Linda S. Hirst

TL;DR: Three-dimensional laser scanning confocal microscopy has revealed that filamentous actin, when complexed with the cross-linking protein alpha-actinin, will spontaneously assemble on a micron scale into a structure comprised of a relatively rigid, frequently branching, 3D network of bundles with characteristic mesh size of the order of the persistence length of F-actIn.

TL;DR: In this article, the isotropic to nematic liquid crystal (LC) phase transition is used to create organized assemblies of CdSe/ZnS core/shell quantum dots (QDs).

TL;DR: Real-time label-free electrical detection of proteins, including cardiac troponin (cTn), is demonstrated using functionalized SnO₂ nanobelt field-effect transistors (FETs) with integrated microfluidics using biotin-streptavidin binding and co-labeling with quantum dots.

TL;DR: Reports are reported of resonant scattering features in the antiferroelectric hexatic phase, the three- and four-layer intermediate phases, the Antiferro electric and ferroelectric phases and the SmC(*)(alpha) phase.

TL;DR: In this article, a microtubule-kinesin-based active nematic was examined in two dimensions, exhibiting chaotic flows with moving topological defects, and the resulting mixing was revealed to be a result of sliding on a molecular scale.