Biophysics & Soft Condensed Matter

Papers -- RP's publications

[See also Suggested Readings on Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Biophysics]

2007-present

New!    Gregory T. Tietjen, Yupeng Kong, and Raghuveer Parthasarathy "An efficient method for the creation of tunable optical line traps via control of gradient and scattering forces," Opt. Express 16: 10341-10348 (2008) [Link]

New!    Christopher W. Harland, David Rabuka, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, and Raghuveer Parthasarathy. The M. tuberculosis virulence factor trehalose dimycolate imparts desiccation resistance to model mycobacterial membranes. Biophys. J. 94: 4718-4724 (2008). [Link]

Jay T. Groves, Raghuveer Parthasarathy, and Martin B. Forstner, "Fluorescence Imaging of Membrane Dynamics," Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng. (in press, 2008). [Preprint available upon request.] [Abstract]

Raghuveer Parthasarathy, David Rabuka, Carolyn Bertozzi, and Jay T. Groves, "Molecular Orientation of Membrane-Anchored Mucin Glycoprotein Mimics, J. Phys. Chem. B, 111: 12133-12135 (2007). [ACS]

David Rabuka, Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Goo Soo Lee, Xing Chen, Jay T. Groves, and Carolyn Bertozzi, "Hierarchical Assembly of Model Cell Surfaces: Synthesis of Mucin Mimetic Polymers and Their Display on Supported Bilayers," J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 129: 5462-5471 (2007). [ACS]

Raghuveer Parthasarathy and Jay T. Groves, "Curvature and spatial organization in biological membranes,” Soft Matter, 3: 24-33 (2007). [Link to Soft Matter] [ Journal Cover ]

Membrane biophysics (to 2006)

Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Cheng-han Yu, and Jay T. Groves, “Curvature modulated phase separation in lipid bilayer membranes,” Langmuir, 22: 5095-5099 (2006). [ACS]

Raghuveer Parthasarathy and Jay T. Groves, “Coupled membrane fluctuations and protein mobility in supported intermembrane junctions,” J. Phys. Chem. B, 110: 8513-8516 (2006). [ACS]

Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Paul A. Cripe, and Jay T. Groves, “Electrostatically Driven Spatial Patterns in Lipid Membrane Composition,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 95: 048101 (2005).  [PubMed]

Raghuveer Parthasarathy and Jay T. Groves, “Protein Patterns at Lipid Bilayer Junctions,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 101: 12798-12803 (2004).  [PubMed]

Raghuveer Parthasarathy and Jay T. Groves, “Optical techniques for imaging membrane topography,” Cell Biochem. Biophys. 41: 391-414 (2004).  [PubMed]

Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Bryan L. Jackson, Thomas J. Lowery, Amy P. Wong, and Jay T. Groves, “Nonequilibrium Adhesion Patterns at Lipid Bilayer Junctions,” J. Phys. Chem. B 108: 649-657 (2004).  [ACS]

Nanocrystals and nanowires

Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Xiao-Min Lin, Klara Elteto, T. F. Rosenbaum, and Heinrich M. Jaeger, “Percolating through Networks of Random Thresholds: Finite Temperature Electron Tunneling in Metal Nanocrystal Arrays,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 92: 076801 (2004).

Xiao-Min Lin, Raghuveer Parthasarathy, and Heinrich M. Jaeger, “Nanocrystal Arrays: Self-assembly and physical properties,” in the Dekker Encoclyopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ed. J.A. Schwarz, C.I. Contescu, K. Putyera (Dekker, 2004).

Thomas Scheibel, Raghuveer Parthasarathy, George Sawicki, Xiao-Min Lin, Heinrich Jaeger, and Susan L. Lindquist, “Conducting nanowires built by controlled self-assembly of amyloid fibers and selective metal deposition,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100: 4527-4532 (2003). [PNAS]

Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Xiao-Min Lin, and Heinrich M. Jaeger, “Electronic transport in metal nanocrystal arrays: the effect of structural disorder on scaling behavior,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 87: 186807 (2001).

Xiao-Min Lin, Raghuveer Parthasarathy, and Heinrich M. Jaeger, “Direct patterning of self-assembled nanocrystal monolayers by electron beams,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 78: 1915-1917 (2001). [Link]

Quantum magnetic phenomena

H. M. Rønnow, R. Parthasarathy, J. Jensen, G. Aeppli, T. F. Rosenbaum, and D. F. McMorrow, “Quantum phase transition of a magnet in a spin bath,” Science 308: 389-392 (2005). [Link]

S. Ghosh, R. Parthasarathy, T. F. Rosenbaum, and G. Aeppli, “Coherent spin oscillations in a disordered magnet,” Science 296: 2195-2198 (2002). [Link]

Other topics

S. Anders, R. Parthasarathy, H. M. Jaeger, P. Guptasarma, D. G. Hinks, and R. van Veen, “Dynamics of the second peak in the magnetization of Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈ crystals,” Phys. Rev. B 58: 6639-6644 (1998).

D. H. Cobden, G. Pilling, R. Parthasarathy, P. L. McEuen, I. M. Castleton, E. H. Linfield, D. A. Ritchie, and G. A. C. Jones, “Current flow past an etched barrier: field emission from a two-dimensional electron gas,” Europhys. Lett. 41: 327-332 (1998).

R. Parthasarathy, C. Franck, R. Treffers, D. Cudaback, C. Heiles, C. Hancox, and R. Millan, “A rooftop radio observatory: an undergraduate telescope system at the University of California at Berkeley,” Am. J. Phys. 66: 768-771 (1998).