Alex Travesset Publications
"The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished", G. Marx
"In research, you know you're never going to be finished.."

Refereed Publications

Regulation of the Electric Charge in Phosphatidic Acid DomainsWang, W; N. Anderson; A. Travesset and D. Vaknin,The Journal of Physical Chemistry B(2012)1167213-7220(link)
Dynamics and Statics of DNA-Programmable Nanoparticle Self-Assembly and CrystallizationKnorowski, C; S. Burleigh and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. Lett.(2011)106215501-215504(link)
Materials design by DNA programmed self-assemblyKnorowski, C and A. Travesset,Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science(2011)15262 - 270(link)
Monte Carlo Studies of the XY Model on Two-Dimensional Curved SurfacesSelinger, R; A. Konya; A. Travesset and J. Selinger,The Journal of Physical Chemistry B(2011)11513989-13993(link)
Self-Assembly Enters the Design EraTravesset, AScience(2011)334183-184(link)
Ionic Specificity in pH Regulated Charged Interfaces: Fe3+versus La3+Wang, W; R. Park; D. Meyer; A. Travesset and D. Vaknin,Langmuir(2011)2711917-11924(link)
Ion-Specific Induced Charges at Aqueous Soft InterfacesWang, W; R. Park; A. Travesset and D. Vaknin,Phys. Rev. Lett.(2011)106056102--(link)
Design of polymer nanocomposites in solution by polymer functionalizationAnderson, J; R. Sknepnek and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. E(2010)82021803-21813(link)
The hydrophobic effect as a driving force for charge inversion in colloidsMartin-Molina, A; C. Calero; J. Faraudo; M. Quesada-Perez; A. Travesset and R. Hidalgo-Alvarez,Soft Matter(2009)51350-1353(link)
Electrostatic correlations at the Stern layer: Physics or chemistry?Travesset, A and S. Vangaveti,The Journal of Chemical Physics(2009)131185102-185112(link)
Micellar crystals in solution from molecular dynamics simulationsAnderson, J; C. Lorenz and A. Travesset,The Journal of Chemical Physics(2008)128184906-184916(link)fave
General purpose molecular dynamics simulations fully implemented on graphics processing unitsAnderson, J; C. Lorenz and A. Travesset,Journal of Computational Physics(2008)2275342 - 5359(link)
Self-assembled ordered polymer nanocomposites directed by attractive particlesKnorowski, C; J. Anderson and A. Travesset,The Journal of Chemical Physics(2008)128164903-164907(link)
Molecular Dynamics of Ionic Transport and Electrokinetic Effects in Realistic Silica ChannelsLorenz, C; P. Crozier; J. Anderson and A. Travesset,The Journal of Physical Chemistry C(2008)11210222-10232(link)
Hydrogen Bonding and Binding of Polybasic Residues with Negatively Charged Mixed Lipid MonolayersLorenz, C; J. Faraudo and A. Travesset,Langmuir(2008)241654-1658(link)
Nanoparticle Ordering via Functionalized Block Copolymers in SolutionSknepnek, R; J. Anderson; M. Lamm; J. Schmalian and A. Travesset,ACS Nano(2008)21259-1265(link)
Extracting the pair distribution function of liquids and liquid-vapor surfaces by grazing incidence x-ray diffraction modeVaknin, D; W. Bu and A. Travesset,The Journal of Chemical Physics(2008)129044504-44512(link)fave
Dynamics and instabilities of defects in two-dimensional crystals on curved backgroundsBowick, M; H. Shin and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. E(2007)75021404-21411(link)
The Many Origins of Charge Inversion in Electrolyte Solutions: Effects of Discrete Interfacial ChargesFaraudo, J and A. Travesset,The Journal of Physical Chemistry C(2007)111987-994(link)
Phosphatidic Acid Domains in Membranes: Effect of Divalent CounterionsFaraudo, J and A. Travesset,Biophysical Journal(2007)922806 - 2818(link)
Electrostatics of phosphatidic acid monolayers: Insights from computer simulationsFaraudo, J and A. Travesset,Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects(2007)300287 - 292(link)
Charge inversion of divalent ionic solutions in silica channelsLorenz, C and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. E(2007)75061202-61206(link)
Ordering by Collapse: Formation of Bilayer and Trilayer Crystals by Folding Langmuir MonolayersVaknin, D; W. Bu; S. Satija and A. Travesset,Langmuir(2007)231888-1897(link)
Coarse-Grained Simulations of Gels of Nonionic Multiblock Copolymers with Hydrophobic GroupsAnderson, J and A. Travesset,Macromolecules(2006)395143-5151(link)
Crystalline particle packings on a sphere with long-range power-law potentialsBowick, M; A. Cacciuto; D. Nelson and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. B(2006)73024115-24130(link)
How Accurate Is Poisson-Boltzmann Theory for Monovalent Ions near Highly Charged Interfaces?Bu, W; D. Vaknin and A. Travesset,Langmuir(2006)225673-5681(link)
Atomistic Simulations of Langmuir Monolayer CollapseLorenz, C and A. Travesset,Langmuir(2006)2210016-10024(link)
Charge Inversion at Minute Electrolyte ConcentrationsPittler, J; W. Bu; D. Vaknin; A. Travesset; D. McGillivray and M. L\"osche,Phys. Rev. Lett.(2006)97046102-46105(link)
Effect of dipolar moments in domain sizes of lipid bilayers and monolayersTravesset, AThe Journal of Chemical Physics(2006)125084905-84916(link)
