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2016


  1. From Liquid Crystals to Liquid Metals: The Birth and Maturation of Liquid Surfce


    P. S. Pershan
    SXNS14 : International Conference on Surface X-ray and Neutron Scattering

    Click start to view video of Peter's 30 minute presentation at the conference.

2011


  1. Liquid Surfaces As Viewed With Synchrotron Radiation
     P. S. Pershan
    Advanced Photon Source, X-ray Surface Seminar, June 2011

2010

  1. X-ray Scattering: Liquid Metal/Vapor Interfaces
     P.S. Pershan,
    LAMXIV Conference, Rome, Italy, July 2010
  2. Formation of 2D crystalline surface phases on liquid Au-based metallic glass forming alloys
     S. Mechler, P. S. Pershan, S. E. Stoltz, S. Sellner, E. Yahel, O. G. Shpyrkio, M. Meron, B. Lin,
    LAMXIV Conference, Rome, Italy, July 2010
  3. Liquid Metal Surfaces X-ray Scattering: Liquid Metal/Vapor Interfaces
     P. S. Pershan, Presentation at the Science Review for Condensed Matter at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India, Sept. 2010


2009

  1. Liquid Metal Surfaces
     P.S. Pershan,
    (Workshop on “Structure and Dynamics of Soft Surfaces and Interfaces” held as satellite meeting of the 19th ESRF Users’ Meeting in February 2009. )
  2. Liquid Metal Surfaces
     P.S. Pershan,
    Users Seminar Series, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne Nat. Lab, June 12, 2009.

2008

  1. Anomalies of the Surfaces of Au-Si-Ge Liquid Alloys
    S. Mechler, S. Sellner, V. S. K. Balagurusamy, S. E. Stoltz, P. S. Pershan, E. Yahel, O. Shpyrko, M. Meron and B. Lin
    (March 2008)NSF Review of ChemMatCars, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory

2007

  1. Surface Structure and Chemical Composition of Liquid Metal Alloys
    P. S. Pershan
    (February 2007)Physics Dept. University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusettts
  2. Wetting of Liquid Crystal Surfaces and Induced Smectic Layering at the Nematic-Liquid Interface
    Masafumi Fukuto, Oleg Gang, Kyle J. Alvine, Benjamin M. Ocko, and Peter S. Pershan
    (March 2007)Poster presented at American Physical Society Meeting

2006

  1. Synchrotron studies of nanocrystal thin film self-assembly
    D. Pontoni, K. Alvine, A. Checco, O. Gang, B. Ocko, P. Pershan, and F. Stellacci,
    (March 2006) Poster presented at American Physical Society Meeting
  2. Solvent mediated assembly of nanoparticles confined in mesoporous alumina
    K. J. Alvine, D. Pontoni, O. G. Shpyrko, P. S. Pershan, D. J. Cookson, K. Shin, T. P. Russell, M. Brunnbauer, F. Stellacci, and O. Gang,
    (March 2006) Poster presented at American Physical Society Meeting
  3. Structure of Liquid Surfaces
    P. S. Pershan
    (January 2006) Colloquium at Bar Ilan Univ., Israel.
  4. Nano-Liquids, Nano-Particles, Nano-Wetting: X-ray Scattering Studies
    P. S. Pershan
    (January 2006) Colloquium at Weizmann., Israel.
  5. Nano-Liquids, Nano-Particles, Nano-Wetting: X-ray Scattering Studies
    P. S. Pershan
    (March 2006) Invited Talk, ACS National Meeting, Atlanta.
  6. Wetting When It Isn't Simple.
    P. S. Pershan
    (May 2006) Invited Talk, Soft Matter and Interfaces,Complexo Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon Portugal.

2005

  1. Surface Freezing and Quasi-2D Phase Transitions in Binary Metal Liquids
    O. Shpyrko, A. Grigoriev, R. Streitel, P. Pershan, B. Ocko, and M. Deutsch,
    (March 2005) Poster presented at American Physical Society Meeting
  2. Gibbs Adsorption in Binary Liquid Mixtures: Concentration Variations Beyond Surface Monolayer in BiSn alloy
    O. Shpyrko, A. Grigoriev, D. Pontoni, R. Streitel, P. Pershan, B. Ocko, M. Deutsch, B. Lin, M. Meron, and T. Graber,
    (March 2005) Poster presented by Reinhard Streitel at American Physical Society Meeting
  3. Surface freezing and surface phase transition studied at the liquid eutectic AuSi surface
    O. Shpyrko, A. Grigoriev, R. Streitel, P. Pershan, B. Ocko, and M. Deutsch,
    (March 2005) Oral presentation presented by Reinhard Streitel at Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft Meeting, Berlin, 2005
  4. Structural evolution of thiol-capped gold nanoparticle monolayers undergoing controlled nanowetting
    D. Pontoni, K. Alvine, A. Checco, O. Gang, B. Ocko, P. Pershan, and F. Stellacci,
    (March 2005) Seminar presented at American Physical Society Meeting
  5. The Structure of Liquid Surface
    P. S. Pershan
    (June 2005) Colloquium at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory

