http://www.cs.cas.cz/mp/papers07/causality-IT-final.pdf

Causality detection based on information-theoretic approaches in time series analysis

该文章系统总结了自1912年发现Breath Figure现象，直至近年来以此方法制备有序多孔聚合物膜及其应用的相关文献逾550篇。
李磊教授自2007年回国成立课题组以来，一直致力于多孔材料新型制备方法学研究及应用，独立发展和完善了静态Breath Figure制备方法。

Breath Figure: A Nature-Inspired Preparation Method for Ordered Porous Films

Phase transitions in liquid crystals

Control of structures in soft materials with long-range order forms the basis for applications such as displays, liquid-crystal biosensors, tunable lenses, distributed feedback lasers, muscle-like actuators and beam-steering devices. Bistable, tristable and multistable switching of well-defined structures of molecular alignment is of special interest for all of these applications. Here we describe the facile optical creation and multistable switching of localized configurations in the molecular orientation field of a chiral nematic anisotropic fluid. These localized chiro-elastic particle-like excitations--dubbed 'triple-twist torons'--are generated by vortex laser beams and embed the localized three-dimensional (3D) twist into a uniform background. Confocal polarizing microscopy and computer simulations reveal their equilibrium internal structures, manifesting both skyrmion-like and Hopf fibration features. Robust generation of torons at predetermined locations combined with both optical and electrical reversible switching can lead to new ways of multistable structuring of complex photonic architectures in soft materials.

Three-dimensional structure and multistable optical switching of triple-twisted particle-like excitations in anisotropic fluids

Wrinkled interfaces: Taking advantage of surface instabilities to pattern polymer surfaces

http://www.phy.nknu.edu.tw/teacher/mcho/papers/pla348_251.pdf

Reduced-order synchronization of chaotic systems with parameters unknown

http://www.phy.nknu.edu.tw/teacher/mcho/papers/pla356_35.pdf

Chaos synchronization of two stochastically coupled random Boolean networks

The authors report the observation of an enhanced optical diffraction in cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) due to the presence of silver nanoparticles. The silver nanoparticles are deposited on the surface of one of the indium tin oxide electrodes of the CLC cell. With the application of a proper voltage, the liquid crystals assume its cholesteric phase with the helical axis perpendicular to the applied electric field. The CLC grating was probed by a beam of polarized light in the spectral range from 450to750nm. The direction of propagation of the beam is perpendicular to the helical axis of the liquid crystals. The authors report a significant enhancement in the first-order diffraction efficiency at around 543nm. The results of the experimental observation are presented and discussed.

Surface plasmon enhanced diffraction in cholesteric liquid crystals

http://www.phy.nknu.edu.tw/teacher/mcho/papers/pla344_036.pdf

Stochastic coupling of two random Boolean networks

A single-layer of breath figure pattern was explored via the dynamical optical images and the temperature evolution. The pattern was prepared with the solution of carbon disulfide (CS2) dissolved 1% weight concentration of polystyrene. The evaporation of CS2 was considered to be the most important role to the formation of the breath figure pattern. The understanding of the breath figures pattern will promote the technique to fabricating an imprinted template with demanded hexagonal structures.

I-Min Jiang

Papers

Reduced-order synchronization of chaotic systems with parameters unknown

Chaos synchronization of two stochastically coupled random Boolean networks

Surface plasmon enhanced diffraction in cholesteric liquid crystals

Stochastic coupling of two random Boolean networks

Dynamics of single-layer polymer breath figures.