This article reviews, from a very personal point of view, the origins and the early work on
transitions driven by topological defects such as vortices in the two dimensional planar rotor …

Block copolymer self-assembly provides a platform for fabricating dense, ordered
nanostructures by encoding information in the chemical architecture of multicomponent …

A uniaxial ferromagnet of finite thickness spontaneously breaks into parallel" striped"
domains as a result of demagnetizing forces. In a sufficiently large applied magnetic field a …

We have studied the ordering dynamics of the striped patterns of a single layer of cylindrical
block copolymer microdomains in a thin film. By tracking disclinations during annealing with …

Synchrotron x-ray diffraction results of phospholipid monolayers at an air/water interface are
reported and compared with fluorescence microscopic observations of the fluid-gel lipid …

A three-dimensional solid with an equilibrium concentration of unbound dislocation loops
displays a resistance to torsion not present in isotropic liquids. There is residual bond-angle …

Curvature-induced instabilities in membranes and amphiphilic films are investigated by
introducing a general coupling between a shape variable (such as curvature) and «internal» …

The end-Triassic mass extinction (~ 201.4 million years ago), marked by terrestrial
ecosystem turnover and up to~ 50% loss in marine biodiversity, has been attributed to …

We present a theory of the stripe domain structure in a thin ferromagnetic film with single-ion
easy-axis magnetic anisotropy and long-range dipole interactions, for a wide range of …

We study the effect of quantum fluctuations of the phase on the low-temperature behavior of
two models of Josephson junction chains with Coulomb interactions taken into account. The …