    6. 2004
  1. The Surface Structure of Liquid Metals and Alloys
    Peter Pershan
    (March 2004) Invited paper at the March meeting of the Americal Physical Society (Montreal)
  2. Surface Layering in Alkali Metals: X-ray Studies of Liquid Potassium
    Oleg Shpyrko, Patrick Huber, Alexei Grigoriev, Peter Pershan, Holger Tostmann, Ben Ocko, Moshe Deutsch, Thomas Gog
    for CMC-CAT, Argonne National Laboratory, 2004
  3. Lead-Free Solder Binary Alloys: X-Ray Studies of BiSn
    Oleg Shpyrko, Alexei Grigoriev, Diego Pontoni, Peter Pershan, Ben Ocko, Moshe Deutsch, Binhua Lin, Jeff Gebhardt, Timothy Graber, Mati Meron
    The 8th International Conference on Surface X-Ray and Neutron Scattering, Germany 2004;
    APS Users Meeting, ANL, 2004
  4. Surface Oxidation of Liquid Sn
    Alexei Grigoriev, Oleg Shpyrko, Christoph Steimer, Peter Pershan, Ben Ocko, Moshe Deutsch, Binhua Lin, Jeff Gebhardt, Timothy Graber, Mati Meron
    The 8th International Conference on Surface X-Ray and Neutron Scattering, Germany 2004;
    APS Users Meeting, ANL, 2004
  5. Surface Structure Study of Liquid Eutectic Alloys:AuSi and AuGe
    (2004 NSLS Users Meeting Poster Presentation Winner)
    Alexei Grigoriev, Oleg Shpyrko, Christoph Steimer, Peter Pershan, Ben Ocko, Moshe Deutsch, Binhua Lin, Jeff Gebhardt, Timothy Graber, Mati Meron
    NSLS Users Meeting, BNL, May 2004; APS Users Meeting, ANL, May 2004; The 8th International Conference on Surface X-Ray and Neutron Scattering, Germany 2004
  6. Atomic Layering Structure at the Surface of Liquid Sn
    Oleg Shpyrko, Alexey Grigoriev, Christoph Steimer, Peter Pershan, Ben Ocko, Moshe Deutsch, Binhua Lin, Mati Meron, Tim Graber, Jeff Gebhardt
    APS Users Meeting, ANL, May 2004; The 8th International Conference on Surface X-Ray and Neutron Scattering, Germany 2004
  7. Surface studies of water: Are all liquids intrinsically layered?
    Oleg Shpyrko, Masa Fukuto, Peter Pershan, Ben Ocko, Moshe Deutsch, Thomas Gog, Ivan Kuzmenko
    APS Users Meeting, ANL, May 2004; The 8th International Conference on Surface X-Ray and Neutron Scattering, Germany 2004
  8. Wetting of Nano-Patterned Surfaces
    Oleg Gang, Kyle Alvine, Masafumi Fukuto, Ben Ocko, Chuck Black, Tom Russell, Peter Pershan

Selected posters (2001-2003)
  1. Obsevation of Critical Casimir Effect in a Binary Wetting Film: An X-ray Reflectivity Study
    Masafumi Fukuto, Yohko F. Yano, Peter S. Pershan
    March Meeting, American Physical Society, 2003
  2. Tetra Point Wetting at the Free Surface of a Binary Liquid Metal
    Patrick Huber, Oleg Shpyrko, Peter Pershan, Holger Tostmann, Elaine Dimasi, Ben Ocko, Moshe Deutsch
    International TRI/Princeton Workshop on Nanocapillarity, Princetion , NJ, June 2001
  3. Short-Range Wetting Probed at the Free Surface of a Liquid Gallium-Bismuth Alloy
    Patrick Huber, Oleg Shpyrko, Peter Pershan, Holger Tostmann, Elaine DiMasi, Ben Ocko, Moshe Deutsch
    Fifth Liquid Matter Conference, University of Konstanz, Germany, Sep 2002
  4. Breaking the Gibbs Adsorption Rule: Resonant X-ray Reflectivity from a Liquid Bismuth-Indium Alloy
    Elaine DiMasi, Ben Ocko, Holger Tostmann, Oleg Shpyrko, Patrick Huber, Peter Pershan, Moshe Deutsch
    NSLS Research Highlights, Brookhaven National Laboratory