 284, 361 (2002).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / cond-mat/0111073 / download our data
• "Real space imaging of nucleation and growth in colloidal crystallization"
  U Gasser, ER Weeks, A Schofield, PN Pusey, & DA Weitz, Science 292, 258 (2001).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Three-dimensional confocal microscopy of colloids"
  AD Dinsmore, ER Weeks, V Prasad, AC Levitt, & DA Weitz, App. Optics 40, 4152-4159 (2001).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Three-dimensional direct imaging of structural relaxation near the colloidal glass transition"
  ER Weeks, JC Crocker, AC Levitt, A Schofield, & DA Weitz, Science 287, 627 (2000).
  
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / web page related to this work / download our data
  • Publicity: Physics Web article
• "Two-point microrheology of inhomogeneous soft materials"
  JC Crocker, MT Valentine, ER Weeks, T Gisler, PD Kaplan, AG Yodh, & DA Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 888 (2000).
  
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / webpage related to this work

• Dissertation: "Experimental studies of anomalous diffusion, blocking phenomena, and two-dimensional turbulence"
  ER Weeks, December 1997
  • Abstract / PDF
• "Experimental and numerical studies of an eastward jet over topography"
  Y Tian, ER Weeks, K Ide, JS Urbach, CN Baroud, M Ghil, & HL Swinney, J. Fluid Mech. 438, 129-157 (2001).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / webpage describing this research
• "Anomalous diffusion resulting from strongly asymmetric random walks,"
  ER Weeks & HL Swinney, Phys. Rev. E 57, 4915-4920 (1998).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / web page describing this research
• "Anomalous diffusion in quasi-geostrophic flow"
  JS Urbach, ER Weeks, & HL Swinney, in Chaos, Kinetics, and Nonlinear Dynamics in Fluids and Plasmas, eds. S Benkadda & G Zaslavsky (Springer-Verlag, 1998), pp. 171-197.
  • Abstract / PDF / book chapter
• Random walks and Levy flights observed in fluid flows
  ER Weeks & HL Swinney, formerly online at Nonlinear Science Today (Springer-Verlag, 1998). Now only available here!
  • Abstract / PDF / postscript version, gzip'd
• "Transitions between blocked and zonal flows in a rotating annulus with topography,"
  ER Weeks, Y Tian, JS Urbach, K Ide, HL Swinney, & M Ghil, Science 278, 1598-1601 (1997).
  
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / webpage describing this research
• "Evolving artificial neural networks to control chaos,"
  ER Weeks & JM Burgess, Phys. Rev. E 56, 1531-1540 (1997).
  
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / webpage describing this research
  • You can download the program that we used, with some documentation.
• "Why electric field line diagrams don't work,"
  A Wolf, SJ VanHook, & ER Weeks, Am. Jour. Phys. 64, 714-724 (1996).
  
  • Abstract / PDF / journal
• "Anomalous diffusion in asymmetric random walks with a quasi-geostrophic flow example,"
  ER Weeks, JS Urbach, & HL Swinney, Physica D 97, 291-310 (1996).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / web page describing this research
• "Observation of anomalous diffusion and Levy flights"
  ER Weeks, TH Solomon, JS Urbach, & HL Swinney, in Levy Flights and Related Phenomena in Physics, eds. GM Zaslavsky, MS Shlesinger, & U Frisch (Springer-Verlag, 1995).
  • Abstract / online access
• Chaotic advection in a two-dimensional flow: Levy flights and anomalous diffusion
  TH Solomon, ER Weeks, & HL Swinney, Physica D 76, 70-84 (1994).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / web page describing this research
• "Observations of anomalous diffusion and Levy flights in a 2-dimensional rotating flow,"
  TH Solomon, ER Weeks, & HL Swinney, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 3975-3979 (1993).
  • Abstract / PDF / journal / web page describing this research