The discovery and control of new phases of matter is a central endeavour in materials
research. The emergence of atomically thin 2D materials, such as transition-metal …

Membranes composed of amphiphilic molecules are highly flexible surfaces that determine
the architecture of biological systems and provide a basic structural element for complex …

In light of the considerable impact synthetic 2D polymers are expected to have on many
fundamental and applied aspects of the natural and engineering sciences, it is surprising …

We study isolated dislocations and disclinations in flexible membranes with internal
crystalline order, using continuum elasticity theory and zero-temperature numerical …

This graduate level text describes in a unified fashion the statistical mechanics of random
walks, random surfaces and random higher dimensional manifolds with an emphasis on the …

This review describes some of the progress that has been made, during the dast decade,
towards the goal of developing a systematic understanding of the formation of rough …

The free energy of a D-dimensional elastic solid embedded in a d-dimensional space and
subject to an extrinsic bending energy is defined, and the solid's flat phase studied. An ε= 4 …

Several novel morphologies of “crew-cut” aggregates have been prepared from highly
asymmetric diblock copolymers of polystyrene-b-poly (ethylene oxide)(PS-b-PEO) and …

A cross-linking polymerization of hydrophobic monomers within the surfactant bilayer of
vesicles leads to the formation of a quasi-two-dimensional polymer network. Depending on …

The statistical mechanics of polymerized surfaces with a finite bending rigidity κ'is studied
via the Monte Carlo method. The model system consists of a hexagon, L atoms across …