Bjerrum pairing correlations at charged interfacesTravesset, A and D. Vaknin,Europhys. Lett.(2006)74181--187(link)
Monovalent counterion distributions at highly charged water interfaces: Proton-transfer and Poisson-Boltzmann theoryBu, W; D. Vaknin and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. E(2005)72060501-60504(link)
Coarse-grained molecular-dynamics simulations of the self-assembly of pentablock copolymers into micellesChushak, Y and A. Travesset,The Journal of Chemical Physics(2005)123234905-234911(link)
Solid domains in lipid vesicles and scarsChushak, Y and A. Travesset,Europhys. Lett.(2005)72767--773(link)
Ground state of a large number of particles on a frozen topographyTravesset, APhys. Rev. E(2005)72036110-36117(link)
Salty solutions near a charged modulated interfaceTravesset, AThe European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics(2005)17435-446(link)
Curvature-induced defect unbinding in toroidal geometriesBowick, M; D. Nelson and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. E(2004)69041102-41113(link)
Induced Crystallization of Polyelectrolyte-Surfactant Complexes at the Gas-Water InterfaceVaknin, D; S. Dahlke; A. Travesset; G. Nizri and S. Magdassi,Phys. Rev. Lett.(2004)93218302-218305(link)
Grain Boundary Scars and Spherical CrystallographyBausch, A; M. Bowick; A. Cacciuto; A. Dinsmore; M. Hsu; D. Nelson; M. Nikolaides; A. Travesset and D. Weitz,Science(2003)2991716-1718(link)
Universality in the screening cloud of dislocations surrounding a disclinationTravesset, APhys. Rev. B(2003)68115421-115435(link)
Crystalline Order on a Sphere and the Generalized Thomson ProblemBowick, M; A. Cacciuto; D. Nelson and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. Lett.(2002)89185502-185505(link)
Formation of vortex loops (strings) in continuous phase transitionsBowick, M; A. Cacciuto and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. E(2002)65026133-26139(link)
Crackling noise, power spectra, and disorder-induced critical scalingTravesset, A; R. White and K. Dahmen,Phys. Rev. B(2002)66024430-24440(link)
Universal Negative Poisson Ratio of Self-Avoiding Fixed-Connectivity MembranesBowick, M; A. Cacciuto; G. Thorleifsson and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. Lett.(2001)87148103-148106(link)
Universality classes of self-avoiding fixed-connectivity membranesBowick, M; A. Cacciuto; G. Thorleifsson and A. Travesset,The European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics(2001)5149-160(link)
The geometrical structure of 2D bond-orientational orderBowick, M and A. Travesset,Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General(2001)341535(link)
The statistical mechanics of membranesBowick, M and A. Travesset,Physics Reports(2001)344255 - 308(link)
Interacting topological defects on frozen topographiesBowick, M; D. Nelson and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. B(2000)628738--8751(link)fave
Tubular phase of self-avoiding anisotropic crystalline membranesBowick, M and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. E(1999)595659--5675(link)fave
The Renormalization Group and Its Finite Lattice ApproximationsCacciuto, A; E. Gregory and A. Travesset,Journal of Statistical Physics(1999)97541-574(link)
Properties of Quantum Hall Skyrmions from AnomaliesBaez, S; B. Balach; A. ran; A. Travesset and A. Stern,Modern Physics Letters A (MPLA)(1998)132627-2635(link)
O(N) models within the local potential approximationComellas, J and A. Travesset,Nuclear Physics B(1997)498539 - 564(link)fave
Phase diagram of the U(2)xU(2) sigma model and its implications for chiral hierarchiesEspriu, D; V. Koulovassilopoulos and A. Travesset,Phys. Rev. D(1997)566885--6894(link)
Plasmons in simple metal slabs: a semi-classical approachLeseduarte, S; J. Sellares and A. Travesset,Surface Science(1997)3841 - 14(link)
MCRG study of fixed-connectivity surfacesEspriu, D and A. Travesset,Nuclear Physics B(1996)468514 - 540(link)
Combining MCRG and Fourier accelerated Langevin algorithmEspriu, D and A. Travesset,Physics Letters B(1995)356329 - 336(link)
Universality in the crumpling transitionBaig, M; D. Espriu and A. Travesset,Nuclear Physics B(1994)426575 - 600(link)

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Alex 5 faves

I love all my papers, but I was asked to mark five of them as faves (ironically, not very cited!)

Gallery

Some random selection of figures from my papers

A crystal of micelles of Pluronic® polymers entirely formed by self-assembly from a random initial configuration. 10.1063/1.2913522
Three PIP(4,5) phospholipids (remaining lipids in the membrane omitted) bound to a 13Lysine peptide 10.1021/la703550t
Vacancy (top) unbinding into three dislocations (middle), eventually forming a "scar" (bottom) on a spherical crystal 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.021404
Twelve Long "scars" (finite length grain boundary) on a spherical crystal 10.1126/science.1081160
The flat phase of self avoiding membranes 10.1007/s101890170071 and the crumpling phase when self-avoidance is absent 10.1016/0550-3213(94)90022-1 .